The waist card was indeed an unexpected gain.
The group had a brief discussion and then set off towards the capital again.
The closer they got to the capital, the more clearly they could feel the tension among the locals.
Near the capital, not only were there no young women to be seen, but even the older women who were occasionally visible before were nowhere to be found. More bizarrely, even the young boys and children were absent, as if they had all been hidden away.
"Are they... afraid that King Fan will discover that using women to extend his life is no longer effective, or that he cannot capture enough women, and so they've adjusted the 'recipe' and started capturing children?" Zhu Yu could approximately guess the underlying fear and worry from the surroundings, and couldn't help but sigh.
