Chapter 13

A moment later, Number 13's pupils suddenly shrank. He understood what Wu meant. He was going to kill his way from south to north, and then from east to west, completely tearing apart the Night Watchers' defenses.

Coming back to his senses, Number 13 gave a few dry laughs, and quickly added when he realized no one was paying attention to him, "Hey, you don't have to be so aggressive. We'll arrange for people to follow you. We..."

Wu raised his hand again and used his knife to draw a circle on the map, encircling the marked mountain forest. The killing intent displayed in that instant made Number 13 shudder. He suddenly felt that Wu was different from before.

Lin Wan'er stared at the map and nodded. "I understand. I won't send anyone in to interfere with you during this time. I'll designate the area you've marked as a restricted zone. Everyone inside is your prey."

"When are you planning to move?" Lin Wan'er asked.

"Later, I guess. Anyway, everyone's trapped inside, they can't escape." Fatty was worried about Wu's body. After all, he had just experienced a series of fierce battles in the Water Lord's world, and Wu's condition had not yet recovered.

Wu shook his head, and then his figure flickered and disappeared strangely.

Lin Wan'er picked up the phone with a serious face and quickly ordered after connecting, "Order all forward observation posts and concealed posts to retreat to their initial positions. The ambush troops at all intersections should also withdraw. Also, no matter what happens in the mountains during this period, do not approach for investigation without authorization. I'll send you the map later. Everyone withdraws outside the marked area and is absolutely not allowed to act without authorization until further orders are received."

"Also, notify the artillery that the planned artillery coverage is postponed due to the changing situation."

"I repeat, the situation has changed. The artillery coverage plan is postponed. Operation Owl Hunt is cancelled. Everyone hold your positions and await my next instructions."

With Lin Wan'er's orders, the encirclement around the entire mountain forest moved. All departments retreated in an orderly manner. As Lin Wan'er said before, this was a war. Everyone had an unspeakable feeling, as if a storm was slowly forming, and this place was the eye of the storm.

For the next ten minutes or so, the tent was eerily quiet. Fatty frowned, and Yao Shunyu, Li Bai, and the others could only remain silent. Number 13 kept running to the tent entrance, lifting the curtain to look outside.

But it was still dark, and the mountain forest was only a blur of darkness. As if reassuring himself, Number 13 muttered, "It'll be fine, Wu may seem impulsive and unreliable, but he must have his plans. He's not a reckless person, he must have figured out how to sneak in and avoid the Night Watchers' ambush. Yeah, he can definitely do it!"

Perhaps Heaven heard Number 13's prayer. The next second, a ball of fire erupted in the mountain forest, followed by a deafening roar. Number 13 was dumbfounded, and even the ground beneath their feet trembled a few times.

Number 13's eyesight was far superior to ordinary people. Through the fire, he saw a black figure standing in the air above the dense forest. Then the figure swung his knife again, and another explosion, no less than the previous one, sounded.

"What is he doing?" Number 13 was stunned. "Is he afraid that those people don't know he's sneaking in?"

Number 3 leaned back in his chair and slowly exhaled. "He's different from us. He's not worried about ambushes. He's worried that it's too troublesome to find those guys one by one, so he's simply luring them all over."

"Crazy..." Number 13 watched the beautiful fire in the mountain forest, wave after wave.

The battle seemed fierce, but it lasted only a short time, about an hour. The mountain forest outside returned to calm.

Number 13 paced back and forth nervously. Although he didn't think much of Zero, they were allies now, and Wu was indispensable to them and to the plan left by Number 4.

He had once wanted to compete with Number 4 on the plan, but now it seemed that he was the joke.

"It's quiet outside." Fatty guarded the tent door. He had already lost many family members and didn't want Wu to be hurt as well.

Seeing Fatty's worry, Number 3 comforted him, "Number 10, don't worry, Wu doesn't seem like a hothead."

Number 3 was also worried about Wu's battle, but there was nothing they could do now. Originally, they could rely on advanced electronic reconnaissance to survey the situation in the mountain forest, but they didn't know what the Night Watchers had activated, but the electronic warfare methods were severely interfered with. The images returned by some of their equipment were eerily terrifying.

Even some of the electronic warfare personnel guarding the screens were affected. One staff member seemed to be frightened, hallucinated, pulled out his gun, shot the other two teammates in the room in the head, and then shouted and pointed the gun at himself, committing suicide.

Lin Wan'er, who rushed to the scene, noticed something was wrong. There was no picture on the screen at all, just a series of snowflakes. This reminded her of the ghost movie incident. Without guessing, this must be the work of the Night Watchers. It seemed that there were experts in this area among those trapped in the mountains.

Dying inexplicably was the most frightening thing. Lin Wan'er used thunderous methods to suppress the matter.

While anxiously waiting, a phone call came, the sharp ringtone like a pair of scissors, cutting Fatty's heartstrings.

Lin Wan'er answered the phone, the voice on the other end was very urgent, as if something incomprehensible had happened.

"Okay, don't move, put things away, don't make things difficult for him, let him leave, yes, I repeat, don't interfere with him, let him go wherever he wants!" Lin Wan'er hung up the phone.

"What's going on?" Fatty hurried over, looking at Lin Wan'er expectantly.

Lin Wan'er then looked at Jiang Cheng, "The outer troops reported that they saw a man in black, carrying a knife, and he brought back a corpse."

Speaking of this, Lin Wan'er paused, and her expression became strange, "No, to be precise, half a corpse, which was identified by the on-site dark army as the Scrap Collector."

Hearing this, Number 13 gasped. He didn't expect that in such a short time, Wu not only found them, but also killed the Scrap Collector. He greedily asked, "Anything else? Was only one corpse found? What about the Candle Bearer?"

"The Candle Bearer's body hasn't been found yet, but the reconnaissance department just sent a message saying that all the interference sources in the mountain have disappeared and all the equipment has returned to normal."

"According to the data returned by the equipment analysis, there are no more living people in the mountains now," Lin Wan'er added.