People in this era certainly wouldn't have anything like that, so the woman's identity was unclear, but she was probably just like them, someone who had come from the real world.
The woman's clothes had been torn to shreds, but it was still possible to tell that she'd been wearing coarse cloth. The style was also consistent with this world.
After thinking for a moment, Li Bai suddenly looked at the armed general. "General, where was this body found?"
"In a side room on the second floor of the inn," the general recalled.
"There was only this one body in the room, right?" Yao Shunyu seemed to have realized something, too, and pressed him.
The general nodded. "That's right, only this one. The other bodies were all found in their own rooms. Manager Wu and his wife were in their bedroom. Their two daughters weren't married yet, so they shared a room, and their bodies were found in their bedroom. The waiter lived in the back courtyard." The general pointed. "That little house over there. His body was lying just inside the door."
Everyone followed the direction he pointed. In the back courtyard stood a small adobe house, thoroughly soaked by the flood and looking as if it might collapse at any moment.
"We'd like to take a look at the side room where this body was found. Would that be all right?" Zhang Qizheng cupped his hands toward the general, speaking politely.
"Please, masters. Make yourselves at home."
The general seemed to have plenty of other matters to deal with, so he assigned a soldier to lead them. Just before leaving the back courtyard, Jiang Cheng glanced over his shoulder and noticed that the body, which had been uncovered earlier, had been covered again.
Six bodies covered in white