Delta: Who are you saying has suffered a loss of strength?

Xiao Bai looked at the information in silence.

Mai Qiyao paused for a moment, then said, "Old Liu's Phoenix Cry Club can get the special task force to investigate, do you think our Dragon Soaring Club can't do the same?"

"After I had my people check these two documents, I started thinking about one thing: Boss Xiaobai, where did these two promising talents come from?"

Xiao Bai stood there with her head down, not saying a word. After a moment of silence, she looked up at Mai Qiyao and asked, "So?"

Mai Qiyao leaned back in his chair, pinched his brow as if to calm himself, and said, "I won't let you enter any dangerous areas for the foreseeable future."

Just as Xiaobai was about to speak, Mai Qiyao raised his hand to interrupt her, "Don't rush to object, let me finish."

He looked at Xiaobai and said, "For the next while, you should focus on that joint training project with the United Nations, and send your two precious kids along too."

"If those two really have nothing wrong with them, then it's understandable that they're powerful figures that even the Dragon Club can't find out about."

"But if it's a spy sent by some foreign force, it will eventually slip up..." He didn't finish his sentence, but the meaning was clear.

"You know how complicated the situation is in China lately. Even those people from the Fengming Club have been taken away by the task force."

Mai Qiyao lowered his voice even further, "Think about it, how strict are the background checks on newcomers at Fengming Club and our Longteng Club? Even people like that could be infiltrated by foreign forces. How can I trust you with those two so-called experts of dubious origin?"

Xiao Bai stood there in silence for a long time.

Although Xiaobai went out to start her own business and refused to directly inherit the family business, she longed for her family's approval, but she was by no means rebellious. Everything her father said made sense, and she really couldn't refute him with a straight face.

She lowered her head and thought for a moment, then finally nodded. "I understand. I will do as you say."

When Mai Qiyao saw that his daughter had relented, the lines between his eyebrows and eyes visibly relaxed.

He leaned back in his chair and let out a long breath, as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders, and his expression was much gentler than before.

"Alright, tell me about what happened today. What exactly went wrong?"

Xiao Bai recounted everything that happened at Dam Zero that day, from beginning to end.

She didn't go into too much detail, but she covered the key points.

Mai Qiyao sat and listened the whole time, occasionally nodding or frowning, without interrupting her.

After she finished speaking, Mai Qiyao remained silent for a moment before asking, "So, you mean you finally reached the evacuation point?"

Xiao Bai nodded. "Yeah, Said led his men to ambush us."

"So you failed to evacuate from the evacuation point?" Mai Qiyao frowned.

Xiao Bai nodded again and hummed in agreement.

Mai Qiyao's expression turned somewhat strange at this moment. "You and Han Che were hiding behind a bunker. He was seriously injured and couldn't move, but in the end, you were the one who failed to evacuate?"

Xiaobai paused for a moment when she heard this, then looked away without replying.

Looking at her like that, Mai Qiyao asked again, "You protected him?"

Xiao Bai turned back, her tone more urgent than before, "So what? We're all comrades-in-arms, we can't just stand by and watch someone die!"

After she finished speaking, she realized that her words were somewhat like trying to hide something obvious, but she couldn't take them back now that she had said them.

Mai Qiyao did not respond to her statement.

He sat behind his desk, quietly watching Xiaobai, his expression slowly becoming somewhat inscrutable.

Xiao Bai looked away for a moment and then turned back, as if waiting for him to say something, but Mai Qiyao just looked at her and didn't say anything.

Xiao Bai felt a little uncomfortable under Mai Qiyao's expression. She straightened up, reached out and pulled her coat tighter, "I'm sleepy, I'm going back to sleep!" After saying that, she hurriedly got up and walked towards the door.

"Xiao Bai." Mai Qiyao's voice rang out behind her.

For some reason, Xiaobai paused for a moment. She didn't turn around, but she also didn't continue walking forward.

The study fell silent for a moment, as if even the air had frozen.

Mai Qiyao's voice paused for a beat before coming again, "You're not in a relationship, are you?"

"???" Hearing these words from her father's mouth, Xiaobai felt her hair stand on end. She felt as if she had been electrocuted and whirled around.

"What are you talking about? How could I possibly be in a relationship?" Xiaobai quickly denied it.

Looking at her, Mai Qiyao felt that even her wrinkles had deepened. "I need to find an opportunity to see him."

"What? What? Who? Who are you seeing? What are you saying?" Xiao Bai raised his voice, chuckled, and pretended to be stupid as he walked towards the door.

"I'm going back to sleep now. You should go to sleep early too. Goodnight!"

After saying that, she turned around, opened the study door, and walked out. The door slammed shut behind her.

The dull sound made Mai Qiyao's head ache. He stared at the tightly closed door, feeling his vision trembling and his temples throbbing.

My gaze fell back on the open document, and Han Che's photo came into view.

Mai Qiyao stared at the photo for several seconds, then his lips twitched uncontrollably.

"grass!"

……

"Achoo!" Han Che sneezed suddenly and rubbed his nose.

"You caught a cold?" Qi Yuzhe came out of the kitchen and handed Han Che a cup of hot water.

"No, not really? But it's been a bit cold lately." Han Che took the hot water, sipped it, and felt a little better.

"It's really cold, wear more clothes, the New Year is just a few weeks away," Qi Yuzhe said, pointing to the calendar on his phone.

"Chinese New Year?" Han Che muttered to himself, "I've been here for so long, and I've never thought about these things."

As he spoke, his phone vibrated twice.

"Huh? So late? Who is it?" Qi Yuzhe leaned over and took a look.

"Let me see Xiaobai's message." Han Che tapped on his phone screen.

Qi Yuzhe rolled his eyes and consciously moved away to avoid disturbing them.

"Uh, Xiaobai said he wants the two of us to do joint training," Han Che said, looking at his phone screen.

"Ah, that's normal, given our big reputations." Qi Yuzhe shrugged, not taking it seriously.

"Tomorrow," Han Che added.

"Huh? Tomorrow?" Qi Yuzhe's eyes widened. "So soon? Aren't we going back to Tide Prison?"

Han Che shook his head, typed a reply on his phone, and asked a few questions.

"She said she has to go there tomorrow, but she doesn't need to go abroad for now. The UN has arranged the schedule, so the training will start domestically first," Han Che said.

"Isn't this the important point? Do we really have to go?" Qi Yuzhe asked.

Han Che nodded. "We have to go... Let's go, let's hurry back to Tide Prison and get things settled first."

Qi Yuzhe sighed, "What a mess, are we really map bosses, Warden?"

Han Che twitched the corner of his mouth. "Stop being so sarcastic and hurry up!"