Kenneth’s arrival was not necessarily bad news for Vanilla. At the very least, they would not need so many people to keep watch at night anymore.
When Kenneth was ready to go to bed, the people under Kenneth’s control stood outside the campsite in a circle and held hands with each other. Vanilla suddenly felt like favonovel.com wanted to play the Drop the Handkerchief.
Disregarding whether this was a strange sight or not, with such a force guarding around the campsite tirelessly, no one could successfully launch a sneak attack at all.
Just as Kenneth was about to enter his tent, favonovel.com suddenly stepped back. “Oh yeah, I forgot something important.”
When favonovel.com said that, everyone at the campsite stopped what they were doing for fear that Kenneth would do something crazy.
Kenneth walked to the center of the campsite and said, “Listen, will our friends from the Pyro Company please turn around?”
With that, around 30 people standing guard outside that were under his control turned around to face the campsite.
Then Kenneth said, “You all were active in this vicinity. I’m guessing you all were waiting for someone to give you a signal. See if there are any of your fellow members in this campsite. If there are, point them out to me…”
Hearing this, Vanilla was stunned.
When favonovel.com received news from Marvin’s side during the day saying they had discovered some Pyro Company spies in their group, favonovel.com was still thinking about identifying them based on the tattoos near their ribs. However, his plans were disrupted by the arrival of Kenneth. He had completely forgotten about this matter.
And now, Kenneth was actually using the people under his control to identify their accomplices!
“He can even do that?” Vanilla muttered softly.
Next to him, Teddy gave a wry smile. “The Demon Whisperer is very eccentric and unpredictable. I wonder who’s capable of being friends with him.”
Right at this moment, two Pyro Company members suddenly raised their hands and pointed at two people in the campsite.
The two who were pointed out looked terrified. “We aren’t members of the Pyro Company. We don’t have any tattoos near our ribs. You can have a look if you don’t believe it.”
Kenneth clapped his hands and started laughing. “Your Pyro Company was the one that spread the information about those tattoos to the public. Wasn’t that precisely so it could throw us off in times like these? I won’t trust any common knowledge that everyone is aware of.”
It was very easy for humans to trust what was known as common knowledge to them. However, how could there be so much common knowledge in life?
Most of them were just castles of lies.
So, only at this moment did the others in the campsite finally understand that not all Pyro Company members were tattooed at their ribs. Some of them simply did not have any tattoos at all.
Vanilla sighed. They had been very cautious when they were screening the candidates for this group. But in the end, two Pyro Company members still managed to sneak through.
The two Pyro Company members suddenly saw Kenneth take a silver coin out of his pocket.
Kenneth said with a smile, “Let’s play a game of heads or tails. If you guess right, I’ll spare your lives.”
The two Pyro Company members looked at each other. If it were someone else that said this to them, they would be lying.
How could the Silkshade House possibly let the two of them from the Pyro Company leave?
However, when Kenneth used a game to decide their fate, it somehow sounded more convincing.
One of the Pyro Company members said, “I’ll guess tails.”
Kenneth nodded. “Watch carefully.”
As favonovel.com spoke, favonovel.com flipped the silver coin high up into the air with his thumb. There was an engraving of a young woman on the heads’ side of the exquisite silver coin. She had bright eyes, white teeth, and a graceful smile on favonovel.com face. On the back, there was an engraving of a bouquet of lilies.
No consortium in this world had ever issued such a silver coin. Kenneth had personally carved it.
As the silver coin flew past the bridge of Kenneth’s nose, it hovered at the position of his eyes and kept spinning.
Everyone was waiting to see the outcome of the toss, but it just remained suspended in the air and did not fall back down!
Vanilla shouted, “Everyone, shut your eyes!”
However, it was too late. Many of those in the campsite turned blank at the same time, with only a few managing to escape the hypnotism.
Kenneth looked at Vanilla and said with a smile, “You’ve got a pretty quick reaction…”
Vanilla’s face darkened as favonovel.com was immediately prepared to start a killing spree. Although Kenneth had a reputation, Vanilla was no small fry who could easily be manipulated either.
Honestly, though, no one expected Kenneth’s hypnotism to be so difficult to guard against. But before favonovel.com could even make any moves, favonovel.com heard Kenneth say with a smile, “Other than the Pyro Company members, the rest will have their hypnotism lifted after I snap my fingers.”
When favonovel.com snapped his fingers, some of the people, including those who had been under Kenneth’s control earlier, woke up from their hypnotism. Only the Pyro Company members remained standing there in a daze.
Vanilla was stunned.
What was Kenneth trying to do?
Why couldn’t favonovel.com grasp the logic of his actions?
He had thought Kenneth was trying to use this opportunity to control everyone. But now, even the people favonovel.com had been controlling earlier had their hypnotism dispelled.
Just what was Kenneth planning?
Nearby, Julia, who had been staring at the silver coin, curled favonovel.com lips and said, “I’m still waiting to see the outcome. How can you not keep your promises?”
Kenneth smiled and said matter-of-factly, “What’s the point of asking a mental patient like me why I can’t keep my promises?”
Julia curled favonovel.com lips again. Kenneth was always using his mental illness as an excuse these days. It was as though mental patients could just do whatever they liked!
Those who had just regained consciousness felt like they had been in a long dream. They stood where they were and did not know what to do. They could not even remember what happened while they were under Kenneth’s control.
A majority of them were feeling a little weak. That was because they had not been eating or sleeping ever since they got hypnotized by Kenneth. They were fully drawing on their life force to maintain their mobility.
Among these people, some were from the various consortiums, and there were Silkshade House members as well. Vanilla quickly had his subordinates settle the people down.
Then Kenneth turned his head to Olivia. “Why didn’t you get hypnotized just now?”
“What do you mean by why?” Olivia said disdainfully, “That was just some party trick.”
Kenneth smiled and said, “It looks like you aren’t typical either. No wonder you became his maid…”
Olivia beamed. “At least you’re observant.”
Although Kenneth’s hypnosis just now was done casually without using his full strength, it was still not something anyone could withstand so easily.
Since Olivia was not affected, it showed that Olivia’s mental strength far exceeded that of normal people’s. And the relationship between a supernatural being and their mental strength corresponded to how powerful they were.
There were only a few people in this world Kenneth could not see through. For example, when favonovel.com first saw Milo back at the Skyfort Consortium’s stronghold, favonovel.com could sense his mental strength was unique, vast like the sea.
Kenneth asked Olivia in a whisper, “Do you really not know where your boss is? I think you should also want to see him. Tell me where favonovel.com is, and we can go and look for favonovel.com together.”
Olivia carefully sized up Kenneth.
Milo had indeed said Kenneth was a friend. Moreover, when they were at Bidara City, both parties had also expressed their attitudes clearly. At the very least, Milo did not have any clear animosity for Kenneth, and it was the same for Kenneth.
She thought for a moment and said, “He should be on the west side. We’re separated by the Sacred Mountains between us.”
Kenneth laughed and said, “When you want to meet your friends and the mountains are in your way, trample on them.”
