Chapter 1061: Tian Huai

"Everyone, don't panic... We will definitely protect everyone's safety."

In the crowd, Young Master Huai Mang, wearing a black robe, was trying hard to soothe the nervous people nearby.

However, he was only a teenager after all. No matter how he explained, those frightened elderly people didn't seem to trust him much, still chattering to each other, and the entire abandoned factory was extremely noisy.

Seeing this, Huai Mang's face was full of helplessness... Fortunately, Pu Xiacan rushed over quickly, shielding Huai Mang behind her, hands on her hips, and shouted with a piercing voice:

"Stop arguing!! When we evacuate later, those who are arguing will be at the back of the line!!"

As soon as this was said, the voices of the crowd weakened instantly.

"Thank you, Sister Xiacan," Huai Mang said sincerely.

"Don't thank me. You were never suited for soothing others anyway. In the future, let me handle this kind of thing," Pu Xiacan patted her chest. "Why don't you go take a rest?"

"I..."

Huai Mang was about to say something when his heart suddenly stirred, and he turned to look in a certain direction.

"This aura... Oh no."

Without waiting for Pu Xiacan to be confused, Huai Mang gritted his teeth and rushed out through the crowd. He was extremely fast, and in a flash, he disappeared from everyone's sight...

*Thump—thump—*

The sound of rapid heartbeats echoed in Huai Mang's chest. He would never mistake the owner of that aura.

After arriving in the Wuji Realm, Huai Mang had always been restraining himself from doing anything irrational or detrimental to the group, even though he could always feel that familiar aura lingering in the air, he still conscientiously did the work of soothing the people.

But now, the owner of that aura was actively approaching the crowd...

What the other party wanted to do, Huai Mang didn't know, and didn't dare to think. Just as the Master of the Tongtian Tower said, perhaps the other party was no longer the relative he was familiar with, but if the other party was coming to kill these hundreds of thousands of people, he had to stop him no matter what.

It was to protect these people, and even more so to protect the person he was closest to... so that he wouldn't become a sinner who could never turn back.

Huai Mang ran with all his might. Several long, thin vines covered in green pupils were entrenched in front of the road. After discovering Huai Mang's approach, they immediately changed direction and extended toward him at the same time!

"Get lost!!!"

Huai Mang let out a low roar, and several invisible personalities swept across the earth like a wild wind, tearing all the vines blocking his path to shreds...

The silver clouds on Huai Mang's cuffs danced wildly in the wind. He rushed into the desolate street district, where there were hideous and eerie green-pupiled vines everywhere, and a faint mist permeated the air, not knowing if it was some kind of toxin.

In the eerie silence, Huai Mang slowly stopped his steps.

Dilapidated streets, dancing vines, prying green pupils... In this suffocating environment, countless threads converged in the air, and two disheveled Twilight Society members were hung on both sides of the street like prey wrapped in spider silk.

"Cough, cough, cough... Damn it, I'm actually the first one to be caught," Plum Blossom 7 was covered in blood and cursed in a low voice. "What about you? How did you get caught too?"

Opposite him, Spade 8, who had "split up to act," was silent for a moment.

"In the sewers, there were tentacles of those vine creatures everywhere. I walked right into the trap."

“……”

Huai Mang didn't know these two, but guessed they were probably members of the Twilight Society. His gaze only stayed on them for a moment before looking deeper into the mist...

A figure also wearing silver-cloud black robes rose slowly in the dead silence.

The pressure of a Tier 8 slammed onto Huai Mang's shoulders like a mountain. His face turned pale, and his body swayed as he stood frozen in place.

Two gazes pierced through the mist and met.

Huai Mang looked at that familiar yet strange face, and it was not until a long time later that he hoarsely spat out two words:

"...Brother."

……

*Click, click, click, click—*

Four brass-colored bullets were pressed into the revolver's cylinder by Chen Ling.

He flipped his wrist, and the cylinder rotated with a "clatter" sound before instantly locking into place...

"...Let's go." Chen Ling held a boning knife in one hand and the revolver in the other, looking calmly at the mist not far away.

"That's it?" Jian Changsheng asked uncertainly. "So fast?"

Jian Changsheng had witnessed the entire process of Chen Ling activating the [Yesterday Revolver]. He saw Chen Ling reach directly into the center of the four people's brows, fumble for a moment, then take out a bullet from each, and insert them into the revolver.

The whole process added up to less than three minutes.

"It's already not fast," Chen Ling shook his head. "Any slower, and I reckon the other members would all be caught..."

"But Officer Han Meng hasn't returned yet. Should we wait for him?" Sun Bumian looked into the distance.

"...No need."

Chen Ling looked at the three of them. "Time waits for no one. We can't live under the protection of the strong forever... Isn't there an isolated Arbitrator Proxy right nearby? Let's experiment on him first."

Everyone turned their heads at the same time to look not far away, where a figure in a black robe was slowly descending in the hazy mist...

"That is..."

……

"Brother?"

Tian Huai's brows furrowed. He looked carefully at Huai Mang's face, his eyes showing a brief moment of distraction before a murderous intent began to spread. "I've long heard that Twilight Society members like to toy with people's hearts... Now it seems, that is indeed the case."

Huai Mang was stunned in place.

He looked at Tian Huai's indifferent eyes, and even though he had been prepared, his heart still felt a sharp pain...

Before he could say anything more, Tian Huai waved his palm, and countless threads converged in the void. A violent roar erupted from under Huai Mang's feet!

The next moment, the streets on both sides seemed to come alive, turning into a giant stone puppet hand that grabbed Huai Mang's body directly into its palm, as if to crush him alive...

But Huai Mang reacted immediately. He took a deep breath to calm himself down, and with foresight, he jumped in place, just in time to dodge all the fingers of the giant hand, precisely drilling out through the gap.

He was Tian Huai's younger brother, and since childhood, he had been trained under his brother... He understood Tian Huai's methods quite clearly.

Seeing this, Tian Huai's eyes narrowed slightly. He tapped the cloth bag at his waist, and puppets visible to the naked eye were outlined in the void behind him... The appearance of those boxes was exquisite and ancient, like folk craftsmanship, and at this moment, they were floating upright in the air, like a neat display wall.

As Tian Huai pointed casually, the lid of one of the boxes was lifted.

An ancient and mysterious puppet seemed to be pulled by strings, swelling in the wind and turning into a giant seven or eight stories high, crashing down in front of Huai Mang!

"Earth Fiend Puppet... [Mountain-Carrying]."