Chapter 264: The Ghosts Are as the Living

“Precisely,” Qi Si affirmed with a nod. In the flickering lamplight, the smile on his lips looked positively ghoulish. “Straw is highly flammable, as are these wooden buildings. A single spark, a gust of wind—that’s all it would take to incinerate the entire town.”

“General Meng demonstrated that quite effectively back in the day, and the results speak for themselves. Why shouldn’t we pay tribute to his methods? The hints in those letters, the ones that seemed so irrelevant to the instance’s main plot, were crystal clear, don’t you think?”

“If we weren’t meant to burn the town down, why would the instance provide us with that information in the first place?”

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