Before Big Black Tooth could finish speaking, another one of his comrades let out a shrill scream, then immediately collapsed with blood flowing from all seven orifices. Even Big Black Tooth couldn't maintain his composure any longer.
At this moment, it was unclear who shouted first, "There's a ghost, everyone run for your lives!"
The group scattered in a panic, bolting towards the outside of the villa, abandoning even the excavators at the construction site, wishing they had more legs to aid their escape.
Just then, a Qiuchi as thick as an adult's thigh coiled itself around one of the excavators, its eyes emitting a green, ghostly glow, watching the fleeing men with disdain, its mouth slightly opening and closing as if mocking them. Then it slithered down from the excavator and approached the three corpses that had succumbed to poisoning, swallowing them whole before leisurely burrowing into the ground and disappearing.
