"Not for now. Where is she?"
Su Xiao opened his eyes. He had just taken a short nap. After all, he was about to enter the City of Silence, and whether he would have a chance to rest after arriving there was still unknown.
"Bring them in."
Wufu looked toward the door. He coughed lightly, and the smile vanished from his face, replaced by the imposing air of someone in power.
Two personal guards dragged a cloth sack into the room.
"Mmph! Mmph!"
The person inside struggled. Seeing this, Wufu leaned down and whispered into Su Xiao's ear, "My lord, this extraordinary individual is the best one we could find. She can block out sound, perception, vibrations, light, and even most energy within a three-hundred-meter radius. If she refuses to cooperate, I have four other candidates, but their abilities are far inferior. The best of them can only block sound and a small amount of vibration."
"Mm. Got it."
"Open it."
At Wufu's command, the sack was opened, revealing a woman bound from head to toe with a rag stuffed in her mouth. Clearly, this wild extraordinary individual had been extremely uncooperative, so Wufu had transferred a thousand frontier soldiers to 'invite' her over.
"My lord, this is Nodding Crow."
Wufu took a glass bottle from his robes. It contained a pale-yellow liquid.
"Mmph! Mmph!"
When the female extraordinary individual saw the Nodding Crow potion, she struggled even more violently. Three longswords were pressed against her neck.
After the female extraordinary individual stopped struggling, the guards untied her ropes and retreated to the doorway. Although the door was closed, they would rush in the moment anything happened inside.
"Haah, haah... Who are you people?"
The female extraordinary individual gasped for breath. She had short flaxen hair, a fitted leather cuirass