Even though Shen Yijia was leading the way when they went up the mountain, it was much more convenient for them to go down the mountain.
Shen Yijia's tuneless singing sounded intermittently in the forest again. Song Jingchen looked at the person sitting on Furball's back and smiled.
More than three months had passed. The people Emperor Chong'an had sent to investigate the disappearance of the young girl had also returned one after another. Just as Shangguan Han had said to Lord Zhou back then, this kind of thing did not only happen in Xunyang City.
The results of the secret investigation by the Shadow Guards were the same. As long as it was a remote town, many young girls would disappear every year. Dead or alive, they were nowhere to be seen, and their whereabouts were still unknown.