"Jingling..."
The city began to come back to life.
Pedestrians passed by, breakfast shops steamed with heat, and streams of bicycles filled the streets, all coming together in a scene of peace more ordinary than any other.
Who could have imagined that, to curb the spread of terrifying forces, the outside world had sealed this place off for more than three months?
"Let's grab some breakfast first!" Zhu Xueqing suggested.
No one objected.
The three of them soon entered a breakfast shop, where only a handful of people were inside.
They each ordered breakfast and ate in silence, listening to the conversations around them.
"Do you know Zhang the cripple, the guy who picks through garbage in our neighborhood every day? He's disappeared too!" A tall young man spoke in a low voice, struggling to contain his fear.
"Really? He always seemed pretty kind. He was a good person!" said the close-cropped young man across from him, taken aback.
"Good person? Bullshit. Who knows what bad things he did in the past? Otherwise, how would he have become a 'Harbinger of Sin'..."
"You two got a death wish? Don't fucking talk about this. If you want to die, go somewhere else and say it." A middle-aged man beside them angrily cut in.
The two young men turned pale and didn't dare say another word.
In an instant, the entire breakfast shop fell completely silent.
Chen Shouyi and the others exchanged glances, all finding it hard to believe.
After breakfast, Wang Lie paid, and the three of them left the shop.
"Harbinger of Sin... Judging by what those two just said, it seems that only certain people are being mysteriously influenced and turned into monsters—for example, people who've done evil," Wang Lie suddenly said.
"Seems that way!" Chen Shouyi looked at