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It’s clear that Zhao Xiangmei’s rese is so deep that even her body is not spared.
Pei Qian stared at the stoablet for a long while, his gaze moving over the blood-written characters. Perhaps due to his experience over the years, this elder appeared remarkably calm.
“Was Zhao Xiangmei from this vilge too?” Pei Qian asked, tilting his head.
He didn't look at the messenger but directly at the vilge chief.
“No,” the vilge chief shook his head. “She was brought in by the old vilge chief from outside. I don’t kly where she’s from, but her surname was Qian,” he added as a hint.
From the current situation, things didn’t look good. Some of the pyers had already been killed, but so far, they had learned very little about the ghost.
They knew her name and that she was a young woman, but that was about it.
It wasn’t that they were ag slowly, but this time, the NPCs were highly inpetent. They just kept emphasizing how terrifying and cruel the ghost was without giving any crete information.
“We...” the messenger licked his lips and cautiously asked, “ we leave now?”
He felt unfortable staying here.
If the vilge chief hadn’t brought him along, he wouldn’t have e at all.
The vilge chief g him, silently telling him that he had no say here. They could only leave when the experts said so.
So, the messenger looked at Pei Qian with a pitiful expression.
At this moment, Pei Qian had already made a rubbing of the curse from the stoablet. He stood up, gnced around, and said slowly, “Let’s go.”
TL/N: A "rubbing" typically involves creating an impression of carved text or images by pg paper over the surfad rubbing it with ink or charcoal to capture the details.
Hearing the respohe messenger immediately turned back, and the vilge chief and the dark-skinned man quickly followed. Their steps were much faster thahey arrived.
Jiang g was at the back of the group. After walking for about a few dozeers, he suddenly turned his head to look behind.
It was a rea before his brain processed it. He felt a malicious gaze fixed on him.
The rese, distortion, and madness were not enough to describe how that gaze made Jiang g feel.
His eyes slowly moved to a spot.
In the ter of the deep pool, beh the bck water, there were a pair of crimson eyes.
The moment Jiang g locked eyes with them, he suddenly felt a strange sensation deep in his heart, as if something had locked onto him.
He quickly avoided the gaze and turned around to jog to catch up with Xiaomeng. “Long’er,” he patted her shoulder and poio the ter of the pool. “What do you think that is?”
Uedly, Xiaomeng didn’t even look at the dire he poio but instead gave him a subtle look.
She leaned close to Jiang g’s ear, lookiant and helpless, and whispered in a voily he could hear, “gratutions, Mr. Hao Shuai, you’ve won the prize.”
Just as a smile started to break across her face, a startled cry sounded in her ear.
“Holy shit!” Jiang Zhongyi stared in the dire Jiang g pointed, his eyes almost popping out. “What the hell is that thing?”
At the sound of Jiang Zhongyi’s excmation, everyouro look, but by then, the pair of eyes had mysteriously vanished.
The ter of the pool was like a blob of ink that would never dissolve.
“Idiot!” Xiaomeng mouthed, but no sound came out.
Meanwhile, Jiang g had a smile on his face. He looked at Xiaomeng, then adjusted his chest, which had bee unusually bloated from too many steamed buns, and g Xiaomeng with a proud look before walking away.
“Xiao Longnu,” Jiang Zhongyi came to Xiaomeng, nervously asking, “Did you see anything just now? I saw something there…”
“No,” Xiaomeng immediately turned a.
Jiang Zhongyi looked at her back, fused about what he might have doo offend her. He then looked back at the spot in the pool where something abnormal had appeared, his eyes full of questions.
The return trip was uful, except for a slippery part of the road where Li Lu slipped and bumped into a tree, twisting her right leg.
It seemed that in the mountains, the group had lost track of time, or perhaps the passage of time in the nightmare world was different from the real world.
When they returo the vilge, it was already afternoon, nearing evening.
The vilge chief said he had matters to attend to and instructed the dark-skinned man to take the group back to their lodging.
He mentiohat food would be brought to them ter.
“Is there meat?” Jiang g stepped forward to catch the vilge chief and ask.
The vilge chief looked a bit awkward, then after a long pause, as if making a decision, nodded. “Yes.”
Hearing this, Jiang g let go of him.
Back at their lodging, they didn’t have time to rest and immediately gathered in a room to have a meeting.
Zh gentlemanly helped Li Lu to sit aside, and she thanked him repeatedly, her face blushing.
Pei Qian took out the curse rubbed from the stoablet and spread it oable.
“This Zhao Xiangmei is no ordinary person,” he said, and his first words immediately grabbed everyone’s attention.
Jiang Zhongyi seemed a bit relut to look at the chaotic writing, even though it was a rubbing.
He made a strange fad hesitantly asked, “Is there something wrong with these characters?”
“I guess Old Pei is trying to say that Zhao Xiangmei could not only read and write but might have received a good education,” Zh said, stroking his . His expression showed he was serious.
“That’s right,” Pei Qian nodded, surveying the group. His voice lowered as he said, “Although the blood-written characters are messy and hard to read, you still tell from the firokes that the person had some skill in calligraphy. Also, I found a few obscure characters in the curse.”
He slowly straightened his back. “We o sider the enviro back then. If we push the timeline forward 20 years from now, what kind of young woman would have received such a good education?”
Yu Man squinted. “Someone from a big city.”
“Not just that,” Pei Qian said. “She should e from a schorly family, someoher rich or noble.”
“But if such a persoed, why would she be involved in human traffig?” Jiang Zhongyi looked unvinced. He added, “Besides, the name Zhao Xiangmei doesn’t sound like one from a schorly family.”
“It’s simple,” Xiaomeng casually replied. “Zhao Xiangmei is just a fake name. Whether or not someone from a schorly family would be involved in human traffig is irrelevant.”
Before she finished speaking, she g Jiang g, who seemed absent-minded not far away, and sneered. “Such people are what we call ‘dressed-up beasts.’”
Jiang g looked at Xiaomeng with a fused expression, as if he didn’t uand the i insult.
“Cough,” Pei Qian cleared his throat to refocus the attention on the case, also solidating his authority.
He seriously looked at Jiang g, pretending to be humble, and said, “I’m just a hint. Mr. Yin, do you have any insights? Feel free to share.”
Uedly, Jiang g seemed to have been waiting for this moment to shied, he rubbed his hands and licked his lips before replying, “Well, I guess it’s time to kick the donkey after unloading the cart.”
Pei Qian: “???”
(End of the Chapter)
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