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The Lantern Woman gave a slight start and nodded, "Mm, I should go check it out."

"I'll go with you, but it seems closer to go through the ditch here."

With those words, Yan Junze was the first to jump down into the ditch and walk forward.

The Lantern Woman didn't hesitate, following him down into the ditch and closely trailing behind Yan Junze.

"Damn, that guy led the Lantern Woman into the ditch, is he coming this way?"

In the room of Mo Zhengping's ancestral house, Zhang Xiaomo, Zhang Di, Fang Zun, and Yuan Dingzhou were squeezed together, all crowding at the window facing the direction of Plum Blossom Forest and peering out.

The fog was much thinner tonight, and the moonlight ample, resulting in excellent visibility.

They had just witnessed the Lantern Woman walking out of the ditch and then encountering a man, after which the two of them disappeared into Plum Blossom Forest.

However, it wasn't long before the two reappeared, then pointed in this direction, and one after the other jumped down into the ditch and disappeared from view.

The four people in the room had plenty of reasons to suspect that the idiotic figure that appeared to be a man was leading the Lantern Woman in their direction.

"Who is that guy, anyway? He doesn't seem like one of us. One person going to die is enough, why the hell is he dragging the rest of us into the pit?" Yuan Dingzhou asked, clearly confused.

"And that guy seems to be having a pretty good chat with the Lantern Woman!" added Zhang Di.

"Something's not right," Fang Zun stood up, pressed his face against the window, and stared out with wide eyes, "If they really come this way, this place is no longer safe to stay."

"Right," Zhang Xiaomo nodded, "We need to find a way to check on Jiang Yaofei's side, otherwise we'll not only lose contact with Jiang Yaofei indefinitely, but now this place has also become very dangerous."

Once the discussion ended, surprisingly in agreement, Yuan Dingzhou walked to the door, gently pushed it open, and looked around by poking his head out.

Zhang Xiaomo, meanwhile, checked her Spirit Detector.

The Spirit Detector showed that there were 11 strangenesses nearby, which all seemed to be ordinary; however, there was a chance that the Spirit Detector could fail to detect more bizarre or higher-level strangenesses.

As for the detected strangenesses, they were unafraid, and in just a moment, the four people successively left Mo Zhengping's old house.

Along the way, if they encountered any ordinary strangenesses that were close by, two or three of them would swarm upon it and, without making too much noise, would sever it with a few slashes from their magnetic knives, instantly crushing its magnetic field.

They only had a rough idea of Jiang Yaofei's location but didn't know which house he was in. With all communication signals dead, they could only search blindly.

Soon, the four had completely left the area of Mo Zhengping's house and were getting closer to a somewhat more spacious farmhouse where Jiang Yaofei was located.

Just then, Fang Zun, who was walking in front, suddenly halted. His body swayed gently at the back, and then he crouched down.

Seeing this, the others also promptly crouched down, motionless as they stared ahead.

In the middle of the not-so-wide street in front of them, a very small red coffin lay silently on the road.

The coffin might be even smaller than half the size of a regular one, yet it appeared to be quite heavy. At first glance, it seemed that it could contain a child's corpse.

Although it was just a coffin, for some reason, upon seeing this scene, the four Exorcists suddenly became so tense that they dared not even breathe loudly, silently crouching on the ground without moving, trying to keep their heads down as much as possible.

Zhang Xiaomo shifted her gaze from the Spirit Detector to Zhang Di, who was watching her, and then shook her head.

There was no display; the Spirit Detector showed nothing about the red coffin in front of them. Clearly, the coffin couldn't have just appeared in the middle of the road on its own.

Under the detection of the Spirit Detector, it was as if the coffin in front of them didn't exist at all.

However, Zhang Xiaomo knew very well that this situation was the most terrifying.

No wonder Jiang Yaofei and his team had not come to find their group, as it turned out, they were all trapped here. Now their thoughts must be the same as Jiang Yaofei's, not to disturb the coffin, and the wise choice would be to find a place to hide first.

Fortunately, not a single Wandering Spirit dared to roam around nearby.

Yuan Dingzhou pointed to the nearest brick house, and quickly everyone nodded. Without saying a word, still crouching on the ground, they crawled towards the brick house and slipped through the half-open door.

Upon entering, everyone paused, surprised to find the place was filled with lots of books and scrolls.

Looking up, they saw a very crude signboard with the words "Good Character Bookstore" written dimly on it.

It didn't take long for Zhang Di to find a sash window between two ancient bookshelves, which he gently pushed open to get a good view in the direction of Mo Zhengping's house.

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In the ditch.

Yan Junze began to pick up the pace as he moved forward, but no matter how fast he walked, the Lantern Woman leisurely followed behind him.

Yan Junze occasionally looked back, not to see the Lantern Woman but to keep an eye on the color of the lantern.

Soon he reached the end of the ditch, scrambling up with hands and feet. When he looked back, he saw the Lantern Woman already eerily drifting behind him.

"Here," the Lantern Woman stretched out her hand to point at the house right in front of them, "This is Mo Zhengping's home, where my husband often came to tutor his two children."

Yan Junze nodded and was the first to push the door and enter.

He was not afraid of any apparitions in the house because even if there were strangenesses, none would be as formidable as the Lantern Woman.

Moreover, if there really was something more formidable than the Lantern Woman, she would not dare to follow.

Of course, if the encountering strangenesses were evenly matched, that would be a case of hitting the jackpot.

The Lantern Woman followed behind Yan Junze, and they quickly made their way around the not-so-large house.

There was nothing.

With Yan Junze's vision and not being a detective, he couldn't tell if there were any signs that living people had been active here.

"Can you sense your husband?" Yan Junze turned around to ask.

The Lantern Woman shook her head.

Just then, Yan Junze noticed that the light inside the lantern she was carrying had clearly started to brighten.

"Damn, it's starting again," Yan Junze was startled.

This was only the first place they checked, and they hadn't seen her husband. Did the woman's temper really have to be so peculiar that she'd throw a fit just because they hadn't found him on the first try?

"Calm down first!"

"Where is my husband?" The Lantern Woman's tone began to get colder, and far from calming down, the light inside the lantern started gradually turning fiery red.

"Calm down, think carefully, and perhaps we will be able to find your husband," Yan Junze said.

"Are you deceiving me?"

Boom!

The Lantern Woman's white lantern completely turned red at this moment, and at close range, Yan Junze immediately saw the woman's features elongate with the emerging red glow, turning her into a ghastly and terrifying monster in an instant.

Rewind!

Yan Junze and the Lantern Woman carrying a white lantern arrived outside the house of Mo Zhengping and stopped.

"Perhaps, we don't need to look inside after all," Yan Junze suddenly spoke.

The Lantern Woman looked up at him, silent.

Yan Junze definitely wouldn't choose to enter the house again now; he had to think of a new approach.

"Because, I feel that your husband wouldn't be here," Yan Junze continued, "He left after arguing with you, he wouldn't be in the mood to teach at a time like this. Did he usually like to find a secluded place to clear his mind or something when he was upset?"

The Lantern Woman thought for a moment, then shook her head, "When unhappy, he liked to stay with his books, he didn't prefer to go out."

"Books?" Yan Junze was taken aback, "Where are the most books in this village?"

"Over there," the Lantern Woman pointed not far across the street, "All the books donated by the village's former schoolteacher, Mo Liangde, are in the Good character Bookstore."

"That time's books are probably turned to dust by now, unless they're bamboo slips," Yan Junze guessed to himself and then said, "Let's go and take a look then."

"Not going to look in Mo Zhengping's house?" the Lantern Woman inquired.

"No need to go in; trust me, your husband is very likely in the Good character Bookstore," Yan Junze asserted confidently.