Chapter 715 The mystery of the statue
In the evening, Vanilla briefed Yang Anjing after Li Shentan had gotten rid of the Pyro Company spies in their group. His main point was to inform the other groups that not everyone from the Pyro Company were tattooed with their serial numbers.
At the very least, the two Pyro Company members discovered in their group were not tattooed.
It might not necessarily be useful to let the other teams know about this. After all, without any identifiable symbols or Li Shentan’s method of puppeteering, it would be very difficult to weed out the Pyro Company’s spies.
They could only be careful to avoid falling into the Pyro Company’s trap.
After Cheng Yu received the news, he started thinking back on everyone on the team to see if he could identify who might be suspicious.
The first person that came to mind was actually Wang Yun.
That was because Wang Yun left the group the most times during their journey. Although he did not know what Wang Yun was doing, relaying intel was essentially a solo operation. Therefore, Wang Yun was the most suspicious. However, Cheng Yu immediately ruled out Wang Yun. That was because he knew Wang Yun’s true identity. As the Kong Consortium and the Pyro Company were neighbors, there would often be friction between them. If Wang Yun were a Pyro Company member, how could he possibly get into a place like the intelligence agency where political background checks were extremely strict?
Then Cheng Yu also ruled out Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin. However, it was not because of what Ren Xiaosu did but because of Luo Lan.
After all, the animosity between the Qing Consortium and the Pyro Company all these years could not have been faked. It was undeniable that the Qing Consortium had killed many members of the Pyro Company. If Ren Xiaosu were really Luo Lan’s backer, he would definitely not be related to the Pyro Company.
Cheng Yu locked onto 12 people as the prime suspects. They were the two teams with five and seven members respectively.
The reason he suspected them was because their people often disappeared somewhere as well.
Furthermore, Cheng Yu also took note that more than half of these people had been keeping watch on the night the middle-aged man carried out a sneak attack on White Mask. By picking this timing, who knew if it might be related to this as well?
Cheng Yu did not tell the others about this. Instead, he decided to observe them for a while more to avoid alerting the enemy.
When the night sky was completely covered in darkness and the night watchmen were about to switch shifts, a strange power suddenly enveloped the shattered statue at a spot far away from the campsite.
The statue had been completely smashed by Luo Lan, and the fragments alone probably numbered in the dozens.
But under the control of this mysterious power, the dozens of fragments actually started moving by themselves and strangely reassembled back together to form a complete statue.
Moreover, with the body and face of the statue fully covered in cracks, it made the smiling statue look exceptionally terrifying and ferocious.
Following this, the statue slowly lifted off the ground and flew towards the campsite at a constant speed.
As it passed through the forest, it did not touch a single leaf or a single weed. It was silent as it approached the campsite.
The statue was approaching the flickering flame of the campsite. When it was about five meters away, the statue suddenly came to a stop and seemed to be spying on the movements in the campsite.
At this moment, there was still another half an hour before the night watchmen switched shifts. Right now, it was the most tiring period for these people.
The statue started moving again and flew towards the entrance of a tent in the campsite.
But when it was about to enter the campsite, a figure leaped out of nowhere and attacked it with a kick. With a crash, the statue shattered to pieces.
Wang Yun opened his eyes in the tent. Through the gap in his tent, he looked silently at Ren Xiaosu, who was standing at the edge of the campsite. The others in the campsite were also alarmed and trickled out of their tents. Cheng Yu asked with a frown, “What happened?”
“Oh, this statue suddenly flew into the campsite. I don’t know how, but it somehow managed to stick itself back together.” Ren Xiaosu said in a very relaxed manner, “But don’t worry, I’ve already smashed it to pieces. Those of you who are already up and scheduled for night watch in the second half of the night, don’t go back to sleep. Just take over my shift.”
Wang Yun’s eyes twitched a little. Ren Xiaosu was one of the night watchmen for the first half of the night, but he didn’t expect Ren Xiaosu would foil his plan in such a straightforward manner. In truth, Luo Lan and the others had guessed correctly. This statue was indeed Wang Yun’s doing
If a statue weighing dozens of kilograms wanted to get into the campsite quietly, it would definitely require the power of a supernatural being to bring it in.
Meanwhile, Wang Yun’s superpower was to control the air. He could use it to kill people without leaving a trace.
There were all kinds of strange superpowers in this world, and Wang Yun was very satisfied with his since it was very well-suited for his profession.
When he was still serving in the field, he had used this power to assassinate many people. There were no murder weapons, fingerprints, or any evidence that could be found.
Furthermore, Wang Yun himself was also pleasantly surprised by his amazing ability to control air.
His motive for killing people this time was because he had discovered his competitors’ subordinates in the group.
Although the five of them had never appeared in the intelligence agency’s records before, Wang Yun had a photographic memory. He could clearly remember these five people had participated in the selection process of the Kong Consortium’s intelligence agency. However, they had all failed to get through it.
Thinking about it now, they were probably recruited and trained as suicide agents by his competitors after they were eliminated from the intelligence agency’s selection process.
He had never expected his competitors would still send people to disrupt his mission even though he had shown signs of backing down by leaving the Kong Consortium. In that case, how could Wang Yun possibly not think about killing them?
When it came to conflicts of interest and status within the consortiums, it was always a matter of life and death. Wang Yun could not afford to fail in his operation.
Later on, after he realized the statue might have attracted a lot of poisonous bugs because there was a child’s skeleton in it, he planned to use the statues to help him kill others. It could even end up frightening the other team members and mentally exhaust them with fear.
He was only trying his hand at this strategy with yesterday’s incident. Wang Yun was quite happy when he saw the reaction of the others at that time. However, he did not expect someone would kick and smash the statue to pieces today. Yesterday, the statue had only been broken into several dozens of pieces. But now, the head of the statue was almost pulverized.
However, this incident still caused a panic among the people at the campsite. Although Ren Xiaosu had smashed the statue to pieces, what they were terrified of was why the statue could piece itself back together and even follow them.
Could there really be something spooky going on in the mountains?
Cheng Yu asked Ren Xiaosu, “How did it get here?”
A person next to him asked anxiously, “Could someone be playing a trick on us?”
Actually, everyone just wanted to be sure if it was someone manipulating this from behind the scenes. As long as it was someone’s doing, it would not be that scary anymore and would prove it had nothing to do with mysticism.
Ren Xiaosu looked at everyone and comforted, “It flew over here by itself.”
With that, everyone got even more afraid.
However, Ren Xiaosu was not lying. It had indeed flown over by itself.