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"": "The Town Chief said calmly, almost indifferently, "I have to answer to everyone in this town. Before you came here, evil spirits only entered houses to observe people. Only those who couldn't contain their fear were taken away, killed, and possibly turned into evil spirits. There had never been an instance of an evil spirit killing someone in front of others to frighten them."
"Have the evil spirits changed, or did your arrival change them?"
All at once, the gazes around them grew heavier, every one scrutinizing Luo Bin and Gu Yiren.
A sudden chill gripped Luo Bin's heart.
This Town Chief was no ordinary man!
Or perhaps Luo Bin had been too caught up in his own predicament... and overlooked the other consequences this incident might bring.
But even if he had considered the repercussions of an evil spirit entering the house to kill someone, he couldn't have changed the outcome.
Flee that little two-story house?
Then the killer wouldn't have been the evil spirit. It would have been him!
Stay there, and the entire town was bound to notice. This confrontation was inevitable!
Luo Bin had been caught in an impossible position.
During that brief moment of thought,
the Town Chief spoke again. "If tonight, or the night after tomorrow, or the following night, evil spirits still come to kill people near you, that will prove your arrival changed them. For the peace of Cabinet Mountain Town, I ask for your understanding."
"If the evil spirits have merely changed on their own, then you'll be safe."
The gazes of the people around them turned convinced.
Luo Bin kept staring fixedly at the Town Chief, but beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.
He finally understood why the Town Chief could remain the Town