Chapter 170: Morality? (1/2)
”We need to do something, there should be something more here.” Hong Luo spoke with frustration.
”We've already looked enough. There doesn't seem to be anything else here.” Hei Bao finally spoke after getting a hold of himself.
The faces of his subordinates and the other mercenaries dropped upon hearing his words. But then he spoke again.
”Fear not, we will eventually figure out something. In fact, we do know of one such location that we had previously found before.”
Everyone looked up at him with questioning faces.
”The abandoned warehouse!” Lin Mu suddenly spoke.
”But didn't we already investigate that before?” A member of Hei corps spoke up.
”Yes, of course we did. But before we didn't know why they were gathering the mercenaries and had thought whether if they were just hiding corpses. But now we know that they have a proper use for them, they need their blood. That means they have to keep them alive and fed to keep their blood fresh.”
”But for doing this, they will need another location that is as large as this to keep them. Also, after the beast attack, I doubt they will take the risk of setting up a place like that here.” Hei Bao explained.
”Then that means… they will hide in the town? Or the areas around it?” One of the men asked.
”That is one of the possibilities. But we at least know that whatever their final destination is, the northern town is probably close to it. We don't know about the other locations but do know that we know the mercenaries are being captured from there too, we will be able to expand our scope of investigation.”
”This is far too big of a conspiracy to keep hidden. There is bound to be a leak of some kind. We just need to look out for it and wait for the right time.” Hei Bao answered.
The people nodded in understanding and realized that there was no use obsessing over what had already happened. All they could do for now was to wait and see.
”We should rest for now. We leave at first light.” Hei Bao ordered.
Everyone decidedly agreed, as the sun had already set by now. Even the snow had started falling heavily. In fact, now that the large boulder that was blocking the entrance of the cave was removed, the wind was blowing in swathes of snow.
The floor of the front part of the cave was already covered in snow. The men thus gathered around and sat near the braziers. The braziers were there in the cave already and were used to heat up the cave. But since the cave had been abandoned and no one was keeping them lit, all that was left in them was ash and charcoal.