Qin Manjiang's voice reminded everyone that, besides the Immortal Sheep and Li Rong, there was now Chen Ping too.
"The three ghosts kill in completely different ways. Li Rong is nothing but a head now, and we don't know why she kills."
"Chen Ping requires a wish. But from your description, making a wish to Chen Ping is extremely dangerous. He agreed to stay in place for fifteen minutes. How much time has passed?"
Zhong Xueran asked.
He Jian had been keeping track of the time. At her question, he answered almost without hesitation, "Four more minutes until he can move."
Zhong Xueran nodded. "At least he follows the rules."
"Not necessarily." Qin Manjiang offered another view.
He looked at He Jian and asked, "Shi's wish was to leave Xianyang Village alive after seven days, but you killed him before you left. In a sense, Shi's wish wasn't fulfilled."
"You mean, if 'Chen Ping' really followed the rules of granting wishes to the letter, he would have appeared to stop me when I helped Old Shi kill himself?" He Jian asked.
"Hard to say..."
Qin Manjiang didn't know how to put it either. The four of them kept moving, when suddenly... that feeling returned.
Just like when they first entered the village, they felt watched from every direction.
But there wasn't a single person in the village now. Who else could be watching?
He turned to look. Sure enough, black goats had appeared in the doors and windows of every house...
The longer you stared at goats, the more sinister they seemed.
For one thing, their pupils were unlike those of ordinary animals. Most pupils were round or vertical, but goats had eerily elongated pupils.
Seeing these goats, Qin Manjiang suddenly had a thought.
Since that Immortal Sheep could drag