Book 4: Chapter 5: Ebb Tide

Book 4: Chapter 5: Ebb Tide

This man had integrated with the darkness here. He obviously wasnt a Mongolian herder who had strayed here by mistake, nor was he a member of an expedition team that Jin Wantang had found. The reason I say this is because neither of these two people could smile in a place like this.

That was the kind of smile that only people who had everything under control would display.Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

Could this man be the one behind Jin Wantang? Was he the one who set up this scheme to lure us here?

But this person was quite young. Now, I wasnt the kind of person who judged someones intelligence based on their ageI was quite smart when I was younger, after allbut young people often didnt have such big obsessions where they wanted to destroy so many things at once.

I heard Fatty keep calling out to me, so I looked down at the tide of corpses below. They had started to recede, and it wasnt long before the corpses had completely retreated into the darkness.

Did that person leave and drive the corpses away at the same time? Was there any connection between them?

Fatty and Poker-Face made it back down to the ground first, at which point I saw Poker-Face light a temporary stove that could be used for lighting. Then, he climbed back up again and carried me down.

I shook my head. This was obviously a blessing since there werent any curses in religious gestures. Or it was a spell. But that man had looked at me and made this gesture, so what did it mean?

I was so tired that I couldnt think. I looked at Xiao Hua's satellite phone and then glanced at the sky. This was most definitely a cave, so the signal couldnt get out. But how was the satellite signal reaching the grassland? This phone clearly had a top grade battery since it was repeatedly sending messages out after such a long time had passed.

I turned off the phones automatic broadcasting function and then pressed the receive button. This phone was very expensive and comfortable to hold in my hand, so I couldn't help but look around for a moment and want to keep it for ourselves.

But as soon as I clicked accept, I heard someone talking.

Fatty almost sat up in shock. We both exchanged a look before I pressed the receive button again and tuned the frequency. I heard someones voice coming from the satellite phone, "People in the mountains pay attention. Those black rock veins can transmit signals without having to pass through satellites. Just use wireless frequencies."

I knew as soon as I heard it that it was Black Glasses voice. I was so overjoyed that I ended up high-fiving Fatty with my injured hand.

I curled up again because of the pain, but Fatty ignored me and said into the satellite phone, "Black Glasses, where are you?!"