Chapter 25 The Upper Half of the Body

Now they understood what the mustached man meant. Indeed, the scene before them didn't seem like something a human could do, but rather some kind of large beast.

But how could a beast possibly appear here?

"Did you find his upper body?" Jiang Cheng turned his head and asked.

"No." The mustached man covered his nose, the pungent smell in the room making him want to vomit. He said in a muffled voice, "We've searched all around here, but nothing. But..."

"But what?" Huai Yi couldn't help but urge.

The mustached man turned his gaze to the desk, signaling the three of them to look for themselves. Jiang Cheng immediately noticed a piece of paper on the desk, with a drawing of a man on it.

He was familiar with this painting because he had drawn it himself. The man was Halesen.

But now, in Halesen's hands, he was also holding the upper half of a person's body. The person's face was twisted, as if they had been greatly frightened before death. It was the town chief they had met yesterday!

"It's... it's the town chief." Fatty looked at the painting, a chill rising in his heart.

The town chief's missing upper body actually appeared in the painting. This kind of bizarre killing method was even more terrifying than an incomplete corpse. Jiang Cheng seemed to have thought of something and immediately took the painting left by the psychic from Fatty's hand. Without hesitation, he unfolded it on the desk. Following the position of his finger, Fatty and Huai Yi couldn't help but widen their eyes.

In that room that shouldn't exist, through the window, they could see densely packed corpses piled up inside, and the corpse on top only had half a body left.

The upper half of the body.

The town chief's incomplete corpse was also brought into that room.

"What... what are you looking at?" The mustached man leaned in, staring at the painting for a long time, but couldn't make heads or tails of it. But strangely, Jiang Cheng and the others seemed to have discovered something terrifying.

Hearing this, Fatty pointed out the window to him. "Take a closer look. The top... the top half of the corpse, is it..."

"What are you asking me to look at?" Before Fatty could finish, the mustached man looked at him with a strange expression, his eyes full of confusion. "Isn't that the background of the painting, the gray sky?" he added.

Now the three understood that the strangeness of this painting could only be seen by them, or rather, by people who were plagued by the curse.

Jiang Cheng put away the painting, and also took away the painting he had drawn. He turned to the mustached man and said, "You can also see that the town chief was killed by the original owner of Dakrosa Manor. It has nothing to do with us."

"If there's nothing else, we're leaving."

Now every second was precious. Since the town chief could no longer provide them with clues, they had no reason to waste time here. Jiang Cheng turned around and was about to leave with the two of them.

"Wait!" The mustached man stopped them. "I know that what happened here has nothing to do with you, but we didn't call you here just to investigate the cause of the town chief's death. Someone wants to see you."

After a pause, the mustached man continued, "This person has information that might be helpful to you."

After saying that, the mustached man led Jiang Cheng and the others to a room downstairs, opened the door, and a woman was standing by the window inside. The woman was a bit old, and her hair was already gray.

The woman seemed to be in great pain, her eyes were red and swollen, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes.

Seeing Jiang Cheng and the others come in, the woman introduced herself as the town chief's daughter. She was the one who asked them to come. She understood that her father's death was related to the manor's curse.

"Please accept our condolences." After a moment, Jiang Cheng looked at the woman and asked directly, "Since you know that your father's death is related to the curse, what do you want us to do?"

"It's like this, when I was tidying up my father's belongings this morning, I found a wooden box. Inside the box was a letter. The envelope had some words written on it, in my father's handwriting. He said that if one day he died strangely, it must be because of the manor's curse. He wanted the person who found this letter to give it to other people suffering from the curse, and said that it contained a way to break the curse." The woman said confidently.

After the woman finished speaking, she took out a wooden box, held it with both hands, and handed it over solemnly.

Fatty saw that Jiang Cheng didn't move, so he consciously prepared to take the wooden box, but he didn't expect Jiang Cheng to stop him. Then he looked at the woman and the box with a strange expression.

"What are you doing?" The woman looked puzzled.

"Yesterday we talked to your father for a long time, but he didn't mention this letter. I can't figure out why?" Jiang Cheng didn't hide his suspicion of the woman.

Hearing Jiang Cheng say this, Fatty's eyes also changed when he looked at the woman, as if he had already determined that the other party was a ghost in disguise.

The woman shook her head and said in a hoarse voice, "I haven't read the letter. My father may have had his own plans. I don't know about that."

"In that case, could you please open the box yourself and then hand it to us, please?" Jiang Cheng asked.

The woman opened the box, and there was indeed a letter inside.

"I'm sorry, my request may be a little strange." The vigilance on Jiang Cheng's face still hadn't disappeared. He continued to say in a polite tone, "Could you please also open the envelope, please?"

Without saying a word, the woman opened the envelope, poured out the letter inside, and then held the letter and asked, "Do you need me to read it to you?"

There was no dissatisfaction on the woman's face. Her father's death had already numbed her. In her heart, there was nothing more important than breaking the curse and avenging her father.

The curse of Dakrosa Manor was like a fog that would never dissipate, always shrouding this town, and everyone living in the town was being tortured by it.

"No need." Jiang Cheng reached out and took the letter, giving the woman an apologetic nod. "I'm sorry, I misunderstood, but please understand that after such a thing has just happened, we have to be vigilant."

"I've delivered the letter. I still have things to do. My father's body is still in the office." The woman stood up, looked at Jiang Cheng and the others, "I'll leave the rest to you."

The woman's expression was rather stiff, and there was a deep sense of powerlessness in her eyebrows. Jiang Cheng could feel that the woman didn't have much hope that they could break the curse. She was just helping her father fulfill his wish.

After the woman left, Jiang Cheng unfolded the letter. There wasn't much content in the letter, but it was very useful to them. These were all clues that the town chief had collected by various means.

After reading these, Jiang Cheng also solved his previous doubts, and Fatty and Huai Yi had a new understanding of the honest-looking town chief.

"No wonder he didn't take out this letter right away. So that's what he was planning." Fatty gritted his teeth in hatred. "He wanted to find a chance to try to replace Halesen and become the new owner of Dakrosa Manor!"

"That way he could live forever and achieve immortality!"