Chapter 97: Enchanted (1/2)

Chapter 97: Enchanted

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Luo Yuan returned a few minutes later, visibly disturbed. He had searched through the whole residential area, but he had not found anything.

“Did you all see a person standing there just now?” he asked everyone.

“No, my eyes were only on you, Boss,” Sun Xiaowu said, looking embarrassed.

The others shook their heads too.

“Boss, could you maybe have been mistaken?” Huo Dong asked carefully, beginning to get nervous.

Was he really mistaken? Luo Yuan was not sure. The shadow had disappeared within the blink of an eye. His 13-point Dexterity was faster than normal people’s by 3.3 times. Unless that person had supersonic speed, his eyes would have caught them. Yet they hadn’t.

Luo Yuan thought back to the palpitations last night, his expression becoming serious. If it had been illusion, it was strange to have it happen twice in such a short period of time.

“Maybe I’ve really been mistaken,” Luo Yuan said without letting anything show. Telling them about this would not be of much help. It would only add to their fear.

He cut short his practice at the mansion, and asked Huang Jiahui to be on alert and open fire as a warning if anything seemed to be wrong. He went out again twice, but made no new discoveries.

He carefully searched the whole Jingyue Residential Area one last time, going through every room in the crumbling buildings. What spooked him was that there were no survivors in the whole area. There weren’t even dead bodies.

Most of the houses’ interior was still neat and tidy, showing no sign that the owners had left in a rush. Important resources, like food, had all been left behind.

This was not normal at all. The whole residential area was exuding a strange aura.

When he returned to the mansion, Cao Ling approached him hastily, avoiding everybody else, and whispered, “Did you see Ning Xiaoran?”

Luo Yuan was shocked. “What happened?”

“I don’t know what’s going on. She was here just now. I asked her to throw the garbage away, but she hasn’t returned yet. It’s been almost half an hour. You just came back from outside. Did you see her?”

“Did you go through the rooms?” Luo Yuan asked calmly.

“I’ve already searched everywhere. I even looked in the basement, but I can’t find her. It’s so dangerous outside. She couldn’t have gone out, could she?” Cao Ling said anxiously, pure terror showing on her face.

“Did you mention this to anyone else?” Luo Yuan asked.

Cao Ling looked hesitant as she said, “Not yet, I can’t have them go out there alone and risk their lives for Ning Xiaoran!”

They were outsiders after all, and could not compare to Luo Yuan’s own women. If the news had spread and Wang Shishi or Huang Jiahui were to go out and look for Ning Xiaoran, the rest of them would be held accountable if anything happened to them.

Luo Yuan nodded appreciatively and praised, “You did well. Don’t tell anyone else, I don’t want them to panic. I’ll go look for her now.” Luo Yuan stood up, holding his machete.

“Ning Xiaoran won’t be harmed, will she?” Cao Ling asked worriedly.

Luo Yuan kept quiet and went outside with quick steps.

It was rainy and gloomy. The sky was already getting dark despite the fact that it wasn’t even 5 p.m.

“Ning Xiaoran!”

“Where are you, Ning Xiaoran?”

Luo Yuan shouted as he walked, his footsteps promptly concealed by watery mud. The residential area was still considerably large and there were buildings and plants all over the place, blocking his sight.

He would not be able to find anyone this way, not anytime soon. In fact, he had already given up hope. He knew how dangerous it was outside. It was half an hour since Ning Xiaoran had disappeared. It would be a miracle if he could even find a trace of her body.

He could only leave things to fate now.

Luo Yuan had been searching for nearly ten minutes. He was about to give up, when suddenly he saw a shoe stuck in the mud.

It was a woman’s sneaker. It looked like it had just gotten stuck. The mud around it was still fresh. Luo Yuan thought it looked familiar.

“It belongs to Ning Xiaoran!”

He lifted his head in alarm. She must have walked through the bushes beside it. They looked like they had been walked on.

Luo Yuan had not expected the usually timid and quiet girl to be so bold. Did she not know that bushes hid all sorts of mutated creatures?

The rain got heavier as thunder roared.

Luo Yuan quickly followed the tracks on the bushes. He finally found something when he passed by a crumbled building.

A figure dressed in a beige jacket was slowly walking towards the front under the rain.

Her steps were wobbly. She fell to the ground a few times, but each time she stood back up and kept walking forward.

Luo Yuan picked up his pace and was behind her within a second. His grasp on the machete tightened. He could sense that something wrong. How could a weak woman, who had already fallen a few times, still be safe when she’d been outside for half an hour? This sounded strange to him.

“Where are you going, Ning Xiaoran?”

Ning Xiaoran continued moving forward as if she had not heard him.

Luo Yuan was startled and his grip tightened even more.

The rain got heavier. The sky was completely dark by now and lightning stroke, offering flitting rays of light.

Luo Yuan followed her for a little longer, but in the end decided not to linger around. He could feel a strong sense of incoming danger. He would regret it if the mansion was attacked and he was not there.

He stepped in front of her and saw that she looked completely dazed. She did not even seem to realize that he was standing in front of her.