After hearing that, Chen Gongrang immediately looked back and was stunned.
More than twenty people had appeared a short distance behind him at some point, without him knowing!
Chen Gongrang had not noticed their arrival at all.
He had already broken through to sequence level five. Even among the exiled criminals, he was far from weak.
How could he have failed to sense so many prisoners appearing?
No, they were not prisoners.
They were not wearing prison clothes, but ordinary outfits. They looked like ordinary Sequence Ability Users heading out to hunt Gods.
But this place had already been designated an exile zone. Sequence Ability Users would all avoid it, so what were these twenty-odd people doing here?
He scanned them again, then suddenly widened his eyes.
He recognized one of them!
One of the men standing among them was Hua Yongsheng, a criminal who had been exiled here along with him!
Most prisoners avoided Chen Gongrang and refused to speak with him, but not everyone feared him.
Some still saw value in his status, hoping that after serving their sentences and returning to the Safe Zone, they could find a patron and secure a future.
Hua Yongsheng, the wanted criminal formerly known as [Heart 6] of the Snake Cards, codenamed [Flower Fairy], was one of them.
Hua Yongsheng was a [Flower Puppet] Sequence Ability User. The puppets he created were indistinguishable from real people, and he could control them to behave exactly like humans.
After using Disguise techniques, he could even pass them off as real people. He was an expert at gathering information, which had long made him a renowned information broker within the Safe Zone.
However, for a time, he had sold information to both sides, angering Jiang Yuanfeng, then Vice President of the Bright Sun Merchants'