Chen Mu had Hong Xiu and Feng Qianli settle the newly recruited Yinlings while he took Shen Yan out of Thousand Lantern City to begin tracking through the night.
With the True Hearing Technique, the dim light of night did not hinder his investigation. Moreover, both he and Shen Yan could merge into the breeze, easily avoiding most of the dangerous Demon Monsters active in the darkness.
After a night of work, they gathered in four more scattered groups of Yinlings.
By the time the blood sun rose in the east, Chen Mu still had not found any trace of the main force.
Inside Thousand Lantern City, he looked at the growing number of humanoid Spirit Fields and found himself unable to feel happy.
"There were Ghost Soldiers in the Auxiliary Soldier Camp. They should have been able to hold out for a while. How did such a large group scatter just like that?" Chen Mu scratched his head.
Shen Yan studied the Yinlings gathered yesterday, his brow tightly furrowed. "We gathered five groups last night. Setting aside the Yuan Gathering Department, the leaders of those two Flame Carriage Department groups were not Ghost Soldiers."
"It would be fine if the Ghost Soldiers ran away on their own. What I fear is that someone deliberately transferred them away!" His expression turned grave.
"They deliberately took away all the capable Ghost Soldiers?" Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat, and his eyes widened. "They gathered the elites, then used the huge number of ordinary auxiliary soldiers as bait to draw in the Water Apes?"
No way?
That was too damned shameless.
Chen Mu suddenly recalled that not long after the group fled the camp, they had immediately split apart, with a small group running southeast on their own. Could that have been