483 Hiding (1/2)

The girl with ponytail could not fight nor did she have any special abilities, so technically speaking, there was no favor that she could do for them. But there was something that she had that the others did not, the local advantage. If they were comparing their familiarity with the surroundings, even Ye Shuang's keen senses or Anthony's satellites would not be comparable to the girl who had lived there for more than a decade. Han Chu understood the alert level that he represented in the girl's eyes. He did not have the free time to improve the relationship with the girl, so he cut to the case. He pulled out a bag from his pocket. The bag was full, and from the outside, it was hard to tell what was inside it.

”I need your help to spread these around when you go about your business for the day.” Han Chu gave the order, skipping the preamble. ”Do not place them too far from each other. Drop each one about fifty meters from the last. There's no need to be considerate of the route you take. As long as it is around the village, it will be fine.”

The girl turned to look at Ye Shuang. The latter smiled gently and nodded at the girl.

”Okay then.” The girl did not ask any more questions. She took the bag carefully and opened to look inside it. The bag was filled with the small signal balls that Anthony had used earlier, but they were painted gray, white, and black, and their shapes had been knocked irregular. Each of them was about the size of a peanut, and from a far, they would look like pebbles that littered the street. If the function was to intercept and search signals, the signal balls would be fine if they were spread fifty meters from each other. If it was to set up a web like the previous night, they needed to be much closer.

”Do you guys really think there is something about this place?” Anthony typed on his computer with a bored expression. There was a bunch of red dots that slowly moved on the map. Occasionally, a smaller red dot would be spat out from the collection, and it dropped at the particular part of the village. Slowly, the red dots started to cover the entire map. They had started their work to search the signal within and around Nature Village.

Han Chu also glanced at the screen with satisfaction. ”Looks like the girl is purposely doing the round for us, or else the spread wouldn't be so even, and the coverage wouldn't be so large.”

Unless the girl's job was to patrol the mountain, she would not have gone around each of the corner of the village. Furthermore, she had managed to spread half of the devices evenly in the early morning.

Su Zheng carried a bag and walked around the place. With her eyesight, it was perfect to see if there was anything worth noticing or anywhere unnatural. There was nothing eye-catching about a little girl like her. Even if she ran into someone, she could act like she was there to visit a friend. The friend was naturally the name of the girl with the ponytail. Two men and a Ye Shuang stayed home. The three had completely different styles from the rest of the village. If they left the house, they would attract attention, so they had to stay at home.

Anthony smiled and did not think that there was anything wrong with this. ”We have saved her, and reality proves that the girl knows how to repay her debt. Even though she did not ask what we are doing, she is willing to help us…”

Suddenly, a glow came to his eyes. ”Hey, come and look at this!”

Han Chu leaned over to look. A few red dots disappeared from the screen once they were dropped.

”Signal disrupter?” Han Chu raised his brow with interest. ”Looks like we have found the place.”

Anthony scratched his chin. ”Let's wait longer. This might be a trap; we should take a look at some other places, right?”

The red dots on the screen continued to spread uniformly. As they expected, other than the spot where the signal disappeared earlier, there were signs of disturbances in other places as well. All these spots had been marked down by Anthony. When the red spots stopped glowing, just from the place that they had investigated that day, there were spots where the red dots had disappeared.