We returned to the scene.
This was where we had encountered the middle-aged man and Yin Wuyu.
Yin Wuyu and I had also been injured by the middle-aged man here, and we had nearly died.
Just as the old man from Yuan Valley had said, there was nothing here. It was completely empty.
I had Maru shine the flashlight on the ground, especially over the area Yin Wuyu had passed through after being injured.
But we found nothing at all. We could not even see the blood he had shed when he was wounded.
The entire scene was spotless, as though someone had cleaned it up.
And there were only the three of us here. We certainly could not have come back to clean the scene, so the only person who could have done it was Yin Wuyu himself.
"It seems you were overthinking it. Perhaps your friend did not leave behind any clues at all. Not only that, he erased every trace. He must still be under that guy's control and never had the brief moment of clarity you mentioned."
No, I could not have been wrong. He had definitely regained consciousness then.
Perhaps he had been unable to hold on and could not maintain that clarity long enough to give me any hint.
I must have overlooked something.
Yin Wuyu had definitely woken up. He had apologized to me, and he had even struggled to crawl to my side.
I closed my eyes. My consciousness had been hazy at the time.
But I felt as though he had said something to me. He did not seem to be in good condition then either, just as weak as I was.
That was right. His lips had kept moving then. The shape of his mouth...
That scene unexpectedly resurfaced in