"Village Chief Qian, could you stop scaring people for no reason?"
Li Pu patted his chest and rolled his eyes. "I think you were scared witless just now, and now you're hallucinating every time you look at something!"
"If these things wanted to attack us, why would they need to sneak around? They could just strike!"
"After all, they've got us surrounded, and they completely outnumber us!"
"If these Human Effigies were your army, would you let them just stand there like idiots?"
"I..." After hearing Li Pu's words, Village Chief Qian couldn't help rubbing his eyes. "I suppose you're right!"
"No!"
But just as Village Chief Qian admitted that his eyes might have been playing tricks on him, Ye Qianfan flatly contradicted Li Pu. "Look at the ground! There's a clear patch in the dust, exactly the shape of a Human Effigy's feet!"
"That means they really did move over there while we weren't paying attention!"
"S-Station Chief!"
Just then, Shen Lang spoke up as well. "These Human Effigies really... really can move!"
"What?"
Hearing Shen Lang's voice, Ye Qianfan hurriedly turned back.
The next second, he finally understood where Shen Lang's fear had come from. It wasn't just the Human Effigy in front of Village Chief Qian that had moved on its own. Countless Human Effigies had moved without any of them noticing.
Countless Human Effigies had already surrounded them. If they hadn't remained motionless whenever he watched them...
Ye Qianfan would have suspected that they were about to swarm forward and kill them the very next second!
"Th-these Human Effigies really can move!"
At that point, Village Chief Qian finally lost control of his terror. A rank smell rose from around his feet as he said, "They... they aren't ghosts, are they?"
"They're not ghosts, just some