The patrol captain, now powerless to resist, could only helplessly watch as the crowd, who had just been grateful, now angrily attacked him.

He desperately wanted to run away, but his legs seemed to have lost all feeling due to fear, and he couldn't move them at all. He could only watch helplessly as the crowd rushed towards him.

After the group of civilians tackled and surrounded the patrol leader, they used their fingernails or sharp teeth to hiss like wild beasts, snarling at the patrol leader who was pinned beneath them.

The patrol captain's screams were drowned out by the roar of the crowd.

From the moment he was tackled by the crowd and began to scream, until he no longer had the strength to scream, only a dozen seconds passed.

The angry civilians tore him apart into strips of flesh, so that even the most basic human form was no longer recognizable.

Just when the crowd thought they had no way to vent their fear, the dark clouds gathering in the sky surged and rolled like ocean waves.

The crowd, shrouded in dark clouds, stopped what they were doing and stared blankly at the clouds overhead that resembled a tsunami.

Before the crowd could react, streaks of purplish-black lightning, moving too fast for the mortals to perceive, struck them like a torrential downpour.

There were no screams from the crowd, or rather, they didn't even have a chance to scream. Before they could even react, the purplish-black lightning had already completely destroyed their souls, and their bodies, after falling to the ground with a soft thud, turned into dust.

Those civilians hiding among the buildings, too, followed in the footsteps of the crowds outside, filled with endless fear.

However, inside the room of the Imperial Finance Vice-Officer, Wang Qi only heard a series of noises outside and did not know what was happening. He simply assumed that the security guards had accidentally fallen. As for going out to check, Gu Changqing was right beside him, so he did not dare to move easily.

Sensing that there was no living being in the area within a thousand meters except for the three people in the room, Gu Changqing also dispelled the divine descent technique.

Meanwhile, civilians within a kilometer radius only saw a huge dark cloud suddenly gather in the sky, but it quickly dispersed with the wind.

They only assumed that the strange creatures had re-invaded the capital, and that His Majesty the Emperor had intervened and dispersed them, completely unaware of what had actually happened in the place shrouded in dark clouds.

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Meanwhile, a thousand meters below the Imperial Palace in the capital, in Marshal Maurice's office, people dressed in different clothes and wearing various medals were constantly coming and going.

Looking at the intelligence reports from various districts of the capital, Marshal Maurice felt as if his head was about to go crazy.

"This is really going to kill me!"

Looking at the reports from various districts of the capital in his hand, Marshal Maurice couldn't help but sigh.

People are already busy enough, and now such a big incident has occurred in the capital. If it is not handled properly, the morale of people in the capital may begin to change.

They no longer believed in the safety of the capital, nor in the strength of the empire.

"His Majesty is really something, sitting alone in that great hall, leaving such an important matter to me to handle casually."

Putting down the documents in his hand, Marshal Maurice recalled the intelligence he had just received. He was extremely shocked, and after informing the Emperor, he only received this one sentence.

“Maurice, I believe in your abilities. Don’t worry about that person. Focus on collecting the strange items. You can arrange everything else as you see fit.”

Looking back, Marshal Maurice couldn't help but sigh again. Looking at the strands of black hair falling on the table, he felt that he had lost more hair in the past few days than in all his previous years combined.

If it weren't for the hair growth serum provided by the Empire's Mysterious Research Institute, he would probably be a greasy, balding middle-aged man by now.

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