Hearing Zong Wangyue’s shaless words, you could only shake your head and give a wry smile, "Let’s go, it’s getting late. While the sun is still fierce, we must hurry to find all the Corpse Puppet Gu in the village!"
First, a check was made around the civilian houses. With the Sen Luo Eye present, those things couldn’t hide anywhere. After all, the Corpse Puppet Gu emanated a strong aura of yin and filth. With a sweep of the Sen Luo Curse Mark, which had X-ray vision capabilities, every detail within the structures beca visible.
You then quickly followed Zong Wangyue to Ming Liang Village’s Grain Drying Yard. By this ti, about a hundred or so people were seated around, n and won, young and old.
Although the villagers were more or less nervous, perhaps because of the crowd, familiar faces sat together, and once the conversation started, many of their worries and fears naturally dissipated.
In addition to the villagers, the police had also dispatched a psychological counseling team. Their main task was to divert the villagers’ attention, help them relax, and avoid unnecessary emotional conflicts.
When you and Zong Wangyue walked through a small alley and into the Grain Drying Yard, an elderly man in his fifties hurried over.
"Boss, this elder gentleman is Village Chief Cai of Ming Liang Village."
"Chief, this is the chairman of our supernatural detective agency."
On hearing you were the chairman, Village Chief Cai eagerly pulled you aside and asked in a low voice, "Chairman Li, has that thing been taken care of?"
"The entity in the courtyard has been dealt with, but we need to perform a search throughout the village to ensure there are no oversights. Also, we need to find the source before nightfall; otherwise, all the villagers will have to move out."
Not expecting the situation to be so severe, Village Chief Cai’s face was etched with anxiety, "But... but that’s not possible. Where would more than two hundred of us move to all at once?"
"I wouldn’t want to do this unless absolutely necessary." You looked steadily at Village Chief Cai and continued, "Chief, is the master of that household among the crowd?"
Village Chief Cai turned his head to look and slightly nodded, "Yes, both he and his wife are here."
"Could you please call them over? I have so things I need to understand."
"Okay."
Village Chief Cai hurried toward the crowd. Although he felt sowhat panicked inside, his face did not betray his feelings.
Soon, Village Chief Cai approached a middle-aged couple, spoke to them in a low voice for a few monts, and then led them quickly back to you.
"Chairman Li, I’ve brought them over. Please start asking your questions."
As the village chief, his usual duties involved dealing with minor village matters like family disputes and trivial quarrels. But now this pressing issue, which concerned the entire village’s safety, weighed like a mountain on his heart, leaving him no chance to breathe. He was eager for you to eliminate the hidden danger as soon as possible.
You nodded, then directly addressed the middle-aged man, "Uncle, hello. There are two things I need to get clear about, and you must answer carefully and thoroughly."
"Okay, okay, go ahead."
The middle-aged man had always had deep-set eyes, and the recent events surrounding the headless rooster had nearly driven him to the brink of collapse.
"Does your family keep the chickens free-range or caged?"
"Free-range. We let them out during the day to peck at bugs and seeds on the nearby grass, which makes their eggs more nutritious. They co back on their own in the evening."
"Since they are free-range, do you know where they usually forage?"
"That..." the middle-aged man scratched his head, "it’s generally just around my house; I haven’t seen them go very far."
"That’s not always true; sotis they wander quite far." The middle-aged man’s wife interjected, "Rember, last ti we lost three chickens? Later, I and the lady from next door went into the woods and found them near the old tomb."
The middle-aged woman’s words suddenly drew your attention, "Auntie, among those three chickens, was the headless rooster one of them?"
"Hmm, they should be, I guess, chickens all look pretty similar anyway."
Seeing the middle-aged woman hesitate, you asked another question, "Was it one rooster and two hens?"
"Right, right, right."
The middle-aged woman’s nodding sowhat relieved you.
Soon, the cellphone in your pocket rang, and when you checked, it was a call from Xiao Feng.
"Madman, any update?"
"No, we’ve checked everything on this side."
Xiao Feng’s Heaven’s Eye, although far from comparable to the Sen Luo Eye, and having only been activated yesterday, was still fully capable of searching for the Corpse Puppet Gu.
"Hmm, once Little Kai is done with his check, we’ll head to the hill behind, I just got a new clue, let’s et up in the yard of the house where the headless rooster was found," you said.
"Okay."
Yang Kai obviously needed a bit more ti, around ten minutes later, he finally called.
After getting Yang Kai’s response, like a weight lifted off your shoulders, you let out a sigh of relief and said to Village Chief Cai standing beside you, "Village chief, your village can now be assured of its safety."
"Really?"
"That’s wonderful!"
Glancing over the crowd in the Grain Drying Yard, you asked the village chief another question, "By the way, are all the villagers here?"
"Yes, except for the children studying outside and those who are doing business, everyone else is here," he replied.
Won often have a finer attention to detail than n. The middle-aged woman added, after hearing his words, "Village chief, all the villagers might be here, but I haven’t seen that tenant from the Third Sister-in-law’s house."
"The tenant from the Third Sister-in-law’s house?" The village chief was startled and then slapped his thigh, "Right, how could I forget about him!"
Seeing the village chief’s reaction, you imdiately asked, "Where is that person?"
"That guy should be nearby drawing scenery," he said.
"Drawing scenery?"
"Yes," Village Chief Cai nodded, "He said he’s an art student and ca to our village to draw. Usually, he leaves the house early in the morning with his sketchpad and brushes to draw the scenery everywhere."
After thinking for a mont, you said to Village Chief Cai, "Chief, may I pat your shoulder?"
"Huh?"
Before the village chief could react, your hand had already patted his shoulder, and at that mont, an image of a young man flashed across your mind.
He was wearing black-frad glasses, looked scholarly, and when talking to people, he would involuntarily show a shy smile on his face, looking like soone easy to get along with.
However, for so reason, you instinctively felt a strong aversion to this rather ordinary man, soone you could grab a handful of on any street. This sort of reaction seed to be a conditioned reflex, like dogs disliking cats, straight n abhorring effeminate n, and Huaxia people hating People of Yamato.
Your gut told you, there was sothing wrong with this man!
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