The few people outside the room were obviously Bai Jing's people.

Suddenly, a local woman entered their room and he looked over warily and spoke.

"Hey, where are you..."

Lin Wu stopped and looked up, revealing his full face, and glanced at the other person.

The men were suddenly speechless, their eyes slightly widened, and they recognized Lin Wu. They instinctively wanted to greet him, but they didn't dare to say a word because Lin Wu was staring at them.

Lin Wu pushed the door open and went in.

Several people looked at each other, and one of them immediately turned around as if nothing had happened and went to look for Bai Jing.

When other people in the corridor heard the noise, they looked over, but didn't see anything unusual, so they looked away.

In the room, Lin Wu put down his bag casually, walked to the table, picked up the bottle of mineral water on it, unscrewed it and took a few sips.

After a while, when Lin Wu was about to screw the bottle cap on, there was a knock on the door.

She turned around.

The door opened, and Bai Jing came into view.

The two of them exchanged glances quickly, and Bai Jing came in as usual and closed the door behind him.

Lin Wu put down the mineral water and sat down.

When the person came to him, he spoke softly, "What's going on?"

"A group came in this morning, another group came in this afternoon, and the third group came in the evening."

Bai Jing sat down and said, "It is known that this group of people tonight is the rescue team invited by the archaeological team. The two leaders have already entered Professor Zhang's room to discuss matters. Not long after, Deputy Captain Jian also went there. The rest of the people are eating on the first floor. I went over to listen in as a party involved. They talked about arranging people to find someone. I don't know the specific plan. They didn't intend to keep me to listen. It seems that they are not going to cooperate with me in the future."

"What about the other two groups?" Lin Wu asked.

Bai Jing shook his head: "I don't know."

Before Lin Wu could say anything, she continued, "But some of the people who came in the afternoon left very quickly and went to the back mountain. They left quietly, and if I hadn't asked people to keep an eye on them, no one would have noticed. They went straight to the back mountain as soon as they came up, and they looked like they were looking for something. And they were all powerful martial artists. I suspect they are from the Huo family."

Lin Wu asked: "Are you sure?"

Bai Jing said, "No. But before you, Bai Ning came back. I asked him to go with us to have a look. If the place they went to is where we found the Huo family, and their actions and traces along the way are enough to prove that they are. Bai Ning has dealt with the Huo family before, so I believe he can tell the difference better."

Lin Wu leaned back, crossed his legs, and asked after a few seconds of hesitation, "Where are the other group of people?"

"They are the strangest." Bai Jing frowned as he said this. "They have been staying in this B&B since they arrived. They have not made any moves and are very quiet. Although they are few in number, only five people, they are not the right way. Looking at the words and actions of some of them, they are very similar to..."

Bai Jing paused, looked at Lin Wu, and said, "Killer."

The warmth on Lin Wu's face disappeared completely.

"They are obviously not ordinary people, but they have not done anything unusual. This is the most wrong thing. Because I couldn't see through it, I didn't leave. I stayed here to watch them." Bai Jing was quite calm and asked Lin Wu, "Do you have an idea?"

Lin Wu was silent for a moment, then nodded slowly.

Bai Jing asked again: "I see the human skin mask on your face is gone. When you came up, did anyone notice your real appearance?"

Lin Wu shook his head.

Bai Jing then nodded, "As for your own affairs, then you can handle them yourself. If you need me to do anything, then do it with me. As for the other two groups, you don't have to worry about them. I'll take care of them."

Lin Wu pinched his fingertips and said solemnly, "Okay."

Bai Jing turned around and asked, "Then what happened to you? You left for such a long time without any news. What happened to you? Why did you come back suddenly and even changed your clothes?"

"Yes, he found out the inside story of Zhangjiazhai's departure from the Thirty-Six Villages." Bai Jing said, "It turns out that there is a forbidden place in the Thirty-Six Villages. The former leader of Zhangjiazhai teamed up with outsiders to covet that place and almost harmed the Thirty-Six Villages. Later, the leader of the village fled, and the other tribes of the Thirty-Six Villages were indignant, so they expelled Zhangjiazhai and renamed it Zhangjia Village now."

Lin Wu was somewhat surprised that Bo Ning had found out so much, but these things were nothing new to him, so he just asked, "Anything else?"

Bai Jing was a little puzzled by Lin Wu's calm reaction, so he didn't ask any more questions and said, "Yes. Do you know Zhang Yuge?"

Lin Wu nodded and told her what happened in North City in a concise manner.

"The son of the former leader of Zhangjiazhai is Zhang Yuge," said Bai Jing.

Lin Wu: “Oh.”

"He was..." Bai Jing was about to continue, but was stopped when he saw this, "You knew it a long time ago?"

Lin Wu nodded.

"…" Bai Jing was puzzled: "How did you know? Haven't you been in the back mountain all this time? I was also wondering if you have met anyone in the back mountain?"

Lin Wu said, "I'll explain it to you later, you continue."

Bai Jing's mouth twitched slightly, and he said, "According to what you just said, three years ago, a young master from the Leng family in Beicheng came here and brought back a fake Zhang Yuge. Both the young master of the Leng family and Zhang Yuge were fake. As for this, Bai accidentally found a childhood playmate of the real Zhang Yuge in a nearby village."

"This person has a deep impression of what happened three years ago. According to him, he once went to look for Zhang Yuge three years ago and saw a rich kid from another place in Zhang Yuge's house, who he thought was Leng Linfeng. However, he felt that the Zhang Yuge he saw at that time was very different, like a different person. I think Zhang Yuge was framed before he brought Leng Linfeng to Zhangjia Village."

Lin Wu frowned, "That was when Leng Linfeng met Zhang Yuge in the mountains. At that time, Zhang Yuge had been bitten to death by a poisonous snake, and then a man appeared. This man wore Zhang Yuge's human skin mask and returned to Zhangjia Village with Leng Linfeng?"

"That's right." Bai Jing nodded. "Bo Ning successively found several people who had contact with Zhang Yuge during that period to question and collect evidence from each other, and confirmed that Zhang Yuge had changed at that time. But this is very strange."

"Leng Linfeng must have seen someone impersonating him, but he went to Zhangjia Village with him. It's really strange." Lin Wu thought, "But the real Leng Linfeng was in a car accident and came to Lingnan to find an answer. But what did he go through in the process that he would be replaced by the owner of the funeral industry?"

"Maybe, there is another possibility." Bai Jing said.

Lin Wu looked at her.

Bai Jing said: "It was indeed the real Leng Linfeng who came to Lingnan, and it was also the real Leng Linfeng who met Zhang Yuge, but... it was not just one person who was bitten to death by the poisonous tongue - both of them died there at the time. Then the owner of the funeral business and the fake Zhang Yuge hit it off and pretended to go to Zhangjia Village by replacing each other's identities."

"But later they were unlucky. A body of a man was accidentally found and reported to the police. They had no choice but to deal with this problem."

"but……"

Bai Jing looked puzzled. "If they did this, what was their purpose? What in Zhangjia Village was worth them going through so much trouble to impersonate someone else?"

Lin Wu suddenly said, "Didn't the former leader of Zhangjia Village collude with outsiders at that time? Don't you think this is a coincidence? Moreover, the Huo family has also set their sights on Lingnan and has been active here on and off for three years."

"You mean, the owner of the funeral business and the Huo family went to Zhangjia Village under different identities because they had their eyes on the Thirty-Six Villages. So they used the identity of the son of the former leader of Zhangjia Village to establish contact with the leader of Zhangjia Village. They used Leng Linfeng's identity because they didn't want to be discovered to be a member of the Huo family?" Bai Jing said.

Lin Wu nodded with a solemn expression.

When she heard about Zhang Yuge's incident before, she hadn't thought about it in such detail.

Now that I know Leng Linfeng, I think this is the most likely and reasonable scenario.

Bai Jing was slightly startled, thinking of something, her face changed slightly: "If that's the case, the Huo family targeted the Thirty-Six Villages back then, and now they are sending people here, aren't they still targeting that place? And we previously suspected that the place the archaeological team entered, and the place Bo Ning and I entered, were the same place the Huo family entered..."

Her tone suddenly rose: "Are we looking for the place that is expressly prohibited by the Thirty-Six Villages?"

Lin Wu paused: "It's not impossible."

Bai Jing frowned and said, "But the people of the Thirty-Six Villages are protecting that place very tightly! If it is really there, aren't we going against the people of the Thirty-Six Villages there?"

(End of this chapter)