Chapter 1 Kao Mountain Town
The moon hung on the branches, stars filled the sky.
In the tranquil night, occasionally the cry of a wild beast would break the silence, making everything seem so primitive, yet natural.
Kao Mountain Town, a small town located on the fringes of Qing State, was home to roughly a thousand people. It was named Kao Mountain because it was built against a mountain.
At this moment, every household had their doors tightly shut, as if hiding from some calamity. In the town, only Mayor Shi, accompanied by a few sturdy young men, was scattering something on the streets.
"Mayor, all the traps we laid around the town and the talismans that needed to be posted are ready,"
Three young men around eighteen or nineteen years old, holding torches, shouted as they ran over from the other end of the street.
"Keep it down, don't you know everyone's asleep!"