Zerg: Cold and aloof Major General, stop pretending to be innocent, I have a headache!

Jiang Xu explained the planned area and key areas to Jiang Ping and Lin An, and soon they officially began clearing the area at the bottom of the cliff.

The shadows slanted eastward, growing longer and longer until they were completely obscured and overlapped by the projection of the cliff.

Sunset West Mountain.

Jiang Xu looked at Jiang Ping and Lin An, who were shaking their heads at him, and his eyes darkened.

Is the trail going to end here?

The wind below the cliff began to pick up, stirring up the yellow sand on the ground once again. Jiang Xu turned to look at the crevice in the rock that had previously carried the Phaedo wind: "Let's go stay there for a while."

"Okay." Lin An looked at his mouth full of sand with disgust: "I really came down here and ate a mouthful of sand, and I didn't find anything."

The three of them walked to the center of the crevice and each found a stone to sit on.

"I remember the records said that the scene you saw when you came down was nothing short of a river of blood, right?" Jiang Xu quickly recalled the information he had seen and asked them.

"Yes, that's right. Everywhere you look today is blood. Drops and streams of blood have formed rivers of blood." Lin An still remembers that scene vividly: "But with so much blood, the strange thing is that there isn't a single corpse."

"Do you know what happened on the western front not long ago?" Jiang Xu continued to ask them.

Lin An and Jiang Ping exchanged a glance, then looked at Jiang Xu: "You mean, these two things might have originated from one faction?"

"We can't rule out suspicion." Jiang Xu thought for a moment and continued, "Even if all the insects on a battlefield disappear, we still can't find any clues."

Lin An said seriously, "Wrong, there is a clue."

Jiang Xu looked at him questioningly, then quickly realized: "You mean a growl?"

"Yes," Lin An answered readily.

Jiang Ping watched the two insects' question-and-answer exchange with remarkable tacit understanding, but then asked, "Could you two just say it outright?"

Jiang Xu looked at Lin An and asked, "My information comes from the dark web, what about yours?"

"What a coincidence, I happen to know the bug that sent the message." Lin An straightened his body, it was a coincidence that they met.

There's a guy in the liaison center whose hometown is over there. The bug that sent the message on the dark web happened to be from their village, so he found out about it as soon as it came out.

I went back to the village with that brother.

That was quite a coincidence. Jiang Xu looked at him without saying anything.

"Could it be that you're overthinking it? We didn't hear anything when we came here back then." Lin An carefully recalled his memories from that time.

I made sure I hadn't heard any strange noises.

"?" Jiang Ping listened for a while as they brought up the past, then glanced at Lin An after hearing his words: "Yes."

"Huh?" Lin An looked at Jiang Ping, who had suddenly spoken out of nowhere, his face full of question marks: "What did you say?"

"Didn't you just say you didn't hear any sounds back then? I said you did." Jiang Ping glanced at him sideways and continued, "The sound was carried by the wind, so you, being a male insect, probably couldn't hear it."

The sound was just too muffled, too deep, and too soft; it was easy to miss if you weren't paying attention.

"..." Lin An looked at him speechlessly: "Why didn't you say so back then?"

"You reminded me just now. I thought it was just the normal sound of the wind passing through the valley, but the sound back then is different from how it sounds now." Back then, Jiang Ping didn't think there was anything unusual about that sound.

If he hadn't come today, he would never have discovered this in his entire life.

"......." Lin An.

Jiang Xu seemed to have a direction again. Could there be cliffs on the western battlefield as well? But if he remembered correctly, Jiang Mian hadn't been gone for long. How could he have reached there in such a short time?

He stood up and glanced at the bottom of the cliff again. He was still more inclined to believe that Jiang Mian had said this was the bottom of the cliff.

Regardless of when Zoran and his group arrived, or when Jiang Mian sent the message, the timing was fixed and there was no possibility of discrepancy.

"Let's go back first. It's hard to find anything at this hour," Lin An suggested, looking at the silent Jiang Xu.

Jiang Xu looked up at the sun, which was only partially visible through the sunlight: "Hmm."

The sandstorm was too intense, and the bottom of the cliff was shrouded in mist, making it impossible to find anything.

Soon, they set off to leave. Jiang Ping continued to carry Jiang Xu like a sandbag. Because of the wind, Jiang Xu opened his eyes and looked down at the cliff valley from mid-air.

Lin An at the bottom of the cliff seemed to notice that he was waving at him with his eyes open, acting like an old father wiping away tears.

"......." Jiang Xu remained silent. How could Jiang Mian have brought out such a worm?

But considering Jiang Mian's usual personality, it seems quite normal for him to produce such a worm. It's me who's abnormal.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xu fell even more silent.

"Hmm?" He looked at the direction Lin An was waving in, where a dim light was emanating from.

He immediately patted Jiang Ping on the shoulder: "Uncle, wait a minute."

The female insect, who was almost suspended in mid-air, suddenly stopped and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"Send me back to the bottom of the cliff, and I'll find something's not right." Jiang Xu noticed that Lin An below was still covering his face and waving at him.

He had barely finished speaking when his foot was already on the ground at the bottom of the cliff.

"......." Jiang Xu didn't want to experience that feeling of weightlessness a second time.

Suppressing the turmoil in her chest, she walked towards Lin An's direction.

"Why are you two back again?" Lin An looked at them, puzzled.

"You attract too many bugs." Jiang Xu glanced at him, walked around him, and went behind him to the spot where he had seen the light earlier.

He frowned as he looked at the ground. He had clearly seen a point of light here just now, so why couldn't he see it up close?

He crouched down and turned on the flashlight function of the communicator on his wrist.

Lin An and Jiang Ping watched his movements and squatted down beside him, one on each side.

"What did you find?" Having gone and returned, what else could Lin An not understand?

Jiang Xu raised his hand and put his index finger to his lips, making a shushing gesture.

He stared at the clump of yellowish-black pebbles in front of him. He had searched this area before but hadn't found anything unusual.

But what exactly is that reflection?

"Uncle Lin, please turn on the light. Walk over there and shine it in my direction," Jiang Xu said, pointing to a large rock at the boundary between the sun and shadow.

"?" Lin An didn't understand the meaning of doing this, but he quickly flipped onto the large rock, shining his light towards Jiang Xu: "Like this?"

"Please slowly change the position of the light source." Jiang Xu stood up and took two steps back. "Please continue, but slowly."

Lin An moved very slowly and deliberately, shifting the position of the light source according to Jiang Xu's description.

One minute later.

"Uncle Lin, don't move." A glint of light flashed in Jiang Xu's eyes.