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"": "People began moving along the Town Road again. Luo Bin stepped outside and hurried after them, pursuing them for a hundred meters or so. As he had expected, he found nothing.
He glanced back again. People drifted slowly along, and that sense of deathly silence welled up in him once more.
Yes, this place was deathly still.
Cabinet Mountain Village was merely isolated from the world. Here, there was no life at all.
Xu Lu's appearance had distracted him. After that brief delay, he could no longer be sure whether anyone had entered through the town entrance.
Luo Bin no longer had the heart to concern himself with them, either. They would not have Liu Shengqi waiting to receive them. The chances of ordinary townspeople paying them any attention were slim, and they would most likely run into trouble. Perhaps leaving them alone was the best choice.
He hurried toward Liu Shengqi's house, abandoning even his plans to study the layout of Auspicious Qi Town further. He had to find out from Liu Shengqi what would happen after someone was taken away by a gentleman in a Tang Suit.
Outside town.
The sunlight remained dazzling. Two boats had already docked, and as luck would have it, Shangguan Xingyue and Dai Xingjie's boat lay right beside Luo Bin's.
The reflections of six figures swayed in the water.
The people standing fixedly around them remained utterly motionless, without the slightest sign of life. The sight made everything even more oppressive.
With a splash, a dripping-wet person climbed aboard Luo Bin's boat.
His face was bloated, his eyes yellow-green. Water dripped steadily from his chin.
He held a green-patinated knife in one hand and an equally corroded bronze bowl in the other.
He raised his hand,