"Something's off?"

An Ning was stunned, tilting her head to look at him. Meow, meow, meow?

Why don't you take a look at yourself before saying such nonsense? When these people are put together in an unprepared encounter, which one of them isn't capable of killing a craftsman like you dozens of times over?

"What's off?" An Ning didn't understand. "Is it because they didn't satisfy you, didn't say sorry to you?"

"The number of people—"

Leaning on the Mechanical Descent, after repeatedly watching and checking all the video records, his notes, and sticky notes since departure, Ji Jue finally found the source of his instinctive unease.

"The numbers don't match!"

"From the start until now, Northern Realm, New Yuan, and Sky City, we've seen all our opponents, right? Various random bandits, assassins, and riff-raff... we can temporarily exclude them."

Ji Jue counted on his fingers, and finally stopped on one finger that couldn't be put down: "But from start to finish, in Echo's convoy, there was only Yue Chen alone."

He declared decisively: "His navigator has never shown up at all!"

An Ning thought for a moment and asked curiously: "Perhaps they didn't make it in time? Or maybe it was an accident that they didn't appear?"

"Maybe, that's possible, but it doesn't rule out other possibilities, right?"

Ji Jue silently rotated the screwdriver made of Mercury with his fingers, his thoughts expanding: "They must have one more person, no, at least one more person, hiding in the shadows.

Even, besides the members of the current convoys, there might be other helpers outside.

If we assume the worst, there might even be a Heavenly Person quietly trailing beside, waiting to flip the table if things go south. After all, at this point, it's probably more realistic to hope for a lightning strike from God to hit the Governor than to expect those guys to play fair."

He paused and looked at An Ning: "Of course, the greatest possibility among all this also includes one which you mentioned..."

"Wolves?"

An Ning's expression suddenly became serious.

"You haven't found wolves, right?" Ji Jue spread his hands: "But you said a wolf appeared by your side... Do you think that's an illusion?"

"Impossible!" An Ning shook her head firmly.

In the wilderness, the mutual predation between deer and wolves, but essentially, in the shadows, they seem connected by countless threads.

The perception between them could never be wrong!

"But except for those few, almost everyone who's appeared in front of us is dead."

Ji Jue said slowly: "To imagine the worst, no one said a convoy can't have wolves, right? Or worse, the enemy might have been at our side all along, hiding in the dark, and we haven't found a single clue.

Far-infrared detection, sound, spiritual, heartbeat, breathing... all the equipment and your perception can't find any trace of them.

If that's the case, I think we might as well lie down and wait for death."

"..."

In the long silence, An Ning's expression was uncharacteristically solemn and deep, her brain turning uncharacteristically. But as she thought, her head started smoking as she spaced out, rolling pitifully on the carpet and crying.

"What should we do, Ji Jue bro!" She looked pitifully with teary eyes at her external brain. "Can you help me?"

"No, thank you."

Ji Jue coldly pushed her face away: "Speculation remains speculation. No matter how much you guess, without real evidence, it's just scaring yourself. If you want to verify, someone has to be the bait to help me probe."

So, who will be the bait?

An Ning looked at Ji Jue in confusion, and Ji Jue looked back at her.

He smiled slightly.

Until the pretending cat couldn't pretend anymore, rolling and acting cute was useless, having to reluctantly accept reality.

"You're making the beautiful girl who's been dying to protect you be the cannon fodder to draw fire?!"

She perched on Ji Jue's neck, angrily pulling at his face: "Ji Jue bro, you're really something else!"

"Yes."

Ji Jue nodded calmly, picking up a teacup, completely unconcerned:

"Everyone says so."

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