My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

Enraged by Hua Ran's outburst, the baby girl's biological father pushed her away and ran outside.

Hua Ran clutched her chest and hissed.

The throbbing pain in his chest was wearing him down.

Hanazon lowered his head and gasped for breath. Inugami came over to help him up.

"He went out. Should we chase after him? There's still that blood-soaked Qilin outside. I... I definitely can't beat it. And you can't join the battle right now."

Hua Ran waved her hand, indicating that she didn't know why she was in pain.

He realized, however, that it wouldn't kill him.

“There’s something strange about that Qilin outside. Although you smelled blood, I don’t think the Qilin that everyone talks about is dead.”

"The Qilin didn't die? No... They all say they ate the Qilin and it didn't die. If it was just a bite wound, it wouldn't look like that outside."

Hua Ran now understands somewhat, but she's unsure of what to do, so she doesn't dare tell anyone.

He simply said, "Let's take a look first."

Immediately afterwards, the blood-stained Qilin outside disappeared.

The dog sniffed the air intently. "Hey, the smell of blood is gone too."

Qiao Dawang boldly stretched out half of his body to look around, and found that there really were no more Qilin outside.

But soon, he realized something was wrong.

"There are people! Many people are coming out of the fog."

Look, sure enough, men and women are emerging from the mist.

The baby girl's biological father ran outside and saw the people. He shouted, "The Qilin is back! It's back! It's not dead, but... but we can't get out either..."

Not only did the man surnamed Qiao refuse to leave with us before, but now a woman has come and refuses to leave with us too…”

Hua Ran and the others were watching the people outside.

Suddenly, it dawned on him that these people were the villagers who had disappeared in the hut along with Qiao Zan and Qiao Yu.

How did they get out?

Where did Qiao Zan and Qiao Yu, whom the wife mentioned, go?

Hua Ran thought that while he was dealing with things here, his wife must have been doing something as well.

What those people said next left everyone speechless.

A woman said, "Brother, which woman said we can't get out?"

The baby girl's biological father pursed his lips, "She's already... already injured by me, and is now unconscious. There are... there are other people inside."

"several?"

"Just three..."

The baby girl's biological father had a smile on his face when he said this.

The men and women there were also smiling.

One of them said, "Why don't we kill them all? There are more of us than them... They are outsiders, and if they can't get out, then there's nothing we can do. Eating their flesh is better than eating the rotten flesh here."

Another chimed in, "All three are men? Then let's leave them for the women first... then we can eat them, how about that?"

On Qiao Dawang's side, all three of them had very sharp ears.

Rather, none of the three were human.

They heard it very clearly.

Qiao Dawan pursed his lips.

"I've always been the one who eats people, this is the first time I've heard that someone wants to eat me... I, I'm actually a little scared."

Hua Ran chuckled.

"As I predicted, look, more black liquid is flowing from those people's eyes. They are also more gloomy, and even their faces are more ashen, neither human nor ghost."

He shook his head slightly.

"Then we'll see how much humanity they have left. You don't mind playing along, do you?"

Qiao Dawan swallowed hard. "Master is not awake yet and cannot give me orders, so I will do whatever you say."

Hua Ran twirled the tassel on the hem of her dress, her mind already racing with thoughts.

But actually, the reason these people came out is a little earlier in time.

About two hours ago.

With one of her souls covering the corpse, Joey walked like a normal person, breaking the spell and entering the small house that Joey had initially entered.

The person disappeared in this place; at least the tall, thin man wasn't lying about that.

After entering, Joey looked around and began to draw talismans on the surrounding walls using her own blood.

That wasn't all; even after all the talismans were drawn, the entire hut remained unchanged.

Qiao Yi then said to the air, "Qilin, if you want to see if I have any real skills, you have to give me some face and let me do things, right?"

"If I didn't care about being exposed, do you think my yang energy wouldn't be enough to break through your formation?"

The system was still wondering: could this surviving Qilin really listen?

Then, the blood-red symbols on the wall vanished instantly, and the floor of the room collapsed.

Inside were some men and women, as well as Qiao Zan and Qiao Yu.

At first, all of these people were unconscious.

To avoid exposing herself, Qiao Yi brought Qiao Zan and Qiao Yu out, ignoring the other men and women, and told them to leave on their own after they woke up.

At this moment, Joey was in a small house where there was no one and no corpses. She took a chair and sat down at the door.

A moment later, there was movement inside the room, and Qiao Zan and Qiao Yu woke up.

"This is... my sister? No, Yiyi, you should have regained your previous memories. For you, we were only siblings for half a lifetime."

Joey didn't respond.

Qiao Yu didn't really care; he just wanted to go straight out.

But at the doorway, Joey raised her foot to block her way.

"Qiao Yu, your system isn't working, is it?"

After he said this, Qiao Yu was slightly stunned, and Qiao Zan was also surprised.

"Ah Yu, your system isn't working? I didn't hear you mention it. What happened?"

Qiao Yu's face remained expressionless as he simply said, "I'll handle this myself. And Big Brother, we should hurry up and find out who guided us in the dream. We shouldn't stay here any longer. Yiyi, since you're here, come with us."

Joey shrugged.

"Who do you think guided the people of this village and you here in your dream?"

Qiao Yu looked at Qiao Yi with a puzzled expression.

"What are you talking about? I don't understand. Of course it's that shadow monster. Who else could it be but her, bewitching people in their dreams?"

"Ah~ does that shadow monster also bewitch you in your dreams like this?"

Upon hearing this, Qiao Yu immediately turned around.

"What do you mean?! As a ghost hunter, how could I possibly associate with that shadow monster, much less be bewitched by it!"

Qiao Yi sighed, "Qiao Yu, you're too excited. So it's simple, do you want to be judged by me? Let's enter the consciousness space together and stand on the scales together."

Qiao Yu didn't speak, but took a step back.

Qiao Zan was even more puzzled.

"Yiyi, you mean Ayu...she was bewitched by the shadow monster in her dream...Then why am I okay? I didn't dream about the shadow monster, and my system is still working..."

Qiao Yu suddenly stood in front of Qiao Zan.

"Brother...Joey doesn't trust us, so she's doing this to deliberately sow discord!"

Joey clicked her tongue. "Then let's have a trial!"