Chapter 423: Disappear

There was an unusual situation at the mine, so we couldn't stay long.

Mo Hua and the others then left the mine and arrived at Nan Yue City. They found a place and rested for a while.

Wang Lai was covered in injuries, looking miserable, but he was still breathing.

Mo Hua woke him up and took advantage of the free time to ask him some more questions.

After it was slightly bright, Mo Hua didn't get any more information from him, so he handed Wang Lai over to Si Tu Fang.

At the same time, he also told Si Tu Fang about Wang Lai and the actions of those thugs.

Old Yu Tou and the other two were witnesses on the side.

Si Tu Fang was both surprised and angry when she heard this.

She absolutely did not expect that Wang Lai and these thugs would actually do such a harmful and unreasonable thing.

Killing people to earn spirit stones and also fraudulently claiming compensation.

Si Tu Fang's beautiful eyebrows furrowed, and she said angrily:

"Next, follow me to handle this. I will first take Wang Lai to Dao Prison and interrogate him to find out the accomplices, and then catch them all in one go!"

"Is there any problem with the Dao Court Division on that side?" Mo Hua asked.

The Dao Court Division in Nan Yue City was different from Tong Xian City. The water inside was very murky, and the person in charge was not necessarily a good person either.

Si Tu Fang frowned, pondered for a moment, and sighed:

"I will be careful and follow the regulations. The person in charge on that side shouldn't have anything to say either."

Mo Hua nodded, "Okay, then Sister Si Tu, be careful."

"Don't worry."

Si Tu Fang nodded and then looked at Mo Hua and the other two, sighing:

"This time, I really have to thank you all."

Mo Hua waved his hand, "It's just a small matter, nothing much."

Si Tu Fang patted Mo Hua's shoulder, "I'll invite you to eat another day."

Then she escorted Wang Lai away.

Old Yu Tou and the other two were also extremely grateful to Mo Hua.

"Thank you, three young sirs, thank you!"

"Many thanks, benefactor!"

Mo Hua said, "No need to thank me, go home early and recuperate."

The three of them bowed deeply again, only then feeling the deep sense of relief after surviving the disaster, and they left as if a heavy burden had been lifted.

They were almost going to die in the mine.

And almost, they would be forever separated from their families...

After Old Yu Tou and the other two left, Bai Zi Sheng asked Mo Hua:

"What do we do next?"

Mo Hua thought for a moment and said, "I want to go back to the mine."

Bai Zi Sheng was startled, "Are you crazy? Going back to seek death?"

Mo Hua pointed at the sky.

The bright sun was high in the sky.

Bai Zi Sheng then realized that it was already daytime.

Even if there were "ghosts" in the mine, it was a matter of midnight.

"What are you going to the mine for now?" Bai Zi Sheng asked.

Mo Hua's gaze was a little profound, "I want to see what happened to the corpses of those few thugs..."

Bai Zi Sheng's expression was also a little solemn, "Then let's go together."

Mo Hua shook his head, "No need, I'll go alone. You all don't have concealment techniques. Although the cloak has a concealment array, this array is not perfect enough. It's okay to use at night, but during the day, there will still be faint traces, and it's easy to be discovered by people."

Bai Zi Sheng was a little indifferent, "So what if we're discovered, it's not a big deal."

No one in this mine could stop him.

Mo Hua said again, "This mine belongs to the Lu family. During the day, there might be a Foundation Establishment cultivator guarding it. If we are discovered by them, even if we can escape, it will be like beating the grass to scare the snake and exposing our whereabouts..."

"Once we arouse the vigilance of the Lu family, it will not be very convenient for us to investigate anything next."

Bai Zi Sheng said, "If you go alone, won't you be in the same danger if you encounter a Foundation Establishment cultivator?"

Mo Hua shook his head, "The Lu family's Foundation Establishment cultivator won't discover me."

He had concealment techniques and a concealment array. Coupled with the divine sense of a Foundation Establishment cultivator with twelve patterns, it was impossible for him to be discovered by the Lu family's Foundation Establishment cultivators.

"Oh, that's true."

Bai Zi Sheng nodded, but was still a little worried.

Bai Zi Xi then said, "You go in alone, and we'll respond from the outside."

Mo Hua still wanted to say something, but Bai Zi Xi just gave him a light look and said gently:

"I am the senior sister."

Mo Hua had no choice but to agree.

So they rested for a while, then set off again and returned to the Lu family mine.

By this time, the sky was already bright, and the morning glow filled the sky.

The mine had already started working.

Miners kept coming to the mine, beginning to endure the heat, holding mining picks in their hands, and mining stones one after another.

The mine was again a scene of noise and bustling activity, completely without the gloom and deathly stillness of the night.

Mo Hua hid his body and walked into the mine swaggering.

In the mine, there was indeed a Lu family elder, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, sitting to one side enjoying the cool and drinking tea, watching the miners work hard.

There were also pretty maidservants beside him, fanning him.

Mo Hua walked past him calmly.

This elder was completely unaware, his eyes rolling around on the maidservants' slender figures.

This useless appearance made Mo Hua shake his head repeatedly.

Mo Hua passed through the crowd, walked into the mine shaft, went all the way deep, and arrived at the place where Wang Lai failed to kill last night.

It was empty and desolate all around, with no miners.

There were also no traces of anyone.

The unusual movement in the mine shaft last night, and the several thugs left here by Mo Hua, had all disappeared without a trace.

There were no miners because this was the deep, remote and quiet part of the mine shaft, and there were no mines to dig, so miners rarely came over.

But what about those several thugs?

Did they die? Were there no corpses left?

They had done a lot of evil, so it was okay if they died and no corpses remained.

But Mo Hua wanted to know how they died...

Mo Hua released his divine sense and perceived everything around him through the view of Xukong Bai.

The stone wall was ice-cold, presenting a faint black and gray color.

There was blood aura all around, faint and weak, left from last night, already almost dissipated.

And among the many blood auras, a part of the blood aura was mixed with pitch-black death qi, winding on the ground and extending along the stone wall to the distance.

Mo Hua silently opened his eyes, locked onto this blood aura with his divine sense, and walked along the stone wall little by little.

After walking for the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, the blood aura broke off.

In front was a section of stone wall.

Mo Hua's divine sense swept over it and immediately knew that there was an array drawn on this stone wall.

And behind the stone wall, there must be a mine cave dug by the Lu family.

Mo Hua's gaze slightly condensed.

"From the traces, it looks like... these few thugs were dragged by something and kept being dragged into the mine cave..."

Mo Hua did not know what happened in the mine cave.

But presumably, these few thugs were the same as the five missing miners, eaten by something...

Mo Hua hesitated for a moment, wanting to untie the array and enter the mine cave to take a look.

But just as he was about to start, he stopped.

His divine sense moved slightly, he calculated for a moment, and slowly put away his brush.

"They actually... reinforced the array..."

Not only was the stone wall more sturdy, but layers of warning arrays were also drawn inside.

Mo Hua could untie these arrays, but he was not sure if there would be any unusual movements when he untied them, thus alarming the Lu family cultivators.

Or, did the Lu family deliberately draw these arrays just to lure him in?

Mo Hua weighed the situation and felt that it was better not to take the risk.

If he was blocked by the Lu family inside the mine shaft, it would be bad.

Mo Hua sighed, turned and left, his heart, however, covered with a cloud of doubt.

What were the Lu family building these mine caves in the mine shaft for?

What secrets were in the mine cave...

Mo Hua frowned, and when he left, he conveniently eavesdropped on the conversations of the miners nearby.

He didn't hear any useful information.

Moreover, the miners nearby had never discovered those few thugs.

Those few thugs just disappeared, just like the five miners, vanishing into the mine shaft...

After Mo Hua left the mine, he met up with Bai Zi Sheng and Bai Zi Xi.

"Did you find anything?" Bai Zi Xi asked.

Mo Hua told them about the thugs.

Bai Zi Sheng hummed and said, "They deserve to die!"

Then he also said puzzledly, "Is the Lu family doing something shady?"

Mo Hua shook his head, "It's still not clear."

"If it's not the Lu family, then it's someone else?"

"Didn't that Wang Lai say there was a gray-clothed cultivator?"

Mo Hua nodded, "Now, we can only start with that gray-clothed cultivator."

The three of them then walked back.

Mo Hua's expression was still a little depressed on the way.

Bai Zi Xi then asked, "What's wrong?"

Mo Hua sighed, "I'm worried about Instructor Yan..."

"Sister Si Tu said that Instructor Yan entered the mine and then disappeared without a trace, and no one has seen him since..."

"I'm worried that he was harmed by Wang Lai and the others..."

Bai Zi Sheng involuntarily nodded, "Possible..."

Mo Hua became even more worried when he heard this, and his small eyebrows also furrowed.

Bai Zi Xi gently glared at her elder brother and said softly to Mo Hua:

"A good person has his own good fortune. Mr. Yan may not have met with harm yet."

Bai Zi Sheng also knew he had said the wrong thing, scratched his head, and laughed awkwardly:

"I just said it casually, don't take it to heart. It's also possible that Mr. Yan discovered other clues and left Nan Yue City to investigate on his own."

Mo Hua knew that his senior brother and senior sister were comforting him. Although he felt that what they said didn't make much sense, his heart still felt a little better.

"I hope Instructor Yan has his own good fortune..."

Mo Hua sighed silently.

Seeing that Mo Hua was a little unhappy, Bai Zi Sheng changed the subject and said:

"Should we investigate that gray-clothed cultivator?"

Mo Hua nodded, "We should."

There was no buying, no killing.

It was that gray-clothed cultivator who wanted to buy corpses, so he instigated Wang Lai and others to kill the miners.

The source was that gray-clothed cultivator.

Even if Wang Lai was removed, there would still be Zhao Lai, Qian Lai, Li Lai...

As long as the gray-clothed cultivator was still around, other cultivators would naturally kill miners and sell their corpses for spirit stones.

To completely eliminate evil, you must cut the grass and remove the roots.

Bai Zi Sheng also nodded repeatedly.

Immediately, he thought of a problem: "Wang Lai said that he met that gray-clothed cultivator at a brothel, then..."

Bai Zi Sheng asked with a serious expression:

"Should we go to a brothel?"

This question also stumped Mo Hua.

Thank you to book friends Jing Di, Jin Tian Bu Shi Wo Zhi Ban, and Nan Qi Lian for the rewards.

(End of this chapter)