Xu Huo had experience from the Castle, so this time he still sent his vertical pupil inside first to get a sense of the situation.
Besides the Gemstone City resident who had secretly spied on him in the street and the elderly landlady, there were two other unkempt men in the room. They were hiding in the basement, wolfing down the food the man had brought.
"Slow down." The old woman brought over some water and gave the man who had delivered the food a cup. "Wan En, thank you for bringing this over."
Wan En shook his head. "You can't buy much food without drawing attention. Ai Li and Ai Shan have had a rough time these past few days."
Ai Li and Ai Shan were the two men who had come up from the basement. Their names were similar, but one had red hair and the other brown, and they looked quite different.
After quickly finishing what he had in his hands, Ai Li gulped down a couple of mouthfuls of water to catch his breath before asking, "What's the situation now? Are they still not letting anyone leave through the city gates?"
Wan En nodded. "I'm afraid you'll have to keep hiding here for a while. More outsiders have come to the city lately, and they're strange. Every one of them seems incredibly powerful..."
Ai Li and Ai Shan's expressions changed as they listened. Ai Li hurriedly asked, "Do they look like dolls?"
"Not exactly, but they're a lot like the dolls you described. They can disappear in an instant and reappear far away. Some can even fly." Wan En's denial did nothing to ease their expressions. Ai Shan even looked frightened. "They must be the people Father said looked just like dolls. That man could appear