"Dozens of overseers have lost contact?"
Zhuo Wanhao had already been burning with rage. At those words, his fleshy face turned grave.
"What happened? What exactly is going on?"
The overseer who had come to report looked terrified. "I don't know the details either, my lord. Some overseers noticed that many of their companions had suddenly vanished and couldn't be reached. Our preliminary investigation found that dozens have lost contact altogether!"
Zhuo Wanhao knitted his brows. "Have we lost any miners recently?"
The overseer hurriedly shook his head. "We've checked the number of miners. Nothing is amiss."
At that, Zhuo Wanhao narrowed his already small eyes.
"Looks like someone's pulling strings behind the scenes."
If the miners were unharmed and only overseers kept disappearing, this was a targeted attack.
Someone was likely hunting overseers deliberately.
Kneeling on the ground, the overseer pleaded in a trembling voice, "Mine Owner, please do something about this. No one dares enter the mine shafts now. It's seriously slowing production."
Every overseer feared he might be the next to vanish.
This unknown threat was more chilling than the Cave Devil Worms.
They had no idea how powerful the person hunting them was.
"Shut up. You're making too much noise. I have my own plans."
Zhuo Wanhao was happy enough to see a few overseers eliminated. That would let him install his own trusted men. But too many deaths would cause an uproar.
If those above investigated the deaths of so many God Realm overseers at once, he would be in deep trouble too.
He took out the Mine Owner Command Token. Its authority was high enough to locate other overseers through the formation.
He sent his Divine Sense into the Command Token to check where the remaining overseers were.
Most of the overseers had fled