Li Yuan made his way deeper into the camp.
Fortunately, things inside were only a little chaotic. Nothing else seemed wrong.
The camp seemed to be short of manpower, forcing them to reassign people temporarily even for sentry duty.
The seven or eight original sentries had all been assigned other work.
"Mr. Li Yuan, what brings you here?"
At last, someone in the bustling crowd recognized Li Yuan.
With Xia Zhao on this mission, most of them naturally knew her husband.
"Has something happened here at the camp?"
Li Yuan did not call the place a mess. He only said that it seemed something had happened.
It gave them a way to save face.
The people around him exchanged glances, all seemingly too ashamed to answer.
"Have you heard back from Xia Zhao? It's been a long time since she last replied to my messages.
"I happened to be passing by on business, so I thought I'd come take a look."
Li Yuan put on a relaxed air and asked with a smile.
At his words, the people in the camp were even less sure how to answer.
This was not somewhere anyone could simply happen to pass by.
It was a remote place, far from cities and industry. Apart from their team carrying out its mission, who else would come here?
"Can someone tell me exactly what's going on?"
When no one spoke, Li Yuan could only press them a little more firmly.
Faced with his questioning, everyone turned toward Liu Shuang.
Liu Shuang was the camp's second-in-command. With the others reluctant to answer, they were all waiting for her to do it.
Standing nearby, Liu Shuang knew that now Li Yuan had come all this way, there was no chance of brushing him off with a casual excuse.