My Substitute CEO Bride

Chapter 409

Bradley looked into the woods with growing concern. “Could they have run into danger?”

Though pale, Finn tried to reassure them, saying, “Ken is a grandmaster expert. He’s capable of taking on a group of black bears single-handedly. Let’s keep calm and-”

“Oh no, something’s happened!”

Finn’s words were cut off when they heard Derek’s shout from a distance. Everyone immediately stood up and rushed toward him.

“What’s going on? Where’s Ken?” Bradley asked as he looked at the two distraught individuals,

Nico, catching his breath, said, “Ken… Ken went deep into the woods to look for herbs but then I… I smelled blood. It smelled much stronger than ordinary blood… I suspect it’s from undead corpses.”

Bradley’s expression suddenly changed. “Why would there be undead corpses so far from the main peak?”

“Melody, come with me,” Nash said and quickly ran toward the forest.

Melody followed closely behind. By now, it was completely dark outside, but thanks to the moonlight and both of them being Profound Reality Realm martial artists, they could see clearly through the black of night.

are you guys here?” came a voice. Ken was holding several ginseng plants

scared us to death. We thought the undead corpses got you!”

“Undead corpses?”

“I

took a deep breath. Even though Ken did not see anything, there was still

likely that there are undead corpses nearby,” Nash spoke up. The three of them then

saw that Ken had returned safely, they could not help

and asked, “Ken, are you sure you didn’t see anything?” He then

do. They don’t even leave any bones!” Bradley’s tone

chilly breeze swept through the group, and everyone shivered.

frowned and said, “I also smelled a strong scent of blood just now. I thought it might be

be finding traces of undead corpses this

to everyone at the conversation about undead corpses.

could not help but ask, “Aren’t you afraid at all, Nash?”

up some meat from the pot with his spoon and