"The last disappearance case was the strangest."
"It involved the captain of a fishing vessel. Everyone saw him board, and the sailors on board confirmed that he was there. He was still issuing orders when the ship left the harbor."
"After they left the harbor area and entered the coastal waters."
"He disappeared."
"At the same time, someone on a pier by the shore saw the captain standing near the lighthouse, gazing out at the sea."
"But he disappeared soon after that as well."
"After the sailors discovered that the captain was missing, the First Mate immediately chose to turn back."
"The captain has yet to be found."
"This case involved the harbor because quite a few witnesses saw that the captain, who should already have been aboard, was still at the harbor. That was why the Disciplinary Department intervened in the investigation."
"They found some information, but it was very limited."
"So the authorities issued a mission, inviting bounty hunters to participate in the investigation..."
"Why does it look like."
"This Disciplinary Department is pretty useless?"
"Are they just incompetent, or is there something wrong with their leader, the so-called His Grace the Duke? Or perhaps this so-called mission has another purpose entirely?"
Jiang Qiao pondered this.
He had spent many years struggling in the Supernatural Circle.
He did not believe these organizations were useless. At the very least, there was no way they could have failed to grasp what had happened in Demon Port.
Otherwise.
Demon Port would have fallen long ago.
So he leaned toward the possibility that the authorities had actually uncovered something.
But they had concealed the information.
They wanted the bounty hunters to serve as cannon fodder.
Or perhaps.
His Grace the Duke had set up some kind of trap targeting certain people, and