Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 203 Beware of Small Cards When Traveling

After the Baptism flagship left, the Second Prince and others in the court who were affected gradually returned to normal. However, this might not be a good thing for the Second Prince who had lost his throne.

The outcome of this fight for the throne ended in a way no one expected.

Ning Ruyue decided to return to the academy, and the third prince had no intention of taking the throne. After discussion, the people in the court finally decided that there was no need for another first king. This would no longer be a civilization where one person had the final say, nor would it be a civilization controlled by a company.

The arrival of the recommendation letter brought unprecedented unity to the court, and joining the Sixteen-Star Summit became the next top priority.

During this period, a piece of bad news came.

The one who brought the bad news was Dajiang.

During the three days when the group was away, the Hunter Association got back on track with the joint efforts of liaison stations across the country. After learning about the changes in the court, old hunters who had retired for many years responded to the call and returned to the organization. Just as Dajiang and other liaison station administrators were discussing whether to prepare a "veteran return gift package" for the hunters, the liaison station in Siyang City detected signs of Wangxu activities.

An experienced old hunter volunteered to go to the place where the incident occurred to investigate, but lost contact that night.

Then, on the morning of the next day, a missing person incident occurred in Siyang City that shocked the entire city.

The management of a company mysteriously disappeared in the office during a meeting. When the company's cleaner found them, all the top executives had disappeared, leaving only the walls and ceiling stained red with blood. The cleaner was frightened and crawled out of the office.

The local police investigation was unsuccessful and they sought assistance from the liaison station.

But problems also arose.

The missing old hunter was already the best hunter in the local area. Although there were still some hot-blooded young hunters in the association who wanted to take over the unfinished investigation of the old hunter, they were stopped by the liaison officer from Siyang City.

Ask for help from the Imperial Hunting Court.

According to the association's tradition, once an incident is beyond the scope of the local liaison station, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, assistance should be sought from the Imperial Court as soon as possible.

But now the Imperial Hunting Court has just been activated, and its core members are only Duan Mingyuan and Jiu Yue, both of whom happened to be invited to the company's flagship.

So, in the evening of the day he returned to the court, Duan Mingyuan embarked on a business trip after a long absence.

Although Jiu Yue strongly requested to go with Duan Mingyuan, considering safety issues, she would be the one to escort Ning Ruyue back to Yunhai Academy.

After all, although the second prince has fallen, there are still quite a number of people in the court who blame the second prince's failure on the sudden return of the eldest princess, and they are likely to take retaliatory actions.

Before the plane took off, Duan Mingyuan imported all the news compiled by Dajiang into the computer. As the incident fermented, this news continued to occupy the headlines. People had different opinions. Some believed that it was the behavior of a cult organization, while others believed that it was a supernatural phenomenon.

Thirteen people disappeared at once, all of them big names who were often seen in newspapers and on TV. The way they disappeared was not only bizarre but also bloody like a horror movie. This kind of explosive news always arouses people's interest.

The local liaison station chief and Dajiang both believed that it was the work of the Wangxu Organization, but this was somewhat inconsistent with the Wangxu Organization's usual style.

After all, almost all the members of the organization are wanted criminals in the star zone, so they usually act low-key. They may have reasons to make these 13 people disappear, but they almost never take such a conspicuous way. Instead, they let them become missing persons without anyone noticing in the middle of the night.

A large number of missing persons cases occur in various places every year, and even the local police have become accustomed to it.

Duan Mingyuan had already booked a hotel before boarding the plane.

This is the hotel where the old hunter stayed on the night he disappeared. The old hunter was in disguise and his identity card was forged. Logically, even if he happened to meet Wangxu, he would not be exposed immediately. But the reality is that he disappeared without bringing back any information.

Before the early morning, Duan Mingyuan, who had finished a whole day's journey, moved into the room next to the old hunter.

The room next door was empty. It was the off-season for tourism recently, and there were few people living in the entire corridor.

Duan Mingyuan assessed the structure of the two rooms, walked to the wall, and lightly stroked the wall with his finger. A door leading to the next room appeared in front of him.

The room next door was dark because the room card was not inserted. Duan Mingyuan turned on the light of his mobile phone and took a quick look at the room. It was tidy and there were no signs of damage anywhere, as if there had been no fight in the room.

The stationmaster of Siyang City was very sure that the old hunter disappeared in this room, because they had just spoken on the phone before his disappearance, and the old hunter said that he was in the room and would not go anywhere tonight. The stationmaster also used his connections to retrieve the surveillance footage, and the surveillance footage in the corridor showed that the old hunter never walked out of the room after entering it.

The information provided by Dajiang shows that according to the rating theory proposed by Duan Mingyuan, this old hunter is at least an outstanding intermediate-level professional. Long before the destruction of the first generation of Imperial Hunting Court, the old hunter was able to create simple barriers and served as an instructor for new hunters in Siyang City.

For safety reasons, the old hunter set up a simple barrier in his room as soon as he moved in.

Judging from the situation at the scene, this simple barrier did not seem to work.

The old hunter witnessed the association's rise and fall. Now the association has once again turned around, but no one expected this to happen.

“Boom boom, boom boom, boom—!”

There was a knock on the door next door, which was Duan Mingyuan's room.

Duan Mingyuan immediately retreated back to his room, removed the door on the wall, and quickly walked to the door.

"Who?"

No one answered the door.

It's almost early morning now, and it shouldn't be hotel staff.

Duan Mingyuan opened the door and the corridor was still empty. It took less than a minute from the time he retreated to his room to the time he opened the door.

The corridor outside the door was silent and the dark red carpet always made people feel uncomfortable.

If an ordinary resident encountered this situation, he would probably be scared and think it was haunted and unable to sleep all night. However, Duan Mingyuan not only did not close the door, but took a step towards the outside.

He looked around, fully expressing his willingness to communicate to those around him.

But to his regret, after standing at the door of the guest room for a minute, no evil spirit jumped out to communicate with him, so he could only retreat back to the room.

It was only when he closed the door again that he noticed the changes in the room.

A card appeared on the carpet at the door at some point.

It turned out to be a small advertisement.

Duan Mingyuan picked up the card. Unlike the traditional cards with pictures of young girls printed on them, the background of this card was mainly in a strange black tone, and it looked like tangled branches.

Rather than helping him have fun, it seems like whoever printed these cards wanted to discuss some deeper issues with the hotel's guests.

"Are you tired of your current life?"

"Do you want to change your life?"

"Do you want to know the truth behind this world?"

"Come to us and all your questions will be answered."

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