Chapter 134: No scent! No idea what they look like!

"Are they all resting?"

Deputy City Lord Zhong Zhong Ruili: "City Lord Gao, they are all resting!"

Nanyu City Lord Gao Gao Yuan rubbed his somewhat dry eyes and asked: "Have the people from the Beast God Sect been found?"

Zhong Zhong Ruili said helplessly: "Not yet!"

"Do you think they can be found?"

"It's probably very difficult!" Zhong Zhong Ruili said in a low voice, "Based on the residual mental power left on the believers after they were hypnotized, the Beast God Sect members must possess a Gold-grade mental-type pet beast. We only have seven beastmasters in Nanyu City who possess Gold-grade mental-type pet beasts. It is exceptionally difficult for seven people to search them out from the city... and we don't even know what the other party looks like; we only know the other party is male!"

"Damn it! How did this bunch of Beast God Sect bastards end up here in my territory!" Gao Gao Yuan cursed unhappily, "Changwu City attaches great importance to this matter, otherwise they wouldn't have sent the Emergency Brigade over to keep an eye on things. If we still can't find them, are you expecting me to search house by house myself?"

"What about the Emergency Brigade?"

"Treat them well with good food and drink, and satisfy their requests as much as possible. After all, they are people sent from above!" Gao Gao Yuan said, "Also, pull half of the Gold-grade experts from the land reclamation troops back to help with the search. If a Gold-grade beastmaster's will is firm enough, they might be immune to mental-type abilities. Let's turn Nanyu City upside down first... We really can't let the Beast God Sect stay here for long, otherwise it will be very troublesome!"

On the second day of arriving in Nanyu City, Su Yang gathered his team members to go see Zhong Zhong Ruili.

Xu Xu Jiutian said in a low voice: "It's been almost a month, and Nanyu City hasn't even found the people. It's probably very difficult!"

Chen Ke also nodded from the side: "Mental-type illusion abilities are notoriously difficult to deal with. If the other party really wants to hide, it's hard for ordinary people to discover them. I heard these cult beastmasters are all skilled at hypnosis, which makes it even more troublesome. They can hypnotize any local person at will and move into their room; it truly is god-knows-how, ghost-knows-how."

"Let's go understand the situation first, and learn about their search progress!" Su Yang smiled, "Actually, I'm quite interested in the people from the Beast God Sect."

When Su Yang accepted this mission from Zhu Zhu Xiaoshuang, a system mission was triggered as well.

Sometimes, Su Yang felt that Captain Zhu was very much like a system NPC.

Su Yang met with Zhong Zhong Ruili and asked about the progress of Nanyu City's search for the Beast God Sect members.

Zhong Zhong Ruili's answer was simple: they had already dispatched over fifty Gold-grade beastmasters to lead the search, but they dared not guarantee exactly when they would be found!

Su Yang roughly understood the situation. He said to Zhong Zhong Ruili: "City Lord Zhong, actually our team is also skilled at finding people. Captain Yao sent us here to assist Nanyu City with the search work. Could you find someone familiar with this matter to take us around to have a look?"

"Can do!"

Zhong Zhong Ruili immediately summoned his adjutant.

"His name is Adjutant Jiang Long, my adjutant. He is very clear about the ins and outs of this matter. Let him take you to have a look!"

"Good!"

After Su Yang and his team left, Zhong Zhong Ruili finally breathed a sigh of relief.

When the secretary was pouring water, she asked in a low voice: "City Lord, can they find them?"

"We haven't even found them yet, how could they possibly find them?" Zhong Zhong Ruili said nonchalantly, "We don't even know how many people there are or what they look like. How are they supposed to find them?"

After exiting the military department gate, Su Yang looked at Adjutant Jiang Long, who was very young, only about twenty years old.

Although Su Yang didn't seem to have the authority to call others young.

"Adjutant Adjutant Jiang, I want to ask if you know what those people look like?"

Adjutant Jiang Long shook his head: "We interrogated those believers, and they all said they couldn't remember what the guide looked like!"

"How did you discover that the Beast God Sect had appeared in Nanyu City?"

"A mercenary went home and discovered that his entire family had converted to the Beast God Sect. He immediately reported this to our City Guard Army!"

"Didn't City Lord Zhong say you had arranged for people to arrest the Beast God Sect members? Where was their stronghold at the time? Take us to see it!"

"Good!" Adjutant Jiang Long hesitated, "But that place has been searched thoroughly, there shouldn't be any clues left."

"Just take us to see it!"

"Alright!"

Adjutant Jiang Long had received orders from Zhong Zhong Ruili to satisfy the requests of Su Yang and his team.

Adjutant Jiang Long called for a car and took Su Yang and his team to a small plaza, next to which was a small theater.

Adjutant Jiang Long pointed at the small theater and said: "The Beast God Sect members were preaching here for a period of time!"

"Let's go in and take a look!"

Su Yang lifted the door curtain and walked in, followed by Xu Xu Jiutian and the others.

Stepping into the small theater, Su Yang smelled the scent of cleaning agents. The small stage was clean and polished until it shone, and the chairs were arranged neatly; it had already been cleaned.

Su Yang sniffed, then gave up helplessly.

Even the Earth-Shattering Bear's peerless-grade sense of smell could do nothing in this situation.

Xu Xu Jiutian asked: "Captain, any discoveries?"

"None!"

Leaving the small plaza, Su Yang led his people walking along the streets of Nanyu City.

At this moment, Su Yang also felt a bit of a headache.

He was indeed skilled at finding people!

But without knowing what the other party looked like, without knowing what scent they had... with no clues at all, how was he supposed to find them?

There were perhaps a hundred thousand people living in Nanyu City, and coupled with the city's intricate environment, finding the Beast God Sect members might require a human-wave tactic!

Near noon, Su Yang suddenly saw a large crowd gathered ahead, as if watching something lively.

The group strode forward, and the onlookers, seeing Su Yang and his team in military uniforms, immediately cleared a path.

Su Yang and his team walked in to take a look and saw a middle-aged woman lying in a pool of blood, having already lost her breath.

Adjutant Jiang Long asked: "What happened?"

"It has nothing to do with us! She committed suicide!"

"Right, she committed suicide, we saw it with our own eyes!"

"Before she died, she said she wanted to sacrifice herself to the Beast God!"

"..."

Su Yang released the Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly, which did not sense any traces of mental power fluctuations on the deceased.

She wasn't hypnotized.

But this was normal; even the Beast God Sect couldn't hypnotize every believer.

Su Yang sniffed the body, but there were too many types of scents, leaving him somewhat confused.

The body was quickly dealt with. After questioning, Adjutant Jiang Long told Su Yang and his team that the deceased was a widow who made a living doing odd jobs; her husband had died, and her only son had also died of illness two years ago.

However, the deceased's neighbors said she had been acting mysterious for a while, as if participating in some gathering, and she had kept herself locked in her room for the past few days until she came out today and committed suicide!

Su Yang scratched his head, feeling a headache!

The person was dead.

He let out a soft breath, looking at the crowd slowly dispersing around him, and occasionally caught the gaze of a young girl.

The girl lowered her head shyly and turned away in a hurry.

Su Yang stared blankly at the girl's back as she gradually disappeared around the corner.

Xu Xu Jiutian asked with a grin: "Captain, the person is gone, do you want to chase after her?"

Su Yang didn't answer Xu Xu Jiutian's question, but looked at Adjutant Jiang Long and asked: "Adjutant Adjutant Jiang, let me ask you something. Didn't you capture some Beast God Sect believers? Have those female believers been violated?"

— Author's Notes —

PS: Five chapters finished! Asking for flowers, monthly tickets, evaluations, and automatic subscriptions! A bit of writer's block, it's painful!