Zhong Mu took a step back, shoving Li Mo forward to block him, and poked his head out from behind him, "I! I was just passing by! What do you want?!"
"Just passing by?! Get out of the way right now! Mind your own business!" The leader said aggressively, slamming the iron bar he was holding onto the flower bed twice with a fierce look in his eyes. "If you insist on causing trouble, we won't be polite to you."
Zhong Mu paused for a moment, then shrank back weakly behind Li Mo, but her words were anything but weak: "Then don't be shy, come on."
He meant to face Li Mo head-on, whom he was using as a shield, and not to be polite.
After hearing that Li Mo hadn't felt any influence from the city, he suspected that these low-level things couldn't affect Li Mo, which meant that no matter how many people he ate, he wouldn't forget him. In that case, Zhong Mu could confidently command this most convenient and useful big shot.
"Huh?" The leader's face twisted in shock at Zhong Mu's silent provocation. How could someone be hiding behind someone else and spouting nonsense?
Moreover, the dark-skinned man standing at the door had a strange look on his face, which made him uncomfortable. He felt that if he didn't retaliate after being provoked on the street, it would be unreasonable.
"You all see this! I brought so many people to the High Priest, begging him to save our Forgotten City, and the High Priest has people blocking the door. With this attitude, don't blame me for being ruthless!" Before taking action, the other party put on a show, said a few words, rolled up his sleeves, and strode towards Li Mo, his aura as fierce as could be.
When he was a few steps away from Li Mo, he suddenly swung the iron rod in his hand and smashed it hard at Li Mo's head.
This immediately terrified the surrounding residents, who turned away and closed their eyes, fearing they would witness the gruesome sight of a person's brains exploding.
But instead of hearing the sound of the iron rod hitting someone's head, they heard a sticky, slapping sound, followed by silence.
Someone cautiously turned their head and glanced over, only to be horrified to find that the man who had just been so arrogant was now standing in front of Li Mo with an empty head, holding an iron rod, blood flowing from his neck, staining his clothes red.
The headless appearance instantly aroused panic among everyone.
"What happened?!"
"How could this be! Where's his head?!"
"I don't know! I thought the man in black would die, but he's fine! The other one is dead!"
"I don't know either, I didn't see it clearly at all!"
The crowd was in a panic. No one knew why his head had disappeared in an instant, and it wasn't even on the ground. It was as if his head had evaporated into thin air.
The immense fear caused the surrounding residents to belatedly hide, while the menacing group stood dumbfounded, unable to move forward or backward.
They didn't know what happened; it really was just a blink of an eye. The person who should have died was standing perfectly fine, while the person who shouldn't have died was lying there.
"Was it you...was it you who did something?!" Another person stepped forward, staring at Li Mo with a mixture of fear and apprehension. "You're not an ordinary person! Are you a high priest from another city?!"
"You killed him! You!!" The other person gritted his teeth, clearly afraid of Li Mo, but when he caught a glimpse of the high priest through the crack in the door, he gritted his teeth again, "I don't care who you are, I'm taking the high priest away today no matter what!"
Perhaps to dispel the terror and boost his morale, he roared and charged forward with his weapon.
But the result was the same as that man's; his head disappeared in the blink of an eye, and he fell to the ground, bleeding profusely.
Aside from a fleeting, needle-like chill, people couldn't see anything clearly, and that feeling was only captured for a moment before disappearing like an illusion.
"Blood...wait...there's blood at the corner of his mouth..." A sharp-eyed person noticed something and immediately pointed to the dark-skinned man who hadn't moved at all. "There's blood at the corner of his mouth!! Did he eat those two people's heads?!"
Everyone's eyes were instantly drawn to this strange man. They couldn't figure out what he was at all; they just felt a sense of dread.
Li Mo wiped her mouth nonchalantly, then innocently pursed her lips, "I didn't eat anything."
As he spoke, he opened his humanoid mouth and said, "Look, I don't have a head in my mouth, I haven't eaten anything."
He opened his mouth very carefully, wanting to show everyone that there were no signs of crime in his clean and intact mouth.
Zhong Mu, who was very close to Li Mo, could clearly hear the chewing sound coming from Li Mo's throat. He remembered it! This big shot had several mouths!
When everyone saw that his mouth was normal and there was no blood at all, they were stunned again. So how did these two people die?
Those who remained standing there were confused. "Should we still arrest this high priest?"
Two people went up and died, so no one dares to go up anymore.
"We'll definitely arrest them..." a defiant voice still drifted from the crowd. "At worst, we'll all go together! We'll charge in together! I refuse to believe everyone can die in an instant!"
"Yes! Yes! You're right!"
"No matter what terrifying thing is, it certainly can't kill so many of us together! We must capture the High Priest no matter what! For the future of the Forgotten City!"
"We must summon the gods! We must change the Forgotten City!"
Their slogans were loud and aggressive, but no one knew exactly what they were going to do. So the residents hiding around saw a large group of people rushing towards the high priest's room. The crowd was dense and surging. Even if there was something terrifying, it couldn't possibly kill so many people in an instant.
They had already begun to pray for the high priest in their hearts.
Zhong Mu, who was hiding behind Li Mo, also began to pray for the people outside the door, and then silently reached out and covered the eyes of the child inside the house.
A dense crowd surged toward Li Mo. They noticed that the man with the eerie smile hadn't moved an inch from the doorway. Even as they approached, he remained motionless, simply standing there quietly, his smile unchanged.
Even the familiar expression sent chills down their spines; that smiling face, for a moment, seemed to twist into countless eyes.
The moment their eyes met, time seemed to stretch out infinitely, each second passing slowly.
Something unseen had clung to everyone's neck; eyes were watching and surrounding them.
By the time they realized the danger, it was too late to escape.
This was something that the residents a few meters away couldn't feel, but those who had already walked up to the man could.
It was a bone-chilling cold and an abyss-like fear.
When those people noticed something crawling up behind them, they glanced at it out of the corner of their eye and met its distorted gaze. Then, in terror and despair, they saw the thing split open in an instant, growing a mouth with sharp teeth pointed at their heads.
Before he died, the man noticed that something black was crawling up everyone's head.
Killing so many of them seems to have happened in the blink of an eye.