Chapter 56 The Black Lotus II
Liam walked toward the row of black SUVs parked ominously by the side of the empty road, his steps slow and deliberate. The vehicles stood still, their engines off, the air eerily silent except for the distant sound of a passing train. The moment he got closer, he tried peering inside, but the deeply tinted windows refused to reveal anything. It was impossible to see if anyone was sitting inside, watching his every move.
A thought crept into his mind—what if they were inside, staring at him right now?
But then another thought followed—if they were actually in there, then why would the cars be parked here, completely abandoned? It didn’t add up. There was no way they’d be idling on the side of the road for no reason. They had to be somewhere nearby.
His mind quickly retraced everything he had pieced together so far. The call with Lilith. That was how he was able to roughly guess their location.
There had been no background noise. No sounds of the city. No people. No honking cars. Nothing except the occasional rumble of a passing train. That meant they had to be somewhere along the railway tracks. And considering how isolated this area was, it narrowed things down even further.
Liam scanned his surroundings carefully. The SUVs were there, but there were no footprints on the road, no sign of recent activity. Yet, somehow, he could feel it in his gut—he wasn’t alone.
His eyes flickered toward the side of the road, where the land sloped downward into a patch of dense bush. If they weren’t here, they had to be somewhere past that.
Without hesitation, he stepped off the road and into the vegetation, moving past the parked cars. The dry leaves crunched under his boots as he maneuvered through the bush, his body tensed for anything unexpected. The farther he walked, the more the terrain sloped downward until he finally came to the edge of a cliff.
Liam stopped.
Below him, a disturbing scene unfolded.
A group of men stood in a wide clearing. They were dressed in black suits, their movements careful and methodical as they worked in complete silence. And in the very center of them was a freshly dug grave.