Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer appeared even more composed. They did not even deliberately hide themselves, maintaining an ordinary walking pace as though they were merely passersby heading the same way. Occasionally, they stopped to pretend to inspect the closed shops by the roadside or murmured a few words to each other, blending perfectly into the sparse nighttime foot traffic.
After winding through several relatively bustling streets, the two women ahead turned into a narrow, dimly lit alley.
The alley seemed to be a shortcut leading to an old residential district. Tall walls rose on either side, with miscellaneous debris piled against them. Few people passed through here even during the day, and at night it was even more silent.
The five men in black followed without hesitation.
Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer reached the alley entrance, exchanged a glance, and silently slipped inside as well. The alley was deeper and darker than it had appeared from outside.
They concealed their auras and moved forward along the shadows by the walls like two phantoms.
However, before they had gone far, a cold female voice suddenly rang out from the darkness ahead, shattering the alley's silence.
"Stop! Who are you? Why have you followed us all the way here?"
Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer halted, hiding in the shadows around a corner as they looked ahead. In a relatively open area at the depths of the alley, where debris had been piled up, the Woman in Purple and Woman in Green had already turned around. Frost covered their lovely faces as they fixed sharp gazes on the five men in black who had followed them in.
Faint fluctuations of Soul Power had already begun radiating from their bodies. Clearly, they had noticed the pursuit long ago and had deliberately lured their