Chapter 247: Everything Adds Up

Rushing into the warehouse, Adam had already spread his spiritual sense and confirmed that there weren't any living people inside as he found the 5 men that were tied up in the centre, dead.

Adam's desire to kill soared after seeing 5 dead people that lay in a pool of blood, but using his Hunter's mind and those that he cared about as his anchor, he was able to suppress the urge.

Sitting down, Adam calmed down his nerves and relaxed before approaching the 5 bodies.

It was clear to him that they had been battered and slowly killed, which went to show him that they were most likely killed slowly and probably by somebody that held a lot of hate towards them.

The 5 bodies had suffered lots of attacks from some sort of blunt weapon and they were most likely tortured before they died.

Adam couldn't think of somebody that held any hate towards them other than his aunt, but it could have been anyone and he didn't think that his aunt had it in her to leave in the middle of the night and kill them.

It was a possibility since he was in the dungeon and couldn't sense what was happening in reality, but it seemed very unlikely, as how would she have gotten there in the middle of the night.

His aunt had also always been a kindhearted individual that wouldn't even kill an insect that she found in her house let alone kill 5 people herself.

Adam thought that it was only her anger that was speaking yesterday and somebody that was as happy as her couldn't have just killed 5 people.

Even Adam after killing, despite enjoying it as it would relieve his urge to kill through his Bloodlust Characteristic, wouldn't feel happy about it, so he couldn't believe that his aunt would have been able to do so.

Looking closer at their bodies, their bodies seemed to be completely drained of any energy or life, which was unusual as that couldn't have occurred so quickly.

It made him think that it was some sort of Evil Cultivation Technique whereby one was able to drain the energy and life out of somebody, which Ava confirmed was close to the truth.

"That rules out my aunt" mumbled Adam to himself who was sure that his aunt couldn't be an Evil Cultivator and didn't have the evil nature for it even if she had the means to become one.

Without much else to do there, Adam inspected the rest of the warehouse before preparing himself to leave.

He had found a wooden plank that was taken off from one of the crates in the warehouse and must have been what was used to kill the 5 men, but the plank had some long and sharp nails sticking out of them and they were drenched in blood.

"While using this plank, the nails must have pierced through the person's hand after the impact of hitting one of the 5 kidnappers. If it was my aunt, I would have seen blood or at least a wound on her hand, but I don't think there was" said Adam to himself as he confirmed to himself that it wasn't his aunt.

Letting out a sigh of relief, Adam got back onto his motorcycle and drove back towards his apartment, planning to get his duffel bag and fill it with snacks before going to see his master.

Parking in the car park before transforming the motorcycle back to its normal form, Adam went p to his apartment and found his aunt clearing the living room area.

She still seemed very happy and had a wide smile on her face as Adam couldn't help but feel as though something had changed about her.

Aiming his Status Peering Feature at her after greeting her, knowing that checking it just to make sure wouldn't do him any harm, Adam was shocked to find that it was blocked.

It was similar to how his spiritual sense was blocked when he tried to check Chase's and Angeal's status, but Adam could sense that it was different.

Chase would become invisible to spiritual senses and monitoring skills by becoming one with his surroundings and calming down his mind and body to a still state, through a monk technique, while Angela used an item to do so.

However he couldn't tell why it didn't work on his aunt and when he tried a second time, the same thing happened.

[What the hell? It couldn't be] thought Adam to himself.

"What's the matter Adam?" asked his aunt.

However, before answering, he suddenly appeared before her, which shocked her, and forcefully grabbed her hands.

Adam had never used force with his aunt or his cultivation power, but everything he had gathered up made it seem as though his aunt was the culprit for the murder of all 5 of those men.

If that was the case, he would have been shocked, but could look past it as she had gotten her revenge and must have been heartbroken. But Ava had confirmed to him that the killer had used an Evil Technique and if it was his aunt, he didn't know how he would react.

"What is it, Adam? What's going on?" she asked, confused by Adam's actions.

Adam remembered that there were 4 nails sticking out of the wooden plank that he found in the warehouse, but he couldn't see marks on his aunt's hand.

Seeing how sharp, long and bloodied the nails were, Adam was expected deep wounds that had barely healed, but all he could see were 4 faint dots on his aunt's palm, which were in a similar orientation to that of the nails.

Even if it was her, it would have been impossible for her to recover in a single night, however, it was too much of a coincidence to look past and then the thing Adam feared the most seemed to be the most likely thing as everything started to add up in Adam's mind.