Wu Ling continued, "Nangong and Mushroom noticed something at the time. We went to the place this afternoon to check it out. The person had already left. According to the surveillance footage, he left Minqing and boarded a high-speed train, then vanished without a trace."
I felt both relieved and disappointed.
Still, no matter where that new thing had escaped to, I should be able to pin down its past in my dreams.
Thinking of that, I rallied my spirits.
But Wu Ling wasn't finished.
"When I say it vanished without a trace, I mean it disappeared completely. I tried several spells, but none of them could find it. We drove it into hiding." Wu Ling readily admitted their mistake.
But I wasn't thinking about assigning blame. I still didn't understand what Wu Ling meant by "disappeared completely."
"My ability should be able to..." I hesitated.
Wu Ling said, "I can't be sure whether your ability will work. At least, traditional methods are useless against it. After Nangong and Mushroom watched the footage, they also noticed something strange... In Nangong's words, its frequency was different. It really is something new, unlike anything that has ever appeared in this world before."
"Do you mean I might not be able to dream about it?" I asked, surprised.
"That's only my guess. The two of them saw and heard some different things. When You Qiqi died, that new thing probably realized we were there. Or perhaps it only realized its power had been destroyed, so it changed its state."
I was surprised.
"So their abilities only caught the unusual activity in that one instant. In the footage after that, the new thing suddenly vanished because it had adjusted itself. Now we can't find it. We don't know whether your ability can find it