Everyone understood. It seemed these people had long been prepared to bury them. Their suspicions from last night had been right: the general had been testing them. If they survived, that would prove they had real skills, and he would introduce them to Zhennan Hou. But if he had opened the door this morning and found water covering the floor and several bodies chewed to pieces, he would simply have collected their corpses.
Judging by how smoothly the general had handled everything, this clearly wasn't the first time something like this had happened. Everyone grew even more curious about Zhennan Hou, who stood behind the general.
When they went upstairs and saw Gao Yanqing's body, the general put on a pained expression and didn't forget to comfort the others. "Masters, please rest assured. This happened in Luo'an City, after all, so we'll take care of this master's funeral arrangements. His family will also receive a generous compensation."
In a world like this, Jiang Cheng and the others didn't care about the compensation at all. They were only thinking about how to survive. But they still had to say the right things, since the plot had to move forward. Zhang Qizheng cupped his hands toward the general. "My brother was a man who'd suffered a hard life. We're strangers here, so the funeral arrangements... We'll leave them to you, General."
"It's only right."
After answering, the general glanced at the soldiers behind him. An older soldier with a beard stepped forward and bent down to carefully inspect the remaining half of the corpse.
Jiang Cheng noticed that the man spent the longest looking at the gaping wound and the corpse's face. A few sprigs of Beauty Fragrance grew near the wound. Before long, the man seemed to find no particular clues.