Li Xian immediately seized the opportunity to step forward and ask:
"Did something happen?"
Zhang Yuyao seemed to calm down a little when she saw the other players. After steadying her breathing, she answered:
"He and I were searching an empty room for clues. I looked through a drawer, then looked up-and he was gone."
"I was going to leave the room to find him, but when I opened the door, I saw fog outside the ship. So I stayed in the room until it cleared, then made my way here from the stern... but I couldn't find him anywhere."
"Yang Ping would never leave without telling me. Something must have happened after the fog appeared."
After hearing her full account, Li Xian confirmed that Ji Xie's disappearance earlier had been no coincidence.
It seemed that once the fog appeared, every player would be thrown into a separate "space."
"So you haven't searched the bow yet?"
Li Xian asked.
Zhang Yuyao nodded, then heard him say:
"Let's go together."
With more people around, Zhang Yuyao felt a little more secure despite having lost her teammate, so she quickly nodded in agreement.
Ji Xie naturally followed Li Xian, but surprisingly, Ke Yi, who had been acting alone ever since boarding the ship, followed them too.
The four soon reached the bow and began calling Yang Ping's name.
Two minutes passed, but no one answered.
"This was the only place you hadn't searched, right?"
Since Li Xian seemed to be the only one among them who had been caught by an iron hook in the fog, he suspected that Zhang Yuyao's teammate was probably doomed.
The only people whose situations remained unknown were Hoodie Woman and the bearded man, who had been below deck with Li Xian at the time...
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