As someone who had personally witnessed and smashed the statue, Ren Xiaosu naturally had to describe the scene in detail to everyone. "It was like this. I was keeping watch when a statue suddenly floated over. After it was smashed, it was pieced back together, and it looked very hideous. If you guys know what I mean, it's the kind with a face full of cracks …."
Cheng Yu's face darkened. He realized the more Ren Xiaosu spoke, the colder he felt. When he looked at the expressions of the others around him, they were basically the same as him. They were very nervous, but they also had to understand what had happened.
After Ren Xiaosu finished speaking, he did not care what the others thought. In any case, he was going to sleep.
For some reason, Ren Xiaosu felt it had been too peaceful ever since they entered the Sacred Mountains.
The statue incident was definitely man-made. When the statue was hiding outside and secretly observing the campsite, Ren Xiaosu was also secretly observing it. Then he realized the statue was looking in the direction of the tent of the couple who had died earlier.
Therefore, Luo Lan's guess was most likely correct. The murderer was Wang Yun.
Putting aside this incident, they had actually not encountered the Pyro Company since entering the Sacred Mountains.
As a matter of fact, this was the Pyro Company's core strategic location. They had already encountered a sneak attack from the Pyro Company before entering the Sacred Mountains. But now that they were here, there were no more attacks?
This made Ren Xiaosu even more vigilant. What awaited them next would probably be even more bizarre methods.
The entire mountain range in the Sacred Mountains covered a very large area and spanned hundreds of kilometers. Based on their current speed, it would take them about ten days to reach the true core of the Sacred Mountains.
While Ren Xiaosu and the others were constantly venturing deeper into the Sacred Mountains, a convoy of off-road vehicles arrived from the Central Plains and arrived outside Stronghold 144 in the Northwest.
Zhang Xiaoman had been waiting here for a long time. But this time, Zhang Xiaoman was only accompanying them. The officer in charge of receiving the convoy was Fortress 178's intelligence chief, Wang Fengyuan.
Usually, matters that Wang Fengyuan handled would be treated as confidential.
Zhang Xiaoman asked tentatively, "Boss Wang, who is it this time? Why do we need to disturb you?"
Wang Fengyuan glanced at him. "Yo, we haven't seen each other for a few months and our Zhang Xiaoman already knows how to use honorifics. Why is it that the higher the rank, the more polite he is?"
"Heh." Zhang Xiaoman did not mind Wang Fengyuan's mockery. "This is also a kind of progress for me."
"Not bad, not bad." Wang Fengyuan nodded.
Then, Zhang Xiaoman found that Wang Fengyuan easily changed the topic and did not intend to answer his question.
When the convoy of off-road vehicles arrived at the foot of the city wall, the people in the vehicles didn't even get off. Wang Fengyuan got on another vehicle and drove deeper into the Northwest, followed by the convoy from afar.
Zhang Xiaoman pursed his lips as he watched the convoy leave. "You're always so mysterious."
The convoy continued driving west for more than a hundred kilometers before finally stopping at a small col. A temporary military camp had already been set up in the col. It was not a large one, and Lin Yuze, who was in charge of logistics, was calling out to the cooks under his command to cook.
When Zhang Jinglin heard the commotion, he walked out of the military tent. Someone from the convoy quickly retrieved a wheelchair from the trunk and carried Wang Shengzhi, who was in the back, into the wheelchair.
Wang Shengzhi was smiling the entire time. He even had the time to wave at Zhang Jinglin. "Long time no see. When I passed by Stronghold 144 just now, I saw a lot of caravan trucks parked outside. It looks like the decision to reopen the trade route was the right one."
Zhang Jinglin said with a smile, "It's always a good thing to trade with each other. But I'm afraid you didn't expect that the most popular product in the Northwest from the Central Plains would be lipstick."
When he said that, even Wang Shengzhi was taken aback. As the true controller of the Wang Clan, even if he paid attention to the trade route, he would only pay more attention to the data on strategic supplies. He really did not expect lipstick to be the most popular product in the Northwest.
Even the biggest lipstick dealer, Wang Fugui himself, did not expect this.
Back when he brought a few truckloads of lipstick here, Zhang Xiaoman forced some of the local merchants to accept the goods. At first, the merchants were complaining in their hearts as they felt this batch of goods might end up in failure.
But who knew that Wang Fugui's foresight was so accurate? This batch of lipstick that everyone thought would end up in failure turned out to be extremely popular the moment it hit the market!
Before this, everyone was thinking who would have the spare money to buy lipstick since the Northwest was lacking in supplies.
But in the end, they really did not understand a woman's love for beauty.
Later, other people also wanted to follow suit and start the lipstick business. But something unexpected happened. That ruffian Zhang Xiaoman actually came up with a lipstick business license and only issued it to Wang Fugui.
As a result, the lipstick business became Wang Fugui's exclusive source of income.
When Zhang Xiaoman's boss, Zhou Yinglong, heard about this, he even wanted to get someone to take care of it. But on second thought, lipstick was not considered a strategic supply, and the matter involved Ren Xiaosu, so he just let it be.
Nowadays, anyone who saw Wang Fugui on the trade route would politely greet him as Mr. Wang or President Wang. Everyone knew Wang Fugui must have connections in Fortress 178. Otherwise, he would not have been so unyielding.
There were even people who specifically looked for Wang Fugui to get his help in finding people to solve some troublesome problems.
However, Wang Fugui was also a person with a sense of propriety. He just did his business and didn't care about other messy things.
Wang Fugui felt that Ren Xiaosu would be taking over Fortress 178 in the future, so he could not drag Ren Xiaosu down and ruin his reputation.
Zhang Jinglin looked at Wang Shengzhi. "The Central Plains is no longer peaceful, right? Why do you still dare to come to the Northwest with such little travel?"
Wang Shengzhi said with a smile, "Those troublemakers have all gone to the Sacred Mountains. That's why I dare to go out like this."
"You were the one who lured them there, right?" Zhang Jinglin hinted.
"Haha, what delicious food did Chef Lin prepare today?" Wang Shengzhi pushed the wheels of his wheelchair into the military camp. It seemed he did not want to answer this question.
Actually, the real question was whether the Anjing House and the Wang Clan had started working together to set up a trap for the rest of the world.
Ever since the cave-in at East Lake, the net that the Anjing House had laid out for many years had started tightening and started influencing the Central Plains. But that was only the beginning, and their influence was not strong enough yet.
But now, the No. 001 Experimental had caused the entire Central Plains to move. Zhang Jinglin felt that 70% of the supernatural beings in the Central Plains had probably gone to the mountains. Why was Wang Shengzhi doing this? It was probably to get rid of all unstable obstacles.
Wang Shengzhi suddenly turned around and said with a smile, "Mr. Zhang, you've reached an agreement with the Kyung Clan to allow them to join the railways and trade with the Central Plains through you. Are you guarding against me?"
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