"Your Majesty! Please see justice done for us!" Flender dropped to his knees with a thud, his voice choked with tears. "The Shrek Academy contestants—Tang San, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun—have all disappeared! They were gone without a trace by last night!"
Though they didn't get along, they had still come.
You want to suppress us, but surely you can't just watch them leave.
"Please send troops to help us find them, Your Majesty! They were top contenders who made it to the finals. If anything happens to them, it will be a loss for the Heaven Dou Empire!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Xiaogang suddenly lunged forward. The guards held him back, but he still howled like a madman: "It was Spirit Hall! They took my Xiao San! Your Majesty! You must kill them! Save my Xiao San! He's a future god! He's the hope of the continent!"
Qian Renxue sat in the seat of honor, listening to Yu Xiaogang's deranged rambling. She couldn't help finding it laughable.
What disappearance? What kidnapping? The two old fools simply couldn't accept reality and were deluding themselves.
But outwardly, she still put on a grave expression and raised a hand to soothe them. "Please, both of you, get up. Such a thing has happened? The students of Shrek Academy are promising young talents of my Heaven Dou Empire. If they really have disappeared, I naturally won't stand by and do nothing."
"Grandmaster, please stay calm. I will investigate this matter thoroughly. I absolutely won't let villains run rampant within Heaven Dou City."
She turned to the guard captain beside her and ordered, "Pass down my command. Have the City Defense Army search the entire city, put up missing-person notices, and strictly inspect everyone who left the city last night.