(Chapter 50 has been completely revised. I felt the previous version was too poorly written, so I tore it down and started over. I recommend going back to reread it, otherwise the plot won't flow smoothly and the reading experience will suffer.)
"So Lin Xuan has come to Wuqu Province? No need to wait for him to go back. We'll find him now. I'll go myself." Sun Chengdong rose to his feet.
His source of information was a carrier pigeon. The men he had sent had gone to Liang City and would not be able to return anytime soon, so the news had been sent back first.
A carrier pigeon was far faster than riding on horseback.
There was more than one scent in this cellar. At least four people's scents lingered here.
Aside from the smells of those people, Lin Xuan caught a whiff of rouge. Following the trail, he found that it came from an iron rouge case.
This rouge case could be ruled out immediately.
"Sir, look..."
"Don't call me sir when we're outside. Call me Brother Xuan, or my identity will be exposed." Lin Xuan shook his head.
The doctor immediately corrected himself. "Brother Xuan, look..."
"When you kidnapped that child, how many people were there? When the child vanished, who was present, and who wasn't?"
Li Zhenwen answered, "Including me and Gu Wuji, there were five of us in total. When the child disappeared, the others had all been drugged unconscious."
Lin Xuan carefully used Spirit Scent to sense the area again. There was no trace of a sixth person here.
The first possibility was that the person was exceptionally clean, leaving behind no scent at all.
The second possibility was that one of them had drugged the others, taken Gu Wuji away, and