The five people continued walking on the street, and at this time they saw some people carrying their luggage and heading out of the city.
They rushed to the east of the city, and when they were about to reach their destination, the other party stopped.
"Okay, I don't want to go any further. You see, that building up ahead is Aniu's house. If you want to go there, just go there on your own. I'll be leaving first."
After saying that, he no longer cared about the five people and ran away.
The four of them ignored him and followed the direction he pointed to, arriving at Aniu's house.
When I got closer, I saw that the door of this house was open.
The four of them stepped in without hesitation.
But when they just entered, they found that it suddenly became much darker inside.
It looks a bit eerie.
However, what surprised the four was that no one came to collect the body.
The bodies of the family of four were neatly placed in the main hall.
They were not placed in the coffin either.
Looking at the four pale corpses.
Zhang Jue squatted down and took a look, then he had some questions.
"I don't know how long he's been dead."
"What's wrong? Did you find something wrong?"
Fengyun asked curiously.
There are many strange and bizarre tasks in the game, but since he has a group of capable assistants, he basically has not taken on any tasks.
I stopped by to take a look this time.
Zhang Jiao said:
"My lord, the body shows no signs of decay. If it had only been recently, not everyone in the city would have gotten the news. But we see that the people in the city have already started fleeing. This is clearly a bit unreasonable."
Zhang Bao added:
"Only one family died in the city, and only one other family was infected. It shouldn't have caused such a big panic."
Zhang Liang: "Right, right. So I guess there must be something fishy going on."
The only clues at the moment are these corpses and Aunt Wang's house, so let's start with these corpses.
This is Fengyun’s experience in completing missions in the past.
"Check the four bodies, maybe you'll find something."
Zhang Jue squatted down again and began to examine it carefully.
He first pinched the corpse's arm and asked doubtfully:
"Huh? Why is this corpse still so elastic?"
This made Zhang Jue suspicious, and then he touched the other person's face with his hand again.
"No. The color on the face is painted on."
Zhang Jue immediately took out his own talisman water and washed the faces of the four corpses one by one.
"The faces of these four people were all smeared."
Feng Yun asked doubtfully, "Hold your breath?"
"Yes, someone is playing tricks."
"Then wake them up first."
After Feng Yun finished speaking, Zhang Jiao took out a few pills from his arms and stuffed them into their mouths.
After a while, the medicine began to take effect.
At this time, the four people woke up slowly.
When they opened their eyes and saw the stranger, they immediately asked cautiously:
"Who are you?"
Fengyun ignored them and threw out a sentence.
"Tell me, who ordered you to do this?"
"What are you talking about?"
Seeing that the other party was playing dumb, Zhang Liang didn't hesitate and directly picked up his child and said coldly:
"Haha, you won't tell me, right? If you don't tell me, I'll kill him."
Seeing her child being threatened by these strangers, the woman pleaded:
"Please don't hurt my child, we said."
But the man next to him quickly covered her mouth and said, "Don't say it, we will all die if we say it."
"Hehehe, if you don't tell me, you'll all die now. If you tell me, I can protect you."
The man was very cautious and said:
"Can you please tell me who you are?"
"We are from the imperial court, and we are here to investigate the epidemic. It seems that this is not an epidemic at all, but you are spreading rumors. Tell me, what is your purpose?"
When the man heard that the imperial court was coming to investigate, he almost peed his pants.
Trembling, he said:
"Sir, we didn't know. We were forced to do this. If we didn't play dead, they would kill my whole family."
Zhang Jue heard this and realized that this was not a simple matter. He said:
"Who are they? Tell me and I'll forgive you."
The man then confessed:
"I don't know, but Aunt Wang next door should know. They were the ones who found us and gave us a hundred silver coins."
"Okay, I can't just take your side of the story. I'll go to Aunt Wang's house and see for myself. Third brother, keep an eye on them."
After Zhang Jue finished speaking, he ignored them.
Fengyun also followed the two of them out.
Before the three of them reached Aunt Wang's house next door, they heard the family crying.
"Old man, you died tragically."
"Daddy, how could you bear to leave me?"
"Daddy, I want daddy..."
If they didn't know, they would be confused by their miserable voices, but now that they knew, they no longer had any sympathy.
But as soon as they arrived, the woman wiped away her tears and grabbed Zhang Jue who was walking in front.
"Hey, old man, why are you still in the city? Go run! My old man and the neighboring Aniu family have all died of the plague."
Zhang Jiao's reaction was cold. He just said "oh" and continued:
"Then why don't you run away?"
"We have to spend the first seven days before we can leave. This is our tradition."
"Yeah?"
Zhang Jue replied with only two words indifferently, then walked past the woman and ran to the coffin.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
