Along the way.
The sky grew darker and darker, and Xu Rong's heart grew more and more unsettled.
Her thoughts suddenly churned, leaving her mind in unprecedented disarray. The many recent abnormalities in Pingjiang City all seemed so bizarre, so coincidental, coming one after another so densely that they nearly made people unable to breathe.
First, a high-level Charm Spirit had appeared.
Then came the terrifying beast tide outside the city...
And that mysterious expert.
More recently, they had discovered horrifying scenes of entire clans being wiped out. Even merely examining the scenes made one's blood run cold.
One major incident after another had erupted without pause, keeping everyone in the Demon Hunting Department on edge. Even Xu Rong, an elite-level captain, was gradually beginning to feel powerless.
It was as though some dreadful existence was about to emerge and shatter the hard-won peace of Pingjiang City.
Fortune and disaster were impossible to predict.
Xu Rong gazed through the window at the dim, desolate road, her expression growing extremely grave.
Just then.
The vehicle she was riding in suddenly came to a stop!
Already taut with nerves, Xu Rong instinctively raised her eyes and stared ahead, asking her driver colleague in a deep voice.
"What's going on?!"
The driver was equally baffled and could only take out his radio to ask.
A few breaths later.
The radio relayed the helpless words from the vehicle ahead, easing the tense atmosphere inside by a few degrees.
"Hey..."
"It's nothing. We just ran into a bold passerby and are questioning him, so we've stopped for the moment."
A passerby?
Looking at the increasingly dark and desolate road, Xu Rong's willow brows furrowed.
Anyone with even a shred of common sense knew that nighttime was extremely dangerous. Even in the city, ordinary people stayed