After Crossing Over, I Marked the Empress

“So, these tribes are just emotionally resistant to our Federation government, but they have an adversarial attitude towards the Huta armed organization.”

“Is it possible for us to form an alliance with the tribes, and then remove this thorn in both our sides?”

Shen Han led her tactical squad forward, occasionally discussing with her teammates along the way.

An Alpha she got along with immediately responded, “If they were willing to ally with us, the bandit problem in Mount Zhixing would have been cleared up long ago.”

“Captain, you might not know, but those tribes are very stubborn! The tribes are also united with each other. Our side has been trying hard, but we’ve never been able to break the ice.”

As they were talking, Shen Han suddenly stopped.

She had one person climb a tree to guard the high ground, then led the others a few steps forward, stepping out of the woods they were in.

The view suddenly opened up before them.

Looking at the tribal people not far away, who were also maintaining a vigilant posture.

This Alpha captain said softly to her team members, “Cooperating with us would benefit the local tribal people the most. They can’t possibly be unaware of this.”

“The reason we’ve never been able to reach an agreement might be that we haven’t shown them enough sincerity, or enough benefits.”

After saying this, Shen Han directly unstrapped her assault rifle and handed it to Ma Haoyu beside her.

“You wait here. I’ll go over and talk to them.”

Hearing this, the team members immediately became nervous.

Ma Haoyu hurriedly spoke up, “Boss, you can’t just go over like that. It’s too dangerous! If you’re going, please let me go with you.”

After speaking, he took off all his weapons.

Along with Shen Han’s gun, he handed them to a teammate.

Looking at the anxious face of the small special agent in front of her, Shen Han thought to herself: This silly child, why is he so honest?

She at least had two guns hidden at her waist, but he went and threw even his entire backpack on the ground.

“Alright then, you can stay by my side. As long as they don’t open fire, don’t make any aggressive moves on our side.”

Hearing Shen Han’s words, Ma Haoyu quickly nodded in agreement.

Perhaps seeing that Shen Han and Ma Haoyu weren’t carrying guns, on the other side, the dozen or so people from a Mount Zhixing tribe only tightened the straps of their muskets, without pointing the gun barrels at them.

They knew these people were from the Federation government army.

So, while their attitude towards them couldn’t be called good, it wasn’t hostile either.

When the two sides were about 7 or 8 meters apart, the Mount Zhixing tribal people clearly became agitated.

“Don’t come any closer, or we’ll really shoot!”

Shen Han stopped and said to them with a friendly smile, “We’re all friends here, there’s no need for hostilities.”

At this point, a burly youth wearing a felt hat from the tribe spoke up, “Who’s friends with you? Don’t think I don’t know you’re after the Huangluozhi!”

Shen Han looked at the youth speaking and immediately determined he was the spokesperson among that small group of people.

Because his clothing was obviously much more complex than the others.

And his central position also highlighted an attitude of being surrounded and protected by others.

However, the youth’s voice was a bit strange, slightly high-pitched, extremely inconsistent with his tower-like physique.

But this wasn’t the focus Shen Han needed to pay attention to.

She took out several large denomination banknotes from her pocket, picked up a stone, and gently pressed them on the gravel ground in front of her.

“Since you mentioned Huangluozhi, why don’t we try to do some trading? Like this, I’ll first-”

Shen Han’s words were only halfway through when several chunks of frozen soil were thrown at her, hitting her shoulder and leaving a shallow smear.

“I said! We won’t exchange anything with you!”

Shen Han lowered her gaze to look at the small stain on her clothes, then continued to maintain her professional smile towards them, “You didn’t say that just now, little brother. Don’t have such a bad temper.”

For some reason, after hearing Shen Han’s words, the burly tribal youth bent down to pick up another handful of frozen soil, glaring angrily as he threw it at her.

But Shen Han was a step faster, directly bending down to scoop up two chunks of frozen soil and throwing them in one fluid motion.

The action, smooth as flowing water, had quite the flair of bowling.

Her aim was naturally much better than the tribal youth’s. The two chunks of frozen soil, though thrown later, arrived first, landing on the left side of the young leader’s face.

In an instant, the burly youth’s cheek visibly swelled up.

This sudden turn of events left the dozen or so tribal people stunned on the spot.

Ma Haoyu’s eyes were as wide as saucers.

He thought to himself: Didn’t you just repeatedly warn me not to attack others?

But now you’ve gone and swollen the face of what looks like the chief’s son without any provocation. How are we supposed to negotiate now? Won’t this immediately lead to a gunfight?

“Hey? Why didn’t you dodge? I don’t know what’s wrong with my hand, it’s usually not this accurate!”

Shen Han’s words only made things worse. The burly tribal youth immediately exploded!

He rallied all the tribespeople around him to pick up frozen soil and stones from the ground, shooting them like a rainstorm towards Shen Han and Ma Haoyu.

Ma Haoyu dragged his boss back without a word.

Feeling fist-sized stones whistling past his ears, the small special agent was inwardly crying out in distress.

Shen Han, however, was catching stones in the air while counterattacking.

Her target was locked onto that unreasonable burly youth leader.

This bizarre shooting war lasted for over half an hour.

When the members of this tactical squad returned to the camp in the evening, they still felt dazed thinking about the afternoon’s stone battle.

Three days later, the camp specially approved a communication privilege.

Each soldier had 10 minutes of call time to report their safety to their family or friends.

Of course, they couldn’t use their own phones, but had to use the camp’s standard communication equipment.

Upon hearing this news, Shen Han felt like crying.

Because she couldn’t so blatantly call Gu Junwan.

She could even imagine the scene: if it was detected that she was calling the Empress’s secretary’s office, who knows how much trouble it would cause.

Just as Shen Han was feeling dejected, Instructor Liu suddenly found her and took her to a separate communication room.

The room wasn’t large, with a table against the wall.

On the table was a landline phone with the receiver placed beside it.

Instructor Liu said nothing, just snorted while flaring his nostrils, and directly left the room.

Seeing this situation, Shen Han suddenly had a certain guess.

She quickly walked to the table, put the receiver to her ear, and softly said a “Hello?” with excitement and nervousness.

On the other end of the phone, Gu Junwan’s voice traveled thousands of miles, tingling into the Alpha’s ear.

“Shen Han, it’s me.”

These short four words nearly made Shen Han’s heart jump to her throat.

“Junwan, I miss you so much.”

The Alpha’s frank expression made the Empress Omega blush even over the phone.

They listened to each other’s seemingly close breathing, inquiring about each other’s recent situations.

Gu Junwan’s side was relatively dull, with nothing much to say, so most of the time it was Shen Han talking.

“That inexplicable tribe is really unreasonable! I was so sincere, directly taking out the banknotes, but they didn’t even look and just started throwing stones at me.”

“More than a dozen big, strong people, those frozen soil chunks hitting the face were no different from stones, it really hurt!”

Hearing this, the Empress Omega asked with some concern, “Were you injured?”

Shen Han leaned on the table with one hand, saying proudly, “I’m fine. I was just describing the intense battle situation to you. The one who got hit in the face with frozen soil was the tribal sub-leader. I threw it!”

Gu Junwan: “……”

After a brief pause, the Empress Omega also laughed softly.

“They definitely won’t care about paper money. The people in the Mount Zhixing tribes like gold items. Next time, try putting out a gold leaf. Their expressions will surely surprise you.”

The call duration was only 10 minutes.

The time was so short that Shen Han felt she barely got to say two words to Miss Gu!

And the Empress, far away in the Fourth District base, never imagined that because of her casual mention, Shen Han would actually bring gold items to infiltrate the tribe!

After ending the call, Shen Han went directly to Instructor Liu.

When he first saw the young Alpha, Instructor Liu thought she was coming to inquire about the Empress’s call just now.

Unexpectedly, what Shen Han said was, “Sir, I have a plan that needs your approval and help.”

“If the plan succeeds, the Huta armed organization will be completely uprooted in this crackdown, and I think the issue of opening trade should also be greatly improved.”

After hearing Shen Han’s general plan, Instructor Liu remained silent for a long time.

With his years of battlefield experience and shrewd judgment, he could naturally analyze that if Shen Han’s move of using a four-ounce force to move a thousand pounds succeeded, it would be a strategic action worthy of being a teaching case.

However, if she failed and lost her life in those savage tribes, he really couldn’t explain it to the Empress!

After all, she wasn’t just an ordinary soldier.

In the future, she was likely to become Her Majesty the Empress’s legal Alpha partner.

After much internal struggle, Instructor Liu finally gritted his teeth and agreed to Shen Han’s plan.

He felt that if she was a true dragon, he shouldn’t keep her confined to shallow waters.

Additionally, if she could demonstrate good achievements in this mission, the Empress’s mothers behind her would likely be satisfied as well.

Two days later.

Shen Han, dressed in civilian clothes, set out alone with her backpack.

She snuck into a harvesting area before dawn.

Then quietly waited for time to pass.

Around 11:30, a group of men and women from the tribe walked towards her hiding place.

She waited until those people slowly moved close to her before deliberately making a noise in the bushes.

“Who’s hiding there? Come out!”

The shouts of the tribal male Alphas and the sound of gun bolts being pulled came simultaneously.

The air was instantly filled with a tense atmosphere.

“Don’t shoot! I’m just passing through here by accident.”

After saying this, Shen Han slowly stood up from behind the bushes with her hands raised high.

A pair of slender hands covered in gold rings first caught the eyes of the tribal people, causing everyone to hold their breath.

Then, the tribal people saw the gold bracelets hanging on the stranger’s two fair wrists, and a shining gold lock on her neck!

When Shen Han finally emerged from the bushes glittering with jewelry, she indeed saw, as she had hoped, the tribal people’s expressions of astonishment and keen interest.