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"": ""The Chen Sisters and whoever is sheltering them certainly have a few tricks. They dumped the body at Yu Mingxin's house, and Yu Mingxin just happened to have become an evil spirit. Did they think that would throw off our investigation?" Feng Ji licked the corner of his mouth and gave a sinister smile.
Mo Qian still said nothing, standing quietly at the back of the group.
"Let's search the courtyard anyway, just to be safe." He Gui pressed his fingers against his brow, easing some of his pent-up frustration.
They soon finished searching. They had checked carefully inside and out, but found nothing.
Only then did He Gui lead them out of Yu Mingxin's house. They left the gate open. The village road was quiet, with almost no one passing by.
That was another reason the body had gone undiscovered. Zhong Zhicheng had repeatedly instructed the villagers to stay indoors for their own safety.
Otherwise, the bloody handprint on Yu Mingxin's courtyard gate would have revealed the body's presence long ago.
Next, they headed deeper into this section of the village, passing along one side of Yu Mingxin's courtyard.
Here, farther from the foot of the mountain, the ground was flatter, with plot after plot of cultivated farmland.
The fields were fertile, and the ears of wheat had ripened golden.
Houses stood scattered among the fields. This was a secluded area, too.
Only now did Luo Bin understand where this resource-starved village got its food. He also remembered seeing villagers hurrying along with sickles and hoes, carrying baskets on their backs, on the day he had first awakened after Soul Summoning.
Cabinet Mountain Village was essentially self-sufficient.
There weren't many households here, so the search went quickly. Searching the houses was standard procedure, of