"I'm just a useless guy, if I go, I'll only drag you down. If you really need my help, you can call me when you're about to leave!" The middle-aged man paused before saying this.

Luo Chao walked up to him, looked him in the eyes, and said firmly, "I'm not asking you to be a temporary helper. I mean for you to join my team permanently."

The middle-aged man shuddered; he hadn't expected Luo Chao to be serious. "I'm just a useless person with no fighting skills, I can only handle logistics. I really can't..."

"There's no need to say more." Luo Chao interrupted him, "I'll say it again, I genuinely want you to join my team; I understand how valuable you are."

The middle-aged man said nothing more, and Luo Chao did not rush him, just quietly waiting for his final answer.

After a full five minutes of silence, a hint of a smile appeared on the middle-aged man's face, and his lips moved: "I..."

"Haha, I knew you'd come through, come on, give me a hug." Luo Chao didn't even let him finish and immediately embraced him in a bear hug.

The smile on the middle-aged man's face froze. This kid, couldn't even let someone finish talking.

Throwing his arm around the middle-aged man's shoulder, Luo Chao patted his own chest, "Don't worry, Uncle! Leave the girlfriend issue to me, if it doesn't work, I'll just buy you one online, with free shipping..."

"Bang..." The middle-aged man smacked Luo Chao on the head, "You cheeky rascal, don't talk nonsense. What kind of rubbish are you spouting?" He was about to explode from Luo Chao's antics.

Even after being hit on the head, Luo Chao wasn't angry. He still cheerfully said, "Come with me, we're still short one person, let's see if we can find any good prospects." He turned and shouted in the distance, "Guo Ren, come on, we're leaving."

Guo Ren quickly ran over, gave the middle-aged man a shy smile, and called out, "Uncle Wu." Wu Zhongli waved his hand, signaling that it wasn't necessary.

Then he complained to Luo Chao, "Captain, my name is Guo Ren, not 'Guo Ren'er.' It sounds awful."

"Got it, Guo Ren'er."

"..."

As the three were joking around, two people approached from afar. Luo Chao recognized one of them; it was a captain he had seen at a meeting, one of the people who had opposed him becoming the captain.

"Captain, they're the captain and vice-captain of the sixth team!" Guo Ren whispered, and Luo Chao nodded.

The two seemed to have recognized the three as well and stopped at a distance. One of them spoke, "Old Wu, have you joined them already?"

Luo Chao nearly panicked when he heard this. Damn it, are they here to poach my recruit? It took me so much effort to persuade him, and if they take him away, who do I complain to? He was about to step forward and say something to them.

Wu Zhongli gestured for him to stop, and with a smile, said to the two, "Captain Cai, I'm sorry, I can't help you anymore. I'm now part of the eighth squad."

The two nodded at Wu Zhongli's response and left without saying anything further.

"That was straightforward, I like it," Luo Chao said, watching their backs.

"What don't you like, kid? You think everyone is as thick-skinned as you, targeting someone and not letting go until you reach your goal." Wu Zhongli said, annoyed.

"If I weren't thick-skinned, would you be with me? Stop talking nonsense, hurry and find the next person."

"You're the one who's been talking nonsense!"

"..."

"What do you think of him?" Wu Zhongli pointed to someone and asked Luo Chao's opinion.

Luo Chao looked dissatisfied and said, "Uncle, this is the highly recommended candidate you're giving me? He's just a kid!"

"What do you know? Just watch quietly, you'll understand."

After hearing this, Luo Chao fell silent and began to seriously observe the boy. Gradually, his expression became grave.

The boy was only fifteen or sixteen, not very tall, and not fully grown yet. He was quietly repeating some training exercises, but the way he was training was alarming.

With a sharp little knife, he constantly made cuts of various sizes on his body, letting out crimson blood. But he didn't treat these wounds at all; instead, he picked up a weight taller than him and madly ran around the field, causing the blood to flow even faster.

In the short time Luo Chao watched, he was already covered in blood, and his clothes were stained red. He stood in front of a machine full of boxing gloves, activated it, and the gloves started moving, striking him crazily. The boy gritted his teeth, not retreating a single step, silently enduring the assault.

Luo Chao felt a chill in his heart and hurriedly said, "Stop him quickly, if this continues, he'll die from this self-abuse."

"It's fine, I understand this kid, he's so calm, it's almost inhuman. He knows his limits." Wu Zhongli said calmly; he had seen this scene before.

Luo Chao was still somewhat tense, "Why is he doing this?"

"For revenge," Wu Zhongli said. "His mother was killed when he was very young, and the person who killed her was his biological father."

"What?" Luo Chao was stunned by what Wu Zhongli said. How could such a thing happen in this world?

So, Wu Zhongli told Luo Chao about the boy's background. It turned out that the boy's mother was also a superpower user in the Dragon Team, and during a mission in Europe, she was attacked by a werewolf. After returning, she became depressed and withdrawn, a year later she gave birth to the boy, and two days after he was born, she disappeared. No one knew where she went. A month later, the European branch found her body, in a horrifically brutal state. It was speculated she sought out the werewolf and was savagely torn apart.

Everyone tacitly kept this secret, and the boy grew up thinking he was an orphan. He lived among the Dragon Team, and everyone felt sorry for him, taking care of him. But at some point, the boy began this self-abusive behavior, becoming silent. When people asked him about it, he wouldn't say a word, only continuing his self-destructive training, like a wounded wolf cub.

"He must have learned this secret. He wants to avenge his mother," Luo Chao analyzed.

Wu Zhongli nodded, "Yes, that's what we think too."

"But is it really okay for him to keep doing this?" Luo Chao frowned, watching the boy recklessly harm himself.

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