Everyone in the entire district had been confined to Zhenhua School in the middle of Chinatown—more than five thousand people in all.
As night gradually fell, more and more Chinese returned to Chinatown, only to be stopped by the police and barred from going home.
Many tourists and locals also liked to visit Chinatown at night for its food and entertainment, but they too were turned away and dispersed.
The people confined in the school tried to call and go online to expose what was happening, only to find that the network was down and there was no signal at all.
At around seven o'clock, with dinnertime already upon them, the five thousand Chinese residents began to stir. Unable to endure any longer, they all demanded to be released.
But the school's iron gates had been locked tight, with armed police standing guard. Though the civilians outnumbered them, no one dared to force their way through.
"These people are too strange. They can command the police, and they can even seal off an entire district without the government doing anything. Outside communication has been cut off, and they're using instruments to scan everywhere. They must be looking for something!"
"So mysterious... I get it... They're looking for me."
After thinking it over, Lan Mu could only conclude that they were searching for the Nine-tailed Fox.
He had considered that the Nine-tailed Fox might cause a sensation and be hunted down on a large scale, but he had not expected them to discover his location so quickly and pinpoint Chinatown so precisely.
And these people were mysterious and powerful, seemingly above the government of an entire nation.
"An organization specifically dealing with the supernatural?" Lan Mu's imagination immediately led him to that possibility.
Lan Mu lowered his head in thought and