Levi looked proudly at Fu Xuan in front of him and waved his outstretched hand twice.
'Ask me?'
Seeing the look on Levi's face, Fu Xuan looked at his empty hand and frowned slightly.
Without any hint, she really had no idea what he was missing.
When Fu Xuan didn't answer for a long time, Levi raised an eyebrow, cleared his throat, and said,
"Milk... ahem, ahem, ahem!"
He had almost slipped up and revealed something he definitely shouldn't.
March 7th, who had been staring at him, suddenly felt someone poke her.
"What?"
Stelle said, "Why aren't you moving already?"
"Moving for what?"
March 7th looked completely confused.
Moving for what? Did she really need to ask?
Among everyone present, besides March 7th, who else had what Levi wanted?
It was a sad thing.
March 7th still didn't get it, but Levi had heard them. He shot her a fierce glare.
Then...
"A teacup! A teacup!"
he said in a tone full of disappointment.
As a strategist directing troops on the front lines, how could he not have the symbolic teacup of command in his hand?
"Hmph! Just superficial nonsense!"
"Even superficial things have their use. Besides, without a teacup as a prop, how would others know I possess the ability to plan everything from behind the scenes?", Levi replied calmly.
"So."
His eyes landed on Fu Xuan.
"Minister Fu, hurry up and pour tea for this commander!"
"..."
After hearing that, Jing Yuan's mouth twitched uncontrollably.
March 7th, Stelle, and Bailu gathered together and whispered while looking at Levi.
March 7th spoke first, "Has she always been this brave?"
Although Jing Yuan had handed command of this operation to her, her official position was still just a Diviner of the Divination Commission.
Meanwhile, Fu Xuan was the head of the Divination Commission... the Master Diviner.
While Fu Xuan might not be able to do anything to her right now... the position of commander wasn't permanent.
Once everything was over, there was no telling whether she'd get targeted afterward.
Everyone working in the Divination Commission was smart, so there was no way Qingque didn't understand that.
Yet she still acted like this despite knowing it.
March 7th could only describe it with one word...
Brave.
Bailu said, "I don't know what she's usually like, but she's pretty brave when playing cards."
No matter what cards she had, she'd go all-in against people.
She had even said something Bailu still remembered clearly.
"Going all-in is a kind of wisdom!"
As Bailu's words entered their ears...
March 7th and Stelle seemed to see Qingque standing at a card table, giving them a thumbs-up with her back turned.
"Going all-in is a kind of wisdom!"
Qingque's confident voice rang out.
The moment her words ended, a familiar male voice followed.
"So that's why you're broke? No, I won't lend you money."
"Come on, don't be like that. We're friends. Lend me some credits for now."
Then Bailu's voice suddenly rang out.
The two girls snapped out of it, looked at each other, shook their heads, and turned toward Bailu.
"If you ask me, that's the wisdom of how to go bankrupt."
Other people go all-in wisely.
Qingque thinks going all-in equals wisdom.
It would be strange if she didn't go bankrupt.
Besides, Qingque was currently living in Levi's house.
One look and it was obvious she had ended up like that because of going all-in and losing everything.
Now she could only live under someone else's roof.
That was the price of being brave.
While March 7th and Bailu were discussing Qingque's bravery...
Stelle knew something neither of them knew.
The current "Qingque" wasn't actually Qingque.
His real identity was Levi, the Luofu's hanging man.
Since he wasn't Qingque, and everyone else thought he was, he could act like a complete troublemaker if he wanted.
Even if people wanted to cause trouble for him, they wouldn't be able to find the real person.
It was like wearing a mask online and becoming fearless.
After all, nobody knew his true identity.
That was why "Qingque" could be so brave.
If it were Stelle herself, she'd be even bolder.
She'd have people massaging her shoulders and beating her back too.
———
At the shore near the Alchemy Commission, beside the Scalegorge Waterscape.
Jing Yuan looked at Fu Xuan with a smile at the corner of his mouth.
Fu Xuan's expression changed several times as she looked at the hand waving in front of her.
In the end, she glanced at Jing Yuan, who was watching the show nearby.
After glaring at him, she walked away.
Soon, Fu Xuan returned.
The difference was that she now held two cups of tea.
"Ah~"
Taking the teacup and sipping it lightly, Levi let out a satisfied sound.
"The tea handed to me by Minister Fu truly tastes exceptional!"
"Hehe..."
Fu Xuan forced out a fake smile.
Seeing Levi like this, Jing Yuan became somewhat curious about what this "exceptional" taste was like.
Coincidentally, Fu Xuan had brought back two cups of tea.
In a serious setting like this, Fu Xuan didn't have the habit of leisurely drinking tea.
So one of the cups had to be for him, the General.
However, things didn't go quite as he expected.
When Fu Xuan saw Jing Yuan reaching out his hand, she sneered twice.
Not only did she refuse to hand him the tea, she slapped his hand away.
Then she took a sip herself.
Looking at the calm surface of the tea, she found that Levi had been right.
Holding a teacup really did make one feel somewhat unfathomable.
"Minister Fu..."
"If you want tea, go get it yourself."
Watching Jing Yuan quickly leave in the direction Fu Xuan pointed, the three members of the Astral Express thought of the same sentence.
"The Xianzhou Luofu is doomed sooner or later!"
Like Fu Xuan, Jing Yuan soon returned as well.
However, when he came back, he had brought an entire tea table and teapot with him.
He called over Mr. Yang, the three vanguards, and Bailu to drink tea together.
The Cloud Knights dispersed.
Only Levi and Fu Xuan remained standing by the shore.
Holding her teacup, Fu Xuan looked at "Qingque," who was leaning against the railing with a deep look in her eyes.
"Qingque, have you thought this through? Once you accept this appointment, there'll be no turning back."
There was no such thing as resigning halfway after accepting Jing Yuan's appointment as commander.
For a Diviner who had never been on a battlefield before...
directly commanding a battle was far too reckless.
At least, Fu Xuan couldn't understand what exactly Jing Yuan was thinking.
Even if Qingque had hidden powerful abilities, that didn't mean command should simply be handed to her.
"Fu Xuan."
Calling her name, Levi turned around and smiled slightly.
"You aren't... jealous, are you?"
Fu Xuan froze, then said irritably, "As if I'd be jealous of this!"
Well, honestly, maybe a little.
But not much.
What worried her more was the battle itself.
The Disciples of Sanctus Medicus had mostly been wiped out, but they hadn't been completely eliminated.
And they never could be completely eliminated.
As long as the Abundance still existed, organizations like the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus that worshipped it would never truly disappear.
The remaining members were entrenched in the Supreme Elixir Chamber area.
When hunting prey, the closer one gets to the end, the less one can lower their guard.
Any prey that realizes it cannot escape will fight desperately in a final counterattack.
That moment required the most caution.
Moreover, these people had revived the Ambrosial Arbor, and nobody knew what they were truly planning.
With everything still unclear, Jing Yuan had already handed command over to someone else.
And not to someone experienced like her, but to Qingque, a newcomer with absolutely no front-line command experience.
No matter how she looked at it, it felt irresponsible.
Even if divination predicted a great victory in this incident, issuing orders so casually could easily turn that result into a disastrous defeat.
She glanced back at Jing Yuan.
He was leisurely drinking tea.
When he noticed her gaze, he even raised his teacup toward her.
From his expression, there was clearly no intention of withdrawing the appointment.
Fu Xuan sighed.
Military orders could not be disobeyed.
She could only do her best to teach Qingque how to arrange the next steps.
"Just as the General said earlier, the remaining Disciples of Sanctus Medicus are gathered in the Supreme Elixir Chamber. We only need to..."
"Minister Fu need not say more. I already have a plan.", Levi raised a hand and interrupted her.
Looking into the distance, he gazed at the platform within the ancient sea.
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