In a room on the right, a husband and wife lay on the bed, their expressions peaceful, though they had been dead for some time.
"Hui'er, come take a look. This couple seems to have been dead for some time, yet there isn't a single wound on them!"
Dongfang Hui approached with the Glowstone and looked. It was just as Xu Qingtong had said. The couple were around thirty, with no wounds anywhere on their bodies, as though they were asleep. She reached out to check them; they were already ice-cold. She then lifted the woman's eyelids and examined them carefully before saying, "Judging by this woman, she's been dead for about a day. Could this have been done by that group we encountered yesterday?"
Xu Qingtong pondered for a moment without speaking, then took Dongfang Hui with him to the room on the left. Two children lay on the bed. The older one was about twelve or thirteen, while the younger looked no more than seven or eight.
Both children had long since lost all signs of life, and the manner of their deaths was exactly the same as their parents'. There was no pain in their expressions; they still looked as though they were asleep.
"Come on! Let's check the other households!"
Xu Qingtong called to Dongfang Hui, and the two left the house and headed for another.
Upon reaching the second house, Xu Qingtong scanned it with his divine sense as before. The result was exactly the same as what he had seen earlier. His heart could not help sinking.
"There's no need to go inside. Everyone in this household is dead too, exactly like the last one!" Xu Qingtong said.
He spread his divine sense, sweeping outward through the surroundings in widening circles.
Suddenly, he sensed