A Hanged Man Suddenly Appeared in the Mourning Hall

Seeing their heads nodding, they seemed to be starting to feel sleepy.

Li Yue quickly called to them a few times, telling them not to fall asleep.

The two were called.

My brain jolted awake, and the drowsiness gradually faded.

Seeing that the candle was almost burned out, they quickly added a new one.

"You scared me to death! Thank goodness you woke us up."

"That's strange, I usually stay up very late, why am I so sleepy today?"

Both newlyweds were still somewhat shaken.

Li Yue observed their complexions and, relieved to find they weren't as sleepy, said, "Cheer up, there are only two hours left."

They are keeping vigil in the mourning hall.

Little did they know that after wandering around the entire Small Town, Shen Yu, who had arrived outside the mourning hall, was quietly watching inside.

"Nothing seems amiss. Could the key be in this mourning hall?"

Shen Yu had visited the mourning hall once before, but found nothing unusual. He couldn't stay there indefinitely, so he quickly left to look for clues elsewhere.

Although the veterans handed over the task of keeping vigil to these newcomers, they didn't simply shirk their responsibilities.

Instead, they scattered throughout the Small Town, trying to uncover Small Town secrets.

They went through several Dungeon.

Knowing that sitting idly by and waiting to die will make it difficult to successfully complete the Dungeon.

Sometimes, doing nothing can actually prevent them from even escaping when danger strikes.

Of course, the process of investigating clues is also dangerous, and the danger is unknown. This kind of work should not be given to newcomers; only seasoned veterans are confident in doing it.

Therefore, assigning the task of keeping vigil to newlyweds is still a way of considering their needs.

While most of the town's residents had gone to the house where the funeral was being held, Xiao Lai secretly slipped into the town's ancestral hall.

Outsiders are generally not allowed to enter this area.

"Li Family Village."

Most of the ancestral tablets in the ancestral hall are for people with the surname Li; those with other surnames are mostly people who married into the family.

The memorial tablet of the deceased old man has not yet been placed in the ancestral hall, so there is no memorial tablet for him here.

Xiao Lai searched the place in the dark but found no clues.

"It doesn't seem to be here."

As Xiao Lai was about to leave, a black cat suddenly darted past his feet as he crossed the threshold of the ancestral hall, followed by a piercing meow.

In this dark environment, it sounded somewhat like a child crying.

"Depend on!"

Even a seasoned veteran like Xiao Lai couldn't help but shudder.

A vague sense of foreboding made him somewhat uneasy.

I have a feeling something might happen to the newlyweds, but it's just a vigil mission. Although there might be a little danger, as long as you follow the rules and don't break them, there shouldn't be any major problems with this kind of supernatural Dungeon.

Before the newlyweds began their vigil, several senior members of the community told them not to break the rules of the vigil.

For example, the incense and candles should not be extinguished, the fire should not be put out, and paper money must be burned, etc.

Aside from these points that require extra attention, everything else is fine.

As long as the newcomers don't mess it up, something even teenagers wouldn't mess up.

Okay, it's too early to say.

A scream shattered the silence of the mourning hall.

Those who heard the scream rushed to the mourning hall as quickly as possible.

Xiao Lai was the closest.

He arrived the fastest.

As soon as he stepped into the mourning hall, he smelled a strong stench of blood.

What happened?

He looked up and saw a corpse hanging from the beam. Blood seeping from the mouth and nose had soaked the entire body, and much of it was dripping down the legs onto the floor.

The fishy smell he detected was coming from the corpse.

He stepped forward and carefully examined the corpse's face by the dim candlelight.

The corpse's face was contorted with pain and fear, but he could still tell that it wasn't one of the new recruits.

Li Yue fell off the small stool and onto the ground.

She was very close to the corpse; the corpse's drooping toes were almost touching her back.

The wind blew in, shaking the corpse. Her toes touched her back, and when she turned around, she saw a grotesque corpse. The scream that followed was naturally hers.

The other two newcomers were also completely jolted awake by this incident.

They came over and dragged Li Yue, who was limp on the ground and unable to get up, to the other side.

"What's going on?" Xiao Lai around and asked again.

The young man who had just graduated was also unsure. "I don't know either. The two of us were guarding the sacrificial basin on the right side of the coffin when we suddenly heard her cry out."

They weren't even sleepy; they were nearly scared out of their wits.

"I... I..." Li Yue was still reeling from the shock of turning around and seeing a corpse.

It took her a while to calm down. "I don't know either. I was burning paper money when a gust of wind came from behind me, and I felt something bump against my back a few times. So I turned around to look, and I saw someone hanging behind me."

Hearing her description, the two newcomers and Xiao Lai all gasped in shock.

Anyone would be terrified by that.

To be honest, they're all feeling a bit uneasy now.

The three newcomers present had no idea when the body appeared.

The two newlyweds guarding the sacrificial basin said, "We were so sleepy before, we were almost dozing off. Li Yue woke us up. We glanced at her then, and the corpse wasn't there yet. I think it was around midnight?"

The other three senior members also rushed back.

After they learned what had happened, they examined the corpse.

"Since he's not a newcomer, then he's a resident of this Small Town. Go and inform the family in charge so they can come and take a look."

After all, they also bear some responsibility since the incident occurred in their family's funeral hall.

Soon, a man rushed over. "What did you say? Someone died in the mourning hall?"

"What a joke! My dad's only a year away is supposed to be a happy funeral, how could something like this happen?"

When he stepped into the mourning hall and saw the person hanging there, his anger changed instantly. He suddenly rushed over, hugged the person's leg, and cried out, "Second brother, second brother, why did you have to do this?"

"Even though Dad passed away, he died peacefully. How could you, how could you do such a thing!"

The man's wailing drew the attention of everyone else.

"Come quickly and help me put him down! You men keeping vigil, why didn't you stop him?"

"The second brother is in trouble now, and you lot have to give me an explanation."

It sounds like the man who hanged himself was the younger brother of the person in charge, and also the owner of the family holding the funeral.