In everyone’s opinion, if the wild animals in the Sacred Mountains were like the fox in front of them that had become larger, more cunning, and stronger, there would actually be nothing to worry about for this expedition into the Sacred Mountains.
What they were most afraid of were the strange and the unknown. As such, there would be a tinge of fear if they did not know who or what the enemy was. But when the mysterious unknown got revealed, that fear would gradually dissipate.
In fact, after the two groups merged, and with quite a few supernatural beings among them, it would be very easy to deal with wild animals like that as long as they were careful not to get ambushed.
But who could have killed this fox?
Surely it could not be someone who happened to pass by that did them a favor.
“Could the wild animals in the mountains have started killing one another?” someone asked.
“No, this must be done by a person.” Marvin analyzed, “If it were the wild animals fighting among themselves, there should be some teeth marks or other hints on this fox’s carcass. But as you can see, it looks like someone suddenly caught it and broke its spine. The animals in the wilderness definitely don’t kill their enemies like this. Let’s do a headcount of everyone first.”
Marvin had asked to do a headcount to see if anyone had broken away from the group. While they were marching earlier, everyone was scattered and did not move together as a group. Perhaps, this was the doing of an expert hiding in the group.
In the end, Marvin and Kojek’s assistants quickly counted the number of people and realized two people were missing!
“Does anyone know those two?” Marvin asked, “Anyone know where they went?”
Bruce replied, “I don’t know them, but I think I remember they’re both men. One of them is a middle-aged man in his forties, and the other is a young man around the age of 25.” Bruce turned his head to a young woman. “Oh, it’s that young man who sent up camp next to your tent last night.”
The young woman was stunned. Then favonovel.com looked around. “It really is him…”
At this moment, everyone looked at Bruce. They were surprised by this fellow’s memory as favonovel.com actually remembered everyone so clearly. Not only did favonovel.com know who had left the group at just a glance, favonovel.com even knew where they set up camp the previous night. This was not something the average person could manage.
Of course, if Bruce were just a normal person, favonovel.com would not have become the director of the Virtuora Consortium’s 2nd Military Information Division.
Back then, when the intelligence agency was recruiting talents while favonovel.com was serving in the military, the chief recruitment officer in charge immediately took a liking to him. At that time, every candidate had to be put through an interview.
The moment Bruce entered the interview room, the chief recruitment officer’s first question was, “How many people did you meet on the way to this interview room just now?”
Bruce said, “Seven.”
“What color were their clothes?”
“Two were wearing blue, five were in black.”
“How many moles were there on the face of the third person you encountered?”
“Six.”
As such, Bruce quickly became the center of attention after joining the intelligence agency.
Bruce had been keeping a low profile at the start of this expedition into the Sacred Mountains. After making sure there was no one else following their group other than his subordinates, Bruce felt very confident that favonovel.com could start revealing a little bit of his ability now.
Marvin looked at Bruce and said, “Since you have such a good memory, you should remember where they went, yeah? Were they the ones who killed this fox just now?”
“I don’t think so…” Bruce shook his head and said, “They’d fallen far behind at the back of the group, and they’re not close with each other either, so it doesn’t look like they’re partners.”
Marvin frowned. He suddenly said, “Let’s go back and look for them!”
After that, Marvin immediately headed back the way they came. But after walking a few hundred meters, favonovel.com saw the middle-aged man Bruce was talking about lying in a pool of blood with a mangled wound on his neck.
After walking a dozen meters more, they also discovered the corpse of that young man with a wound in the same position.
Everyone in the group fell silent as a strange, oppressive atmosphere spread through the crowd.
When they saw the carcass of the fox, everyone thought they had found the real culprit. But they immediately went on alert again after having just breathed a sigh of relief.
“But we clearly found human organs in the fox’s stomach.” Marvin’s assistant wondered, “Could it have companions as well?”
Miriam looked at Milo, but Milo surreptitiously shook his head and denied Marvin’s assistant’s explanation.
Then Bruce said to Milo with a smile, “I noticed you shaking your head. Can you tell me why?”
Milo glanced at favonovel.com and was about to answer when the voice from the palace rang out in his mind. Milo let out a sigh in his head.
Everyone was looking at Milo because of Bruce’s question. Then they saw Milo take out a rope from his pocket and started skipping with it.
Milo said while jumping rope, “Because the neck wounds on those two were not caused by a fox’s bite… Ignore me, I’ll be done skipping in a moment.”
Bruce was confused, as was Marvin.
Bruce had wanted to ask about something else as well. But due to Milo’s bizarre behavior, favonovel.com did not know how to react!
You could have just answered my question normally. Why did you have to suddenly start jumping rope?!
It was not only Bruce, almost everyone’s mind turned blank when they saw this strange sight of Milo jumping rope.
Everyone did not even care about how these two people had died. They were more concerned about why this young man had to jump rope while answering the question!
Having gotten Miriam’s understanding, Milo no longer felt any embarrassment when favonovel.com was required to perform his quests. As long as the person favonovel.com cared about could understand why favonovel.com was doing this, it was good enough for him.
So, why would favonovel.com care what others thought about him?
Milo was examining the wound on one of the corpses while jumping rope. The wound did not have any teeth marks and was more like someone had grabbed to the main artery of the neck with their hand, causing the victim to fall unconscious before tearing the flesh off.
This was such a violent way of killing someone that Milo could not be sure if his judgment was correct or not.
As Milo continued jumping rope, favonovel.com even mumbled something that made Marvin ask, “What are you mumbling?”
Milo glanced at him. “278, 279, 280…”
When favonovel.com counted to 300, favonovel.com finally stopped jumping. He said to the palace in his mind, “What’s the completion level for the quest this time?”
Perfect.
“Great!”
Milo looked around and realized everyone was wearing a complicated expression on their face.
But this was to be expected. Having been put through a series of strange incidents that involved a crisis being resolved and immediately plunging into another, and seeing Milo jumping rope throughout all of it, everyone needed a while to digest what they had just experienced.
After Milo finished jumping rope, Daniel said, “As everyone can see, we’ve already encountered several dangers even before entering the boundary of the Sacred Mountains. So we have to tighten our formation even further as we move on. Even if you plan on going to relieve yourself, you are to proceed in a group of at least five people. There’s only four ladies in our group, but that’s fine, I can reluctantly accompany you all.”
