Chapter 685 - Obfuscation (1/2)

Ren Xiaosu had already given up. He could foresee that in the next six and a half days, the palace would definitely brew a lot more trouble.

Therefore, when that young man asked everyone about their expertise, he simply told him it was singing nursery rhymes.

The reason why the young man chose Ren Xiaosu as the first person to ask was mainly to test him out. After that, he wanted to see how the others would respond so he could get a deeper understanding of the others on the team.

But the moment he posed that question to Ren Xiaosu, it might as well have ended right there. It was impossible to continue asking any further!

The young man turned towards the Great Hoodwinker in slight embarrassment and asked him about his expertise. With Ren Xiaosu kicking it off by answering that his expertise was singing nursery rhymes, the Great Hoodwinker followed up by saying that he was good at kneading playdough. If it weren’t because he had taken into consideration that everyone was about to have dinner, he even wanted to say he was good at scratching his feet.

As such, this discussion finally died off here. Cheng Yu sat back down at his campfire and looked at Ren Xiaosu through the flickering flames.

He was a little puzzled. Was this young man playing dumb or did he really have some kind of strange fetish?

Cheng Yu was sure that Ren Xiaosu was not stupid. After all, an idiot could not become a C-rank hitman. Cheng Yu was different from Zhou Yingxue in that he had to work his way up to become an A-rank hitman before getting accepted as an official member of the Anjing House. Cheng Yu had to conscientiously perform his missions in order to rise up the ranks.

He knew full well that even if an idiot had been lucky enough to pick up an Anjing House cell phone, it would be impossible for them to rise from D-rank to C-rank.

But when he thought about his assistant mentioning that Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin had gone out to jump rope in the afternoon, Cheng Yu couldn’t be sure of his judgment.

Cheng Yu had wanted to conduct a check on everyone tonight, but it seemed that he would have to leave it for now.

To ease the awkward atmosphere, Ren Xiaosu headed out alone and caught two large rabbits to roast for dinner.

Once he got that rolling, many others in the campsite also headed out to hunt. As many people went out, no one could tell who had gone hunting for game or who was taking the opportunity to go elsewhere to plot something with their companions.

Ren Xiaosu hung the plump rabbits on a tree branch and said to Yang Xiaojin while smearing honey on them, “Laugh if you want. There’s no need to hold it in.”

Yang Xiaojin pursed her lips to stop laughing. “It sounded pretty nice.”

Off to the side, the Great Hoodwinker said, “I know! Future Commander, you must be trying to obfuscate these people so they can’t see through you. Was that why you suddenly acted like you were crazy?”

Act crazy, my ass!

Ren Xiaosu’s face darkened as he handed the branch with the rabbits hanging from it to the Great Hoodwinker. “Leave me alone!”

That night, the Great Hoodwinker negotiated with Ren Xiaosu and said he wanted to keep watch for the night by himself. He said he felt quite energetic and could keep watch without problems, but Ren Xiaosu did not agree.

In the end, the Great Hoodwinker said he would take turns with Ren Xiaosu and keep watch for each half of the night so Yang Xiaojin would not have to. After all, she was a girl, so she should get some preferential treatment since they were out in the wilderness.

But Yang Xiaojin objected. In her opinion, everyone on a team should always do their best. At this moment, there should be no differentiation between genders. There were simply teammates and companions.

After compromising, it was decided Ren Xiaosu and the Great Hoodwinker would each keep watch for half of the night today, while Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin would share the duties of keeping watch for tomorrow night. The day after that, it would be Yang Xiaojin and the Great Hoodwinker’s turns to keep watch. As such, there would always be one person in the trio at their best during the day to deal with any emergencies.

While keeping watch, Ren Xiaosu made some careful observations during the first half of the night. Just as the Great Hoodwinker had said, these seemingly independent experts seemed to have already been assigned their duties as they went about keeping watch for the night.

During the day, Ren Xiaosu wondered if there were really some lone wolves among them. But now he realized there was not a single one.

Previously, Ren Xiaosu was worried the Anjing House might not be able to trouble the Pyro Company much even though they had split into several groups to enter the Sacred Mountains.

But from the looks of it now, the organizations probably wanted to get their hands on the No. 001 Experimental very badly.