The moment I heard that, my heart skipped a beat.
Should I answer or not? Stop or keep going?
Almost instantly, I made my decision. I pretended not to hear and kept walking forward.
Maybe I could bluff my way through. Otherwise, how was I supposed to answer?
So I kept walking without stopping.
The voice behind me rang out again.
"I'm talking to you!"
I still did not stop and continued onward...
If I really had no other choice, I would just casually answer him.
And if that did not work, I would make this a quick fight and kill him immediately.
That would ensure my cover was not blown...
My hand had already tightened around the Fish Bone Sword.
Though I had prepared for the worst, the sea-mutated fish-scale ghost gave up questioning me after asking those two things.
It merely continued in its hoarse voice.
"Can't even talk. Another stupid ghost..."
With that, the fish-scale ghost continued onward.
Seeing that it had stopped questioning me and was moving away, I quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
But from its words, I picked up two crucial pieces of information.
First, my face and body had not undergone sea mutation, so I would stand out completely here.
Second, there were ghosts here who had come in from outside.
Just now, it had taken me for a newly arrived stupid ghost...
All of this was thanks to the Phantom Moon Cloak. Otherwise, I would definitely have been exposed.
With that in mind, I felt that I needed to disguise myself a little.
I walked while thinking.
But how was I supposed to imitate fish scales? Since I could not imitate them, I would just make sure they could not see me.
I decided to pretend to be hunchbacked and walk