Chapter 704

When he asked the others, their expressions all went blank, as if they had no idea what Ning Chen was talking about. Ning Chen immediately made up his mind.

It seemed only he and the man in sunglasses had heard that sound.

The man in sunglasses took a few deep breaths, seemingly calming himself. He had originally been extremely displeased with Ning Chen, but at this critical moment, Ning Chen was the only person who shared his understanding: "I heard that sound... What should we do? There must be many people over there; we may not be able to contend with them."

Hearing this, Ning Chen said, "If you are afraid, you can go back first."

The man in sunglasses paused for a moment, seemingly considering the feasibility of Ning Chen's words. He indeed wanted to go back, but abandoning his teammates was something difficult for him to do.

So the man in sunglasses quickly shook his head: "Forget it, but I think the most important thing right now is to find reinforcements."

Ning Chen sneered: "It takes several hours to return from here to the entrance. If we want to find reinforcements, today will already be over. Do you still want to go in?"

The man in sunglasses nodded: "Of course!"

Ning Chen saw that he was afraid of death, but everyone wanted to live. Ning Chen knew the man in sunglasses wanted to survive, so he simply said: "Finding reinforcements is useless. If you want to live and get out, stick close to the group... After all, even I don't know who is hiding inside."

611 Dodge, Hide

Among these groups, Ning Chen was considered the leader. If even Ning Chen could do nothing about those people, the fate of the others could be imagined.

The man in sunglasses said: "I understand what you mean..."

He only said this, but did not state his attitude. Therefore, Ning Chen did not know whether the man in sunglasses wanted to escape or continue following them.

But whatever choice he made was understandable.

Ning Chen said: "Think it over carefully yourself."

After speaking, Ning Chen stopped talking and walked back to the uncle's side, saying: "Follow this direction; we can arrive in at most an hour. Get ready first."

Hearing this, the uncle opened the backpack he had always kept close to his body. Ning Chen felt somewhat curious about the things inside, so he stood beside the uncle.

He saw the uncle take a handgun out of the backpack, but that handgun did not seem as handy and easy to use as the handguns Ning Chen usually used. Ning Chen reached out his hand and placed it in front of the uncle: "I want to see this gun."

The uncle only said: "Be careful; don't accidentally fire the gun."

Ning Chen said nothing. With one hand, he hooked the gun, flipped his wrist, and the gun spun once in his hand. This maneuver was performed so skillfully and beautifully that it was obvious he used guns frequently.

The uncle suddenly understood something. He looked at Ning Chen: "Have you used a gun?"

"More than just used," Ning Chen carefully examined the gun body, "I am quite interested in guns and have played with some before."

Ning Chen did not elaborate, but these few words made the uncle understand what Ning Chen meant. The uncle sighed: "This gun of mine is also an old type. These years in the country, I have never been able to get a new gun, so I can only make do with this one."

Compared to other guns, handguns do not have such great power. Hearing this, Ning Chen tossed the gun in his hand, then said: "We are facing people. For people, the threat a handgun can cause is already enough."

Hearing Ning Chen's confident assurance, the uncle's hanging heart relaxed a bit: "At that time, I will try my best to catch those people."

Hearing this, Ning Chen chuckled briefly: "Although I haven't seen them, how could they be so easy to deal with? Thinking a single handgun is enough to deal with them is too difficult."

The uncle looked back at the others following behind and said: "We still have quite a few people..."

Ning Chen only smiled and said nothing.

After walking forward a bit further, everyone heard that strange sound.

This sound did not suddenly disappear like last night; instead, it continued, and even grew louder as the group approached.

Ning Chen's heartbeat quickened slightly. He reached out to stop the people behind who wanted to follow further and said: "I will go ahead to check first; you wait here."

"Can you do it?" the uncle was the first to answer Ning Chen, "Alone?"

Ning Chen nodded: "Yes." After speaking, he walked straight ahead toward the place where the sound came from.

Ning Chen's pace was fast, first to prevent people behind from following, and second to quickly see what was ahead.

Ning Chen dared not make a sound; even while walking quickly, he stepped slowly forward on the thick leaves.

Through the branches and thick tree trunks, Ning Chen finally saw the true appearance of the place where the sound came from.

All the trees in that area had been cut down, leaving only stumps. The low stumps could not block anything, so the scene in that area was easily revealed before Ning Chen's eyes.

More than a dozen people were gathered around the stumps. The first thing Ning Chen noticed was their clothing; they all wore uniform black long robes reaching their ankles, and they were not even wearing shoes.

Those people wore a strange-looking chain on their heads, hanging in front of their foreheads. Some were long enough to hang down and cover their eyes, looking strange and peculiar.

At this moment, those dozen or so people formed a circle. The center of the circle was too far from Ning Chen, so he could not see clearly what was inside. But what he could see clearly was that the dozen or so people holding hands hung their heads, enclosing whatever was in the middle, making escape impossible.

Ning Chen held his breath and focused his spirit, trying to minimize his presence so those people would not notice him so easily. Then, with his back against the tree trunk, he slowly moved sideways along the trunk.

The movement was very cautious. In the blink of an eye, he dashed sideways and moved behind another tree stump within just two seconds.

Such speed could only be seen as a blur; it was not the speed of a normal human, so naturally, no one discovered Ning Chen's figure.

Ning Chen found a more suitable position for watching and leaned against the back of the tree trunk to look forward. Although this position was suitable for spying, it was also very easy to be discovered, because the area ahead was a Lin Zi where people had cut down the tree trunks. As long as one easily poked their head out, they would definitely be discovered.

After a while, those people suddenly started moving around the circle.

Hearing the sound, Ning Chen quickly poked his head out a bit more. This time, he clearly saw the movements of those people.

They circled around, moving in a way that tended toward the bizarre. If not for Ning Chen being able to perceive that they were all humans, he would have questioned what those things actually were.

Ning Chen stayed behind the tree trunk watching for a while. Those people were simply dancing in a circle around something. Although their movements were indeed exaggerated, they did not make any substantively harmful actions.

Ning Chen squinted his eyes and watched for another minute. Perceiving that there were only a few dozen people in this area, he concluded they should not be his opponents.

So Ning Chen stopped staying here and secretly slipped out from behind the tree trunk. His figure moved back and forth hiding between every tree. After hiding several times, no one actually discovered anything abnormal.

After ensuring his current position was safe, Ning Chen increased his speed and returned along the original path, bumping into a group of people coming toward him.

Seeing them, Ning Chen sighed with some headache and walked over to say: "Didn't I say to wait for me at the original position? Why did you all come over?"

The uncle said: "I brought them over; I was afraid something bad would happen to you."

Hearing this, Ning Chen nodded: "It is good that you came... I indeed saw more than a dozen people over there, but they do not constitute a threat."

Hearing Ning Chen say this, more and more people gathered around, all crowding close to Ning Chen's side to listen to him speak.

Ning Chen introduced the situation in detail. Those who understood the situation also felt that these dozen or so people did not constitute a threat and kept proposing that Ning Chen lead them over.

Ning Chen said: "I only saw more than a dozen people; there might be an ambush inside. Better be careful." After speaking, his gaze swept backward once: "Everyone follow me; try not to be discovered."

Ning Chen currently held absolute dominant position. No one dared to refute his words, after all, Ning Chen was the only one who knew the situation ahead.

"How is it possible not to be discovered?" Although no one dared to disobey his orders, someone still argued: "There are so many of us; could we possibly go in one by one? You make it sound too easy."

Ning Chen glanced at the sunglasses-wearing man who had spoken; he seemed already accustomed to that sarcastic tone of his, and merely said with a smile that didn't reach his eyes, "Then I'll toss you in first to draw their attention. How about that?"

The sunglasses man shrank back, knowing Ning Chen was absolutely capable of doing such a thing; the look in his eyes as he gazed at Ning Chen now carried a hint of fear: "Are you a mad dog? Do you bite anyone you see?"

"No," Ning Chen said very calmly, "but when it comes to disciplining beasts, I still have my methods."

The two's words grew increasingly excessive; the uncle nearby heard this and frowned, saying, "Enough, both of you, say a little less."

Only then did the sunglasses man stop speaking.

Ning Chen wasn't that idle; here, besides the Hua Guo team, there were teams from other countries as well. Merely explaining the situation to one team was useless; to gain cooperation, he must also explain it to the other teams.

So Ning Chen walked in front of the captains of the other teams and briefly introduced the situation to them in various different languages. These people were more reasonable than the sunglasses man; Ning Chen's communication with them was not difficult. After they basically understood the situation, those people all nodded in agreement.

But there were too many people; hiding them all was not easy, so Ning Chen temporarily chose to take only a few people to check the situation.

Ning Chen brought several people with good skills; those people followed behind Ning Chen, dodging left and right with him, slowly approaching the place Ning Chen had approached before.

Ning Chen leaned his back against a tree trunk and thought.

He must find a way to make those dozen or so people unable to make a sound; otherwise, it would be very easy for the people inside to discover them.

Ning Chen glanced at the situation outside and found those people were still repeating their previous actions, continuously circling around the thing in the middle.

He suddenly thought of something, turned his head, and made a gesture to the people behind him, telling them not to act rashly for the time being and to just hide behind the tree trunk.

He himself then slowly moved to the side, adjusted his heartbeat and breathing, and suddenly rushed out at an extremely fast speed.

His speed had almost reached its peak; when he passed, he was like a gust of wind, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived behind the cover next to those dozen or so people.

That cover seemed to be a stone sculpture, very large, but not carved so meticulously; it looked more like an ordinary large stone that someone had casually ground into a vertical block.

head.

That thick width was just enough to hide Ning Chen; he hid his whole body behind the pillar, and from the angle of those dozen or so people, they couldn't see Ning Chen at all.

Ning Chen hid behind the pillar and observed for a while; at such a time, he had to do his best to minimize his presence, and this tension was also clearly infecting the other viewers inside the live broadcast room.

"The streamer is acting like a thief; watching this makes me so nervous."

"My suggestion here is to just pull out a handgun and charge in; why worry about so much? It's not entertaining to watch."

"The streamer is still too cowardly; there are so many people on your side, I don't know what you're afraid of."

"Can the trolls stop talking? What if they get discovered by the people inside? Are you going to lead everyone to their deaths?"

"Exactly, don't be too self-righteous; it's as if the streamer would listen to your words."

Ning Chen indeed would not listen to the bullet screen comments; he even found them noisy. At this moment, he focused all his attention on those dozen or so people behind him, while his own teammates were hiding outside.

The teammates were all very cooperative; they all concealed their forms. He had brought over a dozen people, and not a single one was discovered. What Ning Chen feared was that someone would drop the ball midway, but now it seemed he was overthinking it.

He watched for a while, then prepared to move sideways along this "sculpture"; in the instant he adjusted his angle, Ning Chen's Yu Guang suddenly caught sight of something.

He froze instantly; fortunately, Ning Chen reacted quickly. Even while in a state of extreme shock, he could respond rapidly; he immediately used the "sculpture" to turn his body, tucking back the tiny bit of clothing hem that had just been exposed.

This entire series of actions came so quickly that no one noticed.

After hiding properly, Ning Chen breathed heavily a few times; the scene he had just seen replayed repeatedly before his eyes.