Chapter 133

Chapter 133 The Eaten Corpses

Old Guo paused for a while before he continued, But the drawing is too abstract, and theres no labeling . I dont know where its a drawing of .

Xie Yuqing said, That's easy . I can take a photo of this map and send it to our technology department . They'll try to match and a.n.a.lyze this map through the satellite map of Stone City . They can usually get results within ten minutes .

She then contacted a technician and told him what she needed . Sure enough, Xie Yuqing received a map from the technician within ten minutes . She studied it for a while, then she looked up at Ye Shaoyang and said, Its a map of this region .

Ye Shaoyang matched the map on her cell phone with the notebooks; they indeed were the same map . But the map in the cell phone looked clearer and was labeled with the names of places . The cell phone map also revealed the areas that the red dots marked in the notebook .

Wheres the location of Madam Chees Temple? asked Ye Shaoyang, as he didn't know how to use a smartphone .

Xie Yuqing helped Ye Shaoyang find the location . After he checked the location of Madam Chees Temple, he zoomed in to look at the other four locations . He looked over the five locations, and he took a deep breath and said in shock, Don't tell me its a five spirit moving mountain formation .

Whats that? Xie Yuqing and the others hurriedly asked .

Let's not discuss this . I need to go to one of these places to confirm my guess . Ye Shaoyang pointed at one of the red dots, This place looks close to us .

Xie Yuqing said, Thats Liang Village, more than ten kilometers away from here .

More than ten kilometers .

Ye Shaoyang nodded . Right at this moment, a waitress came in and cleared their plates away . He asked her, Miss, do you know where Liang Village is?

The plates fell out of the waitresss hands and smashed into pieces . She shook her head in panic and said, I dont know . She didnt clean up the mess and turned to leave .

Her strange behavior stunned everyone .

Xie Yuqing stood up and placed her hand on the waitresss shoulder and stopped her . She advised, Dont be afraid; were the police . We hope to learn more about Liang Village . Youll just need to answer us honestly .

Then Xie Yuqing stuffed two hundred Yuan into the waitresss palm, but the woman instantly shoved it back and grabbed both of Xie Yuqings hands . Big sister, you must listen to me . Dont ever go to Liang Village . It is haunted . I just ran away from there . The villagers are in a panic . Most of them have already moved out . You must not go to the village!

Once the waitress finished speaking, she pushed Xie Yuqing away and quickly exited the room without listening to anyone .

Xie Yuqing stared blankly at Ye Shaoyang and asked, Do you want me to bring the waitress back here?

Its fine; she doesnt want to talk, its useless for us to force her . Since the village is not far from us, we can go tomorrow morning, replied Ye Shaoyang . In his mind, he wondered what strange incident could frighten the waitress to this extent .

That night, they slept at the police station . The next morning, they divided tasks among themselves . Old Guo went back to his shop to make more potions and ritual tools for future use while Xie Yuqing drove Ye Shaoyang and Xiao Ma to Liang Village . They went according to the route drawn on the map . After driving for seven or eight kilometers, they reached a narrow path the car couldnt pa.s.s .

Xie Yuqing stated she could only take them to here . She needed to hurry back to report the details of the case to her superior so she could further increase the search effort for the Gu master . As a result, Ye Shaoyang and Xiao Ma walked the last few kilometers of the mountain road .

After an hour of walking in the mountains, they finally saw a few houses . According to the map, it was where Liang Village was located . When they were about to enter the village, Ye Shaoyang stopped dead in his tracks . He frowned and muttered, Such a strong hateful Qi!

Haunted? Xiao Ma nervously asked .

Ye Shaoyang nodded as he walked to the village entrance . Lets check it out .

Once they walked past the entrance, the sky instantly dulled . A grey mist dispersed throughout the village . Xiao Ma was stunned . He looked up but couldnt even see where the sun was . He wondered, Holy moly, the weather turns cloudy and the sun has just gone missing in the blink of an eye .

Ye Shaoyang whispered, The hateful Qi has covered the sun . Be careful now, the hateful Qi has reached an extreme level in this place .

In the village, the door to every house was shut tight . Ye Shaoyang and Xiao Ma saw no one when they walked across the village . As they wondered, a sob suddenly sounded from a yard not far away from them .

They glanced at each other . They tracked down the voice and came to a yard with the gate wide open . When they entered, they saw a reed mat placed at the center of the yard . The mat wrapped around a corpse whose two legs were the only part exposed .

A lady with two children laid on the mat, crying feebly . Beside the three of them were dozens of villagers who were attending the funeral . All of them looked depressed and didnt seem to have had enough sleep .

The villagers were puzzled when they saw Ye Shaoyang and Xiao Ma . A sixty-year-old man walked toward them . He sized up both of them with eyes that looked tired with bags beneath them . Ye Shaoyang spoke first, Were the police . Were here to investigate a case . Are you holding a funeral?

Once the villagers heard they were police, the villagers let their guard down . None of the villagers thought of verifying that they were police . The old man nodded and slowly said, Im the village head . How can I help you?

Ye Shaoyang clarified his first doubt, Why is n.o.body in any of the houses?

The village head replied, We dont have many villagers in our village . The teenagers have left to work, leaving us, the senior villagers to keep watch over our small land, doing nothing .

Ye Shaoyang swept his eyes over the crowd . Just as the village head said, all of them were over their forties and fifties . All of them had lifeless looks in their eyes . Ye Shaoyang instantly had an answer in mind . He approached and squatted beside the reed mat covering the corpse . It was a man in his forties . Then Ye Shaoyang asked, How did he die?

While he was working, he drowned when he fell into a hole made by cows tramping that was filled with water, answered the village head .

The village heads words stunned Ye Shaoyang and Xiao Ma . They looked at each other . A person drowning in a hole filled with water made by cows tramping?

Instead of covering him with a reed mat, why dont you buy him a coffin? Ye Shaoyang asked .

He thought the old man would say that they lacked money, as he saw the house was old and dilapidated . There was a possibility that they could not afford to buy a coffin . However, the lady lying on the mat wiped away her tears and replied, Its a waste of money to buy him a coffin . The corpse will be eaten in the end anyway!

Her answer shocked Ye Shaoyang . He hurriedly asked, Why do you say that?

The village head rebuked the lady with a grunt and said to Ye Shaoyang, She grieves for the death of her husband . Thats why she is talking nonsense . I hope you wont take her words seriously .

Ye Shaoyang grabbed the opportunity . He instantly acted like the police . He gave a dry cough and said to the village head, Honestly speaking, uncle, we came here to investigate this issue . I hope you can cooperate and tell me the whole truth . Dont try to interfere with our investigation .

Rural people were usually innocent and timid . Ye Shaoyangs words stunned the village head . After a while, the village head stammered, I-It is useless . You police cant handle this problem . n.o.body can help us . Th-This is a haunting .