What else could it be?
Chloe thought her friends must be incredibly bored to co up with such a question.
She replied irritably, "We're iron brothers, good buddies. That's the kind of relationship we have."
Hearing this, the others exchanged glances and fell into silence.
After a while, Katherine was the first to speak up, "Isn't there... any other kind of feeling?"
At this, Chloe narrowed her eyes, "What on earth are you all thinking about? I feel like your questions are getting quite inappropriate."
Daniel and Qin Huaibei, suddenly labeled as inappropriate, felt a bit angry. "If we didn't care about you, we wouldn't be asking so much!"
Chloe yawned, turned over, and pulled up her blanket. "Then don't ask. I know that even if you all shut up, you still love ."
Everyone: "..."
Daniel thought to himself that he shouldn't have been so vague. Wouldn't it have been safer to directly ask if she liked Anderson or not?
But now...
Daniel glanced at the soundly sleeping Chloe and sighed.
Never mind, let it be. We'll ask again in a few days.
Dear Anderson, we tried our best, but we couldn't help much.
Chloe is just a big jerk, a blockhead.
It's not worth wasting ti on soone like her.
...
She slept very soundly. When Chloe woke up the next morning, she rolled out of her hammock, changed her clothes, and imdiately walked out of the tent.
As soon as she ca out, she saw Anderson sitting by the campfire.
Chloe noticed that this person always seed to have an extrely serious deanor, his back always straight as an arrow.
She took a few steps forward and then realized that there were corpses of fierce beasts around the tents and campfire.
Not just fierce beasts, but various giant ferocious beasts, lying in a jumble, with blood spilled all over the ground.
As Chloe approached, Anderson was absentmindedly poking at the campfire ashes with a tree branch, his lowered eyelashes looking sowhat forlorn.
It wasn't until she patted Anderson on the shoulder that he froze, raised his erald green eyes to look at her intently, and seed to co to life.
Anderson unconsciously smiled, "Young miss."
In the soft morning light, Anderson's handso features stood out even more, and his smile beca increasingly captivating.
For so reason, Chloe suddenly felt her heart skip a beat.
It wasn't a big flutter, but enough to surprise her.
She suppressed the stirring in her heart and imdiately changed the subject, looking at the beast corpses in the distance, she asked:
"Did you kill all these?"
"Mm-hmm." Anderson tossed aside the branch in his hand and continued, "There are many fierce beasts in the forest, especially active at night. I was worried they might disturb the young miss's rest, so I just spent the whole night dealing with them."
So had even co attracted by the scent, not necessarily targeting the people in the tents, but to be safe, Anderson had killed them all anyway.
Chloe raised an eyebrow slightly, "Aren't you ruthless?"
Anderson didn't say anything, just pressed his lips together slightly, looking oddly shy.
Seeing this, Chloe stopped teasing him and took out a can from her backpack, heated it briefly, and started eating.
By this ti, Qin Huaibei and the others had also gotten up.
After finishing breakfast, they continued on their journey.
This ti, Qin Huaibei took the lead with the map, while Chloe brought up the rear. However, she still habitually used her perception to scan the surrounding environnt, avoiding dangers in advance.
Today was just like yesterday, with an extraordinary number of ferocious beasts. The blood on their weapons barely had ti to dry.
Eventually, Chloe got fed up and simply used her perception to clear out dangers as soon as she detected them, saving ti.
After two or three hours of this, Chloe suddenly sensed her perception hitting sothing. She imdiately stopped in her tracks.
Everyone imdiately noticed her unusual behavior and stopped as well:
"What's wrong?"
Chloe raised her eyes, a glint flashing in them, the corners of her lips curling up almost imperceptibly:
"We should be... reaching our destination soon."
At these words, everyone imdiately understood and beca more cautious as they moved forward.
Sure enough, they hadn't walked much further when their view suddenly opened up.
Ahead was a large enclosed clearing with various tents pitched on it. The air was perated with a strange sll of potions.
If Chloe had to describe it, she'd say these potions slled like failed, defective products. The odor was pungent and acrid, making one want to vomit at first whiff.
Daniel could barely contain his excitent: "We've found it already? How is it this simple?"
Hearing this, Qin Huaibei gave him a sidelong glance: "You think it's really that simple?"
"Isn't it?" Daniel retorted.
Chloe put away the large blade she'd been carrying in her ring and finally said: "It's indeed not that simple. Although their campsite is deep in the forest, they didn't seem to make any effort to conceal it. It's more like they wanted us to find it deliberately."
At this point, Katherine picked up the thread: "Moreover, given the Viper Group's usual modus operandi, they shouldn't have left any clues in this forest. But they still dropped hints, telling the human military that they were operating in the border forest of the capital, as if they were begging to be targets."
Hearing this, Daniel was a bit confused: "Then why are they doing this?"
"We don't know," Chloe said. "But since we're here, we might as well find out what's really going on."
The Tagar Military Academy team had taken a safer, more direct route and should have found this place before them.
Chloe guessed they had probably already found this campsite and figured out a way to infiltrate it.
She pondered for a mont, finally crushing the hard candy in her mouth with a "crunch," and said:
"Let's go. We'll find a way to sneak in."
As soon as she finished speaking, she darted over to the edge of the camp.
There were guards posted here, all tall and muscular n.
They wore the distinctive uniforms of the Viper Group, making them easy to identify.
Chloe's movents were ghost-like, her feet making no sound as she quickly made her way to a guard in the corner.
With a swift move, she knocked the man unconscious, then stripped off his clothes and put them on herself.
To be on the safe side, Chloe gently slit the person's throat, confirming they were thoroughly dead before hiding the body in the bushes.
Qin Huaibei and the others followed suit, knocking people unconscious, stripping their clothes, and then killing them.
The series of actions flowed smoothly, executed with alarming proficiency, as if they had privately rehearsed such unsavory deeds countless tis before.
In the end, only Daniel was left without a suitable target to strip. He started to get a bit anxious.
"What should I do? Where can I find soone alone?" Daniel whispered urgently.
Chloe searched the surroundings and spotted a figure lying prone not far away. Her eyes lit up as she said:
"Quick, go over there. There's still a dog left."
Daniel: "..."
Realizing the implication, he imdiately beca angry and embarrassed:
"Chloe! Can't you be serious for once?"
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