Chapter 794 – Cloak of the Night
Lin Qiye exchanged pleasantries with him while sizing up this man.
He was around twenty-eight or eighty-nine years old, had short hair, looked clean and sharp, and had a calm and powerful demeanor, like he was from the military, and judging from the fluctuations in the aura emanating from his body, he was a strong person of the “Limitless” level.
Two years ago, he was one of the members of the Shangjing City squad that collided with Lin Qiye and the others.
”Captain Lin, you’re even younger than I thought.” Zhang Zhengting looked at Lin Qiye’s unusually young face and smiled self-deprecatingly, “Two years ago, that fluctuation in your aura nearly shook me to the point of vomiting blood.”
”It was an emergency situation at the time, so I’m really sorry.” Lin Qiye was a bit embarrassed.
After a few people exchanged pleasantries, they got into the car.Zhang Zhengting fastened his seatbelt and turned his head to Lin Qiye, who was sitting on the side, “Captain Lin, since the procedure for awarding the second ‘Star Ocean’ medal has not yet been completed, the conferral ceremony may still take two more days, and we’ve already arranged a place for you guys to stay, so do you think you need to go back and take a rest first? Or go directly to the headquarters to register?”
”Go directly to the registration, we’re not very tired.” Lin Qiye replied.
Although they had just gone through a big battle, the crowd had been recuperating for a long time in the Sinking Dragon Pass and on the airplane, not to mention that they had been waiting for this day for two years, so they naturally didn’t want to drag it out any longer.
”Understood.”
Zhang Zhengting started the car and drove straight in the direction of the Vigilantes’ headquarters.
An hour later, the vehicle drove into the Night’s Watch headquarters.
The Vigilantes’ headquarters in Shangjing City was the true decision-making center of the Vigilantes in Daxia, and unlike the Vigilantes’ quarters, this place was more like a comprehensive office space that handled the affairs of every Vigilantes’ team within the territory of Daxia, consisting of a variety of departments that cooperated and coordinated with each other like an efficiently functioning precision instrument.
Lin Qiye and the others’ goal this time was the office area responsible for team registration, of the 332 Night’s Watch teams in Grand Xia, every time there was a personnel change, they had to come here to register for the record, even the special squads were no exception.
One by one, the staff members were busy walking through them, and just then, the door of the headquarters was pushed open, and seven figures walked calmly towards the center with a steady pace.
Their appearance immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding staff.
Generally speaking, most of the people who worked here were either clerical staff, or the top echelons of the Night’s Watch, and under the years and years of getting along with each other, everyone had long since familiarized themselves with each other, but these seven people who walked in now were incomparably unfamiliar to them.
These seven people, obviously a team, but qualified to enter the headquarters of the whole team, seems to be only a few special squads.
Whether it was [Mask], [Phoenix], or [Psychic], the staff present had all seen them before, but these seven young people in front of them clearly did not belong to any of the aforementioned teams.
Among them, a few well-informed staff members looked like they had thought of something, and their eyes instantly lit up!
Lin Qiye’s seven people sought out the direction and walked up to the front of the registration desk.
”Hello.” The staff member sitting at the registration desk froze for a moment before coming back to his senses, “…… Is there anything I can help you with?”
”Hello.” Lin Qiye smiled politely, “Please help us register our team information.”
”Ah, okay …… which team are you?”
”Great Summer Vigilantes, Special Squad 005, I’m Captain Lin Qiye.”
The moment this voice appeared, the entire office area was plunged into a dead silence, and after a short period of silence, the staff members who had sneaked around the neighborhood to watch suddenly whispered excitedly.
”Sure enough, it’s the Fifth Special Squad! I just heard about their return this morning!”
”The Fifth Special Squad? It’s the team that disappeared in the mists two years ago?”
”Right! There were rumors a few days ago that they had penetrated Japan’s ‘manosphere’ in the two years they were missing, and directly took a ‘Star Ocean’ medal.””News also came from the Sinking Dragon Pass side, the fifth special squad blocked the invasion of the second catastrophe level beast tide, and got another ‘Star Ocean’ medal, adding it all up, that’s two!”
”Really? Of the several other special squads, the only one that got two ‘Star Ocean’ seems to be the [False Mask], right?”
”Of course it’s true!”
”Is that Captain Lin Qiye? So handsome looking!”
”……”
Lin Qiye heard the whispers coming from the surroundings and the corner of his mouth twitched unnoticeably.
”The fifth special squad is it?” The staff member blinked, “Yes, please wait.”
She stood up and pulled several classified documents from the archives in the back and laid them out on the table.
”Please show your respective heraldry, then fill out this form with information about each team member and confirm the positions of captain and vice-captain, and for special squads, you’ll also need to determine a code name for the special squad, such as [Mask] as well as [Phoenix] ……”
Lin Qiye took the document and without the slightest hesitation, he wrote down the words [Night Curtain] in the code name column.
In the column of captain, he on the other hand wrote down his name, after all, this was something that was agreed upon when Ye Fan released him from the fasting house back then, if Lin Qiye didn’t become this captain, the fifth special squad wouldn’t be able to be established.
Afterward, he raised his head and looked at the crowd standing behind him.
”We’re still missing a vice captain. ……”
Everyone simultaneously turned their heads to look at An Qingyu.
An Qingyu blinked, opened her mouth and was about to shrug it off when Lin Qiye turned his head back to himself.
”Forget it, I’m not going to ask you, anyway, you can’t escape this vice-captain position.” Lin Qiye muttered.
An Qingyu: ……
On the name of the vice-captain, Lin Qiye directly wrote the words “An Qingyu”.
[Night Curtain] Squad Vice Captain, An Qingyu.
”[Night Curtain] ……” The staff member picked up the document and softly read out the name on it.
A few moments later, she spoke again, “Then, finally, you need to confirm the color of your squad’s cloak, the special squad’s cloaks are specially made, you can choose the color that symbolizes your squad to recreate your cloak, but the three colors of black, gold, and grey are no longer available for selection.”
Why can’t you choose, Lin Qiye was clear in his heart, the special squad’s cloak colors symbolized the identity of their respective teams and couldn’t be the same, whereas black, gold, and grey were the cloak colors of the [Spirit Medium], the [Phoenix], and the [Mask] respectively.
Color? ……
Lin Qiye closed his eyes, and in his mind, the night two years ago outside the mists suddenly appeared, and at the forefront of that night, Nyx was cloaked in a starry gown, holding a longsword in her hand, with her feet stepping on the crimson sea of blood as she slayed her way to Olympus.
Night curtain, sea of blood, pitch black …… crimson.
Lin Qiye turned back, discussed with a few others for a moment, and finally returned to the counter and slowly opened his mouth:
”We choose …… Crimson.”