The group hid in an alley, watching the chaos outside.
An invisible force seemed to have sealed off this neighborhood.
But it was still fundamentally the power of [Chaos], so it might as well not have existed as far as Ye Chenyang was concerned.
A group of young monks kicked down doors one after another, dragged the people inside out, then roughly searched their homes.
When they found nothing, they dusted off their hands and left for other places they had yet to search.
Clearly, they had picked up the outsiders' trail and begun a thorough sweep.
Judging by their progress, they had been searching for some time.
These monks were roughly the same level as the group Shen Qiuyu had just dealt with. Evidently, they had set out from here after noticing the disturbance over there.
If the four of them had known nothing, they might have assumed Xu Xiaoan had been exposed, prompting this large-scale manhunt.
But after Jiang Mian's warning, everything looked especially contrived.
Even the monks who had approached them earlier seemed to have been deliberately lured over by Xu Xiaoan.
Now, they had two options: wait for Xu Xiaoan to be "forced out," or deliberately cause a disturbance and draw her over themselves.
Everyone turned to Shen Qiuyu at once.
She immediately felt an enormous weight on her shoulders.
Although she knew it was all an act, suddenly becoming the team's focus was something Shen Qiuyu found rather hard to get used to.
"Qiuyu, relax. Just keep your usual expression."
As a professional actress, Jiang Mian knew the craft inside out.
All she had to do was pick a persona and play it. Since Shen Qiuyu was normally reserved and unsmiling, she could simply be herself.
"Ahem."
Shen Qiuyu cleared her throat. Once she had