There are too many teammates who are complete losers.

Chapter 147 Squad Entanglement

Chapter 147 Squad Entanglement

Actually, it wasn't just Shen Yaoxing who felt good about being with Lu Ren; Lu Ren sometimes felt that it was peaceful and indescribably pleasant to be with the young lady in a cool place.

During the day, the young lady is quiet and skillful. Although she seems strict, she is very gentle and caring. At night, she is lively and playful, giving the feeling of being depended on by a small animal.

However, at that moment, a tall figure approached them. The person was tall and strong, standing there like a small mountain, completely blocking Lu Ren and Shen Yaoxing's view.

Because he was blocking the light from the streetlamp, casting a huge shadow, Lu Ren and Shen Yaoxing looked up at him.

This is none other than Shi Tieshan, the former member of the young lady's squad, a shield warrior with few scenes and few lines. He's the kind of guy you don't remember much about, but you'll find him in every group photo.

His voice was muffled, and he scratched his head: "Oh, I'm sorry, did I disturb you?"

Lu Ren knew he must have misunderstood, and he chuckled, "Brother Tieshan, what are you saying—"

"A little."

"Young Miss, why are you spouting nonsense too? Brother Tieshan, you know that Young Miss isn't quite herself at night, so don't listen to her lies."

Lu Ren wanted to give him his seat, but Shi Tieshan was too tall and big. His buttocks were probably bigger than Lu Ren and Shen Yaoxing combined, and there was no way he could sit on the bench.

Lu Ren stretched out his hand toward the stone path beside him, and saw the earth and stones on the ground rise up, quickly shaping a stone bench.

The minor techniques of alchemy—refining objects, crafting tools, and transforming everything—have transformed the soil and rocks here, reshaping their forms. In actual combat, they are almost useless, but their manifestations are more in line with the traditional concept of divine methods.

Shi Tieshan thanked them and sat down next to them, watching the bustling riverside and the slowly moving river lanterns.

Shen Yaoxing asked, "Why is Tieshan here all alone? Why isn't he playing with the others?"

"Look, over there!"

Shi Tieshan pointed in a certain direction, and the two looked over and found Bai Lu and Shan Qi. They said something to each other, and then they actually walked towards the grove.

"I see, young man, you really are—"

She suddenly realized that Longyou and the cow magician were now a couple, and Bailu was dating the newly recruited sorcerer Shanqi.

"Tieshan, you little brat, now you've become the third wheel for those two young couples."

Shi Tieshan said helplessly, "It's a bit too much to call me a third wheel, but it's true. Before, everyone would get together when they had free time, but now you can hardly find them during their rest time."

Shen Yaoxing adopted a tone of someone who had been through it all, and said, "Tieshan, you're not getting any younger, you've definitely reached the age where you should be dating."

"Yeah, Brother Tieshan should be almost thirty, hasn't he thought about settling down yet?"

Shi Tieshan: "————"

Shen Yaoxing tilted her head: "Approaching thirty? Tieshan seems to be only two months older than me."

"Ahem!"

With that scraggly beard and rough skin, you could easily believe he's 38!

Lu Ren gave him a suggestion: "Why don't you go and find a girlfriend, Tieshan?"

Their team members are all over 18 years old now, and they've all passed their growth phase. Professionals at this stage are mainly focused on honing their skills and don't need much training or combat on a daily basis.

Many young professionals at this stage go back to school to date, catch up on their academic studies, and live a campus life like most normal high school students.

Lu Ren had fantasized before that when his ascension period ended next year, he would go back to school to catch up on his academic studies. But the main thing was that he would only be a senior in high school when his ascension period ended a year later, and he would most likely break through to the Star Cocoon Realm. What could a Star Cocoon Realm cultivator do if he went back to school? He would definitely live the campus life of a protagonist in a wish-fulfillment novel!

Shi Tieshan asked, "Xiao Lu and Yao Xing, are you two dating?"

Lu Ren wasn't alarmed. After all, it was normal to be suspected since they spent so much time together. He simply explained, "No, I'm actually the young lady's bodyguard now."

Shen Yaoxing chuckled and said, "You ask everyone about love, Tieshan. You've really reached that age. But only children feel envious when they see their peers with partners. Mature adults like Lu Ren and me, how could we possibly be in a relationship?"

Seeing the hamster Yaoxing lean back on the bench with an air of "complacent confidence," almost as if he were about to light a cigarette, Lu Ren had a bad feeling.

"Lu Ren and I are actually friends with benefits. How about that? Doesn't that sound incredibly mature?!"

Lu Ren lowered his head, suddenly feeling very weak. He then took out his phone from his pocket, opened a short video, and let her watch it next to him.

He told Shi Tieshan not to take the young lady's nonsense to heart, and as Shen Yaoxing's former teammate, Shi Tieshan said he understood and would not tell anyone that they were friends with benefits, so Lu Ren was relieved.

Shi Tieshan said, "To be honest, dating a member of the team is just too irrational no matter how you look at it."

Lu Ren asked curiously, "Why do you say that?"

"After all, you are teammates. It's great if you're inseparable when you're in love, but what if you break up?"

"They see each other all the time, and if two people have a grudge, it could affect team coordination during combat."

What he said makes sense. It's like dating in class and then breaking up; that can be quite awkward.

"But why assume that they will definitely separate? Maybe the people in your team will all stay together until the end."

"As for Longyou and Xiaoyu, I don't think there's anything wrong with them. They might even end up getting married. But we still have Bailu in our team—"

Lu Ren asked, somewhat puzzled, "What's wrong with Miss Bai Lu?"

Just then, Shen Yaoxing, who was watching the silly video, suddenly looked up and said, "I'm crying—"

"Let's go check it out. What's going on? Why are they arguing?"

Shi Tieshan looked bewildered, not knowing who the two were arguing about, but judging from the direction the master and servant were heading, it was the same grove that Bai Lu and Shan Qi had just entered.

With their current mental strength and resonance attribute of over 500, they can capture sounds from a kilometer away if they intend to.

Just as they saw the two people walking inside, Lu Ren and Shen Yaoxing separated a wisp of their spiritual power and focused it on the two.

Although it was very wrong to do this, how could they be called master and servant? They were on the same page when it came to doing bad things, and they went to eavesdrop on the young couple.

Just now, instead of hearing the strange noises they expected, they heard two people arguing, and one of them even cried.

In the woods, Bai Lu scratched his head in distress. Although he found it amusing to bully the child, it would be too embarrassing for him to cry like this now.

In the past, when I broke up with my ex-boyfriend, it was always over as soon as I said it. Sometimes we would even have a fight, but of course, we never hit each other because I probably couldn't beat him. This is the first time I've been in a situation like this, as if I did something wrong.

But in her mind, that's how relationships are: if you like someone, you get together; if you don't, you break up, right?

Although many friends around her would jokingly call her a "scumbag," Bai Lu believes that she has never wronged her boyfriend during her employment. However, she feels that choosing to leave is also her right. At least during the time they were together, everyone was happy, and she feels that is enough.

She glanced over there and knew who the three people hiding behind the tree were. She patted Shan Qi on the shoulder and walked towards the back.

"Stop hiding, this guy is yours."

Shi Tieshan glanced at it and knew what was going on. He sighed, "Bai Lu, you are truly guilty of grave sins."

Bai Lu rolled her eyes at him. "Come on, want to go get a drink together?"

"Forget it, I'll stay with Xiaoshan for a while."

Lu Ren and Shen Yaoxing had actually overheard their conversation and knew why they were arguing.

Shen Yaoxing suddenly understood that this is how love is. Reality is not a novel. It's not like you can see a wedding in the finale just because someone gets together with someone else. Love is always full of uncertainty.

When Lu Ren was a child, he watched "Dragon Ball" and never imagined that Vegeta would suddenly appear and steal Momoka's wife.

Bai Lu greeted them and left, just like a heartless woman who had just pulled out her penis.

Shi Tieshan went to comfort Shan Qi, but he wasn't very familiar with either Lu Ren or Shen Yaoxing, so he awkwardly greeted Shan Qi and then quickly left the troublesome place.

"Shanqi seems to like her quite a bit."

"That's just how Bai Lu is. She didn't even graduate from junior high school, and she's already had over a dozen boyfriends. A lot of her female classmates gossip about her behind her back!"

"But does that mean Ali has a chance?"

"Oh yeah, Ali likes that mountain guy, right?"

"Yeah, I'll talk to her about it when we get back, and tell her to go and comfort that guy. Maybe there'll be a chance?"

Lu Ren still cares about his sisters and hopes they can all find happiness.

The two were wandering in the woods, unsure of where the exit was. Suddenly, the young lady chuckled. Lu Ren asked her what she was laughing at, and she said, "Aren't we just like those couples who sneak into the woods at night?"

Lu Ren just smiled and didn't take it to heart.

However, just then, there seemed to be some rustling noise in the woods ahead.

He gave the young lady a look, signaling her to leave, but it was so dark that Shen Yaoxing couldn't see his eyes. She asked, "Who is it? Why are you hiding there?!"

Lu Ren: "————" He was just about to take her away when a familiar voice came from the other side.

Emerging from behind the woods was none other than Long You!

He was a little embarrassed and asked, "Yaoxing, what are you doing here?"

Shen Yaoxing frowned slightly: "Shouldn't I be asking you? What are you doing in this grove? Weren't you supposed to be releasing river lanterns with Xiaoyu and the others?"

"Well, after releasing the river lanterns, we took a walk around the neighborhood."

Shen Yaoxing frowned slightly, vaguely sensing something: "Just you alone?"

Just then, a panting girl came running up from behind: "Longyou, what happened? Why did you suddenly run away in such a hurry? Huh? Yaoxing, Xiaolu, you guys are here too?"

Lu Ren: "————" Is your team having a team building activity in Xiaolinzi?

Is this a legitimate team?

Yu Zaomian also looked confused, but then seemed to suddenly remember something, and let out a long sigh with a teasing tone.

"Yaoxing, you're not on a date with Xiaolu in the woods, are you? I know all about young people like to sneak off into the woods at night for secret rendezvous and do some naughty things—"

Shen Yaoxing's eye twitched; she couldn't understand how this person's brain worked.

She asked coldly, "So, you and Long You were doing these shameful things in the woods just now?"

He was about to continue teasing her about her fish sleeping early when he suddenly froze.

Her tone suddenly became flustered, and her movements became very unnatural. "This, this, it's not like that. We were just—cultivating our minds, yes, yes, just cultivating our minds in the woods!"

Shen Yaoxing's face darkened, while Lu Ren watched the drama unfold with amusement.

"Early sleep is a magic weapon against the young lady." It can easily make the young lady grit her teeth in anger. This child is too funny, like a silly and sweet heroine in anime.

However, if the young lady is really angered, she might actually take advantage of the brain-depressing buff at night to sneak onto Yu Zaoming's bed, put a few pounds of aphrodisiac on her, put a spirit-locking ring on her, and throw her outside.

Shen Yaoxing was too lazy to pay attention to this idiot and said to Lu Ren, "Let's go back."

He then looked at Long You and Yu Zaomian, gave a cold smile, and said, "Are you coming out with us, or do you want to cultivate your minds in the grove a little longer?"

Looking at Longyou and Yuzaomian, their posture was perfect: both heads were down, their eyes darting left and right, perfectly replicating the look of a young couple "caught" by their homeroom teacher on the playground, each looking at their own little world, their guilty consciences obvious.

Lu Ren was secretly pleased, finding these young people quite amusing.

The four men left the woods, where a growing number of disaster victims were gathering along the riverbank.

The river lanterns twinkle, spreading a flowing night sky across the river, like a winding dragon with shimmering gold.

Shen Yaoxing and He Yu were sleeping early in front, chatting about everything under the sun.

Lu Ren and Long You walked behind the two. "Little Lu, I heard you've taken on quite a few missions lately. Are you planning to participate in the Gu Clan's Autumn Gathering in a month?"

"Yes, that's right."

"In that case, we also plan to participate. We might run into each other during the competition."

"Are you participating too?"

"This is quite a grand event for Yan Province, isn't it? Actually, we weren't confident we could make it, since the prerequisite was completing five Silver-level missions in Yan Province." Completing five Silver-level missions within a month is already difficult, but due to the reconstruction of Yan Province and the Void Realm Rift that occurred half a month ago, the number of Silver-level missions has increased dramatically.

Long You said, "And because of this, starting half a month ago, some young people from outside Yanzhou who came from ordinary backgrounds but had great talent have come here. In addition to those from ordinary backgrounds, there are also members of the royal family and other elite clans."

For ordinary but talented professionals, standing out in such competitions greatly increases their chances of receiving an offer from the Gu family or securing a position within the Gu family guild.

In the world of professionals, half of the strong are born into aristocratic families, while the other half are commoner professionals like Long You and Jiang Yueying, who are "genetically mutated." The stable bloodline of aristocratic families can guarantee that their descendants will be strong.

"Yes, that's right—"

Just then, Yu Zaomian suddenly spoke up, saying, "Since everyone is currently on missions in Yanzhou, could I join Yaoxing's team during this time?"

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