Chapter 817 Several People Disappeared

"I'm talking to you." Bei Lin wanted to stop A Shi.

However, he was still seriously injured and was no match for A Shi: "If you don't want to die, just stay here. Besides, the master has already found Hong Jue, and you didn't help at all, and you almost lost your life here."

A Shi looked down on Bei Lin. It was obvious that what the head of the Hong family said just now was to distract Bei Lin, but Bei Lin actually believed it. Moreover, he was beaten and seriously injured. If he had appeared later, Bei Lin would have died.

"Is Hongye okay?" Beilin's face was pale, and he did not refute A Shi's words.

He knew that his behavior just now was stupid, but when he heard the "news" of Hongjue's "death", he really couldn't help it, and it was as if the soul in his body was sucked out.

A Shi chewed and chewed as he pleased, and after he finished eating and digested the food, he turned into a human form and went to look for Ruan Yu.

Beilin followed.

At the same time, in Hongjue's room, after not seeing her for a few days, she was so sick that she couldn't even get out of bed. Her eyes were dark and her face was pale, and she looked like she was terminally ill.

"Who are you?" Upon seeing Ruan Yu, Hong Jue's first reaction was to be shocked by her stunning beauty. Then she coughed: "Cough... cough!"

"I am Qingyu." Ruan Yu explained the reason in a few words: "My previous appearance was a disguise. You were poisoned."

"You are actually Qingyu." Hongye said and then coughed again.

But after knowing Ruan Yu's identity, she was no longer on guard. "I don't know what happened to me. My health is getting worse day by day. Yesterday I could still walk around in the yard, but today I don't even have the strength to walk."

Hongye spoke slowly, with heavy breathing.

Don't blame her, she was already very tired after saying this.

"What kind of poison am I in?"

Ruan Yu sat down beside the bed and placed her finger on Hongye's pulse for a while.

The black soul power penetrated into Hongzhu's skin, went straight into his meridians, and devoured the toxins inside.

"Seven Days to Kill Breath Powder, as the name suggests, will kill the person on the seventh day after being poisoned." Ruan Yu asked as he was removing the poison, "Who did you come into contact with after returning to the Hong family?"

"I..." Hong Jue thought of something and tears of sadness started falling. She was lying on the bed, and as she cried, the tears slid down her cheeks and onto the pillow.

The whole place was wet with tears.

Ruan Yu immediately guessed that it was the person closest to Hong Jue, "Is it your father?"

“I don’t know…” Hong Jue breathed in big gulps of air, almost choking from crying: “After returning home, I only saw my father, and I fell ill at night…”

All signs indicate that the person who poisoned her was her father!

How could Hongye believe such a result?

"I think your father... is a little strange." Seeing that the poison had been almost absorbed, Ruan Yu fed Hongjue a few healing pills, and Hongjue's complexion and physical strength quickly recovered.

"Thank you, Qingyu."

"Call me Ruan Yu. Qingyu is my pseudonym." Since her identity was exposed, Ruan Yu simply used her real name.

"Okay, Ruan Yu, you just said that my dad is a little strange? Did you find anything?"

"It gives me an indescribable feeling." Ruan Yu asked Hong Jue, "He is your father, don't you find that he is different from before?"

"I found out, but how could I have thought of so much?" Hong Jue recalled the scene on the day she just returned to the mansion. "That day after I said goodbye to you in the North Mansion, I used the teleportation array to return home, wanting to report to Dad that I was safe. I never thought that Dad was not in his room, but was waiting for me in my yard early in the morning."

"No, I can't say he was waiting for me. He seemed a little surprised to see me back. I didn't think much of it at the time. I said a few words to Daddy and went back to my room to sleep."

"Do you sleep during the day?" Ruan Yu asked puzzledly.

The teleportation array can reach the destination in a moment, and it was still bright when Hong Xi left.

"Well, I'm not sleepy. I usually don't feel sleepy until late at night." Hong Jue was surprised as she spoke, "In other words, when I saw Daddy that day, he poisoned me?"

"But why is this happening?" Hong Jue couldn't accept it. "Daddy used to love me a lot. Apart from the marriage, he never let me suffer any injustice in other matters."

"He shouldn't be your father." Ruan Yu said.

How could a father who loves his daughter poison his child for no reason?

"Why do you think so?" Hongye was stunned.

Ruan Yu continued to ask: "Have you told your father that you want to cancel the engagement?"

"I did say it, but it happened the next day after I returned home."

"That's right, let's go find Beilin first." Ruan Yu stood up and walked out of the house.

Hongyu quickly put on her clothes and shoes and chased after him.

"Master." A Shi had been waiting in the yard for a long time.

Ruan Yu keenly detected the faint smell of blood on his body: "What did you eat?"

Ruan Yu narrowed his eyes.

A Shi: "Master Hong."

"You ate my father?!" Hong Jue thought she was hallucinating when she first heard it. How could a person eat another person? Later, she found that A Shi had the aura of a soul beast, so it was not surprising that he ate people.

But the person who was eaten was her father!

Hongye rushed over and wanted to beat A Shi up.

"To be precise, he is a puppet disguised as the head of the Hong family." A Shi calmly looked at Hong Jue who rushed in front of him, without trying to hide.

Hongye's fist just stayed in the air.

"puppet?"

If it's a puppet, then everything is clear!

But, if the one in the mansion is a puppet, then where is her father?

“Aren’t puppets made from living or dead people?” Hong Jue suddenly thought of this and her face suddenly lost color. She took two steps back and said with difficulty: “Could it be that my father…”

"Hongye!" Beilin finally ran over.

"Injured?" Ruan Yu found blood stains on Beilin's clothes.

Ah Shi said: "He was stupid. He didn't even know how to dodge when he was hit. If I hadn't acted in time, he would have died."

"Beilin." Hongye's eyes were red: "My father is dead."

"Your father wants to harm you and me. He is not worthy of being your father!" Beilin still doesn't know the truth.

Hongyu couldn't stand the shock for a moment. She screamed, squatted on the ground and cried with her head in her hands.

"Hongye, calm down. It's not worth crying for such a person!" Beilin comforted her.

Hongye cried even harder, and her sharp voice was very piercing.

"Stop arguing." Ruan Yu's head was buzzing with the noise: "Did I say your father was dead?"

Hongjue looks dignified and delicate, but when she cries she is like a boiling kettle.

"Ruan Yu, do you mean that my father is still alive?" Hong Jue stopped crying.

She sobbed twice and looked at Ruan Yu with tears on her face.

"I can't be sure, but I can be sure that the one eaten by A-Shi was not your father."

"That's good news." Hong Jue wiped her tears and smiled foolishly.

"Wait, I came late and don't know what happened. Qingyu, you said the one who was eaten was not the head of the Hong family? What does that mean? Could it be that someone was pretending to be him?" Beilin was completely confused.

What is this all about?

Hongye repeated to Beilin what she had just said to Ruan Yu.

Bei Lin finally understood: "Someone actually pretended to be your father to poison you!"

He clapped his fists and said angrily, "How ridiculous! Who on earth is so bold?!"

"Let's go back to the house and talk. Our appearance today has already alerted the enemy." Ruan Yu was silent for a long time, but he did not stand there stupidly. Instead, he released his mental power to cover the entire mansion.

There was nothing unusual in the mansion.

If there is anything unusual, it is that there are very few servants in the Hong Mansion.

The three of them and one flower came to Hongjue's room. Beilin was about to speak when Ruanyu raised a finger and said, "Shh, walls have ears."

Just because she didn't detect it doesn't mean there isn't someone in the dark.

Ruan Yu cast an isolation spell to isolate the room from the outside world.

Now I can speak with confidence.

"It's not okay to look for someone in a high-profile manner. We have to understand the other party's purpose so that we can prescribe the right medicine and lure the snake out of its hole."

Hongye and Beilin both agreed with Ruan Yu's words and no one objected.

"Hongye, do you know how many servants there are in the Hong Mansion?"

"I don't know exactly, but roughly speaking, there should be about 1,800."

"I just checked and found that there are less than fifty servants left in the Hong Mansion."

"What? There were so many servants, but only these few are left?" Hong Jue couldn't understand why her father had disappeared, but the number of servants had also decreased. "Could it be that they were poisoned like me?"

"No." Ruan Yu shook his head: "No one died in the mansion."

"You could also say that there are no dead bodies in the places I explored. It is possible that someone piled the bodies together and covered them up with treasures that conceal the aura."

"That's not right. In addition to the servants, there are also members of the Hong family in the mansion. Ruan Yu, have you found any members of the Hong family?"

After Beilin's reminder, Ruan Yu realized what he had overlooked.

She was so anxious that she forgot about the Hong family in the Hong Mansion.

Ruan Yu was speechless and laughed: "I didn't find it."

"There are at least three thousand members of the Hong family. Including the servants, there should be about four thousand people, right? Could so many people just disappear out of thin air?" Bei Lin felt a chill on his back and felt a little creepy.

"Is there a tunnel in the Hong Mansion? The kind that can accommodate many people." Ruan Yu looked at Hong Ye.

Hongzhuo doesn't often stay at home, so how could she know all this?

"I don't know. Let's go look for it."

"Okay, let's split up, it will be faster this way." Beilin has stood up.

"You are not allowed to go." Ruan Yu really wanted to ask these two people what they were thinking: "So many people are missing, how dare you act separately at this time? If you meet them, won't another one be missing?"

"Hongye, Beilin, and A-Shi, you all act together."

Asi obediently climbed down from Ruan Yu's fingers and turned into a human form.

"What about you? What will you do?" Hongzhen asked worriedly.

Ruan Yu: "I'm fine with whatever I want."

As the voice fell, more than a dozen human-shaped soul beasts appeared behind Ruan Yu.