Warning

A fierce wind swept through the camp.

The tent flaps snapped and fluttered.

Yet that only made the camp before him seem all the more deathly silent.

The sense of silence made Qin Ran frown tightly.

Especially when he entered the camp gates, he gripped his gun more tightly, prepared to deal with any danger.

However, nothing happened from the camp entrance all the way to its far end.

Qin Ran carefully inspected every tent along the way.

Yet just as he had seen before, there was not a single person in sight.

Moreover, not a single item inside the tents was missing.

Whether valuables or weapons, they had been left lying about as though the tents' owners were still there.

Qin Ran even saw a bowl of food in one tent.

About half the food in the bowl had been eaten.

Then it had simply been left there.

It had neither been finished nor thrown away.

It had merely been allowed to rot and spoil.

It was as though the person eating had vanished into thin air.

"Vanished into thin air!"

Qin Ran's heart tightened.

He immediately entered the vision of [Tracking].

But time had already erased the traces that should have remained.

"They disappeared at least a week ago!"

Qin Ran made his judgment based on experience, then narrowed his eyes.

One week.

They had also left Boer City a week ago.

The roughly matching timeframe forced Qin Ran to entertain further suspicions.

"If that's really the case..."

Qin Ran's expression became grave.

Then, he strode toward the far end of the camp: the road leading to Aesop Ancient City.

Aesop Ancient City was an ancient ruin concealed within a vast forest.

However, after the gold within it had been discovered by some explorer, Aesop Ancient City, once