638. Where Did He Go?

There was nothing inside the pitch-black coffin.

There was no trace of Browning's corpse, nor any monsters, tentacles, slime, mud, zombies that moved upon hearing music, or any other such mess.

It was completely empty, as though it were brand-new.

Lu Ban moved the lid aside and examined the coffin in its entirety.

He reached inside and waved his hand around, confirming that no invisible person was lying there.

His fingers rubbed against the inner wall of the coffin, but Lu Ban could not feel any liquid clinging to it.

No one had ever lain inside.

Lu Ban looked at the old butler.

"No, I don't know. I really don't know."

The old butler looked stunned. He had never seen anything like this before. He hurriedly leaned over to peer into the coffin, but no matter how he looked, he could not see his master's figure.

"I clearly remember putting the master inside. How could this have happened?"

The old butler felt that his decades of understanding had been challenged.

The corpse had vanished without a trace.

Lu Ban and Xiya exchanged a glance.

"It seems we overlooked something from the very beginning."

Lu Ban spoke.

At the start of the mission, they had assumed that Browning was already dead and that the one left here was a corpse. Because of that, they had overlooked one possibility.

Browning was not dead and had been moving about Rainstorm Villa all along.

The extra person was not Byron, but Browning.

But how had Browning avoided Seeker's Soul reading his thoughts?

Lu Ban had not heard Browning's thoughts anywhere in the mansion, which was why he had never noticed this before.

Thinking about it now, wasn't that rather absurd?

If Browning had not died, then Soul Summoning Night would have been meaningless. If