Taking Up Residence

"No need."

When he saw the woman in front of them screaming herself hoarse, Fu Jing looked startled and was about to step forward to comfort her when Zhang Chen immediately blocked him with an arm.

In a town as deathly silent as this, no matter how loudly the woman screamed, perhaps no one would pay any attention even if she screamed for an entire day.

About a minute passed before the woman finally stopped screaming. Her previous crazed appearance had completely vanished, replaced by a terrified expression as she looked at Zhang Chen's group of four.

"Leave this place quickly. There's something here, something that will chop off your heads and drain all the blood from your bodies. Leave quickly. If you don't want to die, get out of here now." The woman warned them in terror.

"Take me to your home so we can stay there."

Zhang Chen placed one hand on the woman's shoulder. The terrified woman instantly calmed down, while Zhang Chen's words entered her mind like an order.

"Please follow me." The woman made a welcoming gesture, as though she had become an entirely different person.

An immortal's magic! Fu Jing was utterly astonished, though he did not say it aloud.

"Zhang Chen, what if something is parasitizing her brain and discovers you while you control her?" Chong Ying transmitted her voice to Zhang Chen from beside him.

"I merely shut down three of her neural circuits. Besides, the pretty boy's Jailer Aura is exposed deliberately. We want the other side to know that we're jailers, as long as we conceal our true strength. That thing has eaten jailers before. In its perception, jailers might taste better than humans. Revealing our identities was part of the plan to begin with."

"Oh..." Chong Ying lowered her