Shen Fei was not particularly brave, but she was intensely curious. She refused to believe there were Puppets in the marsh. Seeing Yuyin and the others hiding behind a rock, Shen Fei ventured out alone, her long sword in hand as she marched toward the swamp.
She had researched this sword specifically to counter Puppets; it could slice through iron like mud and possessed immense power.
Yuyin and Song Lian stood back-to-back. One poked half her head out to survey the marsh, while the other peered in terror at the woods behind them. They had not expected to be caught in a pincer attack. From the marsh, more than a dozen skull-headed Puppets erupted like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. From the woods behind them, a multitude of half-rotten, semi-corpse Puppets charged out; they looked as though they hadn't been dead for long, still draped in tattered rags.
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