Chapter 768 - Stronghold 176 (1/2)
Chapter 768 Stronghold 176
“Xiaosu, where do you plan to go next?” Luo Lan asked while seated next to the campfire.
After Ren Xiaosu and the others emerged from the Sacred Mountains, everyone did not go their separate ways immediately. Instead, they found a place to set up camp for the next two days.
Luo Lan, Zhou Qi, Li Shentan, Si Liren, Zhou Yingxue, and Qing Shen the clone got along quite well during this period. They caught some game in the wilderness, and the atmosphere in the campsite was jubilant and cheerful.
Everyone could tell that Ren Xiaosu was in a bad mood, so it could be said that they were accompanying him to lift his spirits.
Everyone knew Ren Xiaosu had only insisted on going into the Sacred Mountains because of the No. 001 Experimental. Ren Xiaosu was also upfront about it and claimed Yan Liuyuan might be the No. 001 Experimental, so he wanted to go there to look for him.
But now everyone else had basically been found, yet Yan Liuyuan was still nowhere to be seen. So how could Ren Xiaosu be happy?
Ren Xiaosu glanced at Luo Lan. “I have to make a trip to the Wang Consortium, and what about you? What are your plans?”. As he was saying that, the Great Hoodwinker emerged from the forest to the west. “I just got some news from the black market. Something big has happened.”
“What is it?” Ren Xiaosu asked, stunned for a moment.
“The Pyro Company and the Kong Consortium are at war. The Kong Consortium has retreated from the front line of Mt. Dabaichi. They’re pulling back their defensive line at the rear.” The Great Hoodwinker said, “The Kong Consortium’s armored vehicles on the front lines have turned into scrap metal. They have to wait for further reinforcements from the rear before they can fight back. Some people even said the Kong Consortium initially had something that gave them control over the Pyro Company’s fate, but it suddenly could not work after they got onto the battlefield, and it caught the Kong Consortium off guard. In any case, the Kong Consortium has suffered a great loss this time.”
Luo Lan chuckled, “That’s a good thing. Let’s see if they still have time to care about our Qing Consortium now. Speaking of which, the Kong Consortium is really quite stupid. The Pyro Company is so smart, so how could they possibly let others gain leverage over them? Hey, clone guy, do you know the details of what happened?”
“I do.” Qing Shen nodded. It seemed he did not mind Luo Lan calling him a clone. He just calmly explained, “This plan of the Pyro Company’s has been in the works for a long time. They used several hundred of their spies in the Kong Consortium’s territory as sacrifices so the Kong Consortium would believe they can use an audio recording to take down the entire Pyro Company. But in fact, they had already laid the trap when they were genetically modifying their DNA. Only the spies in the Kong Consortium’s territory get affected by the audio recording.”
Ren Xiaosu asked, “Like the tarantulas?”
Qing Shen said with a smile, “That’s right. It looks like you’ve seen how the Pyro Company deals with the tarantulas.”
Luo Lan said, “Since war has broken out, I can’t waste any more time here in the North. I need to have a chat with the Zhou Consortium before they get embroiled in the war and see if they can be of any help to the Qing Consortium.”
“What do you mean by being of help to the Qing Consortium?” the Great Hoodwinker asked.
“Oh, I’m talking about having the Central Plains fight among themselves,” Luo Lan replied. “Of course, there’s something more important that I need to see to, and that’s to send this clone back to the Qing Consortium so my little brother can decide his fate.”
When Luo Lan mentioned this, Qing Shen sat next to him with a smile as though it had nothing to do with him.
This was what annoyed Luo Lan the most. The clone was as smart as his younger brother, but at the same, he seemed less human than him.
Although Qing Zhen had long been labeled a cold blooded murderer, everyone in the Qing Consortium knew Qing Zhen was a very loyal person.