"Bianka, did you catch a cold?" Mei was the first to notice Bianka's sneeze. The warrior's super premonition and reaction time allowed Bianka to complete the action of calmly putting down her cards and turning around to cover her mouth and sneeze in an extremely short amount of time.
"Older Sister must be being missed by someone," Kiana glanced at Bianka's appearance and immediately guessed the truth of the matter.
She was the same when someone was talking about her behind her back. However, being talked about usually meant two sneezes. Bianka had only sneezed once, so she definitely wasn't being badmouthed.
Someone must be thinking about Bianka.
Kiana narrowed her eyes and scanned the room.
Rita had just arrived here. Who knows where she had gotten the news from. She might have followed Older Sister Bianka's scent, but looking at Rita, who was sitting right next to Bianka, Kiana felt that it was definitely not her.
So who was it? Who else in Fire Moth was not present but would still miss Older Sister?
So hard to guess, right? Shu?
In a flash, Kiana slammed a black pot on Shu's head with a serious expression.
And perhaps because this black pot was too heavy and hard, when Shu opened his eyes again, he only felt his head buzzing. He looked up and saw that he had been moved from the table to the sofa in his own home.
After being confused about his current situation for half a second, Shu suddenly sprang up from the sofa and quickly raised his hand to cover his eyes so that he could concentrate and quickly browse through all the Honkai energy fluctuations within the detection range of the entire Fire Moth during the time he was unconscious.
There were no new Honkai energy reactions, and no large fluctuations of existing Honkai energy... Why were the Divine keys gathered together? The location was... Otto's office? What was he collecting the Divine keys for? Was he going to experiment with something?
Had that guy set up proper Honkai energy protection? It seemed that he had to find a chance to check it out later.
Really... why was he so worry-free?
Sighing, Shu cheered up and wanted to get off the sofa, but as soon as he looked up, he saw Siegfried staring at him.
Hiss...
Shu took a sharp breath. The brain that had just completed its response in half a second was now frozen for a full three seconds before he remembered that Siegfried and Cecilia had come to visit.
Did he faint because he had eaten a bite of a strange dish?
"Yo, you're awake?" After noticing the trace of understanding and surprise in Shu's eyes, Siegfried said faintly, "It's a good thing you weren't poisoned to death."
Shu was silent for a moment. He really wanted to reply with "is this also part of your murder plan for me?", but considering that they were not very familiar with each other, he retracted this thought.
Instead, the urge to continue the story he had not finished before arose.
"By the way, Shu, you should know about the selection event in a few days, right?" But just as Shu was considering whether to continue that topic, Siegfried threw out a new topic.
"Yes, I know," his thoughts were interrupted, and Shu nodded with a little disappointment. But when it came to business, Shu quickly focused his mind.
"Is your First Squad going to be disbanded?" Siegfried asked curiously. Shu didn't answer immediately, but after thinking for a while, he nodded stiffly.
According to Otto's arrangement, regardless of whether he won in the end, his current squad with Kiana and the others would definitely be disbanded. The best-case scenario would be for him and the original members to form another squad.
Shu remembered the conditions Otto had proposed very clearly.
[The best performer will receive three self-selected slots]
There was no doubt that if Shu really won and became the best performer, these three slots would definitely fall on Kiana and the other two.
There would probably be other people joining the team, such as Bianka, who already had a very outstanding ability. People with special abilities like Sirin and Fréllei might also join...
Wait, why did Siegfried mention this to him?
Shu was stunned for a moment and looked at Siegfried with a strange expression, only to see him smile embarrassedly.
"Hehe... I just wanted to ask..." Siegfried scratched his head awkwardly and guiltily. "That selection... will you participate?"
So he was here to spy on intelligence?
The corner of Shu's eye twitched. He should have realized that Siegfried would definitely not miss this kind of selection. It might not just be Siegfried, but the entire Snow Wolf Squad would participate.
Although Shu was very optimistic about Kiana's and the others' abilities, compared to the older generation's Snow Wolf Squad, Mei and the others were a bit inexperienced.
Even Kiana, without using the Key of Genesis, would probably have a hard time passing the long-experienced Siegfried, right?
Not to mention that there was still Cecilia above Siegfried.
And in fact, Siegfried had already lost to Kiana more than ten times in a row in arm wrestling. After using the Key of Genesis so many times, Kiana's basic physical fitness had far surpassed her former self.
And Kiana's progress in combat experience had long been filled by those few great battles. It was no longer her weakness. It might be slightly inferior to Siegfried's, but these subtle differences were not worth mentioning in the face of Kiana's absolute stats.
So it was better to bully your daughter early... look now, whether it was play-fighting or serious sparring, Siegfried was already completely crushed by Kiana.
But for Shu, he knew everything about Kiana, but there was still a thin filter for Siegfried, so he would put the "unknown" Siegfried in front of Kiana.
In general, Shu had seen too little.
Only after he really got to know everyone would he understand that under him, there were only Bianka and Kiana.
Everyone else, even Fu Hua using the Xuanyuan Sword, or Siegfried pulling out the Judgment of Shamash, would have to stand back a little to face the accidental injuries from one who was playing with the Key of Genesis to the death, and one who was playing with a completely collapsed indiscriminate attack.
"I... probably won't participate." Faced with Siegfried's intelligence gathering, Shu still told a lie. Siegfried's eyes narrowed, and he understood in his heart.
He's participating... just not under his own identity?
So what identity would Shu use to participate in this selection?
Were there any powerful newcomers who had suddenly appeared in Fire Moth recently with great momentum?
Siegfried actually knew of one.
An Ana Schariac who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere. She sounded like she was from the same clan as Cecilia, and Cecilia also remembered that there was indeed such a person in her family.
And a Kevin Kaslana, who sounded like he was from his own clan...
Was there such a person in the family?!
As the current head of the Kaslana family, Siegfried said that he had never heard of such a person.