Ren Xiaosu looked at the Wolf King and said, "Don't continue chasing after them. We're not far from the outpost, and they haven't run out of cluster bombs yet. I saw them take out eight of them, but they only used three just now."
The Wolf King nodded to indicate that it would not continue chasing after them.
Ren Xiaosu took out nine bottles of black medicine from the palace and handed them to the Wolf King. He said in seriousness, "But don't take them too frequently."
The Wolf King was speechless.
"Let's go. We'll head deeper into the mountains this time. After this group of people returns, there will definitely be a large number of troops coming. At that time, we'll really be in danger," Ren Xiaosu instructed.
The wolves would only be truly safe if they hid deep in the mountains. Other than the mission, Ren Xiaosu did not want anything to happen to the wolves either.
Although the nanomachines were important, he believed there were still many more opportunities.
Including the nanosoldier he had killed earlier, there were a total of ten nanosoldiers who had died this time. Ren Xiaosu stuffed all the sabers into his storage space. He was not in a hurry to study them as he had to hurry back to the outpost.
By the time Ren Xiaosu made a detour back to the outpost, everyone there had been alerted by the sound of the cluster bombs going off in the mountains. Everyone was standing in the open space at the outpost and discussing what had just happened. Ren Xiaosu took advantage of the chaos to join the discussion with everyone.
By the time Ren Xiaosu returned, Lin Qi and the others had not returned to the outpost yet. The off-road vehicles were still parked there quietly.
But not long after, the originally majestic-looking nanosoldiers rushed out of the mountain path in a sorry state.
When they saw the people at the outpost discussing something, Ren Xiaosu rushed up and asked, "What happened in the mountains just now? Is everyone alright?"
Ren Xiaosu looked very sincere, but how could Lin Qi and the others be in the mood to talk to a refugee at a time like this?
"Get out of the way," Lin Qi said coldly. Ren Xiaosu stepped aside.
Everyone at the outpost watched as the nanosoldiers got into the off-road vehicles and drove down the mountain. Although they did not show it on their faces, people like Li Qingzheng could see a hint of fear in their expressions.
"When this group of people went in, there weren't this many of them." Student Wang Yuchi said, "When they went in, there were 48 people. I've specifically checked, and there are only 38 people left now."
Li Qingzheng nodded and said, "It seems that they had a battle in the mountains. Was it with the wolves? Everyone, remember, we don't know that the wolves have been here before, do you hear me? We've all eaten the meat sent by the wolves. If this gets out, no one will have a good ending. "
"Understood," everyone at the outpost said. Everyone at the outpost seemed to have formed a small group that shared the same secret.
In fact, psychologists had long studied that a shortcut to close the distance between people was to keep a secret together.
At this moment, Ren Xiaosu realized that Nonsense had not stepped out of his house at all. It was as though he was not interested in anything that was going on in the outside world.
Of course, there was another possibility. Nonsense did not want to break the ice between him and the people at the outpost.
Actually, any smart person who stayed here for a few days would understand that there was definitely something wrong with this outpost. Otherwise, how could they explain the prey sent by the wolves?
Why did the wolves have to pay property fees to the outpost?
That was unrealistic!
But Nonsense did not seem to care about that. He just wanted to spend the new year here happily.
…
After Lin Qi and the others left, no one else came to the outpost for the next two days. If it was really as Nonsense had said and the Li Consortium wanted to study the combat data, then the Li Consortium's research institute would probably be working overtime to analyze the data of Captain Zhou and the others.
But Ren Xiaosu knew that it would come sooner or later. He only hoped that by then, the wolves would have already led the pack far away.
For the past two days, Nonsense had been teaching Ren Xiaosu and the others as usual. He was calm and composed as though nothing had happened. Moreover, Ren Xiaosu kept his promise not to ask any questions in class for three days. This made Nonsense feel a hint of the flavor of the new year.
What exactly was the flavor of the new year? It was probably the feeling of being physically and mentally relaxed and not having to work.
During dinner that night, Hu Shuo said to Ren Xiaosu, "I'm not asking you any questions for three days, but I'm not asking you to accumulate three days worth of questions and ask me all at once on the fourth day. Don't play any tricks on this matter, understand? It won't work! "
Ren Xiaosu was stunned. He did not expect Nonsense to block his path ahead of time. The older, the wiser.
At this moment, Chen Wudi, who was eating next to them, said, "I have a question for you."
Nonsense looked at Chen Wudi and said pleasantly, "You're different from Ren Xiaosu, so you can ask me anything you want."
Chen Wudi nodded and said, "The height of a cone, sc, and the diameter of its base are the same. And the radius of the base of a cone, sc, and a cylinder, om …"
Chen Wudi then looked at Ren Xiaosu. "Master, I forgot the second half of the sentence."
Ren Xiaosu patiently reminded him, "And the radius and volume of the base of a cone, sc, and a cylinder, om, are also the same. So what's the ratio of the side area of a cone, sc, and a cylinder, om?"
Nonsense looked at the starry sky and sighed. "You're really awesome."
Ren Xiaosu suddenly said, "If you don't want to answer this question, I'll ask you another one."
When Nonsense saw how serious Ren Xiaosu was, he turned to look at him. "Let me hear what you want to ask first."
"Who exactly are you?" Ren Xiaosu asked.
Nonsense was stunned. He suddenly felt this question was much simpler than Ren Xiaosu's other questions. Moreover, he had never tried to hide anything in the past, so it wasn't like he couldn't say it.
"I, Nonsense, am the director of the Li Consortium's First Conglomerate's Office of Special Investigations. My military rank is lieutenant general, and I'm temporarily in charge of Stronghold 108," Nonsense said.
Ever since the incident at Stronghold 109, the Li Consortium quickly took over the governance of all the strongholds. Originally, the stronghold overseers who were not part of the system were only left behind because of the unspoken rules between the consortiums.
At that time, the consortiums were still in their development phase, and they were not as powerful as they were now. They tried their best to infiltrate the various strongholds and slowly trained their own troops. After a few decades, the consortiums slowly became the actual controllers of the various strongholds. But even so, no one was willing to break the window paper by taking the initiative to do so.
Now that the Li Consortium had completely taken over the various strongholds, the Li Consortium had also become the nominal controller of the 11 strongholds' strongholds. Furthermore, the banks in these 11 strongholds had completely rejected the currencies of the other consortiums, causing the currencies of the other consortiums to depreciate in these 11 strongholds.
Ren Xiaosu suddenly felt like he understood why Nonsense had maintained a neutral attitude. Could it be that as the overseer of Stronghold 108, Nonsense was trying to use other forces to weaken the Li Consortium's power so that he could truly gain control?
However, Nonsense looked at him and said with a smile, "I roughly know what you're guessing, but the truth you're seeing right now is still just a facade. Perhaps you'll understand one day. I'm looking forward to seeing your expression when that happens."
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