Fuck, something was about to happen!!
One day, when the once "peaceful" Tower City was suddenly attacked by the Evil Transformation Cult, the first words that emerged in everyone's minds were only two words, loaded with countless exclamation marks, bolded, highlighted in red, and underlined.
—Run.!!
The gloom of the past resurfaced, shrouding anxious hearts.
The Evil Transformation Cult was one thing, but the Federation and the Empire were truly fiercer, more brutal, and more ruthless than the Evil Transformation Cult!
Ji Jue had merely opened with a single move, yet he had already stirred up unexpected waves. This perfectly provoked the Central Earth people's inherently fragile trust in order, as well as their vigilance and wariness.
Overnight, the atmosphere seemed to have suddenly changed. Beneath all those smiling faces, bodies had gradually tensed under the threat.
Guarding against the storm that could arrive at any moment!
That was instinct.
If trust had never existed in the first place, then suspicion was only natural.
In a godforsaken place like Central Earth, in a cesspit like Tower City where people were eaten alive without even their bones being spat out, anyone without a shred of vigilance would have long rotted away in a gutter.
Even if they mistook a bow's shadow for a snake, even if they saw enemies in every bush and tree.
Being a living clown was still better than being a dead idiot.
One hour after Ji Jue was attacked, he was sitting in an interrogation room at the police station. By the second hour after the office explosion, the entire Tower City had already begun to boil in silence.
At five in the morning, every police station in Tower City's urban district entered a state of emergency. Officials, restless as if sitting on pins and needles, wiped