Chapter 724: An Angry Zhao Xiaoqiao
Tang Yan was taken aback. She believed that for a woman like her, with exceptional figure, looks, and family background, to throw herself at a man was to do him a great favor.
Yet, Long Xiaoshan actually refused.
Noticing Su Wan's somewhat stiff expression beside her, Tang Yan suddenly realized and said, "Could it be that you're afraid little Wan will get jealous? Little Wan, I don't think it's that serious. It's just treatment, after all. Rest assured, I will absolutely not develop any other feelings for Mr. Long. Just think of him as a doctor treating me. Look, there are many male doctors in gynecology, is it that if they're men, they shouldn't deliver babies?"
"Heh." Su Wan gave a dry laugh.
After returning from studying abroad, her best friend's ideas had become increasingly liberal.
Long Xiaoshan's face was as dark as can be.
Having cultivated the Longevity Art, although he had always indulged in beauties according to his whims, with someone like Tang Yan, who treated him as a mere tool, he really couldn't stand it.
"Alright, Sister Wan, you take her back," Long Xiaoshan said.
Long Xiaoshan waved his hand in a gesture to see them off.
Tang Yan still seemed to have something to say but was forcibly dragged away by Su Wan.
Watching Tang Yan being dragged away, Long Xiaoshan shook his head.
Su Wan's best friend was also quite an oddity.
Long Xiaoshan turned back to the pharmacy and observed a Changbai Mountain Ginseng that he had been cultivating; the ginseng was as thick as an arm and emitted a strong medicinal fragrance, its body resembling that of an infant.
Based on his observation, the ginseng's age had reached over two hundred years.
This was the Spiritual Medicine he had been cultivating.
If it reached over three hundred years old, he would be able to refine Qi Nurturing Pills, and using Spiritual Liquid to cultivate the ginseng made its medicinal properties even better.
He continued to drip a few drops of Spiritual Liquid onto the ginseng.
Once the ginseng matured and he refined the Qi Nurturing Pills, he would be able to make a breakthrough to Qi Drawing Level Seven. Once he became a Grand Spirit Master, even his physical body could easily contend with a Grandmaster.
Long Xiaoshan took out his phone and dialed Zhao Xiaoqiao's number.
As soon as the call connected, before Long Xiaoshan could speak, an angry roar came from the other side, "Long Xiaoshan, where the hell have you gone? Do you know how many times I've tried to contact you? It's been so long without a single phone call, why don't you just drop dead?!"
Long Xiaoshan moved the phone a bit away from his ear, placing it aside, and it took a good ten minutes before the voice on the other end quieted down.
Only then did Long Xiaoshan pick up the phone again and say, "Hello, team leader, I need your help with something."
Zhao Xiaoqiao nearly spat blood.
She had been ranting at Long Xiaoshan for a while, but he had shown no reaction at all, and then he just turned around and said he needed her help. Was this man shameless?
"Don't bother with the nonsense. Get over here right now, NOW!" Zhao Xiaoqiao hung up the phone forcefully.
Long Xiaoshan touched his nose.
Tsk tsk! His own team leader sure had a big temper.
Could it be her time of the month?
But then again, although he was an instructor on a temporary assignment, he had been away for a whole month without any news, so it was no wonder that the hot-tempered Zhao Xiaoqiao was furious.
Long Xiaoshan rubbed his hands together and stood up.
He still wanted the Special Action Division to help him look into Shangguan Baihe's whereabouts. With Zhao Xiaoqiao in such a state, it was necessary to make a trip there.
After going out and greeting his parents, he drove the BMW 5 series car toward the Special Affairs Office Base in QY City.
The road conditions were much better than before. Long Xiaoshan took the highway this time and arrived at QY City in just over an hour. The Special Affairs Office Base was hidden within a holiday resort, and Xiaoshan's car quickly entered the base.
"Instructor, you're back!"
As soon as Long Xiaoshan got out of the car, he heard an excited voice.
A few people walked over.
Long Xiaoshan turned around and saw that it was Xing Ye, along with two other members of the Special Action Division, one named Chang Yuan and the other Li Xianghe.
Chang Yuan's head was wrapped in a bandage.
One of Li Xianghe's hands was slung up.
Although Xing Ye didn't show any visible injuries, his complexion was paler than usual, and with Long Xiaoshan's keen eyesight, he could see that he had suffered internal injuries.
"How did you all get injured!"
Long Xiaoshan showed a trace of surprise.
He was familiar with the strength of the Special Action Division. Although they might not be top-notch experts, each member's ability was above the Huang Level, with Xing Ye's strength comparable to the Profound Level.
Xing Ye and the others showed a hint of shame and remained silent.
"What happened? I'm your instructor, isn't there anything you can tell me?" Long Xiaoshan said gravely.
Although his role as an instructor was largely in name only.
He seldom appeared here.
He had only provided the Vajra Technique and some potions when he first joined the Special Action Division.
Even as a nominal instructor, seeing his own students injured still made Long Xiaoshan unhappy.
Seeing Long Xiaoshan's stern expression, Xing Ye quickly spoke, "Instructor, it's our fault for being incompetent. We were defeated during the intramural competition in our Special Action Division sector."
"Intramural competition?" Long Xiaoshan asked, "What's that?"
Xing Ye felt somewhat helpless that Long Xiaoshan, as the instructor, didn't even know this. He explained, "It's a combat assessment that our Special Action Division holds every year. It's the end of the year now, and the sector competition has started. We thought that after practicing your Vajra Technique, our overall strength had greatly improved, we wouldn't be at the bottom like in previous years. But we were targeted right in the first round and were miserably defeated; almost everyone was injured. The team leader has been raging these past few days. Instructor, you'll have to be careful when you meet the team leader later."
Long Xiaoshan touched his nose.
No wonder Zhao Xiaoqiao was so irritable.
So this was the reason.
His own group had suffered such a terrible defeat in the competition.
And he, as their instructor, was unreachable.
Zhao Xiaoqiao giving him a good expression would be strange indeed.
In hindsight, he also bore responsibility, as he wasn't quite fulfilling his role as the instructor. Long Xiaoshan said, "Where's the team leader? I'll go see her."
"She should be in the training room right now. The team leader has practically been living there these days," Xing Ye said.
"Alright, got it. Later on, gather the injured, and I'll take a look and treat the wounds first," Long Xiaoshan said.
"Okay, Instructor!"
Xing Ye's face lit up with happiness.
The people of the South Chuan Group had all witnessed Long Xiaoshan's medical skills, which were absolutely divine. With him around, their injuries were not a problem.
Long Xiaoshan quickly walked towards the base.
Before long, he arrived at the training room. Through the door, he could hear the rapid "thump thump" sounds. He opened the door and saw a nimble figure in pink attacking a punching bag like a tempest.
Fists and feet landed on the large punching bag like phantoms.
The punching bags at the Special Action Division were specially made, filled with iron sand and weighing over a hundred kilograms. Under the attack of the pink figure, this heavy iron sandbag stayed suspended in the air, refusing to fall.
Long Xiaoshan took steps towards it.
The figure in pink noticed him.
She let out a fierce shout.
She spun 180 degrees in the air and ferociously kicked the iron sandbag. Bang! The rope of the sandbag snapped, and the heavy sandbag weighing over a hundred kilograms came hurtling towards Long Xiaoshan.