Chapter 716 - Bestselling lipstick (1/2)
As Ren Xiaosu was the one who personally witnessed and smashed the statue, he naturally had to describe the events in detail to everyone. “At the time, I was keeping watch right here when a statue suddenly floated over. It looked extremely ferocious after fixing itself up from the shattered fragments yesterday. Do y’all understand what I’m saying? Its face was full of cracks…”
At the side, Cheng Yu’s expression darkened. He realized the more Ren Xiaosu talked about it, the eerier the atmosphere became. When he looked at the expressions of the others around him, they were basically the same as his. Even though they were very nervous, they needed to understand what happened exactly.
After Ren Xiaosu finished talking, he didn’t care what the rest of them thought and just went to bed.
For some reason, Ren Xiaosu felt it had been too peaceful since they entered the Sacred Mountains.
The statue incident was definitely someone’s doing. When the statue was secretly observing from outside the campsite, Ren Xiaosu was secretly observing the statue as well. Then he realized the statue was watching the tent where the girlfriend of that person who had died earlier was staying.
Therefore, Luo Lan’s guess was most likely correct. The murderer was Wang Yun. Putting this matter aside, they had actually not encountered the Pyro Company members ever since they came into the Sacred Mountains.
Yet this place was the Pyro Company’s core strategic location. If they had encountered sneak attacks by the Pyro Company before coming in here, why weren’t there any more attacks after they had arrived?
This left Ren Xiaosu feeling wary instead. Whatever tricks the Pyro Company had in store for them next would probably be even stranger!
The entire mountain range covered a very large area, spanning hundreds of kilometers in length. Based on their current marching speed, they would probably arrive at the true center of the Sacred Mountains in another ten days.
While Ren Xiaosu and the others continued venturing deeper into the Sacred Mountains, a convoy of off-road vehicles had arrived outside Stronghold 144 in the Northwest from the Central Plains.
Zhang Xiaoman had been waiting here for quite a while now. But this time, he was only an escort. The officer in charge of welcoming the convoy was Wang Fengyuan, the intelligence director of Fortress 178.
Generally, any matters that required Wang Fengyuan to oversee personally would be handled with the utmost confidentiality.
Next to him, Zhang Xiaoman probed, “Boss Wang, who’s the person coming this time? They even needed you to come here personally?”
Wang Fengyuan glanced at him. “Oh, I haven’t seen you for a few months, but our Zhang Xiaoman knows how to use honorifics now. Why is it that the higher your rank is, the more polite you become?” “Heh.” Zhang Xiaoman did not mind Wang Fengyuan’s sarcasm. “This is an improvement that I’ve made.”
“Not bad, not bad at all.” Wang Fengyuan nodded approvingly. Then Zhang Xiaoman realized Wang Fengyuan had simply changed the topic. It did not seem like he intended to answer his question at all.
When the convoy of off-road vehicles reached the base of the stronghold walls, the people in the vehicles did not even need to get out of their cars. Wang Fengyuan got into one of the vehicles, and they drove off farther northwest. The rest of the convoy that had traveled here from afar was following right behind.
Zhang Xiaoman watched as the convoy drove off and curled his lips. “He always acts so secretively.”
The convoy continued to drive for more than a 100 kilometers westward before finally coming to a stop at a hill. Someone had already set up a temporary military camp in the flat of that hill. It was not very large in size, and Lin Yuze, who was in charge of the logistics here, was beckoning to his cooks to make food.
When Zhang Jinglin heard the commotion outside, he walked out of the military tent he was in. Someone from the convoy that had just arrived quickly retrieved a wheelchair from the trunk and carried Wang Shengzhi, who was sitting in the backseat, onto it.
Wang Shengzhi kept smiling throughout and even had time to wave at Zhang Jinglin. “Long time no see. When I passed by Stronghold 144 earlier, I noticed a lot of merchant trucks were parked outside. It looks like the decision to reopen the trade route was right.”