"I've met plenty of clever humans, but very few have guessed there was something unusual about the people of Fog City after meeting me only a handful of times, let alone realized that it had something to do with me." Mayor Bai stopped hiding it. Elegantly stroking the mustache above his upper lip, he smiled at Su Bai, whose legs appeared perfectly intact.
"Humans seem to have all sorts of strange abilities. I can sense that your power seems to be in your legs. Could your ability simply be to let you stand up?" Mayor Bai's power apparently wasn't strong enough to see through Su Bai's true ability yet.
That was good news for Su Bai.
"Did you mean you'd found a new way to make dolls, Mayor Bai?" Su Bai steered the conversation back. "May I ask what this new method is...?"
Mayor Bai, who always liked to talk in circles, still gave no direct answer. Wearing his habitual smile, he shifted his gaze from Su Bai to the site of the earlier disturbance. It was much quieter there now, though the sounds of synchronized footsteps and cold, sharp commands had grown more frequent.
Su Bai glanced over out of the corner of his eye as well and discovered that many more Patrollers had appeared near the Dense Fog Zone. Those robotlike, expressionless Patrollers were forcibly driving the Players and residents of Fog City away from it.
"Do you see those Patrollers?" Mayor Bai raised his cane to indicate the Patrollers, whose movements were powerful but stiff. "If I don't stuff the little ghosts I've caught outside into my Clay Dolls after making them, this is the most my dolls can manage. They may be stronger than the outsiders, but their appearances and faces are all identical. They have