Xuanyuan Zhan was momentarily stunned; he had not expected Mu Qianchou to agree so readily. He had anticipated that Mu would flatly refuse, forcing him to pull rank as the team captain and commander-in-chief, using his official authority to pressure the elder.
With this, the expression on Xuanyuan Zhan’s face softened. With Mu Qianchou stepping in, that kid Chen Xuan would surely abandon any plans of sneaking off to the Siberian ice fields. The reason Xuanyuan Zhan wanted to recruit Mu to deal with Chen Xuan was simple: he did not want Chen Xuan going to the ice fields to stir up trouble.
Xuanyuan Zhan was extremely satisfied with the team of official experts he had handpicked; he believed this Chinese official team was undoubtedly the strongest in the field. Aside from the experts in the squad, both he and Mu Qianchou were more than enough to intimidate the official teams of every other nation. After all, the teams sent by other countries usually had, at most, one peerless master who stood a notch above the rest. Even if the U.S. official team was packed with experts, Xuanyuan Zhan confidently predicted that they would never send two leaders of equal standing, as that would make decision-making far too difficult.
Chapter 1868