Thinking of this, I broke out in a cold sweat.
If it was really as I suspected, then it was far too terrifying.
The old guys on the mountain could create substitute people. That meant Gongshu Ce, Gongshu Zan, and Gongshu Tong might very well have been replaced by substitute people. But according to Mo Wang, substitute people were merely stand-ins. They carried out the original host's mental commands; they were simply bodies that obeyed their master's will.
If that was true, were the real Gongshu Ce and the others on the mountain? Or perhaps they were not substitute people at all, but puppet people created by those on the mountain. In that case, everything Gongshu Ce and the others had been stirring up below the mountain was actually the will of those old guys above.
Also, aside from Old Ghost, Gongshu Yi and Mo Xuan both seemed deeply dissatisfied with the old guys on the mountain, and they both harbored suspicions.
I was even beginning to wonder whether those old guys were really the ancestors of the two families.
All of a sudden, I found this forbidden zone rather interesting.
Goudan'er, Jiang Xiaohui, and I had already arrived at the foot of the mountain.
Quite a few people from both families had gathered there, including Gongshu Yi and Mo Xuan.
The two seemed to be arguing over something.
"Mr. Jiang, it's good that you're here!" Gongshu Yi let out a long breath when he saw me. He continued, "Mo Xuan wants to take people up the mountain. Please talk him out of it."
I looked at Mo Xuan. He said, "I suspect that this underground city incident is connected to those old guys on the mountain. I even doubt whether they are truly the ancestors of our two families,