Sun Hang took two steps forward. In a daze, he suddenly felt his head grow a little heavy... But when he looked around again, his brows could not help knitting tightly together.
Pedestrians packed the commercial street shoulder to shoulder, yet a dark shadow, deep or faint, clung to every one of them. These shadows were tugged and squeezed along with the moving crowd, then mixed and condensed together, forming something like a haze directly above the crowd.
"This street is called Yongan Street. It is the main road running east to west through both districts of Chunming City's Tianshi Sector, intersecting the city's north-south central axis in a cross." A girl in a white dress abruptly appeared amid the crowd. Her hair, eyes, and skin were all dazzlingly white. Moving against the tide of people, she faced Sun Hang and spoke with a smile.
The scene looked rather eerie—the all-white girl stood out sharply amid the crowd, yet the people around her seemed unable to see her. Not a single person spared her an extra glance.
But saying they could not see her did not seem quite right either—because everyone passing by her naturally avoided her. Let alone bumping or shoving into her, not even the hem of her wind-tossed dress was touched by anyone.
It was as though an invisible, streamlined wall of air stood where the girl was, splitting the crowd apart and diverting it to either side.
"Anna, what are you up to again?" Sun Hang demanded. "Don't tell me you're trying to create an anomaly here?"
"If I wanted to do that, I would have done it already." Anna's smile shifted from gentle to mischievous. "I merely let Mother see these creatures' true nature."
"These creatures? You mean these people?"
"Mother, have you ever wondered