Chu Tian leaped away from "Master Huang's" attack like a monkey, with a swift "swoosh."
Everyone stared at him strangely, as if he were an idiot.
Sensing their gazes, Chu Tian awkwardly rubbed his nose.
"It's... it's nothing. Let's go, we'll follow them!"
He pulled Gao Kai along, and they trailed the group of three from a distance.
He recalled the disciple's expression when he exchanged a glance with Master Huang after smelling the residue on the golden needle.
Chu Tian had a sharp feeling that this person had discovered something.
Otherwise, the disciple wouldn't have looked outside for no reason, and with such a pensive look.
He had also nodded to "Master Huang," conveying a message of affirmation.
Chu Tian couldn't help but suspect if this disciple was some kind of mutant, possessing a nose like a dog's.
That he could track their movements based on the scent in the residue.
Thus, the two of them followed the trio, maintaining a distance of a full street.
In any case, Chu Tian had locked onto them with his divine sense, so he wasn't worried about losing them.
After not walking far, Chu Tian looked back and asked, "Where's Zhao Lei?"
Gao Kai blinked, clearly not knowing where Zhao Lei had gone either.
Did he go with Jing Kaiyu?
No, when Jing Kaiyu and Yao Junjie left, they were at the ICU, and it seemed Zhao Lei wasn't around then.
Recalling carefully, it seemed Zhao Lei had disappeared somewhere right when they arrived at the hospital entrance.
Moreover, even with his extensive divine sense scan earlier, he hadn't felt Zhao Lei's presence.
Gao Kai took out his phone and dialed Zhao Lei's number.
"The number you have dialed is out of service. Please try again later..."
It wasn't switched off, but out of service...
Where could this kid have gone? With this 10G signal network, it was hard to be out of service.
However, they weren't too worried. Given Zhao Lei's abilities, he should be fine.
And so it was, three people ahead, two people behind.
They walked along the main street, and walked.
After over an hour, Chu Tian found it strange. Couldn't these three take a taxi for such a long distance?
The thought had barely crossed his mind when, suddenly, the three people in his divine sense vanished into thin air.
Chu Tian froze and quickly ran towards where they had disappeared.
It was a dead-end alley. The three people he had been tracking with his divine sense had simply vanished.
"Xiao Tian, look, what is this?" Gao Kai crouched down, and three small paper figures were at his feet.
As Chu Tian's gaze shifted, before he could even crouch down, the three paper figures went "poof, poof, poof," erupting into three flames.
The paper instantly burned away, leaving only three piles of ash.
The sudden burst of flames startled Gao Kai.
"Holy crap... what is this?"
He immediately stood up.
Chu Tian, however, let out a wry smile. He had truly encountered a master, someone who could perform this kind of substitution technique.
Earlier, he had sensed Master Huang's and the other two's auras on these three paper figures.
The opponents could somehow block his divine sense and hide their presence.
And they used three paper figures to lead him on a stroll through the streets for a good two hours.
He was quite curious how these three paper figures managed to travel such a distance.
He had been tricked...
Chu Tian sighed inwardly. His divine sense was still too weak!
In reality, his soul power wasn't weak at all; he just didn't know how to use it.
He pulled a business card out of his pocket. It seemed he could only find them at this address now.
He just didn't know if this address was real or fake.
He figured it should be accurate. If they were going to give a fake address, how would they scam the money from patients with difficult illnesses?
Although, judging from the current situation, these three people shouldn't be weak and might have some substance.
However, they seemed... perhaps... very fond of money!
Since they loved money, that made things much easier. If they had any information...
He could just buy it with money!
With this thought, Chu Tian and Gao Kai walked out.
Outside the alley, they flagged down a taxi. Chu Tian took out the business card and had the driver head to the address.
Gao Kai suddenly stopped Chu Tian. It turned out he had received a message.
It was a location shared by Jing Kaiyu.
It was accompanied by a voice message: "Why is Brother Tian's phone turned off? I've found the address, come quickly!"
Chu Tian pulled out his phone to check; it had run out of battery.
After a brief discussion, they decided to go find Jing Kaiyu first.
He showed the location address to the driver.
"Oh, you want to go to [の]? They don't operate during the day."
Chu Tian heard this and realized the driver seemed quite familiar with this "[の]." He quickly engaged the driver to ask for more information.
"Driver, what is this [の]?"
"You don't know?" the driver asked, surprised.
Chu Tian shook his head.
"Then why are you going there?"
The driver's question left Chu Tian and Gao Kai speechless.
"Uh... a friend just sent us the location and asked us to go."
"Oh, your first time? Actually, I don't really know what goes on inside. I heard it's run by some Japanese guys, and I guess... hehe... you know what I mean!"
The driver gave a knowing expression that men would understand.
"Oh..." Chu Tian feigned understanding.
But in his mind, he was replaying the driver's earlier comment about it being run by Japanese people.
Earlier at the hospital, when Guo Ga woke up, he had shouted: "Damn Japanese devils..."
He had fainted before finishing. Everyone had been guessing what he meant by that.
They thought he had really encountered a ghost.
According to what the driver just said, what he shouted should have been: "Damn Japanese devils!"
As for why he shouted that so agitatedly, perhaps only he knew.
However, Chu Tian felt that Guo Ga's memory was likely stuck in a previous period.
The moment he woke up, he hadn't fully registered his surroundings and instinctively blurted out that sentence.
A silence fell in the car for a moment. Chu Tian borrowed a charger from the driver and plugged in his phone.
Forty minutes later, they arrived at the location. Chu Tian opened his phone.
The instant he opened it, he received a voice message from Zhao Lei.
When Chu Tian opened it, he found only crackling static.
He assumed Zhao Lei had accidentally sent it while his phone was in his pocket.
He ignored it and paid the taxi fare first.
After getting out of the car, he dialed Zhao Lei's number.
"The number you have dialed is out of service. Please try again later..."
The same prompt. He hung up and noticed.
The taxi was parked at the entrance of [の]. Chu Tian looked at the store's extravagant and grand renovation.
From the facade, it exuded a distinctly "Great Serpent Country" vibe.
However, the location wasn't in a bustling area; it was relatively secluded.
Opening a shop in a place like this? Could it be profitable? Or was there some other hidden agenda?
The shop door was currently shut tight.
The security gate was also firmly pulled down.