Did it appear?

  "Little Ninth Master, is your map still there?"

  Hyorin's voice was filled with a hint of surprise, as if she had found a straw.

  I was slightly stunned and subconsciously asked, "What map?"

  The thing about the map, apart from Bai Sheng knowing, almost no one else would know, so up to now I still don't want to say it. Besides, the map was originally brought by Qiu Bo and his group, but in the blink of an eye it ended up in my hands, making me look like a thief who specializes in stealing other people's things.

  "This kid is really something, with so many people around, can't he just talk to me about that privately? Given the crystal ball incident before, I don't dare speak too confidently. Although I didn't steal anything, it's not my doing, so the more explanations, the easier it is to be misunderstood."

  But before I could even react, a hand tightly grabbed my arm and twisted it behind me. My whole body was unable to move. I clearly heard the sound of bones cracking, a crisp sound that hurt so much I couldn't help but shout: "What's going on? Are you crazy? Look carefully, I'm not an enemy!"

  "You don't have a map." The cold voice of Hyakushou Yuuyu drifted over, as if cutting off my words.

  "They're cunning, don't be fooled by that face of theirs, or else we'll all be done in by one person." Baishou Sheng warned with a tone as if he had to get rid of me no matter what, as if the previous events were related to me.

  His words clearly showed his suspicion of me, let alone this obvious action of suppressing me.

  "He is really."

  At that time, the thin monkey said a sentence that moved me to tears. I swear, from now on, I won't bully this guy anymore. If I do, I'll run naked for an hour when I go out.

  "He didn't have a map, and the map was something that no one could find a second piece of." Hyakushiki still wouldn't give up, carefully staking his life.

  I don't know why they treated me like an enemy and were rough with me, but I believe that the Baishou Sheng I've seen is not that kind of person.

  The impression of Hyakushiki's attitude is always cheerful, only when encountering big things, he rarely becomes serious. Compared to Kōsuke Kindaichi, Hyakushiki belongs to the kind of person who is not afraid even if the sky falls.

  Suddenly, I understood the truth of the matter.

  Hyakushobu thinks I'm a fake and wants to kill me, or maybe he's trying to suppress people like me. This must be why he's become so violent after encountering many guys like that, and that's why he's being so cautious.

  They said it was fake, and I remembered what Hei Shu had mentioned before, and I also saw with my own eyes the mark that slowly appeared on Zhao Si's neck after his body was occupied by the corpse, according to Hei Shu, that wasn't Zhao Si, of course, at that time, Hei Shu wasn't Hei Shu either.

  Before I could even open my mouth, Old Wang had already yanked the backpack off my back, his movements almost like a wild beast, extremely rough. I heard the unique sound of bones in my arm again, and my heart instantly chilled by half. If this continues, will I still be able to walk?

  "Wait, I can prove that I'm real, can't you be less rude?" I shouted out loud, really don't know if this group of people has no brain or is too nervous, their nerves have collapsed.

  "It's fake." The voice of Old Wang came from upstairs.

  "Bai Sheng, without a map, you can't even prove that I'm fake. I can say that the first time we met was in Ghost City, and you had a conflict with Zhou Baihe. I remember what you said at the time."

  I don't understand why these two people are so obviously hostile towards me, and they didn't even ask any questions before directly denying it.

  "Keep talking, why stop? I'm listening carefully." Baosheng called out in a low voice.

  I couldn't see their expressions, but I could sense their unfriendliness. It seemed that before proving myself, I wouldn't have a good outcome.

  "Hey, skinny monkey, aren't you going to say a word? Didn't you see before that my map was in my backpack?" I don't want to be a prisoner, let alone be tied up and walked around, especially in this place where animals that make your heart skip a beat can pop out at any time. Anyway, someone will vouch for me.

  The little monkey was obviously familiar with the map when he saw it while flipping through his backpack, and probably very familiar too.

  But in the next second, I almost bit my tongue when I heard what Xiao Shou Hou said.

  "Old Bai, you're right, this kid is fake! His mother's acting skills are so good, I really want to peel off his skin and see how he's pretending!" Xiao Shou Hou's attitude seemed to have dropped by a large margin.

  My hands and feet were tied up, Old Wang pressed me to the ground, my face was tightly attached to the ground, the smell of mud made me want to vomit, I struggled, my face turned blue with rage, and I cursed a sentence.

  "Girl, you say one more word and I'll have no choice but to kill you."

  As soon as I opened my mouth to speak, it was full of mud, that smell was really too unbearable, so unbearable that I wanted to curse.

  If I weren't being held down at this moment, I would have fought with Xiao Shou Hou long ago. How can he speak with a clear conscience and not be afraid of being struck by lightning?

  All the way, I have been very obedient and haven't done anything that would harm others or steal from the tomb owner. Now, however, my fellow travelers are slandering me like this. Is it because I'm not good with people or did they just bring me along to sacrifice me?

  Are they fake? The impression I had of them was that they were extremely respectful to me, like a super-valued big boss, but now without saying a word, they directly come at me with a crushing blow.

  Damn it, I was right, it's all an act, is it for that map or what?

  "Damn it, you guys check your backpacks yourselves and see if there's a map, now with so many of you, are you afraid I'll dig a hole to escape or something?" I said this while gasping for air, gathering my breath to spit out the sentence.

  Life is at stake, I really don't know what to do? I also can't manage so many maps.

  Right after that, I heard the things in my backpack being taken out one by one. After almost a minute, I held my breath and waited quietly. If they didn't find the map, would they kill me? In the past, things often disappeared without warning and reappeared just as mysteriously. The bigger the hope, the greater the disappointment. I didn't want to end up in despair either. Actually, I never expected to find the map in my backpack anyway.

  "I've found the map, you can let go of Little Jiu now." Baishou Sheng's voice was filled with a hint of surprise and sounded somewhat apologetic.

  Old Wang loosened his grip, and I was just exercising my numb hands and feet, preparing to get up, when I heard a scream, a heart-wrenching wail, as if someone had stabbed a knife into my heart. My expression froze, and I turned back to look, only to see Old Wang lying on the ground, convulsing a few times, before finally not moving at all.

  The flashlight shone on Old Wang's face, but found his complexion dull and lifeless, eyes tightly closed, nose bleeding, even the corners of his mouth were flowing with a few strands of blood, and there was an obvious bruise on his neck. This sign, very clearly, meant he was dead.

  I don't know how he died, and the time before and after was only a few minutes.

  Right next to me wasn't a person, nor was it Old Wang. The previous second, he was still alive and kicking, but in an instant, the water on his body evaporated rapidly under the light of the lamp, like it had been put into an oven, and turned into a shriveled up corpse.

  My mother, that's not a withered corpse, but a white skeleton.

  However, the place where Hyakushobu was just now is also lying a white skeleton.

  This eerie scene made me tremble involuntarily. Had they been poisoned or something? They suddenly became like this.

  "This thing is so heavily guarded, it's impossible to defend against. It wants to trap us all here. If we go any further, it's a trap." Little Skinny Monkey cursed, crawling over and kicking away the white skeleton.

  Yes, I didn't even react in time. The little monkey climbed past me from my side. This is simply impossible. The road was so narrow, almost like a thief's cave. When we came in, it crawled to the point where I could hardly breathe.

  "You can also climb over, if I hadn't been here before, I would have been killed by this old thing." Xiao Shou Hou explained, looking at the white bones lying on the ground, with a hint of mystery and a smile.

  I was completely in a daze, confused and didn't understand what he said.

  This road is like a thief's cave, how can you climb over it unless you are a small child who can crawl through.

  "There's a trap here, if I hadn't discovered it early, you little brat would have definitely followed them obediently."

  As soon as the words fell, Xiao Shou's eyes widened and his face turned pale.

  "What the...! What kind of ghost thing is this?!" A bald head's mournful cry came over.

  "Run quickly, hurry up and run."