Someone had already begun sobbing aloud:
"Years ago, my son went away on business and never came back. We never saw him alive or found his body. I'm afraid he's already become one of the state preceptor's puppets."
"One of my nephews disappeared too. He was quite skilled in martial arts, but he vanished without a trace. I'm afraid..."
"So this traitor from the Witch Tribe put on a new identity and became our Night Central Kingdom's state preceptor! We've practically invited a wolf into our home!"
By then, everyone had linked the missing people to the state preceptor, and wailing filled the air.
In truth, the state preceptor had indeed abducted some of those missing people, but others had nothing to do with her.
At this point, however, everyone was laying it all at the state preceptor's door.
It was truly like yellow mud falling into your crotch-even if it wasn't shit, everyone would think it was.
No one cared about the unidentified object in the sky anymore. All they could see were the things written on the leaflets.
There were also Witch Tribe spies in Frost City.
As it happened, one of those spies was out. He picked up a leaflet from the ground, and after reading its contents, his expression changed drastically. He immediately turned and left.
He arrived at a cooked-food shop and went in through the back door.
A man coming toward him asked:
"Old Bai, you're back already?"
"Yes."
"Did you buy everything?"
The man glanced behind Old Bai, but there was nothing there, leaving him puzzled.
"Stop looking, Old Yu. I didn't buy anything."
Old Yu also realized something was wrong and asked:
"What happened? Why do you look so awful?"
Old Bai took out the leaflet he had picked up and