Under Qin Ran's gaze, Hall's desiccated corpse swelled like an inflating balloon, rapidly transforming from a half-mummified corpse into a normal person.
A breathing person with a healthy flush to his face.
"That damned Burning Family! I'll make sure..."
Hall spoke those words as he opened his eyes.
Then he saw Qin Ran standing before him, looking down at him.
His threats stopped abruptly.
Qin Ran calmly watched Hall, who had returned to life through a corpse.
Everything before him was within his expectations.
The situation had become obvious when Qin Ran saw the approaching bandits through Fire Crow's eyes.
The secret room inside the Dwarf's Goblet and Bowl was a supply depot for the bandits.
The Eddie Caravan was doing work no ordinary merchant would do.
And Hall, the mayor, was involved as well.
In fact, this ostensibly impartial mayor had likely ordered the Eddie Caravan to do it.
Along the way, Sheriff Peters might have uncovered some clues, prompting Hall to swiftly silence him and make it look as though he had died fighting bandits.
Afraid of being exposed, Hall had dealt with the subsequent sheriffs in the same way.
Until Qin Ran appeared.
Or rather, Qin Ran had happened to arrive just as the bandits were about to massacre Gravel Town, which was why the mayor had grown impatient and chosen to act that very day.
As for why Hall would kill the goose that laid the golden eggs by helping the bandits massacre Gravel Town?
That was not hard to guess either.
A soldier who had spent his life in the military would never have had the opportunity to learn the ability Hall had just displayed.
And how could he have learned such an ability without paying a price?
Simply put, Hall was nothing more than