Seven Cubs, Seven Fathers, Zero Days Off novel Chapter 211

Chapter 211: Chapter 209: The Underground Secret Chamber of the Annex

After Shen Yue had been captured by the men in black and returned, he had noticed something.

He discovered several faint, almost imperceptible auras lingering around them. At first, he thought they belonged to people who might pose a danger to Shen Yue.

But after several days of observation, he realized they held no hostility and were, in fact, protecting her from a discreet distance.

Not long ago, while investigating Bai Chaosi, he had personally witnessed her summon a dark-robed youth from the shadows with a mere snap of her fingers.

’And yet, even though she clearly has her own people, she doesn’t hesitate to use mine...’

The trust she placed in him filled him with both satisfaction and delight.

Just then, a confused Wu Huo asked:

"Great Emperor Master, Miss Shen Yue, what did you mean just now?"

"Are you saying that person didn’t escape at all today?"

Shen Yue thought for a moment, then looked at Huang Ziyue.

"Your Barrier wasn’t broken, so that person couldn’t have gotten out. Where do you think they would have gone?"

When she saw the severed tail on the ground earlier, she had naturally assumed the person had sacrificed their tail to escape.

But if they didn’t escape, that must mean they were still in the main hall.

However, that brought up the most crucial point. Even if the person was skilled enough to hide in the hall and blend into the crowd in an instant...

...how could they have remained hidden after being so grievously injured and losing their tail?

It was precisely because that aura was completely absent from the hall at the time that she believed the attacker had fled.

’Thinking about it now, if they didn’t escape, but they also weren’t in the hall... where did they go?’

Huang Ziyue’s eyes darkened slightly.

"Nowhere."

Wu Huo was growing more and more confused.

"Nowhere? Then... where is the person?"

It was as if something suddenly clicked in Shen Yue’s mind, and she cut to the heart of the matter.

"A person can’t just vanish into thin air. Unless... that person never existed in the first place!"

Huang Ziyue looked at her.

"Exactly."

Wu Huo was even more baffled.

"Huh? Never existed?"

He looked back and forth between the two of them.

"Great Emperor Master, Miss Shen Yue, what are you talking about? Your subordinate doesn’t understand at all."

Shen Yue pondered for a moment before coming to a bold conclusion.

She looked at Huang Ziyue.

"We were wrong from the beginning. We thought the tail was a trick to sever and survive."

"But what if... what if the invisible person wasn’t a person at all, but was just the severed tail?"

Hearing this, Wu Huo’s eyes went wide.

"How is that possible? How could someone’s true form be a tail? There isn’t a single Beast Clan in the entire Beast World like that!"

He spoke with utter disbelief.

"Miss Shen Yue, what on earth is going on?"

Even Shen Yue herself wasn’t sure what was going on.

It was true that no Beast Clan’s true form was a tail.

’This is just too bizarre!’

But when the severed tail had appeared, there hadn’t been any excess spiritual power aura in the hall.

That could only mean one thing: the person had already dissipated, already died.

But since the only thing that dissolved into a pool of blood before their eyes was the tail, that had to mean the tail *was* the invisible person.

But how could a person with such powerful spiritual power have a tail as their true form?

Huang Ziyue had arrived at the same conclusion as Shen Yue.

And he was just as puzzled by the same point.

He said:

"If we want to know what happened, we need to go to the main hall first and look for clues in that pool of blood."

Shen Yue agreed.

"Right. Let’s hope it’s not too late!"

As they spoke, they prepared to leave for the main hall.

But just then...

A current of air stirred in the room, and a dark figure flashed into view, landing by the window.

Wu Huo was startled.

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