If I were to wear the vice-captain's uniform...

Wang Yuanyuan covered her eyes with a headache just imagining that scene. She herself hated her body, let alone the leader?

Xingyuan: “…”

What's going on in this situation where I didn't say anything, but everyone just imagined the scene and started to get into my emotions?

Xingyuan felt isolated by his teammates. They were all talking about their own things and excluded him as the team leader.

"that……"

Xingyuan produced a brick in his hand and slammed it hard on the table, shifting everyone's attention to him. "I haven't said anything yet. Can you hear my voice?"

"How, how is it possible..."

Although she had recovered, Chen Ying'er still hesitated when she spoke, "Captain, please speak quickly."

Seeing that no one else was acting strange, Xing Yuan heaved a sigh of relief, threw the brick under the table, and said calmly, "Logically speaking, our current team meeting should be to discuss the insights and gains after these battles, as well as to count the number of spoils and merits earned..."

Yue Mingnan was trying to hold back her laughter, because from Xing Yuan's speech she saw the shadow of Han Qian, the Grand Paladin of the Knights Templar, who had recently given a speech to the new demon hunters in the Holy City, and Sheng Lingxin, the military chief of the Exorcist Pass, who had held a mobilization meeting for them a few days ago.

Xingyuan also felt a little embarrassed, thinking that these official words should not come from his mouth.

So halfway through his speech, he changed the subject.

"But compared to this, I have to prove my innocence first, so that you won't think that I am a beast in human form."

Speaking of this, Xingyuan also communicated with the elemental elf Xingyue in his body and made her appear in front of everyone.

This was the first time that Xingyue appeared in front of people other than Caier. When she found so many people surrounding her, the expression on her face was a little unnatural, as if it brought back some bad memories.

"This is……"

Chen Ying'er and others also met Xingyue for the first time.

Although with their knowledge and insights, they could immediately infer from Xingyue's appearance and image characteristics that the other party should be Xingyuan's elemental elf, but after all, this was the first time they saw an elf, and they were somewhat hesitant to believe it.

"This is my elemental spirit. You can call her Xingyue."

Xingyuan didn't have the bad taste to keep everyone in suspense, and directly attributed the reason why Li Xin suddenly called him master to the "Servant Knight Contract" that Xingyue had drafted for her.

Although Xingyuan's actions may seem like an attempt to shift the blame to Xingyue and let her take the blame, isn't that how elemental elves are used?
After all, it's better to put the blame on Xingyue than for Xingyuan to leave an image of a dirty leader who has ill intentions towards female members in the minds of other team members from now on, right?
Seeing everyone's eyes on her, Li Xin nodded and replied, "Yes, it's just as the master said."

Calling Xingyuan "master" again in front of so many people made Li Xin, who was already shy, blush.

"Then this incident ends here."

Seeing the expressions on everyone's faces change from initial suspicion to conviction, Xing Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Then let's get back to the topic, let's do some statistics..."

"Wait a moment."

The person who spoke was still Chen Ying'er, but this time her expression was a little tangled. It was not until the scene was quiet for a while that she finally slowly said to Xingyuan: "Captain, can I ask you something?"

Xingyuan: “…” Since you said that, shouldn’t I answer?

"go ahead."

Xingyuan nodded, "As long as it's a question I can answer."

"That's why Sister Li Xin signed this Servant Knight Contract with you. Did you promise her some benefits?"

Seeing Xingyuan nod in agreement, Chen Ying'er also threw out all the questions that had been accumulating in her mind for a long time, "Also, why did you suddenly ask Sister Li Xin to be your servant, Captain? You could obviously find a knight outside the team."

Hey--

Xingyuan knew that what was coming would come. If his next answer could not make Chen Ying'er and others accept and satisfied, then they would have reasonable reasons to suspect that the relationship between Xingyuan and Li Xin was a little abnormal.

Xingyuan thought for a moment and asked Li Xin for her consent.

He also told several people the reason why Li Xin signed this contract with him.

"Spirit, spirit furnace?"

After hearing that Xingyuan would give Li Xin, who had signed a servant contract with him, a spirit furnace as a condition, everyone except Cai'er changed their expressions and turned to Li Xin for confirmation.

"It is indeed what the master said."

Although Li Xin felt that it was not very glorious to let everyone know the conditions for signing the contract between her and Xingyuan, she also knew that if she did not make these things clear, people would feel resentful even if they did not say it out loud.

"Don't come to me to talk about the Master anymore."

Li Xin's blushing became more and more serious as she called Xing Yuan master more and more times. "Otherwise, I would have to call the master master every time, which would be really embarrassing."

Up to this point, Chen Ying'er, Yue Mingnan and others finally believed what Xingyuan and Li Xin said, and understood why Li Xin signed a contract with Xingyuan with such...harsh conditions.

As professionals, they naturally knew very well how valuable the spirit furnace was and how much it could improve their cultivation and combat effectiveness.

"But then again..."

Yue Mingnan seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly turned his head to look at Xingyuan, "Captain, what kind of spiritual furnace is yours?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she realized how abrupt and presumptuous it was for her to ask such a question. She scratched her head a little embarrassedly and said, "Captain, um... we are teammates. It should be okay for me to ask you this question, right?"

"Don't be so reserved. I'm not that difficult or stuffy."

Xingyuan shook his head and said, "I didn't choose the spirit furnace at that time, so I don't have a spirit furnace or such a thing on me now."

...So it's because you don't have a spirit furnace that you're being so frank with us?
Yue Mingnan couldn't help but twitch her lips when she heard Xingyuan's answer, but she resisted the urge to complain and pointed out the key point in Xingyuan's words.

"Captain, why didn't you choose the spirit furnace? Your cultivation is higher than ours, so you should know how much this thing can improve your strength, right?"

Chen Ying'er and the others were also very curious and cast their eyes over. (End of this chapter)