Chapter 652 - Chapter 652: Chapter 652: The Glasses Squad (1/2)
chapter 652: chapter 652: the glasses squad
in bratislava, the capital of slovakia, within a stretched luxury car.
xiao pingguo held a tall glass, sipping the orange juice inside while she looked around curiously.
“sister nana, why are we riding such a nice luxury car for our mission?” xiao pingguo asked. they were in the car compartment chatting, isolated from the driver’s cab, so they wouldn’t be overheard.
in her view, going on a mission usually involves riding in a functional vehicle, right? something like an off-road vehicle, armored vehicle, or a modified car filled with equipment. the vehicles she had ridden in with sister nana and ice sister on previous missions were those types of cars. the luxury limousine they were in today felt more suited for attending banquets or balls.
tang baona was also pouring soda into her tall glass and laughed, “alice arranged it. she asked me if i had any specific requirements for our transportation. i said as long as it’s comfortable, so she arranged this car.”
“it seems like our mission this time isn’t too difficult.” xiao pingguo looked out of the car window and said.
“exactly, or else they wouldn’t have let old three come along.” tang baona joked.
but after she said those words, the expected counterattack from yang lao san didn’t happen. so she looked at yang zhen er, who was sitting opposite her. he was wearing a denim jacket with a cotton hood and sunglasses.
yang zhen er had put on her jacket’s hood and wore her sunglasses. more than half of her face was covered, only her tight mouth was visible. at that moment, she was leaning forward in her comfortable seat, carefully looking at the mission plan on an ipad.
“old three? old three?” after calling out twice, tang baona raised her voice, “zhen’er!!”
“huh?” yang zhen er finally responded, lifting her head and staring blankly at tang baona through her sunglasses.
“zhen’er, why are you wearing sunglasses in the car? are you trying to be cool? also, why are you wearing a hood? aren’t you hot?” tang baona laughed and said, “did you get- influenced by xiao lingdang? but even xiao lingdang would only wear her hood when she needs to use her ‘little magic’, with you wearing it all the time, there will be no buff bonus for you during battles!”
yang zhen er chuckled and tugged at the hood strings, saying, “wearing a hood makes me feel secure. i can now understand why xiao lingdang always likes to wear clothing with hoods.”
xiao pingguo laughed and said, “sister zhen’er, xiao lingdang wears a hood because she wants to imitate a magic robe.”
“yes yes, of course i know that. the magic robe has a hood, it feels safer, right?” yang zhen’er quickly said, “just like wearing a helmet, heh heh.”
in the five-plus years that xiang kun has been gone, yang zhen er has spent the most time with liu shiling, even more than she has spent with her own mother.
normally, children are easily influenced by adults. however, in the case of old three and little fatty girl, it is the reverse. over the years, it’s actually old three who has been more influenced by little fatty girl – she prefers clothing with hoods, whether it’s clothes, bags, or other items, she likes to buy things with a pattern of cats or birds, and her taste leans towards spicy and sugary, even the songs she likes are 99% the same.
perhaps because their diet, schedule, and style are almost identical, as little fatty girl has grown older, she and yang zhen er began to look more alike. when they go out together, fewer people mistake them as mother and daughter, and more as siblings.
of course, this kind of mutual influence doesn’t just happen between little fatty girl and yang zhen er– the other members also influence each other. for example, whether it’s little fatty girl, yang zhen er, xiao pingguo or tang baona, when a hidden scheme is exposed or they have something to flaunt, they all laugh in an “hehe” rhythm, imitating alice’s laughter.
suddenly, tang baona reached out and removed yang zhen er’s sunglasses, stared into her eyes and said, “old three, are you nervous?”
yang zhen er subconsciously said: “no! why would i be nervous…”
xiao pingguo smiled and sat next to yang zhen er, putting her arm around her shoulder: “it’s normal to be nervous the first time you go on a mission. when i had my first mission, i was more nervous than you are today, sister zhen’er. i made jin shanshan so anxious too, who kept hopping around. we almost had diarrhea.”
“back then, i partnered with ice sister and didn’t want to hold her back. guess what happened…hehe. ice sister told me that the ‘mutant’ we were up against was even weaker than jin shanshan and that jin shanshan alone could take it. it turned out that jin shanshan did go and fight it alone and won, though much of it was xiao luobo and alice helping…so, sister zhen’er, these ‘mutants’ are generally weak. we have xiao luobo and alice protecting us as doctor bodyguards, so we don’t need to worry at all. very safe!”
“yes! very safe!” alice’s clear voice predictably echoed through the car’s sound system.
in fact, xiao pingguo had long ago told everyone about her first mission. little fatty girl even made a comic strip about “jin shanshan” helping her and old xia complete the mission. but she didn’t mention at the time how nervous she had been during the mission.
tang baona also took off her own glasses, replaced them with yang zhen er’s sunglasses, raised her chin slightly in style, and held yang zhen er’s head with a hand: “don’t worry, little zhen zhen, your sister nana will protect you!”
“go away! i have also participated in the fight against the ‘ultimate predator’ in my dream, alright? at that time, i took all the monster attacks on myself! it’s just that old xia was unwilling to assign me a mission earlier, or else i’m sure my war records would not be worse than yours!” yang zhen er retorted indignantly.
however, after being teased by xiao pingguo and tang baona, she was actually way less nervous than before.
tang baona tilted her sunglasses a bit and laughed at her friend: “when we encounter that old vampire later, yang lao san, you go and fight him alone. xiao pingguo and i will give you cover.”
“ah?” yang zhen er was taken aback, her mouth slightly open, and her hand instinctively reaching for the drawstring of her hoodie.
however, she soon realized that nana was joking, so she pounced on her and pinched her stomach: “i’ll fight you one on one first! take this, white armor fairy scratch!”
xiao pingguo quickly took the soda can next to tang baona, preventing it from being knocked over, then moved to the side, took out her phone, and began filming their “fight”.
amid their playfulness, the limousine slowly came to a halt. the driver’s voice came from the intercom:
“miss tang, we have arrived at our destination.”
as soon as they heard this, the three immediately stopped their fights and gathered on one side, looking through the window at their mission’s destination—a bustling nightclub.
“i was expecting to see their castle when i heard from alice that our target was an old european vampire. who’d have thought they would be hiding in the city?” said xiao pingguo, putting on her special glasses made by xiang kun and alice, which helped to restore her vision.
she can now see like a normal person, but she still puts on these glasses when on a mission, or when she needed to enhance her special visual abilities and obtain more surrounding information. even though the boost the glasses provided was limited, xiao pingguo, like little fatty girl who wore a hood imagining it was a magic robe, felt cooler with these specially-made “glasses”, like a superhuman.
yang zhen er and tang baona each put on their sunglasses and glasses respectively, making their “combat team” all coincidentally wear glasses, despite the glasses being of different types.
“i still think we should get a uniform combat suit, nana, remember to mention it to old xia. make sure it has a hood,” yang zhen er said, tugging at her hoodie again as she got out of the car.
tang baona asked: “why don’t you tell old xia yourself?”