Jiang Cheng felt a warm breath near his ear. "Mr. Jiang," Nan Jin hesitated for a moment and said softly, "You didn't actually see my father, did you?"

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng paused, but still asked calmly, "Why do you say that?"

"I know my father. He wouldn't risk his life to save other people," Nan Jin rested her chin on Jiang Cheng's shoulder, staring blankly at the reflection of the two of them in the glass window, "Except for me and my mother."

"Your heartbeat is erratic." Their upper bodies were pressed tightly together, and Nan Jin, already sensitive, could clearly feel the beating heart.

"But thank you anyway, I know you're trying to comfort me," Nan Jin continued.

Until he left the Nan family and got into a taxi, Jiang Cheng sent a message to the club owner. The reply came quickly, saying that Lin Wan'er was doing well and had just eaten something, telling him not to worry.

"Thank you for your trouble," Jiang Cheng replied.

......

Dajing City.

Suburbs.

Beneath a lush, dense forest stood five or six people, led by a young man with gold-rimmed glasses.

The young man wore jungle camouflage clothing that was completely out of character for him, but strangely, through the sealed zipper of the camouflage, one could see a well-fitting white suit inside.

The young man was crouching on the ground, examining a pile of scattered bones in front of him.

"That's them," a man with a gun slung over his back and a camouflage net draped over his body said, his hoarse voice full of rough texture, "Those are the two specialists. I didn't expect them to escape our encirclement and sneak into this forest."

Judging from the clothing fragments remaining on the bones and flesh, as well as the personal belongings they carried, they were indeed the two researchers.

"What were they doing here?" Someone asked suspiciously, "This forest isn't on their escape route."

No one would suspect that they simply got lost. After all, those who could escape their tight encirclement would never be fools.

On the contrary, they were well-trained and possessed extremely strong reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance awareness.

Their skills must also be excellent.

But such people died here inexplicably.

"Could their real purpose be to sneak in here?" the man wearing the camouflage net asked.

"There's nothing here, what would they come here for?" another person asked, "We didn't set anything up in this forest."

After saying that, the others couldn't help but look towards the depths of the dense forest.

This place was located in the remaining veins of the mountains, dark, humid, and uninhabited all year round. They really couldn't figure out the purpose of these two researchers.

"I don't think we should think too much about it. Anyway, these two are already dead, but then again, these two died really miserably." A man rubbed his arm and said, "I heard before that there are tigers nearby, now it's been confirmed."

Putting the two corpses together might not even make a complete human figure. They were all in pieces, scattered far apart.

What they saw now was what they had managed to gather from the surrounding area.

It was estimated that they were first attacked by a tiger, caught off guard by an ambush. After the tiger was full and left, some other carnivores came to compete for the remains.

Otherwise, if it was just a tiger, the scene wouldn't be so tragic.

They also found many paw prints left by animals nearby.

"Hmm?" The young man with gold-rimmed glasses picked out a strangely shaped bone from the messy pile of bones.

It was a scapula, with a small portion of flesh still attached to it.

But what really made the young man's expression change was that a small piece of the scapula was missing, and the break was clean and flat, as if it had been cut off with a giant axe.

The young man continued to pick through the scattered bones, and soon found several severed ribs.

A vague picture formed in the young man's mind. These two people had secretly followed a group of people, but unfortunately, they were discovered.

Then, a conflict broke out.

No, not a conflict, but a massacre!

Because the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, the battle ended in an instant. Someone holding a huge folding knife descended from the sky, the force of the knife was powerful and heavy, and it was cut down from the neck, directly cutting the person in half.

The severed scapula, and the smooth knife marks on the severed ribs, were the most direct evidence.

There were very few people who could do this, and he happened to know the strongest of them.

"How is it?" Someone asked. After all, the young man was considered the leader among them, because he was close to Mr. Gong.

The young man stood up calmly, kicked the bones he had just picked out back into the pile, clapped his hands and said, "Nothing special. They died in the mouths of wild animals, it's just their bad luck. Now that they're dead, let's withdraw the people."

"Don't search around?" The man wearing the camouflage net said in surprise, "I always feel..."

"Search for what? What's there to search for? We... we all listen to Mr. Qin." A wretched-looking fat man came out to smooth things over, first stopping the man, then turning to look at the young man, asking with a smile, "Mr. Qin, do you have any other instructions?"

"Burn this pile of corpses clean, then throw the remains into the nearby lake. Send capable people to do it, make sure it's done cleanly." After the young man finished speaking, he left.

After walking out of the dense forest, the gloom on the young man's face was slightly dispelled. He wasn't as confused as the others about the purpose of the two specialists.

Now the situation was very clear. They had entered the dense forest by tailing him and Mr. Gong, but they had ultimately underestimated Mr. Gong's methods.

Mr. Gong only disappeared for a short time before he entered the stone house in the forest, and during this time, he went to deal with the two tails behind them.

Sure enough...

Mr. Gong's initial guess was correct, they... they were coming for the stone house in the forest, and most likely for that fat man!

But he had also been in contact with that fat man, and didn't think there was anything special about him. At most, he was a little slick, not like a troublesome character.

Could it be... that he had misjudged him?

Or was there some incredible secret hidden on this fat man's body, that even the Night Watcher Executive Department wanted to get involved.

But Mr. Gong clearly said that there was no problem with that fat man...

With doubts, the young man returned to the villa. The convoy that had brought the two specialists had already been released, and now the front of the villa was empty.

The deaths of the two specialists were already difficult to resolve. Both sides had to leave some room for maneuver.

After all, there was a common enemy, and it was not wise to tear up the relationship.

The young man gently knocked on the door, "Mr. Gong."

"Come in."

Pushing open the door, Gong Zhe sat upright in a chair. The room was in a dim tone, and the curtains were mostly drawn. With the young man's eyesight, he couldn't even see Gong Zhe's face clearly.

"Is there any progress?" Gong Zhe asked, his voice as heavy and oppressive as ever.

"The two specialists have been found, but they are already dead. Fang Gui and his men found them in the mountains. They were attacked by wild animals, and their bodies have been eaten beyond recognition." The young man respectfully replied, "I have already asked them to dispose of the bodies as soon as possible."

"Was anything discovered at the scene?"

"Yes." The young man nodded. "We found the materials they were carrying, including drawings and some documents, but the content is encrypted and needs to be decrypted before it can be interpreted. I have already..."

"Besides these?" The young man suddenly felt a gaze pressing down on him. Gong Zhe raised his head, "Didn't you find something... else?"