Chen Shi heard this and said happily, "The Uncle A Zhuo the grandmother mentioned—is he Grandpa's friend, the bee-keeper A Zhuo? Before he passed away, Grandpa gave me instructions that if I ever encountered danger, I should go seek him out, and that he would surely help me even at the cost of his life!"
Granny Sha snorted, dispatching the Three Great Ghost Kings who possessed the ghost kings' bodies to block them and the wooden cart.
"Your Grandpa was old and muddle-headed too. A Zhuo raises evil Sui. Having been invaded by evil Qi long ago, he's muddled and deranged—he's probably already become an evil Sui! Entrusting you to him was just sending you to be his meal! As early as ten years ago, A Zhuo's condition was extremely unstable... Did you hear the bees? Just a moment ago, I heard the sound of bees!"
She was extremely nervous, using the ghost kings to block them in a technique called ghost-blind eyes. But ordinary ghost-blind eyes made ghosts obscure the opponent's eyes so that what they saw differed from reality—for instance, having ghosts blind someone so they failed to see a cliff ahead and accidentally fell to their deaths, or making them unable to see an incoming spell, failing to dodge it, and getting wiped out by the spell.
Yet Granny Sha's ghost-blind eyes masked themselves instead, keeping things outside from seeing them.
"Silence!" she whispered quietly.
Chen Shi could not help feeling somewhat nervous as well. Suddenly, he heard the buzzing vibration made by wing membranes in flight, followed by the sky abruptly plunging into darkness. A dense, oppressive swarm of bees flew past from above, heading toward Lake Danan.
The swarm moved with extreme speed. Suddenly, one of the bees seemed to sense something, abruptly folding back