Rebirth of the Heavenly Empress

“Wait a minute, I’ll tell you.” One of the seniors spoke up in a hoarse voice after suffering an accidental kick by Qu Yan.

“The other seniors are about the same level as us. But you have to be careful of Mo Qiu and Dugu Wu. They are the most talented students to graduate this year, and have been specially selected by the principal to guard checkpoint 42…”

Mo Qiu?

Su Huiqing lowered her eyes slightly.

The class monitor of the 110th Class S. She remembered him.

She was the one who had led that class during their group training.

Several years had gone by in a flash. From the looks of it, Mo Qiu was doing pretty well.

Su Huiqing touched the brim of her helmet and shot those Class S seniors a look. “Alright, you guys can leave.”

The commander was taken aback.

He then laughed out loud.

Indeed.

He had been prejudiced against Su Huiqing because of Bertha’s incident. He thought that she was so arrogant only because she had the Yu Family’s backing.

And so when that team passed the first checkpoint, he had commented. “They are too eager to succeed. I bet that they won’t be able to pass even the 20th checkpoint.”

But now, Su Huiqing had led her team past 39 checkpoints.

They were already going for the 40th checkpoint now.

At the thought of this, the commander’s eyes wavered as he looked at Su Huiqing with renewed respect.

There was nothing else to it. It was just that the International Association had always respected power.

He was thinking of whether to report this to Captain Bai and then poach Su Huiqing over.

Right at this moment, he suddenly received a call from Captain Bai.

Bai Yi’s voice was placid as always but filled with gravity. “Get me Mr. Yu.”

From his grave voice, the commander instantly knew that this was a serious matter. Yu Shijin had returned to the team early this morning, all decked out in his instructor’s uniform.

“You were looking for me?” Yu Shijin accepted the video call.

He gazed calmly at Bai Yi, his face as handsome as cold as always.

Bai Yi was standing in front of the International Battlefield, his eyes very grim. “I need your help with this. When we were investigating the laboratory, we received news that the Dark Angels will be making a major move tonight. The target is a bunch of freshmen, with one of them as their number one target.”

He was now at the International Battlefield.

He would not be able to hurry back in time.

But the wilderness training grounds were provided by the military base. He could not afford to let any freshmen come to harm there.

He had experienced Yu Shijin’s prowess previously at the International Battlefield.

He was not called the top commander for nothing.

Yu Shijin lifted his eyes. “Number one target?”

His voice was brimming with danger.

He wasn’t being biased, but among those freshmen, the only one who could be a number target was…

Yu Shijin knew it couldn’t be anyone else but her.

“It concerns the experiment subject, so you know how important this is.” Bai Yi’s voice was very grave. “I will try my best to hurry back. If need be, follow the vines to their old hiding place.”

Yu Shijin logged off the video call and lowered his eyes, concealing the bloodthirsty look in them. The room was empty apart from him, and his words echoed in the air. “Experiment subject.”

Those deep eyes churned with emotions.

Before fading away into an icy chilliness.

He took out his cell phone and called the commander. “Call all of them back.”

Before leaving, he suddenly thought of something.

He dialled a familiar number as he walked up the mountain.

Su Huiqing was at the 42nd checkpoint.

Mo Qiu was looking at her through narrowed eyes, so dark that there was no way of telling what he was thinking.

Until a cell phone rang.

She glanced down. It was Yu Shijin. She knew he would not bother her unnecessarily, and so picked up the call. “What?”

His voice was much lower than usual. “Where are you?”

Su Huiqing scanned her surroundings. “Checkpoint 42.”

“Keep this call connected. We need to talk.” Yu Shijin’s voice was calm.

But a deadly cold undercurrent ran beneath that calm.

Su Huiqing could tell he was not joking at all, and that something must have happened.

“Are you going to pass this checkpoint or not?” Dugu Wu was standing beside Mo Qiu, staring at Su Huiqing and team with a hostile and impatient expression. “Don’t waste my time, I have other things to do.”

Su Huiqing put on her earpiece. She pressed down on her helmet and spoke in a low voice into the earpiece. “Alright, I will wait for you.”

Hearing her words, Dugu Wu raised his brows and started to say something.

But at this moment, a familiar smell drifted over.

This scent…

Su Huiqing’s eyes narrowed. She would never forget this smell.

This was a scent that could paralyze one’s nerves. This smell had accompanied her in that laboratory for 10 years.

She reached up and pressed her earpiece.

At the same time, she realized why Yu Shijin was looking for her.

The other hand was tightly clenched.

She was able to hold her breath.

But she had failed to find this laboratory even after spending so much time and effort. Now that it had suddenly appeared, she could not let go of this opportunity.

Those 10 years.

During which her companions had died, one after another.

As well as Angie, who had wished to know her earlier.

Su Huiqing lowered her gaze, her eyes completely pitch-black. She glanced at her cell phone before cutting off her connection to Yu Shijin…