Chapter 188

No one was surprised that Li Sanjiang managed to win the prize.

What was surprising was that the prize could actually be redeemed in time.

Of course, it wasn't possible for the prize-drawing team to take you on a trip themselves; instead, they helped you contact a state-owned travel agency.

Tourism is very similar to construction work; multi-layered subcontracting is unavoidable.

But at the very least, they solved the most basic issues of travel expenses and room and board for you.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan and the others could certainly set off for the destination on their own, but this was, after all, one of the clues—and the most explicit one at that—so they had no choice but to follow it first.

The person who came to pick them up was a young man with dark skin that set off a mouthful of bright white teeth.

The young man was Naxi, cheerful and enthusiastic, and he would be their driver and guide for the coming days.

Well, the place they were staying was also his home, a homestay he had converted from his family's earthen house himself.

When he introduced this, the young man seemed very proud, because although the rise of the tourism industry meant more and more locals were working in tourism-related fields, the proportion of locals who were willing to start their own businesses as small bosses was not large.

The young man asked everyone to call him Fat Jin Ge.

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin asked with a smile if the woman should be called Fat Jin Mei?

Fat Jin Ge replied that was correct, as it was a tradition of the older generation to consider fat as beautiful and dark as noble, believing that this meant health, the ability to work, and suitability for childbearing.

While driving past a large construction site on the way, Fat Jin Ge pointed at it and said:

"Next time you come to visit, you can fly directly to our Lijiang."

The beauty of Yunnan carries a purity and ethereal quality unique to it.

Even if one only experiences it roughly while sitting in a car, there is still a feeling of walking through a fairy tale.

Fat Jin Ge's home was not in the city center, nor at a tourist attraction, but in a village, which made it seem even more secluded.

When they parked at the door, it was Fat Jin Ge's parents who came out to greet them; the elderly couple was now helping their son with his work.

Inside, there was also a young woman, neither fat nor dark, who appeared fair and delicate.

Fat Jin Ge said this was his partner; they were already engaged and would hold the wedding at the end of the year.

Clearly, young people know how to resist tradition.

The earthen house already had ethnic characteristics, and after renovations and modifications, it was also very convenient for living.

Fat Jin Ge had originally planned to arrange for Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan and the others to stay on the second floor, as it would be convenient to go up to the rooftop terrace to enjoy the scenery.

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin rejected this proposal and only asked for three rooms on the first floor that were connected.

At the same time, Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin also rejected the travel plan that Fat Jin Ge had prepared for everyone, saying they wanted to walk around and see things on their own without a guide.

Fat Jin Ge tried to persuade them twice, but seeing they were insistent, he just smiled and dropped the matter.

His job as a guide was contracted, and since the other party didn't need it, he could take advantage of this time to pick up other jobs.

Dinner consisted of local farm dishes, which were very sumptuous, especially the stewed chicken with mushrooms made from free-range chicken; as soon as the clay pot lid was lifted, a thick layer of oil floated on top.

Everyone sat around the charcoal brazier, eating while warming themselves by the fire.

Having been notified in advance, Fat Jin Ge's parents had steamed a lot of rice, but they still underestimated the appetites of Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng, Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You, and Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin.

The first two were martial artists with large appetites, and Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin was even more like a pregnant woman carrying twins.

In the end, Fat Jin Ge's parents had to bring out the dry rations from the house, a kind of thing similar to dried steamed buns, which they fried in oil and served.

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin wanted to pay extra for the food, but was refused by Fat Jin Ge's parents; the two elders spoke in their local dialect, and Fat Jin Ge helped translate, saying that his parents meant: it is the host's blessing for honored guests to come to their home and eat their fill.

After dinner, the five of them went up to the rooftop together and held a small meeting.

Before they came, the meeting had already been held several times.

Because this wave was very special, there was a high probability that many teams or individuals would participate, especially the slaughter and competition for the three pieces of broken jade, which was unavoidable.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan took out a small black wooden box, inside which lay a piece of broken jade.

The small wooden box was made for him by A Li, using the ancestral tablets of the Qin and Liu families, which naturally had a suppressing effect.

The formation patterns on it were carved and designed by Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan himself, and he had put a lot of thought into them.

It could be said that in the few days before setting off, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan's main energy was spent on this box.

The repeated battle of wits with the question-setter allowed Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan to try to deduce their behavioral logic.

Under the banner of guarding the righteous path, there were many constraints and taboos against killing each other.

If he were the question-setter, he would have to first help everyone eliminate this difficulty and create an environment more suitable for slaughter and fighting.

If he were to make arrangements in other directions, it would be too abrupt and ruin the question-setter's aesthetic; secondly, subjective initiative is not strong—everyone is not a fool, and without sufficient interest-driven motivation, not many people are willing to cross swords with other teams.

Therefore, the most suitable thing to use as a trigger to incite this slaughter is this piece of broken jade.

The game of finding broken jade is too dull and boring; before this wave starts, it should either be given directly or have already been obtained by other teams in an earlier wave.

In short, there should be three teams carrying three pieces of broken jade coming to Lijiang.

And these three teams holding the broken jade will become the center of the slaughter and competition.

Now, the broken jade is in your hands, but when you really open the door to be a guest, whether you are still the one holding the broken jade when you arrive is hard to say—everyone, rely on their own abilities.

The facts were indeed so.

Before even entering the Lijiang region, just as they were approaching, this piece of broken jade turned black and faintly emitted corpse aura.

This corpse aura was very special; it was not brought by the broken jade itself, but was exhaled after absorbing the surrounding aura, and once it touched the body, it would not dissipate for a long time.

Ordinary sealing measures were completely ineffective against it.

Even though Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan had made sufficient targeted preparations in the early stages, he still deliberately stopped for a moment just before entering Lijiang and, based on its reaction, reinforced it with another layer of formation.

Yu Yu Yu Xuzi, who had spent hundreds of years pondering how to build a dojo inside a snail shell in that formation, actually did Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan a huge favor here.

At this moment, the broken jade in the wooden box had turned black, and dynamic flowing could be faintly seen, but there was no way to trigger it.

Therefore, it meant that Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan and the others, who should have been in the light, were now in the dark.

If someone really appeared stained with this aura, it would be equivalent to a zombie jumping around in broad daylight; there would definitely be no "water goods" participating in this wave, and they would certainly be able to detect it.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "We have two tasks ahead, divided into two lines: light and dark."

Under the night sky, everyone was listening carefully.

"On the light line, although we have a piece of broken jade in our hands, we must act as if we don't. We still need to search for the other two teams carrying broken jade and seriously prepare for the competition."

"On the dark line, we need to explore the location of the visit. I suspect that in order to leave us enough time to kill each other, the time for the banquet has not yet arrived."

"But being able to find more background clues before the banquet starts is also beneficial; after all, the real highlight must be at the end."

"Starting tomorrow morning, we will act as a team; do not be alone."

"Understood!"

"Understood!"

After the meeting ended, Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng, as the first round of night watch, stayed on the rooftop, while the others went downstairs to their rooms to rest.

Although this bit of travel fatigue was nothing to them, whenever a wave was in progress, everyone would subconsciously seize every opportunity to adjust their state.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan and Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin were in the same room, just like when they were in the university dormitory before.

Lying on the bed, Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin smiled: "The scenery here is really good; I really want to have a good time playing here."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan covered himself with the quilt, lay down, and said: "After the River Walk ends, you can take Zhou Zhou Zhou Zhou Zhou Zhou Zhou Yunyun to play through all the places we have been to again."

"Hehe." Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin subconsciously reached out to touch the cigarette on the bedside table, but hesitated.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan had already closed his eyes, but still spoke: "Smoke it."

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin's body had recovered, but those two children had "grown up" and were squeezing his spirit at every moment.

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin lit a cigarette and exhaled a smoke ring: "Really good."

This was a response to Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan Ge's previous suggestion.

Perhaps, by that time, it wouldn't just be Zhou Zhou Zhou Zhou Zhou Zhou Zhou Yunyun by his side, but also his own children.

Suddenly, Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin shook his head vigorously.

Having watched many movies, he immediately realized that thinking about these things now was very unlucky.

Extinguishing the cigarette butt, Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin lay down, wrapped himself in the quilt, and began to sleep.

Early the next morning, everyone got up, had a simple breakfast, and set off to investigate.

Calling it an investigation, it was actually not much different from tourism.

After all, the clue clearly wrote the five words "Mu Prince Mansion Treasure."

If one had to find a difference, it was probably that this group of theirs... was much more serious about tourism than other tourists.

Tourists generally have a "glance at flowers while riding a horse" attitude, while the five of them were "calculating every penny."

But after visiting here and there, they didn't find anything special.

This couldn't help but make Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan suspect whether the 【Mu Prince Mansion Treasure】 only provided a Lijiang coordinate and had no other deep meaning, or even had little connection to the Mu Prince Mansion itself.

Or, the real secret could only be watered out when the blood volume of the slaughter was sufficient.

But there was nothing else to do at the moment, so they could only continue to visit and play; anyway, they were already here.

Near dusk, the group returned to Fat Jin Ge's home.

With the experience of last night, Fat Jin Ge's parents steamed plenty of rice today.

After each dish was served, Yin Meng would wave her hand over the food to cover her Gu insects crawling over it.

The Gu insects themselves were highly poisonous, but the premise was that they had to secrete it themselves; most of the time, they were actually no different from ordinary insects.

It might be innate, or it might have been trained after following Yin Meng; in short, these Gu insects had an extremely high sensitivity to toxins.

Ever since entering Lijiang, everything that entered their mouths had to be checked by these insects.

Since it was a fight between people, no amount of vigilance was too much.

Fat Jin Ge was not there, and his car was not there either; his partner said he had gone to pick someone up.

After dinner, Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You went up to the rooftop alone to stand guard.

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin was in the courtyard, sitting and chatting with Fat Jin Ge's parents, with Fat Jin Ge's partner acting as a translator there.

Even though they did not speak the same language, Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin could still chat very happily with the two elderly people.

Through these chats, he also managed to extract some local special folk customs and eerie legends.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan sat in his room, reinforcing the seal on the box.

The corpse Qi inside the broken jade was constantly battering against the barrier; if left unchecked, it would definitely break through within two days, so for the sake of caution, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan added a layer of seal to it every day.

This was also because Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan's initial logic for the base-layer seal had been designed well, which left room for him to continuously stack layers on top.

If it were anyone else, just suppressing it in the early stages would have been extremely strenuous, and they would have had no energy left to think about the aftermath.

There was movement coming from the roof; Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan put away the box and walked out of the room.

Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng and Yin Meng also came out of their respective rooms, and Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You leaned his body out from the rooftop terrace, pointing outside.

There is a situation.

Fat Jin Ge had returned, and he had brought back a new group of tourists—four people.

Leading them was a woman, very young, only in her early twenties, wearing white casual clothes and a ponytail, looking fresh and capable.

When she was being shown to her room and passed in front of Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan, she specifically stared at Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan for a while and smiled:

"To think there is such a cute little brother here."

Behind her were three men: one wearing short sleeves, one wearing a padded jacket, and another who looked very old in the Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Face but was very short, only slightly taller than a normal dwarf.

The short-sleeved man's walking posture was somewhat uncoordinated, carrying a sense of tension.

The padded-jacket man kept his hands tucked inside his sleeves; he looked truly cold, and even the breath he exhaled from his mouth carried a bit of white mist.

The short man, aside from his height, seemed much more normal.

When he entered the room, he first used a playful gaze to size up Fat Jin Ge's partner, and when he saw Yin Meng, he licked his lips while looking at her.

The woman walking at the very front turned her head back and pinched the short man's ear: "Are you trying to die?"

The short man shouted in pain while being dragged upstairs.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan returned to his own room and stuck two pieces of talisman paper onto the door and window respectively for soundproofing.

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin pushed the door open and entered, carefully closing it behind him.

"No need to keep watch tonight; notify them to be careful in their daily interactions."

"Understood."

In such extraordinary times, any team that suddenly enters one's field of vision cannot be taken lightly, especially since this team's appearance was quite peculiar.

It was not too surprising that they could stay here; Fat Jin Ge was an important link in the clues, but this clue was not something that could only be used by himself.

After Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin went out to notify the others, he walked back to the room door, and just as he was about to push it open, he saw another guest arrive.

This guest was a woman, about thirty years old, pushing a suitcase.

She had come by herself and did not have Fat Jin Ge pick her up.

The woman's room was on the first floor, and she entered the room by herself.

At first, Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin did not notice anything unusual about the woman, until he saw the two white wheel tracks left on the ground after her suitcase passed by.

The ground in the courtyard was inlaid with pebbles; just how heavy must this suitcase be to press out such an effect? Moreover, the material of these wheels was also quite special.

The room door was opened from the inside, and Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan stood at the doorway, glancing at the room across the courtyard.

The woman had moved into that one.

Earlier, while in the room, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan had heard the sound of that suitcase being pushed; the weight of that case was terrifying.

Yet that woman was able to lift it easily and cross the steps.

Interesting; counting his own group, three batches of people had already moved in.

Two teams and one individual.

It was not that Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan hadn't considered whether to take his own people and hide completely, waiting until the fighting and contention outside were mostly over and the right moment arrived before coming back out.

But he did not want to give up on Fat Jin Ge, this important clue.

Hiding was certainly safe, but it would also lead to missing important information; don't let it be that when the time comes to visit, the other two teams possess abundant clues while his side suffers from a severe lack of information.

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin asked: "Brother Marquis Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan, should we test them?"

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "Before corpse Qi appears on them, as a team that doesn't have the broken jade in hand, we have no reason to do something unnecessary."

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin: "Then what if they make a move to test us?"

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Then that means they have the broken jade in their hands."

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin asked with some confusion: "Then why wouldn't they be like us?"

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan gently flicked the wooden box with his fingertips and said:

"Because they have no way to suppress the corpse Qi inside the broken jade like I do."

Night fell, and all was silent.

The woman in white finished her bath, changed into a loose white shirt, and lay on the bed, her pair of beautiful white legs exposed over a large area.

But even the short man, who had the most lecherous gaze during the day, did not dare to look up, just sitting on the chair with his head bowed in a well-behaved manner.

The padded-jacket man and the short-sleeved man sat cross-legged on the floor.

"Cluck, cluck, cluck..."

The padded-jacket man's teeth began to chatter; he was truly cold to the point of being unable to bear it.

Zheng Zheng Ruxue, lying on the bed, narrowed her eyes and asked: "A-Leng, how much longer can you hold on?"

The padded-jacket man called A-Leng first opened his padded jacket; on his chest was a patch of frost, and in the position of his right chest, there was a depression with a piece of broken jade embedded inside.

"The corpse Qi inside this broken jade is getting heavier and heavier; I can barely suppress it anymore."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Zheng Ruxue rubbed her forehead.

This thing was a treasure, but the sooner one obtained it, the hotter it became to handle.

Once A-Leng could no longer suppress it and the corpse Qi erupted, they would be like searchlights in the dark night, attracting numerous gazes from the surroundings.

The short man spoke up: "How about we first resolve the hidden dangers nearby? There are two batches of people living downstairs; one batch is still quite normal, looking like tourists. As for that lone woman, my room is right above hers, and I have been listening carefully; ever since she entered the room, she hasn't made a single sound, and I can't even hear her breathing."

Zheng Zheng Ruxue shook her head: "If she really is alone, she would be even harder to deal with; anyone who dares to walk the Jianghu alone naturally has her own confidence. It's that other batch of people that I find strange..."

Short man: "Strange in what way?"

Zheng Zheng Ruxue: "Strange in that they are too not-strange."

The three men looked at each other upon hearing this.

Zheng Zheng Ruxue: "At a time like this, the more normal a target is, the more dangerous they often are, as it means they are capable of calmly disguising themselves."

Short man: "How about I go and test them?"

Zheng Zheng Ruxue hesitated for a moment, but when her gaze fell on A-Leng's chest, she nodded: "Go and confirm it, but mind your limits."

"Are you still not at ease with my movement technique?"

The short man left the room.

The others all waited in Zheng Zheng Ruxue's room.

Also waiting together were Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng and the others living in the room on the first floor.

Although they were all covered by quilts and sleeping, Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng had a Yellow River Shovel hidden in his quilt, and Yin Meng had a Demon-Expelling Whip hidden in hers.

Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You placed his trident under his pillow, pretending to sleep on his side with his legs clamped around the quilt.

Even Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin, while appearing to be in a deep sleep, kept his hands placed on his abdomen, maintaining the first hand seal of the Ghost-Controlling Art.

The only one sleeping as usual was Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan.

Because he trusted his partners to provide him with an early warning, he could not waste their efforts.

Tonight, it not only walked slowly, but also walked quietly.

Zheng Zheng Ruxue waited in the room for a long time, hearing neither movement nor seeing the short man return.

"Something happened."

She got out of bed.

The padded-jacket man and the short-sleeved man stood up one after another.

The short-sleeved man pushed the door open first and found the short man walking toward them while clutching his chest and limping; although he was in a sorry state, he was silent.

His movement technique was naturally this miraculous—leaping onto roofs and vaulting over walls, like Earth Traveler Sun.

Zheng Zheng Ruxue breathed a sigh of relief; although he was injured, he had at least tested them.

The short-sleeved man turned to the side, wanting to let his companion in.

But just as the short man approached the doorway, his hands suddenly thrust toward the short-sleeved man's chest.

"Pfft!"

Everything happened too fast, completely in the blink of an eye, and since he assumed it was a companion, the short-sleeved man had no guard up at all.

They were clearly human hands, yet at this moment they were as sharp as knives, not only instantly piercing through his flesh and skin but also cutting through his bones.

In shock and pain, the short-sleeved man couldn't care about anything else; he hugged his arms together, his muscles expanding rapidly, and pulled the short man into his embrace.

The explosion that should have occurred did not happen; the short man's entire body developed dense cracks, and then he completely shattered, turning into porcelain fragments that flew everywhere.

"Uh..."

There was a piece of porcelain completely embedded in the short-sleeved man's neck, making it difficult for him to even make a sound.

This injury could no longer be described as heavy, because all the vital points on his entire body had been pierced; it was already impossible to treat or save his life.

The short-sleeved man collapsed to the ground, his life force rapidly severing.

Some of the shattered porcelain fragments originally flew toward Zheng Zheng Ruxue and the padded-jacket man, but they were blocked by the padded-jacket man, who spread his hands to form frost.

But even so, these porcelain fragments still sank deep into the frost, which forced the padded-jacket man to mobilize more power to defend.

Because of this, the cold Qi inside him used to suppress the broken jade was weakened, and corpse Qi overflowed.

Wisps of black Qi lingered on his chest.

A voice drifted eerily from beneath the floorboards:

"Corpse aura, evil spirit, must be executed!"

This was a declaration of immunity.

It was not a slaughter of ordinary people, nor a slaughter of fellow righteous practitioners; it was merely the suspicion of an evil spirit, and now that it was confirmed without error, there was no crime, only merit.

Zheng Zheng Ruxue gritted her teeth, reaching out to push the man in the cotton-padded jacket before her; the voice had come from downstairs.

The next round of attacks would be launched from beneath the floorboards.

However, because the corpse aura from the broken jade inside the man in the cotton-padded jacket was overflowing, it not only caused him great pain but also made his movements appear extremely stiff; Zheng Zheng Ruxue's push was originally intended to give her companion a boost during the fight to help him dodge better.

But as it stood, he had no way to fully control his body and could only fall forward.

"Pfft!"

A sharp weapon protruded from the gap in the floorboards, piercing directly through the man in the cotton-padded jacket.

Zheng Zheng Ruxue's eyes were wide with rage; in a short time, all three of her subordinates had died!

If the opponent had been extremely powerful and it had been a total crushing defeat, that would be one thing, but the opponent had not revealed any terrifying strength, yet her side was dying one by one, cleanly and efficiently.

Zheng Zheng Ruxue retreated, wanting to leave the room; there was a window in the direction she was retreating toward.

Her speed was very fast, but just as she was about to reach the window, her figure suddenly turned, forcibly changing direction with an extremely eerie posture; instead of retreating, she lunged forward.

The window was opened, and a figure was waiting there for her.

Zheng Zheng Ruxue: As expected, you had already anticipated my next move!

The lunging Zheng Zheng Ruxue arrived beside the man in the cotton-padded jacket and waved one hand; the man's body flipped up, and Zheng Zheng Ruxue reached out and grabbed his chest, pulling out the broken jade that was emitting black aura and letting it fall into her palm.

But just at this moment, the long porcelain shard that had previously pierced the man in the cotton-padded jacket protruded once more.

The timing of its appearance was perfectly caught in the tiny instant when Zheng Zheng Ruxue had just touched the broken jade and her movements had stalled due to the influence of its corpse aura.

"Pfft!"

Zheng Zheng Ruxue's body was pierced through, and the part that entered her body shattered directly, turning into countless tiny porcelain shards that rampaged inside her.

"Thump..."

Zheng Zheng Ruxue's body fell to the ground, and after a few twitches, it went still.

The shadow outside the window appeared at this moment; it was not a person waiting to ambush, but a painting of a lady that had been hung there in advance.

Before long, someone walked up from downstairs and pushed the door open to enter; it was the single woman who lived downstairs.

She ignored the corpses on the ground, first taking the broken jade from Zheng Zheng Ruxue's hand and dropping it into the exquisite porcelain bottle in her hand.

The blue and white porcelain bottle gradually became stained with black patterns.

The woman sighed:

"Sigh, it cannot be suppressed for too long."

Immediately after, the woman clapped her hands, and dainty porcelain dolls walked in from outside; as they reached the corpses, they shattered one after another, turning into patches that wrapped around the bodies of Zheng Zheng Ruxue and the others.

Soon, "Zheng Zheng Ruxue and the others" all stood up and began to clean up the traces in the room.

After cleaning up, "Zheng Zheng Ruxue and the others" took their luggage and went downstairs.

The front house was where Fat Jin Ge and his parents lived.

Fat Jin Ge was woken up by the knocking; he rubbed his eyes, looked at the four guests who had checked in just today, and asked in confusion: "What's wrong, do you need something?"

"Zheng Zheng Ruxue" said: "We have an urgent matter and must leave; we are checking out."

The other party's voice was very hoarse and harsh; Fat Jin Ge only felt his eardrums ache listening to it.

"Leaving Lijiang, not coming back?"

"Not coming back."

"Then I will refund your room fee for the next few days."

"No need, goodbye."

"Hey, how can that be."

Fat Jin Ge ran to the counter, used a key to open the drawer, took the money, and immediately chased after them.

"It's so late, where are you going? I'll drive you, and here is the money..."

Fat Jin Ge chased outside the door, only to be stunned to find that "Zheng Zheng Ruxue" and the others who had just left had actually vanished.

Outside the house were village roads and farmland, the starry sky was bright, and visibility was not low, but no matter how he looked around, he could not find a shadow.

Only by the edge of the field were there four mounds of earth that appeared slightly more raised than the surroundings.

Early morning.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan pushed the door open, walked outside the room, and gently stretched his back.

Beside the wooden tea table at the entrance of the room opposite, the single woman was sitting there, drinking tea; the tea set she used was very exquisite.

The woman raised her teacup, toasted Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan from afar, and wore a warm smile:

"Little brother, good morning."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan also gave her a shy smile and waved his hand in response:

"Good morning."

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There will be another chapter during the day tomorrow to make up for the word count of this chapter.

(End of chapter)