Chapter 826: Bad, fooled!!

Bad, fooled!!

(Big cup today~)

Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu did indeed take a step first.

Their exchange was not that deep. After learning the truth of this experiment, the two fell into contemplation. Not long after, Ai Si came back. She didn't find any materials and said that there was nothing in this underground pipe except silt and waste water.

However, she was not without harvest. At least she brought back one thing.

When Ai Si stretched out her fist, the two Steady Faction members in the data room didn't go forward to watch with interest. They looked at Ai Si with almost the same head-up defensive posture. The meaning was clearly that whether this was intelligence or a prank, they wouldn't be fooled before safety was verified.

This overly synchronized frequency made Ai Si feel that she was probably the only outsider in this team.

"Are you so wary of me?

Even if I play small tricks again, can I still fool you two?"

As she spoke, Ai Si opened her hand, revealing a pitch-black ball eroded by mud in her palm.

Seeing this dirty little ball, Cheng Shi was stunned, blinked and confused: "What is this thing?"

The next second, Ai Si smiled and slowly turned the ball. I saw that the area full of mud and dirt still revealed a original color. Cheng Shi looked at it, and after just one glance, he guessed what this was.

"..."

Clown's nose!

This little ball stained with dirty water was exactly a red clown nose.

"Fine, fine, fine, I'm solving the puzzle for you here, and you specially brought a ball stained with dirty water to mess with my mentality, right!"

Cheng Shi laughed in anger. He pinched the ball and stuck it toward Ai Si's nose. Ai Si shrank fiercely, dodged Cheng Shi's teasing, and hurriedly retreated while shaking her head:

"Don't do it, although this is very funny, I have to emphasize one point, this is not brought by me, I really picked it up in the pipe.

If you don't believe it, look carefully, this clown nose has some years."

"?"

Cheng Shi stopped his hand and frowned. He observed the red nose carefully for a while and then threw it to Squinty Old Zhang. Zhang Jizu took it and looked at it for a while, nodding:

"Indeed, the fluff has almost fallen off, and the shell is also a bit fragile. It has indeed been some years.

Supervisor, where did you pick it up?"

"On the way of exploration, the passage here is unobstructed, and there is no extra thing at all. If I hadn't touched this clown nose by my feet, maybe I wouldn't have picked it up?

But I want to ask you two, why would this kind of thing appear here?"

"..."

Although Cheng Shi was also very curious, he instinctively wanted to refuse to answer.

"Maybe it was blown in from outside the passage, maybe Wells brought it in, and at worst it could be a scholar who had nothing to do and played with it. What's so strange about it? I said Supervisor, you didn't bring anything back after going out, how can you have the face to come back.

We of course know that there is nothing in the passage, but how are you sure that there are no other secret rooms like this data room in other places?

You have a problem, do you know something?"

Cheng Shi began to make trouble. Ai Si's expression froze, and a panic that could not be concealed flashed in her eyes.

Seeing this, Cheng Shi chuckled and didn't pursue it.

"Fine, if you didn't find it, you didn't find it. I think these materials might be more on the ground than underground. Since that's the case, go around the stronghold and let the scavengers help.

But as the only one who didn't contribute, you, Supervisor, you are responsible for moving this war machine up."

Ai Si's face turned black, but she had no position to refute, so she had to glare at Cheng Shi fiercely and carry the war machine away from the secret room.

Cheng Shi and Zhang Jizu fell behind, watching such a slender figure carrying a war machine almost twice the size as if walking on flat ground, Cheng Shi was amazed:

"This Supervisor is more knowledgeable about this place than we thought.

She didn't even ask what we found, heh, even excuses like 'afraid of being sanctioned by 【Silence】 trial' are too lazy to think. Old Zhang, you say she wouldn't be here for that 'God of No Faith', right?"

Zhang Jizu also had doubts in his heart. He narrowed his eyes and didn't make a sound, just shook his head to show that he didn't know.

But the doubt in his heart was not what Ai Si came for, but that this Ai Si always gave people a feeling that something was wrong.

Although the other party was panicked, she seemed to have some confident confidence. Why is this?

Thinking of this, Zhang Jizu looked back at the direction Ai Si left when exploring when leaving, and looked down at the complex footprints at the door, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Old Zhang, why are you stunned, follow up."

"Hmm, coming."

Hearing Cheng Shi's urging, Zhang Jizu shook his head and smiled, dragging Prott to follow. It's just that he didn't mention anything he just discovered to Cheng Shi.

The three quickly "returned the same way" and returned to the ground, walking straight toward the southern stronghold. But this road had just gone halfway, and the expressions of the three players all sank.

Because they found that when the barbed wire appeared in their field of vision again, the fog that was boiling and rolling before had actually calmed down!

The Ghost Tide had subsided!

Not only that, when they came to the barbed wire, looking at the corpses lying not far away in the fog through the not-too-dense fog, their expressions changed again and again.

These were clearly the outer scavengers who rushed in just now.

It's not strange that there are a few corpses in the fog, scavengers can't keep silent, so they will naturally die in the fog. But the strange thing is that there was still intermittent smoke coming from the waists and bosoms of these corpses, and the color of the smoke was extremely similar to the dark gray fog rolling in the fog before...

Now, anyone with eyes could guess what was going on.

The expressions of the three turned black instantly.

Bad, fooled!

The Ghost Tide was fake!

These scavengers did rush into the Land of Piety and did die inside, but...

Zhang Jizu narrowed his eyes, a flash of essence in his eyes:

"The number of these people probably didn't trigger a real Ghost Tide. Someone used smoke to fake a Ghost Tide, and killed Wells, who knew the rules of the Ghost Tide best in this area.

The plan is not meticulous, it can even be said to be extremely rough, but it won by being a step ahead of us, using the speed advantage to hit an information gap. A simple and effective scam. As for the purpose of this scam..."

"Naturally, it is to block our steps." Ai Si's expression was also wonderful. She was clearly very surprised by this scam, "Our teammates seem to have led us by more than one step."

Up to this point, Cheng Shi, who connected all the wrong things, finally realized that he had been swayed by that teammate who grabbed the start.

The three-day trial was slowed down by half a day by a smoke maze for no reason!

Fine, fine, fine. Besides that missing female player surnamed Zhen, he really couldn't think of anyone else who could do this step.

"However, no matter how fast she is, the time to reach the southern stronghold is at most a little ahead of us. It can only be said that the secret of Wells gave her a chance by mistake, greatly slowing down our steps.

She is very likely to have slipped in using this gap!

And she must have 【Silence】 props on her.

Old Zhang, we don't have much time left. This person..."

Cheng Shi frowned, seemingly thinking about how to deal with this Prott who led the wrong way. Prott was not stupid. He saw Cheng Shi's meaning, covered his mouth with horror, and hummed: "I won't say anything out."

However, his begging for mercy was useless. Zhang Jizu on the side narrowed his eyes, stepped forward, and directly stabbed the scalpel in his hand into Prott's chest.

Only hearing a "stab—" sound, the luster in Prott's eyes gradually disappeared, and he died directly in Zhang Jizu's arms.

"?"

Seeing this, Cheng Shi was stunned, looked at Zhang Jizu and blinked, "Old Zhang, when did you become so decisive?"

"This is not decisive, but pragmatic. Since the Ghost Tide is fake, what we need to do is to catch up with that missing lone wolf as soon as possible. There is no time to be a nanny for NPCs.

Cheng Shi, don't forget what we are here for."

Zhang Jizu pointed to the Land of Piety in the iron net and continued:

"Before going in, we must integrate the existing intelligence and news again to prevent a second cognitive deviation like the current one, so... please, Weaver of Fate."

As he spoke, Zhang Jizu reached out and signaled Cheng Shi to go first.

Cheng Shi glanced at the corpse on the ground, smacked his lips and started to move. Squinty Old Zhang followed closely, steadily falling half a body behind.

Ai Si didn't rush to leave. She looked meaningfully at the direction the three came from, waved her hands casually to cover Prott's corpse in the snow, wiped away the footprints and traces around, and then followed with a chuckle.

The wind rolled and the snow fell. Not long after, this area returned to silence. ===== CHAPTER 827 =====