The young man watched the woman sleeping on the bed, his gaze cold, yet tinged with a hint of complex emotion.
He stood by the bed for a long time without doing anything, then turned and went to the doorway to keep watch.
In the dead of night, he sensed something and appeared in a remote alley within the city.
Dozens of men in black were already gathered there.
Someone saw him arrive and called out,
"How's the mission coming along?"
These were undoubtedly Demon Beast Men of considerable strength. They were all Demon Beasts carefully selected for their concealment abilities, their Demonic Qi expertly suppressed. They lived disguised within the city—some as beggars, some as shopkeepers, and some even as members of the Beastman patrol, leading ordinary lives alongside other Beastmen.
One of them was a burly Beastman. Had Sang Luo been present, she would have been astonished, for this was the very Bear Beast who had whipped Xiao'er on the road a few days prior.
