The reason why Lin Qingqing said this was because she made the decision after thinking about it for a while.
First of all, with the strength Chengfeng showed, she had no confidence that she could defeat him. Even if she recruited all the captains, she would never be able to keep Chengfeng.
Furthermore, she still holds the golden mask in her hand. Lin Qingqing cannot guarantee that Chengfeng will not come to snatch it. If he intends to give up on getting her mission item, then why would he specially lure her out?
Also, if you work hard, it's not impossible to keep the mission item, but now the tortoise shell is in Chengfeng's hands. If she doesn't fight for it this time, I'm afraid she won't have the chance to see the tortoise shell again in the future.
Therefore, she could only choose between the mission item and the tortoise shell, and trading with Chengfeng was the most beneficial choice she could think of at the moment.
Chengfeng didn't expect that Lin Qingqing's request was this. He was stunned for a moment, then slowly took out a piece of yellow-brown tortoise shell from his arms.
"You want this?"
He looked back and forth several times and found that there was nothing special except for a few lines of unfamiliar text.
"Yes, I have an elder who told me that he had an ancestral tortoise shell, but he couldn't find it later. Today I saw that Captain Xu got a similar tortoise shell, so I wanted to borrow it and have a look, but I didn't have time to follow him. He said." Lin Qingqing considered it and said word for word.
As she spoke, she observed Chengfeng's reaction, and saw that he didn't show any strange expression, so she felt slightly relieved: It seems that Chengfeng just accepted a mission, and he probably doesn't know the story behind the tortoise shell. .
Seeing Lin Qingqing's serious look, Chengfeng pinched the tortoise shell and tilted her head, wondering what she was thinking.
Lin Qingqing was not in a hurry, she just asked to take a look, and presented the golden mask after just one look. This was definitely not a loss-making deal for Chengfeng.
After a while, Chengfeng didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly threw the tortoise shell in his hand into Lin Qingqing's arms and said casually: "I gave it to you!"
"Huh?" Lin Qingqing held the tortoise shell and blinked. She didn't understand why Chengfeng suddenly gave the tortoise shell to her. Isn't this his mission item?
"Here! That mask."
He stretched out a hand forward and said to Lin Qingqing.
"Oh, here you go."
Lin Qingqing came to her senses, took out the golden mask, and placed it on the long, white, well-jointed hand in front of her.
"You give me something, and I will give you something, just right!"
Chengfeng held the golden mask and nodded with satisfaction.
"I have something else to do, so I'll leave now. See you next time!"
As he spoke, he tiptoed, and disappeared into the night after a few ups and downs.
Lin Qingqing stood there, looking at the tortoise shell piece in her hand in disbelief: Have you got it now? They had been worrying about it for so many days, and they had been struggling all night to get the tortoise shell piece just like that?
——But what did Chengfeng’s last words mean?
Lin Qingqing thought for a long time and didn't understand.
Alas, forget it, it doesn’t matter anymore.
"team leader!"
"Captain Lin!"
At this moment, the voices of Lei Min and Li Xun suddenly came from behind. Then Xu Qiangsheng, Zhang He, and Zhou Ting also came.
"How is this going?"
"Has Captain Lin seen the person who stole the things?" Li Xun stared at Lin Qingqing with a pair of eagle eyes.
Just now, the team members who were changing the guard found signs that someone had invaded the camp. After several checks, everyone discovered that the mission items were missing.
Fortunately, Lin Qingqing and Lei Min had made an explanation in advance. When Lei Min heard the commotion outside the door, he immediately rushed out of the room and told Lin Qingqing about chasing the thief.
"Our captain has chased him out, and I was about to inform you."
Her lie was not rigorous, but at that time everyone was busy chasing the thief and no longer cared about pursuing these details.
"I saw it, but I didn't catch up."
Lin Qingqing shook her head regretfully, and then she frowned and continued:
"If I read it correctly, it should be a wind power user."
"How did Captain Lin discover him?" At this time, Zhang He suddenly asked.
His question is what everyone wants to know. There are so many of them, and there is a Gyrfalcon, but they haven't noticed it. This shows that this person is very good at this, and the level of his supernatural power is probably not low. Then why did Lin Qingqing discover the thief?
"Hmph, the thief wants to steal from me, how can I still sleep?" Lin Qingqing said with a soft snort.
"So Captain Lin put the mission item on him?" Zhang He said in surprise. He didn't expect Lin Qingqing to value this mission item so much.
"Yeah, mine is gold!"
Lin Qingqing said half-jokingly. Seeing that Zhang He still had something to say, she directly said what they wanted to know most: "It's a pity that it was still stolen."
At this time, everyone was speechless.
After working so hard for so many days, the most important thing was lost at the last moment. The three captains looked extremely ugly.
Back at the garrison, no one was in the mood to sleep, so the six captains held an emergency meeting overnight.
"What we lost is a one-foot-long bronze statue." Li Xun was the first to speak. Now that everything was lost, there was no point in keeping it secret.
"We lost a piece of tortoise shell," Xu Qiangsheng said, scratched his head, and muttered in a low voice: "With such a big box of things, why do you want to get the least valuable thing?"
Unlike the other two teams, the Kuangsha team directly brought out all the large box of cultural relics, thinking that they would all be handed over to the base anyway, so they did not take out the mission items individually, and it could also confuse other people.
But the irony is that the thief was so accurate in stealing. He took nothing else but the most inconspicuous piece of tortoise shell.
Hearing the word "tortoise shell", Lei Min's eyes flashed: Captain really just let Chengfeng take the things away?
"What we lost is a golden mask." Lin Qingqing said expressionlessly.
"Oh, it's really golden!" Xu Qiangsheng's eyes widened in surprise.
"Yes, I carry it with me because it is light." Lin Qingqing was noncommittal.
The atmosphere fell into silence again.
It would be an absolute shame for three fifth-level captains to get together and let someone touch something under their noses. Especially Li Xun, he is a special investigator, but he didn't notice anything unusual. This is simply a shame among shames.
Among everyone at this moment, Li Xun's face was the darkest. He stroked Hai Dongqing's feathers silently, feeling very confused in his heart.
——It's easy for others to say, but Changqing is a mutated beast. It is usually the most sensitive to the smell of strangers, so it is impossible for it to not react at all from beginning to end.
And as soon as the accident happened, Li Xun checked Changqing's body immediately. It was normal and there were no signs of being controlled or drugged.
Hai Dongqing tilted his head in confusion when he saw his owner staring at it from time to time.
"The thief only stole the cultural relics. Didn't he leave the other paper materials untouched?" At this time, Lei Min suddenly said.
Her words made the others slightly stunned. Yes, since the paper information is still there, it means that their mission is not a complete failure.
Remembering that there was still a lot of information in their hands, everyone relaxed a little, except Lin Qingqing, who still frowned and remained silent.
——Who is entrusting Chengfeng to do this? How did he know the content of their mission?
——Also, the mission required them to bring back relevant materials and items, but Chengfeng only took away the key cultural relics and did not touch the research materials. Why is this? Are objects more important than data?
There were so many things that she couldn't figure out. Lin Qingqing was thinking about it when Zhou Ting said with an ugly face: "There is no paper information in our box."
The box they found in the vault contained only a bunch of cultural relics and no research information. And their mission only said to find tortoise shells or things related to tortoise shells.
Before, they thought they could just find the tortoise shell and take it back. As for the relevant information and things, they still had no clue.
"this……"
"Since those piles of things are put together, they can be considered related items." Xu Qiangsheng saw Zhou Ting frowning and quickly comforted her: "It's okay, it's okay, anyway, we don't know what the related items are, and that We don’t recognize the words on the tortoise shell, so even if we put a bunch of information in front of us, we still don’t know which one is related to it.”
Although what he said was a bit far-fetched, it was not completely unreasonable. Originally, everyone's knowledge level was not particularly high. How could they understand what professors and scholars were studying.
Lin Qingqing suddenly felt a little funny when she saw that the captain of the Kuangsha team came up with such an impossible solution in order to comfort his vice-captain.
But Xu Qiangsheng's words reminded her. Team Kuangsha didn't know where the relevant information about Turtle Shell was, but she knew that Turtle Shell came from the Institute of History. If he wanted to find research information, he couldn't think of anything but there.
Lei Min also thought of this, so she looked at Lin Qingqing and asked silently.
By the time I finished speaking, most of the night had passed.
After daybreak, Li Xun immediately released Changqing and tried to find the whereabouts of the thief, but in the end he returned without success.
Lin Qingqing knew that Chengfeng would be impossible to find. She had seen his speed. If he passed by in the middle of the night, he might be thousands of miles away.
She was right as she expected, Chengfeng had indeed reached a very far place at this time.
At this time, Chengfeng was lazily reclining on a brown leather sofa on the top floor of a luxurious building.
"I've brought you what you asked for." As he spoke, he placed a bronze statue on the coffee table.
"Just one?" At this moment, a hoarse and deep voice came from behind him.
Chengfeng turned his head and saw a big hand reaching out from the side, going around him and picking up the bronze statue.
This hand is large and looks strong and powerful. Wearing two gold rings on the middle finger and ring finger, each ring is inlaid with a ruby and a sapphire.
"There are two more, but I gave one away, and the other one was given to me."
As Chengfeng spoke, he put his hand into his arms, then took out a golden mask and waved it in his hand as if to show off.
Seeing the big hand with the gem ring reaching towards him again, he quickly put the mask on his face.
"I can't give this to you, this is mine!"
