Chapter 1418

After waiting a while, Zhao Chi teleported once more to his home in the Greater World.

Everything in the house had been tidied into perfect order by Su Qin.

Zhao Chi went out the door and hailed a ride.

He quickly arrived outside the military camp.

Zhao Chi did not get out of the carriage right away; instead, he looked around carefully for a long time without stepping out.

This annoyed the driver.

But Zhao Chi tipped an extra two silver coins, and the driver immediately shut his mouth.

Those two silver coins were more than four times the fare.

The driver took the money happily, telling him to look as long as he liked.

From home to here was exactly twenty minutes, and Zhao Chi sat in the carriage an extra ten minutes before getting out.

After getting out, Zhao Chi moved without stopping, quickly entering the interior of the military camp and the office area.

There were quite a few low, small buildings here.

Among them, a two-story small stone building was the office of the Jade Squad.

It was small, but absolutely sufficient.

There were some pedestrians around.

Looking left and right, the people around were mostly unfamiliar faces; occasionally one or two he had seen before, but not to the point of being able to greet them.

This was for the best.

Zhao Chi immediately stepped into the stone building, feeling only then a little at ease, and walked straight toward the innermost office.

Li Ruanyu's office door was half open, and the sound of discussion drifted out from inside.

Zhao Chi hesitated at the doorway for a moment.

But the door being half open meant entry was permitted.

Still, he knocked lightly.

"Come in." Li Ruanyu's voice.

Zhao Chi pushed the door open and went in, only to be stunned dumb.

Shangguan Ting was standing in front of Li Ruanyu's desk, her face full of displeasure.

Li Ruanyu stood behind the office desk, also on her feet, with no pleasant expression on her face either.

Both mature, gorgeous female squad captains looked at Zhao Chi with completely sour expressions.

Zhao Chi nearly wet himself.

He quickly retreated.

The result was that the two women together held Zhao Chi in place.

"Zhao Chi! You get back here!" Shangguan Ting.

"Zhao Chi, come here a moment." Li Ruanyu.

Damn it…

What rotten luck?

Why was Shangguan Ting here?

Had she come straight to Li Ruanyu to file a complaint?

No, given her personality, and her relationship with Li Ruanyu, she should have come to demand a person or to interrogate.

What was he going to do about this…

Huh, wait, that's not right—what am I afraid of?

Zhao Chi found his own reaction a little strange.

He was clearly in the right; what was there to fear?

Why retreat?

This was the perfect chance to sort out who was right and who was wrong.

Resolve this matter as quickly as possible, to avoid leaving trouble for the future.

Exactly!

Thinking this, he immediately strode into the office with his head held high and chest out.

Shangguan Ting said coldly: "Good, I was just looking for you, and you delivered yourself right to me. Tell me, what did you do to me?"

Li Ruanyu also asked: "Zhao Chi, what exactly did you do to her? She came to me first thing in the morning demanding I hand you over, but wouldn't tell me the reason."

Shangguan Ting said: "This is my private matter, nothing to do with you. Zhao Chi, come with me!"

As she spoke, a burst of spiritual energy immediately flared out, wrapping around Zhao Chi.

Zhao Chi once again felt his hands and feet go stiff.

But it was a different feeling from that complete inability to move just now; it was more like being bound by spiritual energy.

"Shangguan Ting, you're going a bit too far!"

Li Ruanyu's beautiful eyes widened, and the spiritual pressure on her body instantly exploded outward.

Zhao Chi suddenly felt his body free again.

Shangguan Ting also erupted with astonishing spiritual pressure.

"What? You're determined to shield Zhao Chi? You can't be unaware of what crime it is to use a spiritual technique on a squadron commander, can you?"

Li Ruanyu snorted: "This isn't for you to decide. You're not from the Inspectorate, so what right do you have to arbitrarily pass judgment on my people? Are you overstepping your authority?"

"Overstepping my authority? If anyone's overstepping, it's you, Li Ruanyu! Zhao Chi attacked me first, so of course I have the right to take him to the Inspectorate. You refused to hand him over a moment ago, and now that I've caught him, you start obstructing me. Don't you know a direct superior must recuse themselves?"

"Don't talk nonsense. I already told you just now that Zhao Chi would be here soon. I wasn't shielding him, I just didn't tell you his coordinates. You have no right to know his territory coordinates!"

"Fine, fine, fine. Then can I take him away now?"

"No! This isn't the outside world, this is my office, which counts as my territory. You have no right to take anyone away from my office!"

"Li Ruanyu! Stop being unreasonable! I can't take your subject away from your territory — is he your subject? Tell me, is he your subject!!"

"He's not my subject! He's my family! I say you can't take him away, and you can't take him away!!"

"Fam… family???"

Shangguan Ting was stunned.

Her face was still bristling with anger.

But she said nothing more.

Instead, she stared at Li Ruanyu in astonishment, then stared at Zhao Chi.

Seeing that she wasn't speaking, Li Ruanyu didn't say anything either, only her chest heaving violently — clearly she was genuinely angry too.

Suddenly, Shangguan Ting let out a laugh.

Then laughed a few more times.

"Hehehe, family? Hahaha, family! I get it now, no wonder… no wonder this Zhao Chi with only a little over 500 combat power could win Best Newcomer — so that's how it is, so the one backing him is you, this woman, a Captain pulling strings for him, Jasper Jade Squad, how pathetic!"

Li Ruanyu snorted: "That's right, he is family. Zhao Chi is my younger brother. But if he really did break the rules, I wouldn't shield him either. But someone like you trying to snatch people from my side without distinguishing right from wrong — dream on!"

Shangguan Ting sneered: "Younger brother? Haha, what a fine younger brother. No wonder you don't even give Regiment Commander Yan a second glance — turns out you have this wonderfully skilled younger brother. Does he have to use that strange skill on you every day? Is that why you're so cold to everyone? No wonder — you, Li Ruanyu, look so prim and proper on the surface, but privately you play pretty fast and loose!"

Li Ruanyu listened, completely baffled.

"What are you talking about? What strange skill?" She looked at Zhao Chi.

Zhao Chi finally had a gap to squeeze in a word.

Honestly, he had almost forgotten what it was like when women argued…

Their voices were loud and shrill, and their speech was extremely fast.

Zhao Chi was still thinking about how to reply to the previous sentence, and they had already finished the next one.

He couldn't get a word in at all.

Although his territory was full of women, arguments rarely happened.

After all, from very early on, the Carefree Spring had existed.

The mood bonus had been high from the very beginning, and by now it was off the charts.

When the mood is good, no problem is really a problem.

Zhao Chi suspected that if he sent those two to soak in the Carefree Spring for ten minutes now, they would definitely be able to sit down calmly and have a proper chat.

Shangguan Ting's often-furrowed brow would also relax.

But that was impossible.

Zhao Chi sighed lightly: "It's just an enhancement-type skill, nothing strange about it."