The thing that had done all this didn't seem to be in any hurry. It had even taken care to fasten every button and tie every shoelace neatly.
Just imagining a scene like that was enough to give anyone nightmares.
"How could this happen?" Yuan Xiaotian said, his voice full of disbelief. "We've only been gone for a little while. Teacher Zi Gui... she's only been missing for a little while. The timing doesn't make sense!"
Staring down at the corpse, Jiang Cheng completely understood how Yuan Xiaotian felt.
It really didn't make sense.
At most, Teacher Zi Gui had been missing for half an hour. It was nearly impossible for someone to kidnap her and then burn and dress her body in that time.
There was something else strange, too. Though the fire had left Teacher Zi Gui's corpse unrecognizable, it wasn't very warm. In fact, it was somewhat damp, as if it had been lying here for some time.
At least a few hours.
Jiang Cheng looked around, and a suspicion slowly took shape in his mind.
It was obvious that the corpse lying in front of them was the missing Teacher Zi Gui. But the person who had eaten with them wasn't. That had been a ghost in disguise.
In other words, Teacher Zi Gui had encountered a ghost shortly after entering this world and had been killed. Her body had been dumped here, while the ghost that killed her had taken her appearance and blended into the group.
But when it realized Lin Wan'er had seen through its disguise, the ghost had slipped away without a sound.
That explanation made sense.
"Mister Jiang, have you figured something out?"
Xia Qiang's voice suddenly interrupted Jiang Cheng's thoughts. Jiang Cheng turned to look at him and saw that