"That eunuch is simply a cruel tyrant. He won't come up with tortures like live dismemberment or slow slicing next, will he?"
Gu Rongjie suddenly felt that being torn apart by a chariot was acceptable after all—at least that punishment would kill swiftly, unlike the present suffering.
"So 'scarecrow' actually means using real people, not straw."
Zhou Ya's mouth tasted bitter; she thought she had a chance to be a scarecrow, but she didn't realize it meant this.
"This is not the work of that damned eunuch!"
Lin Baici's expression turned grave as he walked towards those scarecrows.
"What?"
Everyone was astonished.
"If not him, then who?"
Guo Zheng's mind was racing: "Could it be the work of a monster? But aren't the monsters crows? Or could it be that what Wang Mingfu described as 'crow people' isn't the kind of bird we're accustomed to, but rather a type of 'Crow person'?"
