This feeling was truly unpleasant.
As I moved through a crowd of ghosts, watching their hungry gazes and the drool that nearly dripped from their mouths, goosebumps rose all over my body.
Ye Jinghong looked disgusted. When she spotted a Kui staring at her with drool a foot long hanging from its mouth, she said coldly, "If anyone looks at us like that again, I'll make its soul scatter."
She meant what she said.
The moment she finished speaking, she revealed her halberd, and the watching Kui showed a little more fear in their eyes.
"Why lower yourself to their level, Miss Ye? They're just a bunch of country bumpkins. Besides, no living humans have appeared in our Kui Clan for a very long time, so that's why they're acting this way."
Fifth Kui explained, though his tone no longer carried the respect it had before.
"Oh? Has it really been that long since any living people came here?" I asked.
Fifth Kui nodded. "Yes. It's been about ten years. The last time living people came to the village was ten years ago."
"I see." I put on an enlightened expression.
Fifth Kui seemed somewhat curious. "Does Mr. Jiang not believe me?"
I shook my head. "Not exactly. It's just that two friends of mine arrived before us, and I thought they might be in the village."
"Mr. Jiang's friends? Are they humans too?"
I said they were, of course. I was probing him, trying to find out whether the doctor was in the Kui Clan. He had said he would wait for me in the next ghost village. Wasn't Kui Village the next ghost village after the Charm Village?
Unless that doctor had merely been bluffing, he should have hidden in Kui Village long ago.
Yet Fifth Kui did