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  The shop owner seemed to have reached a highly emotional point in his versation. His head slightly swayed, and during this brief moment, Zh saw the person standing in front of the shop owner. He froze for a moment, and then, as if greatly frightened, quickly recoiled.

  He lost trol of his arm and actally knocked over the dle on the dlestick.

  Just as the dle was about to hit the floor, a hand swiftly caught it and quickly retur to its p the dlestick.

  Jiang g grabbed Zh, signaling with his eyes, and the two quietly retreated, pushing open a door and slipping into a room.

  Almost immediately after the door closed, there was a faint "creak—" sound, like a heavy door being pushed open.

  Moments ter, hurried and forceful footsteps came from outside. The person seemed to pause for a moment before heading straight for the door of the room where the two were hiding.

  The clear sound of keys g rang out. Zh's heart skipped a beat. He hadn’t expected that the shop owill had a spare key.

  With the click of the lock opening, the door ushed open. Footsteps entered, followed by sounds of rummaging. But he was destio find nothing. Jiang g and Zh were hiding in Room 308, across from their current location, Room 307.

  The shop owner searched for a while, seemingly finding no signs of anyone's presence, and the. He returo the wall in front of the hidden room, and after some rustling sounds, the area fell silent.

  However, Jiang g and Zh didn’t move. They kept their breathing as loossible.

  One minute passed, then two, and just as the third minute was about to end, clear footsteps were heard once again, this time much closer. Afterward, there was a scraping sound, and the area returo silence.

  Still, her Jiang g nor Zh moved.

  Five mier, the process repeated once more before the two of them quietly left the room.

  But instead of going downstairs to meet their teammates, they headed to a er on the sed floor.

  "Mr. Zhou," Jiang g said, pretending to be extremely frightened, l his voice, "What did you just see?"

  Zh looked even more terrified than Jiang g. But this wasn’t an act; his breathing hadn’t settled yet.

  Earlier, when he had hidden behind the door of Room 308, peering through the crack, he saw the shop owner, no lohe friendly figure from yesterday, but now with a twisted, hideous face.

  What was even more frightening was that he was holding a gleaming sharp knife.

  If they had been discovered, the oute would have beeable.

  "The hidden room... there’s a woman in the hidden room besides the shop owner," Zh said, his face growing darker as he recalled the se. "She’s not his wife. She's an old woman, sitting on a wooden chair, half of her face appears to have melted away, leaving only one eye. Her nose and lips are gone!"

  Jiang g’s pupils narrowed slightly.

  "Mr. Yin," Zh suddenly grabbed Jiang g's wrist, speaking quickly. "I know you're not an ordinary person. You should have noticed that this task is different from anything we've done before. This time, we didn’t even have a rookie to pair with us."

  Jiang g didn’t respond, but gave him a look that seemed to say, "I'm scared too, but I’ll keep listening."

  Zh, however, didn’t pay attention to that, speaking rapidly: "I've successfully pleted five tasks, this is the sixth. But I think this mission is harder than all the previous ones bined. And something already happened before we eveered the domain... I have a really bad feeling about this."

  Ign Zh’s ramblings about how dangerous the task was and how amazing he was, Jiang g raised his head, cutting to the chase: "What do you mean by ‘domain’?"

  Zh froze for a moment, looking at Jiang g with a mix of fusion and suspi. But it sted only a sed before he returo his normal demeanor.

  "It’s the range in which spirits act or interfere," he expined.

  "So, you mean Anping Town isn’t within the range where spirits reach or interfere?" Jiang g tered.

  Zh nodded. "Based on my judgment, it should be like that."

  Jiang g didn’t dig further into how Zh made this judgment. There were two reasons: first, time ressing, and if they deyed much lohe people downstairs might notiething was off; sed, there was o, sihis was a blind spot for him, so no matter how Zh expi, Jiang g couldn't verify it.

  Rather than ask more questions, it was better to maintain an air of mystery.

  He gave Zh a strange look, ohat seemed to say, "I’m not saying anything, but you better think carefully," and theher agreed nor rejected Zh’s offer to colborate.

  "Let’s go downstairs," he said naturally.

  Ohey were downstairs, her of them mentioned what had happened earlier. They only said they hadn’t found the shop owner.

  "Then what were you two doing up there for so long?" Xiaomeng asked, gring at Jiang g with venom. She looked like she wao rush up and tear him apart.

  "Could it be that you two..."

  Xiaomeng’s expression ged to something strange. In her desperation to smear Jiang g, she would go to ahs, even involving the i Zh.

  Ben Fu's gaze on Jiang g grew more heated as he heard this.

  "Long’er," Jiang g said, looking at Xiaomeng with a pyful, somewhat flirty tone, "What are you talking about? How hard I tried st night... you know, don’t you?"

  Xiaome dizzy and almost choked on a mouthful of blood.

  "Dear experts!"

  The vilge chief stood outside the guesthouse, looking at the few so-called saviors. He had finally ma them here, but now they were all gathered together, flirting and joking, with no iion of going to the vilge. This was driving him crazy.

  Whehers looked at him, he tried to smile as kindly as possible, despite his few remainih. "It’s gettihe mountain path is difficult, how about we..."

  "Okay," Jiang g nodded. "We’ll leave now."

  Upon hearing this, the vilge chief and the vilgers smiled brightly.

  As they walked along the road, Pei Qian and the vilge chief walked side by side, chatting about local s, while Jiang g followed them, squinting his eyes and listening.

  Xiaomeng started pnning to find a ce tle Jiang g when they were alone, but Jiang g seemed to read her thoughts. Even when he went to the bathroom, he always dragged someone along.

  However, he didn’t seem picky about who apanied him. The most ret time, he even grabbed Yu Man.

  The two of them returned about fifteen mier.

  "So, the vilge is led between two mountains," Pei Qian seemed to realize something, gng at the vilge chief to firm.

  "Yes, expert, that's correct," the vilge chief said respectfully, calling Pei Qian "expert" repeatedly and even having someone hold an umbrel to shield him from the sun.

  Jiang g shot him a sideways gnd suddenly shouted, "I’m hot too! I want a strong man to hold an umbrel for me!"

  The vilge chief was stunned for a moment, then looked at Jiang g and tried to expin, "This little brother..."

  But uedly—

  "Who are you calling little brother?!" Jiang g snapped, putting his hands on his hips and dramatically stretg his voice. "Who’s your brother? I’m an expert!"

  (End of the Chapter)

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