With Tang San and the others traveling at full speed, they reached their destination in about a week.
Slay Town.
"Why does this town feel so lifeless?"
Osler shivered for no apparent reason. The medium-sized town before them showed no sign of human life.
An ominous feeling rose in everyone's hearts. According to their intelligence, only a few people had gone missing from this town, so why was there no one left now?
Even the soldiers stationed here and the local Spirit Hall Soul Masters had all disappeared.
It seemed the few of them would have to handle this themselves.
It was not as though they could not simply leave. No one would blame them, but the desire to uncover the truth took root in each of their minds.
If this was enough to frighten them off, they might as well stop cultivating, go home, wash up, and go to bed.
They had not worked so hard to grow stronger just to live in comfort.
"Hmm... everyone, split up and investigate. Keep about fifty meters apart."
Qin Ming went alone, Tang San paired up with Ning Rongrong, and Lin Like paired up with Osler.
Around fifty meters was the distance at which they could reach one another fastest to provide support.
Qin Ming entered the town directly, searching from house to house.
He stepped into an ordinary home. There was no one inside.
The kitchen still held a half-finished pot of soup, and the walls were scorched.
That meant the people had suddenly been taken away or vanished while going about their normal lives.
Qin Ming could not yet determine how it had happened.
An unmistakable stench still lingered in the air. Examining the walls closely, he found some yellow-green, hardened residue that turned his stomach just to look at.