"No matter what your status is now, killing someone is the same as giving it a friend. Are you sure there won't be any bad consequences?" Chi Cai's argument was sound. "As I said before, killing someone might break the rules. You don't need to do it."
Everyone there had a brain. It was certainly something they had to consider, but they were more interested in whether Xu Huo had any concrete information.
"We're only here to confirm whether the girl called Tuo Tuo is really dead." The green-haired female player stared at Xu Huo with her unusual eyes. "If the little girl was telling the truth, then it must be the real Hidden Friend calling to her while pretending to be Tuo Tuo. We'd rather learn about the Hidden Friend's patterns of activity."
Players could be guarded, but the real Hidden Friend was another matter.
Xu Huo raised an eyebrow. "You want to dig up the grave?"
"That won't be necessary." The green-haired female player took out a small device. "We can scan directly for human bones underground."
That was the most convenient method. Xu Huo's elaborate approach, by contrast, had made it seem as though he had found something valuable.
The green-haired female player walked over to the mound and scanned it with the device. Her eyebrows lifted slightly. "There are no bones under here. Not human bones, or even animal bones."
They didn't suspect the villagers of lying. The villagers wouldn't dare, and couldn't. The only possibility was that the buried corpse had been consumed by plants. After all, some plants secreted highly corrosive liquids, so it was perfectly normal for a buried corpse to disappear.
Then she checked the soil and confirmed that it contained bone matter.
"That's strange," the green-haired female player said. "You'd think