Lyca eyed the tire marks on the dusty road that would lead her to the house. The fact that there were no guards on the gate was enough to make all her sense alert. She squinted and gestured Yi'an to kill the engine. This area should be about two hundred meters away from the house that served as the entrance to the underground house.
"Whose there?" A man's gruff voice interrupted Lyca's stupor. "Miss Xi?" the man halted his steps, his strict demeanor completely vanished. "Miss Xi… how come you're here?" Lyca didn't miss the panic in the man's voice.
"No one's guarding the gates." She ignored his question and went back to the car. She might not know this person's name but she was a bit familiar with his face. "Where are the others?"
"That— They— " the man gulped. "We had an emergency."