"There must be a clue."
Those words shot through everyone like a dose of adrenaline.
Everyone turned to Yang Yong, waiting for him to decide what to do.
Yang Yong rubbed his brow.
Thinking really was not his strong suit.
He had no idea how that fellow Cao Xianming managed to get through it.
Plotting this and planning that all day long-Yang Yong would have gone mad long ago in his place.
"In that case..."
Yang Yong was just about to make a decision when a terrified scream suddenly erupted inside the Bone House.
"No, something's wrong! Where's Lei Dan?"
The voice was shrill and piercing. It came from a woman in the Score-Chasing Convoy.
Everyone turned in unison toward the corner of the room.
Lei Dan, who had been barely clinging to life, should have been lying there.
But now, the spot was empty.
The floor still bore the impression left by Lei Dan's body, and even a trace of her residual warmth remained.
But she was gone.
The Bone House was completely sealed. The walls were undamaged, and there was not even a door. A living person could not simply vanish into thin air.
"Everyone, do a head count!" someone roared.
The members of the Score-Chasing Convoy immediately began counting.
"One, two, three... seven, eight, nine... ten..."
Partway through the count, the person's voice suddenly changed pitch.
"What's going on? There's an extra person!"
At those words, everyone felt their scalp prickle.
Their scalps truly prickled, the kind that made every hair stand on end.
When had it happened?
They had clearly been counting everyone every half hour, carefully checking each time, and there had never been a mistake.
Yet now Lei Dan was missing, and their numbers had increased instead?
Not only were they not one short,