Chapter 146

However, when they arrived at the spot where the cry for help had come from,

they found absolutely nothing.

Not the slightest trace of a struggle.

No aura of any phantom beast.

Nor any living creature at all.

"What is going on?"

"This doesn't look like the work of a phantom beast at all?"

"Could something unclean really have appeared?"

After several days of investigation, even Fang De began to have doubts.

"Cut it out, Lao Fang, this is absolutely not some unclean thing!"

"There must be something we haven't noticed!"

Kong Sheng rebutted him sternly.

As a beast-tamer,

he wouldn't be superstitious.

There exist many phantom beasts unknown to humanity.

Some of these phantom beasts are beneficial to humans.

Some are harmful to humans.

Many powerful phantom beasts are constantly destroying human cities.

The very purpose of their Bureau of Beast-Tamers is to unravel those unknowns and protect humanity from the threat of those phantom beasts.

Many phantom beasts possess very special abilities.

For example, once in a small town in Dezhou, there used to be a very famous wax museum.

Later, as the surrounding humans grew fewer and fewer,

people from their Bureau of Beast-Tamers went to investigate, and only then discovered

that it had actually been done by a phantom beast called the Skinning Mantis.

That kind of phantom beast loves to skin its prey and then devour the body.

The skin, meanwhile, is made into wax figures.

And through such behavior, the Skinning Mantis's experience increases,

and it may even evolve.

It is an extremely bizarre phantom beast.

After witnessing the bizarre phantom beasts that have appeared all over the world,

they no longer hold to superstition.

Those terrifying unknown legends were all caused by unknown phantom beasts.

They simply hadn't discovered them yet.

"Right, there must still be something we haven't noticed!"

"A million people — that's the disappearance of a million people!"

"If they've all already died, then we beast-tamers here can hardly escape blame!"

Fang De's voice was even trembling.

The disappearance of a million people.

This is the gravest crisis Jiangyuan City has seen in several hundred years.

Although previously some powerful phantom beasts attacked and caused the deaths of tens of thousands,

of a hundred thousand people,

but this time!

The disappearance of a million people is simply too terrifying.

The key thing is!

They still haven't found the culprit.

The number is still constantly growing.

"Let's go, we'll keep looking!"

The two of them darted between the high-rises.

A pair of wings had sprouted from their backs.

Those were actually armed-type phantom beasts as well.

They darted through the buildings,

walked along the streets.

The city, once bustling,

yet not a single person remained.

Many homes were still playing their televisions.

It seemed!

They had vanished into thin air in an instant,

as if abducted by aliens.

"Ciba!"

"Baba!"

Some television sets emitted a piercing sound.

None of them were playing any program.

Kong Sheng leapt up in a single bound.

In an instant, he had jumped several hundred meters high.

His phantom beast followed behind him, leaping along together.

He wanted to look down from high above and see what he could discover.

Yet there was only the glow from television sets in the rooms of different residential compounds.

"Wait, the televisions!"

"Every single vanished household has its television turned on!"

Kong Sheng cried out, unable to contain himself.

"Old Kong, it's the televisions!"

"It's connected to the televisions!"

Meanwhile, on the other side!

Fang De was also brimming with excitement.

He too had noticed the abnormality with the television sets.

"Let's go!"

The two of them headed toward a residential compound.

There!

They discovered that in many of the households there was a recording.

"The Ring?"

The cover showed a long-haired woman standing inside a well.

Her long hair obscured her features, making it impossible to see her face clearly.

The eerie black cover looked rather terrifying.

"A horror film?"

"I looked through the information, and I didn't find any release of this horror film!"

"Then did this recording appear out of thin air?"

"Or is it something someone deliberately did?"

Fang De and Kong Sheng exchanged a glance.

Both saw the same thought in the other's eyes.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!