# 793
Chapter 793: Night's Cloak
Lin Qiye chatted with him while observing the man.
Around twenty-eight or twenty-nine years old, with short hair, looking neat and capable, his behavior and mannerisms were calm and powerful, like someone from a military background. From the fluctuations of aura emanating from him, he was a "Measureless" level expert.
Two years ago, he was one of the Shangjing City squad members whose aura had clashed with Lin Qiye and the others.
"Captain Lin, you're younger than I imagined." Zhang Zhengting looked at Lin Qiye's unusually young face and smiled self-deprecatingly. "Two years ago, that aura fluctuation of yours almost made me vomit blood."
"It was an urgent situation back then, I'm really sorry." Lin Qiye felt a bit embarrassed.
After the pleasantries, they got into the vehicle.
Zhang Zhengting fastened his seatbelt and turned to look at Lin Qiye sitting beside him. "Captain Lin, since the procedures for awarding the second 'Star Sea' Medal haven't been completed yet, the investiture ceremony might have to wait another two days. We've already arranged accommodation for you. Would you like to rest first, or go directly to headquarters for registration?"
"Let's go for registration directly. We're not tired." Lin Qiye replied.
Although they had just been through a fierce battle, everyone had rested for quite some time at Sunken Dragon Pass and on the plane. Moreover, they had been waiting for this day for two years, so naturally they didn't want to delay any further.
"Understood."
Zhang Zhengting started the car and drove straight toward Night Watch headquarters.
One hour later, the vehicle pulled into Night Watch headquarters.
The Shangjing City Night Watch headquarters was the true decision-making center of Great Xia's Night Watch. Unlike a Night Watch station, this place was more like a comprehensive office complex, handling the affairs of every Night Watch team within Great Xia. It was composed of various departments working in coordination, like a precisely functioning machine.
Lin Qiye and the others' target this time was the team registration office within this complex. Every personnel change among the 332 Night Watch teams in Great Xia had to be registered and filed here, special squads included.
Staff members bustled about busily among themselves. Just then, the main doors of headquarters were pushed open, and seven figures strode in with steady steps, calmly heading toward the center.
Their appearance immediately drew the attention of the surrounding staff.
Generally speaking, most people working here were civilians or Night Watch high-ranking officers. After long years of working together, everyone knew each other well. But these seven people walking in were completely unfamiliar to them.
These seven were clearly a team, but the only squads with the qualification to enter headquarters as a full unit seemed to be those few special squads.
Be it 【Mask Squad】, 【Phoenix】, or 【Medium】, the staff present had seen them all. But these seven young people clearly didn't belong to any of the above squads.
Among them, several well-informed staff members seemed to have thought of something, and their eyes immediately lit up!
Lin Qiye and his six companions walked to the registration counter.
"Hello." The staff member at the registration counter stared for a moment before coming back to her senses. "...How can I help you?"
"Hello." Lin Qiye smiled politely. "Please help us register our squad information."
"Ah, alright... Which squad are you from?"
"Great Xia Night Watch, 005th Special Squad. I'm the captain, Lin Qiye."
The moment this voice fell, the entire office area fell into dead silence. After a brief pause, the staff members who had been secretly watching nearby immediately burst into excited whispers.
"It's really the Fifth Special Squad! I just heard this morning that they'd returned!"
"The Fifth Special Squad? The squad that went missing in the mist two years ago?"
"That's right! There were rumors a few days ago that during their two years of disappearance, they broke through Japan's 'Human Enclosure' and directly obtained a 'Star Sea' Medal."
"News from Sunken Dragon Pass also says the Fifth Special Squad repelled the second disaster-level beast tide, obtaining another 'Star Sea' Medal. That makes two in total!"
"Really? Among the other special squads, isn't 【Mask Squad】 the only one that has obtained two 'Star Sea' Medals?"
"Of course it's real!"
"Is that really Captain Lin Qiye? He's so handsome!"
"..."
Lin Qiye heard the whispers around him, and the corner of his mouth twitched almost imperceptibly.
"The Fifth Special Squad, correct?" The staff member blinked. "Alright, please wait a moment."
She stood up, pulled out several confidential documents from the archives behind her, and placed them on the desk.
"Please have each of you present your Coat of Arms, then fill out this form with each team member's information and confirm the captain and vice-captain positions. For special squads, you'll also need to decide on a special squad code name, like 【Mask Squad】 and 【Phoenix】..."
Lin Qiye took the documents without hesitation and wrote the two characters "Night's" in the code name field.
In the captain field, he wrote his own name. This had been agreed upon when Ye Fan released him from the Purification Chamber—if Lin Qiye didn't become the captain, the Fifth Special Squad could not be established.
Then, he raised his head and looked at everyone standing behind him.
"We still need a vice-captain..."
Everyone simultaneously turned to look at An Qingyu.
An Qingyu blinked, opened her mouth to make some modest excuse, but Lin Qiye simply turned his head back on his own.
"Forget it, I'm not even going to ask you. This vice-captain position, there's no escaping it." Lin Qiye muttered to himself.
An Qingyu: ...
On the vice-captain name line, Lin Qiye directly wrote the three characters "An Qingyu."
【Night's】 Squad Vice-Captain, An Qingyu.
"【Night's】..." The staff member picked up the document and softly read the name printed on it.
A moment later, she spoke again. "Then finally, we need to confirm your squad's cloak color. Special squad cloaks are custom-made. You can choose a color that symbolizes your squad to remake the cloaks. However, black, gold, and gray are no longer available for selection."
Why those couldn't be selected, Lin Qiye knew very well. A special squad's cloak color symbolized that squad's identity and could not be duplicated. Black, gold, and gray were respectively the cloak colors of 【Medium】, 【Phoenix】, and 【Mask Squad】.
Color, huh...
Lin Qiye closed his eyes, and in his mind's eye, the night sky from two years ago beyond the mist suddenly surfaced. At the very front of that night sky, Nyx, draped in a star-embroidered gown, holding a longsword, stepping across a deep crimson sea of blood, charging toward Olympus.
Night sky, blood sea, pitch black... deep crimson.
Lin Qiye turned back and discussed it briefly with the others. In the end, he returned to the counter and slowly said:
"We choose... crimson."