"It's all registered!" The two hurriedly brought out the registration book. "Everyone who left or returned is accounted for."
The Kee Clan Leader glanced at it and asked, "What about Jason Kee and Mason Kee? Why did they leave but never come back?"
"No, they registered, but before they could leave, the barrier closed," the gatekeeper said, pointing at Grace and Mr. Wang.
The Clan Leader gave them a look and asked, "It's this late—where were you two headed?"
Grace didn't dare speak and glanced at Mr. Wang.
Mr. Wang quickly replied, "I needed to pee and wanted to go outside. But I was scared to go alone, so I asked Jason Kee to come with me."
Grace nodded hurriedly.
The Kee Clan Leader stared at Grace's ridiculously bright eyes and asked, "Jason Kee, why haven't you said a word? Are you mute?"
Grace's palms were sweating. She steeled herself and suddenly used her spiritual power to injure her own throat, then rasped out in a hoarse voice, "Clan Leader, I ate a Mute Fruit from the mountain yesterday, so I can't speak."
Yesterday, on the mountain where Grace caught Jason Kee and Mason Kee, she found a Mute Fruit.
"Mute Fruit? Why would you eat Mute Fruit? Don't you know it's not edible?"
Grace glared at Mr. Wang and said resentfully, "It's all his fault! He played a prank and dripped Mute Fruit juice into my jerky!"
"Really?" The Clan Leader looked over at Mason Kee.
Mr. Wang, feeling guilty, said, "I... I was just joking around with him..."
The Clan Leader gave the two of them a dark look, then said, "Someone, gather everyone who went out tonight!"
"Yes, sir!"
Kee Clan warriors came over and called out everyone listed in the registry who had gone out, lining them up in a row.
Everyone was terrified, not knowing what the Clan Leader would do to them.
The diligent Kee Clan registrar, seeing how scared everyone was, swore, "Clan Leader, I can stake my life on it—no one took out anything big when they left."
However, the Clan Leader said, "Some people can take out big things and you wouldn't even see it."
"Huh?" The Kee Clan youth looked confused.
"Big Brother, come check their pulses." The Kee Clan Leader called for James Kee.
In this world, some disguise techniques are impossible to guard against.
And the demon clan's shape-shifting magic is just as hard to tell apart from the real thing.
But a person's pulse can't be faked.
James Kee nodded and stepped over to check their pulses.
...
Grace's mind was racing.
She's a woman—James Kee would know with just one touch.
If they uncover her real identity... Great! She'd be volunteering herself as tomb bait!
They really walked right into this trap without any effort!
She glanced at the barrier exit from earlier... It was gone.
The entire area beneath the Kee Clan Ancestral Tomb was sealed off by the barrier.
What should she do?
Is there any medicine that could change her pulse so she'd seem like a man?
She checked her stash—no luck, she didn't have anything like that...
James Kee only did a quick pulse check, moving fast.
Soon, it was Mr. Wang's turn, right next to Grace.
James Kee grabbed his hand and placed two fingers on his wrist.
Grace wasn't too worried about him.
After all, he's a man.
As long as they don't dig too deep, there shouldn't be any problem.
But what about her?
How could she possibly avoid James Kee's pulse test?
Just as she was worrying, James Kee's face suddenly changed. He shouted, "You're not human!"
At that moment, Mr. Wang was engulfed in a flash of green light and began to transform.