At this moment, Ji Yanxue composed her surging emotions, stepped tremulously into the village, and greeted those "warmly welcoming" villagers. "Hello everyone, I'm sorry for the intrusion."
Xia Jian and Ouyang Lingling, not forgetting their duties as bodyguards, flanked Ji Yanxue on either side.
Huang Xiaolong silently followed behind.
After entering the village, Huang Xiaolong noticed that it was unusually quiet, eerily so. There were no dogs barking, no insects chirping, no birds tweeting. To exaggerate a bit, there weren't even the buzzing of mosquitoes. Behind the village lay a mountain with an original appearance. The wind blew and the forest on the distant mountain rustled, accentuating the dead silence of the village.
This place... no longer had any human energy left!