Chapter 271: Su Yan Disappears

Gu Yang called Lu Feng. Although the agency's files did not contain Liu Yiyi's personal information, she had been working there for over three months after all, so perhaps someone would know.

Lu Feng was very efficient; it took him only ten minutes to inquire about Liu Yiyi's address.

"In the end, Auntie Wang is still the most reliable. As expected, there's nothing in the agency that she doesn't know about."

Listening to Lu Feng's excited voice through the receiver, Gu Yang could only urge him to stop wasting words.

After obtaining Liu Yiyi's address, Gu Yang immediately drove there.

However, what he least expected was that the so-called home of Liu Yiyi turned out to be nothing more than a shop.

The people in the shop had no idea who Liu Yiyi was.

Gu Yang's expression turned extremely grim. Even the address was fake, which meant that Liu Yiyi had begun her schemes a long time ago without him knowing.

The clue had been severed once again. Liu Yiyi had repeatedly said that one day he would beg her, yet now he didn't even know where she was.

Gu Yang was in a state of mental turmoil.

"Brother Gu, what are you doing here?"

Not far away, Ma Chulong saw him and was incredibly surprised.

Gu Yang immediately pulled himself together and walked quickly toward the two siblings.

"It's great to see you. Where is Yan Yan?"

The only people who might possibly know Su Yan's whereabouts now were them.

Ma Chulong froze visibly for a moment before asking, "Isn't Su Yan at the hotel?"

Gu Yang felt terrible; even they didn't know?

"No."

Ma Chulong's breath hitched, and a layer of anxiety was added to his already agitated face.

"She's not at the hotel?!"

Before the words had even fully landed, the eyes of the two siblings met.

Though no words were exchanged, both realized the gravity of the situation.

"What exactly happened?" Gu Yang's voice was so low it felt heavy with dread.

He had clearly met with Su Yan the day before yesterday; how could a living person simply vanish without a trace?

"We aren't quite sure either. We've been busy with the disappearance cases in the city. When we went to look for Su Yan yesterday morning after returning, she was already gone from the room. We just assumed she had gone out to run errands, so we didn't take it to heart," Ma Chulong said truthfully.

How could even Su Yan go missing?

Gu Yang felt as if he were suffocating.

"Brother Gu, don't panic yet. Let's head back to the hotel first and see if Su Yan left any notes or messages in her room." Ma Chulong couldn't afford to look for Kong Nian and the others anymore; all his energy was now focused on this.

Gu Yang gave no particular response and immediately signaled for the two to get in the car.

Despite being anxious to the point of burning, he still reminded himself to stay calm while driving.

The more such moments occurred, the more one had to maintain a clear head to find Su Yan as quickly as possible.

The three returned to the hotel, explained the situation to the front desk, and obtained a spare key to Su Yan's room.

When the door opened, even the curtains inside had not been drawn.

Ma Chulong quickly opened the curtains, while Gu Yang began searching the room.

Everything in the room remained exactly as it was before Su Yan went to sleep; even the bedding on the bed was spread out.

Gu Yang's heart sank completely. "She disappeared during the night."

Both Ma Chulong and his sister frowned deeply, agreeing with his analysis.

Gu Yang continued to ask, "Have you two been out for the last two nights?"

Ma Chulong: "Yes."

"No one else lives in this corridor besides you two and Yan Yan. So, even if Yan Yan encountered danger and called for help, no one would have known," Gu Yang said, emphasizing every word, the veins on his arms faintly bulging.

"Ahem, Big Brother Gu, don't scare yourself first. Su Yan isn't that weak. And look, although there are no other guests here, the front desk isn't far outside. If there really was a commotion, it could be heard at the front desk," Ma Chulan couldn't help but comfort him.

In her view, even if someone truly wanted to harm Su Yan, Su Yan's own abilities would definitely be enough to protect herself.

Furthermore, there were no signs of a struggle inside or outside the room, so the most likely possibility was that Su Yan had left of her own accord.

But she couldn't say these words directly to Gu Yang.

"But the front desk doesn't even know when Yan Yan went out," Gu Yang's head throbbed with pain.

He had already inquired; there was only one door to exit the room, and the windows in Su Yan's room were all tightly closed from the inside. So, how exactly did she vanish?

Ma Chulong's eyes flickered as he murmured, "Could it be the same as the disappearance of Kong Nian and the others?"

No movement, a silent disappearance.

"What did you say? Kong Nian has also disappeared?" Even Gu Yang could not remain calm in the face of such consecutive incidents.

Kong Xiang had mentioned that Kong Nian had saved Gu Yang twice, so Ma Chulong and Ma Chulan were not surprised that they knew each other.

The two of them had equally solemn expressions and nodded under Gu Yang's gaze, giving a brief account of what had happened last night.

"We were just looking for clues regarding the Kong family just now."

Gu Yang never imagined that even someone as powerful as Kong Nian would fall victim to such a situation.

"You mean Yan Yan's disappearance is the same as the Kong family's?"

"I can't rule out that possibility." Ma Chulong was already seventy to eighty percent certain.

"But why would they take Yan Yan? Didn't they say they were only interested in men?"

Naturally, Ma Chulong could not answer Gu Yang's question.

However, in the next second, Gu Yang's expression changed again.

He wasn't surprised that Kong Nian would act alongside Du Jinsong; after all, they were both so-called exorcists.

But now that the Ma siblings were also involved, were their identities also of that nature?

And since Su Yan had been getting so close to these siblings recently, could it be...

"Brother Gu, are you alright?"

Seeing his pale face, Ma Chulong simply assumed he was worried about Su Yan.

Gu Yang forced himself to restrain his thoughts and stop overthinking.

"I'm fine. Actually, I have a clue on my end as well, though I can't confirm yet if it's related to this matter."

In order to find Su Yan and the missing Kong family members as quickly as possible, Gu Yang no longer held anything back.

"I knew that Liu Yiyi wasn't a good person from the start. I didn't expect her to have been hiding for so long and so deeply!" After hearing Gu Yang's account, Ma Chulan cursed in fury.

Ma Chulong was slightly more composed than her. "I'll call Captain Du right now and have him investigate Liu Yiyi."

With Du Jinsong's status, investigating a person should be a piece of cake.

For the time being, Gu Yang could only wait.

Thinking that even people like Kong Nian had run into trouble, his worry for Su Yan reached its peak.

That girl was extremely intelligent; why, this time, had she left them not even a shred of a clue?

(End of Chapter)