378: Ripple?

“Next, you’re planning to take my M14, right?” Song Qiuyun asked calmly, a faint smile on her face, her eyes glancing sideways at Xiao Yun’s current position.

Hearing her words, Team member Mengmeng and Qingshan immediately stopped their wild thoughts and exchanged confused glances.

“Captain Song, are you talking to me?” Qingshan asked, utterly bewildered, unable to grasp the meaning of her words for a long time.

“Of course not.”

“Then who are you talking to?”

“Qingshan, check your weapon first!”

As soon as Song Qiuyun said this, Qingshan’s heart jolted, and he quickly looked down.

Although he was somewhat prepared, he was still profoundly shocked to see his M14 vanish into thin air.

“Sure enough, even my M14 is gone!”

“Captain Song, you must know something, right? What exactly is going on?” Team member Mengmeng asked urgently, staring at Song Qiuyun’s faint smile, knowing she might have guessed something.

“It’s simple,” Song Qiuyun explained calmly. “Someone has been around us all along, and while our attention was distracted, they secretly stole our weapons and backpacks.”

Upon hearing this, both Team member Mengmeng and Qingshan were profoundly shocked!

“That’s impossible! If there was someone, the scan just now should have detected him directly. How could the Signal Decrypter fail?”

“Exactly! And hiding just to steal our equipment? That’s too strange! Whether it’s an Asala Soldier or another operative team, he could have just killed us directly!” Team member Mengmeng and Qingshan said, utterly confused.

Their disbelief stemmed from logical analysis.

Indeed, as Team member Mengmeng analyzed, logically speaking, someone who can evade a Signal Decrypter and possess the ability to steal others’ backpacks and weapons without them noticing, whether an operative of GTI or a special Asala military unit, should not be merely stealing firearms.

Logically, if he can even hide the stolen weapons, then before that, he could have simply carried a foot-trimming gun, and when he encountered people, he could have directly engaged them, without needing such trouble to acquire others’ equipment and weapons.

From a logical analysis, if this were done by a person, it would indeed be somewhat unreasonable.

Simply put, this was not something a person would do!

After all, this behavior is like a fierce carnivorous animal toying with its prey during a hunt; it might be normal in the eyes of animals, but in human eyes, it’s somewhat unethical.

“Is this something a person would do?”

“I think so too…” Qingshan and Team member Mengmeng were both puzzled.

Just then, Xiao Yun, who had been in an invisible state, felt quite helpless after hearing their discussion.

He didn’t choose to act directly because he had a hidden reason, okay!

After all, Xiao Yun’s invisibility was not unconditional.

It wasn’t like Doraemon’s magic cloak, which grants invisibility just by wearing it.

And especially, if Song Qiuyun and her team were just an ordinary professional team, Xiao Yun might have considered it.

But with a customized Signal Decrypter and three fully modified M14s firing Level 5 bullets, knowing their strength was not simple, Xiao Yun was even more hesitant to act.

“Are you still planning to hide?” At this moment, Song Qiuyun, as if certain Xiao Yun was to her front left, gradually reined in her smile, her brows furrowed as she stared in that direction.

And the most critical thing was, Xiao Yun was indeed in that direction!

“A bluff, it’s definitely a bluff!” Xiao Yun didn’t believe she had truly pinpointed his location, thinking she was trying to bluff him into revealing himself.

However, when Xiao Yun took a step closer to Song Qiuyun’s position the next second, he immediately understood why Song Qiuyun had inferred his presence and inwardly sighed at his miscalculation!

“This Song Qiuyun... could she have observed clues from here?!” Xiao Yun’s plan, which he originally thought was foolproof, now had a huge flaw: the river below his feet!

Walking in the water, even though Xiao Yun was extremely careful to avoid making noise, each step still created faint ripples.

Logically, given the difficulty of this Eternal Night Dam, without night vision helmets and weapon lights, it would be hard to even see where the crocodiles were.

And even if one’s eyes had adapted to the darkness here, how could one so easily detect the tiny ripples produced in the slowly flowing river?

One must know that this river was flowing water, currently moving slowly!

This Song Qiuyun could actually capture the traces left by Xiao Yun’s feet under such circumstances, thereby confirming his existence!

Since he had been discovered, Xiao Yun no longer intended to pretend to be mysterious.

However, simply appearing openly before them was not a good idea.

After all, in their eyes, his actions seemed to be deliberately playing tricks, and he had stolen their equipment.

If he were to truly deactivate his invisibility, he would probably be shot dead on the spot!

Originally, Xiao Yun hadn’t considered how to deal with this situation, but Team member Mengmeng’s words just now gave him a very good idea.

Anyway, they only knew he was a person, not an operative, so why not simply pretend to be an Asala Soldier and deceive them?

From their conversation just now, it seemed they had come here on a mission, and they still seemed a bit unclear about the mission objective.

Furthermore, Xiao Yun had also just learned an Asala accent from the three Asala Soldiers at the Cement Factory.

At that time, Xiao Yun’s imitation was so lifelike that even their teammates couldn’t distinguish it!

Thinking of this, Xiao Yun had no more reservations.

His disguise this time was simply perfect, aligning with the right time, place, and people, and it could help him escape suspicion!

“Ahem.” So, Xiao Yun first imitated the Asala accent he had just learned, coughing softly twice.

After confirming that his vocal cords were adjusted, Xiao Yun spoke calmly, “Oh? You detected my presence through the ripples on the water? That’s quite interesting.”