Chapter 1557
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Chapter 1557 Meeting the Hunting Ancestor Again
“Gone??”
Upon hearing these words, Lin Qiye was stunned. “What do you mean gone? The hospital isn’t that big, where could he go?”
“I don’t know! I’ve looked everywhere and even had other caregivers help search, but we just can’t find him!”
Lin Qiye’s brows furrowed tightly. In the next moment, his mental power covered the entire hospital, the inpatient building, caregiver dormitories, underground prison… He carefully searched every place but still couldn’t find any trace of Yelande.
“Really gone?” Lin Qiye asked suspiciously.
How could this be possible?
Until now, Lin Qiye had seen many strange patients, but this was the first time one had disappeared directly from the hospital. Logically, patients shouldn’t be able to leave the hospital without his permission, so where did Yelande go?
“…What should we do next?” Li Yifei was starting to panic. How could he lose a patient right after returning?
Lin Qiye pondered for a moment before saying, “Don’t panic. First, have all caregivers spread out and search every corner of the hospital. If they find anything suspicious, report it immediately… I’ll go ask Gilgamesh.”
“Okay!”
Li Yifei immediately went back to mobilize the caregivers to begin the search. Countless figures scattered in all directions, breaking the tranquility of the hospital, which became unusually noisy.
Lin Qiye walked directly to the second floor of the ward and knocked on Gilgamesh’s door.
“Come in.”
Lin Qiye entered the room. Gilgamesh was leaning against the wall, gazing out the window. Seeing him enter, he slightly turned his head:
“Why is it so noisy outside?”
“Yelande has disappeared.”
“Disappeared?” Gilgamesh was stunned and asked in confusion, “Where could he possibly disappear to?”
“I don’t know… but I’ve searched the entire hospital with my mental power and couldn’t find him.” Lin Qiye asked in return, “Have you seen him recently?”
Gilgamesh thought carefully, “I saw him playing chess with Li Yifei.”
“And after the chess game?”
“Then he went to the rooftop where he usually goes.”
Lin Qiye turned to look out the window. From Gilgamesh’s room, one could see the top of the opposite building. Lin Qiye remembered that Yelande often stood there overlooking the hospital when he had nothing to do.
“The king hates that fellow because every time he stands there, it’s as if he’s looking down on the king…” Gilgamesh seemed to recall something and snorted coldly, his expression very displeased.
“Has he shown any unusual behavior recently?”
“Unusual…” Gilgamesh pondered for a moment. “Besides his habit of looking down from above, he also seems to like looking up at the sky lately. The king noticed this by chance.”
“Looking up at the sky? Is there something in the sky?”
“No, there’s clearly nothing there.”
Lin Qiye’s frown deepened. Under Gilgamesh’s description, Yelande’s behavior seemed increasingly strange… although he was strange to begin with.
Lin Qiye asked a few more questions but gained no further insights. Gilgamesh couldn’t possibly stand by the window watching Yelande all day; seeing that kind old man with his benevolent smile would only irritate him.
Seeing that Gilgamesh had no more information, Lin Qiye could only temporarily leave the hospital, entrusting the matter to Li Yifei and the others.
“What’s wrong? You don’t look well.”
On the Somersault Cloud, Cao Yuan noticed Lin Qiye’s changing expression and asked, “If you’re tired from flying, we can go down and rest for a while.”
“No need, I’m fine.”
After confirming the direction the Somersault Cloud was heading, Lin Qiye began observing the surroundings with his mental power. It had been over an hour since they left Great Xia, and at the cloud’s speed, they should be near America by now, but they still hadn’t seen any sign of the Heavenly Palace.
“Looks like we failed this time…” Just as Lin Qiye was about to throw the branch again after a moment’s hesitation, he suddenly seemed to sense something and his brows furrowed sharply!
He abruptly turned his head in a certain direction.
At the same time, Cao Yuan also detected an unusual presence. His hand quickly moved to the end of his sword hilt, vigilantly scanning the surroundings, ready to draw his sword at any moment.
In the void ahead of the Somersault Cloud, a figure like smoke gradually materialized.
It was a figure completely shrouded in a black robe, with a wide brim hat concealing its face. There was no trace of energy emanating from within, floating in midair like a ghost.
Upon seeing the figure, Lin Qiye’s pupils contracted slightly.
“Number 27?”
During the Asgard turmoil, Number 27 had killed Loki together with Si Xiaonan. According to their agreement, Lin Qiye needed to help him find someone… but since the fall of Asgard, Lin Qiye hadn’t seen him again.
Meeting him here now was very unexpected for Lin Qiye.
Cao Yuan squinted at the black figure, his muscles tense. Lin Qiye gently shook his head: “Don’t worry, not an enemy.”
“…Really not an enemy? Why do I sense killing intent?” Cao Yuan couldn’t help asking.
As they spoke, the Somersault Cloud slowly stopped in front of Number 27. Lin Qiye stood up and respectfully said:
“Greetings, Hunt Ancestor.”
Although Lin Qiye previously knew that Number 27 was the Hunt Ancestor, he didn’t understand what the title “Hunt Ancestor” represented. But after visiting the Ancestral God Temple, he had deeply experienced the power of the Ancestral Gods—a group of ancestors who had directly defeated the K system countless ages ago!
Hearing these words, Number 27’s eyebrows raised slightly under his hood, and the icy killing intent dispersed in the air paused.
Lin Qiye sensed the change in the other’s aura and felt something was amiss, but not knowing what had happened, he continued, “I didn’t know your true identity before, Ancestor. Please forgive my previous rudeness.”
Number 27 examined him carefully and asked in a deep voice, “You’ve been to the Ancestral God Temple?”
“Yes.”
Number 27 silently stared at him, seemingly pondering something.
“Hunt Ancestor, where have you been all this time? Didn’t you say you needed help finding someone?” Seeing the atmosphere becoming awkward again, Lin Qiye took the initiative to ask.
“…” Number 27 was silent for a moment, his eyes narrowing under the hood as he looked at Lin Qiye. “Where have I been? Why don’t you tell me where you’ve been? After I killed Loki, I went to find you, only to discover you had already returned to Great Xia.
The Heavenly Venerable guards Great Xia’s borders, and I didn’t want to confront them directly, so I’ve been waiting for an opportunity outside the border… until today when I sensed your aura leaving the border through the mist and followed you here.”
Number 27 paused, his voice gradually turning cold, “You weren’t trying to avoid fulfilling our contract by hiding from me, were you?”
Feeling the coldness emanating from Number 27, Lin Qiye’s temples began to sweat.
So that was the problem!
He hastily explained:
“No… I thought you would come directly into Great Xia to find me, like the Seraph did back then… You didn’t appear for so long, I thought you had something else to do, so I kept waiting.
But, aren’t you the Hunt Ancestor? You’re not an enemy Foreign God to Great Xia, so why are you unwilling to enter our borders?”
