"What do you mean, you went back inside to get a can of Coke, and by the time you came back, Zheng Zhi was gone?"
At No. 66 Wutong Road, Yu Sheng stared wide-eyed at Li Lin before him, completely dumbfounded.
Li Lin across from him looked just as baffled. "I don't know either! He was really here just a moment ago! Everything was normal while we were talking—and now I can't get through to him, and the tracker has no signal..."
Yu Sheng clicked his tongue repeatedly. He turned to look at the curb beside him, held back for a long moment, and finally blurted out, "Don't tell me... I haven't even had time to take him out on a mission, and he's already vanished on his own. What were you two talking about? Did he say what he wanted to do?"
Li Lin said, "We were talking about the weather. Then he asked me to get him a can of Coke. A cold one..."
Yu Sheng grew even more troubled at that...
Huli also ran out of the house at that moment. After hearing that Zheng Zhi had gone missing, she began searching the area with Little Red Riding Hood. The two of them led seven or eight wolves and nearly finished sniffing out the entire area around No. 66 Wutong Road. In the end, Little Red Riding Hood returned with a frown. "The last scent was at the intersection—but this is within the 'range of influence' of your house. In theory, nothing in this area should be affected by 'external forces.'"
Yu Sheng was still wracking his brains over what his great-nephew could have encountered to suddenly vanish yet again. When he heard Little Red Riding Hood muttering, a thought suddenly struck him.
"Right... This vacant lot