97 Reevaluating the level of danger! (1/2)
The battle between Ren Xiaosu and the Experimentals was still going to attract the Qing Consortium's people over. After all, there would be noise made in any intense battle. Although the Qing Consortium's combat troops had lost track of Ren Xiaosu's position, they had been keeping up with their search all this while in the forest.
When someone heard the sound of the fighting, the first thing they did was to send a command over the communications channel for everyone to gather.
Like black ironsand that was attracted to a magnet, the Xu Man-led Qing Consortium combat troops quickly moved towards the point of the incident. But they were disappointed the target was already gone by the time they arrived at the scene of the battle.
Let alone mistaking Xu Xianchu as Ren Xiaosu at the beginning, they had even lost track of Xu Xianchu now. This made Xu Man feel extremely depressed.
It had been some years, but this was the first time Xu Man had encountered this many unexpected things while carrying out his mission.
Xu Man advanced forward with great difficulty inside the forest. They trampled on the decomposing leaves and twigs, making a lot of noise. Xu Man pulled down his protective goggles and took a look around, then suddenly gasped.
He saw the corpses of several Experimentals up ahead that had been dismembered by some sharp object. The pale yellow blood of these Experimentals splattered on the ground was actually not obvious, but the broken bodies shocked everyone a lot.
Xu Man said, ”Gather the body parts and put them together to see how many Experimentals fought in the battle.”
Based on Xu Man's guess, Xu Xianchu must have encountered these Experimentals soon after his retreat. After that, the battle occurred.
By this time, the troops had picked up the pieces of the Experimentals' corpses and put them together.
”Four Experimentals.” Someone said, ”One of the Experimentals' arms couldn't be found, but it should be around here somewhere.”
”There's only a single set of shoeprints here. The Experimentals were naked, so we suspect the number of humans who participated in the battle should be just Xu Xianchu,” someone analyzed.
Xu Man nodded. He spoke on the open comms channel, ”Boss, we might have to reevaluate Xu Xianchu's power. He killed off four Experimentals by himself.” Xu Man looked at the ground at a leaf and continued, ”But Xu Xianchu is also hurt. There are traces of his blood here.”
Qing Zhen stood outside of the spotlight's focus. The place was bright as day, and he thought for a long time before saying, ”Being able to take on four Experimentals and kill them all is really quite shocking. Upgrade Xu Xianchu's danger rating to B. Remember to bring back a sample of Xu Xianchu's blood to place it into the records.”
”Roger.” Xu Man arranged for the people around him to get samples of the blood for safekeeping from the leaf on the ground.
In this era, the DNA contained in blood was extremely vital.
Qing Zhen had folded his hands behind his back. He stood in place and wondered, ”Xu Xianchu and Yang Xiaojin have both appeared. Luo Xinyu has also revealed herself to be part of the Saboteurs Syndicate. But what about Ren Xiaosu? Has anyone of you seen Ren Xiaosu!?”
They did not know Ren Xiaosu had successfully made Xu Xianchu the scapegoat. The supernatural being they recognized to be a B-class threat was actually Ren Xiaosu.
What was the concept of being a B-class threat? All of the supernatural beings who had been marked as a B-class threat were considered extremely dangerous people.
Xu Man answered on the comms channel, ”We didn't see Ren Xiaosu. It might be possible that he didn't even come into the perimeter we set up.”
”That could be possible.” Qing Zhen nodded. If they were to go back to their initial assessment of the targets, Ren Xiaosu would just be an unimportant F-class threat. In that case, it would be quite normal that he had chosen to retreat after finding the perimeter the Qing Consortium had set up.
Liu Bu had also mentioned that Ren Xiaosu had always insisted on avoiding the Qing Consortium.
Qing Zhen smiled. If only they had caught Ren Xiaosu; that would have been great. He might have become a bargaining chip they could use against Zhang Jinglin in the future.