NOVEL NEXT Chapter 458: Release the Silk Thread
"And you, which number are you?" Ye Xuan asked.
"Guess." Tang Xuerou smiled at Ye Xuan, her eyes like deep pools that could suck you in if you weren't careful.
Just as their eyes met, Li Hui couldn't help but speak up: "Boss, Sister Xuerou, can you stop flirting already? That shadow has already led people in."
Hearing Li Hui's words, Ye Xuan stretched out his hand and knocked on Li Hui's head: "Who the hell is flirting? Follow me."
With that, Ye Xuan picked up a large machete and walked towards the direction where the shadow and his men had left.
The direction the shadow and his men had taken was not to the factory's rescue station, but towards the office of the head of the forest brigade.
"It seems they are heading to the head's office," Li Hui spoke.
"The head is out fighting, they must want to get something from his office," Ye Xuan pondered.
"The things here of the head, the shadow does not need, I think his target must be He Yalan and Dudu," said Tang Xuerou.
Ye Xuan frowned, remembering that when he had left today, indeed the head had asked He Yalan and Dudu to stay inside, so if they went to the head's office, they would definitely encounter He Yalan and the others.
"It doesn't make sense. Why would they go looking for He Yalan and the others? What do He Yalan and Dudu have..." While Li Hui was speaking, a silken thread suddenly shot out from Ye Xuan's hand.
The thread swiftly struck towards a shadow behind them.
Tang Xuerou quickly stood up, gripping the saw in her hand.
"Shadow." Li Hui turned his face, clearly seeing the person hiding behind Ye Xuan and others, and exclaiming in surprise.
The one leading Tiger and the others earlier was the shadow, and now ambushing Ye Xuan and his group from behind was also the shadow.
"Ah, you guys really came back huh," the shadow said, a smile appearing on his face.
At this moment, the sky had darkened rapidly, and under the gloomy sky, the shadow's smile seemed ghostly.
"Ke Feng, Tang Xuerou, you two head to the head's office, I'll handle this side," Ye Xuan said.
Li Hui and Tang Xuerou exchanged a look, knowing that to stop the shadow and the team he brought with him, they had to act separately now, not to mention, there could be other clones of the shadow elsewhere.
"Well, actually, you don't need to be in such a rush, we're not going to do anything bad," said the shadow with a smile.
"Hurry up." Ye Xuan whispered, his eyes fixed on the shadow's eyes, betraying no ripple of emotion.
"Boss, take care of yourself," Li Hui said, then ran ahead with Tang Xuerou.
Watching Li Hui and Tang Xuerou leave, a smile appeared on the shadow's face: "Ah, this is really too bad, don't you know, my clones are also me?
Now that I know your whereabouts, the one ahead will also see through your plans..."
"No, you don't know," Ye Xuan said quietly, watching the shadow.
Upon hearing Ye Xuan's words, a slight change appeared on the shadow's face, a very subtle change, but for a child like Ye Xuan who grew up in an environment where observing others' expressions was routine, capturing emotions was as common as a meal.
When the clone at the back discovered Ye Xuan and his group, if it could have communicated information to the clone at the front, there should have been a pincer attack during the earlier assault on Ye Xuan, but in fact, there wasn't.
Therefore, communication between clones is likely similar to that between people; they might need to meet to transfer information, or perhaps, the information can be relayed to the original body when the clone is retracted.
"Swoosh."
While Ye Xuan was pondering, the shadow launched another attack on him.
"Bang."
Ye Xuan didn't see clearly what the shadow threw at him, but he still wildly swung the huge machete in his hand. When the object hit the blade of the machete, it emitted a crisp sound.
"You are not my opponent."
"Is this your plan?"
Upon hearing Ye Xuan's words, the emotions in the shadow's eyes fluctuated again, and a few seconds later, the shadow smiled with a curl of his lips: "Tang Xuerou played her part well with you, you trust her a lot, don't you?"
This man is indeed not that simple.
He didn't answer Ye Xuan's question; instead, he shifted the topic to Tang Xuerou. If Ye Xuan was not mistaken, the shadow would likely try to sow discord between him and Tang Xuerou next.
"Tang Xuerou and I knew each other before, you know that, right? We can have quite a deep connection. I think... this time, her mission will also be beautifully completed," the shadow continued to say.
Just as he had anticipated.
The implication of the shadow's words was to make Ye Xuan feel that Tang Xuerou had some sort of relationship with the shadow and approached Ye Xuan and his group with a purpose. Perhaps she and the shadow were accomplices...
If it weren't for the days he had spent with Tang Xuerou, Ye Xuan might have believed what the shadow said, but precisely because of their time together, Ye Xuan wouldn't believe the shadow's words.
Tang Xuerou is someone who appears very indifferent, regardless of the circumstances or environment, always displaying an aloof and indifferent demeanor.
It is precisely because Tang Xuerou is such a person that she wouldn't collaborate with the shadow and his group.
"Bang."
The steel ball released by the shadow collided again with the huge machete swung by Ye Xuan, and when the crisp sound arose, Ye Xuan told himself that he must fight swiftly and decisively.
He couldn't drag this out with the shadow any longer, otherwise, he didn't know if Tang Xuerou and the others could hold on.
"Since Tang Xuerou is in cahoots with you, my people going there now would have no chance of winning. Fighting with you, isn't that just a waste of time?" Ye Xuan stepped back and started to release threads from his fingertips.
"The problem is... your opponent right now is me. You need to defeat me to get past,"
The shadow smiled as he looked at Ye Xuan, his gaze not one of contempt, but of extreme confidence, the kind of confidence where he wouldn't consider anyone else as a threat.
"Are you trying to form a mutant army?" Ye Xuan tried to divert the shadow's attention by talking, while his threads stealthily made their way into the grassland behind him.
The reason Ye Xuan had retreated earlier, to the other side of the wasteland, was actually to take advantage of the grass in the wasteland to hide the threads he was releasing.
Although the shadow was a clone, and killing the clone wouldn't kill the original body, delaying this clone should not be a problem, enabling him to quickly reach the commander's office.