It was close to midnight. Aside from the small number of people enjoying the nightlife, most of Gu City's residents had already drifted off to sleep.
In the hearts of Gu City's people—or rather, the people of the entire southwest region—the Night Watchers were the ones they trusted most.
After all, they were Gu City's Night Watchers.
And because of that, even in this reality where anomalies occurred frequently, the people of Gu City slept exceptionally well.
The Night Watchers guarded their nights.
At that moment, the courtyard of the Southwest Bureau of the Anomaly Administration was likewise shrouded in darkness.
By Director Li's orders, the Anomaly Administration's investigators had all gotten off work early and gone home. Even the duty officers had been ordered to go home and remain on call.
They only needed to carry the duty phone with them and keep it switched on twenty-four hours a day.
There had not been much work recently to begin with. There had originally been work monitoring and investigating those old god shrines, but after Li returned, he had led people to resolve all of it.
Thus, the entire Southwest Bureau compound was empty and deserted.
Only the duty booth by the main gate still had an Awakened on duty with several guards, but they too had already fallen asleep in their clothes.
After all, there really had not been anything going on at the bureau lately.
But at that very moment, a point of light abruptly flashed into existence at the center of the Southwest Bureau's empty courtyard.
The next instant, a howling gale rose and light burst forth, as though a spacetime wormhole had suddenly appeared. Six figures, along with a bed, two stools, and a camphorwood foot-washing bucket, instantly appeared on the spot!
The camphorwood foot-washing bucket