Chapter 1006: Sister Qing, consider it?

Yang Jin took a sip of tea, moistening his dry thin lips and throat that had gone parched from nervousness, and said with a smile, "Such classified information as the special enzyme research and development, and Third Brother can tell you about it—no wonder you fought so hard for him this morning."

It seemed the deal Yang Jin wanted to discuss had something to do with Third Brother or Blaze. Xia Qing took over the thread of conversation calmly. "It didn't get to the point of fighting desperately. Third Brother and I had already noticed last year that the soybean seeds Blaze compensated us with were problematic…"

Yang Jin knew he was a Class B magnetic-sense Evolver, so Xia Qing didn't hide it from him and briefly recounted the matter of the poisoned soybeans. Of course, the speculation related to Wang Wu was left out by her, because that was her idol's guess.

Yang Jin looked at Xia Qing's left wrist, which wore a black wrist guard. "Your injury is fine, right?"

"Minor injury, I'll recover in a few days." Xia Qing's face remained calm as she waited for Yang Jin to get to the point.

If it were a minor injury, she wouldn't have covered it with a wrist guard, nor gone this long without using her left hand at all. Yang Jin shifted his gaze away and got to the point. "Hu Zifeng told me you want to break off your romantic relationship with him. What are your plans going forward?"

Xia Qing answered with a calm expression. "I haven't decided yet."

The Yang Jin opposite wore a smile on his face, his body leaning forward slightly—looking like he was about to use his handsome-man wiles.

At this critical moment, Xia Qing certainly wouldn't back down. She stayed still, expressionlessly staring at the three scars on the outer side of Yang Jin's left eye that hadn't fully faded yet. She wouldn't let this brain-domain Evolver iron rooster pick up any valuable information from her micro-expressions.

Yang Jin suppressed his wildly beating heart and spoke as naturally as he could. "You knew the soybeans were problematic during the second Killing Rain, so you definitely wouldn't eat them. Therefore, when you publicly said in the Lord channel today that you'd eaten the problematic soybeans twice, the intention was to pave the way for your next plan?"

As expected of the brain-domain Evolver iron rooster, he had grasped the key point at once. But Xia Qing didn't want to discuss this matter with him. "That's my private business. Didn't Captain Yang say there was still a deal to discuss?"

Her private business? Yang Jin couldn't hold it in any longer and leaned back in his chair. "The deal—or rather, the cooperation—I want to discuss is related to this matter. Your plan has a very big loophole."

"Even if Third Brother is willing to prepare a potion for you that makes you look poisoned, causing those who want to bond with you to breed the next generation to shift their targets, you might also attract the attention of certain harder-to-deal-with groups. Their purpose is to investigate what secrets your body holds, why you can still maintain such high combat power despite being poisoned."

The poison of genetic weapons causes irreversible damage to the body. The poisoned person's body gradually grows weaker, and it affects their descendants as well, which can deter those who want to use Xia Qing's body to breed the next generation. But Xia Qing maintaining peak combat power after being poisoned would make people suspect her body possessed some special evolutionary ability.

Xia Qing had of course considered this point—this was the key content she was going to discuss with her idol next.

Before Xia Qing could speak, Yang Jin continued, "I know you're the type who'd rather solve problems yourself than trouble others. You're currently at a critical stage of enhancing your evolutionary ability; if taking medicine damages your body, the loss would outweigh the gain. I have a win-win cooperation plan. Would you consider it?"

Xia Qing had already guessed what Yang Jin's plan was and calmly waited for him to speak.

The more nervous Yang Jin was inside, the brighter his smile. "Let me pretend to be your boyfriend, and it can solve all the problems you're facing."

Xia Qing answered calmly, "If I pretend to be Brother Luo's girlfriend, it won't just solve the immediate problem, it won't add new ones either."

If she pretended to be Yang Jin's girlfriend, it would certainly block many men who had designs on her, but she would equally have to help Yang Jin block the women who had designs on him.

She wasn't as handsome as Yang Jin, didn't have as high combat power as Yang Jin, and certainly didn't have as high a status as Yang Jin, so the men with designs on her were fewer than the women with designs on Yang Jin.

Yang Jin's smile grew even brighter. "In front of Brother Luo you're nothing but an obedient student. Are you sure you can act as naturally as you did pretending to be Hu Zifeng's girlfriend?"

Xia Qing fell silent. Deep down she regarded Luo Pei as an elder and mentor, so pretending to be his girlfriend did indeed carry some difficulty.

"Xie Yu won't work either—he has someone he likes."

Yang Jin's heart rate accelerated. "So I'm the best candidate for your cooperation. I'll publicly pursue you, making people think I've liked you for a long time. Then they'll guess that the Hu Zifeng squad was sent by me to protect you, and Hu Zifeng isn't your boyfriend. They'll also understand that the bullets you've been practicing shooting with were all provided free by me, and they'll stop speculating about the source of funds for your bullet purchases."

Xia Qing's face remained calm. "They'll also know that the Green Dragon's top sniper, Night Heron, is me."

The Green Dragon team was gaining another top sniper, its combat power soaring another notch—this was the main purpose behind Yang Jin proactively proposing cooperation and pretending to be boyfriend and girlfriend with her.

A month ago, Xia Qing had participated in the Tang family's rescue mission to save Little Eleven, exposing her top-tier sniping ability. After that, fourteen of the top fifteen battle squads in Hui-3 Base had extended olive branches to Xia Qing, each one greener than the last.

The only one who hadn't extended one was the Green Dragon captain sitting right in front of her, with whom she had cooperated many times.

If she agreed to cooperate with him, it would mean Xia Qing held dual identities tied to the Green Dragon battle squad: Third Master Luo Pei's disciple, and Boss Yang Jin's girlfriend.

Once these dual labels were attached, those squads wanting to cooperate with her to boost combat power—especially Green Dragon's current main rivals, the second-ranked Aurora battle squad and the third-ranked Dead End battle squad—would have absolutely no chance to use Xia Qing to suppress Green Dragon.

Truly worthy of being Iron Rooster Yang Jin—his abacus clicked loud and clear.

"Everyone has already guessed you're Green Dragon's Night Heron, they just haven't said it out loud. Besides exposing this identity, many other suspicious points about you will no longer be suspicious, because everyone will assume Green Dragon has been funding the construction of Territory Three all along, and attention to your territory will decrease." Yang Jin leaned forward, his smile brilliant. "Moreover, pretending to be my girlfriend lets you purchase weapons from Green Dragon—including sniper bullets—at half price. Sister Qing, consider it?"

Xia Qing stared into Yang Jin's beautiful eyes and asked the question that had been on her mind all along. "From the moment I revealed the secret of the spring to you, what was the purpose of your making concessions to do deals with me? When did you find out I was a tri-system Evolver?"

The first time Xia Qing had negotiated a deal with Yang Jin was when she used the spring water to save Luo Pei.

Xia Qing hadn't known it at the time, but now she was very clear: the value of the weapons, protective supplies, green-light plants, territory protection conditions, and having Luo Pei teach her marksmanship that Yang Jin had given her then had already exceeded the value of the uncontaminated spring water she had provided to Green Dragon.

In that cooperation, Yang Jin had made concessions—it didn't fit his consistent principle of "business is business, friendship is friendship" when making deals.