After retiring, I became Loli’s magic mentor

"Lord... Lord?"

Ryan's sudden action made Yazhi stunned in place, at a loss for a moment.

After a while, Yazhi placed her hands on Ryan's back and patted him gently:

"My lord, did you have a nightmare? It's okay, I'm here, and Yazhi will always be by your side."

"Um……"

Ryan responded in a low voice, hugged her for a long while, and then let go of Yazhi: "I'm glad you're okay."

When he said this, Ryan realized that his voice was a little hoarse.

Only then did Yazhi realize that Ryan seemed to have become much more haggard in just one night.

"Did I...make the lord worried?"

Yazhi finally realized why Ryan had just done what he did, and whispered:

“That’s right. After all, I haven’t been able to help you in any way since I got here, and the enemy is really too strange. It’s easy for you to be distracted by my presence.

How about this, I will go back to Ate City alone later, and you can stay here and focus on handling the affairs, I believe you can handle it well. "

Although Yazhi has always been reluctant to separate from Ryan, she still knows what is important and what is not.

After all, I still have a long time to spend with my lord, right?

"……Um."

Ryan didn't say much, just nodded and whispered in response.

This time, Ryan... was indeed not 100% sure that he could protect Yazhi.

"Okay, my lord, have breakfast first. Don't worry about me. Cheer up."

Just when he was halfway through breakfast, there was a knock on the bedroom door. Ryan looked up and said, "Come in."

The bedroom door was pushed open, and Hu Lun walked in anxiously: "Grand Duke Ryan, I'm sorry to disturb your meal. Last night...someone else went missing!"

Hearing this, Ryan's face became serious, he put down the cutlery and stood up and said, "Take me to where the people disappeared!"

The missing citizen this time was a farmer.

When I walked into the farmer's house, I saw a boy of about fifteen or sixteen years old curled up in a dilapidated corner, shivering with a dazed look on his face.

Ryan stepped forward and patted the boy on the shoulder, releasing some magic, which calmed the boy down a lot.

"What is your relationship with the missing civilian? Did you see how he disappeared?"

"He is... my father. Last night, I was sitting and chatting with my father. As soon as I turned around, my father disappeared..."

At this point, the boy's body began to tremble violently again: "I didn't hear anything, there was no movement, it was just a split second, I couldn't find it no matter how hard I looked..."

"How long does it take to turn around?"

Ryan and Hullen said in unison.

The last time he disappeared in full view of everyone within a quarter of an hour was already unbelievable enough.

Ryan's brows were almost twisted together: "Where did you chat with your father last night? How far away were you from your father?"

The young man raised his trembling hand and pointed at the bed in the room where several worn-out quilts were piled together: "It's on that bed..."

Ryan turned his head and saw that this was a common earthen kang in the Western Territory. It was made of mud bricks at the bottom and several layers of bedding were laid on top. It would be very warm in the winter as long as some firewood was burned.

"Where does your father sit?"

According to the boy, Ryan asked Yazhi to sit in the position where the boy's father disappeared, and Ryan sat directly opposite Yazhi.

At this time, Ryan and Yazhi's knees almost touched each other.

Ryan looked strange: "Are you really sitting face to face with your father like this?"

"Yes, that's it!"

How could there be no movement at all in this situation?! Even a little wind would be felt clearly!

Hu Lun placed a glass of water on the bedside at this time. According to the young man, when he turned around to get the water, his father disappeared.

Ryan was able to slow down, turned around to pick up the cup of water, then turned to look at Yazhi.

Even so, the whole process took less than five seconds!

Ryan almost crushed the cup to pieces. This invisible and intangible enemy was so disgusting!

Yazhi sat on the mattress and suddenly twisted her body. She seemed to feel something was wrong and lowered her head to look at the bed carefully.

At this time, the young man began to mutter again: "It's the same again. Ten years ago, my grandfather was also..."

"Your relatives disappeared ten years ago?!"

Ryan's voice suddenly rose, and he got out of bed and held the boy's shoulders: "Ten years ago? Tell me what happened? What happened?!"

Ryan himself had just left Border City half a year ago, and before that he had been in Border City for four years!

Even when he detected so many traces of magic, Ryan still thought that it was something that happened after their Dark Eclipse disbanded.

So this disappearance has been happening for ten years? Didn't it happen right under their noses?!

The boy was a little frightened by Ryan’s appearance: “Ten…ten years ago, my grandfather did the same thing, he went out to use the toilet and never came back.

At that time, my father thought that my grandfather was abducted by the nobles, so he went to the house to inquire about it, but he was beaten and left with an old injury on his leg, so he has been limping ever since..."

Ryan turned his head to look at Hu Lun and saw that Hu Lun also looked surprised. It was obvious that he could not have imagined that such disappearances had started happening ten years ago.

The former nobles...

Ryan gritted his teeth. If Fina hadn't taken over the city, there was no telling how long this disappearance situation would continue.

Maybe it will be kept secret forever...

When they were stationed here, they had no way of getting involved in the local political affairs and were completely unaware of the disappearance of civilians.

"My Lord...My Lord."

At this time, Yazhi suddenly said: "My position... seems to be a little wrong."

"what happened?"

Ryan was frightened by Yazhi's words. He quickly turned around and stared at Yazhi, fearing that Yazhi would disappear the next moment.

Yazhi flicked his tail gently, pointed at his body and said, "It seems a little loose here."

"Loose?"

Ryan walked forward in confusion, and Yazhi got off the bed and watched Ryan turn over the mattress.

After turning over the mattress, I saw that there were several not-so-obvious cracks on the kang surface that had been pounded quite solid underneath the mattress.

The crack was in the shape of a circle, about the size of Ryan's fist. Ryan pressed his fist on it, exerted a little force, and the kang surface sank a little.

It's like... it's been penetrated by water.

The young man also came over, looked at the circle of cracks, and said blankly: "My father and I just changed the bedding yesterday. At that time, there were no cracks on the kang..."