Shen Bai and his companions, dressed in the black uniforms of the Observatory, seemed somewhat out of place here.
This was the style of Sealed Village; it had always been common for men to till the fields and women to weave.
Shen Bai looked around and noticed that the resentful energy from yesterday had grown even stronger.
"I've heard legends before about important events turning into aberrations."
Huang Guang said, "They say that on New Year's Day, a creature called 'Nian' became an aberration."
"And on the annual tomb-sweeping day, when resentful energy festers, an aberration was born."
This was the first time Shen Bai had heard of such a thing. "Tell me more," he said.
Kong Fang picked up the thread. "In this world, where some people live well, others naturally do not."
