While out picking up trash, I was forcefully pushed around by a beautiful female CEO.

On the other side, in the capital of the Jianghuai region.

This is the most expensive and best location in Minghai City, where Qin Xiao and his wife Zhang Qian live.

"Honey, you finally got a day off. How about I cook something when I get back, and you call Mom and Dad and invite them to have dinner together tonight?"

After Qin Xiao parked his car in the parking garage, Zhang Qian made a suggestion to him.

"Hehe, sure, but I don't know if they'll have time. My parents are much busier than us."

Qin Xiao was naturally delighted and agreed without hesitation.

In the afternoon, they went for another walk outside. At Zhang Qian's insistence, they went to the hospital to have their wounds treated before returning.

"That's why I told you to call and ask. It would be a waste to cook such a big meal if you didn't have time."

Zhang Qian gave Qin Xiao a reproachful look.

"Heh, what do you mean? Just because Mom and Dad aren't here, I'm not entitled to eat your cooking, is that it?"

Qin Xiao said jokingly.

"Can't you be serious for once?"

Zhang Qian was both amused and exasperated.

Qin Xiao smiled, opened the car door, and got out, already taking out his phone to make a call.

By the time Zhang Qian got her things and got out of the car, Qin Xiao had already finished playing.

"I asked, and Dad doesn't have any social engagements today. He'll be home in half an hour. But Mom has some things to do, so she probably won't make it."

Qin Xiao said.

"I recently heard that there are big plans for the business district in Minghai City. Mom is the head of the investment promotion department, so she must be very busy lately. In comparison, the two of us are actually the most relaxed ones in the family."

Zhang Qian was not disappointed upon hearing this; instead, she spoke with great sympathy.

"Who can argue with that!"

Qin Xiao smiled and agreed, he was quite satisfied with his wife.

The two chatted and laughed as they returned to their yard. Zhang Qian greeted Qin Xiao, then tied on an apron and went to the kitchen to get busy.

Qin Xiao returned to his room. Once there, the smile on his face disappeared, and he solemnly took out a group photo from his drawer. There were no special annotations on it.

If an outsider saw it, they would just think it was an ordinary photo, but no one would know that it was taken after Qin Xiao failed to be selected for the Xiaolong Squad.

Qin Xiao thought of the mission where he was injured two years ago. At that time, he was still serving in the army when he suddenly received an urgent mission transfer order.

When Qin Xiao arrived, he discovered that almost all those who received the emergency transfer order were people who had participated in the selection of the Xiaolong Squad but were ultimately not selected.

After they were assembled, they were all puzzled, wondering why they had been suddenly gathered together.

It was only later that I learned that there had been incursions and provocations by foreign forces on the border.

Such incidents are not uncommon. Because of the Xiaolong Squad, these small-scale conflicts and battles have never benefited the external forces. Over the years, these external forces have continuously recruited their own top fighters, and even members of well-known assassin organizations on the underground dark web have been called over, but none of them have survived.

When Qin Xiao and the others heard about the mission two years ago, they were extremely surprised. With Xiaolong around, how come they suddenly got this kind of mission?

It was during that incident that Qin Xiao learned from the team leader that the Xiaolong Squad had been surrounded by several mercenary groups abroad.

No one believed that the JF-17 team could have survived such a perilous situation!

Therefore, when Qin Xiao saw Lin Feng today, he was indescribably shocked. He never thought that he would meet Lin Feng in Minghai City one day.

What Qin Xiao found even more incomprehensible was that, given Lin Feng's identity and his continued existence, why would he choose to live in anonymity in Minghai City?

After sighing, Qin Xiao's thoughts drifted back to the past.

He was once a top soldier in the Second Northern War Zone. He disliked studying from a young age, so when he was twelve, his father, Qin Xiangyang, sent him to a family of traditional martial arts practitioners. He joined the army at eighteen and reached the threshold of internal strength at twenty. With such strength, he had almost no rivals in his war zone.

Such an experience naturally made him very arrogant. It wasn't until he participated in the selection for the Xiaolong Squad and witnessed the freaks and geniuses in the Xiaolong Squad that he realized what it meant to be outmatched.

Even so, Qin Xiao still felt that with his strength, he was qualified to join the Xiaolong Squad, after all, he was only a little short of the standard to join.

For this reason, he was still somewhat unwilling to give up and asked Lin Feng, the leader of the Xiaolong at the time.

He said, "Team Leader Feng, this is the lowest standard you can achieve. Give me time, and I'm sure I can reach it. Give me two years, and I won't be any worse than any of you!"

Lin Feng laughed and said, "Then come back in two years. It would be irresponsible of you to let you join now, because with your current strength, you won't survive more than two years in the Xiaolong Squad. You simply cannot imagine what kind of terrifying opponents the Xiaolong Squad will face."

Qin Xiao still remembers the expression on Lin Feng's face when he said those words to him. It was more of an admiration than anything else, but this admiration only made him resentful.

Until the incident involving the Xiaolong Squad, those who failed the selection process appeared in the frontier jungle for the first time in place of Xiaolong, fighting against those top external forces.

In just one instance, all their arrogance and confidence were shattered.

They almost risked their lives to defeat those powerful opponents with a score of seven to one. They defeated them, but not annihilated them.

Qin Xiao remembered clearly that six members of their special operations team were killed, while the other side only had one seriously injured. His left lung was pierced through by a lean young man with blond hair and deep-set eyes who used a dagger. Qin Xiao was prepared to die at that time, so he risked his life and used his military dagger to make a hole in the other man's waist.

That was the only time Qin Xiao managed to touch the enemy throughout the entire battle.

The reason that person retreated was simple, even somewhat ridiculous. The blond, deep-set-eyed opponent felt it wasn't worth trading his life with these rookies, and he didn't want to be impotent with women at such a young age, so he chose to leave in a hurry to go back and treat his injuries.

As for the opposing team's teammates?

Qin Xiao smiled bitterly. The other side had no teammates, only one person, while they, the once arrogant elite soldiers, had a squad of twelve.

Twelve against one, six dead and one injured!

The only person who managed to touch the other was Qin Xiao, who took advantage of the other's carelessness and underestimation of his opponent, determined to perish together with them.

On that occasion, Qin Xiao almost died from massive internal bleeding. Fortunately, his comrades carried him back to the rear hospital in time and performed emergency open-chest surgery to save his life. However, he was left with some sequelae due to the injury and had to retire.

"You simply cannot imagine just how powerful the opponent the Falcon Dragon Squad faced..."

Qin Xiao sat in his room, murmuring the words Lin Feng had once told him. Even now, the thought of that ghostly figure in the jungle sent chills down his spine.

It was that mission experience that gave Qin Xiao a clear and profound understanding of Lin Feng's words. Similarly, it also made him deeply respect Lin Feng, because Lin Feng had personally killed no fewer than a hundred of such terrifying beings...