I glanced over, and Duan Hong had been strangled to death with a wire.
His neck was almost severed in half, which looked quite terrifying.
The technique seemed like a sneak attack, and... it must have been committed by a killer much shorter and weaker than Duan Hong.
My first thought was of the zombie demon.
Currently, the little zombie demon followed Han Dai to Xiangshan, so it couldn't be her.
Could there be another zombie demon...
I involuntarily shivered with fear, considering there was already one zombie demon.
We were completely unable to cope with it.
Yu Er, a Snake Dragon like that, didn't even have a proper fight and was accidentally bitten. It didn't survive the snake bite...
If there were a second one, that would truly be disastrous.
Thinking this,
my mentality nearly collapsed...
Before long, a bunch of aunts and uncles arrived.
These people were longtime residents of Spring Wind Town and relatives of the four hooligans.
They flocked over in a swarm, begging me to check on the four of them.
Although they were thuggish and lived their days in a daze, they had grown up before everyone's eyes. Their families surely couldn't bear to see them go insane overnight.
Their parents were especially heartbroken, crying tears and snot.
All of us being from the same town, how could I just watch and do nothing? I brought some cloth, needles, thread, and other tools to take a look at the four of them.
The four of them wandered aimlessly around the courtyard, one humming a tune, another dancing, another chasing butterflies...
They were only somewhat quiet when tied to the beds.
The sight was heartbreakingly sad.
"I've checked, they're just touched in the head because their Earth Soul is unstable," I sighed in relief. The four were lucky not to have their souls taken; otherwise, there would be no saving them.
I made four soul stabilizing cloth strips on the spot and handed them to their relatives, "These serve to stabilize the soul. Tie them to their wrists for three days and don't take them off, their senses will gradually return."
"Master Chen, you truly are a living Bodhisattva."
Someone started the chant, and suddenly a roomful of people knelt down, all calling me Guanyin.
I was utterly overwhelmed and urgently asked them to stand up, "Alright, it's just a small matter. If there's anything else in the future, just call for me. I'm going back now."
I had just returned to the restaurant when I saw everyone gathered around the register.
"What's going on here?" I was about to pour myself a glass of water and take a break.
The two head chefs around the register and Xiao Li all stepped back, and only then did I see Chen Decheng hugging his wife Chen Shufen.
"Yuanyuan, you're back, please quickly check on your boss. She suddenly fainted," Chen Decheng said.
Chen Decheng stood inside the register, holding his wife in his arms, his face ghostly pale.
"Fainted? I'm not a physician, what's there for me to see... wait, could it be... said..." My finger landed on Chen Shufen's belly, I couldn't sense the fetal heartbeat of the child inside her, and a chill went through me. I asked Chen Decheng coldly, "Did she just come into contact with a stranger? Did she take something from someone?"
My voice was as loud as a lion's roar.
I yelled in Chen Decheng's face.
Chen Decheng had probably never seen me so fierce before, he trembled noticeably and stammered, "Shufen was busy at the register, she had to interact with many strangers."
"Haven't I told you all to let your boss go out as little as possible these days and to avoid contact with strangers?" I felt as if the back of my head had been struck by a hammer, almost losing my senses completely. It took a moment to collect myself and realize my outburst. Trying to calm down, I asked, "Where is the last person who was in contact with the boss before she passed out? Where are they?"