Living room.
Lin Qiye, Cao Yuan, Baili Pangpang, Jialan, and Zhou Ping sat around the table, all wearing grave expressions...
Except for Zhou Ping.
"Senior Sword Saint, that Wind Vein Earth Dragon is already beyond our capabilities, so..." Lin Qiye began carefully.
"I'll handle it." Zhou Ping nodded slightly. "But right now, I can't sense its presence anywhere in this city."
"Could they have already left?" Baili Pangpang could not help asking. "After all, they attacked Team 008 more than ten days ago. After all this time, there's no reason for them to still be in Lintang City, right?"
Lin Qiye frowned slightly and pondered for a long time...
"No, that's unlikely." Lin Qiye slowly spoke. "Believers taking the initiative to attack a stationed Night Watchmen team has never happened before. That means unless it was necessary, they would not have deliberately provoked the local Night Watchmen team—especially a top-ranked team like 008."
"Could it be that they aren't Believers at all? Maybe what Jiang Er heard was just a smokescreen?"
"I don't think they would lie in front of a group of corpses."
"True..."
"If they really are Believers, and they deliberately wiped out the local Night Watchmen team, then I can only think of one possibility." Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes. "They're planning something major, and while carrying it out, there's a chance Team 008 might discover it and report it to the higher-ups...
They couldn't allow that to happen, so they were willing to deploy the First Seat to silently kill Team 008. Once they were dead, no one could tip off the higher-ups.
From that assumption, we can infer many other things.
For example, this matter has some kind of limitation and can only be carried out in Lintang City.
If they had a choice, they