Chen Miao's gaze settled on that one crucial word.
Hunchback!
Someone who knew the owner of Kong's Paper Effigy Shop, knew Chen Miao was an apprentice, kept a coffin in his room, and had a hunched back-there seemed to be only one person who fit.
Hunchback Lin of Qingjiang Town's Yizhuang!
Looking at the deserted village before him, Chen Miao finally knew who had buried all these corpses here.
The moment he guessed the answer, Chen Miao's first instinct was to turn around and leave, avoiding any involvement with Hunchback Lin from the Yizhuang.
He reacted that way because he did not want to introduce any uncertainties into his life in Qingjiang Town.
But that thought soon faded.
In the chapter, that Soul-Seizing Net had held him captive for several hours before the two men arrived.
That meant that before nightfall, there were no living people here-only corpses, leaping hopping corpses, and traps.
And judging by the fact that the man had not come looking for him after he performed transcendence rites on the corpses last time, he clearly had no way of knowing who had ruined his corpse nurturing plans.
As long as Chen Miao performed transcendence rites on the corpses here before nightfall, even Hunchback Lin would be helpless if he came in person that evening.
As for the trap...
Could a trap still be called a trap once you knew about it?
What Chen Miao needed to do now was enter the chapter through chapter immersion and locate the houses where the leaping hopping corpses appeared, along with the trap.
Once he knew all that, this would be no different from performing transcendence rites on those immobile corpses before.
They were only leaping hopping corpses. Even without his real body, even without access to the nine apertures,