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  "Vilge Chief! Vilge Chief!" A person rushed in from outside, shouting while running, "Something happened iown again!"

  Upon hearing this, the Vilge Chief’s already strange gaze seemed to find its focus. He immediately turo look at what he thought was the leader of the group, Pei Qian. "Master," he said anxiously, "Where's that fat brother from yroup?"

  Pei Qian swallowed the crumbs of the steamed bun in his mouth and calmly replied, "I don't know. When we woke up this m, he was already gone."

  After hearing Pei Qian’s words, the normally silent and wooden man standing to the side suddenly ged his expression, as if he had thought of somethiremely terrifying.

  The Vilge Chief sighed and waved his hand toward the vilger who had brought the news, "What happened iown?"

  Clearly, he had already realized something had occurred iown, and his asking was only for the messeo expin to everyone.

  "Iown, another body was found," the messenger said, his voice growing softer as he spoke, "The body was hung in a tree, its belly ripped open, and the iines, lungs, and ahrown on the ground..." The more he spoke, the more fear he couldn't suppress in his eyes.

  "Go ask if anyone in the vilge is missing?" The Vilge Chief instructed the dark-skinned man.

  But before the man could leave, the messeopped him. "I already asked when I came," he said, swallowing nervously. He g everyone cautiously and whispered, "No one is missing in the vilge."

  It seemed clear that the horribly mutited body was that of Ben Fu.

  The Vilge Chief’s face grew serious, and he seemed to want to say something but stopped several times. After all, the person was invited by him, and just one day after entering the vilge, one of them had died in such a tragic way.

  He didn't know how to expin it.

  The situation fell into an awkward silence.

  Luckily, the posed Pei Qian spoke up slowly, ing to his aid. "Vilge Chief Liu," Pei Qian said, "There's o bme yourself. We had sidered the risks before ing. Moreover, Ben Fu left quietly on his own, so this has nothing to do with you."

  Upon hearing this, the Vilge Chief’s embarrassed expression softened slightly. "I’m really sorry. Because of ligehe fat brother has suffered. Our vilge will try to make up for it as best as we ."

  Yu Man sneered, "Easier said than done. How are you going to make up for it?"

  "Double!" The Vilge Chief said decisively, raising his head. "We’ll double the reward we promised earlier! The extra part will be pensation for Fat Brother's family!"

  Xiaomeng sized up the elderly man, eared to be in his sixties. His determination was not to be uimated, suggesting that Zhao Xiangmei had forced Xiao Shijian Vilge into a difficult situation.

  While everyone was distracted, Jiang g stuffed the remaining steamed buns into his clothes, causing his chest to bulge out, more spicuous than Yu Man's.

  The dark-skinned man stared at the buns in his hands, swallowing unsciously.

  Jiang g thought for a moment and then took out another bun from his clothes and stuffed it into the man’s sleeve. The man pursed his lips and gave Jiang g a hearty nod.

  After doing all this, Jiang g turned around and slowly raised his right arm.

  "I have a question," Jiang Zhongyi said once everyone was looking at him. "Why was Ben Fu missing from the vilge, but his body was found iown?"

  "Does that mean all missing people end up with their bodies iown?"

  After a moment of silence, Zh subsciously remembered the woman who had rushed into the inn, searg for her husband with a portrait. Acc to the elderly man atg the town’s fehe woman's husband had also gone missing in the vilge, but she had e to the town looking for him.

  "Sigh!" The Vilge Chief sighed and nodded. "You’re right. The bodies of people who go missing in the vilge always end up around the town, specifically Anping Town." He added.

  "But why?" Li Lu asked, holding a bun, her eyes filled with fusion.

  "To be ho, we don’t know," the Vilge Chief answered, frowning. "Maybe... maybe Zhao Xiaill ’t let go of the past and wants everyoo know what happened in the vilge and how they treated her."

  At first, this expnation seemed reasonable, but it cked ving power.

  "When we set off?" Zh asked, his gaze toward the Vilge Chief now more scrutinizing. "We want to see the body."

  When the Vilge Chief uood that they were pnning to return to Anping Town, his expression became somewhat unnatural. "Don’t worry, we’ve already sent someo the body back. It should arrive... ter today."

  "With such a big case, will the poli the tow you take the body?" Jiang Zhongyi’s question was more reasonable.

  But the Vilge Chief seemed to ig, signaling for everyoo pack up ao the back mountain’s deep pond, where the stoablet curse left by Zhao Xiangmei was located.

  Jiang Zhongyi, seemingly ignored, appeared a bit fused. He took a few steps forward and was about to ask the same question again when something soft and rge was suddenly shoved into his mouth.

  It was a steamed bun.

  "Eat more buns," Jiang g said casually, retrag his hand. "Steamed buns are good for the brain."

  Jiang g was not someone Jiang Zhongyi dared to offend. In nightmares, many people are tortured to the point of mental instability, but those who survive such mental torture are much fewer.

  Moreover, he realized the underlying issue.

  It seemed that the poli the town were already aware of the strange occurrences in the vilge, but for some reason, they turned a blind eye, allowing Xiao Shijian Vilge to go unchecked.

  Such matters were naturally inve to the surface.

  Having nht much with them, there was o pack. Led by the Vilge Chief, everyo off lightly toward the back mountain’s deep pond.

  Following the same cobblestone road they had walked on the previous day wheering the vilge, they headed deeper into the vilge.

  Sihey had arrived te yesterday, they hadn't had the ce to observe their surroundings, making them believe the courtyard they stayed in was in a remote area.

  But now it seemed their courtyard was actually right in the ter of the vilge. If the cobblestone road in front of the courtyard was the dividing li split the entire vilge into two parts.

  However, the side where their courtyard was located was pletely abandoned, with every door shut tight. Some even had broken door hinges, and half a door hung crookedly on the frame.

  The wind blew through, making strange sounds.

  It was not hard to imagihat those who left had either lost their lives to Zhao Xiangmei or had fled with their families. After all, staying here meant risking losing one’s life at any moment.

  As if reading everyohoughts, the Vilge Chief, alking in front with a e, lowered his voice, "After that i, the police arrested all the men who bought the women. They were sentenced, but... but in the end," he paused, "they all disappeared from the prison."

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