Chapter 472: Disappearing corpse

“No!!!!!!!!”

“This is impossible!!!!!!!!”

He roared, his voice echoing in the empty space.

Bai Hong still couldn’t believe what he was seeing, and he even reached out and slapped himself hard across the face.

“Slap!!!”

Sharp pain came, but the scene before him still hadn’t changed.

At this moment, Bai Hong’s heart was filled with utter despair.

Suddenly, he seemed to have a glimmer of understanding; he probably understood the meaning of Liang Yu’s words, “Your home is gone.”

The empty scene before him seemed perfectly described by “home is gone.”

It was at this moment that Bai Hong came to his senses. He quickly went to the original location of the white jade pillar to investigate, hoping to find some useful information or clues there to recover the lost white jade pillar.

In Bai Hong’s mind, although this place had been infiltrated by those damned rats, based on his experience, besides the initial sneak attack and those discarded pawns on the periphery, there must still be people hidden here.

Thirty-six white jade pillars could not have been taken away so quickly; they must have used some kind of illusion to hide them.

They definitely planned to wait until he left and lowered his guard before taking them away.

With this thought, Bai Hong began to investigate the vicinity, determined to find the remaining hidden rats and capture them for severe torture.

Well, Bai Hong’s idea wasn’t problematic.

The main point was that to infiltrate this place without anyone noticing, the number of opponents wouldn’t be too many; Bai Hong estimated ten people at most.

Because even if he included Liang Yu, the other party only had six people, making it impossible to transport so many white jade pillars away right under their noses, and in such a short amount of time.

Therefore, he concluded that this was the opponent’s illusion.

Unfortunately, he wasn’t dealing with ordinary people; instead, he encountered Liang Yu, that shameless old trickster, so his deductions were bound to come to naught.

On the other side, after Bai Hong left, Liang Yu and the four Marios were surrounded impenetrably.

Although Bai Hong had given them the order to kill Liang Yu and his group.

However, Liang Yu keenly observed that these Black-robed Men were surrounding them but not attacking, seemingly fearing something, which allowed Liang Yu to seize an opportunity.

Bai Hong had given him a kill order; why would Liang Yu ever let these Black-robed Men go? They were also on his kill list.

Although he didn’t understand what so many opponents were afraid of, he wouldn’t let such an opportunity slip away.

After quietly putting the Marios into his backpack, Liang Yu walked into the Black-robed Men’s line of sight, then threw more than ten smoke bombs on the spot.

The smoke instantly spread, engulfing everything around.

In just a moment, the dense smoke swallowed Liang Yu, and he disappeared from the Black-robed Men’s sight.

Moreover, the smoke continued to spread outward, and in the blink of an eye, the smoke’s range tripled, and its density even showed a tendency to increase.

The Black-robed Men nearby were somewhat flustered by this sudden turn of events; they could not fail to kill the opponent, but they absolutely could not let the few people in front of them escape—that was their bottom line.

They quickly channeled the Qi within their bodies, preparing to strike the smoke in front of them to disperse it.

However, what they didn’t expect was that Liang Yu’s movements were faster than theirs.

A chilling sword qi slashed out from the smoke, trailing a long smoke trail.

The sword qi burst out of the smoke and slashed towards a Black-robed Man directly in front. Before the Black-robed Man could react, he was struck in a vital spot by Liang Yu and simultaneously corroded by the chill within the sword qi, falling to the ground incapacitated.

Seeing this, the other Black-robed Men swarmed forward, launching continuous, indiscriminate attacks on the smoke-covered area.

However, these attacks, besides dispersing the smoke and stirring up dust from the ground, could not harm Liang Yu in the slightest.

They hadn’t even caught a glimpse of Liang Yu’s figure.

As for Liang Yu, he had left the smoke after unleashing that sword qi and was now behind this group of Black-robed Men. Just as he was about to unleash a single sword strike to eradicate them, he suddenly noticed something amiss.

Earlier, several Black-robed Men had been killed by the Marios, and their bodies should have been nearby, but now not a single body was to be seen.

This could perhaps be explained by him not paying attention earlier, and their comrades moving the bodies elsewhere.

But the sword strike he had just unleashed, he had clearly seen it kill a Black-robed Man.

Yet, looking around now, where could he find the body of that Black-robed Man?

Something was very, very wrong!

At this moment, Liang Yu thought again of the abnormal scene from earlier: those Black-robed Men merely surrounded them without attacking. Could this be related to the current problem?

The other party must know something, which is why they were so apprehensive, otherwise, why would they even disregard Bai Hong’s command?

As Liang Yu fell into contemplation, Bai Hong on the other side was already on the verge of madness.

“Ah ah ah ah ah!!!!!!”

Bai Hong roared madly upwards.

He had already searched the surroundings once, but there was absolutely no clue.

It was as if the white jade pillars had vanished into thin air.

He had checked all thirty-six locations, and there was no illusion whatsoever.

This was nightmarish news for him, pushing him to the brink of collapse.

His eyes were bloodshot, fury burned fiercely in his heart, and only one strong thought remained in his mind—to find the rat that had just ambushed him.

The rat he spoke of was naturally Liang Yu, from whom he intended to force out the crucial whereabouts of the white jade pillar.

Currently, this was the only clue he possessed.

He clenched his fists, his knuckles white from the force, and with a powerful push of his legs, he flew off.

He flew back towards the entrance, all the while muttering words like “damned rat.”

Soon, Bai Hong arrived at the location where he had met Liang Yu earlier. He scanned his eyes around, still muttering.

“Rat, don’t you dare die before I catch you.”

At this moment, Bai Hong’s smile was exceptionally sinister.

Before long, he saw a group of Black-robed Men attacking a dense cloud of smoke.

He flashed in front of these Black-robed Men, his left hand forming a claw and grabbing forward. The dense smoke in front of him immediately revealed four blank claw marks.

Bai Hong took one look and knew there was no one inside.

This instantly ignited his fury.

Looking at these useless people, it was one thing if they couldn’t kill anyone.

With so many of them, they couldn’t even keep a few people from escaping. What good were they?

Thinking this, Bai Hong extended his right hand, clenched his fist, and knocked his hand against his back.

Instantly, several Black-robed Men nearby were affected by his attack.