Chapter 148 How to disappear?
Just as Xie Liuyin had learned before, the spirit stone mine in Yuecheng was very large. In order to mine all the spirit stones here as quickly as possible, the Qingxiao Sect also built residences for the miners nearby.
Due to the frequent disappearances in recent times, the miners have stopped working and are now resting in their residences.
Because this matter concerns the miners, the manager in charge of the place first brought Xie Liuyin and his party here and asked them to get information from the miners.
The Qingxiao Sect provides very good welfare to the miners, which is why it attracts so many people to work here.
Most of them are mortals who are unable to practice cultivation. Ten miners form a group, and the group leader is a monk with some cultivation skills.
However, these cultivators usually have the lowest five spiritual roots, and due to their poor family background, they cannot join powerful sects, so their cultivation is trapped in the Qi Refining Stage for their entire lives.
They have no other way to support themselves, so they become miners.
The team leader usually has to take good care of the team members. If anything dangerous happens in the spirit stone mine, the team leader who has the cultivation to use spiritual power can protect the lives of some people.
For this reason, the team leader’s monthly salary is much higher than that of ordinary miners.
Before coming here, Manager Qin Rong had already mentioned the situation of the missing miners to Xie Liuyin and the others.
Those who disappeared were all mortals, and they did not belong to the same group.
Moreover, every time a miner disappears, it is very strange. Basically, they are still talking to people one moment and then suddenly disappear.
"Because of an accident at the mine that day, the owner asked us to finish work early, and we discussed going out for a drink. Who knew that a group of people were walking on the road, talking and laughing. In the end, before we even left the mine area, the guy disappeared!"
Talking about these past events, the leader of Group 10 let out a long sigh. He was also a cultivator, and if there was a strange aura approaching, he would be able to sense it to some extent.
But he really didn't find anything that day. It was not until he walked out of the mining area that a miner who knew Xiao Sun noticed something was wrong and discovered that he was missing.
Realizing that his team members were also missing, Team Leader Ten hurriedly led everyone back to look for them.
But they didn't find any trace, as if Xiao Sun had disappeared out of thin air.
"This situation is not limited to our team. I have asked other teams before, and it was like this when their miners disappeared. No trace was left behind." The tenth team leader's expression became stranger and stranger as he spoke, as if he was afraid of something.
His emotions were also keenly captured by Xie Liuyin and others, but the four of them did not laugh at him. After all, this kind of inexplicable disappearance was terrifying enough no matter who heard it.
"Thank you for telling us this. You can go back and rest first." Finally, it was Mao Jun who took the initiative to thank Team Leader Ten and asked him to leave first.
After the miners left, Mao Jun kneaded his brows and turned to look at the other three people: "What do you think? We have basically asked all the team leaders who had problems. Do you have any findings?"
After Xie Liuyin and his companions arrived at the mining area, they already knew that eight miners were missing.
They had just questioned the team leaders of the missing miners one by one, and thought they could get some clues from them.
Unexpectedly, these people said in unison that they didn't notice anything.
Now the situation becomes a bit tricky.
"These team leaders are all cultivators. If they didn't feel anything, the only possibility is that the person who kidnapped the miners was carrying some hidden magic weapon, or his cultivation was several small realms higher than these people." The lively Shang Yunzhi was the first to speak.
Chang Yue nodded in agreement and followed suit: "I think what Shang Yunzhi said makes sense, and if the miners can be kidnapped without alerting anyone, there must be more than one person coming."
“Or maybe they have some magical weapon that can teleport over short distances. They first use this magic weapon to enter the mining area, then find suitable miners to control them, and then leave the place in an instant without leaving any trace.” Xie Liuyin finally spoke.
Her idea was similar to Mao Jun's. No matter how powerful a person was, he would not leave even a shadow. It was unreasonable for him to be kidnapped without leaving any trace.
Therefore, the only thing that can explain this is a special magical instrument.
"But what's the point of kidnapping the miners?" Mao Jun couldn't help but frowning when he mentioned this.
Although the miners are young and strong, if they are evil cultivators, they will generally choose cultivators or those who have good cultivation talent but have not yet entered the Tao.
The value that can be obtained from these miners is far less than that from other monks.
Instead of spending so much effort to break into the Qingxiao Sect's mining area and take away the miners, he also offended the Qingxiao Sect.
Wouldn't it be more convenient to abduct other monks in Yuecheng?
This is a question that Xie Liuyin couldn't figure out for the time being. Mortals are actually not that important to those who have the ability to break into the mining area.
Moreover, they had asked before that these miners were of different ages, personalities, and did not come from the same place.
Even Xie Liuyin had checked their birth dates before, and they didn't have any special destinies.
So why were these people abducted?
The atmosphere in the room became gloomy again. Mao Jun saw that no one could think of anything for the time being, so he simply stopped dwelling on it and asked everyone to separate and walk around the mining area to see if they could get any other gains.
Chang Yue was a fast runner. After listening to Xie Liuyin's guess, she wanted to go to the vicinity of the mining area to see if she could find any special traces.
Shang Yunzhi planned to walk around the city to find out if there were any strange rumors.
Xie Liuyin planned to take another look in the mining area and ask people who were close to the missing miners if they had noticed anything unusual.
Mao Jun did not stop him. He wanted to go and ask the manager Qin Rong about the situation in the mining area.
During these days of suspension of work, it is still unknown whether the compensation to the families of the missing miners has been distributed smoothly.
If the manager had not given the order, Mao Jun would have to take over the responsibility of reorganizing the Yuecheng garrison on behalf of his master.
The four of them acted separately. After the rest of the people disappeared from Xie Liuyin's sight, she first found the roommate of the miner who had disappeared first and asked him about the situation.
But after asking seven people in a row, they didn't find anything. They all said that everything was normal for the missing miners during those days and there was nothing wrong at all.
When we asked the last person, he thought for a long time before uttering, "Xiao Sun doesn't like to talk. Every time he goes out to drink with us, he likes to walk at the back alone and only likes to sit in the corners. I really don't know what's wrong with him, Immortal."
Xie Liuyin was feeling a little regretful at first. Just as she thanked the miner and was about to get up and leave, a sudden idea flashed through her mind.
Wait, walking last?
What if the missing miners were chosen and abducted simply because they lagged behind?
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