Soon, some of the bolder examinees joined in the shouting.
"Vegetable Gardener, are you a mouse or a cat?"
More and more people joined the cries, and gusts of chilly wind swept past.
Inside the circle, all the Cat-Headed Men's eyes gleamed as they grinned at the Vegetable Gardener and called, "Vegetable Gardener, are you a mouse or a cat?"
The Vegetable Gardener turned cold all over, as though he had fallen into an ice cavern.
If he chose mouse, he might be caught, and might even have his abilities absorbed.
If he chose cat, his role in the game would change.
If he refused to choose, he would very likely be expelled from the game.
The cruelest part of that question was that it had already singled him out as the "Vegetable Gardener," rather than treating him as a Game Child.
The Vegetable Gardener gritted his teeth and answered, "I'm a cat!"
Then the Vegetable Gardener's head transformed into that of a black-and-white cat.
Li Qingxian opened his Spirit Eye and looked at the cat-headed Vegetable Gardener.
The two masses of eerie qi on him underwent a clear change. The eerie qi belonging to the Vegetable Gardener abruptly weakened, while that belonging to the Vegetable-Chopping Child gradually grew stronger.
The cat-headed Vegetable Gardener slowly turned his head ninety degrees to look at Li Qingxian, his aged feline face contorting.
Li Qingxian smiled, closed his eyes, and sent his consciousness into his fate mansion.
Inside the fate mansion, a familiar scene appeared overhead.
A pale, cabbage-shaped ball of flesh hovered high above. It bore some resemblance to the Weird Mother's fate mold back then, but in size, aura, and the feeling it gave off, it was nowhere near comparable.
Back then, the Weird Mother had three fate-threads connected to his