"Do you think Her Highness the Princess is a fool?" Ye Zhen sneered. "If I vanished into thin air here, would Her Highness not investigate?"
"You don't think the Heavenly Patrol Division only gathers intelligence, do you?" Shadow Scout Commander Wang Ling chuckled mockingly. "Finding clues at crime scenes is our specialty. Conversely, arranging a fake scene convincing enough to pass for the real thing is also our specialty!"
"This is still Devil Race territory, after all. It would be perfectly reasonable for Devil Race pursuers to catch up. Lieutenant Ye had bad luck and died in battle—doesn't that make sense? We'll give ourselves a few wounds too, make ourselves look miserable. Tell me, who would suspect anything?"
As he spoke, Shadow Scout Commander Wang Ling struck himself a few times. Seeing this, all the Shadow Scouts surrounding Ye Zhen laughed.
Ye Zhen narrowed his eyes. "Whose idea was this? Your Wind Patrol Envoy behind you? You few alone don't have that much nerve, do you?"
"Trying to fish words out of us?" Shadow Scout Commander Wang Ling smiled meaningfully. "So? Which path will you choose?"
"What if I choose neither?" Ye Zhen returned the same meaningful smile.
Shadow Scout Commander Wang Ling's expression abruptly turned sinister. "In that case, brothers, send him on his—"
Ssssh! Ssssh! Ssssh! Ssssh!
Dark green blades of grass, like arrows, erupted furiously from the ground in an instant.
Those dark green blades of grass had silently appeared between the legs of all seventeen Shadow Scouts present earlier. Now, as they suddenly struck, they were swift as lightning. Almost the moment the piercing shriek of tearing air sounded, the dark green grass speared straight into the crotches of all seventeen Shadow Scouts.
Without exception, every long blade of dark green grass blasted into the Shadow