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"": "After passing through the cedar forest in front of the flower garden's small courtyard and walking a while longer, they caught sight of the Mountain God Temple.
Several trees outside the temple each had an evil spirit hanging from them, their heads and faces exposed to the blazing sunlight.
Gu Yiren covered her mouth, the horror in her eyes undiminished, but she did not ask Luo Bin why the evil spirits were here.
Luo Bin gazed at the Mountain God Temple for a long time. He had been through so much here with Mo Qian: capturing evil spirits, refining lamp oil, and confronting the Rat Crown and Blood Firefly.
Now, the place remained, but the people had changed.
They set off toward Cabinet Mountain Town once more.
It was nearly evening when they finally saw the town's paifang.
Once they entered, everything seemed terribly quiet. The Town Road was deserted, as though this were a dead town. It was nothing like Cabinet Mountain Village.
The wind howled. Broken lightboxes outside some vacant shops along the road made it whistle with a shrill, unnatural sound.
Luo Bin's heart skipped a beat. Waves of fear washed over him, accompanied by a repeated sensation of weightlessness.
"Where is everyone?" Gu Yiren was deeply uneasy.
A terrible thought suddenly occurred to Luo Bin.
Had Cabinet Mountain Town been wiped out because it learned the secret of the entire mountain?
Had Yuan Yinxin stopped using suppression to force their obedience and instead disposed of everyone in town, just as... he had destroyed Qiang Village?
For a moment, his heart felt clenched in a fist, and he could barely breathe.
It was not impossible. But because his parents were involved, he had avoided imagining the worst.
"Is anyone here?!" Luo Bin