"It's about half an hour on my side too!" Wei Xiaosu replied.

"Wanwan, Miaochan, what about you two?" Lin Tong asked again.

"Sister Lin Tong, I just got off the phone with Aunt Liu. The people she's dispatched are on their way." Murong Wanwan said immediately.

"Sister Xiaotong, my second uncle has also contacted the villagers of Huayu Village, and they can set off anytime!" Lu Miaochan said.

"Good, everyone here is ready to go! It's exactly eight o'clock now. Let's set off for Changlong Mountain immediately. Those who haven't arrived yet should head straight to the mountains and meet us there." Lin Tong checked the time and nodded with instructions.

"No problem!"

"Alright!"

The four women agreed and went to prepare their belongings for the upcoming mountain expedition. This was the final preparation before departure.

Lin Tong also returned to her room, organizing the items in her backpack.

Suddenly, her phone rang. She took a look and saw it was a call from Bai Wenrou.

"President Lin, I heard about your husband's matter, and I'm bringing people over to help search!" Bai Wenrou said directly.

This straightforward style was quite in line with her personality!

"Officer Bai, I'm of course glad you're bringing people over, but won't this affect your regular duties?" Lin Tong pondered for a moment and voiced her concern.

"You don't need to worry about that! Besides, investigating missing persons is part of our police work! I've already reported to the director, and he agreed to this operation. He even dispatched quite a few people to order me to fully cooperate with your search to ensure we find Ye Xuan." Bai Wenrou said.

"In that case, you're very welcome to join us, and thank your director for me."

Lin Tong spoke with gratitude. This act of timely help was not something she would refuse.

"Actually, you don't need to thank me or our director; it's not only my duty as a police officer but also a way to repay him!"

Bai Wenrou said earnestly, "Ye Xuan has helped me and the police station many times, and now that something has happened to him, of course, we'll do our utmost to find him; it's what we and the police station ought to do."

"In any case, the fact that you're coming to help is in itself the biggest kindness, and I still want to thank you!"

Lin Tong expressed her thanks and ended the call with Bai Wenrou, then walked out of the room with her backpack.

...

Changlong Mountain.

This remote mountain located at the edge of Huayu Village is usually deserted, a place where not even ghosts would visit! However, today it's extraordinarily lively.

By nine in the morning, at the foot of Changlong Mountain, a large crowd had gathered, a crushing view of heads, seemingly numbering four or five hundred people!

Among these people, most were those recruited by Lin Tong and the other women to search for Ye Xuan, while the rest were villagers who came to watch the commotion.

After all, with such a large group entering the mountain, the commotion couldn't be hidden. The villagers of the often outsider-less Huayu Village were naturally very curious.

However, there were still many enthusiastic villagers who, upon learning the truth, voluntarily joined the search team to help find people.

Among them were often mountain-dwelling locals and hunters who were very familiar with the local terrain. With their participation, there was more security!

At the moment, the large group was on standby, while Lin Tong and the other women were in the center of the crowd discussing the upcoming action plan with the search teams.

Their plan was to divide all the search personnel into ten teams, each marking out an area, progressing in a radial pattern to maximize the search range!

This was just a rough direction, with many details yet to be discussed further!

For example, specifying what exploration equipment each team needs to be equipped with, how many rescue tools to bring, and how many search dogs to be deployed! But these issues were not urgent, and decisions could be made when setting off.

While the others were still preparing, a team had already started acting alone, heading into the mountains to find Ye Xuan, namely the Dark Empress Natasha.

Upon learning of Ye Xuan's disappearance, Natasha rushed over immediately. Regardless of her relationship with Ye Xuan, for the importance of Ye Xuan to the Dark Temple, she couldn't stand by idly.

Ye Xuan must be rescued, and with the utmost effort. If anything happened to him, their alliance would be completely shattered! Furthermore, this entire trip would be for nothing, and in this big storm, the Dark Temple wouldn't reap any benefits from Yan Country.

At this moment, Natasha, with her temple's subordinates, had headed into the mountains!

"You guys act separately."

Natasha ordered coldly to her six female subordinates.

"Yes, Hall Master!" The six bowed and obeyed, each diving into the depths of the mountains.

After the women left, Natasha also moved swiftly like a dancing black butterfly, swiftly gliding towards the mountain!

After going a certain distance, Natasha suddenly stopped, pulled out a dark red short flute from her belongings, and then gently played a passage.

A strange melody wafted out, with waves of tremolo rapidly spreading around, even the air rippling, and the weeds on the ground swaying as if trembling under the melody.

Rustle... rustle...

Following this, strange friction sounds arose around, as if something was rushing across the grass blades. The sound grew louder and closer!

The next moment, spotted snakes emerged from the surrounding grass leaves, quickly converging around Natasha, the flute player.

Needless to say, this was a Snake Control Technique! The ice demon elder, whom Ye Xuan had once eliminated, also knew this trick, but there were differences between the two.

Natasha's Snake Control Technique was evidently more advanced than the ice demon elder's, as seen by the number of snakes attracted. The ice demon elder could only control a dozen or so at a time, while Natasha could control over a hundred, which was a qualitative difference!

"Go! Find that person for me."

Seeing that hundreds of snakes had been summoned, Natasha stopped her playing and then murmured a note, pointing towards the direction of the mountain ahead.

At that command, the snakes encircling Natasha bolted out like soldiers receiving orders, vanishing in an instant.

Natasha put away the short flute, held it in her hand, and continued her rapid advance to find Ye Xuan.

On the other side.

After some reorganization, the search party, divided into ten groups, also began heading into the mountains, following the preplanned scheme for the search.

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