"Isn't this a little strange?" Guo Yujie asked. "Is it usually like this here?"
"No." Wu Ling called Nangong Yao as she spoke. She didn't put him on speaker this time, so I only heard her ask a few questions, then respond with a few "Mm-hm"s to Nangong Yao on the other end.
After a while, Wu Ling said to us, "No alarms have gone off. Everything here should be normal."
Everything should be normal, but this ghost-town-like scene was clearly anything but.
I couldn't see any yin energy, nor did I see any monsters. Wu Ling and Liu Miao hadn't found anything either.
Wu Ling still had her phone on, but switched from intercom mode to video so Nangong Yao and Gu Mo could see what was happening here. Their abilities could be a great help right now.
I looked at Han Yun.
The little ghost had put on a serious face and was carefully observing his surroundings too.
"Nothing."
"I didn't hear anything."
Nangong Yao and Gu Mo reached the same conclusion over the video call.
No strange noises, nothing unusual in sight.
If the people had vanished, though, they might have been killed, taken to another dimension, or turned into toy people and left crouching motionless in their homes.
We got out of the car and walked along the street.
There were a few general stores and auto repair shops on the road into town. Wu Ling randomly picked the general store on the left and pushed open the door.
A bell hung above the entrance. When Wu Ling opened the door, it rang.
There was no one inside. Even after the bell stopped ringing, we heard no sign of anyone.
Wu Ling wiped a hand across the counter. There was no dust on it. Even if