"You wouldn't want to be discovered and then surrounded yourselves, would you?"
Wan Lan let out a long sigh toward the sky and took half a step back.
"Besides cucumbers, do you have anything a little more normal?"
She wasn't asking for a normal disguise, just one that wasn't too bizarre.
"Uh... yes."
Ye Buyu blinked. "Didn't we run into some people earlier? Calamities with plants growing on their heads. We'll imitate them."
"Grow a cucumber on our heads?"
"Pfft..." Ye Buyu laughed at that. "Of course not. Some seaweed."
Wan Lan closed her eyes. "I knew I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. Let's stick with cucumbers. At least they're neat and simple. I don't want to look like a ghost."
In the end, three Calamities wearing cucumber headpieces emerged: one skipping cheerfully, one brimming with vigor, and one questioning her life.
"Hey, you three over there! What things are you?"
Wan Lan abruptly looked over. "You're the thing! Stop asking if you don't want to die!"
The bone-chilling killing intent made the questioning Calamity turn away sheepishly and pretend not to have seen them.
After all, any Calamity who could move around here might well be one of the Rift's higher-ups. As for outside Calamities, there was no way they could reach this place alive.
At most, they would be brought here as sacrifices, just like the old, weak, sick, and disabled from before.
Ye Buyu gave her a thumbs-up. "That's my mighty Big Sis Lan!"
Wan Lan rolled her eyes at her and urged, "Let's get moving."
Lou Guanshan swept his large hand forward, planted a foot on a rock, and pointed ahead, looking rather like a commander surveying the battlefield.
"Victory lies ahead! Charge!"
Ye Buyu and Wan Lan turned at the same time and gestured