No matter how those people tried to flee, a mass of water weeds bound them and dragged them back.
Then they were hauled underwater in neat rows.
Along the way, they tried fighting back, shrieking, and threatening him with the Prince's Mansion. None of it worked.
The Ghost King had been single for four or five hundred years. Having just learned that he had a child, he was beside himself with excitement and wished he could rush out to find him right away.
But he did not even know who the child was, and those memories had not returned. All he could do was arrange those people in neat rows, return underwater, and wait expectantly with sparkling eyes.
Even Lan Yue was burning with curiosity by now. Why did the Ghost King's child have anything to do with Prince Lin's Mansion?
"Where's my child?" When the Ghost King heard no more inner thoughts, he secretly bared his claws and fangs at that man.
The group nearly fainted. Never in their lives had they met someone who turned the tables and blamed his victims like this. Had they known this Ghost King was such a shameless scoundrel, they would have brought more people no matter what!
Meanwhile, Lan Yue had already begun quietly savoring the juicy spectacle.
[Lan Yue: The Ghost King lost his son, and these people came looking for a child. Doesn't that mean... the Ghost King's son is among the people right in front of him?]
That inner thought from Lan Yue stunned even the furious Ghost King.
Jiang Xia quickly withdrew his claws and fangs, cautiously looking around.
[Lan Yue: *Oh my, this really is quite a show! It really does pay to get out more. The Ghost King's son is actually the youngest boy standing right