245 Abandoning vehicles and entering the mountains on foot! (1/2)

Ren Xiaosu asked pleasantly, ”What's your name and rank?”

The nanosoldier answered, ”I'm First Lieutenant Dong Mingshuai.”

Ren Xiaosu patted the nanosoldier on his shoulder and said, ”Well, I'm a captain. You've performed pretty well. Hurry back and get some rest quickly.”

The nanosoldier nodded in a daze. He silently memorized Ren Xiaosu's military ID number and planned on checking it after returning to his tent. He wanted to know if this guy was really from the Office of Special Investigations.

Meanwhile, the commander of the FOB was speechless when he saw the mess in the chow hall. The manager of the chow hall broke the silence. ”Sir, there is something off about this Divine Arms Battalion. Their appetite is a little too large.”

It wasn't only their appetite that was a little too large, but that their habit of taking some food away with them when leaving made the chow staff a little uncomfortable.

When Ren Xiaosu's group came to eat, they felt a group of 30 people wouldn't eat much anyway, so they just let them have what they wanted. However, a strange turn of events happened after that. Weren't they just here to have supper? How did it end up with all their friends coming over for supper as well?

Suddenly, a soldier ran into the chow hall from outside. The commander of the FOB asked, ”Have you found out what happened yet?”

That soldier hesitated before saying, ”I've reported the matter to both the Divine Arms Battalion and Office of Special Investigations. As it turns out, both sides said… we have no right to question whatever goes on here.”

If they were told they couldn't question the matter, then it was as good as tacitly admitting to it. If the people who came to eat were really imposters, the higher-ups would have already kicked up a fuss and demanded them to investigate thoroughly.

The commander of the FOB was unaware that the Divine Arms Battalion immediately knew upon receiving their information that the people who went to eat were only the private troops in disguise. But in order not to expose their plans, they had no choice but to admit they were their people.

As for Hu Shuo, he was used to it.

Actually, the commander of the Divine Arms Battalion did not care how much food these private soldiers had eaten since they were not eating into their battalion's quota of rations anyway. What they were more bothered about was the fact that the Office of Special Investigations was actually investigating if there was a spy within their battalion's ranks.

Hu Shuo had also gotten used to this.

When Ren Xiaosu and the others returned to their tents, everyone wondered why he did not receive any punishment. However, no one dared to ask him about it.

Actually, Ren Xiaosu had been very kind to inform them of where they could go to eat at, but they ended up betraying him in return. This made everyone feel somewhat guilty.

Chen Wudi sat down in the tent and asked Ren Xiaosu, ”Master, don't you blame them? You clearly helped them eat their fill, yet no one was willing to step forward and speak up for you.”

At the time, Chen Wudi was prepared to fight their way out together with Ren Xiaosu. But in the end, Ren Xiaosu used his Office of Special Investigations identity to defuse the situation.

Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and said, ”Of course I blame them, but I also expected it.”

”But, Master, I couldn't feel any anger from you.” Chen Wudi said softly, ”I was infuriated, and I'm still infuriated. I'll probably still get infuriated whenever I think about this in the future. And those things that happened in the past too and those evil people as well.”

Ren Xiaosu smiled and said, ”It's alright, they can't hurt us.”

”Mhm.” Chen Wudi nodded. ”Master, please sleep. I'll keep watch for the first half of the night.”

”Alright.” Then Ren Xiaosu went straight to sleep. He did not have to worry about getting attacked with Chen Wudi keeping watch. In this tent, he only trusted Chen Wudi and the eight students. Not even Li Qingzheng was trustworthy to him.

The trust between him, Chen Wudi, and the students had built up little by little over time. None of them had betrayed him since the time in Stronghold 109. Of course, the most trustworthy person was still Chen Wudi.