At night, the alarm blared at the Nanwu County Scorching Sun Department's station.
The people who'd been tracking and monitoring the Mountain Lord suddenly discovered that all the cameras near him had failed at once—every surveillance feed turned into static.
Losing the trail basically meant things were starting to spiral out of control, so the alarm was triggered immediately.
Cai Qidong hadn't been home for days; he'd just been eating and sleeping at the office the whole time, so he could handle emergencies and give orders at any moment.
When he learned the Mountain Lord had gone to the Dragon Mother Temple and then the cameras cut out, a bad feeling crawled up his spine.
"Was it only the nearby cameras that went down?"
"Yes."
"Expand the range. Look for other cameras that have gone down."
"Found it. The area where the surveillance failed is spreading southward."
The big screen immediately showed a real-time map, with the affected areas marked in red.
