Chapter 1085: Tracker (1/2)

Sam and the team went into hiding after they are done with the assassins and the manager.

He held a meeting with the team to decide on their next step. The team is divided into two opinions. One of that since they knew the location of one of the pieces of the heirloom. The father of the current manager has one so they wanted to take advantage of the incident and directly attack them by surprise.

As for the second opinion, they wanted to wait here. Since there is a possibility that another party might know that his son died, he will definitely take some action and send some people here, in fact, he might even come here directly, so they wanted to lure him out and deal with him slowly.

Both of them have their own advantages, but Sam leaned mostly towards the second plan, but since he let his team members decide what to do he didn't interfere and just went to take the rest.

The next morning, the teammates are all looking tired and the surrounding forest area is completely damaged.

The final decision was made after a duel and it seems like the second plan was finally chosen.

Sam immediately sent out bird and insect puppets for surveillance over the city along with the shadow mice.

He wanted to see how fast the black curtain will react.

He deliberately left the corpses of the manager and the rest out in the open without care. He wanted to make the other party come out in the open. No matter how sneaky they want to be, there is no way they could simply hide away from the surveillance Sam set up.

The city guards already took over the area of the inn and started an investigation, even though they said they are investigating, it could be said that they are merely guarding the place so that any possible evidence wouldn't be missed from that spot.

By afternoon, some people came to the original black curtain inn. Since Sam and others didn't destroy it, they took the residence there.

After they arrived, the city lord sent his son to talk to them.

An hour or so later, they immediately made their move and went to the collapsed inn. The group consisted of ten people and six of them are middle-stage transcendent cultivators with the remaining four being late-stage transcendent cultivators.

They started investigating immediately and Sam looked at the whole operation through the surveillance he left.

Even though he couldn't hear the audio all the time, sometimes he managed to guess what they are doing.

But one thing surprised him a lot.

One late-stage cultivator among them is laying down a formation around the collapsed inn and used some kind of hand signs which Sam had never seen. After he was done with that, there is a faint glow that lasted just for a few seconds.

After that, there is no change at all.

Sam frowned when he saw this.

The group of people then went back to the inn and then that person made the same formation there in every room. The whole process wasted the rest of the day, but he still did it, Sam didn't know what he saw, because he couldn't see anything through surveillance. Maybe some energy bats would have had better success here, but there is no way he could use them. He could only wait and see what these people planned.

That night there is not much movement from the group, they just rested as if nothing happened.

But through a window, Sam managed to see that the person who made the formations around the inn and the collapsed inn is actually doing something.

There are a bunch of glowing orbs around him and it seemed like he is watching something inside of them.

After three hours or so, that guy stopped and started resting.

Sam then went to meet the Night ghost.

”I want to take a look at the cursed ghost you have.”

Night ghost was curious why asked that, but he didn't think too much and showed the cursed ghost. It looked like a normal ghost, but it has a dark grey shade and the cursed ghost had that eerie energy.

”Now can it use the dark vine curse you absorbed in the hall?”