The farther he got from the front yard, the more palpable the silence became.
Yu Xing feigned a natural air as he toured the architectural layout. The paper servant figures in the corners merely stared at him with dark expressions, making no move to stop him.
It was likely because Steward Feng trusted his identity, viewing him as one of their own within the organization, and thus did not raise his guard too much when Yu Xing merely strolled along the walls.
As Yu Xing walked, he bypassed the omnipresent servants and released his perception.
The faint, elusive sense of being watched immediately melted into the air. No matter how stealthily he operated, it was bound to make a few sensitive enemies sense that something was wrong.
Yet if he did not investigate this way, there was no way for him to find new clues amidst the gaze of countless paper eyes—
His "Pulling Silk" buff remained motionless. He figured that clues related to the hidden task had yet to appear, but this moment was the prime time for collecting clues unrelated to the hidden task!
Therefore, after making up his mind to dig up something, a group of dark servants watched with their own eyes as the newly arrived member took a stroll with an "it's all a coincidence" expression, moseying on over in the direction where Master of Ten Thousand rested.
And not to the master's residence on the surface, but to the master's true location beneath layers of blinders.
Steward Feng, who was operating the servants to witness this scene: "..."
How bizarre, this newcomer looked bizarre no matter how he spun it.
It did not matter, however. Feng Manor was filled with maze arrays. Someone wandering around like this would, at best, just circle within a