First, a Warning
The tourists should have bought a set made from ordinary fabric, but once it was in their hands, it had suddenly turned into a ghostly costume that could conceal the wearer.
Xu Huo stood on a float in the parade and took out his Communicator to contact the painted woman.
The parade's music came from somewhere along the route. The next second, Xu Huo was standing where the sound had come from. Ignoring the people trying to stop him, he lifted the hem of a giant monster costume and found the painted woman's backpack inside.
"What are you doing? Get down! Don't disrupt our performance!" one of the performers inside the giant monster snapped.
Xu Huo waved a hand. The performer's mouth snapped shut, and all he could do was glare at Xu Huo furiously.
Xu Huo crouched down and looked at him. "Where did the young woman carrying this backpack go?"
He lifted his hand, and the performer's lips parted again. Fighting to contain his anger, the performer said, "How should I know? She's been running all over the parade and causing trouble. She even hurt two people. Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're Players. I'll have the enforcement team arrest you!"
Xu Huo walked out, backpack in hand, and stood on the float, surveying the performers and tourists around him.
His mental power swept from the front of the parade toward the back, finally stopping in the darkness at the rear. The atmosphere there was closer to a riot of demons and monsters than it was farther ahead. With so little light, not only was visibility poor, but it seemed even mental power was blocked from entering.
Xu Huo stepped forward and crossed to the float at the very end