Everyone gathered at the temple again.
Although they had already roughly guessed the killing rule of the Anomalies,
there was no ti to waste.
The best option was to learn as much as possible about the Anomaly hiding in the shadows, to uncover its killing rule.
When everyone returned to the temple, the living witness had already been brought there by assistant Xiao Zheng.
Accompanying her was the Taoist Zhan Youdao.
Zhan Youdao still walked in that odd way.
But no one was in the mood to mock him now.
It was obvious this person had suffered a huge shock.
She was a woman, sowhat tall but very thin.
In the apocalypse, most people were gaunt;
fat people were rare.
Her hair was a tangled ss, clearly many days unwashed.
Her clothes were dingy gray, stained with a lot of blood, dyeing the fabric a large crimson patch.
Her shoes were splattered with blood as well.
There were two weapons.
One was a homade small bow.
Made from rubber bands, rope, and a wooden strip, it looked crude, but the arrowheads were very sharp.
Similar crude tools were also used by so in the convoy.
To the superhumans, such things were less than toys.
But among survivors, these were valuable.
The other weapon was a long cleaver.
It was likely found during scavenging;
its long blade was covered in fresh blood.
According to assistant Xiao Zheng’s description,
this woman had once ntioned her pre-apocalypse identity: she had been a sales manager at a sales company.
In Divine Elephant Village, she had been quite lucky.
She had lived in the village with her two children, her parents, her younger brother, and her boyfriend;
her boyfriend’s parents also lived in their dorm.
So this woman counted as relatively fortunate in the village.
Perhaps because the family all lived together, whenever she had conflicts with others, the whole family would join in.
She had a few disputes with other villagers before.
But in the end, the other side always swallowed their pride and let it go.
Even the Village Chief found this family troubleso.
This ti, besides the woman herself, the entire household—including her boyfriend’s parents, her two children, and her parents—seven people in total—were all dead.
Two others were close neighbors who lived next door.
Basically, everyone who was close to this woman had been killed.
Only she remained alive.
A once-full family now reduced to one lone survivor!
No wonder she was so traumatized.
“Hee hee… hahahaha…”
“Soone… soone… you can’t see them…”
“Hee hee…”
“Mask…”
“Hee hee… opera perforr…”
“Hee hee… haha…”
After listening to assistant Xiao Zheng’s report,
Chen Ye looked at the crazed woman in front of him, montarily at a loss for words.
Nine people had died this ti.
From those corpses, the Village Chief had discerned a rule.
It began with one person, then two, then three, and then four.
In total, ten people died.
The only survivor was the madwoman before them.
If you counted the woman herself, that made eleven.
“Mask, opera perforr?”
“Village Chief, did you see any other information in the others’ death mories?”
Big Head Village Chief’s face had already gone a bit pale.
In a short ti he had examined the death mories of more than ten people.
Even as a Sequence 3 superhuman, he was struggling.
Big Head Village Chief shook his head, gasping for breath before saying, “No, I can’t see…”
“And I’ve never heard of such a thing…”
Chen Ye frowned, studying the woman for a long ti, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly.
“Village Chief, why don’t you look into her mories too? Maybe this ti will be different, maybe you’ll see sothing special!”
The Village Chief glanced at the crazed woman before replying, “No, you can’t see living people’s mories!”
“Simple!”
Chen Ye was about to act when Captain Chu clamped a hand over his mouth and pulled him back.
What did that guy have in mind? As teammates, he didn’t need to guess.
As for the woman…
They left the temple again, increasing their distance to three people and remaining highly alert and wary.
So far, the killing rule of the Anomaly was roughly understood.
But only roughly.
To get a clearer picture, they’d likely have to pry open that woman’s mouth.
With the Village Chief blocking that, it would be difficult.
The Village Chief protected Divine Elephant Village’s residents fiercely.
He was a very competent village chief.
Even if he disliked that woman, he steadfastly stood in front of her, only because she was one of the villagers.
“Captain Chu, what do you think?”
From a distance, Chen Ye called out loudly to Chu Che.
Chu Che thought for a mont and said, “That woman… she’s faking it!”
The Pink-haired Girl sneered, “If it weren’t for the Village Chief, that woman would definitely know sothing!”
Clearly, the Pink-haired Girl was sharp-minded.
Sotis her mind slipped simply because she was only nineteen, still young.
When Chen Ye had been about to move on the woman earlier,
the Pink-haired Girl saw the woman flinch in fear.
That reaction definitely wasn’t what a lunatic would do.
“Why don’t we ask her tonight?”
“Good idea, make sure to call when you go!”
The Pink-haired Girl was interested in that kind of action.
Not long after the three returned to their posts,
news ca again.
The woman… had committed suicide in the temple!
According to assistant Xiao Zheng’s ssage, while the Village Chief was resting, the woman used a rope to hang herself from a beam, ending her life before the statues of the Eighteen Grandpas.
Damn it…
At this point Chen Ye really felt like swearing.
They had just made a little progress, and now the leads were cut off.
The entire Divine Elephant Village had sunk into a suffocating strangeness.
Even though the sun was high at noon,
the whole village still gave an occasional chill.
Chen Ye remained on the village’s busiest street.
Ding Dong was at the planting base.
Iron Lion guarded near the temple and the parking area.
Captain Chu was holed up in his residence, doing who knew what.
Of the four superhumans in Divine Elephant Village, one was missing.
One was in the temple.
Two were at the planting base.
Big Monk, like Ding Dong, kept his eyes closed in ditation, his face inscrutable.
Big Monk had been ordered that even if he died, he could not leave the planting base.
As for the respected Professor Liu, he seed unaffected by all this from the beginning to end, still busy in the plots, occasionally holding up two seedlings for comparison, then jotting sothing down in his notebook.
The once-bustling planting base was now left only with this white-haired old man.
Chen Ye looked at the sun in the sky, then at the man across from him wearing the gilded opera mask.
This figure, more monster than man,
was unnaturally tall and lanky, his palms hanging down to his knees.
His limbs were dry and thin like bamboo poles.
He stood hunched, almost over two ters tall.
Chen Ye exhaled a plu of simulated Smoke Breath.
He sighed, “Of all people, you just had to pick first!”
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