24: Unnamed Corpse

Unnamed Corpse

Ms. Lu quickly grabbed her daughter and walked over.1

"Then… shall we open it and take a look?" Ms. Lu's heart was pounding in her chest. 

Just as she said this, a chill ran throughout her body. She could not help but shudder.

It was the same with Pei Wanyue. She even asked, "Xie Qiao, could there be ice stored in this house? It's a lot colder than our house. What's wrong with these waiting staff? We paid for the room all the same but how could he give us such unfair treatment."

"If you feel that it's hot, then call the waiting staff back to put some ice in our place too." Ms. Lu was very generous.

"You spoil me, Mother." Pei Wanyue smiled cheekily.

The ghoul was bursting with rage. 

Dark dull eyes stared straight at these two persons as cold air oozed from his form. 

His head had stretched all the way into Pei Wanyue's neck. How he wanted to chomp that neck into half. 

It was too bad, Pei Wanyue noticed nothing. 

She squatted down and then she slowly opened the package, bit by bit.

A corner of the cloth was flipped open. 

And another corner followed...

"Ah—"

A voice rang out, almost shattering her ears.

Pei Wanyue fell backward as she stumbled back. In an instant, a sheen of cold sweat dripped off her in showers. Her trembling hand pointed towards the bare white bone. She could not stop shaking. "B...b...bones."

It was a complete set of human bones. From the skull to the toes, each inch and every piece was perfectly intact.

It was creepy and chilling, especially the two eye cavities in the skull. They still had some soil in them. For some reason, it seemed scarier than usual. 

Pei Wanyue was close to passing out, her whole body was as cold as ice. 

The ghoul had two hands clenched around her neck.

She only felt her heart was about to beat out of her chest. She was so scared that she could barely breathe.

Ms. Lu was also frozen in place from fear. 

"D… Dead… Someone is dead!" Pei Wanyue broke down shouting even before her earlier screams died out. 

Ms. Lu heard and immediately ran up to cover her daughter's mouth. But it was too late.

With a skeleton like that, how could it have died recently?

But as she thought so, Ms. Lu suddenly had an idea. Unless…

This was Xie Qiao's murder victim from the past, and now she wants to bring it back to the imperial city?

But that did not make sense...

The audacity to keep a dead man's skeleton in the house. What kind of proper lady would do a thing like this!?

It was already too late, Ms. Lu could only help console her daughter.

The people in the inn rushed up.

When Imperial Bodyguard Zhou received the order, he too brought a few men to surround the area. Then he came in asking, "Who shouted here? What happened?"

Pei Wanyue's bean-size tears could not stop rolling down, splashing on the floor. She said sobbing, "M… M… My sister's package has a body in it..."

Imperial Bodyguard Zhou looked toward it.

Erm...

He was dumbfounded.

"Your sister is Ms. Xie, right?" Imperial Bodyguard Zhou was very calm. After all, it was not the first time he ever saw a skeleton.

The ghoul's eyes were flashing blood-red from fury.

Bouts of cold air blew through the area.

"It… It's Xie Qiao… She… Did she kill somebody… It's scary. It's really scary!" Pei Wanyue stammered as she buried her head into Ms. Lu's embrace.

Imperial bodyguard Zhou rubbed his head. "This… She didn't kill him. It was just an unnamed body by the roadside. Ms. Xie brought it back so that she could find a suitable place to bury it properly."

They had seen Xie Qiao dig up the body with their own eyes yesterday.

"Un… unnamed body?" Pei Wanyue was stunned, tears still staining her face.

She was a rather pitiful sight.

But Imperial Bodyguard Zhou felt that this frail look was nothing compared to Half-immortal Xie.

That Half-immortal Xie did not shed a single tear, neither did she grumble. But when she dipped her head slightly, producing that weary, poignant look could make anyone's heart melt. 

The key thing was, even if Half-immortal Xie looked weak, she still gave off an air of intimidation. 

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