Fang Yi's words, logical and reasonable, did seem more plausible than Zhuo Yihong and Xia Na's baseless hypothesis. The crowd quickly arrived at the special forces' underground barracks, where Zhuo Yihong and Xia Na led them to Zhang Lie's small cottage.

By then, Zhang Lie had been waiting in the cottage for quite some time. He had been planning to welcome his teammates himself, but considering the fiasco he had caused recently, he ultimately chose to leave Zhuo Yihong and Xia Na responsible for welcoming them instead.

He beckoned them in; everyone sat surrounding a small table within his cottage.

As Zhang Lie glanced at the six members of Team Zenith, he couldn't help but laugh. "I'm glad the process I proposed really worked. How did it go?"

Fang Yi...