Gaofu Town Medical Center.
Yan Ye suddenly stood up from his chair: "It's so late, why aren't they back yet?"
A couple of days ago, he had sent Alice to the medical center before going on a mission. As soon as the mission ended, he rushed back to the medical center.
However, he found out that Alice had gone to a dessert shop with Yun Manman.
Lu Xi said they would be back at the medical center by eight or nine in the evening, but now it was already 9:30, and there was still no sign of them.
Lu Xi looked at his chat interface with Yun Manman, feeling anxious. Yun Manman's last message was sent at around 7:50 PM, saying "We're heading back to the medical center now."
The taxi ride from the dessert shop to the medical center should take just over half an hour, or at most forty minutes even in bad traffic.
Lu Xi had sent more messages to Yun Manman after that, but she hadn't replied.
He immediately contacted Yin Qian, who responded: "They got in the car around 7:50, haven't they arrived yet?"
Yin Qian's flying speed couldn't match Kashida's hover cars, so he usually finished his escort duty once they got into the car.
Hearing Lu Xi's question, he realized something was wrong and quickly put on his clothes to rush to the medical center.
Lu Xi's brow furrowed even more: "No, they haven't."
Yin Qian immediately replied: "I'll fly along the route their taxi would have taken and see if I can find them."
Yan Ye, who overheard their communication, had his usually lazy expression turn serious, his eyes unable to hide his worry and anger.
Something must have happened to Yun Manman and Alice.
He was extremely concerned about Alice's safety now.
Apart from their personal relationship, the Elven race was already small in number and extremely protective of their own. If anything happened to Alice in Kashida territory, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Lu Xi's expression was equally serious: "I'll arrange for people to search right away."
He was just as nervous and anxious internally. Both Yun Manman and Alice were closely related to Lu Qi, and moreover, Alice's sensitive identity meant she absolutely could not come to harm.
They had already conducted a thorough search of Gaofu Town and Lili Town, finding no trace of vampires, and had also eliminated any hidden danger factors.
Who could it be??
Lu Xi prayed that Yun Manman and Alice had simply changed their route midway or forgotten to reply to messages, rather than encountering danger.
Yan Ye couldn't wait any longer and hurriedly walked out, preparing to search for them himself.
At this moment, Lu Xi's communicator rang. It was a soldier searching nearby.
He quickly answered and put it on speaker: "Deputy, we've detected Miss Yun and Miss Alice's aura about a thousand meters from the medical center. There are also traces of extensive vampire activity in the surrounding area!"
The soldier's news hit everyone present like a thunderbolt, the air seeming to freeze, making it hard to breathe.
Lu Xi: "General, we..."
Just as he started speaking, there was a loud "BANG" from upstairs.
The heavy door of the isolation ward was forcefully pushed open, the strength so great that the entire building shook.
Lu Qi's voice, filled with fury, came through: "What did you say?!"
In a forest at the junction of Gaofu Town and Lingli Town.
Lingli Town also falls under the jurisdiction of Siduo City, bordering Kafier City and backed by the endless Yali'ou Mountain Range.
The Yali'ou Mountain Range is steep and extremely high, full of dangers. Even the strongest flying beast-men dare not easily cross the Yali'ou Mountain Range.
It can be said that the Yali'ou Mountain Range is Kashida's natural protective screen.
In the forest, a small patch of dark clouds was rapidly flying towards the Yali'ou Mountain Range, carrying a sack.
Yun Manman felt like she was about to vomit from all the jostling.
She didn't understand. She had just gotten off the car a thousand meters early, wanting to buy some fruit at the supermarket. How did she end up getting kidnapped on her way back to the medical center?
What's more ridiculous was that she and Alice were kidnapped by a group of bats!
When she heard a strange noise and turned her head, she found a swarm of bats coming at her face, engulfing her and Alice in a dark cloud.
Even stranger was that neither she nor Alice could make a sound, unable to call for help, and their communicators were snatched away.
Yun Manman at least managed to struggle a few times before being tied up and carried away by the bats, while the frail Alice didn't even have a chance to resist, immediately thrown into a sack.
Then the bats hooked their feet onto the sack and kept flying in the opposite direction.
While Yun Manman was still pondering if she had offended any enemies recently, Alice, who was also tied up, quietly shuffled over and wrote the words "vampires" on Yun Manman's palm with her finger.
Huh? These pitch-black bats are vampires?
Weren't vampires supposed to be transformed humans? How could they be bats? She had always thought the vampires here were like the ones in stories.
In that case, wouldn't they also be considered beast-men?
Yun Manman, who had never read the "History of Kashida's Development", didn't know that vampires were indeed originally beast-men, specifically the blood-sucking bat tribe within the bat family. They used to live in Fulai Town along with all other bats, also belonging to Kashida.
But when Kashida was first established, in order for all intelligent beast-men to coexist peacefully, a peace treaty was signed stating that beast-men would never harm each other.
For example, carnivorous beast-men could not harm other intelligent beast-men under the pretext of hunting. Similarly, the blood-sucking bats who lived on blood naturally could not drink the blood of other intelligent beast-men anymore.
In fact, the blood of ordinary animals could satisfy their hunger, but the blood-sucking bats believed that only the blood of intelligent beast-men could maintain their high intelligence, and that the blood of lower animals would make them stupid.
So, the blood-sucking bats who refused to sign the peace treaty were expelled from Kashida. They then established their own independent country called the "Holy Gold Country" and referred to themselves as "vampires".
The vampires had always resented Kashida for expelling them, and would occasionally come to Kashida to cause trouble here and there, greatly annoying the beast-men.
Apart from beast-haters, vampires were the species they disliked the most!
It was unclear why they had targeted Yun Manman and Alice this time.
Alice, who knew a bit more than Yun Manman, guessed it might have something to do with General Lu Qi.
She had heard that vampires and the snake tribe were sworn enemies?
There was no use guessing now; figuring out how to escape was the priority.
Moreover, didn't these bats have poor flying abilities?
Not only was the flight unstable, swaying left and right, but they also occasionally crashed into tree branches.
Yun Manman, stuffed in the sack, was not feeling well at all. The jolting made her dizzy, and she felt like she might throw up her dinner.
These bats didn't say a word either, just flying ahead silently, leaving no clues.
After flying for who knows how long, the bats stopped and put the sack on the ground.
The mouth of the sack was opened, and Yun Manman shook her dizzy head and looked outside.
A frivolous male voice sounded in her ear: "Good evening, Miss Kitty and Miss Elf."