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“We shouldn’t have brought the body with us,” Joe suddenly said. “Now that these fish-men, or whatever they are, return to their lair, they’ll find out that we’ve figured them out. And Petro and Kolyan are good guys, of course, but they don’t have iron tongues – I bet half the village knows about the cursed statue now. We should have set up an ambush right there; maybe we would have caught the bandits by night. But now, I doubt we’ll ever find them, unless they’re complete fools.”