As someone deeply entangled in the entire questline, the innkeeper had probably noticed something unusual about the deducers as soon as he saw them yesterday.
They weren't ordinary people, but they weren't Master of Ten Thousand's subordinates, either. So, obviously—they were most likely members of the resistance.
That meant last night's ghost riot hadn't been a coincidence. The living innkeeper must have precisely stuck talismans to the deducers' doors, then had the shadow puppets stand behind the counter as his substitutes and take the risk.
Even then, the innkeeper had already wanted to kill them.
Unfortunately, he had clearly underestimated the deducers' abilities. The villains who had lorded it over Fengtou Town for so long probably couldn't understand why these sudden "resistance fighters" had such strange abilities.
After his plan failed last night, the innkeeper knew they were difficult to deal with. So he had given the deducers sachets like these, allowing more of his allies to join the hunt.
That made sense.
"Then why didn't the innkeeper kill you while you were asleep yesterday?" the siren asked, puzzled. "You were forced into a deep sleep. Wasn't that the perfect time to kill you?"
"Because the inn's rules impose a lot of restrictions." Ren Yi blinked. "Although the inn is under the innkeeper's control, the rules of the area formed on their own in Fengtou Town. Those who've done something shameful should be more cautious about breaking the rules."
Many of the inn's rules were mandatory. For instance, guests couldn't leave the inn's grounds at night, nor could they enter another guest's room without the owner's permission.
The innkeeper was alive, so he had to follow the rules. He couldn't sneak into their rooms while they slept; he could only use the talismans to lure ghosts and make them his