Sleeping with His Senior?!

Xing Feng's cooking was amazingly good that even Yun Yao and Wang Suhua gave him their compliments. When Chu Haoling and the guys came back in the afternoon, they were so frustrated when they knew they missed the only chance to taste their chief's cooking. The two families rolled in the aisles. Leng Yehan was the only person that didn't make any comment on Xing Feng's cooking because he was with Yun Cheng all day long. His portion was taken upstairs for him.

"Um, Cheng is OK now. Please tell Haixuan's grandpa and mother about Cheng's situation as soon as possible. He doesn't want to stay in the room anymore. He's already upset now."

When Ye brought the bowl downstairs, Yun Che told him about the rearrangement of rooms. Ye didn't have a problem with it, he just gave a small look at the two new family members who were relaxed by now.

"OK. I'll discuss it with Haixuan. Just keep Cheng company and pacify him as much as you can. We'll let him come downstairs tomorrow."

This, after all, was Yun Che's house, the brother of the house owner wasn't supposed to be kept in a room just because there were two new residents in the house. If they could accept Yun Cheng, that'd be perfect. If they couldn't, they'd have to live somewhere else.

"I'm going upstairs."

Leng Yehan only said a few sentences with Yun Che today and none of them was superfluous. Leng Yehan wafted downstairs like a ghost and minutes later, wafted back upstairs after leaving the bowl and chopsticks on the table. Before he got down, Yun Cheng told him that he wanted a bath because he thought he was dirty. Leng Yehan promised him that he'd be right back.

"The military's plan seems OK. We do what we can do to help and wing it as needed."

After dinner, the old and the young all went to bed. Peak and Chaoyang all gathered in Yun Che's living room apart from Leng Yehan. Gu Mingxuan gave everybody a copy of the files that he reviewed and consolidated this afternoon. Yun Che just flicked it through carelessly. After all, it was just the plan, who knew what was going to happen out there. He just needed a quick scan at the digest.

"We won't be leading the troops this time. We just follow them."

Xing Feng, too, gave his opinion after reading the files. They were supposed to enjoy the ride this time. Let the soldiers do the hard work.

"By the way, Wei Kan and Wang Wei called me this afternoon. They sounded like they were apologizing for what Lin Xian and Wang Guoan had done, but I could tell that they were prying for the information on water superfunction. I don't think we can cover it up. If anyone means to screw us up, all of our efforts will be wasted."

Gu Mingxuan looked at Yun Che the whole time even though he was talking to Xing Feng. It would have been OK if they didn't try to benefit from the quest, but the thing was, everybody now knew that Mo Wenyang and they were in the same boat. If they intentionally kept the secret, somebody would try to turn all the other superfunction possessors against them. Let's be real, the superfunction possessor community had respect for them because these two captains took them to quests, helped them collect more supplies, and fought for more interests for them. If Peak and Chaoyang kept the way of controlling water superfunction to themselves, many would be unhappy with them. With someone fanning up the flames, things would get really bad for them.

"If I was to keep the secret, I wouldn't have taught Mo Wenyang on an occasion like that, but I don't plan to share the information with Wei and Wang. You think they'll do something to us while we're away, don't you? If it's true, I'll give them a chance. You tell them to come find me if they contact you again, but they'll have to be able to find me first."

Leaning lazily on the couch, Yun Che had a burning cigarette between his fingers. He never liked to take a passive position, this time, he wouldn't make their lives easy.

"What Che is trying to say is, we'll keep our mouths shut before the quest. When we're gone, they'll advertise that Peak is selfish and doesn't give a damn about everybody else. But we won't sit around and wait to take the hit, we'll share the way of using water to all the other squads during the quest. When we're back, no one will believe the rumor, what's more, people will criticize them. Yes, they may acquire the way of controlling water as well because by then, basically everybody knows, but there's a huge difference between them getting it from the superfunction possessors and from us. If they learn it from us, they'll turn it to their advantage but if they learn it from the superfunction possessors, they'll be the suckers. We'll make it look like they are given a chance to screw us up while in fact, things will just go in our favor."

Xing Feng further interpreted Yun Che's intention. Everybody nodded in approval. It was indeed a good way to counter them. Even if they did do something while Xing Feng and Yun Che were away, the damage could be reduced to the minimum.

"OK. We'll set off in three days. The list of personnel needs to be handed in before tomorrow night. All 7 of you will go, right, Che?"

100 people were needed in total from 20 squads. But because 16 competent individuals had already signed up for the quest, they only needed 84 people in total from 20 squads. Mathematically, every squad should contribute 4 or 5 people but the members of some squads were pretty much at the same level, they might not even have 4 people for the quest. And even if the number exceeded 100, it was what the authorities of the base would love to see. The authorities certainly wouldn't ask them to remove anyone from the list, so it didn't really matter if the number wasn't 100 sharp.

"Yes, Xingchen will go with us. I'm sure there are loads of zombie animals in the provincial capital. He can hit level 3 faster if he joins us."

Ye Xingchen was the only level-2 member in Peak. After a few days of practicing and testing, he could now control two medium-sized zombie animals rather easily. They hadn't met any mutant beasts yet. To Yun Che's knowledge, most mutant beasts were leveling themselves up inside the mountains, they wouldn't run around until they were level 4. It probably would be a long time before they could confirm whether Ye Xingchen was capable of controlling a mutant beast or not.

"When I studied the videos this morning, I did see quite a number of zombie animals. I wish I can reach level 3 this time."

Ye Xingchen nodded. He didn't want to be a drag of the squad. He always wanted a breakthrough but level 2 to level 3 was a tough one, the breakthrough couldn't be easily made.

"You will. You're very close to level 3."

After giving him an encouraging look, Yun Che turned to Xing Feng, "How many of you will go?"

Peak had too many options since Chu Haoling and the rest were level 3 now.

"Me, Huaien, Shen Rui, Wenqing. The others will stay here to assist Mingxuan in case they play dirty."

Xing Feng had already picked his men. The quest wasn't like the last one where they could use air membrane. And four hundred people couldn't march at a very fast speed. They might be living in the wild, so one fire was essential. Since water hadn't been commonly accepted as a combat attribute, water superfunction possessors couldn't go. But ice worked the same, they, too, could provide water. Shen Rui, the gold superfunction possessor, was needed because on the one hand, he was a great power boost for the expedition, on the other hand, he could cover Xing Feng's superfunction if necessary. The rest didn't need to go.

"Four? People might say you're stingy."

Yun Che raised his eyebrows. Everybody knew that Chaoyang was the largest. It had 10 branch squads, nearly 200 superfunction possessors and many of them were level 3. Even Yun Che thought it was stingy of Xing Feng to take 4 people with him.

"Do they have the guts to say it to my face?"

Xing Feng didn't care about what people would say behind his back.

"Ha, fair enough. That's it, then. We'll do some easy quests these days. Haixuan, spend more time with your mom and grandpa, you don't need to do quests with us lately."

Yun Che stubbed out the cigarette and got up. It was late now, he was debating with himself whether he should sleep upstairs or crushed at Xing Feng's place.

"It's OK, my mom and grandpa are calm now. I told them about Cheng, they said they'd help look after him. My grandpa even said he wanted to go to quests with us."

Lu Haixuan made himself smile when he brought it up. His grandpa used to be a sharp man, now that the slate was clean, he was relieved of all that troubled him, Lu Haixuan was sure that his grandpa would return to the sharp man he used to be.

"Huh?"

Yun Che was kind of bewildered. Zhou Zeyu explained with a smile, "I'm told that he's an earth superfunction possessor and he's level 2 already."

"Uh…"

Yun Che forced a smile as he was kind of speechless. He ended up saying, "We're good. We have enough people. Just let him enjoy his old age in peace. If he really wants to help, he can help my sister farm the land. She hasn't done that for a long time, she's still learning mostly."

Mr. Chen was an old farmer. With his help, their farmlands would be full of crops.

"Hehe, that's what I told him. But he's a stubborn old man, he said he was going to speak to you in person. Just refuse when he comes to you."

Lu Haixuan smiled helplessly as he didn't know what to do with his grandpa. Yun Che nodded. "OK, I will when he comes to me. Go to bed, guys, it's late."

"OK."

Everybody got up from their seats and went back to their rooms. Jiang Shang was over the moon because he was going to sleep with Ye Xingchen in the same room starting tonight. He grabbed Ye Xingchen's hand as soon as he got up. His action was so bodacious that the entire room paused to stare at them. Ye Xingchen was kind of embarrassed. "Um, Jiang, why do you grab my hand?"

He was pretty much used to the fact that Jiang Shang was a man of action, but in everyone's presence, he felt awkward especially when they were all wearing a teasing look on their faces.

"Sleep. Senior."

"Haha!"

The room burst out laughing when the words popped out of Jiang Shang's mouth. Ye Xingchen's cheeks were burning hot. "People clearly will misinterpret it!"

"Ahem, Jiang Shang. It's very ambitious of you, you have my support. You wanna sleep with Ye? Good for you! Haha!"

Yun Che fell on Xing Feng laughing. Jiang Shang's eyes twinkled as he realized why they laughed at them. His pretty face turned red as well. He stuttered, "Not-not sleep with him. It-It's…"

Jiang Shang wasn't an ineloquent person. The more agitated he was, the more stuttery he became. Instead of explaining himself well, he made a show of himself.

"Jiang, don't be shy. Ye is yours, sleep however you want with him!"

"Haha! Yes! We promise we won't eavesdrop."

"Haha!"

Chu Haoling and Zhou Zeyu bantered more, everybody laughed harder. The flush on the faces of the two being laughed at was beet red. Yun Che hung himself on Xing Feng, laughing so hard that he could barely speak. "This is hilarious. You-you can be a comedian, Jiang Shang. Just a random one-liner of yours makes us laugh our heads off."

"No! Not sleep with senior. It's sleep together with senior."

"Yeah! Sleep together with senior. Don't worry, no problem at all."

"Haha!"

Jiang Shang squeezed an explanation out of his mouth, but it just made it worse. No-one stopped laughing even though they could hardly breathe. Ye Xingchen pulled his arm and darted an implicit look at him to shut him up. If he said one more word, these wicked people would intentionally misinterpret it into something worse.