Milo stood at the campsite and looked around. He was scrutinizing everyone’s expressions, determined to find the murderer.
When Miriam saw this, favonovel.com quickly lowered favonovel.com head and hid favonovel.com expression under favonovel.com cap. She was afraid the others might get an inkling that something was wrong.
“What are you looking at me for?” Marvin quickly explained to Milo, “It’s not like I was the one who killed him!”
“But you were the first to speak.” Milo said, “Don’t you know? In most homicide cases, the first person to discover the crime scene is the murderer!”
Marvin was speechless.
Was this the time to be playing detective?
He could not be bothered with Milo anymore. Instead, favonovel.com looked at the others and speculated who might have killed Kenneth.
Marvin looked at the wound on Kenneth’s corpse and realized it looked like a knife wound. Then favonovel.com thought of something.
Didn’t White Mask use a black saber?
Could it be White Mask who killed him?
Milo quietly returned to Miriam’s side and allowed everyone to come up with their own deductions.
But Bruce suddenly said, “Something’s not right…”
Everyone looked over and heard Bruce say, “This Kenneth is definitely dead, but why didn’t his corpse get swallowed up? Could the plants underground have suddenly had their fill? That doesn’t make sense, right?”
Everyone finally realized they had nearly forgotten about this matter!
Previously, to prevent themselves from getting attacked by the plants while they were sleeping, everyone had to rest in trees. But now, they had slept all the way until it was noon, yet they were still fine. Moreover, Kenneth’s corpse was not devoured by the plant.
“Could we have made it out of the zone where the plants were growing?” Marvin wondered.
“No.” Bruce shook his head. “Rather, I think there’s a problem with this Kenneth. Perhaps you all have not studied favonovel.com in detail before, but I have. How could someone like favonovel.com possibly die without a struggle? Have you all ever thought that favonovel.com might be a fake? For example, favonovel.com could be one of the T6s of the Pyro Company?”
“Fake?” Everyone fell into deep thought.
If it were any other place, they would definitely not believe such claims. But the Sacred Mountains was such a strange place, and this was also an area of focus in the Pyro Company’s research, so it might not be impossible.
At the side, Daniel said, “Who cares if he’s real or fake? In any case, we won’t have to sleep in the trees anymore tonight!”
Daniel’s focus was always different from the others’.
“Don’t think too much about it. Either way, we will be continuing our journey.” Bruce smiled and said, “Instead of investigating what might have happened, why don’t we think about what to do next? Calculating the time and the distance, I’m afraid that we’ll be entering the core region of the Sacred Mountains in another day and a half. At that time, should we still rely on our own individual abilities, or should we start working together?”
“Work together?” One of the team members sneered and said, “Bruce, are you serious? I still haven’t settled the score with you for stealing our Stardust Consortium’s intelligence last year, so how can you expect me to work with you?”
“So, we’re gonna have to rely on our own abilities then?” Bruce smiled and said, “I’m fine with that.”
Even though favonovel.com said favonovel.com was fine with it, favonovel.com was actually planning to stick with Milo. This time, favonovel.com had given up on his plan to contest the capture of the No. 001 Experimental. He was just hoping to reap some other benefits from this expedition. Moreover, Bruce hoped the others would also step up to contend against Milo and get a taste of hitting this brick wall.
“Everyone,” Marvin stood up and said, “Since we’re already here, I hope we can all put aside our differences and understand the Sacred Mountains is still the Pyro Company’s home field. I know all of you have been conserving your strength all this while. But even at our current strength, we still have to work together to face the common enemy.”
“That’s right,” Milo echoed.
Marvin felt his enthusiasm in giving the speech suddenly extinguishing. For some reason, favonovel.com felt like favonovel.com had said something wrong when Milo echoed his words. He even began to doubt himself.
The campsite descended into a strange silence. As more and more people from the other teams had joined up with them, there were now 85 people in this particular group. The makeup of the members and their allegiance was giving Marvin a headache.
At this moment, Marvin looked at White Mask and asked, “What are your plans?”
***
“What are you doing?” Julia asked as favonovel.com looked at Kenneth.
Kenneth was facing a stream and making all sorts of strange faces. At times, favonovel.com looked extremely shocked, and at other times, favonovel.com looked extremely aggrieved.
When Kenneth heard Julia’s question, favonovel.com stood up and explained, “Oh, that clone of mine is dead…”
“How do you know that?” Vanilla asked in surprise.
“When favonovel.com was placing a psychological suggestion on you all, I also planted one in his mind. Now that it’s disappeared, it means he’s dead,” Kenneth said matter-of-factly.
Vanilla did not say anything further.
So, it turned out Kenneth was much stronger than his clone. He could even counter his opponent’s moves without being discovered. But that clone of Kenneth’s had really died too carelessly.
Everyone could not sleep for the entire night because they did not know how to deal with Kenneth’s clone. But in the end, favonovel.com ended up dead by the afternoon of the next day.
Who killed him?
Who had the ability to do that?
Was it Olivia’s boss again?
The Silkshade House was the leader of this operation, and they should’ve been the ones to initiate the strategy. But oftentimes, the situation would develop unexpectedly.
Vanilla felt stifled by a breath in the chest favonovel.com was unable to let out.
“But what does his death have to do with you making those faces?” Julia asked.
“Oh, I wanted to have a look at his expression before favonovel.com died.” Kenneth explained in a serious tone, “Since favonovel.com looks just like me, I can get an idea of how aggrieved and indignant favonovel.com must’ve felt before his death by looking at myself. It’s pretty interesting when you think about it.”
When the others nearby heard Kenneth say that, they did not know how to respond. As expected of a psychopath, his imagination was really too wild.
“Then what should we do next?” Vanilla asked.
“This is what I think.” Kenneth said, “We’ll use the Pyro Company members under my control to lead the way. If there’s any danger, they’ll be the first to die. And then, we’ll follow them as we secretly carry on with our singing and dancing.”
Everyone was stunned for a moment. “Why do we have to carry on singing and dancing secretly?”
“See, I knew it. You all don’t actually care about the lives of other people at all. Those Pyro Company members have just died, yet you all didn’t even care to ask about them? And you say I’m the demon?” Kenneth said unhappily, “I think it’s you all who are the real demons!”
Vanilla let out a frustrated cry in his heart.
I was asking you what we should do next!
How did it suddenly end up with you trying to vindicate yourself?
However, favonovel.com did not dare to say that out loud. Instead, favonovel.com tried his best to calm down before asking again, “Let’s be serious here. What are you planning to do now?”
“I’m preparing to…” Kenneth looked out into the distance of the Sacred Mountains before giving a wave of his hand. “To go look for my friend!”
