Yuan Xingcheng was scolding the human traffickers while holding the ledger when suddenly a shout came from Xiang Bo's direction.
"Come and have a look! I've made a major discovery!"
The three of them quickly ran towards where Xiang Bo was.
"This... There's a corpse, but it's not a female corpse. It's a man... So could he be... the human trafficker?"
The male corpse on the ground was in a terribly miserable state. The fatal wound was on his head. It seemed like he was smashed to death by something. There were also many wounds from punches and kicks on his body, and his face was beyond recognition. All these fully demonstrated the extreme hatred of the person who killed him.
Yuan Meng took the ledger from Yuan Xingcheng's hand and flipped through it.
"We just found a ledger in the house over there. It records the whole process and amount of the woman - trafficking...
The human trafficker should be named... Liu Erniu. He was the owner of that house and should also be this deceased. Looking at how miserably he died... It's really a case of karma. Serves him right!"
Yuan Meng couldn't help scolding as she looked at the ledger.
"It says here that he bought a total of three women. Have all these three women... left?"
While Yuan Meng was analyzing, the three of them all gathered around her to look at the ledger together. Xiang Bo said that it was impossible for the three women to have left the village.
"Let's look for them. If they... died, there must be corpses."
The group then started looking for the corpses again. There were only so many houses in the village. Since Yuan Meng and Yuan Xingcheng had searched the left - hand side and Xiang Bo and Mo Lin had searched the right - hand side just now, to make sure they didn't miss anything, the four of them decided to continue to search separately. But this time, Yuan Meng and Yuan Xingcheng would search the right - hand side, while Xiang Bo and Mo Lin would search the left - hand side.
They thought it would take some time to find the three corpses. However, when Yuan Meng and Yuan Xingcheng entered the first room on the right, they saw a familiar scene: a room with the same furniture arrangement as the first room on the left.
The two looked at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes.
The cabinet wasn't very tall. If Yuan Xingcheng stood inside, he would hit his head. So he supported Yuan Meng and slowly helped her stand into the cabinet.
As expected, with a "bang", the bottom board of the cabinet fell again, revealing another cellar.
Yuan Meng quickly jumped out of the cabinet and nervously grabbed Yuan Xingcheng.
"Xingcheng, there might be something terrifying down there. Call Xiang Bo and Mo Lin to go down with us."
Yuan Xingcheng was silent for a moment and then nodded. "Xiang Bo, Mo Lin, come quickly!"
When Xiang Bo and Mo Lin came over, they were very surprised to see the cellar. They guessed that the three corpses were probably in this cellar.
"Let's go. We'll go down!"
Although Yuan Meng's voice was trembling, she was actually very excited inside. She didn't get to go down the last cellar. This time she could finally go down and see the corpses!
"Sister Mengmeng, you'd better not go down. Cellars usually smell bad, and the corpses are also very scary. You'll be afraid."
Yuan Xingcheng looked at Yuan Meng tenderly in his own opinion, but he didn't know that Yuan Meng had already thought about how to get back at him after they got home because of this suggestion.
"Yeah, Yuan Meng, the three of us will go down. It's just right since there are three corpses. Hey, what if there's a ghost up here while we're down there?"
Xiang Bo's wild imagination started to worry about what would happen if a ghost came while they were down there.
"Then I'll stay up here with Yuan Meng... You guys be careful. Call me if anything happens. I'll be here to support you!"
Yuan Xingcheng had been in a cellar before and was familiar with the terrain, so he must go down. Seeing Xiang Bo's eager eyes to go down, Mo Lin had no choice but to give in and stay up to accompany Yuan Meng.
The two carefully entered the cellar one by one. The cellar still smelled bad. Yuan Xingcheng, who had been scared numb, went down first. He thought it couldn't be scarier than the last cellar, but the scene inside still made him take a half - step back involuntarily. Then he regained his composure and walked further in.
"Hiss..." Xiang Bo gasped when he saw the scene inside.
There were no fake ghosts set up by the program staff in the cellar. As they expected, there were only three female corpses.
These three female corpses were "of different states". One was just a skeleton with many wounds on the bones; one was still intact, as if she had just died; and the other, although mostly a skeleton, still had rotten flesh on the bones, which was hard to look at directly.
"This... The corpses made by the program team are... a bit too realistic." The three lonely corpses were placed in the cellar. After all, the corpses were fake, so they weren't really that scary. But seeing the three corpses and thinking about the whole story, a normal person would feel a bit sad and uncomfortable.
"How's it going down there?" Yuan Meng asked after estimating that it was about time.
"Down here... there are three corpses. They're very realistic." Xiang Bo, unusually, didn't start chattering. But Yuan Meng up there was eager to know exactly how realistic the corpses were.
"How... how realistic!" Yuan Meng seemed scared on the surface, but in her heart, she was already flying into the cellar.
"Although they're fake, they look really like real ones... One has been dead for a long time and is just a skeleton. Another one should have just died and the body is still intact... And the other one died between these two. There's still rotten flesh on the skeleton."
Xiang Bo swallowed as he said this. Such a scene was really a bit nauseating.
"Don't come down. This scene is really disgusting. We'll just take a quick look and come up."
Yuan Xingcheng was both scared and disgusted by the scene, so he planned to do a quick search and come up. But he didn't expect that his detective aunt was extremely interested in these three realistic corpses.
"No! Although... although these are very scary, but... but thinking about the sufferings they endured in their lives, we must search carefully to find the truth for them and send them home!"
Yuan Meng said righteously, and she was already impatient to see the corpses.
"Or... you guys carry the corpses up and we'll search them carefully for the sake of the truth! I'm not afraid!"
"Okay!" Xiang Bo, who was a bit of a fan of the heroic, picked up a corpse and was about to climb up after hearing such inspiring words. However, he was stopped by Yuan Xingcheng halfway.
"Slow down!" Yuan Xingcheng glared at Xiang Bo and shouted up, "We're carrying the corpses up. Mo Lin, keep Sister Mengmeng away so she won't be scared when she sees the corpses."
Xiang Bo slapped his head. "Right, right. Xingcheng is really thoughtful. Yuan Meng, stay away. We're coming up!"
Yuan Xingcheng couldn't argue with Yuan Meng's inspiring theory, so he had to carry the corpses up. But he was worried that Yuan Meng would be scared, so he asked her to stand far away in advance.
Yuan Meng walked away reluctantly and couldn't help complaining about Yuan Xingcheng in her heart. She must make some realistic corpse dolls and give them to her dear nephew when they got home! She was so angry.
Mo Lin frowned and was a bit confused as he watched Yuan Meng walking out. He couldn't help but follow her.
"I feel like you're not really afraid?"
Mo Lin was very confused, but his intuition was always accurate.
"Yes... I was scared at first, but I've seen so many corpses and they're all fake. Of course I'm not afraid!"