Chapter 240: A Great Disappearance—Where’s the Suspect?

Is this trade company’s people about to flee?

Something’s not right!

Yin Lin hurriedly made a hand signal to Jin Luan.

Jin Luan also made a hand signal back to Yin Lin.

Yin Lin then shot Jin Luan a meaningful look.

Jin Luan returned a look to Yin Lin.

The two of them gestured back and forth for a while.

What did it mean?

Neither of them understood, showing absolutely no tacit understanding.

Jin Luan sighed, feeling a sense of frustration.

She simply levitated into the air, flying up.

Then she pointed at Yin Lin’s legs and her wand.

What did that mean?

Still didn’t get it.

Was she telling me to stay put while she went to do something?

Jin Luan shook her head, exasperated.

“Oh, I get it.”

Yin Lin had a sudden realization.

She directly snatched Jin Luan’s wand and tucked it between her own legs, using it as a riding tool.

Yin Lin also entered flight mode, her feet leaving the ground and the staircase.

This method could conceal the sound of her high heels tapping on the ground.

She continued listening to the situation below.

They seemed to have multiple employees, as if they were packing things up.

Occasionally, there were some unimportant snippets of conversation.

Things like: “Should we take these or not?”

“Why were we in such a hurry just now?”

The woman’s attitude wasn’t great: “Just do your job, why ask so many questions?”

It was quiet for a few minutes.

Then the woman made another phone call, deliberately moving closer to the staircase, seemingly not wanting the people in the office to hear.

She was now only nine meters vertically below Yin Lin, her line of sight blocked by the staircase.

Jin Luan quickly nudged Yin Lin, signaling her to leave this spot.

Why?

There’s intel to hear, and you want me to leave?

Seeing her confusion, Jin Luan pointed at her, then took a sharp, deep breath.

What does that mean?

Still didn’t understand.

Left with no choice, Jin Luan had to lean her mouth close, pressing against Yin Lin’s ear, and whispered: “There’s a smell. You have a smell on you. Don’t stand upwind!”

Yin Lin sniffed at herself.

She didn’t smell anything?

Although puzzled, she still left the spot, returning to the rooftop.

She continued listening from a slightly farther distance, where she could still barely hear.

The woman was calling her family: “The company assigned some urgent tasks. I need to go on a business trip for a few days.”

“Not sure how many days yet.”

“I won’t be leaving Yiri City, just a bit far, so I won’t be able to come home.”

“Okay, I’ll be careful. You take care too.”

While listening, Yin Lin sniffed herself again.

She didn’t smell anything under her arms.

Even though she’d sweated a bit, there was no body odor.

Strange, was there really a smell?

The woman downstairs hung up and went back to work.

They said they gave the employees ten minutes, but it actually took them fifteen to finish.

Only one person left the office building.

After a nine-minute interval, another one left.

Yin Lin and Jin Luan watched from the rooftop.

What was more interesting was that they were leaving in a dispersed manner.

It was clearly apparent they had a problem, that they were avoiding something.

Jin Luan and Yin Lin discussed it.

At this point, they needed to split into two teams for tracking.

Jin Luan would follow the person who left first to see where he went; Yin Lin would continue watching the company to see how many people left in total.

Anyway, Yin Lin’s perception ability was strong.

She could sense Jin Luan’s location, so they could regroup later.

The two split up to act.

Yin Lin used the wall as cover, observing from the rooftop.

The other side was also cautious, constantly checking the sky above, though it was unclear if they were guarding against drones or Magical Girls.

A total of three people went out, including that woman.

No one else was seen.

Although the three went in different directions, they eventually converged and got into a white car.

Yin Lin went to regroup with Jin Luan and discovered another suspicious point.

The following tracking became simple; they just needed to follow where that car went.

They followed it for over an hour.

Evening passed, and night fell.

The car drove away from the urban area, reaching a relatively remote place.

It stopped at a small farmhouse and the engine was turned off.

A man got out of the car.

He was from the Ocean Trade Company.

They waited a bit longer.

What about the others?

No one else?

The car doors were locked, and the engine was off.

That’s not right, is it?

Jin Luan: “Where are the others?”

Yin Lin: “Yeah, where are the others?”

Jin Luan: “Weren’t there three people in the car?”

Yin Lin: “Yeah, weren’t there three people in the car?”

Jin Luan: “Where are the other two?”

Yin Lin: “Yeah, where are the other two?”

“Stop repeating me!”

Jin Luan rapped her on the head.

“Did you sense anything?”

Yin Lin shook her head.

Everything around here was normal.

The two discussed it, took out their phones, and called each other to use as a lookout.

If they discovered any danger, they’d notify each other via the call.

Jin Luan lowered her altitude to observe the situation below, while Yin Lin stayed high up as the “eye.”

Put together, the two of them might actually make a decent strategist.

Using this method, Jin Luan went down to investigate.

She found the car was indeed empty.

No one was hiding in the trunk either.

She went to check the farmhouse.

The Ocean Trade Company employee was chatting and eating with his family quite normally.

This isn’t right?

There were three living people in that car.

They both saw them.

Where did those two go?

This became an unsolved mystery for the two of them.

Jin Luan thought Yin Lin missed someone getting out along the way.

Yin Lin also thought Jin Luan missed it.

Just as they were blaming each other, something else happened below.

Several Special Task Force vehicles arrived.

Several squads of heavily armed personnel rushed into the small farmhouse and arrested everyone inside.

Were these people Huang Yi called?

Such high efficiency?

Had they also traced it here?

Jin Luan quickly went to find Huang Yi.

Both sides exchanged information.

Just as Jin Luan guessed, this time it was indeed an order from the Countermeasure Center to arrest the people in the farmhouse.

They had already investigated that Ocean Trade Company and knew how many employees it had.

This kind of information was easy to get by just asking the other companies downstairs; it wasn’t a difficult problem.

Obtaining their appearances and identities was also simple.

They quickly found their way to this farmhouse.

They weren’t tracking these Magical Girls.

Jin Luan also told Huang Yi about the strange occurrence here: clearly seeing three people get in the car, no one seen getting out along the way, yet only one person remained in the end.

Huang Yi responded: “Don’t worry, we will investigate this matter thoroughly. When dealing with incidents related to Demonic Creatures, the Eastern Alliance has virtually unlimited authority to handle things.”

Hearing this, it was foreseeable they would next employ some methods not suitable for public disclosure.

Jin Luan didn’t ask further.

There was nothing more she and Yin Lin could do now.

They could only temporarily halt the investigation.

Then she remembered something else—dinnertime had already passed, and neither of them had eaten.

“How about we go get something to eat together?”

Yin Lin originally wanted to refuse, but Jin Luan was gripping her precious wand with both hands, giving off a distinct “dare to refuse and I’ll take your wand” vibe.