The woman in the couple suddenly let out a mournful cry.

All the players were also surprised.

Because there was a person hanging on the archway, it was the boyfriend that the woman had been looking for for a long time.

His face was swollen, his mouth was slightly open, and his thick tongue was hanging out, giving him the obvious characteristics of a man who had hanged himself.

The woman shook her body a few times and almost fainted, but was caught by the person behind her.

"How could this happen!" she said hysterically, "Oh my god, why is it you!"

The player next to her saw how pitiful she looked and patted her shoulder to comfort her: "Beauty, don't be too sad. You must cheer up."

"I can't accept it," she cried, "He was fine last night, why is he like this today."

The nearby villagers heard their conversation and came over to them and said, "Is this your friend?"

Professor Bao nodded: "He is a colleague of our expedition team. When did you find out that he was here?"

One of the villagers stood up and said, "Twenty minutes ago."

Twenty minutes ago, shortly before it stopped raining.

The villagers then said: "Since he is yours, it is up to you to take him down."

They seemed to be very afraid of hanging people. Just now they were just watching, no one climbed up to take the people down.

The woman said: "I'll go."

She staggered a few steps, her steps were frivolous, and she looked like she might fall down at any moment.

Wang Yongjian stopped her and said, "Forget it, I'll help you go there. Whether you can climb up like this or not is a problem."

Hearing this, Qu Yihan said to Wang Yongjian: "Brother Xiao Wang, have you forgotten how you got into trouble before?"

Wang Yongjian said: "I don't think I will be more unlucky."

Qu Yihan looked at him: "You are too confident in your luck."

Wang Yongjian: "..."

The woman pushed Wang Yongjian's hand away and said, "Thank you, but I want to go in person. I can do it."

After she finished speaking, she took a deep breath, passed through the crowd, and walked to the archway under the gaze of everyone.

I saw her climbing up easily.

When Wang Yongjian saw this, he laughed at himself and said: "When I saw her look like that, I forgot that she is also a person of this level. It's just climbing an archway. It's very simple for her."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the woman suddenly lost consciousness and slid down one meter, causing the residents watching below to scream in surprise.

Bai Qiuye said to Wang Yongjian: "I think your bad luck has begun to infect others."

Qu Yihan couldn't help but nodded: "It's too scary. From now on, I will stay three meters away from you."

While they were talking, the woman had climbed up again, hugging her boyfriend's body, and using her other hand to cut the rope tied around his neck.

After a while, she climbed down from the archway with the body on her shoulders, laid her boyfriend flat on the ground, and rested his head on her lap.

Bai Qiuye and the villagers gathered around, took a closer look at the body, and found that the rope that hung the man looked like it had been soaked in water.

She had some doubts in her heart.

The man was fine when I saw him yesterday, but the woman had ghost handprints on her ankles.

She always thought that something would probably happen to a woman, and she even reminded her to avoid evil spirits.

Unexpectedly, it was her boyfriend who died.

She looked at the rope that fell to the ground. It was an ordinary hemp rope that strangled the man's neck with red marks.

However, there are traces of the hemp rope being soaked in water, and the surface is wet.

'Is it because of the rain just now?' Bai Qiuye thought.

At this time, Situ Li asked: "By the way, did you hear him going out this morning? Judging from his strangling marks, his death time will definitely not exceed an hour."

Qu Yihan asked: "Why?"

Situ Li said: "Because it is still a red mark. But after death, due to the lack of blood circulation, the area will slowly turn into deep purple."

When Wang Yongjian heard this, he thought of the female corpses hanging on the beams that he saw at Guniang Temple last night.

He nodded: "That's true."

The woman sobbed a few times and said, "I didn't hear him go out. As soon as I woke up, I found that he was gone. Then I came out to look for you right away."

"So, it only took a few minutes from the time you woke up to the time you went out to find us." Other players on the side asked strangely, "That's not right, did you just wake up from your sleep just now?"

Bai Qiuye also felt there was a problem. After all, they burned down Wu Guangzong's house early this morning, and the noise and screams of those NPCs could wake up people in the next village.

The woman said confusedly: "But I did wake up just now. Did something happen last night?"

For a moment, everyone looked at me and I looked at you, not knowing how to ask further questions.

Situ Li said: "A big thing happened in Shanyao Village last night. If you didn't wake up, you either took sleeping pills or there were other reasons."

The woman shook her head and said, "I didn't take sleeping pills. How could I bring sleeping pills to a place like this?"

When she said this, everyone suddenly felt even weirder.

Bai Qiuye suddenly thought of something and asked her: "Did you burn mugwort or sophora flowers yesterday afternoon?"

"Yes," the woman said. "After you reminded me, I found some at the gate of the village."

The woman added: "By the way, I also patted my boyfriend, but he reacted very badly and threw the mugwort in my hand directly to the bottom of the cliff."

Bai Qiuye lowered his voice, not wanting the villagers to hear.

She said: "Could it be the fish god you mentioned yesterday..."

She thought of what her aunt said - Wu Dong, the fish god in the village, hanged himself not long ago.

The woman was stunned and said, "But if it's because I offended Him, I'm the only one with marks on my ankles."

Bai Qiuye couldn't understand this, so she could only say: "Maybe you have exorcised evil spirits, but your boyfriend has not. The other party originally wanted to attack you, but because of this reason, he targeted your boyfriend."

When the woman heard this, she was heartbroken: "It seems that I killed him. I shouldn't have done that."

Qu Yihan said: "Sister, don't be so arbitrary. When your boyfriend came back yesterday, something was wrong. Maybe there are marks on him, but you don't know it."

"I was the one who said I was going to the villager's house yesterday." She sighed deeply, "If I hadn't said that, we wouldn't have gotten into trouble—"

Bai Qiuye suddenly said: "Wait."

The woman looked up: "What's wrong?"

Bai Qiuye said: "I remember that the villager asked you to string fish with a rope, but the only one who stringed fish was your boyfriend."

The woman nodded: "Yes, I had leg cramps at that time."

Bai Qiuye said: "Could it be because of this..."

The woman was startled: "Isn't it because I ordered mugwort?"

Bai Qiuye asked in a low voice: "Look at the people around you. Are there any of the villagers you visited?"

The woman cheered up and looked at the surrounding villagers: "Probably not. I can't rule out that he was blocked."

At this time, Professor Bao, who had been talking to one of the villagers, came over.

"I have something to tell you." Professor Bao said, "People here think that the person who was hanged has the greatest grievance, so you have to send him away."

The woman raised her voice and said, "Send away? Where?"

"Don't worry, listen to me first." Professor Bao said, "This is just a formality and a local folk custom. It's called sending meat rice dumplings."

Players are confused by this strange name.

"Sending meat dumplings?"

A villager on the side explained: "Because they are wrapped in ropes and look like rice dumplings."

Professor Bao said: "It's like this. People think it's unlucky and it's hard to directly say the word "hanging", so they use such a reference."

Qu Yihan complained in a low voice: "Isn't this statement more evil than hanging a ghost?"

Bai Qiuye asked: "How do I deliver this meat dumpling?"

Professor Bao said: "The main thing is to first send him to a nearby temple to do the rituals, and then start to send him to the beach. During this period, you need to carry all the things on him. After arriving at the beach, burn them all with him. The specific method is

The people in the village will tell you."

The woman said: "Want to burn him? No, I don't agree!"

Professor Bao said: "This is a perfect opportunity to investigate folk customs. He is dead anyway, so don't be willful."

The woman's eyes were red, she looked at him and said, "What did you say?"

"Do you still want to work?" Professor Bao's tone became stiff, "You can get out if you don't want to do it."

Players previously thought that Professor Bao was the best employer they had ever seen, but after seeing this, everyone felt that they had judged it too early.

Bai Qiuye had long seen Professor Bao's hypocrisy, but was not surprised by his words.
To be continued...