"Mom?" Lu Qianxun called again. I thought she was calling Lu Qianyu and turned to look at her, only to find her tilting her head and looking at Yao Yao.
"Her name is Jin Yao," I introduced, "You can call her Yao Yao."
"Yao Yao's mom?"
Yao Yao and I looked at each other speechlessly. Did she call men 'Dad' and women 'Mom' just like that?
Sha Wuji walked over, took off his suit jacket, and tied it around Lu Qianxun's waist with the sleeve, letting it hang down to act as a half-skirt.
Yao Yao looked at him curiously again.
"Qianxun, my name is Sha Wuji," Sha Wuji said with a simple smile, patting Lu Qianxun's head. "Just call me Old Sha."
I expected Lu Qianxun to call him "Old Sha Dad" again, but her words struck directly at the heart.
"Big Tiger!"
Sha Wuji was startled. "How did you know I was a 'Big Tiger'?"
Yao Yao and I were also very surprised. Yao Yao murmured to herself, "Could it be... she's naturally gifted with the art of sensing Qi?"
Lu Qianxun raised her fair finger and poked Sha Wuji's forehead, drawing three horizontal strokes and one vertical stroke. As she drew, she enunciated each word: "Big, Tiger, Oh!"
I even suspected she was deliberately feigning innocence! What on earth was this!
At this moment, a commotion came from outside the courtyard. There was no need to panic; it was the people from Shakespeare. They entered the courtyard. A few medical personnel from Shakespeare helped He Lanxue finally retrieve the sword from Shen Xingyue's shoulder, stop the bleeding, and bandage it. The rest of Shakespeare's people had been waiting for Shen Xingyue's orders, but she might have lost too much blood, her face was pale, and she sat leaning against a large tree, regulating her breathing, without opening her eyes.
Perhaps I should handle the aftermath. With so many people blocking the courtyard, it wasn't ideal.
I climbed onto the rockery, clapped my hands three times, and said, "Comrades, listen to me. The battle is over, but we still need to quickly deal with the aftermath and then leave this place to avoid the 'Chi You' organization launching a counterattack. I will now take unified command, okay?"
After speaking, I glanced at Shen Xingyue under the tree. She slightly opened her eyes and nodded at me, authorizing me to proceed and trusting me to handle it well.
"These comrades over here, please take the corpses on the ground toβ" Speaking of corpses, I suddenly remembered that Lu Qianyu had said her daughter would eat people after hatching. I turned to look at Lu Qianxun. She was also looking at me, listening attentively to my words. The two halves of the black-clothed leader's body were at her feet, but they didn't seem to pique Lu Qianxun's interest or attention.
Was she not hungry now?
Worried that she might get hungry later, I changed my words: "Take them to your Shakespeare warehouse for temporary storage. We will deal with them later after Captain Shen's condition improves."
Several Shakespeare members came and reassembled the corpses into complete shapes, bagged them, and carried them out of the courtyard separately.
"You few, please dispose of the drones on the ground and gather them on the plaza outside for destruction," I continued. These enemy electronic devices, though seemingly advanced and valuable, absolutely could not be kept easily, nor could they be used. It was possible that their processors or chips contained control programs implanted by the enemy. If we used them and they flew into the sky, and the other side monitored them, with a single button press, we would all crash into a pulp.
Those few Shakespeare members also complied, quickly clearing the scene. I then instructed the remaining people to clean the courtyard and the basement, removing traces of blood, eggshells, and signs of combat and hatching, restoring the villa to its original state.
After these tasks were completed, Shakespeare's ambulance also arrived. Shen Xingyue needed to be taken away by ambulance for hospital treatment to prevent internal bleeding in her lungs. I asked Sha Wuji, who also had minor injuries, to accompany her and get his leg wound treated at the same time.
Shakespeare left us a car. I drove, taking Yao Yao and Lu Qianxun, and left Cuiping Mountain, passing by South Nanjing University, and headed towards Jinling city...