Everyone turned to look at the city gates, but they were empty.

Bei Yan Yungui sneered, "A regional tyrant, playing this kind of scare tactic? There are no timid beauties here to throw themselves into your arms!"

I smiled faintly, turned around, and said, "Tonight, we'll camp outside the city and bypass it tomorrow."

Shi Fei Daoren seemed to want to say something, but the words ultimately didn't leave his mouth.

The few of us set up a bonfire on the open ground away from the moat, taking it as our campsite.

I stood up and handed a can of food to Hua Zhongxian, "We're used to roughing it. We don't use tents when we camp. Just bear with it!"

Hua Zhongxian took the can. "Thank you for what happened today."

"Just martial world camaraderie! Nothing to thank me for." As I turned to walk back, Hua Zhongxian suddenly said, "Tonight, three people will come looking for you."

"The first one, you don't need to pay attention to him."

"The second one, you must believe him."

"The third one, you must kill him."

"Only in this way can you pass through Blackwater Fortress smoothly."

I was surprised. "How do you know someone will come looking for me tonight? Are you a fortuneteller?"

"No!" Hua Zhongxian said, "I can't explain it to you. In any case, this is my advice to you."

Hua Zhongxian stopped talking and began to eat the canned food in small bites.

When I sat down by the fire, Feng Ruoxing said, "What did you see during the day?"

I casually said, "I didn't see anything. I was just trying to scare them."

"However, I have a very bad feeling about this Blackwater Fortress."

"I always feel that Blackwater Fortress shouldn't just be a fortress on the road of exile."

I pointed in the direction of Blackwater Fortress and said, "As a military fortress, it's true that Blackwater Fortress blocks the main road."

"The problem is that the mountains on both sides of Blackwater Fortress are too easy to climb."

"If enemy troops were to attack the fortress, they could directly bombard Blackwater Fortress as soon as they climbed the mountains."

"This may not be a place to station troops!"

I paused. "Also, don't you think Shi Fei Daoren's performance has been very contradictory all along?"

"When we first met Shi Fei Daoren, he had one attitude."

"When he came to find us and invited us to compete, he had another attitude."

"When we got to Ghost Gate Mountain, his attitude changed a third time."

"I feel like those were three people, not one person."

Feng Ruoxing said, "I have the same feeling. I can't tell the real Shi Fei Daoren from the fake one."

As I was speaking, I suddenly saw the flames on the bonfire suddenly jump up half a foot.

In the instant the intense flames hit my face, I simply waved my hand outwards, and the bonfire was completely extinguished.

My first reaction was to look at Hua Zhongxian, but Feng Ruoxing was one step ahead of me, pressing her dagger against her neck. "Don't move."

Hua Zhongxian said calmly, "The first person I mentioned has arrived."

I followed Hua Zhongxian's gaze and saw Shi Fei Daoren standing not far from me, covered in blood. "Li Po, leave quickly! Take that prisoner and go!"

"Blackwater Fortress has been captured. It's a forbidden area for ghosts and gods inside. Everyone inside is dead. Leave quickly!"

"If you don't leave now, it'll be too late!"

I looked at him coldly and said, "You said Blackwater Fortress was captured. By whom? How did the people inside die?"

"The dead are passing themselves off as the living," Shi Fei Daoren said sharply. "Many people have died on this journey."

"After those people died, they mingled among us."

Shi Fei Daoren said urgently, "Think carefully. How many strange things have you seen on this journey?"

"Haven't you noticed any of those things?"

As Shi Fei Daoren spoke, several scenes flashed through my mind in quick succession.

The person escorting Gui Kui once sat under a tree with Gui Kui.

That person tilted his head at the time. When he stood up, I seemed to see that his steps were a little unsteady.

Also, the person escorting Lie Tian Jingang stumbled several times over a stone while passing it.

Finally, the person next to him pushed him, and then he walked past.

The newly dead can only walk in a straight line.

If we add the three people who fell into the water at the Reincarnation Department, at least five dead people that I saw have been traveling with us.

Then what about the people I didn't see?

Shi Fei Daoren said, "And the people around you. Can you guarantee that none of them have died?"

Alarmed, I turned to look at Feng Ruoxing in the distance.

I had been sitting next to Feng Ruoxing just now, but I hadn't felt her breathing.

And Wang Xiaohuan.

Huanzi, a person who loves to talk so much, why hasn't he said a word since we entered Ghost Gate Mountain?

Ye Yang?

According to Ye Yang's temper, he should have killed that toad-mouthed guy when he kept provoking him, but why hasn't he made a move?

I haven't been separated from them on this journey.

But, I wasn't by their side when I went to make seafood noodles for Hua Zhongxian.

Hua Zhongxian kills people silently!

When I looked at Hua Zhongxian in horror, another scene suddenly appeared in my mind.

Wang Xiaohuan bought incense and candles for Hua Zhongxian, which are things for the dead to eat.

Wang Xiaohuan has a habit of buying himself snacks when he goes to the supermarket!