You are the Captain

The night.

The girl lay in bed, wearing the clothes she had just changed into, not daring to take them off.

And why was that? Her panties had been stolen!

Stolen right under her nose! Song Ning had taken them!

She couldn’t exactly ask Song Ning to return them, could she?

The rest of her clothes were already too dirty to wear, leaving her with nothing on underneath.

Song Ning opened the master bedroom door and walked over without a change in expression. Seeing the girl huddled in the blanket, a sense of guilt arose in her heart.

She had done so many things to hurt the girl…

That time a while ago, and this time… Was it becoming increasingly impossible to go back?

Did she really like the girl? Why did she feel so strange whenever she touched her recently?

Gently sitting on the bed, she reached out to habitually put her arm around the girl’s waist, but then she seemed to remember something, and her body stiffened slightly.

Was this how things would continue? Did she really like her?

That feeling… that strange feeling, was it love?

No… she couldn’t tell!

What kind of feelings did she have for the girl?

The night deepened.

Song Ning fell asleep, her breathing even.

Ping Chengcheng broke free from Song Ning’s embrace. In the dim darkness, her eyes gazed longingly at Song Ning’s face.

Gently, the girl reached out her small hand to brush the hair away from her face, and lightly kissed her lips.

The tentacles appeared again, uncontrollably, excited… trembling… seemingly eager and ready to do something.

Hmph… her sister looks so well-behaved when she’s asleep.

March 15th, the temperature reached thirteen degrees Celsius. The base’s decision-makers had noticed the increasingly strange climate.

It was estimated that soon, the temperature would rise to a terrifying level! By then, who knew how many more people would die.

The news spread among the lower levels, causing panic. Everyone was trying their best to fight for a room with air conditioning for themselves.

Otherwise, they probably wouldn’t survive the summer!

In the morning, the door of the villa was knocked on.

Ping Chengcheng opened the door groggily, still wanting to lie in her sister’s arms for a while: “Hmm… who are you?”

The person who came didn’t show any surprise when he saw that it was a little girl who opened the door.

He wore a military uniform, had handsome features, and a gentle voice: “Hello, my name is Wang Ji, and I’m the captain of the Emergency Strike Team.”

“I would like to invite you to join the Emergency Strike Team.”

Behind him stood a woman in her twenties or thirties, wearing black combat attire, with a wavy hairstyle and a mature, sophisticated aura.

The woman complained softly, “Wang Ji, is this really necessary?”

She really didn’t understand why Yang Wen had described the girl with such flowery language.

He had said that her marksmanship was god-like, but now that she saw her, other than her blood-red eyes, which looked quite unique, what was the difference between her and an ordinary girl?

A person’s strength could be seen from their appearance and temperament, but the girl was rubbing her eyes, looking like she hadn’t woken up yet, exuding a lazy aura that suggested she was just lying flat.

Wang Ji shook his head. This woman had gotten in through connections from above, which sometimes annoyed him greatly: “Well, this person behind me is called Shen Mengyuan, and she’s my recorder, usually responsible for recording attendance and some mission details.”

Ping Chengcheng had sobered up a bit. She remembered that Wang Ji seemed to have said… that he was the captain of the Emergency Strike Team?

Inviting them to join?

The girl’s eyes lit up. The name “Emergency Strike Team” was well-known.

In her previous life, due to the apocalypse, humanity had lost a large number of talents, scientific research, and means of production.

Variants, mutated creatures, and special infected became increasingly rampant. In order to investigate information and search for valuable weapons and data from before the apocalypse in severely infected areas, most bases began to research exoskeletons and some high-intensity, extreme combat mechs for individual soldiers.

And the Emergency Strike Team was the first batch of exoskeleton mechs and test team for the extreme individual soldier program in A City base.

Joining this team meant that even though there would be some missions to carry out, with the girl and Song Ning’s abilities, unless they were extremely unlucky and encountered an extremely strong variant, the advantages would outweigh the disadvantages.

With Song Ning possessing the extreme combat mech, her own safety would be greatly improved.

The girl cleared her throat and said with a grin, “Well… Wang Ji gege? Okay, we’ll join.”

Hearing the soft and sweet “gege,” the corners of Wang Ji’s mouth turned up to the sky.

Shen Mengyuan scoffed. Heh, men, still a lolicon.

She scanned the girl up and down. As a member of the strike team, and with such a close relationship with the captain, she naturally knew what good things the engineering and technical team of the base’s research department had come up with.

They would be put into experimentation in April, and many people who knew the inside story were breaking their heads to get into the strike team. But the girl in front of her looked so weak, still a bit silly after just waking up. How good could her skills be? When she put on the exoskeleton, she might even embarrass herself during the test.

Even if her marksmanship was really good, what use would that be? The Emergency Strike Team was a squad specifically for carrying out those high-difficulty missions. If she didn’t have good skills, she would probably die if she encountered danger.

Ping Chengcheng called Song Ning, Wu Sheng, and Lao Ba over.

Shen Mengyuan coldly took out the registration form from her briefcase and glanced at Lao Ba and Wu Sheng.

These two men looked quite good. She could tell that Wu Sheng’s calf was a bit twisted, as if he had suffered a gunshot wound, but he didn’t seem to feel it, so he must be a ruthless person.

And that Lao Ba, watching in all directions, listening in all directions, constantly vigilant of his surroundings, looked like an old fox with plenty of apocalyptic experience. (Sneaky-eyed)

Shen Mengyuan nodded in satisfaction.

She had heard that this team had driven a semi-trailer truck from two or three hundred kilometers away, and these two men had driven it. There was also a truckload of supplies in the truck, so their contribution must have been great.

Looking at it that way, this team wasn’t so bad after all.

After registering the information, Wang Ji shook hands with Ping Chengcheng and the others, and then gave a confident smile.

“Alright, you are now official members of the Emergency Strike Team. Teams one and two are already full, so we’ll create a new team. From now on, you will be team three.”

“Oh right, I heard that you were the one who killed that special infected.” Wang Ji looked at the girl jokingly.

The girl put her hands on her hips, looking proud, and raised her little head: “Amazing, right~ I was the one who killed it.”

Song Ning looked at the energetic girl and gave a gentle smile. She patted her head, and the girl showed an expression of enjoyment, her cheeks slightly red.

“Do you want to be the captain?” he laughed, wanting to tease the adorable girl.

Captain?

Ping Chengcheng looked at Song Ning behind her. Song Ning had no expression or reaction.

In that case…

“Okay, I’ll be the captain!”

This…

The corners of Wang Ji’s mouth twitched. Although he hadn’t underestimated this girl since seeing the research team’s preliminary research report on that special infected, and after hearing Yang Wen’s description of the infected’s protective coloring and exaggerated tongue.

But that was just a joke. Why did this girl just go along with it?

So he looked at Song Ning. Song Ning didn’t care. In her opinion, being a captain was just a title. When it came down to action, it would all be the same.

Wang Ji suppressed the twitching corners of his mouth and looked at Lao Ba and Wu Sheng again.

As a result, the two big men were yawning and said they wanted to go back to sleep.

“Okay… then—Captain, is, you.” Wang Ji almost squeezed the words out from between his teeth, looking at the girl in front of him with a look of despair.