"Ladies, how have you been these past few days?"

"If you, the absentee boss, didn't always pop in and out of existence, we might be even better!" Lin Qiu, startled by the sudden appearance, glanced irritably at Chu Feng standing before her.

Taran, standing next to her, gave a slight smile and produced a document, handing it to him.

"This is the plan we just finalized. Since you're back, take a look!"

"What's this?"

"Remember that matter you told me about the other day? This is the contingency plan for it!"

"That matter?" Chu Feng paused, recalling what he seemed to have mentioned that day...

He flipped through the document without much interest. After all, he would be paying less and less attention to the firm in the future, relying mainly on its own operations.

"Alright, you handle it! I came back for something else!"

Returning the document to Taran, Chu Feng looked thoughtfully at the two women before him.

"What is it? Why are you staring at us like that?"

Feeling Chu Feng's intense gaze, Lin Qiu uncomfortably checked her clothes but found nothing amiss.

"Do you... know where James has gone?"

"James?" The two women exchanged astonished glances. "Chu Feng, why are you asking about this person too?"

"Who exactly is James? Was there really such a person in our firm?"

Just the day before, Lin Qiu and Taran had carefully reviewed the firm's personnel records and found no entry for anyone named James.

Seeing their sincere confusion, Chu Feng's expression suddenly darkened.

He hadn't expected that even they would have lost their memories of James.

If the memories of James weren't still vivid in his mind, he might have doubted if he'd fallen prey to a Bizarre illusion.

Chu Feng didn't answer their questions. Instead, he presented several antique-looking silver coins to them.

"Then do you remember this?"

"What's this? Did you get your hands on some antique?" Lin Qiu asked with confusion, picking up a silver coin and examining it in her palm.

They really did a thorough cleanup! Noting the puzzled looks in their eyes, Chu Feng inwardly sighed.

"What cleanup?"

"Nothing. I have an urgent matter to attend to. Goodbye!"

Watching Chu Feng's hurried departure, Lin Qiu and Taran gradually furrowed their brows.

"Do you think this James... could he really exist? And that he truly was a member of our firm..." Lin Qiu's voice was hesitant.

"While this matter is very strange, we should trust Chu Feng. He definitely wouldn't joke about something like this!"

Taran said this without any hesitation. Due to her absolute trust in Chu Feng, she chose to believe James was a real person.

Upon hearing this, Lin Qiu slowly clenched her fists, her expression darkening. "When could it have happened? What kind of Bizarre could have altered our memories without us noticing!"

She instinctively thought back to a moment a few days ago in her office: the cell phone and Warning Crystal she had taken out for some unknown reason.

If this matter with James were true, then she must have been targeted then!

"That thing's power shouldn't be so great that it's completely irresistible. At least, it can't alter everyone's memories instantly!"

Thinking about the issues with several Exorcists that day, Taran began to understand a few things.

That entity, which could tentatively be called a Bizarre, was certainly powerful. It could subtly modify their memories, the information on their phones, and even any physical evidence of James's existence. But it shouldn't be able to delete or modify everyone's memories simultaneously!

That's why those Exorcists had suddenly lost their memories a few days prior.

Walking out of the office building and looking up at the pale red sky, Chu Feng felt momentarily lost.

Though Blue Star wasn't too large, searching it thoroughly would be no small task!

His gaze was drawn to a passing car. When he saw the two children and two adults seated inside, a glint of light flashed in Chu Feng's eyes.

That's right, James's family!

It was the house James bought with his first commission; Chu Feng had only been there once. He remembered how excited James had been about it for a long time.

A streak of iridescent light flashed across the New York sky, and in the blink of an eye, Chu Feng appeared above a quaint, beige building.

No one?

Chu Feng slowly descended into the leaf-strewn courtyard. The house was eerily quiet, looking as if it had been abandoned for a long time.

The round table in the courtyard was covered with a thick layer of dust, and even the once-vibrant flowerbeds had all wilted and died.

Peculiarly, though the human inhabitants had disappeared, there were no signs of wild animals having visited. Even the chirping of birds, so common during Chu Feng's last visit, was absent. The dust-covered courtyard bore no animal footprints, not even the slightest trace of crawling insects.

This place was like a zone forbidden to life.

Chu Feng gently pushed the closed door.

With a soft CREAK, the door, untouched for a long time, swung open once more.

It wasn't locked, which was inconsistent with the family having left for a long trip.

This smell?

The odor that wafted out as the door opened made Chu Feng wrinkle his nose in discomfort. It seemed to be the smell of rotting food.

Passing through the small living room, he saw a dining table laden with various foods. But now, the food had clearly rotted completely. Some items were beyond recognition, seemingly on the verge of disintegrating. Other foods might have been less perishable, but even they hadn't escaped decay over such a long time. A thick, grey-green mold covered them, making Chu Feng shake his head.

The lavish meal was still on the table, and the cutlery looked as if it had just been used.

Clearly, the family had disappeared in the middle of dinner.

Glancing at the still-lit dining room lights, Chu Feng silently searched for useful clues.

After checking the dining room, he headed upstairs.

All the photographs along the way showed only backgrounds; the people who should have been in them had vanished completely.

Clearly, all traces of James's family's existence in this world had been erased.

He reached out and opened a closed door—what should have been James's eldest daughter's bedroom.

Looking at the completely empty room, Chu Feng was stunned.

No desk, no bed, no wardrobe... none of the things that should have been there.

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