Chapter 257: Wooden Cabin (8)
Even the SAI had been alerted. It seemed that the enemy they were facing this time was extremely formidable…
At the thought, Everly felt her heart sink.
Based on their previous encounters, SAI agents were generally psychics with special supernatural abilities. The fact that these cultists had managed to overpower a SAI agent and place them on an altar to torture and kill them made their strength almost impossible to fathom.
Everyone in Everly’s group was an ordinary person. Against opponents like that, they would have virtually no means of resistance. All they could do was hope that the agent’s belongings might contain some useful clues or defensive tools to make them a little less helpless.
Everly called her two companions over. While silently apologizing to the deceased agent, she carefully searched through the agent’s clothes and backpack.
Apart from identification documents, the only thing she found among the clothes was an old brass pocket watch. Inside the watch’s cover was a faded photograph yellowed with age. In it, a much younger version of the agent stood beside a woman holding a baby, both smiling brightly at the camera.
It was clearly a personal possession. Everly did not dare look at it for long. She carefully put the brass pocket watch into her own backpack, intending to find an opportunity to return it to the SAI after they got out.
Misha and Harriet worked together to inspect the agent’s backpack.
The bag had obviously been searched through already. None of the weapons or useful tools Everly had hoped to find for self-defense were there. What remained were only basic wilderness-survival supplies. Their packaging had all been opened, and they had been stuffed back into the bag in a disorderly mess, as though whoever had searched it had done so with exceptional roughness.