Under the cool mountain wind, Bai Mo and his classmates sat by the barbecue grill, continuing to eat barbecue.
He took a sip of the lemon tea sent by Wan Bocheng, bit into the skewers freshly grilled by Black Nose, and focused his attention on the mountain opposite.
"Zhang Qiren’s little brothers chatting about surrendering with Teacher Chen shouldn’t be dangerous, right?
"But my intuition really feels off..."
Bai Mo furrowed his brow, glanced again towards the opposing mountain, towards Teacher Chen’s side.
With this glance, he sensed sothing was amiss.
"Huh?"
...
On the mountain path, Chen Wenquan sat on a stone beside the road.
In the woods behind, Tie Ta sat facing him.
The cool wind blew, making the forest sway. Both were sowhat excited and also a bit nervous.
Tie Ta spoke in a low voice.
"...we possess the conditions for surrendering.
"Our entire studio, seven people, are all Sequence Eight.
"Also, none of us has human blood on our hands!
"So of our work is indeed not clean, but certainly hasn’t hard anyone’s life.
"Not to ntion our boss is the strongest array master in the present era, without a doubt!
"We understand the committee’s rules. If you don’t trust us, you can match us with beautiful wives, let us have children, and then allocate big houses to make our lives happy and settled, so we can’t do bad things anymore..."
As Tie Ta spoke, Chen Wenquan listened intently, absorbing every word, his face gradually breaking into a smile.
He planned to find Professor Zhang to help make the connection and get this done.
Soon, his junior brother Zhang Qiren would be able to co back! No more shady dealings, no more risking his life, instead returning to the Immortal Technique Committee, openly and honorably as a committee mber or expert... Perhaps quietly, perhaps with a new identity. But no matter what, he would be back soon!
For the first ti, the two made a connection, expressed their attitudes, and discussed key information.
Finally, before parting, Tie Ta took out a USB drive from his pocket, handing it to Teacher Chen.
"There’s a lot more data on this USB drive. Please take it back and hand it over to the committee."
Teacher Chen nodded, accepting the USB drive, treating it with the utmost care, placing it in the inner pocket of his jacket.
Imdiately, the two bid farewell, one turning downhill, the other heading deeper into the woods.
On the ground of the forest, there lay patches of fallen red leaves.
Tie Ta’s hiking shoes stepped on the red leaves as he left.
What he did not know was that one particular small red leaf silently stuck to the sole of his shoe, intending to follow him, to find Zhang Qiren’s hiding place...
Was that a red leaf?
That was clearly a blood-red human skin talisman cut into the shape of a red leaf!
...
On the mountain path, the chilly wind blew from behind.
Teacher Chen was pushed down the mountain path by the cool wind, feeling light and unburdened.
Grinning even wider, his heart ablaze!
"Hey, junior brother is coming back!
"Maybe he still has the chance to research mathematics again?"
Whoosh...
Another stronger cold wind blew, wrapping around his back.
"Wow, this wind is quite strong."
Unbeknownst to him, an invisible hand in the wind stretched from behind, reaching into his jacket’s inner pocket for the USB drive.
Another unseen hand grasped an invisible knife, reaching from behind towards his throat!
He faintly heard soone murmuring in the wind.
"You’re really unlucky.
"The Ancient Immortal wants Zhang Qiren caught, and no one can save him.
"Why did you involve yourself?"
...
Another batch of chicken wings was cooked on the barbecue grill!
The skin was crispy and aromatic, golden and tempting, with cumin and sesa soaking in the chicken oil, releasing an irresistible fragrance.
Nearby, Wan Bocheng swallowed hard.
"How about... we save a few for Old Chen?"
Bai Mo wiped the sesa from the corner of his mouth.
Whether to save so or not... he didn’t care either way.
Even though the other classmates hadn’t finished eating, he and Black Nose were pretty full.
Not far off, the branches of trees gently swayed with the wind.
Big and Small Eyes lay across a tree branch, draped in an invisibility cloak, wielding a sniper rifle, with the scope and barrel aid at the opposite mountain, targeting Chen Wenquan on the mountain path opposite.
"Huh?"
Its sniper rifle had undergone so minor modifications.
For example, the end of the scope pointing outward was a rotating cross-eyed grass seed.
This seed could automatically adjust focus, allow night vision, see far, and counter invisibility... For instance, at this mont, Big and Small Eyes could see in the scope a person covered head to toe in talisman paper, as if they lost at poker and got covered in cards. This person was sneakily trying to steal Chen Wenquan’s belongings and slit his throat.
Furthermore, the sniper rifle was wrapped entirely in green vine silk. From the barrel to the breech to the stock, all wrapped in vine silk. And the function of these vines was... silencing!
Big and Small Eyes hadn’t gotten much sleep, now lying on the tree branch, wiping the eye crust from the corner of its eye, gripping an ordinary bullet in its paw, loading it into the rifle.
Looking through the scope, aiming at the enemy on the opposite mountain.
Gently pulling the trigger.
Click... The faint sound was absorbed by the vine silk.
Bang... The gun sound too was muted by gently vibrating vine silk.
Whoosh... The bullet instantly flew several hundred ters, piercing through the cold mountain wind, landing on the opposite mountain, crashing through the invisible enemy’s head!
Splat!
...
On this mountain, beside the barbecue grill, Wan Bocheng and others gritted their teeth, frowned, deciding not to save any chicken wings for Old Chen, grabbing a skewer each and ravenously devouring them.
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