Chapter 51: You deserve to be our Boss; Your boss is dead.
Chapter 51
“You think you deserve it?!” Sack's face was full of resistance and contempt, and his eyes were even more hostile.
“Sack.” Bai Xiao stopped Sack from spewing nonsense.
“Humph!” Sack snorted and turned his face away.
Qiao Ying didn't care. She glanced at the angry Sack glaring at her and thought: Little Sack is still so cute.
Without waiting for Bai Xiao to say anything else, the military knife in her hand was suddenly snatched away, and then the pocket of her shirt was also turned over.
Bai Xiao reflexively touched his pocket and found that the lighter had been taken away by her.
Before Bai Xiao could ask, he heard her say, “Borrowing.”
Then he saw her walking with the knife towards Bademan under the tree.
Qiao Ying squatted down.
"What are you going to do?" Bademan was from Country M. Speaking in English, he looked at the girl in front of him warily and dangerously.
"Don't move." Qiao Ying also said in English, then pressed Bademan's leg with one hand, and moved the knife tip toward the bullet hole.
Everyone was shocked. Sack saw the situation and was about to rush over, but Bai Xiao stopped him.
The two companions closer to Bademan had already taken action, but Qiao Ying was too fast. Before they could rush over to stop her, they saw Qiao Ying's hand rise with the knife falling. The knife tip pierced the wound, stabbed and hooked, and the bullet in Bademan's leg flew out, stained with blood and fell to the ground.
This technique was more skilled and decisive than these desperados who had spent years wandering through storms of bullets.
Bademan let out a muffled grunt, sorely sweating from the pain.
Only then did they realize that Qiao Ying was helping Bademan, not malicious.
Qiao Ying then took out a lighter and lit it up.
The flame roasted the back of the knife to sterilize it.
Then Qiao Ying pressed the scorching hot knife back on the bullet hole that was oozing blood, and heard a sizzling sound.
Bademan hugged his leg and screamed in pain, cursing profusely.
Everyone watched with furrowed brows, shocked. They were all amazed that this ordinary looking little girl was actually more daring than them.
"Done." Qiao Ying stood up and threw the knife and lighter back to Bai Xiao.
Another companion hurriedly tied strips of cloth to simply bandage Bademan's stopped bleeding wound.
"The stuff has been returned to you, can we leave now?" The mercenary leader opposite them asked Qiao Ying carefully, holding his painfully unbearable chest.
Qiao Ying glanced at them out of the corner of her eye: "What's the hurry?"
The mercenary leader's heart shuddered.
"What...what else is there? You can't just kill us randomly. God's Army won't allow you to kill indiscriminately."
Bai Xiao and the others looked at the mercenary leader who had just insulted God's Army's irregularities, and now invoked God's Army's name to protect his life. They couldn't help but look at Qiao Ying.
"Leave a few lightly injured ones to escort the goods for us. The rest can get lost first." Qiao Ying said.
Letting them, as mercenaries, escort goods for another group of mercenaries, who were once their subordinates’ defeat, would become a laughing stock across the M Continent.
However, the mercenary leader didn’t even dare to fart. He hurriedly picked out a few himself and personally handed them over.
Bai Xiao and the others were astonished and thought that if they suffered such humiliation, they would rather die.
"Can we leave now?" The mercenary leader asked again.
Qiao Ying didn't answer, but reached for Bai Xiao's gun at his waist. Bai Xiao reflexively tried to stop her, but eventually did not move.
"What...what are you going to do?" The group of people opposite were scared and retreated backward one by one, with their hearts in their throats.
Qiao Ying loaded the gun with a "click" and then raised the gun directly and shot the mercenary leader in the leg.
A blood hole appeared instantly.
The mercenary leader grabbed his leg and screamed loudly.
Seeing this, Bai Xiao and the others looked at Qiao Ying again.
She was helping Bademan get revenge.
"Boss."
"Boss." More than twenty subordinates saw their boss get shot, but none of them dared to help. Many were so scared that they almost lost control of their legs and wanted to flee in all directions.
Qiao Ying: "Get lost."
"Let's go, let's go." Several subordinates carried the injured boss away in a panic, leaving those few who were chosen to help escort the goods, feeling anxious.
Qiao Ying made a gesture, and those few mercenaries hurriedly climbed into the driver's seat of the truck.
"Get in the car." Qiao Ying said, taking the lead to get in the car.
Before nightfall, the goods were successfully escorted to the designated location.
Bai Xiao and the others received a considerable commission.
On the way back, they started a fire and roasted meat on the spot. Bademan's leg needed to find a doctor to re-treat the wound to prevent infection.
They were about to go to the hospital.
Across the fire, Bai Xiao looked at the girl resting under the tree. The flames blurred her face.
It was a completely strange face, two completely different people, but it gave him the same familiar feeling.
Whether it was her casual cold laugh or raised eyebrows, her decisive and straightforward style, the way she spoke, and even her aura, they were all too similar to that person.
Hearing the movement, Qiao Ying opened her eyes slightly and saw Bai Xiao handing over a stack of money and a rabbit leg skewered on a stick.
She raised an eyebrow slightly, took the food, but didn't take the money.
"Thank you for today. This is two-thirds of the commission for this mission. Take it and leave." Bai Xiao said.
Qiao Ying's eyes swept over the others and saw they were all looking at her. Qiao Ying ignored it and took a bite of the rabbit leg.
"You want to be the leader of the Blackwater Mercenary Group?" Qiao Ying asked while eating.
"That's our business." Bai Xiao said.
Qiao Ying: "Haven't you been bullied a lot this past year after your boss died?"
As soon as she mentioned their boss had died, Sack reacted as if he had stepped on a landmine. His face ferocious, he stood up and viciously warned Qiao Ying, "Shut up! Say our boss is dead again and I’ll kill you with one stab."
Qiao Ying just laughed and said lightly, "Are you sure you can beat me? Little Sack."
Sack was stunned.
Qiao Ying realized belatedly that she had let it slip.
Not only was Sack stunned, the others were too.
Sack was the youngest of them, and he looked young. Their boss loved to tease Sack like this.
Only their boss would call him this.
Sack came to his senses. Even more furious, he yelled, "Shut up! Don't call me that!"
"Did you know our boss?" Bai Xiao asked.
"Yes."
"What was your relationship with her? Where is she?"
"She's dead. She entrusted you all to me." Qiao Ying's light words were a heavy blow to Bai Xiao and the others.
"What did you say?"
"She's dead." Qiao Ying said again, still in a nonchalant tone.
"Impossible! No one in this world could be our boss's opponent!" Sack refused to believe it, and threatened that if Qiao Ying kept talking nonsense, he would rip her mouth apart.
After Bai Xiao’s long silence, he asked in a deep voice, "Who did it?"
Qiao Ying's eyelashes lowered slightly, and a trace of coldness flashed in her eyes. She told them, "I'll take revenge for your boss."
Bai Xiao categorically said: "We will take revenge for our boss's grievance ourselves."
But Qiao Ying directly said: "You can't."
Bai Xiao fell silent again. He gritted his teeth hard and slammed his clenched fist on the ground in frustration and resentment.
"Where's our boss's body?" Bai Xiao asked with great pain.
Qiao Ying: "No intact corpse."
Bai Xiao looked up at Qiao Ying in disbelief.
"Nonsense! I don't believe it!" Sack couldn't accept it. Shaking his head, he took steps back until he turned and rushed into the woods.
Bai Xiao and the others collectively fell silent. For a while, only the crackling of the burning fire and the sound of Qiao Ying chewing could be heard.
After Qiao Ying finished one rabbit leg, she comforted lightly: “Nothing to be sad about. In your line of work, it’s not strange for someone to die any day.”
"You said our boss entrusted us to you. What proof do you have?" Bai Xiao asked.