Chapter 741 Looking for a friend
Ren Xiaosu stood at the campsite and looked around. He was scrutinizing everyone’s expressions, determined to find the murderer.
When Yang Xiaojin saw this, she quickly lowered her head and hid her expression under her cap. She was afraid the others might get an inkling that something was wrong. “What are you looking at me for?” Cheng Yu quickly explained to Ren Xiaosu, “It’s not like I was the one who killed him!” “But you were the first to speak.” Ren Xiaosu said, “Don’t you know? In most homicide cases, the first person to discover the crime scene is the murderer!”
Cheng Yu was speechless. Was this the time to be playing detective?
He could not be bothered with Ren Xiaosu anymore. Instead, he looked at the others and speculated who might have killed Li Shentan. Cheng Yu looked at the wound on Li Shentan’s corpse and realized it looked like a knife wound. Then he thought of something. Didn’t White Mask use a black saber? Could it be White Mask who killed him? Ren Xiaosu quietly returned to Yang Xiaojin’s side and allowed everyone to come up with their own deductions.
But w.a.n.g Yun suddenly said, “Something’s not right.”
Everyone looked over and heard w.a.n.g Yun say, “This Li Shentan is definitely dead, but why didn’t his corpse get swallowed up? Could the plants underground have suddenly had their fill? That doesn’t make sense, right?”
Everyone finally realized they had nearly forgotten about this matter!
Previously, to prevent themselves from getting attacked by the plants while they were sleeping, everyone had to rest in trees.
But now, they had slept all the way until it was noon, yet they were still fine. Moreover, Li Shentan’s corpse was not devoured by the plant.
“Could we have made it out of the zone where the plants were growing?” Cheng Yu wondered.
“No.” w.a.n.g Yun shook his head. “Rather, I think there’s a problem with this Li Shentan. Perhaps you all have not studied him in detail before, but I have. How could someone like him possibly die without a struggle? Have you all ever thought that he might be a fake? For example, he could be one of the T6s of the Pyro Company?”
“Fake?” Everyone fell into deep thought. If it were any other place, they would definitely not believe such claims. But the Sacred Mountains was such a strange place, and this was also an area of focus in the Pyro Company’s research, so it might not be impossible.
At the side, Luo Lan said, “Who cares if he’s real or fake? In any case, we won’t have to sleep in the trees anymore tonight!”
Luo Lan’s focus was always different from the others’.
“Don’t think too much about it. Either way, we will be continuing our journey.” w.a.n.g Yun smiled and said, “Instead of investigating what might have happened, why don’t we think about what to do next? Calculating the time and the distance, I’m afraid that we’ll be entering the core region of the Sacred Mountains in another day and a half. At that time, should we still rely on our own individual abilities, or should we start working together?”
“Work together?” One of the team members sneered and said, “w.a.n.g Yun, are you serious? I still haven’t settled the score with you for stealing our Zhou Consortium’s intelligence last year, so how can you expect me to work with you?”
“So we’re gonna have to rely on our own abilities then?” w.a.n.g Yun smiled and said, “I’m fine with that.”
Even though he said he was fine with it, he was actually planning to stick with Ren Xiaosu. This time, he had given up on his plan to contest the capture of the No. 001 Experimental. He was just hoping to reap some other benefits from this expedition.
Moreover, w.a.n.g Yun hoped the others would also step up to contend against Ren Xiaosu and get a taste of hitting this brick wall.
“Everyone,” Cheng Yu stood up and said, “since we’re already here, I hope we can all put aside our differences and understand the Sacred Mountains is still the Pyro Company’s home field. I know all of you have been conserving your strength all this while. But even at our current strength, we still have to work together to face the common enemy.”
“That’s right,” Ren Xiaosu echoed.
Cheng Yu felt his enthusiasm in giving the speech suddenly extinguis.h.i.+ng. For some reason, he felt like he had said something wrong when Ren Xiaosu echoed his words. He even began to doubt himself… The campsite descended into a strange silence. As more and more people from the other teams had joined up with them, there were now 85 people in this particular group. The makeup of the members and their allegiance was giving Cheng Yu a headache.
At this moment, Cheng Yu looked at White Mask and asked, “What are your plans?”
“What are you doing?” Si Liren asked as she looked at Li Shentan.
Li Shentan was facing a stream and making all sorts of strange faces. At times, he looked extremely shocked, and at other times, he looked extremely aggrieved.
When Li Shentan heard Si Liren’s question, he stood up and explained, “Oh, that clone of mine is dead.”
“How do you know that?” Vanilla asked in surprise.
“When he was placing a psychological suggestion on you all, I also planted one in his mind. Now that it’s disappeared, it means he’s dead,” Li Shentan said matter-of-factly.
Vanilla did not say anything further. So it turned out Li Shentan was much stronger than his clone. He could even counter his opponent’s moves without being discovered.
But that clone of Li Shentan’s had really died too carelessly.
Everyone could not sleep for the entire night because they did not know how to deal with Li Shentan’s clone. But in the end, he ended up dead by the afternoon of the next day. Who killed him? Who had the ability to do that? Was it Zhou Yingxue’s boss again?!
The Anjing House was the leader of this operation, and they should’ve been the ones to initiate the strategy. But oftentimes, the situation would develop unexpectedly.
Vanilla felt stifled by a breath in the chest he was unable to let out.
“But what does his death have to do with you making those faces?” Si Liren asked.
“Oh, I wanted to have a look at his expression before he died.” Li Shentan explained in a serious tone, “Since he looks just like me, I can get an idea of how aggrieved and indignant he must’ve felt before his death by looking at myself. It’s pretty interesting when you think about it.”
When the others nearby heard Li Shentan say that, they did not know how to respond. As expected of a psychopath, his imagination was really too wild.
“Then what should we do next?” Vanilla asked.
“This is what I think.” Li Shentan said, “We’ll use the Pyro Company members under my control to lead the way. If there’s any danger, they’ll be the first to die. And then, we’ll follow them as we secretly carry on with our singing and dancing.”
Everyone was stunned for a moment. “Why do we have to carry on singing and dancing secretly?” “See, I knew it. You all don’t actually care about the lives of other people at all. Those Pyro Company members have just died, yet you all didn’t even care to ask about them? And you say I’m the demon?” Li Shentan said unhappily, “I think it’s you all who are the real demons!” Vanilla let out a frustrated cry in his heart. ‘I was asking you what we should do next. How did it suddenly end up with you trying to vindicate yourself?’
However, he did not dare to say that out loud. Instead, he tried his best to calm down before asking again, “Let’s be serious here. What are you planning to do now?”
“I’m preparing to…” Li Shentan looked out into the distance of the Sacred Mountains before giving a wave of his hand. “… go look for my friend!”