Chapter 509 The Small Village at the Foot of the Mountain

Fu Miaoxue said: "This play is one of the early classic plays of the Confucian Academy of Fujian Opera. It is about the Spring and Autumn Period. A man named Hua Zhou from the Qi State led troops to conquer the Lu State. Unfortunately, he died on the battlefield. His His wife Jiang Ji went to the State of Lu to look for her husband’s body, and went through all kinds of hardships to transport the body back home for burial. On her way back, she encountered robbers. Fortunately, her husband suddenly appeared and she was able to escape.”

At this point, she paused slightly and continued: "But the inspector just said that the woman who transported the corpse was Li. It probably has nothing to do with this story. It may be just because the transportation of the corpse is the same, so the game theme took this name."

"The game will not give useless clues, just remember them first." Bai Youwei said, "Maybe you will need them later."

"What are we going to do now?" Fu Miaoxue looked around, "It's so dark here that you can't see anything clearly, and it's raining. Even if you want to investigate for clues, you can't do it, right?"

She took Du Lai's hand and asked, "Please tell me, what should we do next?"

He was yelling at Du Lai just a minute ago, but now he's acting like a normal person.

Du Lai seemed to be used to the speed of Fu Miaoxue's change of expression, and said with a calm expression: "Let's go down the mountain to find shelter from the rain, and ask for news by the way. People in the village should know something."

His words coincided with Shen Mo's thoughts.

The four of them went down the mountain together and saw an old willow tree at the far east end of the village.

On the muddy road beside the tree, there were several deep wheel marks, some overlapping and some intersecting, but they were all wheels of the same thickness, just like the same car passing by and rolling over again and again.

Shen Mo raised his eyebrows and looked around, "It should have been left by the corpse transporter girl."

——The corpses were transported from the east of the village to the west of the village, and the corpses were transported from the west of the village to the east of the village, day after day, without any rest.

That's why such marks are left on the road.

Du Laiye also observed the surrounding area vigilantly and said calmly: "The rules tell us to stop the corpse transporter, but they don't say what will happen if the player encounters the corpse transporter."

"The corpse transporter girl is the key to the whole game. It's better not to have direct contact with her before we can find out the information." Shen Mo continued to walk forward, "The rain is getting heavier and heavier. Find a place to take shelter as soon as possible."

Du Lai and Fu Miaoxue followed him.

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The village is not big, with only about twenty households in total, and most of them have no lights on, as if they have gone to bed.

Shen Mo found a house with lights on and patted the door.

No one in the room responded.

Du Lai and Fu Miaoxue also knocked on several doors one after another, but the results were the same.

Some even turned off the lights immediately after they knocked on the door, as if they were afraid of something and refused to open the door.

They took shelter from the rain under the eaves. Du Lai tried to push the door open and said, "This door bolt has a simple structure and it is actually easy to get in."

For Du Lai, prying open the door was as easy as eating at home.

Shen Mo said calmly: "It's not necessary. Even if you break the door and get in, you may be kicked out by the owner in the end. There is another house in front. Let's go and take a look in front."

The house in front of Shen Mo was obviously a large household in the village. There were two stone lions squatting at the door. The house and courtyard were many times larger than other households in the village, and they were also very far away.

Perhaps the owner didn't want to be neighbors with poor people, or maybe he found it too noisy, so he lived in a very remote area. There were no neighbors nearby, only flowers, trees, and a large lotus pond.

Shen Mo just raised his hand to knock on the door, and he pushed the door open——

The door to the outer courtyard was not locked.