Chapter 4

Parsed with an automated reader. The content accuracy is not guranteed.

Shen Shanwu couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows after seeing the captain’s appearance clearly. He had never expected that the one in front of him was still his “old acquaintance”. The two had an intersection seven years ago, but there had been no contact in the past three or four years.

He thought of the little boy who would only cry and hide behind his ass at the beginning, who had now grown into a team captain who took the lead. From cowardly and timid to resolute and strong, he didn’t know what he had experienced in the past few years.

The Shanhai Team, a well-known team in the country, could be said to be unknown to no one. The force of the coastal base was so valuable that even among the mutants, it had been used as a bargaining chip on the card table, but Shen Shanwu really didn’t expect that the captain would be him, Jiang Huan.

Shen Shanwu’s eyebrow-raising expression on the face of a ten-year-old child really deserved a beating. The young man couldn’t help but shout, “What’s with your expression, little brat?!”

“Looking at your captain, if he’s good-looking or not ah.” Shen Shanwu was even less formal now that he knew that the captain was Jiang Huan. His delicate and well-behaved face turned into an out-of-age ruffian, which was a waste of his young face.

Jiang Huan didn’t take a child’s molestation to heart. He asked blankly, “Am I still scary now?”

“…What are you going to do?” Shen Shanwu frowned and asked. The bald teacher in the back discussed with several teachers who had heard the news and shouted at Jiang Huan with certainty, “Captain Jiang, we have confirmed that there is no such person as him in the school.”

As if he hadn’t heard it, Jiang Huan only asked Shen Shanwu word for word, “What’s your name? Do you… have a brother?”

“I have no name and no brother. I am an orphan, born and raised in a foreign area.” Shen Shanwu said indifferently, probably because he had always talked nonsense in front of Xiao Jiang Huan in the early years. Now the nonsense was really open-mouthed. He knew that his current appearance was seven or eight points similar to adulthood. Then Jiang Huan asked if he had a brother. He must have regarded him as his own younger brother.

“How did you get into our school? What do you want to do by breaking in?!” The bald man was in a hurry. He had just finished bragging about their security level in front of the Shanhai team, saying that even flies couldn’t fly in. As a result, an orphan from a suburban city was strolling in an office building in a dignified manner.

“I haven’t been to school before, so I was curious about what the school in the inner district looked like, so I stole a student ID card and sneaked in.”

“Then what’s the matter with your clothes?”

Shen Shanwu rightfully said, “You’re so full of nonsense. Of course, I stole it.”

“…” The bald teacher was very angry, pointing at Shen Shanwu and almost yelling, “Then you stole this bag too? What’s in it?!”

The young man had been curious about Shen Shanwu’s bag for a long time. It was big and very inviting. He stretched out his hand to touch it, but he didn’t expect Shen Shanwu to strongly react, “Don’t touch my bag!”

The birthday gift in the bag was something that only mutants could obtain. Once it was out in public, if he wanted to leave here, he would inevitably be met with blood.

“Hey, you kid—”

Jiang Huan glanced at the young man lightly and said coldly, “Don’t touch him.” Hearing this, the young man suddenly stood at attention like a mouse who saw a cat, “Yes!”

Jiang Huan said to the lieutenant who was holding Shen Shanwu’s wrists, “Let him go.”

The lieutenant nodded, scolded him to be honest, and then slowly let go of his hand. He took a step back, secretly wondering why the kid was so strong; he almost broke free just now.

“Captain Jiang, Captain Jang.” The bald teacher hurriedly stepped forward to plead guilty, “This is due to our weak supervision. Thank you so much for your eyesight and helping us see through this thief. If you give him to us, we will definitely strictly criticize and educate him…”

Jiang Huan gave the team members a look, and the only female team member present immediately took a step to the left, blocking the sight of the bald instructor with her back.

Bald teacher: “…” What’s wrong with the people from the coastal base?

“What do you mean…” Jiang Huan squatted down again and looked up at Shen Shanwu seriously, “You have no father or mother, or even a name?”

“Yeah.”

“Don’t have any relatives in the outer area?”

“Hmm.”

“Then would you like to be adopted by me and go to the coastal base with me?”

“…” Shen Shanwu was taken aback for a moment, his round eyes full of big doubts. “Ha—?”

“I am the grandson of the Military Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Coastal Base and the captain of the Shanhai team, the first team of the base.” Jiang Huan placed his chips one by one, as if negotiating with a business opponent, “If you want, you will be my only adopted son. I have no wife, and after I die, everything in my name will be given to you free of charge. If you want to go to school, I will take you to the central elementary school in the coastal base…”

“Wait, wait, wait, captain.” The young man was also shocked to the extreme, “Although this kid grew up looking good, his whole origin is unknown and he’s full of lies, Captain, how could you think of adopting him?!”

The deputy team was not as shocked as the young man. He knew that the captain must have his reason for saying this. He only guessed and asked, “Captain Jiang, the origin of this child, is it a deceased’s child of someone you know?”

From beginning to end, Shen Shanwu was the only one in Jiang Huan’s eyes. Those peach blossom eyes seemed to contain indescribable affection. If it hadn’t been for Jiang Huan’s small eye shape, it would have been so easy to misunderstand, Shen Shanwu would have thought that this person had something wrong with himself and had thought about him.

“Are you willing?” Jiang Huan asked seriously again, his voice sexy and low. If any young girl who is in love with him heard it, he’s afraid that she would even give him her life.

“…” Shen Shanwu rubbed his red wrists, curled his lips, and said, “I don’t want to.”

“He—” The young man was just about to persuade the captain to think twice, but he heard that Shen Shanwu actually refused? His whole body turned and his voice sprayed angrily, “Why don’t you want to?!”

Of course, Shen Shanwu would not be willing. Seven years ago, Jiang Huan followed him and called him “Elder brother” and “Brother Shanwu”. Seven years later, he actually asked him to call Jiang Huan “Dad”?!

What the hell??

Jiang Huan didn’t seem to expect that the little boy in front of him would refuse so decisively. His eyes deepened and he asked in a depressed manner, “Why?”

“There is no reason.” Shen Shanwu touched the strap on his shoulder and said, “I didn’t do anything harmful to the world. Let me go. I promise to stay in the outer area obediently in the future and never come here again.”

Unexpectedly, Jiang Huan stood straight and said coldly, “Since you can’t tell me the reason, then I won’t let you go.”

“What?” Shen Shanwu was shocked. Was this necessary to forcibly adopt him? Was Shanhai team a combat team or a minor trafficking organization? “No, why do you have to adopt me?”

“There is no reason.”

“…You’re very bad like this.”

Jiang Huan pursed his lips, lowered his head, and put on his mask again. Then he stretched out his hand and forcibly rubbed Shen Shanwu’s hair, “I will treat you well.”

“You say that but—”

“Yao Wuque, take him to where we are staying.” Jiang Huan ordered regardless of Shen Shanwu’s opposition. Although the young man was full of reluctance in his words, he obeyed the captain’s order as soon as possible.

“Zhong Yin will go too. Remember, keep an eye on him.”

The captain’s aggravated tone shocked Yao Wuque’s whole body. He and another female team member said in unison, “Yes.”

After arranging this side, Jiang Huan turned around and said to the lieutenant, “Go back to the auditorium and finish the opening ceremony.”

“Yes.”

The bald teacher stood stupidly for a long time, and finally saw this big man from the coastal base looking at him. He hesitated for a while, and didn’t even know what to say.

“I want to adopt this child.” Jiang Huan took the initiative to ask, “Do you need to go through any formalities in the Central Alliance?”

“Uh…” The bald teacher sighed, “It depends on whether he has a Central Alliance ID card, but most orphans of his age in suburban cities have no identity, but Captain Jiang, why did you suddenly think of adopting this child?”

“…” Jiang Huan didn’t answer. He nodded, said “thank you,” and then followed the other team members into the auditorium.

In another room.

After Yao Wuque got the captain’s order, he looked at Shen Shanwu from the left to the right and felt uneasy. He and Zhong Yin looked at each other face-to-face through their masks, and simply took out two pairs of handcuffs. One handcuffed Shen Shanwu with one hand, and the three of them sandwiched Shen Shanwu side by side. In the middle, they all carried Shen Shanwu like a chicken and walked outside the school.

Shen Shanwu really had a headache. He got the dormitory number of the president’s son, and the gift was in the backpack intact. As a result, he was now getting farther and farther away from the mission point.

He could easily break free from them, but at the same time, his identity as a mutant would also be exposed.

The problem was that Jiang Huan had already seen his face. Shen Shanwu was a mutant, and now another child who looks extremely similar to him was also a mutant. It was difficult not to make a connection between the two, and that the mutant had special abilities. It was very likely that it would be exposed.

Nowadays, mutants were already very feared by humans. If they let them know that the strength of mutants was far greater than what they knew, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Fleeting years were not good. Shen Shanwu could only use these four words to describe his current state.

The Shanhai team stayed in a small, multi-story villa with a garden in the inner city of Central Alliance. The residents outside the city were hungry, but the people inside the city had the leisure to play with flowers and plants.

There were two team members left behind in the villa: one male and one female. When they saw Yao Wuque and Zhong Yin ‘escorting’ a boy into the house, they were all taken aback and asked who this was in a daze.

“The captain intends to adopt him.” Yao Wuque took off his mask. Underneath was indeed the face of a big boy who had just become an adult. There were even two acne spots on his forehead. He picked up a glass of warm water and drank it cleanly. “Is the captain crazy?”

“The captain must have his own considerations.” Zhong Yin said coldly while drinking water. She also took off her mask, and then nodded at Shen Shanwu with her chin, “What should we do? The three of us can’t keep being handcuffed like this.”

“…” Yao Wuque raised his eyebrows, and then a bad smile appeared at the corner of his lips. Shen Shanwu knew that things were not good, and quickly said, “Brother! Do you think my origin is unknown? I don’t want to be adopted by your captain. It’s just right. If you let me go, you could say that three masked men suddenly came and took me away.”

Zhong Yin untied the handcuffs and glanced at Shen Shanwu coldly, then looked at Yao Wuqu, “If you dare to do this, I will deal with you first.” Yao Wuque snorted, “I don’t want you to be adopted by the captain, but I don’t want you to go against the captain’s wishes. Just stay honest!”

Having said that, he handcuffed Shen Shanwu’s wrist to the leg of the bulky solid wood seat and happily went into the kitchen to ask what they had eaten for lunch today.

Support me on ko-fi! o(｀^´*) Also check out another translation of mine, Raiders Counterattack [QT]