Within half a day, most of the town's residents had been evacuated.
They walked out of an enclosed town and into another isolated space.
There was food, drink, and somewhere to sleep there, but the space was a little cramped. They could see its far end at a glance.
Everyone who entered the alternate space seemed uncomfortable at first, but before long, their expressions became numb and vacant again, and they paid little attention to their surroundings.
Those who had brought their families wore stiff expressions too, telling their children not to run around or make noise.
The place soon quieted down, as though they were a group of oddballs who disliked talking.
These were not isolated cases. None of them liked to talk.
It was one thing for the adults to dislike talking, but they also kept their children from talking too much. Once a child became too noisy, they would stare at the child with those numb eyes, and the other adults would do the same.
No matter how noisy a child was, being stared down by a group of strange, deathly still eyes left them unable to make a sound, as though someone had pressed the mute button.
"These people really are strange. Strange to the bone," an Investigator observed and analyzed in private.
Not only did the town have an odd air about it, but all its residents were strange as well. Only the children seemed less strange, yet once they quieted down, their eyes became as numb as the adults'.
Ke Meng had no time to analyze their mental states. Though he knew these people were strange, he could only house them in an isolated space for now.
Destroying the town came first. He might not be able to find the Shadow Stream's Tentacle Monster,