Chatting along the way yet remaining vigilant, the five of them arrived on foot before the gates of General Town.
The town gates stood wide open. Inside, the night was deep and the town was utterly silent.
After walking a hundred paces, Zheng Xiu suddenly rubbed his ear.
"Something feels… off."
Zheng Xiu frowned.
After a moment, Feng Bei glanced up at the sky, her delicate brows knitting together. "It's too quiet," she said softly.
At first, Yue Yan and Dou Xie didn't think anything was wrong. It was only logical for a town to be quiet in the dead of night. But when Feng Bei pointed it out, Yue Yan focused on the town's atmosphere and realized the silence was truly bizarre.
Right now, there was no sound besides the wind. They had walked several hundred paces without hearing so much as a single dog bark. The silence was profoundly strange.
CREAK!
CREAK!
One after another, tightly shut doors swung open.
Shambling figures emerged from behind the open doors.
