[as long as there's no flash of green eyes in that thicket there...]

I heard some close by at the onset, but they seem to have moved off. We may not know a thing of what they're managing until it's over, but that would mean they are successfully keeping the Many-Eyes away from us. I...

[if it's not the small spirit with its twitchy tail, there is a green-eyes nearby enough to affect him - Cao Pi breaks off as a shadow rises up over the hill in the other direction. Someone's been doing its homework, because the shadow takes the form of one of the Hydra's big ol snake heads. Just the one, though, and much like the last time Zihuan and Kuai saw it, it just sort of wavers like a charmed cobra. This time? He's not fooled.]

Damn! One of them is here. Find it, don't aim for the serpent but whoever is conjuring it.