Poseidon in Arknights

"That's impressive, 67 bottles of baijiu just went down like that." Exusiai looked at Yuuki, who was being supported, and clicked her tongue in amazement. "Is Liberi such a heavy drinker?"

“Yes, I watched them drink this liquor down like it was water.” Croissant looked at Yuzuki with admiration. “Although they lost in the end, they were still glorious in defeat.”

Sora, standing to the side, couldn't help but say, "But if you drink like this, Yuuki's hangover tomorrow will probably be really bad, right?"

“That makes sense.” Exusiai nodded and then looked at Red. “Hey, Red, do you know where Yuuki keeps her hangover cure?”

“Hong doesn’t know.” Hong shook her head. “But Hong doesn’t think there’s any need to worry about Mom.”

“Hey, Hong, you don’t understand. They’ve all drunk so much. Last time you only drank a few bottles and you passed out. You felt terrible the next day. With the amount of drinking they’re doing, it’s a miracle if they can even get up the next day.”

Texas sighed speechlessly, then reached out and patted Yuuki's butt: "Alright, how long are you going to keep pretending? We're all out now. Are you comfortable with us dragging you around like this?"

"Hey, Texas, what are you saying... um!!!"

Before Exusiai could finish speaking, she saw Yuuki, who had already fainted, stand up abruptly, the redness on her cheeks disappearing without her noticing.

"I think it's alright." Xi Yue smiled at everyone. "But pretending to be innocent once and getting a day off tomorrow isn't bad. Alright, shall we go back?"

"Hey, Yuuki, you're not drunk?" Exusiai stared in disbelief at Yuuki, who seemed completely unaffected.

“Oh, right, Exusiai.” Yuuki smiled, then patted Texas beside her. “I was originally planning to just go back and pretend, but since Texas saw through me, I felt too embarrassed to keep pretending.”

"No, Officer Hoshiguma was so drunk!" Croissant looked at Yuuki with surprise. "You didn't drink some hangover cure beforehand, did you?"

"Do I look like someone who would cheat? Besides, didn't you guys watch us drink?" Xi Yue shrugged. "That's enough. Okay, we should go back now. Hong, you're the only one who didn't drink. Can you drive us?"

"Okay, Mom, I understand." Hong nodded to Xiyue and then opened the door and got into the driver's seat.

Chapter 64: Winter Holiday

"No, Yuuki, are you really alright?" Exusiai asked worriedly, looking at Yuuki sitting in the back row. "That's 67 bottles of liquor."

Yuuki smiled at Exusiai: "Do I look like I have something on my mind?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, doesn't that mean even Officer Hoshiguma can't outdrink you?" Croissant clicked her tongue. "Truly a master of drinking without getting drunk, a master of ten thousand cups without falling over."

"Alright, alright, stop lifting me up." Xi Yue patted Croissant's head. "Drinking too much is bad. Don't follow my example, or you'll end up in the hospital or in my hospital bed."

"Forget it, forget it. Let alone your 67 bottles, I'm afraid I'd end up in the hospital after drinking half of them." Croissant waved her hand. She was considered a good drinker among the group, but it depended on who she was drinking with.

The woman in front of me can drink 67 bottles of baijiu without batting an eye. If she really got into a drinking contest, she could single-handedly take on everyone present and send them all to the hospital one by one.

Sora, who was sitting next to Yuuki, turned his head and said in a teasing tone, "Hmm, maybe it wouldn't be bad to bring Yuuki to the party at the end to help me fend off some drinks."

"I don't mind," Yuuki smiled. "But you could have refused, couldn't you?"

"Sigh~" Kong sighed and shook his head. "It's not that simple. Some drinks are fine, but some you just can't refuse."

"Then it's probably useless to bring me along~" Yu Yue shrugged, "Unless you're bringing me along with the idea that I'll get everyone drunk or something."

Sora looked at Yuuki and stroked her chin: "That seems like a good idea~"

"Oh, right." Sora took out a few tickets from her bag. "These are my tickets for next week's concert, the best seats."

"Thank you." Xiyue took the two tickets that Kong handed her and put them into her clothes.

"Oh~ Sora's concert tickets!" Croissant and Exusiai didn't know how to be polite with their colleagues and happily accepted the tickets Sora handed them.

"Wow!" Croissant exclaimed, looking at the seat number on the ticket. "I remember the official price for this seat was 1500 LMD, but it seems to have gone up to 2000 now?"

"No, Croissant." Upon hearing Croissant's words, Exusiai immediately pulled out her phone and checked the ticket prices. "Someone has already bid 2500! And it looks like it's still going up!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, as expected of Sora." Yuuki glanced back at the website that Exusiai had displayed.

"It's alright~"

Listening to her mother and the others chatting behind her, Hong wanted to join in, but she didn't know what they were talking about, so she could only irritably tap the seat with her tail.

"Huh?" The red-tinted rearview mirror revealed that several beat-up black sedans had somehow appeared behind the vehicle.

'What a coincidence?' Red turned left at the next traffic light, only to find that the car behind them was still following them. Red immediately realized something was wrong.

“Yuzuki, there are a few cars following us. You seem to have guessed right.” Texas, sitting in the passenger seat, also noticed the vehicles following them.

“There really are some, but aren’t they too hasty?” Yuzuki shook her head. “What a stupid gang.”

"What should we do?" Exusiai tilted her head slightly and looked at the car sneaking around behind her through the rearview mirror.

"Let them follow, we're still in the city." Croissant glanced at the rearview mirror and counted the number of cars and people. "Four cars, that's a lot of people."

“It’s probably a bunch of idiots teaming up.” Texas sighed. “They don’t dare to attack the Lungmen Guard, but they have the guts to attack us. It’s a strange logic.”

"Perhaps our conflict could be described as a business conflict." After thinking for a moment, he added, "Going against the Guard Bureau is tantamount to going against Lungmen, isn't it?"

"Red, drive to a deserted place. Since some guys don't want to talk about medicine, we can talk about fists with them." Yu Yue smiled kindly.

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In a dark, abandoned factory area, four cars came to a stop.

“They’ve disappeared here.” A burly man got out of one of the cars and looked at the dark factory building.

“We’re not blind.” Another short thug got out of the other car. “Looks like they’ve spotted us.”

“We weren’t hiding, so it was a given that they would find us. It would be difficult if they hadn’t.” The burly man looked at the factory in front of him. “Although I don’t know why the Rat King hasn’t done anything about this.”

"But as long as that doctor is killed, the Guard Bureau's so-called free clinic will be completely meaningless."

"If only things went that smoothly. Penguin Logistics isn't someone to mess with." The short thug on the other side curled his lip. "Besides, that doctor came from the wilderness. A doctor who can survive in the wilderness, do you think he's someone to be trifled with?"

"Then just leave. What are you doing here?" A thug with a scar on his face said irritably to the short thug. "What are you doing in the slums if you're such a coward?"

"I'm just being safe, you idiot. Wait a minute, they're here to fight us." The short thug glanced back. "And our reinforcements have arrived, haven't they?"

Everyone looked back and saw a fleet of vans driving by, from which more than 80 people got out.

"Two fists can't beat four hands. I want to see how many Penguin Logistics people can take on."

——————Peng—————

In the distance, on the rooftop of a house, two men in black cloaks watched as the thugs gathered in front of them.

"Should we make a move? Don't anger that god." A man in a black cloak took off his binoculars and looked at his companion.

"The one who was driving just now was the daughter of that god. The fact that she drove here proves that the god wants to handle this matter himself."

"So we're just going to watch from here?"

"Otherwise, what else do you want to do?" The other person in the black cloak rolled their eyes. "If that god was really angry, they would have finished fighting on the way here instead of waiting to come here."

"Perhaps they wanted to find a nice view for them."

"Alright, get some rest. We'll go help with the funeral arrangements later." Hei Suo patted his companion on the shoulder.

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A group of thugs, armed with iron bars, machetes, and crossbows, stormed into the factory.

The group of thugs looked at the Penguin Logistics staff who were already sitting on a pile of boxes inside the factory, and even seemed to be posing for a photo.

"They didn't hide?"

"We originally planned to hide and ambush you." Croissant, sitting on the box with her legs crossed, shrugged, then pointed with a hint of helplessness to Exusiai, who was acting as a spotlight at the very top, "But unfortunately, our companions simply don't have that ability."

"Hey, Croissant, I finally agreed to be your ambient light, and you're going to make fun of me like this?" Exusiai patted the box beneath her. "If you say things like that, we're not friends anymore."

“Exusiai, that’s a fact.” Texas leaned against the box and bit off a piece of Pocky. “Alright, enough talk, stop posing, get ready to move… Yuuki, what are you planning to do with that bow?”

With a kind expression, Yuuki looked at Texas and pulled the bowstring in her hand: "I said before, if some people don't want to talk to me about medical matters, then I can only talk to them about physical matters."

Hong also took out two small knives from under her clothes, her face showing a fierce look as she looked at the crowd in front of her.

—————Penguin Logistics Headquarters · Staff Rest Area—————

Because there haven't been many commissions lately, and given that we're nearing the Ursus border, the temperature is getting colder and colder, and it's even started to snow lightly.

This is why the girls at Penguin Logistics have entered a rare period of paid time that is both work and a vacation.

Oh, you mean those thugs from last night? Well, after last night, it's safe to say that no one in the world will ever see their faces again.

Unless you insist on checking the security cameras or something, then that's your own problem.

"Why does Yuuki look like a salted fish when she's bored?" Croissant nudged Exusiai next to her with her elbow. "This is quite a rare sight."

Exusiai nodded repeatedly: "To be precise, it's a situation I've never seen before. Yuuki is just sprawled on the sofa, but why does it feel like there's an elegance to Yuuki even when she's sprawled on the sofa?"

"You're right, that makes sense. Maybe this is what they call natural beauty?" Croissant thought for a moment, then looked at Yuuki and suddenly realized that something seemed to be missing from her side. "Hey, by the way, where's Red?"

"Oh, I asked Red to deliver something for me." Xi Yue sprawled on the sofa and turned to look at Croissant and Exusiai. "I calculated that the automatic potion-making machine I left for Swire and the others last time was about to expire, so I made another one."

"I was originally planning to deliver it myself, but Swire told me to rest for a day, so I had Hong deliver it for me."

Croissant and Exusiai looked at each other and then huddled together to whisper to each other.

"Why did I feel like there was a hint of scorn in the smile on Xiyue's face when she said that just now?"

"No."

"Really, I can hear you two." Yuzuki looked helplessly at Exusiai and Croissant. Two small water spheres appeared above their heads and then vigorously washed their faces clean.

"I just feel that if I show up in front of Swire, she'll get really angry and send me back or something," Yuzuki explained helplessly, looking at the two people whose faces were covered in water droplets.

Exusiai nodded: "Oh, that's right, after all, you drank 67 bottles of baijiu last night."

"You even faked fainting in front of everyone, which startled us all." Croissant shrugged. "Indeed, generally speaking, you should be the kind of person who can't even get out of bed right now."

"So, why don't I get some rest?" Yuzuki said, looking at the two who had changed into their work clothes. "By the way, what are you two doing?"

"Of course." Croissant and Exusiai zipped up their jackets together. "We can take on some small orders and earn a commission."

"Oh." Xi Yue nodded at the two of them. Without even guessing, she could easily figure out why these two were out working in the cold wind.

One simply wanted some money, while the other supposedly wanted to save up to buy a gun. Ah, but to be honest, given Exusiai's abilities, Yuuki seriously doubted whether she could actually save enough money.

"It's up to you two. Be careful, keep warm, and watch out for the snow." Xi Yue looked at the two who were about to leave and still gave them a few words of advice. "Also, Officer Chen and the others have been in a rare good mood lately, so don't cause any trouble."

"Okay, okay, I got it~"

Watching the two figures leave, Xi Yue stretched on the sofa and then lazily lay back down.

As the weather gradually turned colder, Yu Yue also started to feel a bit lazy for no reason.

As she lay there, Xiyue's consciousness gradually became hazy, and she entered a state of half-sleep and half-awake, or in layman's terms, she was spacing out.

Suddenly, Yuuki felt something warm on her face. Looking up, she saw Texas holding a cup and pressing it against her face.

"Lying here with the window open? You'll catch a cold in the cool breeze, won't you?" Texas said with a slight smile. "I just bought some hot cocoa downstairs."