It was perfectly normal that they could recognize the two of them.
Unfortunately, Xu Xin and Xu Ying didn’t have much ti.
The main reason they were out walking the streets was to have Xu Xin use his mind-reading ability to check the people in the area, to see how many of them had issues, and what proportion of the crowd those people made up.
To attract the attention of the problematic ones, Xu Xin had even put on a wool cap with a lush World Tree painted on it.
People whose thoughts he couldn’t read were obviously problematic.
And among those whose thoughts he could read, if anyone saw the World Tree symbol on his hat and certain thoughts popped up, that ant they were problematic too.
But all the way up to now, Xu Xin hadn’t found anything wrong with the people around them.
That actually surprised him a little.
Xu Ying had said earlier that the underground world had been infiltrated; looking at it now, they clearly hadn’t infiltrated all that much.
"Ah, please don’t go that way!"
Seeing Xu Xin and Xu Ying about to turn into an alley, the female reporter’s flustered voice rang out: "That area’s already been sealed off! A lot of people disappeared there, don’t go over!"
"A lot of people disappeared?" Xu Ying stopped, turned around, and looked at the female reporter. "When did this happen?"
"It... it was just last night."
The female reporter seed a bit stiff under Xu Ying’s questioning.
"The people living at the entrance of the alley noticed that, starting last night, a lot of people went into that alley one after another and never ca back out. Practically every minute soone walked in."
"So this morning, the residents living in the alley, afraid that so criminal gang was doing sothing illegal there, called the police, and then..."
"And then those people all vanished," Xu Ying finished for her, then asked, "Have the identities of the missing people been confird?"
"They have." The female reporter nodded. "They’re basically all very ordinary people—company employees, students, elderly folks. Now they’ve all disappeared without a trace, they can’t be found. So this place has been sealed off, and no one is allowed to enter. This morning, the families of the missing were making a scene here for quite a while; they should have been dispersed by now."
At the alley entrance now, there really was almost no one.
Just now, Xu Ying had pulled him toward the quieter area, presumably wanting to use her teleportation ability sowhere out of sight, but they ended up here instead.
Xu Xin looked into the alley and indeed saw two fully ard n with guns standing at the entrance.
Aside from them, there didn’t seem to be anyone else.
"...I see. Bro, let’s go in and take a look."
"Okay."
"Hey, you two...!" The female reporter tried to stop them.
At that mont, the caraman beside her urged, "Follow them, what are you spacing out for! If those two really are who we think... you think they’re afraid of going missing?"
"Ah! Right!"
The man and woman imdiately followed the two into the alley.
"This place is very dangerous right now. Entry is forbidden. Please turn back."
The two soldiers guarding the alley entrance stopped them, and at the sa ti both cast scrutinizing looks at the masked and masked-up Xu Xin and Xu Ying.
Xu Ying didn’t say anything. Instead, she sohow produced an ID booklet from sowhere, flipped it open, and showed it to the two soldiers.
Imdiately, the expressions on the soldiers’ faces changed.
They beca quite excited.
But they still had a soldier’s discipline and didn’t do anything out of line. One of them lifted his hand, as if wanting to salute Xu Xin and Xu Ying, but when he saw the reporter and caraman behind them, he abruptly stopped the motion.
The two stepped aside. "Sir... please."
Xu Ying nodded in acknowledgnt, then pulled Xu Xin into the alley.
Outside the alley, the female reporter and the caraman were first utterly shocked, then grew excited.
They imdiately walked up to the two soldiers.
"Excuse , those two people who just went in...!"
The female reporter’s excited question wasn’t even finished when she saw one of the soldiers snatch the cara from the caraman’s hands.
Before the reporter and caraman could react, the soldier deftly removed the card from the cara, then handed the cara back to the caraman.
"You...!" The female reporter was instantly furious. "How can you do that!"
"Classified operation. Must not be leaked."
"We’re from the Yuan Family’s direct News Departnt. You have no authority to do this!"
The female reporter retorted sharply on the spot.
"Even the Yuan Family would never agree to you leaking footage of this alley."
"Footage of the alley...? We didn’t even..."
At that mont, the caraman tugged on the female reporter’s arm. "Forget it, forget it, let’s get out of here. They’ve got guns! With everything that’s been going on in the Wei Family lately, who knows what kind of temperant the newly appointed Wei Family Patriarch has. If by any chance..."
"I..." The female reporter was a little scared too. In the end, she could only stomp her foot as the caraman dragged her out of the alley. They walked another few dozen ters and reached a hidden corner.
"Those two, that man and woman, their status is definitely not low!"
The female reporter was sowhat worked up. She glanced back at the statue standing not far away, then turned back. "We can’t just give up like this. Those two soldiers definitely did that because we fild those two people. If I’m not wrong, they’re probably..."
As she spoke, she glared angrily at the caraman. "How could you be so careless, letting them just grab your cara like that! And you didn’t even insist on getting the card back, you..."
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