“What… what’s going on here, Doctor Xu? Where’s my sister gone?”
Yao Manyun stood rooted to the spot, dumbfounded, while Uncle He, though silent, was visibly flustered.
Xu Fei, meanwhile, was inwardly frustrated.
Before stepping in, he’d mentally prepared himself.
After all, based on what Yao Manyun and Uncle He had said, it’d been over half a year since Yao Yunxi last saw a doctor.
In that time, it wouldn’t be surprising if her condition had taken a turn for the worse.
But now, things had gone beyond that, it wasn’t a worsened condition, the patient had flat-out vanished!
“You two really have no clue about this?”
Xu Fei turned to ask, and both Yao Manyun and Uncle He shook their heads frantically.
From their brief interactions, Xu Fei figured these two weren’t the type to lie casually, or he’d have seen through them by now.
Calming himself, Xu Fei began searching the room for more clues or evidence.
After a thorough sweep, he started to piece together the sudden fog of mystery.
First off, the room’s furnishings were mostly untouched, and many spots, like the table, floor, and even the bed, were coated in dust, meaning Yao Yunxi hadn’t disappeared recently.
He’d also checked, the doors and windows were locked tight, with no signs of tampering.
The balcony outside overlooked a wide open space, three stories up from the ground, not a height an ordinary person could easily come or go from.
At this point, Xu Fei could tentatively rule out Yao Yunxi being snatched by some thief.
The reason Yao Manyun and the family had put Yao Yunxi in this room was its quietness, practically a dead end with only one way in or out.
In some cases, quietness and safety went hand in hand.
If abduction was off the table, then Yao Yunxi’s disappearance left only one wildly improbable option, she’d been taken!
When Xu Fei shared this, Yao Manyun and Uncle He looked at him in utter disbelief.
“No… that’s impossible, Doctor Xu! You might not know, but ever since my sister fell ill, she’s been so weak, bedridden for years, how could she have the strength to leave the Yao estate?”
“Exactly, Doctor Xu! Even if a miracle happened and the second miss somehow recovered, someone in the Yao family would’ve noticed her leaving, how could no one know a thing?”
Xu Fei didn’t think their points were baseless, but he was also confident his analysis wasn’t wrong.
That meant there had to be a clear link between the two, just one that was currently broken.
So he turned to Yao Manyun and Uncle He, “We need to keep searching this room for useful clues, even if we have to dig three feet deep!”
Hearing Xu Fei, Yao Manyun and Uncle He nodded eagerly and sprang into action.
Xu Fei didn’t slack either, but the first odd discovery came from Uncle He.
At that moment, Xu Fei was out on the balcony, pondering if someone could’ve really entered from there to abduct Yao Yunxi.
Because Xu Fei knew he could do it with ease, and other cultivators surely could too.
