On the way back to New Moon Bay, Jiang Yue had already drawn up a fairly detailed list in his mind. Of course, there were still plenty of things to reconsider.
The most important prerequisite for this mission was secrecy, so everyone on the list had to be absolutely trustworthy. Another key prerequisite was that participation be voluntary, so he couldn't casually reveal anything to those who weren't keen on joining.
Before returning to New Moon Bay, Jiang Yue made a special detour to a place he hadn't visited in a long time.
A serious haunting had taken place here before. By now, nearly fifty percent of the buildings in the area had been damaged. It looked completely different from the last time Jiang Yue had been here.
Still, Jiang Yue naturally recognized the place. He could faintly make out traces of what it used to look like.
Of the characters in the name Yinyuan Apartment, only "公" remained. The other three had long since disappeared.
Jiang Yue had come to summon someone.
This man had been among the first to pledge himself to Jiang Yue, but Jiang Yue hadn't called on him in a long time. He had left him to operate in this area, refining the Mother-Child Ghost Banner and keeping the corpse puppets at Yinyuan Apartment under control so they wouldn't go out and cause trouble.
It had been so long since they'd met that Jiang Yue wasn't sure whether Yu Yuan had stayed obediently at Yinyuan Apartment or left the place—or even taken the Mother-Child Ghost Banner and the corpse puppets with him.
Jiang Yue couldn't be sure of any of it.
After all, in this world, people were hard to read.
Yu Yuan had been fairly loyal to him at the time, but the world