Fan Chengyi had disappeared.
This was the news Yu Bo had brought.
Fan Chengyi had vanished at almost the exact same time Bingbing appeared in the Phantom Sea.
But the Fan Family had not taken it seriously at the time. Little Barren Island had already descended into chaos, and Fan Chengyi was originally one of the Fan Family's elders. Few people paid attention to where he went, and those around him had merely assumed he had gone out for a casual stroll. As for whether he had returned or when he had returned, no one had bothered to notice.
This was absolutely no coincidence.
If nothing unexpected had happened, Fan Chengyi had likely already fallen into that person's hands.
Perhaps he was in Yu Hua's courtyard in the Yu Family at this very moment.
He had brought Bingbing here, then abducted Fan Chengyi. Everything made sense now. That bastard really was after this Wordless Heavenly Book.
He even knew that Fan Chengyi was the only person on Little Barren Island who could still decipher the Great Barren script.
So what would he do next? Take the Great Barren texts Bingbing had written from the estate? Or simply abduct Bingbing? But neither would be easy for him. As long as Bingbing and the Great Barren texts did not leave this estate, he would have no chance of taking them.
But that was not absolute.
Fortresses were often not breached by enemies from the outside.
That thought startled me. If the danger came from within, could every one of the estate guards truly be trusted? After all, I had become the master here for nothing. According to the captain of the guards, this estate had gone nearly sixty years without an owner. A great many things could have happened over those sixty