"I'm a little curious too."
Xu Taiping peered through a gap in the bushes, then turned toward Gu Qingcheng, who sat quietly cross-legged beside him, and said:
"Miss Qingcheng, don't rush to kill Gou Dan just yet."
"Rest assured, young master. I can control the Heart-Eroding Vine's poison at will."
Gu Qingcheng smiled faintly at Xu Taiping, raising the heart-shaped mass of green light in her hand.
"Thud!..."
Just as they were speaking, the sound of something heavy striking the ground suddenly rang out. Even from several li away, Xu Taiping and the others could sense it clearly.
"A large fou containing a long-haired woman's head has fallen onto the clearing in front of the fire."
Gongshu Nanxing relayed what she saw to the others.
"Dong!"
In the mountain forest, the woman's head that had fallen from the sky without warning suddenly flew straight up, then slammed heavily against the large Human-Skin Fou.
It was called a Human-Skin Fou because bloody human heads hung all around it.
"Do you wish to live?"
"Do you wish to die?"
Amid the panic, the female ghost's head suddenly opened her mouth full of sharp teeth and repeatedly questioned the refugees.
At first, the refugees scrambled about in panic, until one of them, his mind breaking down, could no longer endure the voice. Covering his ears, he shouted:
"I want to die! Let me die!"
No sooner had he spoken than a bang rang out. The entire body of the refugee who had shouted that he wanted to die burst apart, leaving only a head that rolled beside the Human-Skin Fou.
The mountain forest, so noisy a moment before, fell silent in an instant.
Then, someone shouted "I want to live" first, and all the refugees throughout the forest shouted in unison-**"I want