Chapter 734
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Chapter 734 Strange Patterns
The cold aura, like countless tiny ants, attempted to penetrate through every pore of the body.
Fang Yu’s body naturally wasn’t afraid of this aura, but Qin Yimo beside him was merely an ordinary person.
Almost instantly, Qin Yimo was penetrated by the aura and fell unconscious.
In the darkness, Fang Yu reached out by instinct, drew Qin Yimo into his arms, and released his true qi, enveloping both himself and Qin Yimo.
“Zing!”
Golden light illuminated within the black mist.
At this moment, Fang Yu could clearly see the surroundings.
His vision was filled with thick black mist, as if he were in another dimension.
Fang Yu’s eyes narrowed slightly as he looked around, sensing the changes in the surrounding aura.
Since the entire space was filled with black mist, the cold aura occupied most of it.
This aura severely hindered Fang Yu’s sensing ability.
“If you don’t come out, I’ll blast away all this mist,” Fang Yu said calmly.
There was not a sound around him.
Fang Yu’s eyes turned cold as he raised his right hand and clenched his fist fiercely!
“Boom!”
A violent energy burst from Fang Yu’s body, blasting outward in all directions!
The thick black mist was instantly dispersed.
The street lamps and small trees planted along the path were also blasted outward and broken.
As the black mist dispersed, the original scene was revealed.
However, there was still no figure to be seen, nor any aura to be sensed.
Fang Yu frowned and turned around.
At this moment, he noticed a pattern appearing on the ground.
Although the surrounding street lamps had all been broken, he could still clearly see the pattern in the moonlight.
On the surface, it appeared to be a strangely shaped flower.
The flower had only three petals, triangular in shape, with thorns drawn at the tips.
It didn’t belong to any type of flower in Fang Yu’s knowledge.
Clearly, this was an organization’s symbol.
But Fang Yu was seeing this strange flower pattern for the first time.
“Another organization…” Fang Yu rubbed his chin.
But at this moment, he suddenly realized the significance of the pattern left behind…
Many mercenary organizations would leave their symbol at the scene after completing a mission, as a provocative declaration.
This time, it was likely the same situation.
Mission completed…
Fang Yu glanced at Qin Yimo in his arms.
Qin Yimo’s body was cold, as if just taken out of a freezer.
Besides that, there weren’t many abnormalities with her body, except her eyes were tightly closed, her eyebrows furrowed, and her expression somewhat pained.
“That black mist…”
Fang Yu frowned deeply, placing his hand on Qin Yimo’s forehead, his palm emitting a white light.
After his divine consciousness entered Qin Yimo’s body, Fang Yu discovered that a mass of black energy was eroding her body.
But its speed wasn’t fast; it was currently slowly creeping up from her neck, trying to enter her skull.
And where this black energy passed, the blood in the capillaries was completely drained.
This made the surface of Qin Yimo’s neck appear eerily white, without a trace of blood.
Once this black energy reached her skull, Qin Yimo would die immediately, with no chance of survival.
Fang Yu’s eyes turned sharp, and he immediately channeled a large amount of true qi through his right hand, blocking the neck area and completely isolating that black energy.
The black energy retracted immediately upon contact with the true qi, as if it possessed intelligence, which was quite strange.
Fang Yu placed his right hand on Qin Yimo’s neck, wanting to force the black energy out of her body.
But at this moment, the black energy firmly attached itself to the flesh of Qin Yimo’s neck, not moving at all.
“This black energy… there’s something unusual about it,” Fang Yu’s eyes flashed with surprise.
“Mr. Fang!”
At this moment, footsteps came from behind.
Qin Lang, accompanied by two guards at the Master level, rushed over from behind.
“What happened…” Qin Lang was about to ask, but he immediately saw Qin Yimo lying unconscious in Fang Yu’s arms.
“Sister!” Qin Lang’s face changed drastically.
He had been nearby just now, heard the commotion, and knew something had happened, so he hurriedly came with two guards.
But he never expected that it would be Qin Yimo who was in trouble!
“Don’t panic, I need a quiet place,” Fang Yu looked up at Qin Lang and said.
“…Alright, I’ll take you there immediately.” Qin Lang’s forehead was sweating, but he forced himself to calm down.
“Keep this matter confidential for now, at least for tonight,” Fang Yu instructed.
“Understood.” Qin Lang nodded.
Then, he turned around and gave some instructions to the two guards behind him.
These two guards were his personal bodyguards, essentially his confidants, who wouldn’t talk carelessly.
Afterward, Qin Lang led Fang Yu through a side door into the Qin family mansion, then along a small path to an ancient tower building located behind Qin Wudao’s small building.
“This building is our Qin family’s treasure storage tower, usually no one comes here,” Qin Lang said. “But I don’t have the key to this place, to go upstairs we can only…”
“Fine,” Fang Yu responded, carrying Qin Yimo, leaping to the second floor, forcibly pushing open a window, and entering.
Qin Lang stood downstairs, his expression somewhat hesitant.
After all, this was the Qin family’s treasure storage, and in the past, only Qin Wudao or those accompanied by him could enter.
Barging in like this, if discovered, the consequences would be severe…
But thinking of Qin Yimo’s condition, Qin Lang’s eyes became determined. He gritted his teeth and leaped to the second floor.
The second floor was filled with many bookshelves, on which were placed many ancient books.
Fang Yu carried Qin Yimo to the staircase on this floor, where there was a rectangular wooden bench for people to rest.
Fang Yu placed Qin Yimo on the wooden bench, and with a thought, a point of light appeared at the tip of his right index finger, illuminating this small space.
The light point gently floated upward, becoming like a light bulb.
At this moment, they could clearly see that Qin Yimo’s eyes were tightly closed, her neck eerily pale, with a faint black shadow visible within.
“Mr. Fang, what exactly happened to my sister…” Qin Lang’s eyes widened as he looked at Qin Yimo.
“She was just attacked,” Fang Yu answered simply.
“Attacked? How could…” Qin Lang’s face turned extremely ugly.
The fact that Qin Yimo was being targeted was something the entire Qin family had known for a long time.
But Qin Lang never imagined that this time, right at the gate of the Qin family mansion, the attacker would dare to make a move!
And moreover, right in front of Fang Yu!
“Mr. Fang, did you see what the attacker looked like?” Qin Lang asked.
Fang Yu shook his head and said, “No.”
“Even Mr. Fang couldn’t counter…” Qin Lang’s face was full of shock.
“To see what the attacker looks like, there first needs to be such a person,” Fang Yu said.
“Mr. Fang, you mean…” Qin Lang said in astonishment.
“I feel that at that time, no one approached me and Qin Yimo.”
Fang Yu was certain that if someone had appeared nearby at that time, he would have sensed it.
But from the moment the black mist attacked until he dispersed it, throughout this process, apart from that large mass of cold black mist, Fang Yu didn’t sense even a trace of any other aura fluctuation.
Could someone who could appear near Fang Yu yet leave no trace for him to detect… really exist?
Fang Yu wasn’t being arrogant; he was thinking about this point from an objective perspective.
Therefore, he believed that during that attack, there was actually no one present.
At that specific location on the small path, some kind of hidden formation must have been set up in advance, or some kind of mechanism.
When Fang Yu and Qin Yimo walked onto the path, they triggered the mechanism or formation, releasing that black mist.
Compared to the possibility that someone appeared but evaded Fang Yu’s sensing, the possibility that no one was there was greater.
But regardless of which scenario, one conclusion could be drawn.
There was indeed a traitor within the Qin family.
Fang Yu and Qin Yimo’s walk on the small path outside the Qin family mansion was a spontaneous decision.
And the mechanism or formation on the small path must have been set up in advance.
Obviously, someone within the Qin family had been monitoring Qin Yimo’s whereabouts and reporting the situation at all times.
And this insider would be difficult to identify for the time being.
Because on their way out of the Qin family gate, Fang Yu and Qin Yimo had encountered many people.
Servants, security guards at the gate, and many members of the Qin family.
Finding the traitor among them wasn’t simple, but it wasn’t too difficult either; it just needed time.
