I got rid of those pesky flies but the sound that I was hearing until now has disappeared. I removed them from the equation so that I could find what and where about that sound but now I don't have any trace of it to find about it.
I am screwed.
The sound probably is the only way that I could find out what happened to those two merchants and their group. The investigation teams searched everywhere. They searched every nook and corner. They didn't leave anything in the path that they took.
The sound was an anomaly. There was no mention of it in the file. So I believe that the sound might be the possible way to find out but with the sound disappearing, I need to find a new way.
Before that, let's loot those idiots. I need to leave this place before the Mayor becomes suspicious and sends more of his henchmen to investigate why those three missed their regular updates.
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(3rd POV)
"What the hell happened for them not to send any information? Did they enter an area where there is no signal?" an old man kept muttering as he paced along the room.
The old man is none other than the Mayor of Endis Town.
He had sent some watchers to keep an eye on the student from the Royal Academy. He came here to take on the mission to find out what happened to the cousins of the Count.
The watchers were to observe him and update him every half an hour. Everything was going fine until now.
In the past, once someone crosses a human habitat, that would be the end of communication, unless you use some magical way to communicate but that's used as an SOS signal, in case of emergency, not to actually communicate.
As the world progressed, with outposts along the roads, the signal coverage is now quite large. So unless you go deeper into the forest area, the chances of losing a signal are almost nill.
The only reason why that could have happened would either the outpost signal transmitter was damaged or under maintenance or the watchers were attacked and are dead or at least their communication devices are.
If it has to do with the outpost or that the mission took them deep into the forest, then it was well and good.
The issue was that he was feeling that something bad had happened. He has a feeling that they are either dead or their devices are damaged.
There were three watchers and each had their own communication device and it would be too unbelievable for all three to get damaged at the same time. So there is a high chance that they were dead. Maybe the devices got damaged in whatever fight that happened.
The Mayor was someone who would like to take chances. He was never the one who would put his fat in someone's hand. He wanted to make sure that nothing went wrong.
He quickly pulled out his phone and called his secretary.
"Mary, call the Night Stalkers. Tell them I have a job for them and to meet me at the back of the mansion in half an hour", he said and ended the call.
After ending the call, he left his office, which was a part of his mansion where he lives. He quickly went to the back of his mansion, to await for the Night Stalkers, who are the best and worst of the mercenaries in Endis.
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Now that it was done, I should check out the area around here. After all, the sound stopped around here. I mean it could have stopped because we were fighting or because I reached the place I was supposed to.
If it was the first reason, then there was nothing that I could do but if it was the second reason, then sooner or later I would find what happened all those days ago.