Chapter 72: The Annihilated Arbiters

  The atmosphere in the room was still gloomy, and although Yuwen Zhuo had left, this did not make the people present feel much better.

  When Ye Feng asked, Zheng Ze raised his head and shook it at him, "I don't know what that secret he's talking about is."

  This answer was also completely within Ye Feng's expectations, he nodded and then looked towards Long Tian.

  "It doesn't matter what it is, but since he made me stronger, it means that for now, there won't be any conflict between us." Long Tian knew Ye Feng was worried about his affairs and spoke to comfort him.

  "I'll go back to school for a trip, bring my notebook over and see if they have left any messages for me." Yefeng saw that things here were basically resolved and let out a light sigh. "I promised them before, I should be going back these few days."

  Long Tian nodded, "You've done all you can, let us handle the rest!"

  Ye Feng drove Long Tian's car to the school gate, dialed Xu Qiang's phone and asked him to help take down the computer because he was blocked at the school gate.

  About five minutes later, Xu Qiang arrived at the school gate with his computer. "Are you leaving?"

  He knew that Ye Feng had come for the computer, which meant that everything else was already taken care of and all he needed to do was take the computer and leave.

  "Maybe, if nothing unexpected happens, I'll be leaving in two days!" Ye Feng nodded.

  "When are you coming back next time?" Xu Qiang asked after a long silence.

  "Not clear, I'll call you later!" Ye Feng smiled wryly and shook his head.

  "Be careful on the road!" Xu Qiang slowly turned around and left.

  Ye Feng nodded and watched him disappear into the teaching building before getting on the car and driving away.

  Ye Feng returned to the apartment and looked at the still gloomy living room, then went straight into his bedroom and plugged in his laptop and mouse.

  Opened the official website of Hunter.

  "You have a new message!" A dialog box popped up immediately after Ye Feng logged onto the website.

  This private messaging function can only be used by team members in the same group, which means that this short message should have been sent to each other by William and others.

  "William and they have something for me?" Ye Feng was slightly stunned, then opened that short message.

  Looking at the sender, Ye Feng's eyebrows furrowed. The sender was Kaylee, this introverted girl who rarely spoke, and she actually sent a text message to herself, which made Ye Feng feel somewhat anxious.

  He took a deep breath and then opened his inbox, only to see one word: run! (Escape!)

  "Run?" Ye Feng's eyebrows slightly furrowed. In the Arbiters' squad, everyone could speak Chinese and English, but only he and Yi Fan could write Chinese characters.

  Ye Feng also knew what "run" meant, but he wasn't quite sure if Carrie really meant that. "Am I supposed to run away? The email was sent yesterday..."

  "What happened? Are you okay?"

  At the same time as replying to this message, Ye Feng also sent a similar short message to each of William and others, to ensure that nothing was missed.

  Ye Feng was waiting anxiously.

  "Xiao Feng, dinner is ready!" It was unclear how much time had passed when Long Tian knocked on Ye Feng's door.

  "I'm not going, you guys eat!" Ye Feng opened the door and sat down in front of the computer.

  "Can surfing the internet be eaten as rice?" Long Tian also came to Ye Feng's side and looked at the webpage on the computer.

  "Huh, is this the Hunter's page? It's so cool! " Long Tian laughed and said, "Aren't private messages only sent within the group? What are you staring at the inbox for?"

  Ye Feng fell silent for a moment, then looked up at Long Tian and said, "You take a look at this!"

  She opened the short message sent by Kelly, a simple word "run" appeared in front of both of them.

  "Is this Carrie your teammate?" Long Tian's eyebrows slightly furrowed.

  "Hmm, she usually doesn't talk much, I don't understand why she suddenly sent me this message yesterday. Normally, messages in the team are passed on by Yi Fan, he receives them and then sends them to us. And Carrie has never proactively sent a message to anyone before... Is she trying to get me to escape?" Ye Feng looked at Long Tian, although he had already guessed the outcome, he still didn't dare to confirm it.

  "Send them a message and let them see it, then they'll reply to you immediately!" Long Tian knew that Ye Feng's teammates might have encountered some trouble.

  "I've already sent it out, but from this morning till now, no one has replied to me!" Ye Feng said with some worry.

  "Don't worry, it's still early morning over there. By the time it's 7 or 8 pm here, it'll be dawn over there and they might get back to you then! Let's go have dinner first!" Long Tian continued to comfort him.

  Ye Feng reluctantly put down his notebook and followed Long Tian out.

  After dinner, Ye Feng has been guarding his computer, waiting for a response.

  It wasn't until midnight that there was still no news, and at this time New York had already reached noon. Yefeng knew that William and the others must have encountered an accident.

  Because normally, the first thing Yi Fan does every morning is to open the Hunter official website to check for tasks. And he only needs to log in, his short message will definitely pop up and let him see it. At the same time, he sent messages to everyone, which means William, Kristen, and Kaylee will all receive their own short messages. Normally, they would definitely reply to ask if anything is wrong. But now, all the messages he sent out have fallen into the sea, without a single response.

  "Hey, still awake?" Long Tian pushed open Ye Feng's door.

  "They must have gotten into trouble. I need to go back to New York tomorrow and see what happened." Ye Feng shifted his gaze from the computer screen to Long Tian.

  "Tomorrow I'll go with you, and with my Golden Elixir cultivation, I definitely won't hold you back." Long Tian stood at the door of Ye Feng's room, waiting for his response.

  "Alright!" Ye Feng accepted Long Tian's help, because in his opinion, Long Tian's strength was already enough to protect himself, and besides, he didn't have anything that needed to be done at the moment anyway.

  "Call me before you leave tomorrow! I'm afraid of oversleeping!" Long Tian closed Ye Feng's door and walked towards his own room.

  Ye Feng also shut down his computer and slowly closed his eyes...

  At dawn, when the sky was bright, Ye Feng slowly woke up, grabbed the watch on his bedside table and looked at the time. It was only 5:20. He restarted the computer by his bed, re-entered the Hunter official website's URL, logged in to his account, and still didn't find any new messages in his inbox.

  Ye Feng stared blankly at the computer screen, William and others didn't even reply to his message, not even Kaylee who had sent him a new message earlier. Although he had already mentally prepared himself, Ye Feng still couldn't believe it.

  Ye Feng, who had just logged out of his personal management system and was about to shut down the computer, suddenly caught sight of a news headline on the Hunter Official Website: "Judgment Squad Wiped Out, Elder Leads Team to Investigate!"

  "Team wipe?! Ye Feng's breathing quickened, "Yi Ge and the others..."

  After hesitating for a while, Ye Feng opened that news item:

  The Arbiters team consists of two gold-level, two silver-level and one bronze-level newcomer. Currently in their temporary residence in New York, we found the bodies of three males, identified as Captain William, member Kristen and member Yifan. The only female member, Kelly, is currently missing. Newly joined member Ye Feng temporarily left the team to deal with personal matters and escaped unscathed...

  After investigation, it was found that the three bodies were all killed by a single blow, including William, the captain of the squad who had been famous for many years. The cause of death of the three still needs to be verified by forensic examination. The missing woman, Kelly, is still being searched for... The cause of the incident still needs further investigation...

  "William, Yi Ge, Chris..." Ye Feng looked at the photos of the three corpses in the news, tears welled up in his eyes.

  "Who is it? Why did they lay hands on them?" Ye Feng clenched his fists tightly, staring at the computer screen and muttering to himself.

  A faint knock at the door sounded a few times, and Long Tian pushed open Ye Feng's bedroom door. "Uh, I got up to use the bathroom, saw that there was light on this side, so... are you awake? Or did you not sleep all night?"

  "William and they... were killed..." Ye Feng helplessly hugged his own head, tears falling down uncontrollably, "I always treated them as my family..."

  Long Tian walked straight to Ye Feng's bedside, looked at Ye Feng's laptop, and the picture in that news was so piercing. He pressed down on the laptop screen, let out a light sigh, then patted Ye Feng's shoulder and said, "It's all happened, don't look anymore! I'll buy tickets to New York later and get to the bottom of this, find that scoundrel who laid hands on them!"

  "Yi Ge and them... they shouldn't have died... I don't know what happened... why it had to be like this..." Ye Feng covered his face with both hands, sobbing quietly.

  Long Tian didn't know what to say to comfort him at this time. He was very clear about what kind of person Ye Feng was: if you treat him well, he will treat you well. Now that Ye Feng had finally integrated into an organization and lived with a group of people like a family for more than four months, they were his own family to the orphan Ye Feng.

  "It's fine once you've cried it out......" Long Tian shook his head and let out a soft sigh, patting Ye Feng's back...

  When Ye Feng's emotions had calmed down a bit, Long Tian finally stood up and knocked on Qing Lang's door.

  "Green Wolf, I and Ye Feng will go to New York, you few take good care of the house, don't cause trouble! Also, keep an eye on Zhen Zhu, after her father left, don't let her do stupid things!" Long Tian walked out of Ye Feng's room, then pulled Qing Lang aside.

  "Brother Long, can you take us with you this time?" Qing Lang's face was full of envy.

  "No way, this time only I and Ye Feng need to go, any of you going will just become a burden...and may even get killed..." Long Tian's expression was serious.

  "What exactly happened over there?" Qing Lang asked cautiously.

  "Ye Feng's several teammates who were not weak in strength were all killed, and one of them was unknown!" The expression on Long Tian's face made Qing Lang confirm that he was not fooling himself by saying so.

  "Alright, we'll take good care of Zhenzhu!" Qinglang nodded in agreement.