Chapter 28

Lu Changsheng walked along the small mountain village path, and before long, he saw a huge locust tree ahead.

This tree was lush and green, and under the cover of night, it was like a ghost face.

In front of the locust tree, there was a dilapidated courtyard, which was presumably exactly what Brother Yang had said.

He walked toward the courtyard quickly.

"Creak..."

After gently pushing open the rotten wooden door, he stepped into the courtyard.

Weeds were overgrown all around, filled with a stench.

Just at this moment, a man with disheveled hair walked out from the house ahead.

The man was ragged, his figure hunched, and his face was full of sores, still dripping with some pus.

"She's coming, she's coming..."

While walking, he was still muttering, which was very creepy.

Seeing this, Lu Changsheng frowned; the stench on his body was too strong.

"Who is she?"

He asked casually.

The man suddenly opened his eyes, as if he were an evil ghost from hell, staring fixedly at Lu Changsheng.

"She's coming, she's coming..."

Then he lowered his head strangely, always repeating this sentence.

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, Lu Changsheng didn't inquire again and walked toward the outside of the courtyard.

Walking back along the original path, he thought carefully.

According to his guess, the strange things in Yunxi Village were probably related to the dead bride.

It might even be her directly.

Perhaps because of some reason, she turned into an anomaly.

Or it was some mysterious existence peeping in the dark.

Since Lu Changsheng joined the DemonSubduingOffice, besides practicing martial arts, he read books every day, and he understood this weird and chaotic world more and more thoroughly.

According to the records in the books, there were no anomalies in ancient times, and people turned into ashes directly after death, and it was impossible to become an anomaly.

Humans and anomalies were completely two different species.

However, since demons and evils appeared, everything changed, anomalies occurred frequently in various places, and this opened the prelude to the struggle between humanity and anomalies that had lasted for tens of thousands of years.

Lu Changsheng had heard this statement in more than one ancient book and was quite recognized.

Of course, he hadn't seen it specifically, and it remained to be verified.

However, he also held great suspicion about humans turning into anomalies.

Before long, Lu Changsheng returned to Brother Yang's house, and the few of them had already entered their dreams.

………………

For the next few days, the group was still squatting, and there was still no harvest.

Until the third day, early morning.

Li Yunhua summoned everyone to discuss matters.

The group gathered again on a flat ground in the village.

When everyone was present, Li Yunhua took the lead.

"In the past few days, I have also investigated the strange things that happened in the village. The bride who died a few years ago is probably closely related to this matter..."

After speaking, he swept his gaze across the crowd.

Yue Shulan raised her eyebrows.

"I also agree very much. It is said that the bride's father forced her to marry a middle-aged man for two taels of silver, and Peng Yuntian and the bride, this pair of childhood sweethearts, were also forcibly separated..."

"Finally, the bride hanged herself, her resentment was hard to dissipate, and she turned into an anomaly..."

"Later, all these people died, and only Peng Yuntian went crazy, which can also prove this point."

The remaining two men also nodded.

A group of people sympathized with Peng Yuntian's encounter very much, not only was his sweetheart sold to others, but he also couldn't bear the blow and went crazy.

Afterward, the group looked at Lu Changsheng.

"What I investigated is also this kind of result."

Lu Changsheng smiled slightly.

There were many smart people in the world, and this group of people quickly found the key information.

"However, Peng Yuntian is already crazy and can't ask any useful information. How can we find that anomaly?"

"If we wait any longer, I'm afraid it will be difficult to complete the mission in ten days or half a month."

Yue Shulan's face was a bit ugly.

At this moment, Lu Changsheng said faintly.

"Since all the participants are dead or crazy, why don't we start with the living?"

Hearing this, the eyes of the crowd brightened, and they quickly understood Lu Changsheng's implication.

"Then according to Brother Lu's words, let's go to Zhang Dahan's house to inquire about the situation."

Yue Shulan also nodded in agreement.

The few looked at Lu Changsheng with a trace of inexplicable meaning.

They didn't expect that Lu Changsheng, who had the "weakest" strength among the few, had a brain that turned not slowly. Soon, the group walked toward Zhang Dahan's house.

Before long.

The group arrived in front of a courtyard in the west of the village.

Li Yunhua took the lead to push open the door and led the group in.

At this time, the family had just gotten up and was preparing to go out to farm. Seeing Li Yunhua and his group, their faces became very terrified.

"I don't know why the lords are visiting, what are your instructions?"

A middle-aged man who looked like the head of the family knelt down first.

Behind him was a middle-aged woman and a young girl.

"What is your relationship with Zhang Dahan?"

Li Yunhua's expression was cold.

The middle-aged man wiped the sweat from his head, looking very panicked: "He is my uncle, and after he passed away, I inherited the family business here. This matter has been filed at the village chief's house..."

"Hmph... who asked about your property? Did Old Zhang leave any other relics?"

Li Yunhua looked impatient.

"No... none..."

The man answered tremblingly.

Li Yunhua and the others heard this, and a trace of gloom appeared in their hearts.

The clues were broken again.

Just as the few were preparing to return, a crisp voice suddenly came from behind the crowd.

"Before Grandpa Huan passed away, he once gave me a letter, and I haven't opened it to see..."

The girl said crisply, her eyes still carrying a trace of worry.

"Quick, let us see the letter."

Li Yunhua's face was happy, a bit impatient.

The girl stood up timidly and walked into the house.

Before long, she returned to the original place with a letter in her hand.

Li Yunhua took the letter and tore it open in front of everyone.

Then he suspended the letter paper in mid-air, letting everyone read it.

Lu Changsheng looked closely.

It was full of intermittent fonts, very sloppy, showing that the owner of the letter was not highly educated.

However, the group could barely understand it.

"Peng Yuntian always wanted to marry Yan'er as his wife, but unfortunately that old man refused to agree, and finally it was cheaper for me..."

"That day I was very happy..."

"Peng Yuntian killed the old man because of love and hate, and I discovered it when he threw the corpse..."

"He begged me not to report it to the officials, sold Yan'er to me as a wife, occupied the old man's courtyard and property, and married another wife..."

"People have been having accidents one after another, and I'm afraid I won't live long either..."

"She's coming..."

"She climbed out of the dry well..."

The handwriting stopped abruptly here.

The fonts above seemed to be casual records, without any connection, but based on the fragments, the group also roughly guessed the cause of the incident.

Peng Yuntian couldn't get what he loved, killed the bride's father, threw the corpse, was discovered, and in order to block Old Zhang's mouth, sold his childhood sweetheart to the other party, and later used the bride's father's property to marry another wife...

This simply shattered the three views of the few.

Just now, a group of people sympathized with Peng Yuntian, but they didn't expect the other party to be a scumbag.

This made the few feel the impermanence of the world.

"Is there a dry well in the village?"

Lu Changsheng turned his head and asked the man.

He saw the key point in the letter at a glance.

Li Yunhua and the others heard this and stared at the man without blinking.

"Yes, yes..."

"It's on the back mountain of the village."

The man answered stutteringly, his eyes full of fear.

"Let's go, let's go meet the other party."

Li Yunhua waved his hand, looking a bit high-spirited.

With clues, they just needed to kill the other party.

According to the DemonSubduingOffice's investigation, the other party was just the lowest-level anomaly, equivalent to Skin Refinement perfection.

The five people working together were enough to suppress the other party.

After completing the mission, everyone would have a small merit, which could be exchanged for various techniques and medicinal baths.

This was also the fundamental reason for the increased enthusiasm of the crowd.

(End of chapter)