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When Ermao and the others realized that Zheng Tan and Dashan had disappeared, the sun had already risen.

With the absence of Dashan's usual "alarm clock" today, everyone would usually have noticed immediately under normal circumstances. However, given the special circumstance with everyone's attention focused on Pei Jie's matter, discussing and analyzing all night, their eyes were red with bloodshot.

The Master, after all, was advanced in years and couldn't stay up with them. Around three or four in the morning, Ermao and the others persuaded him to rest, and he had not yet woken up. Ermao and the others also hadn't made much noise, resulting in an unusually quiet courtyard.

Only when everyone finally noticed why this quietness seemed so unusual did they discover that both cats were not in the courtyard.