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"Every family, every well, water channel, and secret chamber must not be overlooked; thorough investigations are necessary... and all the common people must come to the County Yamen to register, their ancestors of eighteen generations must be interrogated thoroughly."
Zhou Ping'an had emptied the Southern City District of fish monsters, yet his complexion still looked somewhat uneasy.
He had thought that within Pinghu County, which was occupied by Ran Sifei and Yi Heavenly King, even though order might be slightly chaotic and the lives of the common people a bit disheveled, basic safety could still be ensured.
However, he hadn't expected that so many water monsters and demon bugs had already infiltrated the city.
They hadn't made their move simply because the time was not right.
Still, some monsters were secretly devouring humans, but since they didn't make a big fuss and no one noticed, it went on undetected.
