Xu Qing and Erniu were completely and utterly incapable of fighting back or defending against this terrifying head. Along the way, they had been bound so thoroughly that nothing they had attempted had given any hint that they could free themselves. All their efforts had failed.

Upon being freed, and checking to see the head’s facial expression, Erniu inhaled sharply.

“Uh… does it want us to cook for it or something?”

Xu Qing was getting a sense of what the head wanted. Presumably, it had taken note of how his Eldest Brother summoned all of those corpses, which had saved it a lot of effort. In one fell swoop, it had acquired all the food it had been after there. That was what had led to it taking them captive. The reason he had been included probably had something to do with how he lent the power of his carving knife with its gray mist to the effort.

Xu Qing looked at Erniu. That’s most likely what’s going on here….