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"": "The crying came from farther beyond the Tower. The terrain here formed a gentle slope, strewn with scrub trees and loose rocks, overgrown with weeds, and utterly desolate.
The feeling of being watched made Luo Bin's hair stand on end. It was deeply unsettling.
Too close.
At this distance, Fourth Master Gray hadn't given him any warning!
"Squeak, squeak, squeak." Fourth Master Gray cried out, wriggling out from beneath Luo Bin's clothes and darting onto his shoulder.
His rat eyes stared fixedly in the direction Luo Bin was looking. His head tilted slightly, wary and puzzled, with a trace of irritation.
A figure in a broad hat and gauzy robe stepped out.
It was a Day Patrol!
Day Patrols and Night Watches were both parts of the Grand Night Watch. An On-Duty City God could appoint one, while a Grand Night Watch could divide further to produce ordinary Night Watches.
Luo Bin had long expected someone to receive an Appointment Edict naming them On-Duty City God by noon the day after the incident, at the latest. Not just in Beiwei City, either-the other City God Temples would do the same. Only then could the temples continue operating normally.
The bodies here had been removed. That had to be the work of the new On-Duty City God.
As for how the City God Temple was handling the Death-Prison Yama Ghost, he knew nothing.
There might also have been one other survivor of that battle: Song Sang, who had been guarding the City God Temple.
Perhaps he had fled when the Death-Prison Yama Ghost appeared. Even if Song Sang had died, the City God Temple had eyes and ears everywhere. There was no way they could be unaware of Luo Bin's existence.
The fact that the City