Chu Tian scanned the area and found Jing Kaiyu and Yao Junjie.
They were standing across the street.
The two of them looked over and waved at Chu Tian.
Chu Tian and Gao Kai walked over quickly.
“Brother Tian, we just found out this place isn’t open during the day. It only opens after nine at night.”
“What time did Yan Pengkun and the others take a taxi here?” Chu Tian asked.
“The driver said it was past six, but he couldn’t recall the exact time.”
Chu Tian nodded. It was only past two in the afternoon, so they could wander around the vicinity and see if they could find anything.
However, he found it strange. This place clearly had high consumption.
Moreover, Yao Junjie hadn't been summoned.
He knew that among the five of them, only Yao Junjie’s family was relatively wealthy.
How could those four guys, who were usually reluctant to even get skewers, have money to come to a place like this?
Chu Tian asked Yao Junjie, and his answer was that he didn’t know why.
This was indeed strange. Those few were almost always together – sleeping together, attending classes together, going out together.
The five of them were like Siamese twins.
Only on that day, when Yao Junjie wasn’t with them, did those four get into trouble.
Since they were here, the first thing Chu Tian would naturally do was use his divine sense to scan the building labeled [の].
His divine sense swept over it, but he found nothing suspicious.
He had already prepared himself psychologically. It would be strange if clues were found so easily.
Having been tricked by those three people today, he knew that divine sense wasn't omnipotent.
Jing Kaiyu naturally knew what Chu Tian was doing, but he continued to tell him about the day’s investigation.
As mentioned before, Yan Pengkun and the other four’s final destination was here.
Where they went after that was unclear.
However, their return time to school was found through surveillance.
At three in the morning, the four of them were at the school’s east gate.
Barefoot, they walked into the school.
At the dormitory entrance, they were also barefoot, but it was evident that their consciousness was not clear.
They seemed to be sleepwalking, wandering about.
The video captured them entering the dormitory building, and the situation thereafter was unknown.
A suspicious point was that Yao Junjie had asked students in dormitories on the first to third floors near the corridor. They all said that the Heavenly Dao helmet’s scanning device had not indicated anyone passing within fifteen meters that night.
It was important to note that the dormitories near the corridor on the Heavenly Dao were only separated by a wall from the beds and the stairs.
In the past, when they were in the Heavenly Dao, they often received notifications of people approaching from the outside.
But that night, no one received such a notification.
How those four went upstairs was unknown.
Or, perhaps, how they bypassed the Heavenly Dao helmet’s sensing system to go upstairs.
Or, could it be that the four of them were no longer considered living beings?
The Heavenly Dao helmet’s sensing device would only alert players in the game when a living being approached.
If that were the case, it would explain things.
Then, how could the explanation be given for the fact that these four were currently lying in the hospital with heartbeats and pulses?
Jing Kaiyu summarized and said, “There are now three questions.
The first question: why did the four of them come here.
The second question: did they go anywhere else after arriving here.
The third question: are they still considered alive?”
Chu Tian smiled and said, “We came here to see what this [の] place is. Tonight…”
Saying this, he looked at Gao Kai and teased, “Brother Kai, do you want to ask your wife for leave?”
Gao Kai rolled his eyes at him and didn’t respond.
Chu Tian chuckled and continued, “As for the second question…”
He recounted the words that Guo Ga shouted when he woke up to everyone.
Everyone felt that a place connected to the Japanese was undoubtedly this one.
It no longer mattered whether they had been anywhere else.
This [の] opposite was the Japanese’s place.
When the incident happened, it must have been here, no doubt.
“As for whether they are still alive… I think someone can tell us.”
“Who? Where?”
“Over there…”
As Chu Tian spoke, he gestured towards the opposite side.
Jing Kaiyu and Yao Junjie looked surprised, while Gao Kai exclaimed, “It’s them…”
Chu Tian smiled and nodded.
Three people got out of a taxi on the other side.
Two men and one woman, dressed stylishly.
All three were very young, with the two men appearing to be around twenty-four or twenty-five years old.
The girl looked only about eighteen or nineteen.
The people who arrived were the ‘Master Huang’ and his two disciples, who had been swindling at the hospital.
As the three of them got out of the car, they saw Chu Tian and his group.
Chu Tian waved at them friendly.
Clearly, the three were stunned, then whispered to each other, saying something.
However, they quickly crossed the street and walked up to Chu Tian and his group.
“Why are you here?” the girl asked Chu Tian first.
“Oh… you can actually speak!” Chu Tian asked in feigned surprise.
“You…” The girl’s expression changed. The other person actually recognized her.
She had been disguised at the time, and this man could see her true face, which meant…
Then, the girl blushed and showed an angry expression.
Just as she was about to speak, Chu Tian sensed something was amiss and quickly changed the subject:
“We have so many people here, it’s too conspicuous. Let’s find a place to eat something!”
Before the girl could speak, Yao Junjie said from the side, “Okay, I’m starving!”
The girl looked at everyone, glared fiercely at Chu Tian, and then tacitly nodded.
The group of seven found a restaurant nearby, booked a private room, and sat down.
As soon as they sat down, the man whom Chu Tian suspected of having a dog’s nose asked cautiously, “Are you from Division Nine?”
His question caused Chu Tian, Gao Kai, and Jing Kaiyu to freeze.
Gao Kai and Jing Kaiyu remained silent. Chu Tian glanced at Yao Junjie and said, “Little Six, go order some food!”
Yao Junjie, being shrewd, quickly stood up and said, “Third Brother, you’re treating this time!”
Without waiting for Chu Tian’s reply, he ran out.
Seeing him leave, Chu Tian said, “Are you guys also from Division Nine?”
“Hmph, so you are from Division Nine. No wonder you dare to use your soul power to spy on others so unscrupulously,” the young girl said with disgust.
The dog-nosed man quickly apologized and said:
“We are not. I guessed you were from Division Nine because, as Xiaoyu said, only people from Division Nine would use their soul power so carelessly.”
Chu Tian touched his nose. He really didn’t know about this saying.
Did it mean that people from Division Nine were lawless?
The dog-nosed man likely guessed Chu Tian’s thoughts and interjected, “My name is Lin Chi. This is my junior brother Lin Ran, and junior sister Lin Yu.”
“Are you three siblings?” Chu Tian asked curiously.
“Stop the nonsense. How did you find this place?” The beautiful girl Lin Yu, clearly holding a grudge against Chu Tian.
She asked rudely.
Chu Tian ignored her and asked Lin Chi, “Since you’re not from Division Nine, why are you getting involved in this mess? Just for money?”