"According to the address where the Tulip is staying, it's exactly the Fan Family we were thinking of." Ye Shijie didn't pay much attention to Quan Caiwei's appearance, and conveniently pulled up the Fan Family's territory map.
Having taken on the Hunted List mission, although he hadn't had time to scout the area, Ye Shijie had already looked at the Fan Family's territory map several times.
He had even marked the location where Fan Chengcai lived on that virtual interactive map.
Xia Chujian gave a surprised "oh" and said, "This location is so close to where this Tulip Noble Daughter is staying..."
She looked up and saw that everyone had the same surprised expression as her.
"Tsk tsk, this mission is just amazing!" Li Fu laughed and gave Xia Chujian a thumbs up: "Little Chujian, you're really a lucky star! Whatever we think of, comes true!"
Their mission to secretly protect Quan Caiwei and the mission to find an opportunity to kill Fan Chengcai were thus magically intertwined.
Xia Chujian thoughtfully said, "...That's not necessarily true. If this Fan Chengcai is always clinging to the Tulip Noble Daughter, our mission will be very troublesome."
"What's troublesome about it?" Ye Shijie didn't think so. "You wouldn't be thinking of making a move while the Tulip Noble Daughter is at the Fan Family, would you? That's impossible. Since she's a noble daughter of the Quan Family, besides us, there are countless people protecting her both openly and secretly. As long as she's at the Fan Family, we can't make a move."
Xia Chujian nodded: "Okay, that's not a contradiction. The Tulip Noble Daughter is only staying for six days. The seventh day will be Fan Chengcai's death anniversary."
Ye Shijie glanced at her and realized that Xia Chujian's determination to kill Fan Chengcai was very firm.
The other three members of the Team had no objections and clapped hands together, saying, "Well said! The seventh day will be Fan Chengcai's death anniversary!"
Just as they had discussed their strategy, they heard a notice from the spaceport in their headsets.
"Attention, please, attention, please, the Quan's Starship is entering the port, the Quan's Starship is entering the port, clear the runway, clear the runway."
Then, a deafening roar came from far to near, the clouds in the sky rolled, and the quiet sky seemed to suddenly move.
A huge airflow rushed from the sky above, mighty and unstoppable.
Ye Shijie quickly operated manually, swiftly moving the Flying Vehicle at least a thousand meters to the side, and also changed direction, to avoid the sudden airflow.
"This is the power of a Starship?! It's too amazing!" Xia Chujian leaned against the window of their small Flying Vehicle, watching the scene in the high sky with rapt attention.
Under everyone's naked eyes, a huge, sky-covering Starship slowly emerged from the clouds.
At the bottom of the ship, a very metallic circular icon appeared before everyone's eyes.
On the badge, half was a turbulent blue sea, and half was white clouds swirling on the sea.
There was also a huge vortex of water, rising sharply from the sea, straight into the sky, connecting the distance between heaven and sea.
This was the ocean in a storm, and also the storm on the ocean.
This picture was called Storm Sea.
Everyone in the Beichen Empire knew that this was the Quan Family's family crest.
In the Flying Vehicle, everyone could only look up, with their mouths wide open, watching the behemoth, as if a monarch descending upon the world, landing in the aerial harbor of the spaceport.
Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong were seeing a real Starship for the first time.
They had seen it on the Star Network before, and also experienced it in those three-dimensional holographic projections.
But no scene could compare to the feeling of truly seeing the real thing.
It was a kind of vastness that made the stars press down, making it hard to breathe, a shock.
Ye Shijie, Li Fu, and Song Mingqian were relatively calm.
Because the three of them had not only seen the real thing before, but had also traveled in space on Starships.
But none of them had ever seen a Private Starship of this size.
Compared to those official Starships they had ridden, those official Starships looked like larger space shuttles.
This Private Starship overhead was truly worthy of the name "Starship"...
Xia Chujian watched for a long time and said enviously, "How much does such a large Private Starship cost?"
Everyone: "..."
Song Mingqian said sourly: "This is not a matter of money. And even if you can afford it, can you afford to use it?"
Li Fu rarely directly agreed with Song Mingqian, but this time, he also nodded and said, "The power system used by ordinary Starships is a gold-devouring beast. Not to mention this Private Starship is so big, the power needed every second is worth hundreds or thousands of Beichen Coins."
Ye Shijie leisurely said, "Ordinary Private Starships aren't this big and don't need this much power. But the Quan Family controls Quan's Mining, and they have a share in all the mines in the entire Beichen Empire. Describing it as making money hand over fist is an understatement, so they don't care about this little bit of money."
Xia Chujian nodded, "Then this Tulip Noble Daughter can truly be said to have a mine at home, in the literal sense."
"Is having a mine a big deal?" Song Mingqian scoffed.
Xia Chujian said seriously, "Having a mine is a big deal."
Everyone: "...".
Forget it, I won't argue with a little girl.
Winning is meaningless, losing is embarrassing.
...
Amidst everyone's gazes, that huge and luxurious Private Starship finally docked in the space station's bay.
The airflow from the spaceship's power system gradually subsided.
Ye Shijie said, "They now have to go through customs procedures. This is necessary when traveling from one planet to another, and it usually takes half an hour to an hour."
Before he finished speaking, a swan-like shuttle took off from the Starship bay and flew towards the atmosphere below.
Ye Shijie: "..."
He was miserably slapped in the face.
Li Fu chuckled, "They are Quan's Starship, they don't need to go through customs procedures like ordinary people. They arrive and leave, just like their own parking lot."
Ye Shijie blushed a little, but he didn't care too much, and said calmly, "Okay, I understand. It seems that my understanding of privilege is still not enough."
Xia Chujian comforted him, "Ye Dui, our status limits our imagination, this is normal."
Ye Shijie: "...".
Thanks a lot, I wasn't comforted at all.
He didn't say a word and was about to start the stealth Flying Vehicle to chase after the swan-like shuttle when he received a message from that shuttle.
[Quan's Shuttle 78]: Please provide your Dark Night Hunter contact card number. Failure to provide the card number within three minutes will result in being shot down.
Then, a skull icon indicating that their Flying Vehicle was locked by the opponent's missiles appeared on the Flying Vehicle's console.
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
This is going to sweep across everything without saying a word! How domineering!
But if she was the one being "swept," there would be no domineering, only anger! Fortunately, Ye Shijie was the most calm and quickly sent the encrypted contact card number he had just received to the other party.
After the other party verified it, they released the missile lock.
The swan-like shuttle plunged into the sea of clouds below like a swan spreading its wings and flying.
Xia Chujian's Team's Flying Vehicle was already below the sea of clouds.
Now, they had to move aside and wait until the swan was out of sight before their small Flying Vehicle could fly down quickly.
Perhaps it was because they had just seen that behemoth-like Private Starship, but now looking at their Flying Vehicle, it could only be described as "small."
But their speed was faster.
Because they had to wait near the terminal on the ground before the shuttle arrived.
According to the mission requirements, they had to start protecting the Tulip Noble Daughter from the moment her feet touched Guiyuan Star.
While Ye Shijie let the Flying Vehicle fly automatically, he began to assign tasks.
"The Quan Family is also very cautious. The daily itinerary is sent to us temporarily. This is to prevent someone among us from having ulterior motives and cooperating with others to deal with them."
"According to today's itinerary, the Tulip Noble Daughter will first go to the Fan Family to rest for a morning."
"At twelve noon, the Fan Family will hold a small family banquet to entertain the Tulip Noble Daughter."
"From one thirty to two thirty in the afternoon is the Tulip Noble Daughter's nap time."
"From three to five in the afternoon, the Fan Family will entertain the Tulip Noble Daughter and take her to the Mist Lost Pavilion for sightseeing."
"That's it. The itinerary after five o'clock will be sent to us around four o'clock in the afternoon."
Xia Chujian clicked her tongue twice: "The Quan Family is protecting her so closely, is this Tulip Noble Daughter the Quan Family's heir?"
"Of course not." Ye Shijie said calmly, "The main branch of the Quan Family has their own Qilin Child, that is the true heir."
"Moreover, if it were the Quan Family's heir traveling, the security measures would be no different from those for an imperial heir."
Ping Qiong was also curious: "Then why is the only daughter of the Quan Family's third branch being protected so closely this time?"
Everyone looked at each other, and no one could answer this question.
Xia Chujian laughed: "This is what I said, status not only limits our imagination, but also limits our understanding and logical reasoning ability."
Ye Shijie rolled his eyes at them: "This has nothing to do with us. We do our job for the money, we don't need to know so much inside information."
"Ye Dui is wise!" Everyone flattered in unison.
Ye Shijie laughed and scolded: "Alright, I'll assign tasks now."
"On the first day, we don't need to follow closely, we just need to provide remote protection."
"Same as always, Chujian is the main sniper, Ping Qiong is the observer, responsible for laser rangefinding, and Li Fu is responsible for guarding them."
"Song Mingqian and I will use face masks to change our appearance and blend in with the Quan Family's security team."
Xia Chujian asked worriedly: "Does the Quan Family know that you will join their security team?"
Ping Qiong also said: "Judging from their approach of locking onto our Flying Vehicle with missiles without saying a word, it doesn't seem easy to blend in."
Ye Shijie said with a smile: "Thank you both for your concern, this is the identity the Association gave us, allowing us to enter their security team. The Quan Family's security team is not unified, each time it comes from various forces, which actually has advantages and disadvantages."
Xia Chujian didn't understand why, but she was too lazy to ask.
Anyway, she was still doing her old job, sniping.
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