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In Yunjing City, residents who had been enjoying the lantern festival regained consciousness, returning to the normal timeline of "August 15th".
Most of them hadn't even noticed that something had occurred to them over the past three days.
They were unaware that the calamitous disaster foretold by the "Singing Rhyme Child" had just narrowly missed them.
Only the tourists who happened to be near the Imperial City screamed at the sight of the Imperial Palace, which had been reduced to ruins strewn with corpses, and rivers of blood.
Some immediately fled, spreading panic far and wide; others, driven by curiosity, gathered closer to point and comment on what lay within the palace.
Especially the men and women who appeared abruptly atop the piles of rubble.
Many instinctively identified them as assassins.
"Damn it, they ran off before we even saw their faces!"