Chapter Fifty-Four

  Today is already March 10th, it's their third day here, and also the second day after Chu Fei Fan and A Lian got married. No one expected that Chu Fei Fan would be forced into marriage here, but this inexplicable forced marriage has made several of their friends almost become strangers to each other.

  They were still locked in the black room, but the small house was divided into two halves, with a partition board in the middle, one bed on each side, men and women separated, and this idea was thought of by Chu Fei Fan, so they could rest.

  Su Jiner sat on the bed thinking about all the bad things that had happened. She remembered that A Lian had mentioned a certain Taoist priest yesterday evening, and found it strange that someone would still claim to be a Taoist priest nowadays. It was really laughable. But if only she could move around freely, how wonderful that would be!

  "Jin'er, this place is so boring! We're cooped up here every day like prisoners, I'm going crazy." Lin Yuan said dejectedly, fiddling with his fingers.

  "Why don't you go with Zuo Yi and the others? They should let you all off."

  "What about you? Aren't you coming with us?"

  Su Jiner shook her head, she had always believed that all the answers were here, only she couldn't think of what it was for the time being.

  "You don't leave, I won't either."

  Su Jin'er looked at her helplessly: "I don't know if Nifei has asked anything out."

  "You still have hope for him? Men are all the same, they can't even move their feet when they see a beautiful woman."

  "Lin Yuan, don't blame him, I think he's suffering more than any of us right now." Just then, Zuo Yi and Ge Yaze came over from the other side of the partition.

  "Hum! You're all men, you must be speaking for him. He's now in Wen Rou Xiang, enjoying himself!" Lin Yuan said discontentedly.

  Zuo Yi helplessly looked at her: "Alright alright, you're right, I won't argue with you anymore."

  Lin Yuan muttered a sentence "it was originally like this" and stopped talking.

  "Jin'er, are we really going to sneak into that wizard's place tonight?"

  Su Jiner hadn't spoken yet when Lin Yuan said: "Of course it's true, did I say it to you just for fun or are you afraid?"

  Lin Yuan nudged Lai Yi's arm with his elbow.

  "How can I possibly be afraid? Are you kidding me?" Zuo Yi said with a glare.

  These two days, Lin Yuan and Zuo Yi suddenly started arguing, which made their days in captivity no longer so boring.

  The sky gradually darkened, the ink-like sky had not a single star, as if it was foggy, the whole village became misty, giving people a sense of oppression.

  "The weather was great the past few days, why do we always encounter fog whenever we have an activity?" Lin Yuan stretched out his hand and looked at his fingers in the darkness: "It's really 'can't see five fingers'!"

  Suddenly, a beam of light shone on her hand, and she turned her head to look at Zuo Yi and said, "What are you doing?"

  "You said you couldn't see your five fingers, but now you can."

  Lin Yuan stretched out his hand and hit him.

  "Zuo Yi, where did you find the flashlight?" Su Jiner asked curiously.

  At this time, they were hiding on the edge of the house closest to that law enforcement officer's house, because this house was temporarily uninhabited, so they could boldly hide here.

  "It was that unreliable guy you think he is who gave it to me, he had Ah Lian bring it over." As he said the first half of the sentence, he was looking at Lin Yuan, but the second half was directed at Su Jin'er, because Chu Fei Fan had asked him to observe whether Su Jin'er would get jealous, although he had already told him that Su Jin'er was upset, but he didn't believe it.

  "You... told him?"

  "Yes, we'll definitely need flashlights tonight. We can't borrow from him, so should we borrow from the law enforcement officer?" Zuo Yi said on purpose.

  Su Jin'er didn't say a word, her expression calm and quiet, still gazing at the Taoist's house.

  Seeing the lights still on in the master's house, they had no choice but to wait where they were. Now they were on someone else's turf, and if the people here really killed them, it was likely that the police wouldn't find this place so easily. To be safe, they had to be careful.

  It was unknown when the wind started, but it blew coldly on her body, giving her a creepy feeling. Su Jin'er couldn't help but rub her shoulders.

  "Someone has come." Lin Yuan said, pointing at the house opposite the master's residence.

  As expected, someone was heading towards the law teacher's house, and that person was the young man who had invited them to attend a wedding yesterday.

  "What is he doing in Master Fa's house?" Lin Yuan said with doubt.

  "Perhaps it was Master Fa who sent him, otherwise he wouldn't be so blatant." Zuo Yi's voice trembled as if he couldn't withstand the cold either.

  "Let's wait a bit longer." Gao Ya Ze furrowed his brow, he felt that something would definitely happen tonight.

  A few people hid in the corner, continuing to observe the movements outside the house of the law master. In half an hour, except for the candlelight casting a shadowy figure on the window, nothing else happened, and their bodies had already become numb with cold.

  Finally, the people in the house stood up, and the young man opened the door and walked out, heading towards his home. The so-called Taoist priest stood at the door, watching him walk away, with a mask still on his face. He suddenly turned his head, seemingly unintentionally glancing over at them, and they held their breath in tension, not daring to breathe.

  The Taoist did not go back into the house, he just stood outside for a while, then turned around and closed the door, walking towards the woods behind, which undoubtedly gave them a good opportunity.

  As they watched the law enforcement officer's figure disappear into the darkness, they let out a sigh of relief.

  "That Taoist priest shouldn't have seen us, right?" Lin Yuan rubbed his sore and swollen calf.

  "How can he see in such darkness, let alone..."

  Zuo Yi's voice disappeared into thin air, and they looked at him waiting for his next words.

  "When did the fog disappear?"

  Zuo Yi didn't say that they all hadn't discovered, just now the fog was still so big, but somehow it had disappeared without a trace, as if the fog just now was just their illusion.

  "It must have been blown away by the wind just now. Let's take advantage of the fact that the master is out and go take a look to see if there are any useful clues!" Su Jin'er's eyes were fixed tightly on the master's house.

  The Taoist's house door was slightly ajar, as if he knew they were coming and had left the door open for them on purpose.

  The candles in the room were still lit, and when the door was pushed open, the candles flickered in the wind, making the room look even more eerie.

  The monk's house is very strange, it is rectangular in shape, but the door is not in the middle of the house, but on the far left side. The interior decoration is very simple, like a hostel. A desk with drawers over one meter high was placed against the wall directly opposite the door. In the center of the room there was a round table and two wooden stools, and at the back there was a bed, nothing else.

  "I thought this monk would be very rich!" Zuo Yi touched the desk that was over a meter high.

  "Simplicity is the best hiding method." Su Jiner opened the leftmost drawer and looked inside, where there were only some candles and a box of matches.

  "This hiding is so good, this law enforcement officer must not be simple." Zuo Yi opened the second drawer, and it was actually empty. He couldn't help but widen his eyes: "This is also too simple."

  "Isn't this nonsense? Why would an entire village of people believe him so easily?"

  They searched the entire house, but didn't find anything useful. Not even talismans or charms used by Taoist priests and sorcerers were found. They checked every inch of the ground, but no hidden passages were discovered.

  "How is that possible? Did we suspect the wrong person, and this law enforcement officer is really just a law enforcement officer?" Zuo Yi stroked his chin, looking thoughtful.

  "No, we must have made a mistake somewhere. This Taoist priest is definitely not simple, and I always feel like someone has been secretly monitoring us." Su Jin'er's words sent chills down their spines.

  If it's really like she said, that someone is secretly monitoring them without their knowledge, then aren't they in danger of losing their lives at any moment?

  Lin Yuan shrunk his neck and said: "Let's go back! This place is too scary!"

  They pushed the door of the law master's house ajar, then walked towards that uninhabited house. However, before they reached the front of the house, they stood there in a daze.

  Is there anyone in the house?

  They were astonished to find that the house, which had been empty just a moment before, now had candles lit inside and a figure moving around.

  The people in the house moved about in a strange way, like the pendulum of a clock.

  "It's terrible, that person committed suicide."

  Gao Yazhe's words startled them and several people quickly ran into the house.

  That's the young man!

  He hanged himself from the beam in his room.

  Ge Yaze reached out to lift him down, but was stopped by Zuo Yi: "Don't touch, or else the villagers will come and we won't be able to explain."

  "But perhaps there's still a chance." Su Jin'er was getting anxious, she wouldn't allow anyone to die in front of her.

  "You guys save him, I'll go find someone." After saying that, Zuo Yi ran out.