"No, there's something wrong. Cheng Yong and his group have lost contact; they must have been attacked... there's no other reason for them being unreachable."
A short-haired man in a blue turtleneck jacket walked down the street, muttering to himself with a frown, sensing that something was amiss.
Immediately, a woman beside him wearing a flat cap said, "Another team is unreachable too, huh?"
Were both teams attacked simultaneously, wiped out?
The man's face showed disbelief; he didn't think anyone in this region could accomplish that, except...
He recalled the image of a blood-soaked person breaking through an encirclement, the Sleeping Beast, the powerful human from the Otherworld:
"If it's him, he might have a chance to do it. Did he already predict we would come?"
The woman with the flat cap, with a face as delicate as a normal human, lacking other Hunter characteristics, smiled and said:
