Chapter 1396
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Chapter 1396 Are They Acting Us Out?
“What are they doing?”
Hundreds of miles away from the shore, Moon Huai’s emerald green eyes gazed at the figures gathered together playing cards on the island, somewhat bewildered.
He originally thought that the scene on the island was just Li Qiangqiang training the Nightwatchers, but then the image shifted, and those people crawled out of the vats and sat down to play poker?
What kind of operation is this?
“Have they discovered us?” A giant shadow rose from the seabed, speaking with suspicion.
“Are you saying they’re putting on an act to confuse us?”
“…Impossible. Our concealment isn’t so easily detected, especially since we’re still over a hundred miles from the island. How could they possibly discover us?”
“Quiet.”
Moon Huai stood on the sea surface, his eyes slightly narrowed. After pondering for a moment, he said, “Let’s not disrupt our formation… continue observing. We have plenty of time.”
…
On the island.
“Are you in or out?”
“I’m in!”
“I have a pair.”
“Hey, I have a flush… what about Seven Nights?”
Lin Qiye silently revealed his three cards. “Three of a kind.”
Li Qiangqiang: (｀?Д??)ゞ
“How do you get three of a kind every single round?” Li Qiangqiang asked incredulously.
Lin Qiye collected the money from the ground while smiling innocently, as Baili Pangpang and the others silently rolled their eyes.
“Alright, it’s getting late. You should all get some rest,” Li Qiangqiang said, glancing at the dim sky as he stood up. “We’ll have potential training tomorrow morning, so be prepared.”
Recalling the scene of being beaten up by Tang Yusheng today, Lin Qiye and the others twitched their lips but still obediently replied:
“Yes.”
Although Tang Yusheng would indeed beat them nearly to death, as long as they soaked in Li Qiangqiang’s medicinal water, their physical injuries would heal quickly, and they could even advance their mental power realm. For them, it was both torture and a fortunate encounter.
Li Qiangqiang walked a few steps, then suddenly paused, turning his head slightly as if listening to something.
“Brother Gun?” Seeing Li Qiangqiang’s strange behavior, Baili Pangpang couldn’t help but speak up.
After listening for a while, Li Qiangqiang nodded and turned to Lin Qiye and the others, saying, “Tomorrow’s potential training is canceled.”
“Canceled? Why?”
“The reason needs to remain confidential.” Li Qiangqiang’s expression became solemn. “However, tomorrow’s ‘mind barrier’ training will proceed as scheduled.”
As his words fell, Li Qiangqiang’s figure flickered and disappeared, leaving Lin Qiye and the others looking at each other in confusion.
“I feel like… something’s off,” Baili Pangpang scratched his head. “Even the potential training is canceled. Does that mean we’re just here on this island purely for fun?”
Lin Qiye gazed in the direction Li Qiangqiang had departed, pondering for a moment:
“Let’s just do as Brother Gun says. Perhaps he has other plans.”
“I guess that’s all we can do.”
…
Over the next three days, Lin Qiye and the others truly experienced what it meant to have a deserted island vacation.
Although the island had nothing on it, Li Qiangqiang always managed to find all sorts of activities: beach volleyball, handmade mahjong, mountain hiking, bungee jumping without protection, grass skirt dance competitions… Li Qiangqiang proved to them through practical action that when people reach the extreme of boredom, they’re capable of doing anything.
Lin Qiye and the others were extremely puzzled, but they had to admit they were having a great time these past few days.
However, Moon Huai and his group, hundreds of miles away, weren’t feeling so wonderful.
Heaven knows what they had been watching these past few days.
“Is this really the place guarding the national fortune of Great Xia?” a black shadow couldn’t help but speak up. “This is clearly just a human vacation resort!”
“It’s been three days, and they’ve just been playing all over the island without any training at all?”
“There don’t seem to be any other people on the island either… could we have found the wrong place?”
Not only were the black shadows underwater confused, but even Moon Huai, who held the map, was beginning to doubt.
“Could it really not be this place? No, that’s impossible… Li Qiangqiang is here, how could it not be this place…” Moon Huai pondered suspiciously for a long time, his eyes flickering with light. “Continuing to observe like this won’t get us anywhere. We need to take the initiative.”
Hearing these words, the black giant shadows lurking underwater finally showed interest.
“Are we making our move?”
“Not everyone needs to go. The urgent matter is to first probe the island to see if there are other guardians and whether the national fortune of Great Xia is underneath.” Moon Huai spoke calmly.
“Tonight, when Li Qiangqiang and those young people separate, we’ll send three people from different directions to the island. Remember, don’t make any noise. Use the most secretive methods to infiltrate the island, go as deep as you can. Once discovered, use all your strength to charge toward the core of the island. Don’t linger in battle.”
After arranging tonight’s reconnaissance plan, Moon Huai’s gaze fixed on the young people dancing in grass skirts on the beach, his eyes narrowing slightly:
“Tonight, we’ll unveil the true face of this island…”
…
Night gradually deepened.
Lin Qiye and the others gathered to eat dinner, then returned to their rooms to rest.
After three consecutive days of unbridled fun, Lin Qiye experienced the joy of life beyond life-and-death battles for the first time in a long while. Since joining the Nightwatchers… no, since he could remember, he had never played so freely.
On this isolated island, Lin Qiye briefly forgot about the mist, outer gods, Cthulhu, war… Here, he was surrounded only by his closest brothers, the mountains, sky, and sea.
In a sense, this was perhaps the first team-building activity for the [Nightfall] squad.
Lin Qiye lay down on the bed, first sinking his consciousness into the Divine Mental Hospital in his mind, where he verified his past with Gilgamesh, then asked Li Yifei for the chess records of their games these past few days.
Yerande’s chess style remained as peculiar as before, making only one move each time, but this one move… was truly a single hand, with chess pieces scattered across his palm, occupying nearly half the board.
Strangely though, the black pieces Yerande placed during his games with Li Yifei had been gradually increasing over these days. Although only one or two more each time, it was evident that the board was slowly being occupied by black pieces.
During these days, Lin Qiye had also drawn out the positions of these pieces in reality and showed them to Li Qiangqiang and other [Nightfall] members, but no one could discern any valuable information.
By the time he finished his business in the hospital and returned to reality, it was already deep into the night.
Lin Qiye scanned the surroundings with his mental power, confirming that everyone else was asleep, then stealthily left the underground bunker.
He had other matters to attend to.
