Chapter 578: They Have Returned

A few minutes later, the group arrived at their respective ambush locations.

Wang An's team included Feng Chengmin, Seeing Mu Xueli, Wang Li, and Zhang Shuya, five people in total; the other team consisted of the remaining five.

The reason for this distribution was simply that Wang An and Feng Chengmin's group were all hunters, while Wu Dong and the others were all retired soldiers.

This way, the cooperation within each team could be smoother.

As for why there was one extra person, Zhang Shuya, on Wang An's side, it was simply because the personnel had to be distributed evenly. Besides, Zhang Shuya had a whistle, which could serve as a means of mutual communication at critical moments.

After the group lay in ambush on the two paths that had to be taken, they lay there without moving.

These two paths were actually not far apart; one was in the shrubbery by the riverbank, and the other was in a place with sparser trees.

The group unanimously believed that for the sake of speed, the other side would definitely come on horseback, and as long as they were riding horses, they would certainly take the path with fewer obstacles.

These two paths were precisely the easiest to traverse in the vicinity.

And the places where the group lay in ambush also had excellent visibility.

The reason it was said that one could have "good visibility" at night was that in these mountains, as long as it wasn't overcast, rainy, or cloudy, the moon would normally be hanging high in the sky.

Even if the mountain wind was strong, the visibility would be quite good; this situation was also locally called "big moon ground."

In short, in this situation, one could see, but the visibility was very low and very close.

Distinguishing what things were might be difficult, but as long as a person or a large animal approached, one could see a large black mass.

And tonight was just like that.

It must be said that the feeling of waiting was truly quite unbearable, mainly because this time period was when people were at their sleepiest.

Just as Wang An was about to fall asleep while lying there, Wang Li nudged Wang An and whispered: "Fourth Brother, they seem to have come."

It must be said that Wang An's heart was still very large; he could fall asleep in such a situation, which showed how calm Wang An was at this moment.

In fact, people are just like this; the more things they experience, the stronger their stress resistance becomes, and their state of mind becomes increasingly stable; no matter what happens, it won't affect them.

However, being as carefree as Wang An was truly a bit excessive.

Hearing Wang Li's words, Wang An immediately became alert, and quite alert at that.

Wang An tried hard to look ahead, but unfortunately, he saw nothing, so Wang An asked Wang Li: "Where? Why don't I see anything?"

Wang Li replied while looking ahead: "I don't see anything either, I just heard the sound of horse hooves, quite a lot of horses."

After Wang Li finished speaking, Feng Chengmin also said with a puzzled face:

"I heard it too, it's been quite a while, why haven't they come over yet?"

Just as Feng Chengmin finished speaking, Zhang Shuya and Seeing Mu Xueli also chimed in one after another.

Hearing the words of these four, Wang An was directly dumbfounded, mainly because Wang An truly hadn't heard anything! This was a strange thing! Just as Wang An was looking around in a daze, he vaguely saw people in front, and a damn large group of them, but the visibility was poor, and he could only see a large pile of black masses.

Wang An's brows subconsciously furrowed deeply.

Mainly because in this damn wilderness, how could there be so many people? Besides, Ma Zhengshan only had a limited number of ten or so men left, and he couldn't possibly gather so many people! Just as Wang An was pondering what was going on in his heart, he heard Wang Li whisper again:

"I hear them, they seem to have gotten closer." Feng Chengmin nodded upon hearing this and said:

"Mm, the sound of horse hooves is indeed much clearer."

Zhang Shuya also said immediately:

"Let's not worry about the bullets in a while, just shoot ruthlessly, and we can go back and sleep for a while after we're done."

But Seeing Mu Xueli said: "They don't seem to have come over, they've left again."

Wang Li replied: "Yeah, what did they go do? They didn't go toward Brother Wu's side either."

Wang An listened to the voices of these four people and was even more dumbfounded, because until now, Wang An still hadn't heard anything.

However, Wang An did see that pile of black masses moving further and further away.

The more Wang An thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong; why did the four of them hear the sound, while he only saw the pile of black masses?

After a while, Wang An finally discovered that the pile of black masses had disappeared, and Zhang Shuya said: "What did they go do? Why did they leave?"

The other three started discussing again, but Wang An was stuck in a daze and couldn't extricate himself! It could be seen that these four people were not lying, but had truly heard the sound.

Wang An pondered suspiciously for a long time before he suddenly realized one thing: what these four heard and what he saw were actually the same group of people.

It's just that this "same group of people" might not be people, but "certain things" passing by.

Wang An shook his head, wanting to clear this unrealistic thought from his mind.

You must know that this is the New China, where even animals are not allowed to become spirits; how could things like "frightened horse troughs" still appear? However, thoughts are like "nightmares"; once they arise, they will unconsciously pop up on their own.

Moreover, not long ago, that is, seven or eight hours ago, what the group did in the pit was still vivid in his mind.

The hidden sentries, the people in the tent on the mountainside, and the laborers and supervisors in the pit—all these people added together were a full fifty or sixty people! And the standard for "Yin soldiers borrowing the road" is said to be 49 people; if the number doesn't exceed this, there won't be Yin soldiers and ghost generals coming.

But the lives of these people exceeded the number 49.

Wang An looked at his watch; it was exactly 12:59 AM, which meant it was about to pass the Zi hour.

Then Wang An glanced in the direction where the black masses had left, and vaguely saw a pair of snow-white eyeballs without pupils looking back... Damn it, what is this situation? This is too damn weird!

Just as Wang An's entire brain was in a state of daze, confusion, and bewilderment, he suddenly heard Wang Li whisper beside him: "Fourth Brother, there's no sound, they've gone far away."

Wang An blinked, discovering that the pair of snow-white eyeballs had completely disappeared.

Subconsciously looking at his watch, the time was just past 1:00 AM, which meant the Zi hour had passed.

Suppressing his full heart of questions, Wang An frowned and looked toward the pit, and then, Wang An saw a pile of black masses again, but this time the number of black masses was small, only 8.

At the same time, Wang An heard Zhang Shuya's voice in his ear:

"Get ready, they've come back!"

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