He walked over to Ren Yuan.
Jiang Yan clasped his hands and said quickly, "Chief, I think... I may have found where the weird thing is!"
Hm?
Ren Yuan and Tang Long's attention was instantly drawn to him.
Jiang Yan immediately lowered his voice and recounted what had just happened.
Hmm...
Ren Yuan stroked his chin and looked at the pear tree beside the skeleton, his eyes thoughtful. "Going by what that fruit farmer said, there's a good chance these pear trees are being used as hiding places by the weird thing."
He glanced at the pear trees all around them. The fruit on them was only about the size of an ordinary person's fist, while the pears on those two trees really were far too large.
As for the fragrance, he didn't grow fruit trees, so he couldn't tell.
"But what does that matter?"
There were only a few pear trees. Even if they weren't weird things after all, destroying them wouldn't cost much.
"Chief, should we cut the trees down?"
Tang Long asked.
Ren Yuan shook his head. "Weird things of the plant variety are usually unfathomable. Just the fact that it could leave Ding Yi and the others dead without a scrap of flesh tells you it won't be easy to deal with."
"The key is that we don't know what form this weird thing really takes. We need to be cautious when dealing with one we've never seen before."
"Then should we ask Lord Chang to come over?"
"He's from the government and may have seen a lot. Perhaps he'll recognize this kind of weird thing."
Tang Long made the suggestion.
"Lord Chang?" Ren Yuan nodded slowly at that.
He had a deep impression of Chang Chi, too.
When he first arrived in Yuyang, he had