"Bullshit! If there weren't something fishy about this, would those Jing Kingdom bastards still be talking nicely to me?" Yin Guan's voice was cold and dark. "By their usual style, they'd arrest first and interrogate later. If my boots hadn't landed on Yujing Mountain, I wouldn't have had any chance to speak at all."
"Lord Yan!" Jiang Wang called out, cutting off his snide sarcasm. Then, wearing a genial smile, he coaxed, "We all know something is amiss here. Would you mind telling us what happened?"
Ji Jinglu graciously refrained from snapping back at Yin Guan.
Yin Guan slanted Jiang Wang a glance before finally saying, "I was hired at a high salary by the Yellow River Assembly event organizers to take part in the off-field observation work for this year's Yellow River Assembly."
"During the unrestricted division semifinals—the match between Zuo Guangshu and Sa Shihan—I was observing on site within the Great Void Illusion Realm. I noticed that two spectators in the arena, Wei State citizens Su Xiuxing and Su Xiaodie, suddenly vanished while intensely discussing the match. From this, I concluded that something might have happened to them in reality—though it could not be ruled out that the match itself had adversely affected them."
"Oh, the reason I knew them was that Su Xiuxing had worked with me before. Su Xiaodie is his cousin."
From a few casual exchanges with Su Xiaodie, he had thoroughly probed the Su Family's circumstances, adding to the background file on a former member. At the time, he truly had not expected that after probing this "bottom," the person would be gone.
"Out of a sense of responsibility toward the event's spectators, and with the thought that 'taking a look wouldn't be any trouble,' I followed our previous contact here—"
"Then this corpse