Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao exchanged a glance. They both sensed that something was wrong with Jufeng City.
They had clearly agreed that no one could go outside after nightfall, so why were there so many people out there now?
With Chen Changan's perception, he could sense at least several thousand people on the streets.
And that was only the number he could sense. What about those he couldn't?
How many people in Jufeng City had come out onto the streets?
"Do you feel it? Their movements seem a little strange."
"They seem almost soulless," Mu Yunyao asked with a frown.
"Mm. I can sense it. It's as if they're being controlled."
"Could the City Lord of Jufeng City be controlling the people here?" Chen Changan said thoughtfully, frowning.
"These should be ordinary residents of the city. Look, the people assigned by that Eldest Young Master of the Gu Family don't seem to have been affected at all."
"True. But what's the point of controlling these residents?"
"Come on. Let's follow them and see."
Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao exchanged a glance, then flew straight out the window.
The two worked in perfect tandem. They first knocked out the people keeping watch nearby, then quietly followed the figures wandering along the main street.
"What are they doing...? Why does it look like they're heading out of the city?"
Chen Changan noticed that many of the people on the street were the same ones he had seen when he entered the city that day. They had their eyes closed, and every one of them was walking toward the city gates.
After Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao followed them out of the city, they saw the people heading toward an unnamed mountain not far away.
Chen Changan took a rough look. It