Full-Time Magister: The Calamity of Fire, the Emperor's Flame Burns the Heavens

Chapter 59 Zhao Manyan falls into the trap!
"Have you found it?" Ai Jiangtu asked.

"No, it seems they really have disappeared," Jiang Yu said.

As the two were talking, Mo Fan pushed open the door and entered. A group of people immediately turned their gazes toward him, looking as if they had seen a ghost.

"Who's missing?" Mo Fan asked immediately.

“You and Jiang Shaoxu, we’ve been looking for you for ages. We thought you’d disappeared. Where did you go? We were so worried about you,” Jiang Yu said.

"I'm right outside. Where did Jiang Shaoxu go?" Mo Fan looked around but couldn't find Jiang Shaoxu or Hua Yu.

"That slut, she must have slept with that professor, right?" Mu Tingying said sarcastically.

Hua Yu didn't dare to say much, but she wasn't afraid of a woman whose background she didn't know.

"By the way, where is Zhao Manyan?" Mo Fan then noticed that Zhao Manyan was not in the crowd.

"I was just about to say this. It's because of Zhao Manyan that we came out to find you!" Jiang Yu said to Mo Fan with a strange expression.

"???" Mo Fan was full of questions.

Immediately afterward, he remembered what had happened before, and his expression turned grim. He quickly ran towards the room where Zhao Manyan was.

On the tatami mat, a person with blond hair was lying there, covered with a thick quilt. For some reason, when I entered the room, I felt a chill, which seemed to be coming from the person under the quilt.

Mo Fan walked up, lifted the blanket, and saw Zhao Manyan's face.

His skin was bluish-white. Zhao Manyan was the kind of pretty boy, but his skin was usually very rosy. It had never been so bluish-white before.

Mo Fan touched the blanket and found it to be ice-cold; the coldness was emanating entirely from Zhao Manyan himself.

“Jiang Yu discovered it first. He was meditating in the room when he suddenly felt cold. After searching for a long time, he found that Zhao Manyan’s body was cold, as if he had been poisoned by some kind of cold. He didn’t respond at all when called and remained in this state,” Nan Jue said.

This happened so strangely. At the time, besides Jiang Yu, Guan Yu was also in the room. The three of them were doing their own things and no one saw Zhao Manyan come into contact with anything. Suddenly, he turned into this state, which really startled everyone.

“He’s alive, but in a deep sleep. Nan Rongni means we shouldn’t forcibly wake him, otherwise it might cause him even greater psychological trauma. The most important thing now is to figure out what kind of poison he’s been poisoned with… Strangely enough, we called an old monk here to take a look, but the old monk got so scared that he screamed a few times and ran away. He didn’t give us a single clue. It seems unlikely we can rely on them,” Jiang Yu said.

"Healing magic isn't working, is it?" Mo Fan asked.

Nan Rongni nodded.

"Will there be any danger to his life?" Mo Fan then asked.

“Not yet, but his body is strangely cold. I’m worried this could cause serious problems with his bodily functions,” Nan Rongni said.

Just as the group was still discussing something, Hua Yu and Jiang Shaoxu walked into the room while eating grilled squid.

Their appearance attracted everyone's attention.

"How do you guys have money to buy food?" Mo Fan asked, staring wide-eyed at the two of them.

You should know that all the money was kept by Ai Jiangtu; their own hands were empty.

Jiang Shaoxu looked at Hua Yu, who had clearly paid for all of this. "Would you like some?" Hua Yu placed a large bag of kebabs on the small table beside him.

"Ahem, let's talk about food later, let's deal with Zhao Manyan's matter first!" Mo Fan suddenly remembered that Zhao Manyan still needed to be saved.

Looking at Zhao Manyan's appearance, Jiang Shaoxu seemed to remember something.

Her gaze was filled with horror. Only when everyone was at a loss did she speak up: "Could it be that what the tavern owner said was true, that there really is something here that can take souls? Zhao Manyan really does look like he's lost his soul!"

"What soul-stealing technique?"

"Jiang Shaoxu, don't talk nonsense. This is a desolate mountain and a deserted temple. Why would you use something like this to scare people?" Mu Tingying said with some dissatisfaction.

They were all sorcerers, that's true. Knowing it was the work of demons, they didn't find it scary. But if it was an inexplicable supernatural event, then it was rather creepy!

Jiang Shaoxu then recounted what he had overheard at the tavern.

Upon hearing this, everyone felt a chill run down their spines. Could it be that Zhao Manyan had truly been possessed?

"Can we stop being so superstitious? We live in a society that believes in magic," Nan Jue interrupted everyone's daydreaming.

"I met a girl before, but I asked the old monk who was stationed at the temple about it. After he heard about it, he went crazy. I also mentioned Zhao Manyan's name to the girl. I don't know if that's the reason." Mo Fan recounted what had happened before.

"There's no such thing as a coincidence in this world, Vice Captain. Even if you're going to make something up, at least make something that everyone can agree on," Guan Yu said, waving his hand.

"Speaking of which, why Zhao Manyan? There are so many of us here. If there really is a ghost or monster that can take out souls, why would it specifically target Zhao Manyan?" Mu Tingying raised a very worthwhile question.

Mo Fan smacked his lips, which confirmed the earlier statement: There's something I'm not sure if I should say.

Mo Fan found it truly unbelievable!
First of all, why could I see that girl? What exactly was that girl? She came and went without a trace. I am, after all, a high-level mage. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to sense living beings.

Secondly, was Zhao Manyan really implicated by his own actions?

Mo Fan hadn't forgotten that when he gave the girl his name, he said Zhao Manyan, and as a result, Zhao Manyan fell for it!

Does this mean that a soul-reaper needs a name to perform their function?

"Does anyone know where Zhao Manyan went last night?" Zu Jiming asked.

"We didn't go anywhere, did we? The back mountain, the well, the wooden corridor, the ancestral hall... we've been to all those places, haven't we?"

“Let’s split into several groups, but don’t go alone. You guys go and ask the old monks what’s strange about this temple. You guys go and check the places Zhao Manyan went to before, and pay attention to some plants, because he’s more likely to be poisoned…” Ai Jiangtu said.

……

Everyone split up and worked to find out as soon as possible why Zhao Manyan had fallen into a coma and was poisoned.

Nan Rongni also said that if healing magic is ineffective against this strange phenomenon, then we must find the source of the problem. Zhao Manyan is active near this temple, so searching for him shouldn't be too difficult.

Mo Fan's group was also divided up to search for the girl.

(End of this chapter)