Chapter 74: Colleague Vendetta

The flatbed cart stopped.

"Is it another evil corpse or strange corpse?"

Having just mentioned the topic of evil cultivators, they immediately ran into Xu Ran waiting at the entrance of the path; if this were a repeat of past events, it would be far too coincidental!

It made Ning Caize and the others feel uneasy.

After Du En finished asking, he saw Xu Ran hesitating to speak, the situation appearing somewhat abnormal, so he got off the cart and signaled for the others to go on ahead.

Once he heard them obediently move away, Xu Ran then led Du En to slip off toward another path.

"It is not some evil corpse or strange corpse, but the situation appears special."

Xu Ran said this on the road, unconsciously lowering his voice, "A supervisor is dead!"

Du En put down his shovel, urged his magic power, and his dharma robe became spotlessly clean.

Xu Ran felt reassured and then hurried away.

Since that was the case, he could only solve the problem himself.

"Yes, there is definitely one."

He was just afraid that some evil corpse or strange corpse would appear again!

When he arrived outside the wasteland and sat down at his usual place for cultivation, Ren Li finally arrived late.

He actually preferred this solution, and it wasn't much of a difficult problem, because through his previous experiences of stealing and looting, he had basically figured out the actual level of these supervisors, so he still felt somewhat confident now.

"You are right, then I will go first."

Even Du En frowned slightly when he saw it.

Everyone was busy with their own tasks and did not ask much.

Should he inform them, so they could have some mental preparation?

No need.

Du En immediately understood the basic situation: "In other words, because the dead person's identity is special, the possibility of a vendetta is very prominent, so your side of the corpse transporters is afraid of being implicated and dumped this matter on you to handle?"

His voice grew lower and lower, and his eyes, filled with fear, were also brimming with helplessness and depression.

The man was that supervisor; before dying, he must have had his cultivation crippled, his body bound by vines growing nearby, and suffered torture akin to being sliced to pieces, with fresh blood flowing all over the ground and soaking into the soil, his face incomparably pained and ferocious, like a wicked ghost from hell, yet also filled with regret and despair.

Then, Du En saw Xu Ran continue to stammer, scanning his surroundings quite nervously, looking as if he were terrified of being overheard by someone.

Because the simplest way was to report and denounce it to the corresponding manager.

Therefore, he could only pull Du En aside alone to see if they could first discuss a solution.

Du En nodded upon hearing this.

A male supervisor, a low-level female cultivator, a beautiful story... he had, of course, heard of this combination, as it was widely circulated.

"This..."

Looking at it this way, Li Yue was determined to cut Xu Ran off, treating it as a personal action to make him shoulder this black pot, so as not to implicate himself.

"That's exactly it! Sigh! The boss is targeting me all day long!"

Just carry it away and bury it like this?

What about a countermeasure?

Xu Ran suddenly appeared hesitant, but looking at Du En's calm and composed posture, he figured he must have confidence and ideas.

"It looks like a vendetta between colleagues."

Xu Ran was also helping to dig a pit to bury the corpses, while simultaneously seeking Du En's opinion with his gaze.

"Then I'll go first; the boss said that once it's settled, I have to go back and tell him, that bastard..."

"At this time of day, the supervisors are usually urging their subordinates to work. If you hurry back, you can just slip through the cracks. As long as you get back, with your corpse-transporting supervisors sitting in charge and other large groups of people on the side, there shouldn't be any problems."

After all, every time this Xu Ran came knocking, there was never any good news; he was purely a jinx!

However, upon seeing that it was just an ordinary corpse wrapped in a standard body bag that could be carried over directly, they also let out a sigh of relief.

Du En asked.

Under a tree at the intersection of a path, there were currently two corpses, one male and one female.

Xu Ran could not bear to look, and as he spoke, he could not help but sigh: "As for the identity of the deceased, you should have heard of it; after all, before today, it could be considered a beautiful story."

"Let's go take a look at the situation first."

Hearing such a calm and composed tone, Xu Ran unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

The two arrived at the scene.

Xu Ran took out several ordinary thick body bags.

"Where is your cart?"

Next, they walked forward in silence, and very quickly, the tip of their noses caught the scent of blood.

Du En returned this look, so Xu Ran did not mention it.

It was not evil cultivators causing trouble, yet a supervisor had died; here outside the city, this was indeed a relatively rare situation.

"No cart, the boss confiscated it."

Thus, this hesitation did not last long; he nodded, took a deep breath, asked nothing, wrapped the two corpses in the body bags, and carried them on his back toward the wasteland for burial.

Xu Ran dared not speculate wildly, but he still provided a bit of information.

"Oh?"

Although they were not responsible for burying such corpses now, they could not help but worry about an accident happening on Du En's side.

Xu Ran was indignant, yet could not help but feel some fear, afraid that he might encounter some accident on the way back.

Simply put, there was a supervisor who fell in love with a low-level female cultivator; the two went through some stories and eventually became a loving couple of Dao companions. Back then, they even held a proper wedding banquet, something rarely seen in these shanties outside the city for decades!

And now, this beautiful story had come to an end in this form, which could not help but make one sigh.

However, if that manager was a guy similar to He Bo, or if the murderer was his confidant or something similar, then this proper and formal method would be very difficult to have any effect.

When they arrived here together and saw there was more work to be done, the others did not feel any surprise.

"There must be corpse bags, right?"

Speaking of this, Xu Ran's face was full of indignation, yet he also appeared helpless: "This matter has already been recorded in the register; those who collect the corpses dare not touch them, those who transport the corpses must transport them, and those who bury the corpses can only bury them, so right now, if the two of us are even slightly careless, we will end up being buried along with them!"

"Mutual slaughter among colleagues is a grave crime; who do you think the perpetrator could be?"

The two of them hurriedly buried the corpses.

"Then let's wrap them up and carry them off to be buried."

Du En shook his head, feeling it was too vague.

For instance, relying on the strength of the Qi Refining mid-stage here, and dragging along that kind-hearted supervisor Ren Li, to go and pressure that bunch of guys like Li Yue, and force all the corpse transporters onto the carriage!

Even if it really were a vendetta, or even displaced anger, it wouldn't be possible to kill all the corpse transporters and corpse buriers, would it?

What was just a guess a moment ago had now been confirmed by Xu Ran.

Du En asked again.

And not far before him was another female corpse; her limbs had been broken, her throat slit, blood was sprayed in a pattern, and the clothes on her body were torn in many places, clearly having been violated before death, and that long-since cold and stiff face was even more miserable to behold, making one unable to bear looking directly at it.

Du En spoke with a calm appearance.

"Look, this is clearly a vendetta; the murderer must be a complete madman, and judging by the scene left behind, it even carries a warning, so as long as we move or disturb anything, we will very likely have their anger turned upon us."

However, it was still necessary to ask.

"How would I know that? But, if it really was done by other supervisors, then, wouldn't colleagues belonging to the same mining department be the most likely?"

In the past, it was of course impossible for him to be late, but now, after long periods of futile effort, he was approaching a state of giving up and was deeply doubting the meaning of life.

Therefore, for some time now, he had been rising late and retiring early, a sight that made people sigh and lament.

(End of this chapter)