Chapter 128: Rotting Corpse

It's just...

A sudden wave of nauseating rotting stench wafted into her nose.

The smell nearly made Su Jin stumble and fall.

It was too disgusting.

Su Jin hurriedly searched for the source of the stench, and as she looked around, she spotted a human-shaped corpse hidden in the grass near a rockery at the very back of the small desolate garden.

It was the corpse of a young woman wearing a dress, but her face had been destroyed; she had likely been dead for several days, and the rotting odor made it difficult for Su Jin to approach.

Besides, Su Jin hadn't intended to get close anyway.

She immediately ran out of the small desolate garden and gagged several times at the entrance, nearly vomiting.

Fortunately, she had already experienced the incident with that little boy before.

What kind of luck was this!

While complaining about her bad luck, Su Jin quickly took out a Long-Distance Message Talisman to send a message to Liu Shi.

Liu Shi arrived very quickly.

She saw that Su Jin's face was pale again.

Sighing, she immediately shoved a small pill into Su Jin's mouth.

"This is a medicine specifically designed to suppress your vomiting reflex; taking it will make you feel better." After feeding her the medicine, Liu Shi turned and headed into the small desolate garden.

A short while later, she came back out.

Liu Shi's complexion didn't look very good either; she immediately contacted the Patrol Bureau.

The people who arrived this time were unfamiliar to both Liu Shi and Su Jin, and only two of them came.

They questioned Su Jin and Liu Shi in detail about how they discovered the female corpse, then took the body away; if there were no clear clues proving who the killer was, the investigation would have to be postponed, especially since the Patrol Bureau's current focus was on clearing out the insects.

After they left, Liu Shi comforted Su Jin with several words before asking, "Do you want me to walk you back?"

Su Jin shook her head: "I'm fine; the effect of that pill you gave me was excellent, and my stomach has stopped churning."

Seeing that Su Jin's complexion had recovered slightly,

Liu Shi said, "Su Jin, we are not children of ordinary families, and our sect is not a sect of prosperous and stable times. Although our sect is powerful and the dominant force here, we never lack enemies.

Moreover, even though we are cultivators, most of us cannot die peacefully in bed when our lifespan ends; we either die on the battlefield or perish in various conflicts.

It's either immortality or death.

Don't even think about things like a peaceful end; those are just lies told to ordinary people.

Therefore, I believe you must learn to take life and death lightly."

Hearing this, Su Jin nodded firmly.

Her mother had warned her long ago that going to the clan school meant leaving the warm nest of home to face the storms of the outside world.

So she must strive to make herself strong.

Most importantly, she must strengthen her inner self.

"Liu Shi, rest assured, I can do it."

Although Su Jin said this, Liu Shi still secretly followed behind her, watching her walk back normally before leaving with peace of mind.

As soon as Su Jin returned, she brought out the warning formation array and set it up around the perimeter of the large room.

Although she had received formation arrays before, the environment at the beginning was too deceptive.

It made everyone subconsciously assume that this place was safe.

The deepest part of the clan territory was filled with formation arrays, there were teachers in the clan school acting as the backbone, and various adults and caretakers helping to look after everyone.

Even Su Jin initially thought that she and the others had been assigned a security guard mission, which was essentially just lying flat to earn merit points. "Is it possible that the clan actually thought that way?"

However, the rotting corpse she encountered had blatantly mocked her.

Where was the safety? Where could one lie flat?

If one wasn't careful, one might lose their life and end up like that woman, with their body dumped in some hidden place.

Su Jin absolutely could not die so miserably!

Having solidified her resolve in her heart and finished setting up the formation disk, she told Su Wuji and Su Cheng, who had just finished cultivating, about the female corpse she discovered in a hidden small desolate garden while on patrol.

After hearing this, both Su Wuji and Su Cheng looked utterly incredulous.

"If a female corpse died here mysteriously, it means there are enemies here who have already gone into hiding; we just don't know where they are currently concealed," Su Wuji thought with a gloomy expression.

"Then tonight's patrol and guard duty will have to be extremely cautious," Su Cheng added, "Everyone had better keep their trump cards on hand."

Su Wuji thought of the item in his pocket, while Su Jin glanced slightly at the thin golden bracelet on her hand.

"I'm going to put on a set of inner armor," Su Cheng said.

Su Wuji and Su Jin simultaneously made a gesture indicating "You're awesome."

Inner armor is a great life-saving item, but few people make it for children to wear because children grow and develop quickly; a finished set of inner armor might become unwearable in a few years, or even just one.

The materials used to make inner armor are, after all, top-tier.

If it's made and then becomes unwearable so quickly, isn't that a waste?

"My parents said that as long as you can survive and keep your life, you've won; all the gold in the world can be spent and earned again," Su Cheng said grumpily.

"That makes sense," Su Wuji said.

"That's exactly how it should be," Su Jin also praised.

Su Cheng decided to ignore these two guys and went to put on his inner armor.

While Su Jin and the others were fully preparing for the night, Xue Chiluo was extremely focused on eating a group of millipedes in a certain underground location of the large mansion; no one knew who had raised these millipedes, but they were all plump and fat.

Thousands upon thousands of millipedes of various sizes were now corpses; the largest ones were over two feet long, while the smallest were half the size of a palm.

These millipedes had clearly undergone physical mutations and grown much larger.

However, now, Xue Chiluo was devouring them all one by one like chewing on biscuits, leaving not a single one behind.

Blood Chi Luo happily ate, not knowing at all that its ancestor had already decided to fight a tough battle tonight.

Su Jin and the others' lunch and dinner were both delivered by someone pushing a small cart.

The dishes were quite plentiful, with meat dishes too, and the flavors were quite good. All three of Su Jin buried their heads in eating, finally wishing they could lick the bowls clean.

It made Gu Mama and the others laugh nonstop.

As the night deepened, Gu Mama and they originally planned to have the four of them take turns keeping watch, letting the children go sleep.

But Su Wuji firmly disagreed.

The three of them silently began taking turns keeping watch.

The patrol was also just walking around near the big house. They had to first do well at their own task.

Just as it was nearly midnight, Roar!!

A shrill cry came from somewhere in the big garden. Immediately following were human screams of alarm.

And the loud wailing of a small child, which amplified these sounds and the fear the sounds brought in the silent night.

At the very least, all the small children and adults on this side were startled awake.

Gu Mama hurried to soothe the wailing little children.

Su Jin and they, meanwhile, silently guarded the entrance of the big house, beginning to crouch in wait for the existences that had triggered the warning formation.