"It's absolutely true! I really saw something with wings, covered in feathers!"

The mercenary who discovered Chen Wen faced dozens of eyes staring at him intently, patting his chest and said, "I'm very sure! I can swear in the name of the Lord!"

Once it rose to a religious level, people's trust in the mercenary increased somewhat.

"Can you explain the situation specifically?"

The white deputy leader hurried over.

After learning about the incident from everyone, he gestured for the mercenary to speak slowly.

The mercenary said, "I was up at night, and just as I was heading to the bathroom, I saw a figure come out of the cave. The lights were on, and I saw it very clearly."

"At first, I thought it was one of our people going to the cave to fetch something, so I didn't pay much attention, but right in front of my eyes, that thing spread a pair of wings!"

The mercenary's tone instantly became excited: "Very large! The wingspan felt like seven or eight meters! That thing ran a few steps on the ground, then suddenly flapped its wings and soared into the sky!"

"I feel it might be an angel!"

Some religious mercenaries immediately started discussing upon hearing this.

Listening to everyone's whispers, the deputy leader became suspicious.

An angel?

Why do I feel it's an evil spirit!

"Alright, stop saying nonsense, there's no such thing as angels in this world; even if there were, you wouldn't be the ones to see them!"

The deputy leader, having no ideas and seeing that the leader hadn't arrived, just waved his hand: "Disperse, get some rest early, there's work to do tomorrow!"

Hearing this, everyone dispersed somewhat reluctantly.

But for the rest of the time, they couldn't fall asleep.

In various tents, and even in neighboring tents, people continued to discuss this matter.

Slowly, the story became more and more exaggerated.

"Did you hear? Someone saw an angel! The angel had wings, as much as eight meters long!"

"Eight meters? I heard Gula said it was ten meters!"

"What are you talking about! That's not an angel; I heard someone say it was a devil! Only a devil's wings are black!"

"A devil? What would it be doing here?"

"I heard it's because of the treasure; you think about it, the value of this treasure is enough to make even the leader... so could it also attract a devil?"

"Possibly, I've heard this kind of treasure carries a curse, and the devil might have been drawn here by the curse!"

...

A night passed, and countless rumors spread throughout the camp.

Some said that figure was an angel, others said it was a devil, and some said the ghosts of those who died had returned.

People are afraid of being idle; once idle, things start to happen.

When the black captain woke up in the morning, he was stunned by hearing countless versions of the rumors.

What the hell?

A night has passed, how did this treasure become the devil's treasure?

Who's the devil?

The black captain looked at the team members who were solemnly warning him not to covet the treasure, and couldn't help but smack him on the hat.

"Devil? Damn it! With so much money, even if a devil comes, I'll execute it!"

The captain threw his hat and started gathering the mercenaries.

This matter must be resolved!

...

Meanwhile.

After sleeping heavily for a night, four mercenaries were now sweating while staring at the opened iron chain door.

"Damn, did he escape by himself?"

"How possible! The key is so far away. Who helped him get the key? They don't have any tools on them!"

"That's not right, I feel this person couldn't have escaped, think about it, he was very happy as soon as he arrived at the camp, even tried to make the food taste better, would such a person run away?"

"Yeah, I also think like that, I feel everyone else ran away, but this foolish kid couldn't have run!"

As the four talked and looked at each other in dismay.

A mercenary arrived.

The newcomer didn't notice anyone missing but informed them to gather and casually mentioned the rumors circulating in the camp.

He also jokingly said to be careful of the devil at night.

After the messenger left, the four looked at each other.

"I think..."

One of them said: "There's no way this person escaped by himself, we watched very carefully!"

The word "we" was emphasized heavily by him.

Another nodded thoughtfully: "Yeah, we watched very carefully; the responsibility isn't on us, so whose fault is it?"

"Them?"

The third person looked at Hank, Ludwig, and Yang Feng, planning to push them out as scapegoats.

But the fourth person stopped him: "If they did it, why didn't they run? Besides, wouldn't it get exposed once the boss asked?"

At this point, the first person glanced at everyone: "Isn't there a possibility that it was done by a devil!"

"Devil?"

The three were stunned.

"Yeah, the devil came and needs a blood sacrifice, it came here and took the Asian man away."

"Why specifically take that Asian man? Is he special?"

"Um..."

"Come to think of it, he seems to be the youngest person here."

These words left the four dumbfounded.

Damn, it makes perfect sense!

"Then, you three come here."

The first person pointed to Yang Feng and the other two: "If you don't want to die, do as we say."

After muttering for a while, the four felt a bit uneasy.

"Will this work?"

Someone asked uneasily.

At this moment, Yang Feng stepped out.

He laughed dryly and said to the four: "Guys, simply saying it won't work, we need to produce evidence."

Evidence?

We wouldn't need to make up such a ridiculous excuse if we had evidence!

Just as a mercenary was about to scold Yang Feng, Yang Feng quickly said: "Fabricate evidence, fabricate evidence! We can completely fabricate some fake evidence around, or even find some real evidence."

Forgery, this is good!

The four's eyes lit up and began looking for evidence with Yang Feng and the other two.

Soon, they truly found some things.

...

A moment later, just as the black captain was about to dispel the rumor, he was dumbfounded listening to the report of the four subordinates about the demon's arrival.

"You're lying to me!"

The black captain said angrily, about to draw his gun.

But the four said in unison, "Boss, we have evidence!"

One of them took out a tuft of lynx fur he found on the ground, calling it "the feather of the devil".

Another one took out his phone, showing a picture of the Golden Eagle's claw print on a sleeping bag, calling it "the devil's footprint".

The third person didn't have physical evidence but gave false testimony with Ludwig and Hank.

"When I took them to the bathroom, the person was still lying there. After I locked them in, I stashed the key safely in my pants, then crawled into the sleeping bag."

Hank nodded: "I can testify, I saw it with my own eyes."

Ludwig also corroborated.

The persuasion was slightly insufficient, but when paired with the two previous pieces of evidence, it was quite adequate.

The fourth person and Yang Feng used the fact that Chen Wen was sleeping in the innermost also as false testimony, indicating that last night, Yang Feng didn't notice any commotion.

Yet, Chen Wen vanished just like that.

The seven people's confident demeanor left the black captain quite confused.

Now he was also a bit unsure.

Is this matter true or false?

If it's false, how did they, living in the mine, know about the devil's affair?

They even found evidence.

But if it's true...

The black captain shivered; he too was a religious man.

This godforsaken place...

The black captain cursed, dispersed the crowd, and stopped discussing the matter.

Instead, he instructed the staff to speed up the retrieval process.

In the crowd, Hua Yun watched as the guards displayed the so-called "devil's feather" and "devil's footprint", and fell into deep thought.

Others might not know, but wouldn't she know?

Isn't this just the lynx's fur and the Golden Eagle's footprints?

Looks like Chen Wen snuck away.

I've always thought that someone like him wouldn't just sit around waiting for the mercenaries to let them go.

But given the outside circumstances, where could he escape to?

And after he escapes, what's his plan?

Hua Yun pondered silently.

Meanwhile, Chen Wen returned to the production team's camp.

He found a decent room, pulled in the sleds for him and Hua Yun, and collected all the remaining supplies in the camp to store them inside.

Then he began to rest.

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