Master Kang and the others left Tianhong Antique Shop at roughly halfway through Zi Hour, and they were all arrested by the end of Zi Hour. In other words, from deciding to run to hiding in their temporarily rented residence, they had enjoyed less than half an hour of "freedom."
Pavilion Master Long Er had personally ordered their arrest. The Northern Town Security Bureau of Fulong Pavilion carried it out, deploying thirty fifth-grade chief secretaries and over sixty fourth-grade assistant secretaries. From receiving the order to locating Master Kang's hideout, the entire process took less than half an hour.
With the Divine Court's Second Prince personally giving the word, who in Fulong Pavilion dared drag their feet? Upon receiving the order, the presiding official of the Northern Town Security Bureau first sent undercover agents to Tianhong Antique Shop. After learning that Master Kang and the others had left, he immediately dispatched more men to watch the city gates and major roads, ensuring that the suspects could not escape overnight.
Immediately afterward, large numbers of Fulong Pavilion secret agents mobilized. Using Tianhong Antique Shop as their starting point, they investigated the route taken by Master Kang's party of eight, while secretly checking brothels, inns, lodging houses, and other places where people could hide. Meanwhile, the night agents in all four sections of the city began extra patrols, each watching suspicious locations within their own jurisdiction.
And so Master Kang and the others, who had merely wanted to lie low for a while, were bewildered to find themselves discovered in an ordinary residence in South City. The residence had previously stood empty for a long time, but tonight its door had suddenly opened and oil lamps had been lit. An anomaly like that naturally could not escape the agents responsible for the