Chapter 1: Return

In the year 1979, October, in a fictional world, the autumn rain fell like smoke, hazy and misty, the weather already hinting at the coming cold.

Eastern General Military District of the Dragon Nation.

Ye Qinglan looked up at the command building in front of her, put away the black umbrella in her hand, and took out her ID card from her bag to give it to the sentinel on duty.

The other party confirmed it and returned it to her, glancing at the whip in her hand. He could tell at a glance that it was made of snake skin, even the handle was shaped like a snake head, red and white, looking like she was holding a snake in her hand.

This female comrade –

She’s just, so… wild!

Ye Qinglan slung her backpack over her shoulder and stepped inside, her black leather boots clicking on the stairs.

The entire third floor was empty.

She stopped in front of Room 309, didn’t knock, but called out to the closed door: “Commander Xie, Minister Bai, I’m back.”

Minister Bai of the Intelligence Department and Commander Xie of the Eastern Military District looked at each other. Sure enough, this girl’s ability to see through things had improved again, she could accurately know who was in the room through a closed door.

Minister Bai: “Come in.”

Ye Qinglan pushed open the door and entered, Commander Xie and Minister Bai were sitting in chairs, not even a guard by their side.

She casually threw her backpack on a chair nearby and came to the two of them: “Cloud Group member, codename Bluebird, special training officially ended on September 20th, I’m here to report.”

Cloud Group, a mysterious organization established because of her.

Members, cough, just her.

Cloud Group is under the jurisdiction of the military, but not part of the military. Because other department leaders disagreed, just you guys in the military need her? We don’t need her in the Public Security Department? We don’t need her in the Science and Technology Department? We…

Commander Xie and Minister Bai looked at her, heh heh, heh heh…

One thought, not belonging is not belonging, anyway, she’s active in our Eastern region, close to the water tower, we’ll get her sooner or later!

The other thought, I don’t care what other people think, anyway, I’m her direct superior, she belongs to our Intelligence Department, whoever opposes it is a bastard!

The reason why various departments are vying for her is because of her eyes!

Ye Qinglan finished speaking and saw the two of them smiling at her strangely, she couldn’t help but remind them:

“Commander Xie? Minister Bai? Old Xie—”

Commander Xie came back to his senses, coughed lightly to cover his embarrassment: “Xiao Qing, welcome back, I’ve heard about your training results, you’re as good as Xiao Gu, you’re really a good one.”

Ye Qinglan: “…”

It’s like calling her Green Snake, but it’s better than Little Bird.

Minister Bai also looked at her with relief: “You’ve grown taller since I last saw you, you’re a big girl now.”

The last time they met was two years ago, he went to the base to check her training results, at that time this girl was still a little shorty, now she’s estimated to be over 1.7 meters tall, even her long hair has been cut short.

Commander Xie: “You can choose a husband.”

Ye Qinglan looked at him abruptly: “What did you just say? Choose a husband?”

“Yes, you can choose a husband.” Commander Xie said happily: “Minister Bai, Old Gu, and I have all discussed it, we’ve found twenty young men for you who are the best in all aspects, you can take a look and see which one you like, if you like one, we’ll choose that one.”

For a moment, Ye Qinglan: “…”

“Old Xie, I’m not saying this to you, don’t be too outrageous! First of all, I’m only 18, I’m not in a hurry to find a partner. I’ve seen people who are urged to get married, but I’ve never seen anyone directly arrange a blind date and arrange so many blind date partners at once, you’re not getting senile, are you?”

“Bang!”

Commander Xie slapped the table: “You little stinker, who are you saying is senile?”

Need I ask?

Minister Bai saw the two of them, you glared at me, I glared at you, one had smoke coming from his hair, the other had fire in his eyes, he quickly smoothed things over:

“Xiao Qing, you can explode later, listen to me first. We’re just concerned about your lifelong happiness, afraid that you’re young and don’t know people well, and will be deceived by some little bastards. We just thought we’d help you take a look, men know men best. Although we’ve helped you choose people, whether you want to meet them, when you get married, the decision is all yours, right?”

This is the only girl in the entire country who can see through things.

Naturally, he and Old Xie cherish her a little.

She’s also an adult now, adult girls will eventually date, he and Old Xie are worried that she’ll choose the wrong person.

They’re also worried that if one day she is found by the enemy, they will use a handsome man to trick her.

Foreign countries have been studying psychic abilities for years, even establishing special organizations to try to use psychic abilities in military and intelligence operations.

If they find Bluebird, they will either turn her or destroy her.

Turning a young girl, using a handsome man to play with love is the quickest and most effective, but this is something they can’t train her for.

Thinking of this, he said again: “If you really don’t want to get married, just treat this as going for training. Those are all handsome men, you see more handsome men, you can also raise your aesthetic standards.”

Once your aesthetic standards are raised, it will be harder for the enemy to use handsome men to trick you.

Ye Qinglan raised her eyebrows slightly: “They’re all handsome men?”

If that’s the case, it wouldn’t be bad to go and feast her eyes.

Commander Xie heard that there was a chance, his fire-breathing eyes immediately turned into smiling eyes: “Of course! Xiao Qing, I’m telling you, those people are all chosen by me, each one is well-known, handsome to the point of being outrageous, just give me face, okay?”

“Okay, okay, it’s just—” Ye Qinglan looked at the two of them: “If I find someone I like, can I pick two?”

Commander Xie: “…”

Minister Bai: “!!!!!”

The shocked faces of the two made Ye Qinglan laugh: “Just kidding. What’s my next mission?”

She can’t wait to get her hands dirty. Four years ago, after she handed herself over to the country, after dozens of rounds of testing, it was confirmed that she could indeed see through things, and she was immediately packed up and sent to the base for training by the bigwigs. In the past few years, she only went out on a mission once when there was a war in the south.

“Cough—” Minister Bai put away his shocked face: “No hurry, you haven’t been home in years, your family must miss you, take a few days to rest. I’ll be back in the capital next month, you can come find me before I go back.”

“Okay, I’ll go then.”

Commander Xie shouted to her back: “So when are you going to meet them? Give me a definite answer.”

“End of the month.”

“…”

Her voice came from outside.

Commander Xie clapped his hands and laughed when he heard this. The next second, he thought of something and stopped smiling: “Old Bai, you haven’t given her the gun yet.”

Before he finished speaking, Minister Bai had already chased after her with the gun.

Then he arranged for a car to take her home.

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Ye Qinglan’s home is not far away, it’s in Lingcheng, where the military district is located.

When she was still a mile away from the family compound of the First Cotton Textile Factory, she said to the driver:

“Stop by the side of the road, your car is too eye-catching to enter the family compound. I’ll walk the rest of the way.”

“Okay.”

After getting off the car, Ye Qinglan walked forward following her memory.

Actually, she’s not familiar with this home, because she’s not from this world.