"Where's Fang Ying?"
Crawling out of the small hole, Don instinctively looked toward the several nearby caves. One belonged to Liu Yuanyuan, while the other, with signs that the savage stone had been moved, should have been Fang Ying's hiding place.
But the cave was empty.
"Not sure."
Liu Yuanyuan looked around.
"I tested things just now and found that the shadows outside had already retreated. When I came out, I saw that the savage stone blocking the cave entrance had been moved aside a little."
"Maybe he was discovered by the evil entity while hiding in the cave."
"Or perhaps he misjudged the situation and left the cave before the shadows had completely dispersed."
"Whatever the case."
"He's probably already dead."
The shadows had withdrawn into the walls, while the collapsed wall seemed to have been repaired by some force and was now completely intact. The brazier atop the enormous stone pillar had been lit again, and its blazing flames drove away the darkness.
Everything had returned to how it was at the beginning.
Only Fang Ying was missing. There were now just the two of them at the scene.
"This is getting troublesome."
Don spoke with some helplessness.
"We came in to explore, yet Mr. Duke's subordinate disappeared while the two of us remained completely unharmed. They might even think we did something and caused their people's deaths."
Exploration, huh.
There was always a chance of finding treasure.
Greed could arise at the sight of wealth.
Killing someone, then blaming it on a Supernatural Event—that was basic procedure.
Forget Awakened.
Even in the ordinary human world, people in certain professions... tomb raiders, for example, had countless stories of them sabotaging one another.
Even so.
A father and son weren't necessarily absolutely safe together.
For a period of time.