Chapter 489: Chapter 489

After departing from White Tiger City, it took Tian Ci and the others nearly over 40 minutes of flying to finally reach their destination.

However, when everyone looked down from the sky, expressions of disbelief appeared on their faces.

The entire village had long been devastated, scattered in ruins, and in the snow-covered mountain valley, it was stained red with fresh blood.

At the village entrance stood a figure, silently observing everything before them.

The previously cheerful and laughing group, including Tian Ci, suddenly turned extremely grim.

Zhang Xinying immediately covered young Zixin’s eyes and said:

"Let’s go, Zixin. Sister will take you to play."

Red Eyes cast a grateful glance at Zhang Xinying, who flew with Wang Zixin toward a nearby mountain peak.

Meanwhile, Tian Ci and the others landed beside Lin Yi one after another.

At this moment, the village resembled a living purgatory, filled with ruins, streets piled with corpses, blood pooling and flowing, with a persistent stench of blood hanging in the air.

Tian Ci and the others looked at the carnage, their expressions as cold as the winter in January, filled with chill.

Xiao He gazed at the scene in shock and said:

"Who on earth did this?"

Even though it was a game, the reality of the scene before them deeply impacted everyone’s minds.

Seeing the tragic state of those people, everyone felt as if their backs were touched by ice, sending shivers down their spines.

Lin Yi stood at the village entrance, unable to calm his heart at the sight.

Only he knew that within lay hundreds of once-living lives!

Who could be so ruthless, not sparing even women and children? This is nothing short of a village massacre!

Lin Yi initially tried to take a deep breath, but inadvertently inhaled a strong scent of blood and gagged:

Nearly fainting from disgust.

Tian Ci looked at the scene in shock:

"The person who did this is so inhumane! What hatred drives such brutality?"

Zhan Chen coldly said from the side:

"Do you still consider someone capable of this human?" ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel[f]ire.net

Shi Yu pointed at the scattered skeletons:

Shuai Diao Zha, filled with fury, said:

"Are these demons? They ate people until only bones were left. This is atrocious."

At that moment, Lin Yi suddenly spoke:

"Those are undead summoned skeleton soldiers!"

Shuai Diao Zha was stunned, and everyone was taken aback:

By this time, Lin Yi had already stepped towards the inside:

"Search around and see if we can find any clues."

Just moments ago, Shuai Diao Zha was still furious, but now, looking at the pile of skeletons, a look of disgust appeared on his face:

"No wonder I felt something was off, so they were skeleton soldiers."

Everyone rolled their eyes.

Zhan Chen pulled Shi Yu over:

Shi Yu simply sidestepped Zhan Chen, giving him a side-eye:

"Do I look like such a delicate woman?"

Even though Shi Yu felt disgusted too, perhaps by nature, she wouldn’t show weakness among a group of men.

Zhan Chen could only smile helplessly from behind.

Walking carefully along the corpse-strewn streets, Tian Ci suddenly said:

"In the game, shouldn’t the bodies disappear if people are dead?"

"Why haven’t these refreshed even after so long?"

"Maybe this is part of a quest."

"The quest clues might be hidden among these bodies, so they weren’t refreshed."

Shuai Diao Zha felt disgusted and said:

"Ew~ Seriously? We have to search bodies? I can’t do that."

At this point, Lin Yi had already entered the nearest house but found nothing even after a thorough search.

The group split up to search each room carefully.

After some time searching, they discovered that every room showed signs of being rummaged through.

It was speculated that whoever did this was searching for something here.

Yet, after searching a dozen households, nothing was found.

"Could the item have already been taken?"

"We don’t even know what we’re looking for, wandering aimlessly like headless flies, it’s pointless."

"Since the bodies are still here, there must be an important message left for us."

"Everyone keep looking, there must be something to find."

Then everyone split up again, searching house by house.

After a while, they still had no clue.

Although Lin Yi hadn’t said much the entire time, his thoughts aligned with Shi Yu’s.

He also thought that since the bodies weren’t refreshed by the system, and even the undead skeletons remained, there must be something waiting for them to discover.

Otherwise, according to Lin Yi’s understanding, even if these were real people, the system would not leave such a bloody scene for everyone to find, as it doesn’t align with the system’s usual style.

After searching through several houses and finding nothing, Lin Yi could only turn his attention to the bodies on the ground.

"Boss Feng, what are you doing?"

Shuai Diao Zha suddenly noticed Lin Yi’s movements and exclaimed in horror.

At that moment, Lin Yi crouched down, preparing to search the bodies, but Shi Yu’s voice came from afar:

"Come here, quickly!"

Shi Yu was currently standing in the village chief’s house.

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi and the others hurried over:

"Did you find something?"

Upon entering the house, before Lin Yi could see clearly, Shi Yu pulled him aside, pointing to the bed:

The bed covers had already been lifted, revealing a hidden compartment beneath, when Tian Ci and the others arrived, they all looked dejected:

"Looks like the item has indeed been taken away!"

Lin Yi walked directly to the wooden bed with Purple Thunder in hand, splitting it in half:

The bed split open down the middle.

"Isn’t this a bit too crude?"

Lin Yi stepped forward only to find that aside from the hidden compartment, there was nothing else.

Shuai Diao Zha wore a face of disappointment:

"Seriously, do we really have to search the bodies?"

Knowing that the streets outside lay hundreds of corpses, all in horrific states, searching one by one... Shuai Diao Zha shuddered at the thought.

At this moment, as Lin Yi turned around, he noticed a person lying on the floor behind him, it was the village chief, Sheffield.

What shocked Lin Yi wasn’t Sheffield, but a phantom that appeared near his throat, causing Lin Yi to be overjoyed: