South Heaven Gate

It was another day off, and Lu Yao was planning to visit the city museum.

Recently, the city museum had a Dunhuang-themed collection exhibition.

According to research by relevant archaeologists and myth scholars, one of the birthplaces of Kunlun Mythology lay on the northwestern plateau of ancient China, and the Dunhuang murals preserved a large number of ancient legends. For example, there were quite a few mural records of the Kaiming Beast, depicted as a nine-headed beast with human faces.

Lu Yao had deliberately chosen to go at noon, figuring there would be fewer people then, since everyone would be eating lunch, saving him from lines or crowds.

After he stopped working regular office hours, his schedule had become much more flexible, and he could avoid peak crowd times.

In the end, before he could even leave, Song Shiyi called.

Lu Yao did not answer.

Today was a day off. Work matters could be discussed during work hours.

A while later, he received a text message.

—Mr. Huang, one of my informants has gone missing. Through his location, I found that his last appearance was in a suspicious area. If you're free, could I trouble you to come with me?

Lu Yao mulled it over.

Song Shiyi was not the type who liked troubling people.

If she was not confident going somewhere alone, it might be another overlapping zone formed by spatial overlap.

Going into an overlapping zone was basically opening a blind box.

Lu Yao thought that the exhibition did not end until ten at night anyway, and it was only 11:32 a.m. now, so he could go with her.

In any case, he was her liaison, making them cooperation partners—never mind the fact that Song Shiyi was also the one handling his expense reimbursements and year-end report.

So