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Chapter 613 No one left alive
As Zhu Yu walked, he thought to himself, "That is rather strange. If this is a group of low-level bandits, how come they slaughtered an entire village and I have been pretending to stay here without being discovered?"
She couldn't figure it out right away, so she put it aside for the time being and didn't dwell on it anymore.

Because they arrived at the door of that "inn".

Zhu Yu had initially thought that the fire he had seen the night before must have been from this inn. Now that he saw the small building standing there perfectly fine, without any sign of fire, he was initially a little surprised, but he quickly came to his senses.

Thinking about it carefully, it's actually true that this place wasn't burned.

If the other party wanted people to think that Lu Qing and the others were murdered by bandits for their money and died in such a remote village, why would they bear to set fire to it and burn it beyond recognition?

Fu Lu went in first to check and confirmed that there was no danger and no survivors before returning to tell Lu Qing.

Hearing his words, Zhu Yu felt relieved and quickly went inside, heading straight for the guest room on the second floor where she and Lu Qing had stayed. She pushed open the door and rushed in.

The landlady and another bandit who had been brought in to impersonate Lu Qing were still lying on the same bed. Because they had been drugged and had their arms and legs dislocated, they were unable to move. Their positions were basically unchanged, but at a glance, they looked like two blood gourds.

Zhu Yu was still wearing the proprietress's coat, and now he wasn't afraid of getting it dirty. He took out his leather bag from his pocket and brought it close, examining it carefully with a serious expression.

“These two people, one stabbed five times and the other eight times, each stab was in a vital spot. They had no intention of leaving us even the slightest chance to escape with our lives.” She said to Lu Qing and the others while carefully examining the body. “The people were killed in the middle of the night the day before. Not only did we see it from the mountain, but we can also confirm this from the temperature and stiffness of the bodies.”

But one thing is strange: the blood from the knife wounds on these two men hasn't clotted, which is very unusual. So, although I don't have a way to verify it right now, I have reason to suspect that their knives were poisoned.

"No wonder those people were able to leave without worry; their methods are truly vicious!" Fu Wen, listening from the side, couldn't help but spit and grit his teeth.

The reason they are still alive is because they discovered the people following them in time, and the master and mistress were resourceful and cautious.

Otherwise, the four of them might actually be lying in a pool of blood right now.

These scapegoats don't deserve sympathy, but when Rune thought about their real goals and objectives, he couldn't help but grind his teeth.

Zhu Yu sighed and continued examining the corpses of the two bandits.

Lu Qing watched her operate thoughtfully, then looked around, thought for a moment, called Fu Wen to his side, whispered a few words to him, then went to Zhu Yu's side, took the silver whistle off her neck and handed it to Fu Wen.

Rune solemnly accepted it, nodded, and rushed out like a gust of wind.

"Check how many corpses are in this shady inn. Gather them together and deal with them later." Lu Qing then said to Fu Lu beside him, "We'll probably have to stay here for the next few days. Although it's getting cold now, it's not good for living people to be mixed with so many corpses. What if some kind of epidemic spreads?"

"Okay, I'll go get ready right away!" Fu Lu never objected to Lu Qing's orders, and without saying a word, he went out to get busy.

Zhu Yu had already straightened up and no longer intended to examine the two scapegoats in front of him.

Anyway, it was clear that the other party was determined to kill them, and there was nothing else worth digging into. Afterwards, she went to the room where the runes and talismans had stayed before, and found that the situation there was similar. Of all the bandits who had been killed along the way, the others had all died with a single blow, but these four people had died very gruesomely, with multiple stab wounds on their bodies, and the stab wounds were poisoned.

After looking at both sides, Zhu Yu's attention returned to other things. He was surprised to find that only Lu Qing was with him and the runes and talismans were gone.

"Where did Fu Lu go?" she asked Lu Qing.

"Clean up the corpses in the inn; we'll stay here for the next few days," Lu Qing replied.

"Living here? Is it safe?" Zhu Yu asked with some concern.

“This is probably the safest place.” Lu Qing nodded. “The four of us should be dead now. Those people have stopped following or searching for us, so they must have already made up their minds.”

However, those who have been so careful and cautious in following us all the way are not necessarily easy to fool.

We don't know where those people will leave from; they are in the shadows, and we are in the light.

If we rush on our way now, it will be easier for others to discover that we haven't actually been killed.

This is a place where those people pretended to be bandits and massacred the village, leaving no survivors.

So as long as our whereabouts remain unknown, this is the safest place.

After he finished speaking, he stood in the corridor and looked down: "This place is indeed a good place. It's a real pity to leave it abandoned like this. We might as well make use of it."

Zhu Yu looked at him, recalling how Lu Qing had just taken the silver whistle off her neck: "You just sent Fu Wen out to deliver a message? To whom?"

“Hmm,” Lu Qing did not deny it, but kept the identity of the person at her waist a secret, “You’ll see in a few days, no matter how short it is.”

Since Lu Qing has already said so, Zhu Yu is too lazy to ask any more questions.

Not long after, Fu Wen returned and respectfully handed the silver whistle back to Zhu Yu. Then he helped Fu Lu tidy up the inn, at least it wasn't a scene of carnage anymore, the kitchen and toilets were usable, and he didn't bother with anything else.

Despite his burly appearance, Fu Lu is actually very meticulous.

He didn't touch the corpses in front, nor the four that Zhu Yu had specifically examined; he left them as they were. Instead, he cleaned up the back courtyard and prepared a quiet, secluded room for Lu Qing and Zhu Yu. It was spotless, as it had originally been filled with some miscellaneous items, so no one had died there.

As a result, when you enter the inn from the front, it still looks the same as before, with the horrific scene of the massacre, and you can't tell at all that it has been cleaned up.

So the four of them settled down temporarily, and stayed for three days.