500: No trace

After Qin Shilei sent Mary back to the Blessed Land, he used a teleportation array to rush to the nearest point of Lair Duchy, and then used Thunder Escape to hurry to Lair Duchy.

When he arrived at a city called Kaslot in Lair Duchy, he found the entire city eerily quiet.

Looking down, there were human corpses everywhere, on the city walls, on the streets, and in the squares, as if they were sleeping.

Just as he was about to fly down for a closer look, several figures flew over from a distance.

The arrivals were Mu Ziping and others who had come to investigate in advance.

"Greetings, Your Highness!" Mu Ziping and the others respectfully saluted.

"No need for formalities. Have you found anything?" Qin Shilei asked.

"If it weren't for a Night member who happened to pass through here, we wouldn't have known that all the survivors in this city had died unknowingly.

There were no wounds on these people, and no signs of struggle in the city.

It seems their souls were taken while they were sleeping, and they never woke up."

Mu Ziping's brows were tightly furrowed, and his eyes showed fear.

"Let's go down and take a look," Qin Shilei said calmly.

The group randomly found a residential area and examined the corpses, finding that the people seemed to be just sleeping, but all had lost their breath.

Eye of Illusion Breaking Purple!

Qin Shilei used the unique skill of his eyes and looked at the corpse lying on the living room floor again.

Still no results.

Qin Shilei turned to Mu Ziping and asked, "What was the strongest cultivation level among them, and when did they die?"

Mu Ziping replied, "The strongest among them were at Golden Peak, and there were twenty to thirty Golden Experts in the two cities combined. According to Xiao Xu's estimation, their time of death was between 10 PM last night and 4 AM."

Qin Shilei asked again, "Did anyone from the intelligence department receive their distress signals on the chat channel?"

Mu Ziping responded, "I have already asked the intelligence department, and I learned that no one from Lair Duchy sent out any distress signals on the chat channel."

Mary, who was beside them, speculated, "Do you think it was the work of a deity's clone or a demon's clone? To silently kill millions of people like this, only those Master Realm Experts could do it."

Qin Shilei shook his head, "Probably not. Even I couldn't kill such a large number of humans so silently and in such a short time.

What's more, the clones of those deities only have Platinum Peak cultivation, and even if their methods were heaven-defying, they couldn't achieve this.

Instead, I thought of a creature that does possess such a method of killing."

Just as Qin Shilei was about to name the creature, a fiery red figure quickly flew towards them.

The person who arrived was An Qian, holding the Mountain and Rivers Map in her hand.

"Last night, according to the person who was monitoring the Mountain and Rivers Map, no beings above Platinum appeared nearby. When I just came over, I checked the Mountain and Rivers Map again and didn't find any high-level beings outside of Qin An Royal Mansion."

To resist the invasion of foreign races, all Platinum Experts within the Great Xia territory are now registered with Qin An Royal Mansion.

These Platinum Experts also have to regularly report their whereabouts to Qin An Royal Mansion.

With the Mountain and Rivers Map, it is almost possible to constantly monitor all Platinum Experts within a 50,000-kilometer radius of Great Xia.

This way, they can be discovered as soon as foreign experts appear, and experts can be dispatched in time to eliminate the enemies.

For this, Qin Shilei specifically selected more than a dozen people to take turns activating and monitoring the Mountain and Rivers Map. He also specifically arranged for a Diamond Realm pet to keep an eye on these people to prevent them from stealing the Mountain and Rivers Map.

Qin Shilei took the Mountain and Rivers Map, infused it with vital energy to activate it, and indeed found that within a three-thousand-kilometer radius, apart from a few red dots at their location, there were no other red dots.

"Let's go, let's check nearby cities for any clues."

The group then set off, flying towards Auerborg, the closest city.

On the way, Mary couldn't help but ask, "Qin Dage, what exactly was the creature you mentioned earlier?"

Qin Shilei replied, "A demon called a Soul-Devouring Demon. If there was a large group of Soul-Devouring Demons, they could indeed silently take the lives of these people. However, Soul-Devouring Demons are somewhat afraid of light and lightning element ability users. Lair Duchy shouldn't be without these two types of ability users, so why didn't anyone send out a distress signal?"

He then recounted the Soul-Devouring Demon that had appeared in Lingquan City.

Unbeknownst to them, they had already arrived at Auerborg.

Most of Auerborg's Evolutionaries had already left the city to hunt, and the survivors in the city showed no abnormalities.

They had no idea that Lair Duchy, a thousand kilometers away, had been annihilated overnight.

Qin Shilei took out the Mountain and Rivers Map, infused it with vital energy to activate it.

The displayed three-dimensional map still had no extra red dots.

As for green markers, there were many.

Qin Shilei and the others randomly selected several locations and found that those green markers were either native Blue Star Strange Beast, ordinary foreign races like insects, or human pets.

An Qian frowned, "Shi Lei, do you think the culprits might have gone in another direction, to other cities?"

Qin Shilei nodded, "It's possible. How about you all enter my Blessed Land first, and I'll quickly check all the cities near Lair Duchy."

"Good!" Of course, everyone had no objection.

Qin Shilei, holding the Mountain and Rivers Map, used Lair Duchy as the center and utilized Thunder Escape to quickly conduct a search.

After half a day, he had flown through all the cities around Lair Duchy.

The Evolutionaries in those cities were living their lives as usual, with no abnormalities whatsoever.

At this moment, Qin Shilei was standing in front of a Space Rift more than two thousand kilometers away from the Lair Empire.

An Qian and the others also emerged from the Blessed Land.

Around them were several Golden Realm rhinos and countless Silver Realm rhino beasts.

"On Blue Star today, Golden Realm Strange Beast are simply too common. If the culprits are Golden or below Golden Realm beings, it would be too difficult to find them with the Mountain and Rivers Map."

Qin Shilei said somewhat helplessly.

"Do you think the culprits might have left our sphere of influence, or returned directly to their world?"

Mary, who was beside them, suddenly spoke.

"That's possible, but the probability is low," Qin Shilei said calmly.

"In that case, we can only wait for them to come to us!"

An Qian suggested, "We'll send people to constantly monitor the Mountain and Rivers Map. As soon as a green marker enters a human city, we'll rush over immediately. As long as they commit another crime, we'll definitely catch them."

Qin Shilei said helplessly, "For now, that's all we can do. I hope there are Golden Realm beings among these culprits, otherwise, the Mountain and Rivers Map won't be able to do anything about them."

After speaking, he found a suitable location, took out the Mountain and Rivers Map, and had Mu Ziping and the others begin monitoring.