Where was Asutai?
Liu Hong wanted to know as well.
Over this long period, not only had he pressured the Prefectural Yamen and had the City Guard search the entire city, he had also ordered his family's deathsworn warriors to investigate in secret.
But what was the result?
Still, there was no sign of him alive or dead.
Asutai seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth without a trace.
Even Zeng Zhifeng, the guard commander he had sent over, had disappeared.
This made him increasingly suspect that Zeng Zhifeng had stolen from the very person he was meant to guard, hiding Asutai away or selling him off for profit.
Yet Liu Hong clearly could not say such things aloud.
He looked at the gaunt old man before him and said in a deep voice, "Has someone over there put pressure on your King?"
The gaunt old man snorted. "What do you think?"
"This matter was an accident to begin with. Who could have imagined that a routine raid for spoils would catch the prince of the Black Bear Tribe?"
"But it has already happened."
"Even if my King and the others in the bandit alliance did not wish to see such an outcome, they had no choice but to accept it."
He stared at Liu Hong with a sinister expression and continued, "You are my King's only ally in Great Wei."
"And you have conducted transactions with the Barbarian Tribe. That is why my King entrusted this matter to you."
"You agreed, and you took the benefits. So why have we yet to see Asutai?"
Liu Hong fell silent for a moment.
After a while, he sighed. "Everything had originally gone smoothly. My men had already secured the prince."
"But an accident occurred along the way, and