Chapter 736: 736
Chapter 736: The Rescue Team
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Woyu only stopped snoring several minutes after he was untied .
He smacked his lips and lowered his head . Then, when he saw the scene in front of him, his eyes widened . The rope which Lin Sanjiu used to constrain him was loosely dangling by his arms, and as he moved, it fell off his body .
From Lin Sanjiu’s angle, he seemed stunned .
The telecommunication device was sitting quietly in front of him . It released a faint green glow into the night sky, resembling a glow-worm resting on a leaf .
“Hmm?” He looked like he still unable to comprehend why he was sitting there alone . He surveyed his surroundings and quietly call out, “Hey…y-you, are you there?”
Lin Sanjiu lay even flatter as she held her breath and observed the man through the shrubs .
“If you’re not around, I’m going to leave…” the young man mumbled as he grabbed the bedsheet with both hands . He stood up with some rustling sounds and accidentally stepped on the pair of pants that Lin Sanjiu threw over . He quickly put the bedsheet down and wore the pants hastily . He took the telecommunication device and was just about to leave when he suddenly stopped . As he froze, he perked his ears up .
‘Woyu is also a posthuman, so I guess he noticed something . ’ Lin Sanjiu exhaled soundlessly .
She did not know what the other committee members were using . Somehow, she was completely unable to detect them with her [Higher Consciousness Scan] . It was almost as if they were invisible . She could only faintly sense the people approaching the slope in her hypersensory state . When the group of people reached the forest, her [Higher Consciousness Scan] was blocked by the thick trees around them . In the end, she deactivated her [Higher Consciousness Scan] and decided to use Woyu as bait .
The other committee members would lower their guard the moment they discovered their companions . That would also be the best time for Lin Sanjiu to take all of them down at one go .
The young man held the telecommunication device and listened intently as he walked toward the entrance of the forest . As the night breeze weaved through the trees, it almost seemed as if the forest was only filled with the sound of rustling leaves, which was like the ebbing sea waves . The ambient sounds dampened the presence of the incomers .
“H-Honta?” Woyu pitched his voice very low and asked, “Is that you over there?”
He waited for a while, yet there was no response from the dark . Woyu wondered if it was because his voice was too low to be heard .
After a short bout of rumination, Woyu flipped the telecommunication device, once again filling the sky with its bright blue light .
Duu…
A flat dial tone rang out into the night sky .
A rustling noise came after the first dial tone . It sounded distant and faint like an illusion . Woyu could not hear it well, but he was somewhat relieved . He closed the telecommunication device and examined his surroundings again for any sign of Lin Sanjiu . After that, he scurried into the forest in front of him and disappeared .
Lin Sanjiu did not make any move as this was not the best time for her to go after him .
Woyu had just left not long ago and would be on his highest alert . Besides, judging from the beeping of the telecommunication device, Lin Sanjiu was certain that he was not very far away . She went into her hypersensory state and zeroed all her senses in that direction . As she tried to sense for any movements, she began counting in her heart .
The bush swished as she crept out of her hiding spot . However, Woyu did not detect anything and continued to move down the slope .
As an effect of the hypersensory state, Lin Sanjiu had merged along with the hillside .
She could clearly feel the gentle breeze from the distance and she saw the swaying silhouette of the trees . Her footsteps pried the foliage open along with the eddying of the wind, and the susurration whispered as her clothes rustled against her skin . The sounds melted into the night sky . If one closed their eyes, they would not be able to differentiate if it was her footfalls or the wind when she walked past them .
Woyu was very cautious . He had been looking left and right into the darkness along the way . Nevertheless, he did not notice somebody behind him . A few minutes later, after seeing that there was nobody around, he let out a sigh of relief and activated the telecommunication device once more .
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The moment the device was connected, he heard a clear rumble of machinery wafting from the forest in front of him . His eyes glowed . Following the direction of the sound, he waved and hollered out in a low voice, “Honta! Over here!”
The first man that emerged from the forest looked like a walking tree . He was over two meters tall and had a husky muscular build . He was in his blue military vest, his massive arms bare to the wrist and glistening with sweat .
Lin Sanjiu poked her head out slightly and observed the man . She saw that there was some kind of gadget coiled around the man’s arms . Its outline looked huge and heavy, but Lin Sanjiu had no idea what the gadget was as it had merged with the darkness .
‘There should be more than one person…’ The second that thought surfaced in her mind, another series of footfalls erupted from the forest behind the man .
The first thing that came into her vision was a strip of red and a band of white . After the white came the red again . Umbels of red and white kept on swiveling before Lin Sanjiu’s eyes, giving her the impression that the person had made the Barber’s pole her skirt . The person wearing this skirt was a petite girl . Her face was so small that it was covered by her hair, leaving only her pointy chin to appear once in a while to greet the people around .
Lin Sanjiu held her breath . She seemed to have made the wrong decision .
Even though Woyu was bad at combat, it did not seem to be the case for the committee members . Her heart clenched and she felt a faint nervousness in the pit of her stomach the second she set her sight on the first two people . She had not felt this way for a long time . Just like the animals in the wild, the longer the posthumans survived in the apocalypse era, the more sensitive they were towards danger . If Woyu was a meerkat, then the people coming out from the forest were no doubt hyenas .
Even a lion would have a hard time taking up arms with a pack of hyenas .
It was at this moment that the third person came into her view . He was carrying a similar telecommunication device as Woyu . A pair of spectacles was sitting on top of his high cheekbones, and the lens caught both the light from the device and the moonlight . His cheeks were sunken and it seemed like there were holes on his face .
Lin Sanjiu clenched her teeth hard . There was one more person .
The fourth person wore the same matching deep blue attire as his three other comrades . Lin Sanjiu felt she had seen the shirt somewhere, but she could not place where . The shirt covered the fourth incomer’s body like a tent . It was baggy and coupled with his white pallor, it gave him the appearance of a clock .
The four committee members were standing in front of Woyu . Lin Sanjiu surveyed them in a full circle, yet she could not find Lil Grass around . Perhaps he was too weak, so the committee did not dispatch him as part of the retrieval team .
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“These people…They are tricky,” Mrs . Manas mumbled in her brain, sounding a little worried, “Do you have the confidence to defeat all four of them?”
Lin Sanjiu thought for a moment and replied hesitantly, “I can’t tell either…”
Suddenly, Mrs . Manas asked, “What was that sound?”
Dumbfounded, it was only then that Lin Sanjiu realized there was a slight click coming from the direction of the five people not far away . Her muscles all pulled tautly as a sense of familiarity crept into her mind .
She had a hunch that she knew the sound, and when Woyu began speaking, her suspicion was proven right as her blood turned cold .
“Who…who are you guys?” His voice was faltering and his teeth were chattering madly as if he was about to bite his tongue . “Where is Honta? Why…why do you guys have our…”
Woyu did not know them . In other words, they were not members of the committee .
The man wearing the glasses lifted the telecommunication device . He stared silently at Woyu as if he was asking whether Woyu was talking about the device in his hand . When he tilted his head, he exposed his sunken cheeks under the moonlight . It looked horrible as if somebody had made a hole out of his face .
“That…that’s ours!” Woyu shouted in a voice that was sharp and faint like a needle, “This telecommunication device belongs to our committee!”
“The committee,” said somebody among the group as he chuckled, “is gone . ” Four of them looked like shadows surrounding Woyu who fell silent . He stared vacantly at the one who had spoken as if he found it hard to comprehend the few simple words that tumbled off his lips .
After what it seemed like an eternity, Woyu began to speak again, “They are on their way…” This time, however, his voice was firmer and he spoke a lot faster . “Honta said he’s sending a team to retrieve me . They’ll be here soon . I suggest you all…”
The girl clicked her tongue .
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“Cut the crap . ” After that, she turned her body around . Her shirt fluttered, and the red and white stripes on her skirt dazzled their eyes . “Nobody cares what you think, alright?”
Woyu closed his mouth . However, the expression on his face suggested that he did not do that voluntarily . It must have been the girl’s doing .
“You were captured by a woman, weren’t you?” the pasty-faced guy asked in a husky voice . When he spoke, aside from his lips which parted slightly, none of his facial muscles moved .
“Where’s the woman now?” the muscular man, who was about two meters tall, chimed in . He looked the most ordinary out of the four .
Woyu only starting to speak after a short while, “I…I don’t know . ”
The young man kept his head low as he continued, “But I can bring you to the place where I last met her…” As he said that, he pointed at the forest .
Then, seizing the chance before the few people came back to their senses, Woyu suddenly broke into a run, darting straight towards the spot where Lin Sanjiu was hiding .
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