Eternal Temptation: Awakening Sinful Desires - Chapter 305

Chapter 305: Please, Asher! Please, Don’t Give Up!
As she spoke, Diana’s voice sounded strained, as if she were holding back tears.

“We’ve searched all over this village and the surrounding area, but we haven’t been able to find any clues regarding his disappearance. The other missing children disappeared in similar ways, and we haven’t been able to find any trace of them either. We don’t know what happened to them or who took them. My daughter went missing too, and I’m so scared for her safety…”

Diana trailed off and turned away from them as tears streamed down her face.

After a moment of silence, she turned back toward them and wiped her tears away. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to get emotional like this. Please excuse me.”

“It’s alright, Diana. I understand how you must feel right now. We’re here to help you find your daughter and the other missing children.” Asher comforted her.

“Thank you.” Diana sniffled as she gave them a small smile.

“May I ask if you found anything suspicious or strange here before the disappearance of the children?” Cai Yan asked.

Diana paused for a second before answering. “No, I don’t think so. Everything seemed to be fine up until then.”

“Okay, then. Thank you for your help. We’ll continue to investigate the case. And don’t worry, we’ll definitely find the missing children soon.” Asher comforted Diana and then the three of them left the house and went to the forest.

After searching the forest for a while, they still didn’t find any clues regarding the children’s disappearance.

“What should we do next, Asher? Should we check the other villages nearby? Maybe we can find some clues there.” Cai Yan suggested.

“Hmm… Let’s go to the next village and see what we can find,” Asher agreed, and they returned to Nadia’s flying artifact. Then they flew towards the next village, which was about thirty kilometers away from Woodcutter Village.

It was called Hunter Village, and its population was much larger than that of Woodcutter Village, with around five hundred residents. When they arrived, they noticed that people in this village seemed to be less anxious than the ones in Woodcutter Village.

However, the atmosphere was still very tense. Everyone seemed to be on edge and nervous. Some people even looked like they were about to burst out crying at any moment. And as they passed through the streets, they could see groups of people huddled together, talking amongst themselves with serious expressions on their faces.

“This place doesn’t seem much better than Woodcutter Village either,” Nadia commented as she observed the surrounding area.

“Let’s go talk to someone and ask them about the situation,” Cai Yan suggested.

They did the same as before, asking around to find someone who could provide them with information, then proceeded to investigate the place and find clues.

However, they still didn’t discover anything of value.

It was the same story in the third village, where a group of children went missing at the same time a few months ago. The villagers were scared to death and didn’t know what to do. Asher and his two women spent the rest of the day asking around, but all they found were more dead ends.

By the end of the day, they still had no clue as to what was going on or who could be responsible for it.

“Isn’t this strange, Asher? We’ve searched every village in the area and asked everyone we could find. We didn’t even find a single clue.” Cai Yan sighed as she sat down on a bench in front of a house.

“It does seem like we’re missing something.” Asher agreed with her and sat down next to her, crossing his legs and resting his chin on his hand. “But we’ve exhausted all our options, and there isn’t anywhere else for us to go. Nadia, did you find anything suspicious with your spiritual sense?”

Nadia shook her head. “No, I didn’t find anything. I’ve scanned all the places we’ve visited today and didn’t sense anything unusual.”

She didn’t have to expand her spiritual sense out very far to cover the entire area they’d visited today, which was less than a hundred kilometers square in size. If anything out of the ordinary happened in those areas, she would’ve been able to detect it immediately. But she hadn’t detected anything strange at all.

Asher sighed as he shook his head. “Perhaps we should head back to the sect and report our findings.”

“But what about the missing children? We can’t just leave without finding them,” Cai Yan protested, frowning as she looked at the two of them.

Nadia shook her head. “I don’t think there’s anything we can do at this point.”

“Indeed. There is no point staying here when there are no clues to find,” Asher said with a sigh, standing up from the bench.

Cai Yan frowned and stood up as well. “Then are we supposed to just go home? Just like that?”

Asher nodded his head. “Yes, Yan-Yan, we will have to go back to the sect.”

“But we haven’t done anything! How can we go back without doing anything?”

Asher didn’t reply, instead gave her an indifferent look. Cai Yan couldn’t hold back any longer and started crying. Her tears ran down her cheeks as she stared at Asher with a pleading look in her eyes.

“Please, Asher! Please, don’t give up! We can’t just leave these people without hope! We need to find the missing children and help them.”

But Asher ignored her and jumped on Nadia’s flying artifact without saying a word. Then Nadia followed him and looked at Cai Yan for her to climb on the cloud. Cai Yan stared at them for a while before climbing onto the artifact and sitting down next to Asher.

“Nadia, take us back to the sect,” Asher commanded, ignoring the teary-eyed Cai Yan next to him.

“Yes, Young Master,” Nadia responded without hesitation as she took control of the flying artifact and flew towards the Twilight Mist Sect’s teleportation station.