Kongyi: I have arrived. We are meeting here, when will you be able to make it?
Kongyi: [Terminal Location]
Sam: Be right there.
After seeing this message, Firefly immediately got up and walked out of the clinic.
"The client says he has arrived, I'm leaving first."
Having said that, flames began to rise from her body.
The next moment, the Sam armor covered Firefly's body.
Immediately after, under Hong Guoguo's astonished gaze, a silver figure instantly rushed into the sky and disappeared from sight a moment later.
"Although I was somewhat mentally prepared," Hong Guoguo muttered to herself, looking in the direction where Sam disappeared, "it still feels so absurd..."
...
Meanwhile, on the other side.
"Sam says it will be here soon."
After seeing the message Sam returned, Lin Zhenyi turned his head and spoke to the burly man beside him.
"But its current IP address seems to still be in Chaos Capital. It's quite a distance from here to Chaos Capital, isn't it?"
"Oh, Zhenyi, if traveling from one country to another in ten minutes is true, then I guarantee that the one called Sam will be here in less than a minute." After saying that, he patted Lin Zhenyi's shoulder. "So you don't need to worry. If anything, we are the ones delaying the one called Sam."
"No." Lin Zhenyi shook his head. "I'm just thinking, if it still comes over at that speed."
"Then... how will it arrive here?"
Before he could finish speaking, a powerful blast of air accompanied by a whistling sound swept over, kicking up dust and dirt from the ground.
Lin Zhenyi and the others subconsciously narrowed their eyes. The next moment, they saw a tall figure wearing silver-white armor appear right in front of them.
At this moment, a mechanical electronic voice sounded:
"I am the mercenary who accepted the commission, codename, Sam."
...
"Hello Sam, I am the issuer of the commission, codename, Kongyi."
After the dust settled, Lin Zhenyi also stated his codename.
Firefly nodded, then turned to look at the burly man beside Lin Zhenyi with some confusion.
"Who is this?"
"He is..."
"I am Kongyi's friend, I'll be helping him with the rescue when the time comes." Just as Lin Zhenyi was about to introduce him, the burly man interrupted. "Just call me Buck."
"Alright."
'...Why does his voice sound a little familiar?'
Listening to Buck speak, Firefly was a little confused because she felt as if she had heard this Buck's voice somewhere before, but she couldn't quite remember.
'Never mind, maybe I accidentally heard it somewhere back in Chaos Capital.'
Thinking of this, she temporarily suppressed her doubts and brought her gaze back to Lin Zhenyi.
"Before the mission begins, I have a question to ask."
"What question?"
Lin Zhenyi was not surprised by Firefly's inquiry, as he figured Sam was most likely going to ask a question related to the mission.
However, as soon as Firefly asked her question, it immediately put both of them on high alert.
"Excuse me, are you Lu Zhaoran's friends or relatives? How did you know that Lu Zhaoran was taken by the Sop national government?"
The air suddenly froze.
"How do you know the rescue target's name?!" Lin Zhenyi's pupils shrank slightly, and faint, visible ripples appeared in the space around him. His eyes instantly filled with vigilance. "I remember I never mentioned the name Lu Zhaoran in our previous communications."
Buck, who was standing to the side, reacted just as swiftly. A massive metal war hammer appeared out of thin air in his hands, and his entire aura abruptly changed as he entered a combat-ready state.
"No need to be tense." Facing the sudden escalation in hostility, Firefly's calm voice transmitted through the armor. Her figure remained completely still. "A friend of mine knows Lu Zhaoran, and she mentioned this name to me."
"When I saw the name on the commission, I went to ask my friend and got her affirmative answer."
"So I accepted this commission."
After saying that, she looked at Lin Zhenyi and continued speaking:
"Now, it is your turn to answer my question."
Upon hearing this, Lin Zhenyi furrowed his brows tightly. He stayed silent for a moment before answering:
"Lu Zhaoran is my junior."
"As for how I know..." He paused, abruptly changing the subject. "Before I answer, I need you to answer a question of mine first."
"Speak," Firefly replied concisely.
"Tell me, who is your friend? If you mind saying her name, just describing her physical features is fine too."
"Her name is Cipher," Firefly answered without any hesitation. "Also, I think I know your name now too."
But right after she said the name Cipher, before Lin Zhenyi could even speak, Buck cried out in disbelief.
"What? Cipher?"
"You mean to say, your friend is that Feline Demi-human who killed a bunch of people in our organization, then got that girl named Pardofelis to empty out the funds of several of our branch bases, and finally forced us to make peace with her?!"
At this point, as if recalling some extremely painful memory, he shuddered all over and couldn't help but add another sentence:
"Does... does she also have a coffee with an absolutely horrifying taste?!"
"..."
Hearing Buck's voice full of grief and indignation, Firefly suddenly didn't know what to say for a moment.
She seemed to know why she found this voice a little familiar earlier.
...Wasn't this the sound of vomiting she heard in the background when she was communicating with Li Yan's holographic projection?!
After a few seconds of silence, Firefly nodded.
"That's right."
"Fuck... it's a small world!" After receiving an affirmative answer, the last trace of luck in Buck's heart vanished. With a clang, the giant hammer in his hands disappeared. He then squatted on the ground, covering his face with an expression of pure agony. "How is it that even when I run all the way to Sop for fieldwork, I still run into that Feline Demi-human's friend!"
"..."
Both Firefly and Lin Zhenyi were stunned into silence by this guy's antics.
A moment later, Lin Zhenyi was the first to break the silence.
"Did you just say you probably know my name?"
"Mhm." Firefly's gaze refocused on Lin Zhenyi. "You are Lin Zhenyi, right? This is what Cipher guessed after learning the codename Kongyi. She also said that this person is Lu Zhaoran's senior."
"Her guess was right." Hearing Firefly state his name, he sighed and frankly admitted, "I am Lin Zhenyi."
"Then," seeing this, Firefly pressed on, "can you answer my question now?"
"Alright." Lin Zhenyi organized his thoughts and began to explain:
"Here is what happened."
"To ensure her safety, I left a spatial mark on her previously."
"And on the 10th, my connection to the spatial mark was suddenly blocked, and the location where it was blocked was exactly over at Sop City's national government."