Chapter 1506: Young Master Zhao in a Pool of Blood! Ada Lures the Crowd Away!

Perhaps it was because Enkuan didn't recognize many of the items, thinking them useless, so he only took some weapons with him.

Fortunately, they had already found new things on the plane wreckage and no longer relied on those previous weapons.

On this premise, Yang Lu didn't worry too much about the matter of supplies afterward.

The four of them rushed straight over and discovered Young Master Zhao, covered in blood, right at the scene.

At this moment, Young Master Zhao lay in a pool of blood, his eyes still open, and the emotion in them was not fear, but the relief of having narrowly escaped death.

Yang Lu swept a glance at Young Master Zhao and immediately knew that this blood covering him was not his own at all, and at some unknown point a blood-red coffin had appeared at the scene.

The coffin still hadn't been opened, and behind it lay four or five people with scratch marks on their bodies.

Seeing these claw marks, everyone immediately thought of the eagle owls they had seen before—apart from those creatures, no other living thing here could have claws that large.

Yang Lu first grabbed Young Master Zhao and asked, "You're not hurt, are you?"

Young Master Zhao hurriedly shook his head, and Yang Lu continued asking, "Where's Ada?"

Young Master Zhao hurriedly pointed to a spot in the depths and said, "Ada went that way. He went to lure Enkuan and his group away."

Yang Lu looked into the distance and subconsciously nodded, then immediately said, "You few stay here. Don't touch the coffin. I'll go ahead and find Ada."

Right now, Yang Lu was actually quite surprised that Ada could do this. On one hand, it was to save Young Master Zhao; on the other hand, it was to buy time for Archaeology Team Two.

Although Yang Lu understood that all this didn't come from Ada having any particular feelings for Archaeology Team Two, the root cause ultimately traced back to his sister.

Just like Yang Lu's earlier judgment—as long as his sister was safe, everything else didn't matter to Ada.

Since Yang Lu had already made that promise to Ada before, telling him she would secure the best conditions for his sister, the best education, and everything else,

and Ada had chosen to believe Yang Lu, then for Ada now, even giving up his own life for Archaeology Team Two would not be too high a price.

Although he still didn't understand what Yang Lu had been after all along this journey, insisting on entering this Worm Valley where most people would die horribly the moment they stepped in,

none of that mattered to Ada anymore. Since his group of villagers had now become an obstacle to Yang Lu and the others, and had—intentionally or not—overheard their conversations,

Ada knew there were other pursuers behind Yang Lu, so he felt that if he could help Archaeology Team Two deal with a batch of those soldiers, it would still be beneficial to him.

At the start, they were surrounded and blocked by Enkuan with over a dozen men, and along the way they had evaded that previous spot and fled all the way here.

Ada also didn't know where Yang Lu had gone; he simply thought that as long as he didn't leave in the direction Yang Lu had taken earlier, it would be fine.

Originally, this whole thing was Ada's doing alone, but Young Master Zhao still followed along.

In the end, by a twist of fate, by the time Yang Lu returned to the spot, they had just arrived at that previous place.

Young Master Zhao, however, followed closely behind. At that moment he saw the eagle owls attacking the villagers, and then in the distance Ada's back as Enkuan and his men chased straight after him.

By the time Young Master Zhao walked in to check the situation, he was pounced on by an eagle owl. Fortunately, he had the gun Wang Kaixuan had given him, which he had kept on him the whole time, and he nimbly fired two shots that scared the eagle owl off.

Those eagle owls all followed the main group and left.

This was also why Young Master Zhao had been lying in a pool of blood earlier without being injured.

After hearing Young Master Zhao recount all this, Wang Kaixuan and Hu Bayi each gave him a big slap across the face!

"You little punk, how can you be such a coward? Fight them, damn it! Don't you have a gun in your hand?!"

Young Master Zhao didn't mind, shook his head and said, "These are villagers. If we killed them, it wouldn't look good if word got out."

Shen Qiong covered her mouth and laughed, saying, "See that? He's far more thoughtful than the two of you."

Five minutes later, Yang Lu walked back. Ada was not beside her, and everyone looked at her with expectant eyes, only to see her shake her head.

Immediately after, everyone sighed along with her. Ada's chances on this trip were probably truly slim—and the reason lay not with the villagers pursuing him, but with Worm Valley itself, which brimmed with danger at every turn.

If one were to run about recklessly, even someone with such strong individual combat ability as Yang Lu wouldn't dare claim they could emerge unscathed everywhere.

Let alone Ada, with so many people in tow—if they happened to encounter some mechanism or trap, they might well end up torn to pieces.

But Yang Lu stuck to her principle: she had to consider the big picture. If she stubbornly led people to search for Ada now, it wouldn't do Archaeology Team Two's subsequent journey any good.

At the start, the assurance Yang Lu had given Ada was that he would obey her orders and carry them out completely, and that she had a ninety percent chance of keeping him alive.

But now Ada's actions had clearly exceeded that. Although Yang Lu could understand Ada's good intentions, he had simply been a little too well-intentioned.

Actually, Ada hadn't needed to do this at all. Against this handful of villagers, Yang Lu still had absolute confidence—she simply didn't want a direct confrontation with them.

Because once they clashed, it would be a complete dimensional reduction strike.

Yang Lu had zero interest in this kind of bullying the weak with overwhelming force. Besides, no matter how greedy or despicable these villagers were, they could be handed over to the authorities afterward.

If the authorities forcibly intervened in this matter, even if Enkuan got out alive, he wouldn't be jumping around for more than a few days.

Although these places had never had official involvement before, it all still depended on the authorities' mood. Toward such small minority groups, the authorities had initially adopted a respectful attitude.

But once they affected Archaeology Team Two's subsequent operations, the authorities naturally wouldn't hold back. At the very least, those ringleaders who had tried to covet the treasures would be dealt with severely.

This was the principle of avoidance Yang Lu had adhered to all along.

But now, saying anything was useless. Yang Lu sighed and said, "Young Master Zhao, tell me what happened just now."

Young Master Zhao had already recounted his experience once before, and now that Yang Lu asked him, he naturally patiently repeated it all again—even more detailed than the first time.

After hearing all this, Yang Lu couldn't help narrowing her eyes slightly, a strange glint flashing through them.

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