Several more days passed.
The bright sunlight gradually faded, and the clear sky slowly turned overcast.
The weather grew colder.
The autumn wind rustled mournfully.
It had only been a few days.
Yet it felt as though they had suddenly entered late autumn.
More and more strange evil beings appeared within the city, attacking civilians without warning and vanishing without a trace. The news that Lan Guan City had already been sealed off by Vicious Ghosts could no longer be concealed and began spreading through the city.
For a time.
The atmosphere grew tense to the extreme.
Factions began forming throughout the city.
Between markets and markets, streets and streets, families and families, organizations and organizations... Faced with an unpredictable disaster, everyone unsurprisingly chose to band together for warmth.
Supplies were still being delivered to the city.
But compared with a few days ago, they had been drastically reduced.
No large-scale riots had broken out yet. The civilians had merely begun contacting one another more frequently, forming alliances.
Lan Guan City was relatively peaceful.
But outside Lan Guan City, it was not peaceful at all.
Bloodshed and slaughter, Vicious Ghosts and bandits, often appeared in the wilderness.
Therefore, the residents here were not inexperienced novices. Most people could sense that order would soon collapse, and in an era of chaos, a lone wanderer was simply courting death.
Many powerful factions and civilian associations were recruiting people.
Jiang Qiao joined one of them as well.
It was the very escort agency to which the brawny man who had saved the little girl during the Stump Monster's attack on Yan Gui District a few days earlier belonged.
The Flying Horse Escort Agency!
This escort agency was fairly large.
Its strength was impressive as well.
The Chief Escort, Liu Hei Wu, was known