After the figure vanished, Xu Huo called out for Dr. Wu a few more times but received no answer. At the same time, the frozen city began to move again. Beneath the lights that filled the streets, the noise of the city returned.
The Time Power in the city was still active. It was as if a barrier had been broken, making it crystal clear to him. He could even sense the flowing Time Power appearing at random places in the city, making a building, or one or several pedestrians, vanish from where they stood. In the fake Pumpkin City, however, the citizens paid no attention to people or buildings disappearing. They continued along their original paths, repeating the same day.
After leaving Sunshine Tree No. 12, Xu Huo had just reached 14th Street when Lu Miaomiao came running toward him. Like Tang Ming, she must have been left over from yesterday and carried into today. She hadn't shown herself before, but now she was turning the Time Ring Tang Ming had dropped, trying to freeze Wang Ling and the others who were chasing her.
But Pumpkin City had come alive again, and this time item still didn't work. Lu Miaomiao could only flee. When she saw Xu Huo up ahead, her face changed dramatically, and she immediately turned and ran in the opposite direction.
Xu Huo noticed a force of Time Power near her that differed from the others, so he tried to move the surrounding Time Rays from a distance. That force of Time Power didn't move as he'd expected, but when the rays resonated, he clearly sensed two distinct forces of Time Power.
That was as far as it went. The Time Power didn't change in response to his attempt to manipulate it, so he moved Curved