Spirit Hall did not understand the power possessed by those commoners, and Yu Xiaogang would not specifically point it out.
After all, the supremacy of Spirit Master on the Douluo Continent was deeply engraved into everyone's marrow; this was a fact that was hard to change.
And after receiving news about missing people in the surrounding villages, Yu Xiaogang had Bibi Dong and the others stay in the city for the time being, while he himself ran to the small villages where people had gone missing to investigate the situation.
After some questioning, it was indeed as expected.
This type of adult disappearance had only appeared recently; there had been no such incidents before.
At first, it was just a few young people missing from one village, so the village head reported the situation to the surrounding towns, and then members of the Spirit Hall branch went down to investigate.
However, they did not find anything.
Afterwards, the disappearances ceased for several months, and it was nearly half a year later before a new case appeared.
Taking advantage of a large market, several surrounding villages gathered together, and the village heads exchanged information, only then realizing that in the past half year, each of their villages had one or two people go missing.
They had all reported it, but because it was relatively scattered, no one had ever taken it seriously.
"This guy is quite patient."
Yu Xiaogang could not help but think to himself.
If he hadn't accidentally overheard the conversation and learned about this matter this time, heaven knows how long this situation would have continued.
Even if that guy acting in the shadows had been a bit smarter, leaving Suweier City to commit crimes around other large cities, then truly no one would have been able to find any traces of him.
Returning to their lodging, Yu Xiaogang informed Bibi Dong and the others of his findings.
"To think there is such an insidious guy!"
Flender opened his mouth wide, his face full of disbelief.
Yue Guan and Gui Mei also looked at each other; they were very clear about the fact that Spirit Hall had recently been strictly investigating Fallen Spirit Masters.
Previously, they did not know the specific reason, but looking at the situation Yu Xiaogang had discovered now, it was hard for them not to connect it with Spirit Hall's actions.
So, was it that Fallen Spirit Masters had become cunning, leading to this operation?
"That's not all."
Yu Xiaogang pondered for a moment, then finally said.
"Besides the situation in the surrounding villages, I estimate that those who hurriedly passed through Suweier City suffered even heavier losses."
Upon hearing this, Bibi Dong and the others did not react immediately; what did this have to do with the people passing through Suweier City?
"It's very simple. Suweier City is a transportation hub of the Heaven Dou Empire; whether one wants to go from the inland to the coast or from the coast to the inland, they will pass through Suweier City."
"Under these circumstances, the daily flow of people in Suweier City is terrifyingly high."
"With such a large flow of people, if a small merchant caravan suddenly goes missing, if you were the administrator, would you think that someone was interested in the goods, or that someone was interested in the people of those caravans?"
That would of course be the goods!
Thinking about it from their perspective, in a place like Suweier City, this seemed to be the norm.
"With this thought, the administrators of Suweier City would basically just send people to investigate casually."
"After all, on the Douluo Continent, even cargo caravans of the Upper Three Sects and Spirit Hall are dared to be robbed, not to mention ordinary small merchant caravans."
"The missing small caravans plus the people missing from the surrounding villages, tsk tsk tsk, heaven knows exactly how many people have gone missing during this period."
"More importantly, no one knows if this is the first time such a thing has happened."
"If this guy acting in the shadows just came to Suweier City to repeat what he had done before, then I truly wouldn't be surprised at how many Fallen Spirit Masters are hidden on the Douluo Continent."
Yu Xiaogang said.
Previously, he had guessed that those Fallen Spirit Masters were from overseas, but looking at it now, that might not necessarily be the case.
"Hiss, this is a bit terrifying."
Flender followed Yu Xiaogang's line of thought and pondered for a moment, immediately drawing a cold breath.
If the person committing crimes around Suweier City was not doing this for the first time, then had he committed crimes elsewhere before?
Could he himself have once been their target?
No one could say for sure.
"So what should we do?"
Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei all looked grave, especially Bibi Dong.
She was a Disciple of the Spirit Hall Supreme Pontiff, the future Saintess, and she herself had been taught to eliminate Fallen Spirit Masters and promote the glory of the Angel God.
Now, hearing about such a cunning Fallen Spirit Master, while she was shocked, she secretly made up her mind to eradicate these guys.
"Everything at the moment is still just speculation; I need the records from the Spirit Hall branch here to analyze the situation in detail."
"Perhaps I just guessed wrong."
Yu Xiaogang said this with his mouth, but mentally he felt it was highly likely.
This was information he had specifically gathered from the mouths of the surrounding residents.
Perhaps the surrounding residents knew very little about everything on the Douluo Continent, but they definitely knew what had happened around their own homes.
"Then let's go to the branch to retrieve the records!"
Bibi Dong immediately made the decision.
Although they were out traveling, they still had to take care of things that needed to be managed when they encountered them.
Especially in situations where subordinates had not done their jobs well.
Rather, this kind of experience in investigating matters in secret was a link that people like Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang, who came from major powers, would inevitably experience.
One of them was the future Saintess of Spirit Hall, and the other was the Young Sect Master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect; both were heirs to powers, so they certainly had to have some understanding of their subordinates.
Otherwise, if they were like a certain Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire in the past, who went out and saw his subjects had no food to eat, and asked why these people didn't eat meat, that would be a laughingstock.
When he first learned of this anecdote, Yu Xiaogang was amazed for quite a while.
Thus, the group came to the Spirit Hall branch in Suweier City, and with Yue Guan and Gui Mei presenting their identification, the group began to investigate the situation of the missing merchant caravans.
Afterwards, as expected, they saw cases from the past year where merchant caravans were frequently robbed, with both the goods and the people disappearing entirely.
Subsequently, Yu Xiaogang marked all the locations of these missing merchant caravans on a map.
Through the markings, everyone easily discovered that the locations where the merchant caravans went missing were very concentrated.
Centered around the same village, scattered around this village.
"That's right, robbing a merchant caravan and then disguising the scene; this is clearly not something one person can do."
"So, is it a group crime, or a Spirit that can control others?"
Yu Xiaogang looked at the village marked with emphasis on the map and decided to go and investigate the truth.
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