CHAPTER 660: CHAPTER 659 YANG CHEN’S DISCOVERY (3/5)

Midnight.

Nietai Mountain.

Two figures hid in the bushes, watching a group of people pass by.

After the group left, the two moved, emerging from the bushes.

Even out in the open, their camouflage attire made it difficult to discern their figures.

"Wait here a moment!" Yang Chen said to Sun Yue, then crouched low and quickly crept in the direction where the group had departed.

He swiftly caught up with the group, trailing silently behind them.

In this way, no one in the group noticed Yang Chen’s presence.

Given Yang Chen’s stealth abilities, anyone who could detect him would no longer need to work in the lower ranks and could immediately be promoted to the Land Reconnaissance Team.

Yang Chen vaguely heard their conversation.

"How many days has it been? We’ve searched all over Nietai Mountain, and there’s nothing like a red light."

"Stop talking about it. We’re just following orders; whether we find it or not is not our concern."

"It’s really weird. I saw it that day too, but why can’t we find it now?"

"What do you think that red light is? It doesn’t look like a searchlight."

"Could there be a secret base here, launching satellites?"

"Don’t talk nonsense. Could this place really have a satellite launch base? Do you know how much area, manpower, and resources that would need?"

...

After hearing this, Yang Chen stopped tracking them. After they left, he leaped onto a tree and quickly jumped between the trees, returning to Sun Yue in the blink of an eye.

"How is it?" Sun Yue asked.

Yang Chen lay on the ground and said to Sun Yue, "Are those your people?"

"They should be members of the search team, I’m not sure exactly. There are five search teams in total, searching non-stop around the clock," Sun Yue whispered.

Yang Chen nodded and said to Sun Yue, "They didn’t find anything, but someone did see that the red light indeed came from the mountain."

"So what do we do now?" Sun Yue asked.

"Continue searching in the dark!"

Sun Yue glanced at Yang Chen, hesitating to speak.

Her people had been searching here for a long time without finding any clues. Could it be that just the two of them would be able to find it?

This left Sun Yue uncertain.

But in the current situation, she had no other options.

The two of them quietly reached the mountain peak under the cover of night.

Sun Yue stood on a rock, looked around, and frowned, "It should be here. According to the satellite cloud image back then, the red light rose from this place."

Yang Chen furrowed his brow, observing the surroundings.

He sensed something was amiss.

From the moment he entered Nietai Mountain, he felt something was off.

It felt as if...he wasn’t on a mountain at all but rather...enjoying a small hill.

Yes! It felt like a small hill!

It’s not that Nietai Mountain isn’t big; its area and height are among the top in the country.

But Yang Chen felt as if Nietai Mountain had been reduced, which felt particularly bizarre.

Standing on the mountain peak now made this feeling even more pronounced.

He could feel that what he saw was not the entirety of Nietai Mountain; there seemed to be a hidden part.

Yang Chen crouched down and grabbed a handful of gravel from the ground.

He looked at the gravel in his hand, furrowed his brow, and discarded it casually.

Suddenly, Yang Chen’s expression changed drastically.

He noticed that some of the gravel he discarded had disappeared!

He hurriedly reached out to feel the area where he had discarded the gravel, but there was nothing unusual.

Yang Chen thought for a moment, stepped back, picked up another handful of gravel, counted it roughly, and gently threw it out.

This time, he threw it slowly and watched carefully; there were a total of eight pieces of gravel, and he watched each one intently.

At that moment, two of the pebbles disappeared!

Only six pieces dropped to the ground!

Seeing this, Yang Chen’s pupils contracted sharply.

He took a step forward, confirmed where the pebbles had disappeared, and drew a line on the ground.

Then he picked up eight more pieces of gravel and threw them at that spot.

This time one piece of gravel disappeared.

Now, Yang Chen was sure of it.

There was definitely something here!

Yang Chen also remembered something mentioned in the cultivation technique he practiced—a magical thing called an array.

Regarding arrays, Yang Chen thought of them as similar to Zhuge Liang’s Eight Array Map.

But the phenomenon appearing now might be even more mysterious than the Eight Array Map.

Sun Yue, seeing Yang Chen crouched on the ground for so long, came down from the rock and walked over, asking in confusion, "Yang Chen, did you find something?"

Yang Chen shook his head and said solemnly, "No, it seems finding Ye Xin’s trail will be very difficult. I think we need to divide up the work."

"Divide the work? How?" Sun Yue frowned.

Yang Chen said to Sun Yue, "You’re responsible for going out to investigate any news related to Ye Xin and the Divine Hall. I suggest doing some civilian investigations, like the old man said, many things can be further explored. Go to those villages and ask, find out if those things happened and what they really are. I believe we can discover something from this information."

"What about you?" Sun Yue asked.

Yang Chen patted the sleeping bag and tent behind him, "I won’t be going down the mountain these days. I’ll stay here, so if there’s any change, I can respond in the quickest way possible."

Sun Yue frowned as she looked at Yang Chen.

Yang Chen glanced down the mountain and said to Sun Yue, "Go quickly! Try not to expose my whereabouts. I suspect someone is targeting me and doesn’t want me to save Ye Xin. At the same time, you also have the responsibility to stop these people and prevent them from disrupting our plans!"

Hearing this, worry appeared on Sun Yue’s face.

She knew how much Yang Chen cared about Ye Xin. When she saw the people blocking the roads around, Sun Yue also realized that someone had started to target them. Therefore, everything Yang Chen said was true, and Sun Yue had to organize people to prevent them from sabotaging their plans.

"Do you need me to bring you food?" Sun Yue asked worriedly.

Yang Chen smiled slightly and looked at Sun Yue, "Do you think a master of jungle warfare would worry about food?"

Sun Yue was taken aback, then shook her head with a wry smile.

She knew Yang Chen’s abilities; for him, finding some food in the forest was simply effortless.

"I understand." Sun Yue nodded, stood up, and left all her bullets with Yang Chen, "Stay safe!"

Yang Chen nodded, "You too!"

Sun Yue gave Yang Chen a deep look, then turned and walked down the mountain.

After Sun Yue completely left, Yang Chen walked to the line, sat cross-legged, and activated the energy within him, sensing the changes around him.

Soon, he sensed an energy barrier in front of him. He slowly reached out and placed his hand on the energy barrier.

Yang Chen opened his eyes and found that his hand had disappeared.

"As expected!" Yang Chen realized this was indeed a layer of an energy shield that could isolate space!