Chapter 736 Reappearance of the steam locomotive
“I’m very curious. Why didn’t you kill him?” Vanilla asked and looked at Li Shentan.
Based on the sound earlier, that Demon Whisperer who had been cloned by the Pyro Company was probably only about 50 meters away from them. If Li Shentan was confident the other party was just an inferior version of him, it should be very easy to finish him off. Moreover, when Li Shentan used the sound of the silver coin in his hand to dispel the psychological suggestion placed upon them, it showed the Demon Whisperer in the forest had the ability to hypnotize them from afar through the rhythm of his speech. Since even the clone had such a power, Li Shentan himself should be even more terrifying, right?
Li Shentan looked at Vanilla and said with a smile, “Since you’re from the Anjing House, let me ask you this: How many of the groups that entered the interior of the Sacred Mountains are still capable of fighting?”
“Five,” Vanilla said calmly. In fact, a total of nine groups came on this expedition to the Sacred Mountains. However, four of them had given up while heading into the mountains.
Right now, those four groups were retreating. But the Pyro Company might not allow them to leave just like that.
Li Shentan said with a smile, “So we’re only one of the five groups left, so why should we have to do everything by ourselves? Wouldn’t it be better to let the others have a share of this surprise as well?” Vanilla’s mouth twitched a little. Was this a surprise? This was more like a shock, alright! But what Li Shentan did not tell them was that he did not want to personally deal with his clone at all. Instead, he was more looking forward to the scene of this clone encountering Ren Xiaosu.
So how could he finish off his clone? Li Shentan would have to keep him alive so he would get to meet Ren Xiaosu!
When Li Shentan started imagining the look on that silly fool when he tried to hypnotize Ren Xiaosu, he got so amused he laughed out loud. Next to him, Si Liren glanced at him. “I doubt you’ll ever recover from that mental illness of yours.” Vanilla said, “Have you considered what would happen if there are many clones of you? Since they could create one clone, they could create many more. At that time, it’ll be difficult for two fists to fight against four hands. Even if he’s an inferior version of you, you can’t defeat so many of them, right?” But Li Shentan suddenly frowned. “If the Pyro Company was using cloning technology, there would definitely be more than one clone of me. Besides, have you thought about it before? The Pyro Company should have collected at least several dozen supernatural beings’ DNA samples, right? So why is it that their T5-ranked combatants do not have any superpowers and are only terrifyingly strong in their physicality?”
Vanilla was stunned. That was right! In the earlier days, they all thought the Pyro Company could only extract the DNA of supernatural beings to create some low-quality combatants without any superpowers.
But the appearance of Li Shentan’s clone had refuted this point of view. So why didn’t the Pyro Company let their cloned supernatural beings run loose everywhere? Even if the powers of some superhuman clones were reduced, they would still be very suited to fight large-scale battles.
Li Shentan thought for a while and said, “You see, everyone’s powers only got awakened due to a specific moment in their lives, right? It doesn’t mean they’ll naturally be awakened when they grow to a certain stage in life. The Pyro Company can’t possibly duplicate this moment as well. That’s life experience, not something that can be found within one’s DNA.”
“That’s right,” Vanilla agreed. “Therefore, they must have some kind of unusual method to awaken the superpower of a clone. However, this method is not easy to execute even for the Pyro Company. For example, it might be limited in the number of times it can be used, so they only tried it on the most powerful clones,” Li Shentan said firmly.
Vanilla looked at Li Shentan in surprise. So after all that talking, he was just looking to praise himself as the most powerful supernatural being?! How shameless! However, Vanilla suddenly felt that Li Shentan’s deduction might just be the truth. Everyone regarded Li Shentan as the person closest to the gods in the era of the “Rise of Gods.” If the Pyro Company had to choose a person among the clones of so many supernatural beings to awaken their power, Li Shentan would indeed be the best choice.
“But what is that method really?” Vanilla asked.
Li Shentan looked at Vanilla in surprise. “How would I know?! Why are you asking me that?” Vanilla turned around and walked off. He really could not communicate with Li Shentan anymore. Besides, he still had to quickly send out updates of what had happened tonight.
But when Vanilla took out his phone, he realized there was no signal. They were using satellite phones, so how could there be no signal? It was still working fine earlier.
Could the Pyro Company have used some method to interfere with the signal? In that case, it seemed like the Pyro Company was starting to get serious.
The Pyro Company had temporarily given up on encircling two of the five remaining groups. That was because Li Shentan was in one of them, and the Pyro Company was still unwilling to face the Demon Whisperer. Therefore, they planned to eliminate the other groups first before making a move to deal with him. The might of the Demon Whisperer was something that even the Pyro Company would be wary of on their home field.
And the reason why the other group’s encirclement was put on hold was that their team was not exhausted and hungry at all. They were even singing and dancing openly in the territory of the Sacred Mountains. This left the Pyro Company a little confused and unsure of what was going on.
According to the Pyro Company’s plan, these people who had entered the Sacred Mountains should have already reached their limits. How could they still have the energy to sing and dance?
Since they could not understand what was going on with that group, it would have to wait until they dealt with the other three groups first. That night, after the Demon Whisperer in the forest had left, the three teams that were in different directions were simultaneously besieged by the Pyro Company
For this encirclement, the Pyro Company even activated three T5-ranked Dawn members.
This battle lasted from the night until the morning, leaving the three teams in a pathetic state with heavy casualties.
However, none of the people who entered the Sacred Mountains this time were easy to deal with. So although the Pyro Company had defeated them, some of the supernatural beings still had the energy to escape into the wilderness.
The Pyro Company did not pursue them relentlessly. When dawn broke, they retreated.
The person who was commanding these Pyro Company’s fighting forces from behind the scenes was systematically weakening everyone’s strength. He was neither anxious nor impatient, but he would always have a backup plan waiting. At some point, Li Shentan also admitted that the cloned Demon Whisperer was right. He was really not a talented strategist since he still preferred doing things straightforwardly.
All in all, the Pyro Company’s operation this time was considered very successful. However, something unexpected happened with one of the three teams. Just as the Pyro Company’s troops were about to carry out their encirclement of that group, a steam locomotive suddenly appeared and escaped with everyone on board. The Pyro Company could not even catch up to them!
Seeing the steam locomotive traveling across the treacherous mountainous terrain without a hindrance, the Pyro Company’s troops were dumbfounded by this sight.
But they knew who it was! He could be considered as an old friend of the Pyro Company, Wang Congyang! After the cave-in at East Lake, the Pyro Company had hired Wang Congyang to undertake the delivery of their laboratory data. However, Wang Congyang had run off with all of it!