The Woman Who Called for Help

Jiang Yue had visited Wumei Community countless times as a child, so he was naturally familiar with the layout.

He had already learned from someone last time that Beauty Snake Gallery was on Xining Road. It would be no trouble to head straight there.

The two of them turned down a couple of streets and soon reached the intersection at Xining Road.

Though there wasn't a single ghost of a person on the street, they couldn't sense any living people inside the buildings lining either side of it, either.

The whole of Wumei Community felt like a realm of death, utterly devoid of life.

It genuinely unnerved Jiang Yue.

Was that Zhu Yindong so deranged that he'd killed everyone in Wumei Community?

This neighborhood had been fairly lively during the Sunny Era. Even if many people had left or perished after the Era of Strangeness began, surely it wasn't possible that not a single person remained?

If there wasn't a single living person left, what was the point of Zhu Yindong ruling over this place?

What was the point of having a kingdom all to yourself? Forget ruling over it—what would be the point of living forever?

"Little Jiang, this is Xining Road," Lin Yifei reminded him.

"I know."

"There are so many galleries here. Was this once a whole street of galleries?"

"It used to be."

Jiang Yue gave Lin Yifei a halfhearted answer as he activated every skill he had, watching for the slightest movement throughout the area.

They had barely walked a few steps past the intersection when a sound came from a window nearby, as if someone had quietly closed it from inside.

"There's someone in there!" Lin Yifei asked, startled.

"Don't mind it." Jiang Yue acted as though he hadn't heard her, apparently not the