Jiang Mian's heart tightened, but her clone still acted as if nothing was amiss. She turned a corner and headed up to a raised area.
Temporary stalls were packed tightly together here, selling everything from weapons to cores.
Maybe the clone stood out because she wasn't carrying a weapon?
She'd better pretend to shop for one.
When Jiang Mian turned onto the raised area and seemed to be browsing weapons, the man watching her furrowed his brow even more deeply.
The young man beside him also turned his gaze toward her. His lips didn't move, but his voice rang clearly in the man's mind.
"Captain Lin, is something wrong with that person?"
Lin Guan didn't answer.
He was a fifth-tier Mind Aspect, skilled in detection and perception, and had therefore been assigned here.
While keeping watch for the Calamity tide, he was also tasked with screening suspicious individuals, especially awakened ones on the Elemental Path.
At first, he'd been a little puzzled when he received the assignment.
After all, among the Calamities that blended into crowds, the Nightmare Path was the most typical.
Mental System abilities were indeed difficult to define, and the higher one's sequence and tier, the better one could control one's aura.
Some Calamities couldn't be detected even by the most advanced instruments as long as they didn't actively release their aura.
On top of that, their true forms were extremely similar to humans, so disguising themselves wasn't difficult.
But Cataclysms were entirely different.
Calamities on this path all took beast forms, and their transformations were limited to the likes of Sea of Misfortune. It was simply impossible for them to blend into a crowd.
However, only after the person who'd assigned him the task mentioned the name Doom did he understand the real reason behind it.