Chapter 565
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Chapter 565 Strange Disappearance!
Fang Yu’s eyes sharpened as he asked, “What happened?”
“Everyone in the entire building… has disappeared,” Qin Lang said, his voice filled with shock.
Fang Yu immediately thought of Ye Shengxue who was left in the apartment, his brows furrowing as he asked, “When did this happen?”
“According to my subordinate Liao Jie, it should have been last night, but the exact time is still unclear…” Qin Lang said.
“I’ll return immediately,” Fang Yu said coldly, hanging up the phone.
Lin Batian, who was standing nearby, had heard their entire conversation.
“The little maid has disappeared too!?” Lin Batian asked with a heavy tone.
Fang Yu didn’t respond, activating his spatial ring again to teleport back to Nandu, to the building where his residence was located.
At this time, a large group of white-robed martial artists were gathered around the building, likely people from the Martial Arts Association.
Fang Yu looked up at the entire building, his eyes cold.
Now, there wasn’t even a trace of life in the building, as if it were completely empty. Faintly, he could smell traces of blood.
Fang Yu and Lin Batian walked forward, intending to enter the building, but were stopped by two late-stage Innate Realm martial artists.
“This building has been sealed off, no unauthorized entry,” one of the martial artists said.
“I live here,” Fang Yu said.
“Residents can’t enter either!” the martial artist said sternly.
Fang Yu frowned slightly, about to speak.
Lin Batian pulled at him, and the two of them bypassed the main entrance, went to the back of the building, and leaped upward.
During their ascent, Fang Yu looked inside through each household’s balcony.
Through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the balconies, he could see large pools of blood on the floors in the living rooms of several homes.
Soon, Fang Yu arrived at the nineteenth floor, at his own balcony.
Fang Yu’s face remained expressionless as he slowly walked into the living room.
Unlike the chaos and mess in other apartments in the building.
Everything inside was intact, with a glass of water half-full sitting on the newly purchased coffee table.
There was no blood on the floor, nor any unusual aura in the room.
Fang Yu frowned deeply and walked into the inner rooms.
He first went to the guest room where Ye Shengxue usually stayed and opened the door.
The room was neat, with nothing unusual.
Fang Yu left the room and went to the kitchen.
The kitchen also showed no abnormalities.
Fang Yu thought for a moment, then returned to his own room.
As soon as he opened the door, his eyes flickered.
His room was in complete disarray.
The wardrobe was open, and all the clothes inside were gone.
The draft papers used for calculating spells on the desk, even the pens, had disappeared.
Even the blanket on the bed was gone.
“Does your little maid have some special fetish?” Lin Batian remarked from the side.
“She needs my aura,” Fang Yu said calmly, turning to leave the room.
“To make a death talisman?” Lin Batian frowned and asked.
“Not necessarily, but at least we know she’s not dead. And the disappearance of everyone in the building might be related to her,” Fang Yu said.
“I really didn’t see it before, but your little maid is quite calculating, actually managing to fool both of us old fellows,” Lin Batian said, leaning against the wall.
Fang Yu remained silent.
If Ye Shengxue had harbored ill intentions from the beginning, Fang Yu would have noticed.
No one could maintain a facade in front of Fang Yu, especially not Ye Shengxue who wasn’t even twenty-three years old and lacked such capability.
Therefore, Ye Shengxue’s sudden betrayal was most likely due to external influence.
Fang Yu recalled the evening three days ago when he took Lin Batian out for a casual stroll.
When they returned home, he noticed that Ye Shengxue’s eyes seemed somewhat red and swollen.
Fang Yu didn’t ask about it at the time, knowing that Ye Shengxue was crying for her family, and he didn’t want to bring up her sorrows again.
Apart from that, there was nothing unusual about Ye Shengxue.
The next day, Fang Yu and Lin Batian left Nandu.
“It seems something happened after we left,” Fang Yu thought.
Thinking of this, Fang Yu took out his phone and opened the call history.
For the past two days, Fang Yu’s phone had no signal, and he had received many missed calls.
Among them was a call from Ye Shengxue, made at 11:47 PM the day before yesterday.
The incident must have occurred at that time.
Fang Yu thought for a moment, then called Ye Shengxue back.
He didn’t really expect the call to go through.
But surprisingly, it was answered within seconds.
“Mr. Fang,” Ye Shengxue’s voice came through the phone, her tone completely different from her usual gentleness, now cold and hard.
“Who are you?” Fang Yu asked.
“I am Ye Shengxue,” Ye Shengxue answered coldly.
“Little Ye, if you like Fang Yu’s clothes and blankets, you could have just asked and he would have given them to you. Why take them secretly?” Lin Batian said loudly from the side.
“You will soon know what I’m going to do,” Ye Shengxue said.
“You did a good job,” Lin Batian continued, “You deliberately erased all traces from the entire apartment, no… the entire building, and we indeed can’t find you in the short term.”
“If you’re only targeting me, why did you have to harm the others in the building?” Fang Yu asked coldly.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Ye Shengxue replied coldly, then hung up.
Fang Yu put the phone back in his pocket, deep in thought.
“Your little maid is quite arrogant now. If we find her, she’ll need a good lesson,” Lin Batian said.
“The disappearance of the others in the building might not be related to her disappearance,” Fang Yu said, looking at Lin Batian.
“If her target is you, she indeed has no reason to kill everyone in the building, as that would only cause a bigger commotion,” Lin Batian said. “However, what she said might all be lies. She took your things just to cover up the fact that she killed everyone in the building…”
Fang Yu neither agreed nor disagreed.
If everyone in the building was killed by Ye Shengxue, then it would indicate one thing.
Ye Shengxue is currently being controlled by the Immortal Clan.
Killing people and taking their bodies is what the Immortal Clan has been doing recently.
But based on the information gathered so far, Fang Yu still believed these were two separate incidents.
Ye Shengxue’s disappearance and the disappearance of others in the building had no connection, they just happened around the same time.
Because, if Ye Shengxue was controlled by the Immortal Clan, she would have no reason to answer Fang Yu’s call just now.
Given the Immortal Clan’s current turtle-like behavior of hiding, they would not want to expose any information to Fang Yu.
However, judging from Ye Shengxue’s tone just now, she was indeed being controlled.
If not the Immortal Clan, then who?
Who else would want to target Fang Yu?
Fang Yu’s mind raced, and many candidates flashed through his thoughts.
Soon, a target emerged in Fang Yu’s mind.
The Demon Cult.
Since Fang Yu protected Zhao Zinan that time, the Demon Cult seemed to view Fang Yu as an enemy, repeatedly causing trouble for him.
Moreover, they knew Fang Yu’s address.
“What do we do now?” Lin Batian asked.
“Find the Demon Cult’s lair,” Fang Yu said.
“How do we find it?” Lin Batian asked.
“It’s simple,” Fang Yu took out the Dayan Lamp from his storage bag.
“There’s no aura left here for you to absorb, how will you use the Dayan Lamp to find people…” Lin Batian’s question trailed off as he realized Fang Yu’s method, his eyes brightening.
The Demon Cult is a sect of evil cultivators, and the most distinctive feature of evil cultivators is the unmistakable killing aura they possess, something that most ordinary martial artists cannot have.
Of course, this group doesn’t include people like Fang Yu and Lin Batian who have experienced the extremely chaotic cultivation world from thousands of years ago.
Fang Yu lit the Dayan Lamp and released a small amount of killing aura.
The Dayan Lamp absorbed the killing aura into its body, and after a moment, it flew outside at an extremely fast speed.
“The world is so big, and there should still be quite a few evil cultivation sects. What if we find other evil cultivation sects?” Lin Batian asked.
“We’ll deal with that when it happens,” Fang Yu said.
Based on their previous encounters, Fang Yu believed that the Demon Cult members were likely still within Nandu.
“Let’s sit down and have a drink of water first. The Dayan Lamp shouldn’t take long to find their location,” Fang Yu said, sitting back on the sofa, addressing Lin Batian.
Lin Batian sat down across from Fang Yu, about to ask about Fang Yu’s experience in the Ancient Demon Pagoda.
At this moment, Fang Yu’s phone rang again.
The call was from Zhao Jidao.
“What is it?” Fang Yu asked.
“Master Fang… may I ask if you know…” Zhao Jidao asked.
“I know. I was out for the past two days and just got back. I’m sitting and resting now,” Fang Yu replied.
“Sitting at home? Then I’ll come up to see you now,” Zhao Jidao said.
Shortly after hanging up, the doorbell rang.
Fang Yu opened the door to find a panicked Zhao Jidao standing outside.
“M-Master Fang,” Zhao Jidao’s face was a bit pale.
The Berserk Martial Artist incident had just been resolved, and now another major incident had occurred.
Everyone in the entire building, a thirty-story building, had disappeared!
And this incident happened right in the center of Nandu! Right under the nose of the Xiangcheng Martial Arts Association!
The occurrence of such an incident was extremely terrifying!
If word got out, all of Nandu, even the entire Xiangcheng, would fall into panic!
Additionally, the Yancheng Martial Arts Association would certainly hold them accountable!
For Zhao Jidao, it was a massive disaster!
At this moment, he was at a complete loss, his mind in chaos, not knowing how to handle the situation!
“Master Fang, what are your thoughts on this matter?” Zhao Jidao asked, too anxious to even sit down.
“Aren’t you investigating? Why come ask me?” Fang Yu said.
“Sigh…” Zhao Jidao sighed and said, “There are absolutely no clues. We only know that this happened last night. Before it happened, the entire building lost power, it was completely dark, and the surveillance cameras didn’t record anything.”
“The investigation has been ongoing for some time, and we’re still counting the number of missing people.”
“Master Fang, do you think this incident is related to the Immortal Clan that Master Gao mentioned before?”
“Very likely,” Fang Yu replied.
“Then, should I seek help from the Yancheng Martial Arts Association again?” Zhao Jidao wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked.
