In Dragon City at over nine o'clock at night, people were coming and going.
Before Pei Jinye went to his rented room for cultivation, just as usual, he created an avatar within the permissible range... eating, reading books, simply doing the same things as an ordinary person.
This morning, just back from Snow Dragon Mountain, Pei Jinye sensed an atmosphere in Dragon City unlike the usual, with an undercurrent surging.
And now...
The restrictions he had left with his avatar had been triggered.
This meant someone had come.
...
A mysterious person was tailing the avatar, investigating all the way.
The person was a man in his twenties, of very average appearance, so forgettable in a crowd that one glance would erase him from memory.
He was watching "Pei Jinye."
Unbeknownst to him, a pair of eyes was watching him from a distance.
The man took a sip of coffee.
The corner of his mouth curved slightly.
"People from the Investigation Place..."