Everyone on and below the platform looked utterly stunned. Since the Sky-Gazing Mirror's projections had begun, this was the first time they had all shown such a perfectly synchronized reaction. Even seeing members of their own teams killed earlier had not elicited anything like this.
Now that was a distinctive way to mask a face-a piece of cloth with two holes in it, hiding even the slightest outline of the wearer's features.
Once the shock passed, everyone's reaction was: were these people from their Heavenly Court Team? Why had they covered their faces like that?
Man Xi turned to Mulan Jin and asked through voice transmission, "What are they doing?"
Mulan Jin replied the same way, "I'd like to know too."
Man Xi glanced at the supervisors from the various factions below the platform and transmitted, "It seems someone marked them when they entered. They probably aren't after your daughter. Order Master Mulan, you brought Shi Chun in to protect your daughter, but I'm afraid you've lifted a rock only to smash your own foot."
He had already realized that the encirclement had been drawn in by the earlier exposure of Three Thousand Squad's location.
If only one squad had been pursuing them, he might have suspected that someone outside had learned the number of Shi Chun's squad. But with people from three different battle teams pursuing them at once, the leak certainly had not come from outside. His security measures out there were not just for show. Most likely, someone had waited at the entrance and screened them as they came in.
He did not believe they were targeting Mulan Qingqing because Mulan Jin's rank and standing were there for all to see. To openly plot against Mulan Qingqing-did they really think the power in Mulan Jin's hands lived