More and more people arrived one after another, all wearing masks. Some came as male-female couples, while others were pairs of two men or two women. They stood quite far apart from one another, looking as though they were complete strangers.
Occasionally, someone would strike up a conversation, but the topics were entirely trivial, like strangers making small talk for the very first time.
Seeing that nearly everyone had arrived, Qi Jingtao dismissed the magic array, and the group of them appeared seamlessly among the crowd.
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