"You're the one who isn't fucking human! Shut up!"
Shen Lang grew irritated and slapped the Night Watchman's head.
At once, the Night Watchman's head, along with the newly grown heap of organs attached to it, tumbled to the ground in a clattering cascade, splashing blood everywhere.
"Urgh... heh heh heh..."
Yet the Night Watchman found pleasure in its pain. It continued its eerie laughter. "Does your refusal to admit it make it any less true?"
"That brother of yours is actually just a monster like me!"
"He isn't human! Heh heh heh..."
The Night Watchman kept laughing eerily, and Fugui could no longer stand listening.
Still, he was somewhat afraid of that bizarre head, so rather than strike it directly as Shen Lang had, he gathered a heap of straw from a corner of the room and dumped it over the Night Watchman's head and newly grown organs.
Only then did Fugui turn to Shen Lang. "Shen Lang, don't waste your breath on that inhuman thing!"
"It's deliberately trying to drive a wedge between us. Let's hurry up and finish the mission first!"
"Once we get out, there's bound to be a way to save Brother Ye."
"All right! Let's go."
Taking Fugui's advice, Shen Lang went straight to the bedside and prepared to hoist Ye Qianfan onto his shoulder again, intending to take him to the graveyard so they could clear the trial together.
But just then...
Bang!
The Roving Exorcist Disciple kicked open the dilapidated house's wooden door. "So this is where you've been hiding!"
"What do you want?" Shen Lang immediately stopped what he was doing and glared at the Roving Exorcist Disciple. "Anyone who enters uninvited is a thief! I never invited you inside. What's the meaning of this?"
"We agreed to share clues. You