The music had continued until nightfall. The people who had come from the county town and those who already lived in this suddenly appeared medieval city paused their parade and began celebrating the sacrificial rites.
The dead and the living alike walked through the city as if they were ordinary people. At first glance, it looked no different from a normal festival, except that every so often, half a corpse lay sprawled by a street or in an alley.
Xu Huo came to the area near the Sifang Palace.
The palace stood on a massive platform more than ten meters above the city. A plaque bearing the words "Sifang Palace" hung above the main entrance. The palace had four floors, each guarded by black-armored men carrying swords. Six more black-armored men stood before the main gate. The drum that had sounded from time to time was set on the broad platform in front of the entrance, with a black-armored man standing on either side of it.
Quite a few fanatical worshippers had gathered below the palace platform. Though they had lost their minds, they still tried to climb up and storm the palace.
Naturally, the black-armored men drove them back. If anyone was accidentally beaten to death, their body was dragged into the palace in full view of everyone, without provoking the slightest objection.
Xu Huo stood on a building not far from the palace. Watching the scene, he raised an eyebrow and took out the Same Kind Retriever. The distribution of items within a two-hundred-meter radius immediately appeared on its screen.
The palace straight ahead wasn't fully within the range, but the information he could see was enough.
The drum and the black-armored men were all items, just as he'd expected—and they were all C-class items. There were also