"Is it because of that puff of white smoke just now?"
Yunfan's pupils trembled, and the chopsticks in his hand fell to the ground with a 'clatter' due to his shock.
Shen Nanxing glanced back at Yun Fan. "If nothing unexpected happens, yes!"
He then waved his hand and unleashed a bolt of lightning, creating an electric net in front of the man as a precaution.
Seeing that Shen Nanxing looked ready to fight at any moment, Yunfan quickly bent down and picked up the chopsticks.
"Then I'd better eat quickly, just in case something unexpected happens later!"
He took a tissue, wiped it casually on his chopsticks, picked up his bowl, and began to eat heartily.
Yunhua thought about it and felt it made sense, so she picked up her chopsticks and slurped up the noodles.
Past experience told him that if he didn't eat quickly, he might not have any food left.
"An'an, let him transform there first, let's eat."
Shen Nanxing also picked up his chopsticks and put the untouched beef chunks from his bowl into Jiang Nian'an's bowl.
Jiang Nian'an looked at the extra pieces of meat in her bowl, a slight smile playing on her lips, and lowered her head to eat.
Just as the four were finishing their meal, the man in the corner suddenly let out a painful roar.
'Chirp—'
Little Purple, who was playing on the second floor, heard the noise downstairs and rushed down, climbing onto Jiang Nian'an's shoulder, while the vine head turned to the corner.
"Well--"
The man's arm muscles were taut as he strained outwards, causing the vines binding him to snap repeatedly.
Jiang Nian'an raised her hand, and a green light flashed in it. The vines on the man's body returned to their original state and began to tighten.
As the vines tightened, the man struggled even more fiercely.
But no matter how much he struggled, he couldn't break free from the vines' control over him.
Jiang Nian'an continued eating while controlling the vines.
Ten minutes later, the man's struggles gradually weakened, the redness in his eyes faded, the blood spots on his body gradually disappeared, and the bulging veins gradually subsided.
As the last trace of crimson faded from his eyes, a look of confusion flashed across the man's eyes before a glimmer of clarity returned.
The next second, a mouthful of blood surged up his throat, spraying out along with a mouthful of leaves.
"Cough cough—"
The man collapsed to the ground, coughing violently and spitting out large amounts of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.
The man's muscular body flattened out quickly, like a ball with a hole in it.
A strong smell of blood filled the living room, along with a nauseating stench.
It smelled worse than anything they had ever smelled before.
"Luckily I ate quickly, ugh—"
Yunfan gagged and pushed the bowl, now only containing the broth, towards the center of the coffee table.
Yunhua also looked pale and sickly.
He glanced at the last bit of meat sauce at the bottom of the bowl, now reddish from the added tomato sauce, then at the large patch of blood on the ground mixed with bits of offal, and his stomach churned.
Jiang Nian'an and Shen Nanxing, however, remained completely unaffected and leisurely finished their last bite.
Only then did he look at the man, whose breath was weak and who seemed on the verge of collapse.
"An'an, give me his badge."
"good."
Jiang Nian'an placed the man's badge into Shen Nanxing's hand.
"Yunhua, Yunfan, take this badge to the people at the Ning City base and have them come here to handle this."
Shen Nanxing pushed the badge in front of Yunhua.
"Okay, let's go now."
Yunhua quickly grabbed the badge and fled with Yunfan.
The smell in this house is absolutely suffocating.
The people from the Ning City base arrived quickly, and the leader happened to be Gu Shan, who had just arrived at noon.
The man was already dead.
Gu Shan squatted down in front of the man and pulled up the man's head with his gloved hand.
He frowned at just one glance.
Gu Shan turned to look at Shen Nanxing and the other person on the sofa, "Gentlemen, these are not from our base team."
Upon hearing Gu Shan's words, Yun Hua gently knocked on the door, drawing Gu Shan's attention back to the door.
"Didn't you just tell us that the badge belonged to the captain of your Third Base Team?"
"But it's not anymore?"
"The badge does indeed belong to Song Xiao, the captain of our Third Base Team, but this person... he's not Song Xiao!"
Gu Shan stood up and took out the badge from his jacket pocket.
He touched the edge of the badge, then snapped it in two.
One of the sides has a photograph embedded inside.
"Look, this is the real Song Xiao."
Gu Shan handed the photo to Yun Hua and the other person.
The two looked down and realized that the man in the photo and the person lying on the ground were indeed two different people.
"Then who is this person?"
Yunfan pointed at the corpse on the ground, a look of confusion flashing in his eyes.
"have no idea."
Gu Shan honestly shook his head. "I'll take the body back first, then post a notice at the base. Maybe someone will recognize it."
"in addition--"
Gu Shan looked at the mess at the entrance and then turned to look at the people who were with him.
"Xiaohan, arrange a higher-standard accommodation for the four of you, and also refund all the room fees you paid."
After speaking, Gu Shan turned around and gave Jiang Nian'an and the other person an apologetic smile.
"It was a dereliction of duty on our part to allow unimportant people to force their way into 608."
In addition to the new accommodations and room fees, we will also send an apology gift to the four of you later, and we hope you can forgive our negligence.
Shen Nanxing looked down at Jiang Nian'an, "An'an, do you forgive them?"
"Can."
Jiang Nian'an nodded readily.
Since the other party's attitude was good and they didn't shirk responsibility, she naturally wouldn't hold a grudge.
Thank you!
Gu Shan cupped his hands in greeting to Jiang Nian'an, "There is another matter I need to trouble you four with."
Jiang Nian'an looked up at him and said, "Go on."
"We would like to trouble the four of you to tell us about the circumstances before this person died."
Gu Shan's expression turned serious, and he said solemnly, "Two days ago, we found two corpses at the foot of White Tiger Mountain, and their deaths were exactly the same as his."
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