CH 298

"Dad! Mom! Where are you?!" Bai Lingmiao, tears streaming down her face, searched the entire Niu Xin village.

Behind her was Li Huowang, following her in the search, even though he knew there was no one else in the village besides them.

At that moment, Lv Zhuangyuan approached them cautiously, smiling.

"What's going on?" Li Huowang asked Lv Zhuangyuan, who had arrived first, with a frown.

Lv Zhuangyuan looked innocent. "I have no idea, my lord. I just arrived here, and there is no one in the whole village."

"I was surprised earlier, I thought I had the wrong location, so I searched for miles around, but I only found this place after searching the entire Niu Xin Mountain."

Upon hearing this, Li Huowang fell silent, taking a deep breath and walking towards Bai Lingmiao in the distance.

Bai Lingmiao continued to search the entire village, but still found nothing.

When Li Huowang saw Bai Lingmiao, who was sweating profusely and in a hurry, turn back to the first house to start searching again, he rushed over and grabbed her shoulders, holding her in his arms.

At that moment, Bai Lingmiao couldn't help but burst into tears and cry on Li Huowang's shoulder. "Senior Brother Li, my family is gone, they're gone!"

Li Huowang knew what it felt like to have such high expectations shattered in a moment. "Don't cry, maybe they just temporarily left and nothing bad happened. Think positively."

Lv Zhuangyuan also comforted her, "Miss Bai, my lord is right. Maybe they fled like us and will come back to see you."

Others also comforted Bai Lingmiao, but their words didn't console her. She wasn't stupid; the fact that the entire village was gone suggested that something terrible had happened.

Bai Lingmiao's crying overshadowed the joy of their reunion, casting a shadow over the entire village. After dinner, no one spoke.

Li Huowang walked around the village in the moonlight, not looking for people, but for traces.

The entire village couldn't have disappeared suddenly; they must have encountered something, even if it was being eaten by evil spirits or deceived by Taoist sects, they would have left traces.

"Actually, I told Miss Bai earlier that her family went to hide from the disaster, just to make her feel better. In my opinion, they probably didn't go to hide from the disaster." Lv Zhuangyuan followed Li Huowang, talking incessantly.

"Who hides from a disaster without locking the door? And when we first entered the village, the pigs in the backyard were starving." Lv Zhuangyuan continued.

Li Huowang squatted down and looked at the patterns on the stones on the ground. "Was the village chaotic when you first arrived?"

"No, not at all. The clothes were still hanging outside, the cows, dogs, and everything else were fine, only the people were gone."

"And I checked every wooden cabinet in every household, and there were no missing clothes. It's obvious that they didn't leave voluntarily."

Li Huowang searched for details and possible dangers inch by inch.

When he pushed open a door and found no clues, he took the cotton out of his ears and listened carefully to the surrounding sounds.After wandering around the village, even the evil spirit, You Lao Ye, was invited out to dig three feet deep. But this time, it was different from what they encountered before. There were no hostile gazes or eerie evil spirits. There was nothing here.

When Li Huowang returned to the courtyard of the Bai family, he saw Luo Juanhua and Chun Xiaoman comforting Bai Lingmiao in the bright hall. The others were standing around, discussing something in pairs. When they saw Li Huowang return, they all looked over.

"You guys should go to sleep first. If there's anything, we'll talk about it tomorrow." Li Huowang spoke, and the others didn't insist anymore and left in pairs.

Because she had been crying, Bai Lingmiao's pink eyes became even redder. She looked at Li Huowang with deep sadness and kept choking up.

"It's late. Where is your room? Wash up and go to sleep."

Bai Lingmiao, who had pursed her lips, stood up and walked towards the water tank in the kitchen.

After a stick of incense, the two of them lay silently in a bedroom filled with fragrance. Looking at the decorations around them and the white mosquito net, it was obvious that this was Bai Lingmiao's old bedroom.

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Bai Lingmiao curled up on the bed, her shoulders trembling continuously as she tried not to cry. The next moment, she felt herself being hugged and leaning against a sturdy chest.

"Don't cry. When we encounter trouble, we'll solve it. We are people with supernatural powers now. Are we afraid that we won't be able to find anyone?"

Bai Lingmiao's trembling shoulders stopped, and she arched her head against Li Huowang's chest. Suddenly, she broke free from his embrace, picked up the skin and bones that were placed in front of the copper mirror, and rushed out of the room.

"Boom boom boom! Boom boom boom! When there's something in the sky, the immortals will handle it. When there's something on the ground, the red and yellow will rush! If there's trouble in the underworld, invite the King of Grief to help... I stop the horse and ask for the country's name, I hold the reins and search for my hometown. Whether it's Zhang or Wang, Li or Huang... Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li, Li Cunxiao, Zhou, Wu, Zheng, Wang, Wang Yanzhang..."

Listening to the rhythmic drumming outside, Li Huowang slowly closed his eyes.

The next day, Li Huowang opened his eyes and found that Bai Lingmiao, who always woke up early, was lying silently on the bed.

"How is it? What did the immortals say?" Li Huowang asked while getting dressed.

"They can't find them." Bai Lingmiao answered with suppressed grief. "Even the immortals can't find them... Li Shixiong, do you think my parents are really gone?"

Li Huowang walked over, patted her shoulder, turned around, and walked out the door. "I'm leaving. While I'm gone, keep an eye on things."

Just as Li Huowang turned around, Bai Lingmiao opened the door. She looked at him with red eyes and said in surprise, "Li Shixiong, where are you going?"

"Where else can I go? Since the immortals are useless, of course, I have to find a way to figure out where everyone in the village went. If you're like this, can I not care?"

Bai Lingmiao suddenly hugged Li Huowang's waist, leaned her face against his back, and her tears wet his clothes. "Thank you, Li Shixiong..."

Seeing that Li Huowang's reaction had been cold all along, she thought that he didn't care about her family's situation. But she didn't expect that he had already figured out what to do, but just didn't say it.