Apocalyptic Extraordinary Convoy, I'm really not weird!

Chen Shou's gaze deepened slightly as he continued to ask:

"The ashes outside the camp..."

"I did it."

Su Ye did not evade the question and directly admitted it.

Why?

Chen Shou asked the key question, his gaze fixed on Su Ye, not missing a single subtle emotional fluctuation.

Su Ye did not answer immediately, but instead asked in return:

"Before I explain, Captain Chen, how did you encounter Wu Feng, Wang Kui, and Zhou Lie?"

During the time we were together...

Have you noticed anything "abnormal" about the three of them?

"abnormal?"

This word is like a stone thrown into a deep pool, instantly creating ripples.

Chen Shou's brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.

"What do you mean by that?"

Lin Wei spoke first, her pace slightly faster.

"Wu Feng and his group claimed that they were separated from the others in the 'Mist,' and that the three of them escaped with a few survivors. They encountered us when their resources ran out."

Old Zhao couldn't help but lower his voice and press on:

"Hey kid, what's going on..."

Chen Shou raised his hand to signal Old Zhao to calm down, his gaze never leaving Su Ye, and pondered:

"Su Ye, you specifically mentioned 'abnormality,' there must be something you're referring to."

What happened to you last night was related to Wu Feng and his group, as well as Xu Xin and Xu Jiang, right?

Su Ye met Chen Shou's gaze and slowly nodded:

"Yes, it's related to them."

Yesterday, while I was walking in the wilderness, I sensed the presence of their convoy and followed them until they set up camp here.

At the initial contact, Xu Xin and Xu Jiang, along with the ordinary survivors they brought, appeared perfectly normal, except for their exhaustion.

After a slight pause, he spoke again:

"After some conversation, they told me that after parting ways with us last time, they found a safe area to rest for a day before setting off again to find new supply points."

But an accident happened on the way. Zhou Lie was enraged by a conflict, and his sequence went out of control and killed Wu Feng. In order for them to escape, Wang Kui stepped forward to stop the berserk Zhou Lie.

Then they led the survivors on a aimless escape through the wilderness until they met me.

They were very depressed at the time and felt extremely desperate about losing their "guide" Wu Feng.

However, they kindly advised me to stay overnight, saying it was too dangerous for me to be out alone.

Chen Shou's brows furrowed even more, Lin Wei's eyes were sharp as knives, and Old Zhao held his breath.

The incident occurred at midnight.

Su Ye's voice took on a cold quality.

"Xu Xin made the first move. Her words of power were abnormally strong, directly restricting my movements."

Next up was Xu Jiang, who delivered a heavy blow to me with a modified gun.

That's when I truly saw what they were like.

Their eyes, their weapons, their very essence—all were completely controlled by something.

The air inside the tent seemed to freeze.

"What is it?"

Lin Wei's voice was tense.

"Blood inflammation."

Su Ye uttered these two words, his gaze sweeping over the three of them.

"But not the kind that Zhou Lie is wearing now..."

Instead, it's more sinister and leans towards the eerie.

The ordinary survivors in the convoy had already been drained of their life force by Xu Xin and Xu Jiang, who were under its control, leaving them with only a sliver of life force, and were being manipulated like puppets.

He took a deep breath and repeated the most crucial, and most chilling, statement:

"They, or rather the thing controlling them, said at the time: 'We are neither the Strange Ones nor Zhou Lie...'"

Su Ye paused for a second, allowing the weight of those words to fully manifest:

"It is blood flame."

After he finished speaking, the tent fell into an even deeper silence.

Old Zhao let out a gasp.

Lin Wei's fingers curled up unconsciously.

Chen Shou clenched his fists on his knees, the veins on the back of his hands slightly visible.

After several seconds, Chen Shou spoke with a grim expression:

"You said... 'it' calls itself 'Bloodflame'?"

"right."

Su Ye affirmed, his brows furrowed.

"So I'm completely unsure what's going on."

His gaze swept across Chen Shou and Lin Wei's faces, a conflicted expression appearing on his own.

"If Xu Xin and Xu Jiang are lying, why would they make up such a story?"

At that time, I was already their captive, so why bother?

But if they weren't lying, or at least not part of it...

He paused, sorting through the tangled threads:

"Then, several possibilities exist."

First, perhaps after Wu Feng and the others got separated in the mist, Xu Xin and Xu Jiang really did encounter an accident and were corrupted and controlled by some unknown thing, which may be the being that calls itself "Blood Flame".

The stories they told were instilled in them based on some kind of distorted truth.

"Secondly, perhaps everyone encountered an accident in the fog back then, just in different ways."

Xu Xin and Xu Jiang became like that, while Wu Feng and the other two... may have 'survived' in ways we don't understand.

They may have no idea what the other has truly experienced or is currently going through.

"Of course, there's a third possibility,"

He added in conclusion that it was also the simplest yet most unsettling type.

"Perhaps Wu Feng and the others are normal, only Xu Xin and Xu Jiang had an accident."

But I can't understand why Xu Xin and Xu Jiang would say such things. After all, according to Wu Feng and the others, they parted ways in the mist. Why would Xu Xin and Xu Jiang fabricate such a lie to deceive me?

After Su Ye finished speaking, he looked at Chen Shou:

"Of course, these are all conjectures based on the fact that Wu Feng and his group really encountered the Fog Incident separately."

Captain Chen, your senses... really didn't detect anything wrong with the three of them?

"Is there anything even slightly unusual?"

Chen Shou remained silent for a moment, then slowly shook his head:

"No.

Wu Feng's sequence fluctuations were stable, Wang Kui's aura was heavy, and Zhou Lie's 'Blood Flame' was much more stable than when they met before.

In my perception, there was no hint of a sinister, eerie aura lurking within them.

He raised his head, his gaze sharp.

"But that is precisely the most dangerous situation."

If Wu Feng and his group really have something going on, and they've managed to disguise themselves so perfectly that they've even managed to fool my senses..."

Silence fell again inside the tent.

"So... what do we do now?"

Old Zhao couldn't help but ask, his voice hoarse.

After a long silence, Chen Shou's eyes flickered with hesitation, but finally he made up his mind, looked at Su Ye, and said:

"Su Ye, go straight back to the car later and make a normal appearance tomorrow. See how the three of them react when they see you."

This is a probe, and also the most direct way to obtain information.

He held up one finger:

"In the first case, if they are surprised by your return, but only surprised, without showing any of the 'strange' atmosphere you described."

So, let's hold back for now and find a way to separate ourselves from them later. But Su Ye, you have to be careful, because many people in our caravan know that you also have similar methods to create this effect with the ashes in the camp.

Once they obtain this information, they'll suspect you're the murderer and prepare to take action against you...