"What if you count me in?"
Yan Xiao's voice was as cold as his scalpel.
Seeing him emerge, Qin Manjiang immediately took the finger out of his pocket and threw it away.
"We can't withstand a ghost's power," Qin Manjiang said as he walked toward her, "but if you really had a Vengeful Ghost backing you up, like you said, you wouldn't have chosen to fake your death."
"The fact that you did only proves you don't have much of the Vengeful Ghost's power. And not only can you suffer physical injuries, but your exposure would also have a tremendous impact on the Vengeful Ghost."
"For example... if we killed you, would the consciousness it placed inside you be wiped out along with you?"
There was no shortage of threat in Qin Manjiang's words.
But just then, Yan Xiao's expression changed. "They're here."
They?
Qin Manjiang glanced at Chen Yu. Did he mean those half-human, half-pig monsters Chen Yu had mentioned while disguised as Swimming Fish?
Apparently, they were extremely fast. With this woman in tow, there was no way they could escape now.
"Come on. Over there."
Yan Xiao reacted quickly too. His gaze swept their surroundings, and he soon found a hollow in the ground.
With the scalpel pressed against Chen Yu's neck, he pushed her along, and all three lay down in the hollow. The little mound rising in front of them was just enough to conceal them.
"It's no use. They have a very good sense of smell," Chen Yu said calmly.
She had no choice. Her allegiance had been fixed on the ghosts' side from the beginning. To survive, she could only do this.
"Except in the fog," Yan Xiao said, glancing at her. "Right?"
Chen Yu said nothing more. Yan Xiao knew more than