to blame

When Nanjiang parked the car outside the bar, the ground was already wet by the dense rain.

Nan Jiang locked the car, pulled up the collar of his windbreaker and walked up the steps quickly.

Under the porch of the bar hung a wooden sign with the words "reserved, no individual visitors". Through the glass door, Nanjiang saw a group of people in the bar stumbling around.On the stage in the corner, there was also a group of people huddling around, as if they were fighting for the chance to perform on stage. The music was mixed with noisy sounds, which could be heard through the glass door.

Nanjiang pushed open the door, and the cool wind mixed with the smell of wine and food rushed towards his face, and Nanjiang felt the heat all over his body dissipate.

The bartender waved to him from the back door of the bar, "Captain Nan, welcome."

Nan Jiang raised his hand to greet him.

At first, he just thought the bartender looked familiar, but then he noticed that he was wearing an antler-shaped hairpin on his head, and then he suddenly remembered that the person's body was a sika deer.

When he came out of the mountains, he didn't understand anything, entered human society in a daze, and didn't have any survival skills. Once he tried to rob like others, but was caught by Nanjiang, and he was imprisoned in the Xishan Great Array for two years of labor reform. Year.After serving his sentence and being released, Nan Jiang recommended him to Tao Sheng. Several years later, looking at him now, he no longer had the fear and anxiety he had when he first entered human society.

Nan Jiang glanced around the lobby of the bar, and saw Ming Xia, Qing Tan, and several people from the second team crowded in the window seats in the corner, whispering to each other without knowing what they were talking about.

As Nan Jiang walked towards them, he took off his damp windbreaker, revealing a well-made black shirt inside and a pair of cuff buttons inlaid with black diamonds at the cuffs.Today's event was a private party. Everyone present was wearing casual clothes. Several female team members also wore long skirts and put on makeup.

Nan Jiang deliberately searched for the tigress in his team, and found that Li Youran was sitting next to the stage playing dice with Feng Ming.She also wore a long red dress today, with her hair pulled up, and a pair of shiny earrings on her ears.

It's actually pretty decent.

Nan Jiang couldn't help smiling.

It was only when he got close to Ming Xia's table that he realized what the people at the table were doing with their heads together.It turned out that Qingqiu had drunk wine and showed his original shape, a small white fluffy ball, lying lazily on the table, with one paw raised high, showing off his new gift to everyone.

Nanjiang saw the bracelet Qingqiu put on his paw, and guessed that it was given to him by Ming Xia.He remembered that Ming Xia gave Qingqiu a bead before, a transfer bead embedded with broken gemstones, which was worn as a necklace for the little crow.

"This is a sapphire... This is an amethyst..." The little fox's voice was soft and waxy, because he was a little slurred after drinking, "There are nine beads in total, and Ming Xia said they are called good luck."

Ming Xia smiled with her hands in her hands.In fact, there is nothing to say about the nine beads. The bracelet that Ming Ming gave him was nine beads. He made up all the good luck and good luck, and coaxed the little fox to be happy.

After coming out of Xishan, Ming Xia returned home, found out the remaining few beads, asked someone to string them again, added a few more small beads to make accessories, and gave them to the little fox.

Qingqiu has actually seen good things.However, in the era before he was imprisoned, there was a gap between the polishing technology and inlay technology of gemstones compared with modern ones, so these small shiny stones seemed particularly rare in Qingqiu's eyes-not to mention the gaudy colors , still blingbling, almost every small stone hit the itchy flesh on the tip of the little fox's heart.

Qingtan sat on the side and sighed, once again lamenting that all his years of hard work had been fed to the dog.

"I'm both a father and a mother, pulling him up like shit and piss," Qing Tan put his arms on Ming Xia's shoulders, sighing sourly, "In the end, a Ming Xiaoliu popped up, Just two fleshy bones casually hooked up this heartless little thing."

"It's not meat and bones!" Qingqiu rolled on the table, wagging his tail to express his objection to his complaint, "It's jewelry and gold... Uh, I'm also a big demon with... style."

"You have a fart style." Qingtan continued to sarcastically say, "The stone as big as a grain of rice will fascinate you so much that you can't find it. Turn around and let you see my collection. It will scare you to death!"

Although Qingqiu was drinking too much, he could still hear Qingtan hitting him, so he said to Mingxia very unhappy: "We will ignore him from now on! We won't take him with us when we eat fried chicken!"

Ming Xia laughed again.

He actually drank too much, but he was in a relaxed mood and always wanted to laugh.

Just as he was smiling, he felt a hand reach out from behind and pinch his neck.

When Ming Xia turned his head, the person behind him had already circled around and sat down on the empty seat beside him.Ming Xia smelled the smell of tobacco and the faint scent of mint mixed in it.He closed his eyes, leaned over lazily, and put his head on Nan Jiang's shoulder.

"How come?"

On the other side of Ming Xia, Qing Tan's arm was empty, and he gave Nan Jiang a displeased look.

Nan Jiang smiled, turned his face slightly and rubbed against Ming Xia's hair, "I just finished the meeting."

"Exposing meeting?!" Ming Xia sneered, "What about Old Du?"

Nan Jiang shook his head.He didn't quite agree with Ming Xia's wording, but thinking about the scene in the conference room just now, he felt that the word "reveal" was quite accurate.

The working team sent by the Yaozhou headquarters has entered the branch compound. It is an investigation team composed of a dozen staff members.Nanjiang also followed Commander Du to the headquarters for a meeting. He was familiar with the people in the headquarters, especially the heads of the departments in charge of operations, but he had never seen these people in the working group.

Wen Liang quietly mentioned that these people might have come from the capital headquarters.Nanjiang didn't know the truth, but the interrogation-like attitude of these people was not only Nanjiang, everyone who was interrogated felt uncomfortable.

"They have already determined that our operation 'failed' this time," Ming Xia recalled the process of being interrogated during the day, and chuckled lightly, "then they were eager to find out the source of our failure."

Qingtan sneered at the side, "Just find someone to take the blame."

"That's what it means." Ming Xia lazily leaned against Nanjiang, seeing the little fox still rolling on the table, his head almost stuck in the fruit plate, she quickly reached out to grab him into her arms and rubbed it .

Qingqiu was not happy to be hugged by someone, he struggled and ran back to the table, found the bracelet he had thrown beside the plate just now, counted the nine dazzling and beautiful beads on it, hugged it into his arms and lay down again .

Ming Xia reached out to touch his ear, and laughed, "The team leader told me today that he wanted me to go back and reflect on something. I told him directly, and I said there was nothing to reflect on. This operation Obviously it was too successful! Never has a mission been completed so ideally, an unprecedented victory. This victory is enough for me to be proud for the rest of my life! I will tell my grandson over and over again when I get old!"

Everyone at the table laughed.

Ming Xia didn't smile.He knew that everyone present here was interviewed one by one by the so-called working group just like him, and it is estimated that the interrogation questions were similar.

People in these working groups seem to have determined that Commander Du is responsible for the failure of this mission, and what they are doing now is just looking for evidence to support this conclusion.

This approach made Ming Xia feel annoyed.

Ming Xia lowered his voice and asked Nan Jiang, "Did Commander Du offend someone? Or... blocked someone's way?"

Nanjiang didn't speak.The reason why he started the mobilization team was because the working atmosphere here was relatively simple. Unexpectedly, there were some things that went around and couldn't be avoided.

This topic has affected everyone's interest.Ming Xia stopped talking, and leaned on Nan Jiang's shoulder lazily watching the handsome singer perform on the stage.

Nan Jiang tilted his head slightly, and asked him softly, almost touching his cheek, "You're in a bad mood?"

Ming Xia sighed, "Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. It's so annoying."

In fact, as soon as he came out of Xishan, Wen Liang pulled him aside to talk, and didn't say anything else.Just remind him to do his own thing.As for anything else, don't get involved.

Ming Xia felt that Wen Liang's attitude was quite calm. This attitude gave him a little bit of confidence and made him feel that Commander Du's problem could be solved smoothly.But judging from the two days of inquiries, things are obviously not that simple.So Ming Xia felt a little lost.

Nan Jiang raised his hand, and gently pressed the back of his hand against Ming Xia's cheek, "I've said this before. When I first joined the action team."

Ming Xia raised his eyes in surprise, he didn't think Nan Jiang was the kind of person who would make such complaints.

Nan Jiang smiled silently, "At that time, I was still resistant to awakening, and I was also emotional when I was working. If it weren't for Commander Du, I might not be able to continue working."

Nanjiang's eyes showed a look of reminiscence, "At that time, I wanted to leave the sixth group with all my heart, but Commander Du stopped me. He said to me: Don't you want to be the strongest individual soldier? Then stay in the sixth group. No force has taken on more danger than Group Six."

Ming Xia thought about it and felt that this made sense.No matter what mission the other teams perform, at least the target... is a person, not an animal or... a monster, and they will not encounter any unpredictable means.

Sometimes, the danger is only the danger that the body may encounter, but for some people, the danger also includes the subversion and collapse of the entire worldview.

"Commander Du also said, I just need to rush, fight, hone my combat skills, and improve my abilities. I don't need to worry about anything else, he will take care of it."

Ming Xia felt that he was hit by these words, and his nose was a little sore.He remembered what Commander Du said to Nanjiang in the valley: I will take all the responsibilities.

"You guys are stupid enough." Qingtan sneered at the side, "These people separated you and collected evidence one by one, but they didn't want to make the evidence public. In this way, no matter what punishment decision the headquarters makes in the end, you people will There is no way to refute it. So, from your point of view, the only way to protest is to do the opposite."

Qingtan glanced at the people around her, and felt that some of the things said by human beings were quite reasonable, such as people like like to flock together.Like now, what can a bunch of brawny, simple-minded people do with their righteous indignation.

Qingtan shook her head, "Forget it, I'll take care of this."

Ming Xia came back to his senses, and asked him stammeringly, "What should I do?"

Qingtan thought for a while and said: "Each of you write a testimony. Remember, it must be consistent with the testimony handed over to the working group. Leave it to me, and I will hand it over to the headquarters of Yaozhou. If it doesn't work, hand it over to the capital. headquarters."

"This...does this work?" Ming Xia didn't realize it at all, "The working team was sent by the Yaozhou headquarters."

Qingtan smiled wickedly, "Then I will distribute a copy to each branch."

Ming Xia, "..."

"I know what you mean." Nan Jiang pressed down on a table ready to move, "but it's just a bad idea to make things worse like this. If you can, I would like to ask you to help check the situation of the headquarters. Focus on the investigation of the formation work The person in the team. Also, do Zhou Liang and Xie Rong have anything to do with this person?"

As the captain of the action team, Zhou Liang was able to challenge the commander in the branch. When he appeared on the outskirts of Lingxi Valley, he was not with members of the action team, but special service personnel from the headquarters; Xie Rong, an ordinary businessman, In the name of the club, you can go on missions with the action team.

From Nan Jiang's point of view, there is one more thing that needs to be taken seriously, that is, someone contacted ordinary monsters to enter the Xishan formation, interfere with the actions of the sixth group, and create chaos and panic.

But these things were put aside lightly.

To them, this is the most abnormal part of the whole thing.

Qingtan sighed, "I was thinking about it. I'm sorry."

He is a big demon who has been famous for a long time. He is capable and rich. When things happen, he is used to fighting with one force, but he forgets that this is not a fight with the enemy, but a game with his own people.

The most important point is that what these people here are looking for is not personal victory, or even a certain person's exemption from punishment, but to obtain a fair result in the most standardized way.

Qingtan once again felt the difference in concepts between the human race and the demon race.

In the silence, I heard someone behind me say, "Don't be so troublesome."

Nan Jiang turned around and stood up in surprise, "Teacher Wen?"

Before leaving Xishan, everyone agreed to have a party to celebrate that everyone can go home alive.I didn't expect that there would be so many troubles after I came back, and there was no conclusion on Commander Du's question, so everyone's interest was not high.Later, it was Qingtan who asked everyone to come out for a drink, and then called out all the people from the second team.

Nan Jiang didn't expect Wen Liang to come to such a place, so he hurriedly pulled Ming Xia to stand up, making room for Wen Liang.

Wen Liang took a bottle of beer from Ming Xia, thought for a while and pushed it back, "Bring me a hot drink instead."

Ming Xia's eyes quickly swept across the cool gray hair on the temples, he called the waiter and ordered a pot of black tea.He always wanted to ask Wen Liang what happened in Xishan, but Wen Liang never said anything.

Ming Xia only knew that some of the technicians Mr. Hu brought in were among them. Mr. Hu himself was found by Wutong's people. He was injured and has been sent to the hospital in Yaozhou headquarters.

Ming Xia guessed that these technologists probably joined forces to destroy the teleportation array around the oasis in the white oasis.Otherwise, it would be difficult for a group of technicians to have a chance to rush to the front line, but they were all seriously injured one by one.Wen Liang looked even more depleted of vitality, her temples were graying before she reached middle age.

Nan Jiang looked at him tentatively, "You said just now that you don't need to bother, what you meant..."

Wen Liang took a sip of the hot tea, with a relaxed expression on his face, "Don't meddle in this matter."

His eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one, "Old Du doesn't want you all to be involved because of him. After all, you are members of the sixth team, not his personal soldiers. The more you make trouble, the more you actually It’s even more detrimental to you and him.”

Nan Jiang and the others looked at each other in blank dismay.

Wen Liang said again: "Lao Du is only on vacation at the moment, as for other things... I can't say anything. We plan to use this time to go for a walk and treat it as a vacation."

Ming Xia looked at his teacher puzzled, why did he go with Commander Du on vacation?Are you familiar?

Qingtan at the side lazily extended the invitation, "Since it's a vacation, then come to Qingqiu Mountain. You haven't been back for many years... By the way, you can also teach Qingqiu by the way."

Ming Xia was dumbfounded.

Did he hear something wrong just now?Or is there a problem with comprehension?His teacher, the serious and vicious teacher Wen, is from Qingqiu Mountain? !