San Zong wrung his hands, smiling bashfully, and said, "Aunt Chen took Yingying to the Exotic Beast Forest to hunt. They won't be back until the afternoon."
"Aunt Chen is staying with you, so you need to be careful. You can't let anyone see what you're helping me grow, understand?" Xia Chujian emphasized this point.
San Zong nodded vigorously, "San Zong understands! That Storage Room has a password that only San Zong knows! No one else can get in!"
"...Did Aunt Chen and Yingying ask about it?"
"No, no, they know their place. They never wander around the Flying Vehicle except for the area where they live."
Xia Chujian nodded in relief, "That's good. Now, use your Smart Bracelet number to accept a mission for me on the Hunted List."
San Zong scratched his head, "What's the Hunted List? Where is it?"
Xia Chujian wasn't in a hurry, saying, "I'll send you a link. Click on it and find a mission to kill Fan Chengcai."
Xia Chujian guided San Zong step by step to find the mission list on the Hunted List, and then had him send an inquiry message below the request to kill Fan Chengcai.
"Two million Beichen Coins in cash, no Flying Vehicle, is that acceptable?"
Five minutes after this inquiry message was sent, the mission reward changed from one million Beichen Coins plus a Civilian Flying Vehicle to two million Beichen Coins in cash.
Xia Chujian was satisfied and was about to have San Zong click "Accept" when the mission was instantly accepted by someone else, disappearing from the Hunted List and entering a quantum encrypted state, so no one could see who had accepted it.
The party that posted the mission on the Hunted List had automatically transferred the money to the Hunted List's trust account after the mission was accepted.
As long as the mission is completed and confirmed by the Hunted List, the party accepting the mission will receive the money.
It's impossible for the other party to go back on their word.
Because to post a mission on the Hunted List, you must first verify your funds and transfer the money before the Hunted List will post the mission.
Xia Chujian was dumbfounded.
Someone actually snatched this kind of mission from her?! She couldn't understand it! But ten minutes later, she understood.
Because Ye Shijie contacted the Team, saying, "I just accepted the mission on the Hunted List to kill Fan Chengcai. We're going to Da Fu Prefecture next week. Does anyone want to go? If you want to go, we'll distribute the reward according to the Team's old rules."
Ping Qiong and Song Mingqian immediately exclaimed, "So it was you, Captain, who accepted it! I was wondering why the mission disappeared in the blink of an eye!"
Li Fu also said sarcastically, "Captain, you're really fast! You're a craftsman too..."
Xia Chujian didn't understand this kind of slightly technical innuendo for a moment.
She thought he was talking about the speed of shooting, and followed up, "Ye Dui's hand speed is the fastest anyway, he must practice often."
Li Fu and Song Mingqian exchanged glances and immediately burst into laughter.
Song Mingqian even rolled off the sofa onto the floor.
Li Fu was drinking water and sprayed it everywhere.
Fortunately, it was a video call, or everyone would have been sprayed.
Ping Qiong understood and said bluntly, "Little Chujian, don't respond to these kinds of remarks in the future. They're not good!"
Ye Shijie glared at Li Fu, "Chujian is still underage, how can you say such things in front of her?"
Li Fu cried out in protest, "Ye Dui! I've been holding back until now to say something inappropriate! Little Chujian just came of age!"
Ye Shijie: "..."
He actually forgot.
He blushed a little, and said with a straight face, "You know she just came of age, how old are you? How old is she? If you do that again, Xia Gugu will be asking you questions!"
Ye Shijie brought out Xia Yuanfang, and Li Fu restrained himself slightly.
He smiled and brushed his fingers across his brow, saying, "Got it, won't happen again!"
Ye Shijie then said, "Huh? How did you know the mission was suddenly accepted? Were you secretly accepting missions too?"
Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ping Qiong quickly interrupted, trying to gloss over the topic.
Xia Chujian felt warmth in her heart, knowing that her teammates were all doing it for her and were secretly accepting that mission too.
She quietly admitted, "...I saw that mission too, and it disappeared with a whoosh. And I even asked the person who posted the mission if they could change the reward to two million in cash..."
The five people looked at each other, and then laughed together.
Li Fu drawled, "Little Xia Chujian, you're so honest! You already asked the price, why didn't you try to raise it? For example, if you asked for five million Beichen Coins, wouldn't we all be millionaires?!"
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
Damn it! How could I be so stupid?!
"...I'm so stupid, really..." Xia Chujian muttered to herself, hitting her forehead with her fist.
Her teammates burst into laughter again, and the team's encrypted channel was filled with cheerful air.
Ye Shijie couldn't help but laugh along.
Once everyone had laughed enough, Ye Shijie said, "Alright, let's confirm, are you all participating?"
"Yes." Everyone answered in unison.
Ye Shijie said, "Good, let's start with the mission reconnaissance. Song Mingqian and I will go to Da Fu Prefecture first to prepare."
"Li Fu, based on our reconnaissance information, prepare the necessary equipment."
"Cai Jie and Chujian, find a good excuse to get Xia Gugu to let you go."
Xia Chujian: "..."
She sighed and said, "Obviously, Cai Jie's and my mission is the most difficult."
For Xia Chujian, persuading Xia Yuanfang to let her leave Mulan City and go to Da Fu Prefecture for a mission would probably be several times harder than getting into university through the National Higher Education Entrance Examination.
Starting from Monday, Xia Chujian would enter a month-long winter vacation, which was also the time Xia Yuanfang had prepared many tutoring exercises for her to practice.
Xia Chujian didn't mind doing exercises every day, but she couldn't just do exercises all the time...
She was also a working woman, although her job was killing people...
Ah... no, her job was a Bounty Hunter.
Ye Shijie, Song Mingqian, and Li Fu all went offline to prepare.
Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong were still chatting in the team's encrypted channel.
"Cai Jie, what excuses do you usually use to leave home?" Xia Chujian asked diligently, seeking advice.
"What other excuse could there be? A business trip for the company." Ping Qiong shrugged.
She had many siblings at home, and like Xia Chujian's family, they were commoners and quite poor.
But since she became a Gene Evolver and joined the Dark Night Hunter Association, her family's economic situation and social status had greatly improved.
However, her family didn't know she was a Hunter.
They all thought she was a salesperson in a trading company.
Of course, this trading company was just a shell company opened by Ye Shijie in the team's name, just for the convenience of doing missions.
Li Fu's and Song Mingqian's families, like Ping Qiong's family, all thought they were doing legitimate work in this trading company.
As employees of the trading company, they often went on business trips, lasting for several days, and came back with money, so their families couldn't help but believe it.
Ye Shijie, being alone, didn't need to explain his whereabouts and profession to anyone.
Xia Chujian used to have her only relative, her aunt, seriously ill and hospitalized, so no one could control her.
Now that her aunt had recovered and been discharged from the hospital, and knew that she was a Hunter in the Dark Night Hunter Association, that is, a Bounty Hunter, it wouldn't be so easy for her to go out.
Although Xia Yuanfang didn't explicitly object to her continuing to do it, now that it was the critical moment for the National Higher Education Entrance Examination, Xia Yuanfang might not necessarily let her go out.
Moreover, she couldn't directly tell Xia Yuanfang that she was going to kill Fan Chengcai.
Xia Chujian pondered an excuse and said, "How about we take on a simple mission within the Association that needs to be carried out in Da Fu Prefecture, and then use this mission to cover up the other mission, okay?"
She became more and more excited as she thought about it: "Moreover, we can take the opportunity to get free equipment from the Association, and even travel expenses to Da Fu Prefecture!"
Ping Qiong's eyes lit up: "That's really good! Go check the Association's system!"
The missions released by the Dark Night Hunter Association were all divided into specific regions.
Locals had priority in taking local missions, but of course, priority was also based on the team's ability.
In the past, Xia Chujian's team's ability ranking in the Association was at the very bottom, so they only took those local, garbage missions that no one else wanted.
Their team had been doing low-level missions for three years, barely earning a hundred Beichen coins each time, which then had to be split among the team...
It wasn't until this year that they received two missions that seemed like trash but were actually full of treasure.
Those were the Ding Grade Mission to kill human traffickers and rescue abducted victims, and the Geng Grade Mission to gather Blood Kirin in the Exotic Beast Forest.
These two missions catapulted their team to become the strongest team in the entire Mulan City, and even on Guiyuan Star.
Now they could pick and choose missions as they pleased.
Others could only take what they left behind.
Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong together opened the Dark Night Hunter Association's internal encrypted website and clicked into the "Missions" section.
Here, missions scrolled daily, categorized by location and difficulty.
Not every day had new missions; it purely depended on the needs of those above.
The Association's management was responsible for drumming up business; as Association members, they only needed to execute the missions.
The two were sifting through the missions when suddenly, a mission from Da Fu Prefecture was posted.
"Yi Grade Mission: Secretly protect a noble lady visiting Da Fu Prefecture.
Mission Duration: Six days (December 26th to December 31st).
Mission Requirements: Must have two or more female team members participating.
Mission Reward: Six million Beichen coins."
Ping Qiong was almost dumbfounded when she saw the amount.
She muttered to herself, "... Who is this? A princess? Hiring a secret bodyguard and spending six million in a week!"
As soon as Xia Chujian saw this mission, she didn't think twice. Her fingers seemed to have a mind of their own, immediately accepting the mission.
This mission was an Yi Grade Mission, which was considered a high-level mission throughout the entire Beichen Galaxy's Dark Night Hunter Association.
Only the strongest teams in each region were qualified to accept such missions.
And Xia Chujian's team had only just been promoted to this "strongest team" category.
Because of their fast hands, even though they were a Mulan City-based team, they received the mission from Da Fu Prefecture.
Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong were both using the team account to browse the Association's internal website.
As soon as she accepted the mission, the entire team's Quantum Optical Brain received a notification sound, indicating that they had accepted Yi Grade Mission No. 1234.
This is the second update.
There will be three updates tomorrow, including a bonus update. I wanted to ask everyone, would you like all three updates to be released together, or should they be released separately? If they are released separately, the first two updates will be at the usual time, and the third will be at 7 PM.
Please express your opinions in the chapter comments, and I will tally them.
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