Chapter 4260 — The Ghost Mist Formation
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Fortunately, Wei Zhao had harbored doubts about him from first to last, always keeping an eye out for the various oddities, and so had not taken the bait as easily as the others. And how could a will as tempered as his be bewitched by any ordinary means?
Yet although Wei Zhao had sensed something wrong, in this place he could not see the situation clearly at all, nor did he dare act rashly. At this moment he could not look after the others either—he could only mind Huang Xiaotao beside him.
"Ensnared my mind? No wonder I felt like I couldn't help myself just now, like my body wasn't my own..." Huang Xiaotao was badly startled by Wei Zhao's words, and at the same time secretly counted her blessings that Wei Zhao was beside her. Then she asked nervously, "So what do we do now?"
"We can't see the situation clearly, so we can only hold our position for the time being. Let's stay here a while first and see," Wei Zhao said, even as he pricked up his ears and strained to listen to everything around them.
In their present straits, neither eyes nor divine sense was of any use—only the ears were somewhat better off. If there was any movement nearby, at least they would still hear something.
"Mm." Huang Xiaotao nodded, still shaken, one hand clutching Wei Zhao's tightly, and like him she kept a careful watch on everything around them.
The two of them waited quietly for a while, yet there was not the slightest stir around them. In Wei Zhao's reckoning, whatever tricks Chu Bubai might play, Guo Dengtao and Wang Feng were, after all, genuine mid-Golden Core experts; even if they had fallen foul of some scheme, they should still have had some room to put up a struggle—surely they could not have been finished off just like that, without a sound?
Of course, if one thought the worst, Chu Bubai had gone to such pains to bring them all here, and with his depth of scheming he would hardly leave anyone any room to turn things around. That Guo Dengtao and the others might simply have been snuffed out, silent and without a trace, was not beyond the realm of possibility.
But the question was: why would Chu Bubai expend such effort to bring a bunch of people who had nothing to do with him to a place like this, only to kill them?
Wei Zhao could not yet make sense of this question, but he could vaguely sense that it must be connected to the infant ginseng. After all, the medicinal fragrance of the infant ginseng could not be faked—though just what the connection was, that was hard to say.
"Have they gone far? Or..." Huang Xiaotao clutched Wei Zhao's hand tightly and dared not finish the sentence, because even now she could still catch glimpses of ghostly shadows flickering at the edges of her vision.
If nothing had happened to Guo Dengtao and the others, then once Chu Bubai realized the two of them had not followed, he would surely have some countermeasure. Even if he did not come back to look for them in person, he should have found some way to send a signal. Yet at this moment, there was no sign of anything at all from up ahead.
If Wei Zhao's guess was right and Chu Bubai truly meant them harm, then Guo Dengtao and the others had most likely met with disaster. At the thought, Huang Xiaotao's hair stood on end. If Wei Zhao had not held her back just now, she would surely have been dragged down with them!
"I don't know. For now, all we can do is take it one step at a time," Wei Zhao said grimly. He too had no confidence in his heart, and for the time being could only wait and see how things developed. R1152