After breaking up, I picked up a beautiful vampire girl.

The atmosphere fell into silence again.

"Great! Mission successful! Thank you all for your hard work!"

Lin Ziyu suddenly shouted.

It scared a few people.

"What's wrong with you all of a sudden?"

Yin Qi said dissatisfiedly.

"Hahahahaha, I just think that if the captain were still here, he would definitely howl like this. Stop crying, the captain will definitely laugh at us if he knew."

"Has our brother Ziyu started preparing to take over as captain?"

"Humph, that old bastard didn't even trust us in the end and faced all this alone. He clearly looked down on us. I swear, I, Lin Ziyu, will become stronger than him!"

"Stronger than him? He's just a Chaos-level combatant. Is that all you can do?"

Yoongi scoffed with a sneer.

Perhaps it was because of Lin Ziyu's voice that several people were temporarily freed from their grief.

The passing of a deceased person is bound to be accompanied by pain, but the pain will not always be with you.

Because they still have tasks, responsibilities and missions on their shoulders.

Li Muhan looked out the window silently, watching the bright lights and bustling life in the city.

Behind this prosperous world, there are always people walking against the light, silently carrying everything.

They have no complaints and do not care about the sacrifices, because they have chosen to accept all this as something they must endure.

But just like Lin Ziyu said.

Man, there are so many choices...

Afterwards, several people returned to the Special Management Bureau to report on their work.

After hearing that Huo Tian died in battle.

Lin Ze, who was always gentle and had a smile on his face, now looked a little serious.

After comforting the people of Team 7, she left Li Muhan alone.

"I'm sorry, this time the Special Management Bureau's intelligence work was not in place."

The first thing she did was to apologize to Li Muhan. Li Muhan shook his head, then took a few steps forward and placed the black Tang sword in his hand on the table.

"This is the captain's knife."

Lin Ze looked at the knife, then picked it up, gently stroked the scabbard and said.

"Fu Jiang Zhen Mo... This is a gift I gave him as a token of his passing the special training."

"This knife sent him on his final journey, with my own hands..."

"I know."

Lin Ze put down the knife, walked to the window and lit a cigarette.

"You don't have to carry out the mission for the time being, Li Muhan. I should take full responsibility for this incident, and I will put your case on hold. If you want, I can make you disappear from the Special Management Bureau's files. At least I believe that you will not pose a threat to humans."

The girl looked at the underground city outside the window. This was the base camp of their special management organization.

In the battle with aliens, sacrifices are inevitable, and Lin Ze doesn't want to get used to this feeling.

If she gets used to it and becomes numb to it, she will become her old self again.

Become a superior creature that doesn't mind being destroyed by humans.

"You can go now. The bonus for this mission will be distributed to you tomorrow."

"Forest Bureau."

Li Muhan did not leave.

He lowered his head slightly. Huo Tian's death had indeed had a great impact on him, but it was not enough to influence him to join an organization where he might work for the rest of his life.

This is impossible.

But for now, joining the Special Management Bureau is indeed very helpful to Li Muhan. First of all, it allows him to better understand his own strength.

And then he will have a good salary.

Although this salary is earned at the cost of one's life.

"I......"

To be honest, he is a little undecided now.

Lin Ze turned around, looked at Li Muhan, and smiled slightly, with a hint of bitterness in his smile.

"Don't join us just because you sympathize with us, Li Muhan. Sacrifice is inevitable."

"I know, but people shouldn't be numb to sacrifice."

Li Muhan seemed a little dissatisfied, as he felt that Lin Ze had no guilt at all for Huo Tian's death.

Strictly speaking, if the Special Management Bureau had properly handled the situation of the Zombie Kingdom back then, what happened later would not have happened.

After the two looked at each other for a long time, Lin Ze sighed, picked up the Fujiang Zhenmo on the table, and threw it to Li Muhan.

"I'll give you one night. If you change your mind, return the knife to me the next day. If you still decide to join the Special Management Bureau, this knife will be yours from now on."

"I am not its owner."

Li Muhan looked at the Fujiang Zhenmo in his hand and remembered Huo Tian’s last battle.

"Can you answer a question for me, Li Muhan?"

"what?"

"What is a knife?"

"A murderous weapon."

Then Li Muhan paused and spoke again.

"It's also a weapon to protect important people."

Li Muhan knew what Lin Ze wanted to say. The knife she mentioned could be strength, alien, or the Special Management Bureau.

Lin Ze's reaction made Li Muhan unable to tell whether she was satisfied with her answer or not.

Lin Ze just smiled and waved at him.

"Go away, I don't want to work overtime today."

......

After leaving the Special Management Bureau, Li Muhan found that Xia Yue had already been waiting at the door of the Special Management Bureau headquarters.

"Are you hurt?"

Xia Yue looked around Li Muhan's body, while Li Muhan pointed at his temple helplessly.

"No, but Captain Huo Tian died."

"Ah."

Xia Yue's tone was very flat.

This made Li Muhan a little unhappy.

But when I think about the fact that they are vampires and have lived for so long, perhaps human life is just a flash in the pan for them, fleeting.

"Perhaps you can't understand, the feeling of suddenly losing something. After all, your life is too long for a human being."

The girl who had been following Li Muhan suddenly slowed down her pace.

When Li Muhan noticed, the girl had already stopped behind him.

"what happened?"

Li Muhan asked doubtfully.

"Although I am an immortal, it doesn't mean that I am a monster who doesn't know the difference between life and death."

Xia Yue looked at Li Muhan. Although her eyes were still indifferent, Li Muhan could hear a hint of anxiety in her tone.

He was not angry, but seemed eager to explain something to Li Muhan.

"I...was adopted by an old couple. They treated me very well and regarded me as their own daughter. Even though I came from an unknown background and was a different species, they still fed me, clothed me, and let me go to school..."

When she said this, Xia Yue's voice gradually became tearful.

Li Muhan suddenly remembered that when he first met Xia Yue, the sadness and despair in her eyes was exactly because she had just experienced loss.

"But I... can't even let them live. I'm not a cold-blooded monster. I've also experienced loss... and now, there are people I don't want to lose."

The girl raised her head, her eyes filled with tears

Li Muhan walked over quickly and hugged the girl in his arms.

“I’m sorry…I’m sorry, it’s my fault. I said the wrong thing.”

After being comforted, Xia Yue's mood recovered a little, but she was still a little angry.

"Don't be angry, I'll buy you dessert tomorrow."

Li Muhan smiled and wanted to touch Xia Yue's head.

But the girl tilted her head and dodged Li Muhan's hand.

Li Muhan was a little helpless. This little vampire had quite a temper.

"Not because of this."

At this moment, Xia Yue suddenly said to Li Muhan angrily.

"Ah? Not because of that?"

"I'm not angry about what happened just now."

"Then...what else did I say wrong?"

Li Muhan was totally confused. Before he could react, Xia Yue suddenly snorted coldly, turned her head away, and muttered something in a dissatisfied tone.

"When you hugged me just now, I smelled her scent on you."

Li Muhan suddenly felt like he had made a mistake and was caught red-handed. The "she" Xia Yue was talking about was obviously Gu Ruoxi, but this vampire's nose was so sharp, was she born in the Year of the Dog? He could even smell her when he was hugging her?

"Isn't she the victim this time? She was a little emotional when she was rescued."

"So you hugged her?"

"Huh? Well, no, no, I didn't hug her, she rushed over and hugged me."

"I don't want to listen. It's annoying."

Xia Yue quickened her pace and walked towards the elevator back to the ground.

Li Muhan stood there in a daze. At this moment, Su Xue's voice came from behind him.

"Hey, why are you still standing there?"

"Sister Xue, you haven't gone back yet?"

Su Xue was still carrying the huge guitar case on her back at this time, and Li Muhan now knew what it contained. It was a detachable sniper rifle.

He is truly a long-range firepower sniper.

"Brother Mu Han, you really don't understand a girl's heart."

"Girl? Ah, are you talking about Xia Yue? She shouldn't be considered a girl."

Su Xue covered her forehead and sighed, then gently tapped Li Muhan's head with her hand.

"Okay, don't be stunned, hurry up and chase."

Li Muhan also seemed to understand something, and he ran in the direction Xia Yue left.

The moment the elevator door closed, Li Muhan blocked the elevator with his hand and squeezed in.

Xia Yue stood aside obediently, seemingly giving way to Li Muhan, but in fact she seemed to be keeping her distance.

"I went on a mission for the first time today and it felt amazing."