The townspeople on Street of Repentance had fallen silent. They knelt there as if dead, arranged in more than a dozen orderly rows. Su Xiao walked between them.
Fortune Town was not as large as he had imagined. The front and middle sections were already fraught with danger. As for the rear section, it had been severely eroded by the Ancient God's power. Once inside, the Light-Dark Talisman had to recharge once every hour.
After walking a dozen meters, Su Xiao heard a crisp crack. He immediately stopped and looked toward the source.
It was a kneeling townsman supporting himself on the ground. He tilted his head slightly, his murky, yellow-brown eyes staring over.
The townsman let out a hoarse growl, triggering a chain reaction. All the other townspeople suddenly raised their upper bodies and began growling as well.
Just as Bubu Wang, A' Mu, and Baja prepared for battle, every townsman on the street swung up their short iron whips and lashed their battered backs twice before kneeling down again.
Clang, clang, clang~
The ancient clock tower at the center of town rang. Seeing this, Baja lowered his spread wings. He had thought a fight was about to break out, but who would have expected these townspeople to merely growl twice before falling silent again?
Su Xiao continued forward. These townspeople had become somewhat plantlike. As long as he did not touch them first, nothing would happen.
He crossed Street of Repentance without incident. A high wall appeared a kilometer ahead. That was the place the Saintess had mentioned.
Su Xiao increased his pace. Not long after, he hid beside a stone building. A group of townspeople carrying various weapons came down the not-so-wide street. After investigating, Su Xiao learned that they were Frenzied Townspeople. As soon as anyone