Chapter 741 - Looking for a friend (1/2)

Chapter 741 Looking for a friend

Ren Xiaosu stood at the campsite and looked around. He was scrutinizing everyone’s expressions, determined to find the murderer.

When Yang Xiaojin saw this, she quickly lowered her head and hid her expression under her cap. She was afraid the others might get an inkling that something was wrong. “What are you looking at me for?” Cheng Yu quickly explained to Ren Xiaosu, “It’s not like I was the one who killed him!” “But you were the first to speak.” Ren Xiaosu said, “Don’t you know? In most homicide cases, the first person to discover the crime scene is the murderer!”

Cheng Yu was speechless. Was this the time to be playing detective?

He could not be bothered with Ren Xiaosu anymore. Instead, he looked at the others and speculated who might have killed Li Shentan. Cheng Yu looked at the wound on Li Shentan’s corpse and realized it looked like a knife wound. Then he thought of something. Didn’t White Mask use a black saber? Could it be White Mask who killed him? Ren Xiaosu quietly returned to Yang Xiaojin’s side and allowed everyone to come up with their own deductions.

But Wang Yun suddenly said, “Something’s not right.”

Everyone looked over and heard Wang Yun say, “This Li Shentan is definitely dead, but why didn’t his corpse get swallowed up? Could the plants underground have suddenly had their fill? That doesn’t make sense, right?”

Everyone finally realized they had nearly forgotten about this matter!

Previously, to prevent themselves from getting attacked by the plants while they were sleeping, everyone had to rest in trees.

But now, they had slept all the way until it was noon, yet they were still fine. Moreover, Li Shentan’s corpse was not devoured by the plant.

“Could we have made it out of the zone where the plants were growing?” Cheng Yu wondered.

“No.” Wang Yun shook his head. “Rather, I think there’s a problem with this Li Shentan. Perhaps you all have not studied him in detail before, but I have. How could someone like him possibly die without a struggle? Have you all ever thought that he might be a fake? For example, he could be one of the T6s of the Pyro Company?”

“Fake?” Everyone fell into deep thought. If it were any other place, they would definitely not believe such claims. But the Sacred Mountains was such a strange place, and this was also an area of focus in the Pyro Company’s research, so it might not be impossible.

At the side, Luo Lan said, “Who cares if he’s real or fake? In any case, we won’t have to sleep in the trees anymore tonight!”

Luo Lan’s focus was always different from the others’.

“Don’t think too much about it. Either way, we will be continuing our journey.” Wang Yun smiled and said, “Instead of investigating what might have happened, why don’t we think about what to do next? Calculating the time and the distance, I’m afraid that we’ll be entering the core region of the Sacred Mountains in another day and a half. At that time, should we still rely on our own individual abilities, or should we start working together?”

“Work together?” One of the team members sneered and said, “Wang Yun, are you serious? I still haven’t settled the score with you for stealing our Zhou Consortium’s intelligence last year, so how can you expect me to work with you?”

“So we’re gonna have to rely on our own abilities then?” Wang Yun smiled and said, “I’m fine with that.”

Even though he said he was fine with it, he was actually planning to stick with Ren Xiaosu. This time, he had given up on his plan to contest the capture of the No. 001 Experimental. He was just hoping to reap some other benefits from this expedition.

Moreover, Wang Yun hoped the others would also step up to contend against Ren Xiaosu and get a taste of hitting this brick wall.

“Everyone,” Cheng Yu stood up and said, “since we’re already here, I hope we can all put aside our differences and understand the Sacred Mountains is still the Pyro Company’s home field. I know all of you have been conserving your strength all this while. But even at our current strength, we still have to work together to face the common enemy.”