There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 647
Chapter 647: Chapter 558 As You Wish, According to My Heart~ Chapter 647: Chapter 558 As You Wish, According to My Heart~ Half a street away from the village chief’s yard.
The ancestral hall of Osmanthus Village.
Xu Shuo had already arrived here.
He listened to the mighty footsteps not far away, the cries interspersed with words like “overthrow Tiezhu,” and instantly felt that the scene seemed somewhat bizarre.
The Wang Family landlord had ruled Osmanthus Village for so long, yet these villagers never thought about overthrowing the landlord to become their own masters.
Tiezhu hadn’t done anything.
Yet he had provoked the wrath of the people.
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Xu Shuo shook his head and looked inside the ancestral hall.
While there was a commotion outside, the people of the Wang Family who were guarding inside the ancestral hall didn’t make a single move.
However, those stationed here were mostly close blood relatives of the Wang Family.
The enormously spacious ancestral hall of Osmanthus Village could accommodate the families of the three clans.
It was built in the form of a four-courtyard compound: the first courtyard had the grand ancestral gate, the second had the ceremonial gate and a large courtyard, the third had the ancestral hall, and the fourth was the rear hall.
It’s worth mentioning that.
The courtyard of the ancestral hall was the only place in the entire Osmanthus Village where osmanthus trees were not planted.
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Meanwhile, the people of the Wang Family were praying for blessings in the ancestral hall, carrying someone tied to a stretcher bed.
Murmuring continuously, the voices of a dozen people combined sounded as if they were chanting in unison.
The low, delicate sound filled the entire ancestral hall.
Xu Shuo sat atop the courtyard wall, his staff tapping intermittently against the wall bricks, as if in harmony with their prayers, playing a unique melody.
But in reality.
He had listened closely for a while and still couldn’t understand what exactly those people were praying for.
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Xu Shuo stopped his fidgeting and opened the Player’s Handbook to search through his inventory.
With the increase in his deduction points, Xu Shuo had also, following Hong Rao’s advice, appropriately added some items to his inventory.
After all, there was no limit to the capacity of the inventory.
And as Xu Shuo’s points increased, he began to feel more emboldened.
Indeed, compared to the items in the points column, those in the deduction points column were junk, and even the furnishings for personal spaces were placed in the deduction points column.
No wonder it was easy to accumulate 999+ pages.
However, not all items in the deduction points column were completely useless.
Aside from the decorative items like furniture, tea sets, and various utensils.
There were some practical items in the deduction points column.
Like the Osmanthus Cake this time.
And also—the overwhelmingly potent Mysterious Medicine.
Xu Shuo took out a bundle of dozens of long, slender white incense sticks and lit them.
Silent and odorless, the wispy blue smoke drifted towards the ancestral hall, almost blending into the surroundings, making it difficult to notice even upon closer inspection.
The powerful effect of dozens of sticks of Mysterious Medicine was astounding.
In just a few seconds, the sound of bodies hitting the floor echoed continuously from the ancestral hall.
Xu Shuo jumped down from the wall and boldly entered the ancestral hall.
He had already explored the other courtyards and found nothing strange or useful, only the ancestral hall looked the most peculiar.
After all, it could restore life to flesh and bones.
The decor of the ancestral hall was solemn and dignified, the stretcher bed that had carried the person was placed to the side, and on the floor in front of the worship tablets lay the man who had been mutilated by the bride the night before.
The crowbars nailed into his body had been pulled out, the floor of the ancestral hall was stained with blood, and the man lay like a ragdoll played to destruction, his body bereft of any intact flesh, his wounds gruesome and terrifying.
But that man still seemed to be breathing, his heartbeat even quite strong.
Xu Shuo approached and examined the man’s condition to confirm that even after being flayed and skinned, he was still alive.
The bride indeed didn’t kill people, it seemed.
Of course, it might also be possible.
That she wanted to kill but couldn’t completely succeed.
After all, if she truly didn’t have the killing intent, she wouldn’t have contended with the Wang Family for decades, in a stance seemingly determined to completely annihilate their lineage.
Perhaps there really was something in Osmanthus Village restraining the bride, leaving both parties helpless.
After eyeing the entire layout of the ancestral hall, Xu Shuo lifted his staff and tapped it gently on the floor, the invisible sound waves silently spreading out.
Thud—
Within a fifty-meter radius, every object was dissected and analyzed, its structure entering Xu Shuo’s mind.
Xu Shuo suddenly raised his eyebrows slightly.
Then he lifted his staff and struck the ground again.
Here’s something to note.
The sound waves spread during the detection with the “Staff of the Baseless” are just a metaphor.
The actual detection method still falls within the realm of metaphysics.
In Xu Shuo’s perception, when the detection energy hit the worship tablets placed behind the ancestral hall’s altar, a sudden dissipation occurred.
It was like waves crashing against rocks, spreading chaotically in all directions.
After trying a second time, he confirmed that his initial sensation was not an illusion.
Then, Xu Shuo lifted his staff once more.
Clang Clang Clang Clang Clang!
He tapped the ground rapidly several times, waves of detection energy rippling out one after another, overlapping like ripples on water.
However, the escalating energy still failed to breach the barrier.
But it did roughly outline the shape of the object.
Xu Shuo stopped tapping and put away his staff, stepping forward.
The ancestral hall of Osmanthus Village enshrined tablets of elders regarded with high esteem, including successive village chiefs from the Zhang Family and clan leaders from the Zhang and Wang Families.
The tablets of the Li Family, however, were scarce.
But there were only two tablets on the worship altar permitted to receive offerings, and those two were no ordinary figures.
They were the Earth God and Earth Goddess.
Common folk mostly worship these two as the God of Wealth, God of Fortune, and Guardian God.
Some rural areas even worship the Kitchen God and Dragon King, and even Huang Pizi and Fox Immortal, while the Bodhisattva Guanyin is relegated to the very back.
