The night passed without incident.
The Vicious Ghost did not appear again.
At dawn, as the first rays of sunlight pierced the horizon, the small town welcomed a new day.
Early morning.
Captain Yu found Jiang Qiao.
He brought good news and bad news.
Someone had gone missing the previous night.
But compared to the more than thirty people who had disappeared from the village the night before, the number of missing people had dropped sharply this time.
There were only two.
"The missing people were a married couple."
"According to the surveillance footage, they hadn't left their tent after 9:20 p.m. Many villagers had gone out to use the bathroom afterward, but the couple hadn't left once all night."
Captain Yu gave his report.
"There's one more thing."
"At exactly 11 p.m. last night, a drone we had stationed at the road leading down the mountain crashed for no apparent reason."
"After inspection by the technicians, no technical fault was found."
"It's rather suspicious."
Captain Yu remained calm.
Although they had encountered trouble the previous night, it had remained within a controllable range. The drone had merely crashed for some inexplicable reason. Nothing else strange had happened afterward, so he hadn't come to bother Jiang Qiao.
That was until they counted the people that morning.
They discovered that a married couple was missing.
But compared with the more than thirty people who had disappeared the night before, the staff at the scene all felt that perhaps the situation was improving.
"Not suspicious." Jiang Qiao took over, saying, "It was merely affected by supernatural interference. If I'm not mistaken, those two villagers were probably killed at around the same time."
"You can arrange for people to go to the village and dig up their ancestral graves."
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