Chapter 686 - Song and dance (2/2)

Ren Xiaosu asked again, “Can you tell me what that new skill is for?”

“Unauthorized to answer,” the palace answered emotionlessly.

“Can’t you just give me a general idea of what the skill’s about?” Ren Xiaosu said unhappily.

However, the palace ignored him.

At this moment, Cheng Yu asked with a dark expression, “What the hell are you doing? It’s only 6 AM.”

Ren Xiaosu bowed. “Sorry, I misread the time.”

Cheng Yu suddenly felt a little muzzled and couldn’t come up with a response.

Ren Xiaosu bowed again. “It won’t happen again.”

After that, he went back to his tent to sleep.

But while he could fall back asleep, the others could not.

Even Yang Xiaojin came out of her tent grumpily. However, she did not blame Ren Xiaosu as she could guess that he was probably performing some penalty for giving her the black sniper rifle.

Ren Xiaosu did not tell her the specifics, but the timing of Ren Xiaosu going crazy came right after she accepted the black sniper rifle from him. Therefore, she understood this to be the price he had to pay for her accepting the black sniper rifle.

Cheng Yu felt a little helpless. What did he do to deserve such karma? The Anjing House had arranged for him to lead another team into the Sacred Mountains, but he purposely chose this team as they were the last group to enter the Sacred Mountains.

However, the outcome was not what he wanted at all.

At 8 AM, Ren Xiaosu came out of the tent looking very well-rested. The moment he stepped out, everyone looked at him.

Ren Xiaosu smiled and said, “Y’all look a little haggard.”

Cheng Yu thought to himself, ‘Aren’t you stating the obvious? Everyone was woken up by that strange commotion in the middle of the night. But before we all could fall back asleep, we got scared awake again by your gunshots! As if we can fucking not look haggard!‘

He ignored Ren Xiaosu and turned around to ask the Great Hoodwinker, “Where do we proceed from here?”

The Great Hoodwinker answered, “We’ll head northeast. After we cross that mountain up ahead, we’ll reach the boundary of Mt. Wuzhai.”

“Why did you come out here by yourself back then?” Cheng Yu suddenly asked.

“Because everyone says that the things found in the Sacred Mountains are worth a lot of money. If you can find any exotic flowers or plants, you can sell them for a high price,” the Great Hoodwinker replied. “There’s people in the black market who’re collectors of such exotic flowers and plants, and they’re willing to pay a high price for them.”

Only then did Cheng Yu stop pursuing the matter. The people who collected exotic flowers and plants in the black market were all spies of consortiums. Why would normal people be interested in those things anyway? Only the consortiums were looking for such things to use in their research.

Cheng Yu took a look at his cell phone and said to the others, “Let’s set off. Everyone, be on high alert. Our team’s the only one that’s taking the Mt. Wuzhai and Mt. Shenchi route. If anything happens, we won’t even be able to call for reinforcements.”

With that, Cheng Yu got up and set off towards the northeast. From time to time, he would even hear Ren Xiaosu singing out loud behind him.

Initially, no one cared about Ren Xiaosu when he started singing. However, his singing was too catchy as they were all nursery rhymes everyone was familiar with. This caused the others in the group to involuntarily start humming along as they walked.

Looking at Mt. Wuzhai in the distance, Cheng Yu felt a little melancholic. It was clearly a very tense atmosphere, and there was also an unknown creature that ventured near their campsite during the night, so why did it feel like they were here on a spring trip while being entertained with song and dance?

Just what did he really come here for…