Dai Lin, from the perspective of a villager, found the situation in the village utterly terrifying.
His eyes peered deeper into the White Mist, but he discovered no further anomalies.
"Wait a minute, something's not right?"
Having fully assimilated He Yun's memories, Dai Lin was very clear about everything that had happened during the previous night's patrol. Village Chief Ge had a lot of trust in He Yun, even protecting him, but He Yun also didn't understand why the village chief had protected him in that way.
And it was precisely because he knew what had happened the night before that Dai Lin was puzzled.
Why didn't the dark shadow in the White Mist just transform directly into Lin Tai? That way, once the patrol was over, nobody would notice anything amiss, as they would have no recollection of Lin Tai being dragged into the White Mist and replaced.