980 Dilemma
Having found the investigative tangent, it would be easier to target the search later. Many things that were previously ignored by other people were discovered by the group, and some information systematically checked out.
More and more clues affirmed the previous speculation that those who perished here were poisoned. But the rest of the things they found were not as useful.
The more information they found, the more frozen Mao San Quan’s face was, that was because it made them think of more things further into the future.
Sima You Yue and Han Miao Shuang also thought that if it was the poison from the regular group, it was impossible to have such a severe toxicity that even the Alchemist Guild could not find the cause. Hence, without guessing further, the source of this poison should be from the inner circle.
The inner circle had intervened with outside matters and made such a big deal of it, especially with the impending Alchemy Contest. No matter what their purpose was, it was enough to send chills of fear to others.
“We have to get this piece of information back quickly.” Zhang Fei said.
“No.” Mao San Quan stopped. “We can’t bring the news back.”
Seeing Mao San Quan stopping her, Zhang Fei was puzzled and asked, “Why not? If we don’t bring this information back, then I’m afraid more people will die.”
“If we bring it back, it will be us to die!” Mao San Quan said, “Do you want someone else to die, or do you want to die?”
“I…” Zhang Fei stammered. They were originally sent here by Song Chang Jie as cannon fodder. Regardless of whether they knew exactly what went on there, once it was known that they didn’t perish in this place, someone would be sent to kill them.
If Song Chang Jie already knew that this was mad-made poison, or if Song Chang Jie and gang were the actual murderers, then should the information be brought back, wouldn’t they be silenced?
So no matter what, no contact should be made with those people!
“Then what should we do? We can’t just never go back?” Zhang Fei said.
“We need to think of a way, we cannot just return directly.” Mao San Quan said.
“Hmm.” Zhang Fei also realized, “It is really necessary to think of a solid plan to return, so that they will have no way to blackmail us.”
“We need to ponder about it,” Wei Zheng said.
“Actually, there is a more straightforward method.” Sima You Yue spoke and everyone looked over to her.
Because she had led everyone in avoiding the attack of the spirit beast, and she was also the first to discover the antidote, as well as speculated that these things were caused by man, as such, everyone had unconsciously formed some sort of trust in her.
“What method?” Zhang Meng asked.
“The night before we left the city, I asked my bees to do some investigation. One piece of news is that the current Guild President and the Chairman are still alive.” Sima You Yue said.
Mao San Quan said before that the president and chairman did not return after investigating the matter here.
“You know they are still alive?”
“My bees flew to the Alchemist Guild and heard the people inside speak. They said that although they did not get the news from the president, they are sure that they have not died.” Sima You Yue said, “If we can find them, then we can return directly without any trouble.”
“Go to the president and chairman? This area is so big, there are so many dangers, how will we find them?”
“And if they don’t want to come back, how can we find them?”
“That’s right.”
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