"Tell the family to come back. I smell blood inside. Something's happened."
Leng Mu swept the interior with his Spiritual Power, taking in the scene. A figure lay dead in the garage.
"Blood? Someone died?"
Mo Fan was baffled. His Spiritual Power wasn't as strong as Leng Mu's, so he had no idea what had happened inside.
Ling Ling quickly found both men's phone numbers and called them. The first call went unanswered-perhaps that man was dead. The second connected almost immediately.
"Hello? Who is this?"
A groggy voice came through the phone. The man on the other end seemed dazed, perhaps having just woken up or gotten drunk. Leng Mu took the phone and said:
"Get home now. Something's happened at your house. Someone's dead."
"What?!"
An alarmed cry came from the other end. Everyone clearly heard the once-groggy voice turn alert in an instant. Leng Mu ended the call and waited where he was.
Soon, a man came running back in a panic. Judging by his cultivation, he was an Intermediate Level Water Element mage.
"Who are you...?"
The man stared blankly at the three men and two women standing outside his house. Xu Zhaoting stepped forward, showed his elite hunter credentials, and said:
"We're Hunter Mages. We came to ask about the Drowning Curse, but something seems to have happened inside your house. There's a strong smell of blood."
"Blood... no way..."
The man froze at those words. Thinking of his friend, who had been acting rather crazed, he hurried over to unlock the door, then rushed toward the garage. The others followed at an unhurried pace.
As the garage door opened, an overpowering stench of blood hit them. They looked inside and saw a horrifying scene.
A man's upper body was submerged in a bathtub in