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Yao Yuan shook his head to snap out of his reverie He then suggested, "Lee, please don't refer tothat title when I left the aro Now that I think about it, I have never even been your superior officer, so please refer to estion, the usually calest such a thing, Captain?! If Captain Wong hears about this, I’ll be dead meat! Also, many times when the members were in trouble, it was you who came to our rescue! In any case, you'll forever be our Ol' Captain, Cap’n!"

Hearing this, Yao Yuan could only let out a few dry laughs He knew that arguing further would be pointless; the ood It was at this tiood look The fella's clothes could barely qualify as rags; there were still spots where the ood-natured slap on the shoulder, Yao Yuan led hio down to the basee of clothes and some food to fill your belly After that, you can rest until the rest of the on why I've issued the order for the team to come here"

The prospect of rest appeared to lull Lee's demeanor as he was led into ould be the base of operations The pair passed through roo the stairs that led down to the basement At the end of the steep decline there was a dark, enclosed space; its state of disrepair was not unlike the ones they had just passed Yao Yuan hty pull A light source froround The lifted "flooring" was a giant sheet of steel that acted as the hatch Yao Yuan deftly squirap and Lee quickly followed

The surprise of finding a vast, bright space hit Lee al apart, Yao Yuan had spent quite a bit of resourcesthe 100 square meters space underneath the basement The place ell stocked with food and water, several boxes of clothes, an array of weaponry, andit capable of supporting light sources, a working co all of this, Lee displayed an out-of-character burst of youthful exciteing in voraciously into the ample supply of food and drinks "Now this is the life! Ol' Cap’n sure is so, the teaon Prosper Unit at soilance, ould all be beneath the sand by now Added on to that was the need to trek out of the desert, the need to stay on the move to avoid the army, and also the need to rush here… it was truly a hell on earth And to think that Ol' Cap’n was enjoying hily between bites

There was not ured a shoulder pat would be a better interaction to signal solidarity, and as he did so, Lee collapsed under his touch as if he was hit by a punch instead of a light pat The shocked Yao Yuan directly went into application of eency aid Luckily, Lee's heart rate and pulse were fine and he also did not seem to have suffered any physical trauma It appeared that the kid had fallen asleep due to extre down food told Yao Yuan that the last few daysin Lee's standing as the junior of the Black Star Unit, his journey surely had beenout to the kid, he also intuitively understood why Lee was given the solo scouting detail; it was a covert kindness on Ol' Wong's part that Lee would reach hi under exertion

Yao Yuan proceeded tobody onto one of the ers went flying across the keyboard A set of nulish appeared on the monitor screen He then stared intently at the rando theeht, there wasn't a discernable difference

As night descended, Yao Yuan found himself back at his perch by the shutters Maybe it was his encounter with the Black Star Unit, but sitting there looking out over the barren wasteland reminded him much of his days as the unit's captain It was a job that demanded a lot of concentration and composure On several occasions, he would be able to hear sounds of screa distances away

They were the hu They represented man's desperation and despair; the anies to evolve fro that this was the for at each other like soht, a celestial appeared in the inky sky Its luster paled even that of the roup of h the city streets Their movements made no sounds and awakened no one as they h the rooms and later down to the baseht

In the baseht, one could see that each of these men had their faces creased with lines, stories of the vicissitudes of life The eldest of the Guang Zhen He was the leader of the group Despite his position and seniority in age, he still referred to Yao Yuan with much ade, were also h the restraint they showed at er, they only allowed themselves the bare necessities, not one bite more As they settled quietly in place after the hasty meal, one by one they slowly trained their attention at Yao Yuan Finally, Guang Zhen asked, "Ol' Cap’n, surely you didn't invite us here just for a ht more months, so now is not the time to be reticent Do you need us to clear this city of those ar at ould appear to be the simplicity of the task The worst offender was an African American man that was built like a tank His size and physique lent him an appearance that wasHe rasped, in a deep baritone, "On the way here, we spotted quite a number of those filth Ol' Cap’n, you say the word and toive them a taste of their own h, Yao Yuan lamented, "Those are indeed some damnable nuisances, but that's what they are, nuisances The reason I've called you all here isn't to handle those sliht er proble that, Yao Yuan flipped over theZhen, who see, was understandably confounded by the series of nu a beat, Yao Yuan announced, "This series of nuraphs under it describes a well-known story, a story that is titled…"

"Noah!"

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Footnotes:

1 The rooned in such a way that one side of its wall is completely open to the streets Therefore, the space utilized a wall of steel shutters that could be dropped down or rolled up according to business hours over doors

2 Full naroup, he's often referred to by others as simply Lee