Chapter 29 - Each with Their Ulterior Motives

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Boss, it’s in Iron Valley Mountain.”

Lorne was right to be careful. In a small town, the three spirit envoys who were preparing to kill Lorne had indeed found the location of the mission Lorne had accepted through his guesses.

“D*mn it, I’ve been staring at the communicator for the whole day. My eyes are numb but we still found it.”

“The Iron Valley Mountain isn’t far from us. If we hurry, we can definitely get ahead of him.”

“Hmph, this kid is so bold. He still dares to come out at this time. If he doesn’t die, who will?”

After the three spirit envoys found the location of the next mission, they were full of confidence. Then, they packed their things and rushed to the location of the mission!

At the same time, another group of spirit envoys from Outpost No. 12, the bald leader, were also rushing to the Iron Valley Mountain.

The three spirit envoys moved very quickly. In just over two hours, they had arrived at Lorne’s mission location.

Iron Valley Mountain was a tourist spot outside Jiang City. People in Jiang City usually liked to climb it. There were still some old and dilapidated temples on Iron Valley Mountain.

“Yuanlong, that kid shouldn’t have arrived here yet. Look at that temple.”

One of the spirit envoys pointed at a temple on Iron Valley Mountain. That temple, which had been deserted for more than a hundred years, appeared in the candlelight. 

“The main road to the mountain is there and the view is the best there. We can see several other directions. Let’s set up an ambush there and get rid of him there,” the square-faced man pointed at a small hill and said.

“Okay!” The other two spirit envoys glanced at it and agreed with the arrangement.

At this moment, an off-road vehicle also drove at high speed to the place where the square-faced man and the others were. This was the foot of Iron Valley Mountain.

“Could it be that Lorne is here?”

“Hehe, just in time. Brothers, let’s attack together and end this quickly!”

The three of them quickly summoned their elves and prepared to launch a thunderous attack as soon as the people in the vehicle came out!

The people who came were none other than the four-men team led by the bald man. They had long noticed the figures of the three spirit envoys. However, seeing that they were not Lorne, they did not plan to make a move. However, from the looks of it, they seemed to be waiting for someone.

The bald man felt that something was not quite right, so he decided to come up and take a look at the situation. Who would have thought that before they arrived, they would already see a few people in battle stance!

This gave the bald man a fright! Was there a need for that? Could it be that the Federation had discovered the news that they had wanted to kill Lorne?

However, the bald man thought about it and realized that this was impossible. The mission was Li Luoyun’s one-way contact with them, so it was impossible for words to leak out.

Then, the vehicle slowed down. The skinny spirit envoy stretched out his body under the bald man’s signal and shouted, “Friends in front, we’re the spirit envoys of Outpost No. 12. We mean no harm!”

When he heard that the person in the SUV was not the person they were looking for, the square-faced man put down his offensive posture in embarrassment.

However, the summoned elf did not return to the magic lamp realm. In the wilderness, it was during this special period that they encountered a team of spirit envoys. Who knew what the other party was doing?

The SUV stopped at the foot of the mountain. The bald man led a few people out of the SUV. The people on both sides looked at each other and heaved a sigh of relief. After all, no one wanted to do anything else during this period.

Yuanlong asked, “Friends, what are you here for?”

Just as the skinny spirit envoy was about to speak, the bald man spoke first, “We have a friend who agreed to meet here, so we came here to wait for him. What about you?”

The air was silent for two seconds and the square-faced man said in a muffled voice, “Us too!”

This time, the few of them felt even weirder.

‘What a coincidence! Could the friend we’re waiting for be Lorne?’ they all thought to themselves.

Then, the bald man seemed to realize something. He turned back to the car, turned on his cell phone, and dialed a number. It was Li Luoyun’s private number.

After the call was connected…

“You even arranged for additional manpower. Why didn’t you say so earlier? What should we do now? Our teams have already met and we almost got into a fight earlier! If we ambush that kid later, who will get the reward for the mission? No matter who completes it, as long as we kill that kid, the promised reward will still be given, right? Alright!”

The bald man hung up the phone and at the same time, the square-faced finally got through to Li Luoyun’s private phone.

“Boss, I met a group of people here. They seem to be waiting for that kid Lorne… What? It’s your arrangement?! Okay, okay. Thank you, Boss. We’ll cooperate well!”

Thus, the leaders of the two sides looked at each other and laughed loudly. After explaining clearly to their subordinates and companions, everyone laughed awkwardly.

Then, the bald man said, “Brother, since everyone has the same goal and there’s no conflict, let’s work together when the goal arrives. How about it?”

“Very good, very good!”

After the two sides discussed the ambush strategy again, the square-faced man followed the previous method and quickly brought his two companions to the hill. They hid in the bushes. The bald man and the others were lying in ambush on the other side of the hill.

At the same time, Lorne was still on his way. When it was almost noon, Lorne finally arrived at the place.

This was the quarry of a cement factory north of Jiang City. As demons appeared here, dozens of people had died in this quarry and the work had long been stopped.

The workers who were lucky enough to escape the disaster had hidden far away. As no spirit envoys had come out recently, work had been stopped here for several days. Although work had stopped, there was a knocking sound in the mine.

“Dina, I’ll leave it to you,” Lorne said.

A few minutes later, Lorne walked out of the mine. The one in the mine was a level-3 demon, which had been eliminated by Dina.

With Dina’s current level, she was at least half a level higher than a level-4 demon. It was not too difficult to deal with these demons. She even had the strength to deal with a level-5 demon..