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"": "Incense burned in abundance inside the City God Temple.
The divine statue stood silently.
Zhang Yunxi, Hu Jin, and Chen Zu sat in three chairs.
They had been sitting there since daylight, and now night had fallen.
Two figures hung upside down from a roof beam.
Their arms were joined, and their two lifeless faces looked especially sinister and terrifying.
This was the Night Watch.
The Night Watch had been staring unblinkingly at Zhang Yunxi and the others.
At last, Zhang Yunxi lost patience and rose to his feet.
The Night Watch moved beneath the roof beam. An instant later, it was right in front of Zhang Yunxi's face.
"You'd better not move around."
"The Night Watch will suck you out."
A somewhat effeminate voice came from behind the City God's statue.
"I don't understand. Why are you keeping us here and refusing to let us leave?"
Zhang Yunxi finally spoke, his eyes fixed on the City God's statue.
A tall, thin man in his fifties emerged.
"Some years ago, someone altered the feng shui of Jin'an Lake, turning an ominous site into a sacred sanctuary of the Buddhist Order."
"Some years ago, an ignorant monk invited a predator into his home. Many people in South Flat whose yang lifespans had not run out were abducted. Even their souls failed to report here."
"The Night Watch tracked them to that Old Temple, but half of it was eaten before it was released." The middle-aged man's tone was utterly calm.
"You knew about Kong An all along? Then why didn't you inform the Southern Heaven Taoist Abbey? Why didn't you have Cloud Brocade Mountain deal with him?"
Zhang Yunxi's pupils contracted.
"That isn't important. What matters is that people connected to you are breaking the feng