"Search! Split up and search."
"Colin Rowan’s group wouldn’t just mess around. Something must have happened."
Levi Stone ordered immediately.
"Ian, Miss Jacobs,"
"for safety’s sake, why don’t you two rest here for now?"
"We’ll go look for them."
Levi Stone said.
"Okay."
Nina Jacobs agreed.
’This is so weird. Where could so many people have gone?’
’It’s just too bizarre.’
Leo Hale wanted to go with Levi Stone and the others to find them,
but he had promised Nina Jacobs he wouldn’t wander off.
"Let me try."
Sherry Renner had already taken out her Compass.
"Will that work?"
Leo Hale was a little skeptical.
"Well, it’s not like we have anything else to do while we wait."
Sherry Renner didn’t have much faith in herself either, but she began to mutter an incantation nonetheless.
Meanwhile, Nina Jacobs was observing her surroundings in the main hall of the encampment.
’This stuff is still warm.’
Nina Jacobs discovered a thermos on a table.
The water inside was still lukewarm.
Furthermore, there was some packed luggage on the floor along the walls of the hall.
It seemed the survivors here had indeed been preparing to leave.
"I’m getting a little scared. Don’t tell me we’re actually dealing with ghosts."
Leo Hale got goosebumps after hearing that.
"Leo, ghosts can’t be much scarier than zombies,"
Ian Chandler said.
"Good point. If only my dad were here,"
"we’d find them in no time."
Leo Hale said with some regret.
"It is very strange."
Nina Jacobs had already tried using her Five Senses Enhancement.
Aside from the sounds of the rescue team searching, she hadn’t detected any other unusual noises.
"Could this be related to what happened earlier?"
Ian Chandler asked.
"It’s possible."
Nina Jacobs frowned. If that were the case, the survivors might be in danger.
"Sherry, any leads on your end?"
Nina Jacobs asked Sherry Renner.
"Without the birth dates and times of the missing people, I can only divine that there might be a large group gathered to the southeast,"
Sherry Renner said with a frown.
"But the southeastern part of this island is a huge area,"
"and there’s a mountain over there, too."
Leo Hale knew a little about it, as he had visited Beldane Island before the apocalypse.
"Let’s just wait for Captain Stone and his team to get back."
Ian Chandler thought they could indeed search in the general direction Sherry Renner had indicated.
However, the rescue team might find the missing survivors before that.
Nina Jacobs agreed.
While waiting for the rescue team to return, the group looked around the immediate area.
"What’s this?"
Nina Jacobs found a stack of large packaging bags next to a trash can.
After unfolding them, she realized they were all dog food bags.
"Maybe they ran out of supplies, so the survivors started eating dog food?"
Leo Hale suggested.
"It’s possible."
Nina Jacobs couldn’t think of another reason and felt that Leo Hale’s theory made sense.
About two hours later, the members of the rescue team returned one after another.
But none of them looked relieved.
"You didn’t find anything?"
Leo Hale and the others were astonished.
"You said it. This is a first for us, too."
Franklin Abbott was drenched in sweat.
They had just run a lap around the entire island but hadn’t seen a single soul.
The last one to return was Levi Stone.
Like the others, he had found nothing.
"So... should we check the southeast again?"
Sherry Renner said quietly,
sounding very uncertain.
"The southeast? We just got back from there."
"There’s nothing there."
A team member answered, gasping for breath.


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