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"Silence!"
Someone else stood beside the woodpiles: Li Yuan!
In the sunlight, his long, narrow, goatlike face looked sickly pale.
The pressure made Li Yuan seem like a taut string that could snap at any moment.
He looked composed, but in reality, his emotions were anything but settled. He was on the brink.
"What do we do..." Gu Yiren tugged uneasily at Luo Bin's arm again.
"Let's wait and see. They haven't tied Old Master Zhang up, and there are ten bonfires. They probably aren't going to burn him to death," Luo Bin answered as calmly as he could.
Gu Yiren pressed her lips tightly together. The panic on her face had not faded.
Yu Hao glanced back at them. "It's just a screening. I told you earlier."
With that, Yu Hao resumed counting the people behind Luo Bin.
Only then did Luo Bin notice that people stood in groups of roughly two hundred. Numerous squares marked out on the ground divided the crowd.
Yu Hao was not the only one counting. Someone stood in front of every square, taking a head count.
So this was what the Land Guards did?
Cabinet Mountain Town was too large for someone to call names from a register, as Zhong Zhicheng did in Cabinet Mountain Village.
With each Land Guard responsible for a group, they could quickly check whether everyone in town was present.
People were still hurrying over along the town's roads.
Eventually, the clearing was packed, and the arrivals in the distance dwindled to a scattered few. Almost the entire town must have gathered.
Directly ahead, Li Yuan raised his arm and shouted, "**Land Guards of every district, if anyone is missing, notify them immediately! This happened without warning today. The Town Chief is missing,