All along.
Deep in Cheng Han's heart, there had always been a nagging worry.
When he had first taken up the post of Director of the Patrol Department in Anhua City, he discovered that nearly eight hundred civilians had vanished from the city over the past six months.
It was an astonishing number.
And in Qinglin City.
Black Cat had led the Cat Clan Army to search virtually the entire city, only to find that a great many civilians had likewise disappeared without a trace.
The same thing had happened in Beiting City, the third city of the Tai'an Minor Spirit Realm.
Later.
On the night of the Heretical God's Words, Cheng Han had personally held watch at Winter Garden and suffered an attack from a large number of flying monsters—the Sin Bat-Serpents.
He immediately realized that the enemy had most likely used flocks of bat-serpents to transport the missing people to a hidden area far from the cities under cover of night.
The results of the Deduction confirmed this suspicion.
The illusion showed bat-serpents carrying human figures into the darkness far away.
Cheng Han had once guessed that the Dream Arising Society might be planning to conduct a massive blood sacrifice to help Madam Snake awaken completely.
However.
Recently, a group of Netherworld beings and Black Cat had kept searching the wilderness, yet they had found no clues at all.
It was as if the missing people had completely vanished from the Tai'an Minor Spirit Realm.
From this alone, it was clear that the enemy's scheme was probably no small matter, which was why they had acted with such caution.
At this very moment.
As Cheng Han watched the Black Ripples on the Halo Screen, he thought of the missing people for some reason.
He muttered to himself, *Could