The Eerie Shadow Child seemed a little stunned.
Che Quan, meanwhile, chose another horse without looking back.
His crimson eyes fixed on his new choice, and the next second, another child's Wraith silhouette appeared before them.
The child sat on the horse, its eyes a horrifying expanse of white, but the sight of Che Quan somehow made it look nervous and lost.
It lasted less than two seconds before the Eerie Shadow Child let out a wail and jumped off the horse, its blue-green silhouette vanishing from sight like smoke.
Zhou Zi and Ke Yue were both dumbfounded.
You could do that?
Seeing everyone looking at him, Che Quan said expressionlessly, "If children misbehave, shouldn't they get hit?"
When he had made mistakes as a child, getting away with a single slap had been an act of mercy.
Ke Yue asked, trembling, "Won't that make them angry?"
Che Quan frowned slightly, not particularly inclined to answer such a pointless question.
Seeing this, Jiang Cong explained for him in an even voice, "Try treating them like ordinary children."
With Jiang Cong's words and Che Quan's "example" to follow, the others cautiously tried doing the same.
Zhou Zi merely forced a smile and did her best to gently, patiently persuade the "child" on her horse to leave.
Qu Yan simply lifted the "child" off her horse. It immediately flew into a rage and opened a gaping, bloody maw full of serrated teeth, poised to bite a chunk out of her arm.
Without batting an eye, Qu Yan shifted her grip to the back of its collar and held it away from her. "Good children don't go around biting people."
The "child" froze. Its all-white eyes blinked twice before it reluctantly closed its mouth.
It looked just like an ordinary child who had