"Who died? How did they die? What exactly happened?"
Luo Sheng grabbed Sun Run.
Everyone else was startled by his words, whether it was Shen Xi or Wu Feng, whose face still glowed with excitement after spending all night studying talismans.
After catching his breath, Sun Run immediately said, "I went to see the Village Chief just now. I wanted him to help us find some people to lend us a hand."
"I knocked for ages, but no one opened the door."
"So I asked his neighbors if they knew where he'd gone, but they all said they hadn't seen him leave."
"But no matter how much I knocked, no one answered."
"One of the neighbors climbed onto his courtyard wall to help call out to him, but..."
Sun Run swallowed.
"As soon as he got up there, he saw someone... upside down in the water jar in the Village Chief's courtyard. It was the Village Chief's son!"
"Then I kicked down the door, and the others rushed inside with me."
"When I went into the house, I saw the Village Chief."
"He... he was dead, with his head in the washbasin in his room!"
"And it wasn't just him and his son. His wife had drowned in the toilet!"
"The Village Chief's whole family died last night!"
Luo Sheng whipped his head around to look at the female corpse lying motionless on the bed boards inside the house.
Last night, she hadn't shown any signs of anything unusual!
Even the Spirit-Sealing Talisman Shen Xi had placed on her body was still perfectly intact.
But why? Why had the Village Chief's entire family died?
If they had died some other way, Luo Sheng could have reassured himself that a murderer had broken in. But every member of the Village Chief's