At ten that night, the finished scarecrow was planted in the field.
They split into two teams: one to watch the scarecrow, and the other to search the village for anything else that might happen.
They would switch every hour.
Chen Miao and Kyoko Kuroda took the first watch over the scarecrow.
But a full hour passed without anything happening.
Chen Miao kept sensing his surroundings the entire time, but detected nothing.
Then the two teams switched, and everything remained quiet.
It was not until nearly two in the morning that Chen Miao noticed something unusual.
While he was patrolling with Kyoko Kuroda, Yin Control detected an anomaly.
Through his perception of yin energy, he sensed something entering the Thatched-Roof Old Village and disturbing the yin energy there.
The thing was moving, too. Judging by its direction, it seemed to be heading toward the field where Koji Hosokawa and Miyuki Yamazaki were stationed.
Besides the thing stirring up the yin energy, he sensed two people!
The thing itself was not running. Those two people were carrying it.
Chen Miao gave nothing away. Once they came a little closer, he released the Mystic Mirror.
Compared with what the Mystic Mirror revealed, what Yin Control showed him was still rather indistinct.
With the Mystic Mirror hanging high overhead, Chen Miao got a clear look at the two men.
"Hurry up, Matsumoto! What are you looking around for?"
Watching Matsumoto Taizo skulking along with the scarecrow on his shoulder made Kitamura Toshio furious.
"Kitamura, I'm afraid someone will see us!"
Matsumoto Taizo said.
"Idiot! It's already half past one! This isn't like those other times when it was ten or eleven at night. Who would still be out?"
Kitamura Toshio walked over and slapped Matsumoto on the head.
Although Matsumoto was a