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Chapter 622 Bones
While Fu Wen went to investigate, Zhu Yu and the others couldn't do anything but wait in the distance.

Perhaps because it was going to rain again, the wind had picked up in the valley. The wind whistled and crashed through the narrow gaps between the trees, occasionally making a sharp whistling sound.

The branches swayed in the wind, shadows flickered in the darkness, and there were rustling sounds, which made the surrounding night seem even more deathly still.

Zhu Yu peered through the gaps in the bushes at the small wooden building. Perhaps it was the surrounding environment that affected his mood, but the seemingly ordinary wooden building now felt like a monster standing in the night, ready to leap up and swallow them whole.

Although the night breeze was quite cool compared to the humid heat of the day, for some reason, Zhu Yu felt a vague unease lingering in her heart.

After a while, the rune still hadn't returned, but rain started falling from the sky first. Although Zhu Yu had already made this judgment when the wind picked up earlier, she was still caught off guard and embarrassed when the raindrops pelted down on her.

Fu Lu quickly took out the cloaks he had prepared earlier and handed them to Zhu Yu and Lu Qing. The two of them put them on. The treated fabric did not absorb water, which slowed down the rate at which their clothes got wet.

Just as Zhu Yu was worrying about the rain getting heavier and the wind not decreasing, the rune finally returned.

He was also soaked to the bone by the rain. He went up to Lu Qing and, without even taking the cloak that Fu Lu handed him, hurriedly told his master what he had discovered: "Master, there is no one in that small building. It is empty."

"The rain outside is too heavy, why don't we go inside to take shelter?"

"Are you sure?" Lu Qing asked him to confirm.

"I'm sure. I've checked both upstairs and downstairs. It's not a big place, it's empty, covered in dust, and there are cobwebs everywhere."

"Although some parts of the second floor are dilapidated and leaky, the first floor is relatively dry, which is better than being outside constantly getting soaked," Rune replied with great certainty.

“Okay, let’s go take shelter from the rain, but we still need to be careful and stay alert.” Seeing that the rain was getting heavier and that water was starting to accumulate at their feet, Lu Qing agreed to Fu Wen’s suggestion.

The four of them quickly moved toward the small wooden building, with Fu Wen leading the way and Fu Lu bringing up the rear.

Upon reaching the door, Fuwen carefully pushed it open halfway, just enough for four people to enter. After Fulu also came in, he gently closed the door again.

The four of them moved quietly, slowly making their way inside while listening intently to the sounds around them.

The wooden building was deathly silent, with only the sound of raindrops hitting the wooden walls.

The four of them found a secluded spot behind the stairs and planned to sit down and rest there.

At this point, no one had the energy to care whether the ground was dirty or dusty; everyone just sat down on the ground.

After all, their clothes were already soaked, and being able to sit on the dry ground was much better than being outside in the rain.

Zhu Yu sat cross-legged on the ground, touched the dust on the ground, and found that it was indeed a thick layer.

But she always felt something was strange. Logically speaking, a small, abandoned wooden house like this, which had never been lived in, should either be covered in thick dust, giving it a dusty smell when you walk in, or it should be damp from the rain, eventually giving off a smell of rotting wood.

But there was nothing there, not even a strange smell.

Zhu Yu reached out and touched something hard. She reached out and touched it. Even though she couldn't see clearly in the dark, she could feel that it was a bone. It was very thin and probably not human. It looked more like a poultry such as a chicken, duck, or goose.

Furthermore, the bone was intact, with a head and a tail, and apart from the missing cartilage, there were no other signs of it being gnawed on.

Zhu Yu was startled, and at the same time, she faintly smelled a fragrance in her breath. Startled, she didn't care about anything else and quickly said, "Be careful, something's not right here!"

After she finished speaking, she suddenly realized that it seemed a little too quiet around her. She turned her head and saw that Lu Qing was nowhere to be seen, and even the talismans and runes were nowhere to be found.

This startled her a little. She propped herself up, walked around the narrow space behind the stairs, and looked around.

The faint moonlight shone in through the gaps in the window that weren't completely sealed. There was no trace of Lu Qing and her two servants in the small wooden building. The surroundings were so quiet that it was as if she were the only person there.

"Where are you?" Zhu Yu wanted to call out, but then realized that they must have fallen into someone's trap and were afraid that they would accidentally expose their identities, so he didn't dare to call out their names and just whispered in a low voice.

The surroundings remained quiet, and no one answered her.

Zhu Yu reached out and groped around, but couldn't find anything; the surroundings were empty.

Gradually, perhaps as time went on, her eyes began to adjust to the darkness in the small wooden building, and she found that she could begin to see everything around her clearly.

She was currently in an octagonal main room. Apart from a staircase, there was a door on each of the eight walls, and all the doors looked exactly the same, making it impossible to tell which one was which.

Zhu Yu's rationality told her that at this moment, she should choose to stay where she was and not move at all; this was the safest and most secure option.

But for some reason, her feet seemed to have a mind of their own and walked straight toward a door across the street. Before her mind could react or stop her, she had already reached out and pushed the door open.

The door creaked open, and Zhu Yu saw that it led to another room. Inside that room, there were seven or eight doors. The rest of the doors were tightly closed, but one door was ajar, as if it was about to close. Through the crack in the door, the hem of a robe flashed by, as if someone had just gone out through that door.

Zhu Yu recognized it at a glance; the robe was the one Lu Qing usually wore, and she knew it all too well.

Without thinking twice, Zhu Yu took off running in that direction and managed to rush past the door before it closed.

But all she saw was Lu Qing's back as he walked away through another door.

Zhu Yu felt increasingly anxious and ran even faster, using almost all his strength to rush forward and forcefully break open the door that was about to close completely.

Then, she stepped onto a very soft ground.