After being poisoned by mushrooms, all the strange creatures became fascinated by me.

"You guessed right," Tang Li sighed, meeting Han Zhou's gaze without flinching.

"The person I saw who came back to life was the flower girl."

"Last night I shared a room with her. Just like with Sister Lian Sheng, I was asleep when I suddenly woke up."

"I turned around and saw the flower girl staring straight at me, not blinking. Her face was contorted in a grotesque expression, and she was already dead, but her limbs were still relatively limp, so I knew she had only recently died."

"Her mouth was open, and her tongue had turned a strange red. A bright red line ran through her skin from her throat to her abdomen, and as I looked down, I noticed something moving inside her."

Tang Li noticed Han Zhou and Lian Sheng exchange a quick glance, and Lian Sheng said, "Phoenix insect?"

These two systematically trained assassins quickly identified the venomous insect as the culprit.

Han Zhou chuckled mockingly, "What an interesting way to die."

He received a questioning look from Lian Sheng, so he explained, "Ji Chunmu is our junior. You don't know her. The 'pet' she was assigned was a balsam insect."

Lian Sheng frowned: "She hasn't finished her apprenticeship yet?"

"She graduated a year and a half ago," Han Zhou sneered. "Back then, she obediently killed all the phlox insects."

However, although balsam insects are rare, they haven't completely disappeared, and it's not impossible for the flower girl to get another batch. Therefore, unable to confirm the suspicious points, the two could only signal Tang Li to continue.

Tang Li did not recount the entire experience; she was unsure which aspects were visible to everyone and which were clues only players could discover.

Therefore, she concealed the existence of the "murderer" that night.

"I was terrified. Her abdomen was heaving faster and faster, as if many worms were hatching inside and about to burst out. I took out a knife and tried to stab the flower girl's body to kill the worms beforehand."

Her decisiveness earned her nods of approval from the other three.

Tang Li shrugged. "But then, I inexplicably fell asleep."

"When I woke up, the flower girl was laughing and joking with me as usual, but when she opened her mouth to me, I saw her tongue, which was still as red as a balsam flower."

After Tang Li finished speaking, she looked at Han Zhou and added with a wronged tone, "That's why I don't want to live with the flower girl, but you said that if I don't live with her, I can only work as a servant."

Lian Sheng immediately glared angrily at Han Zhou and rebuked him for bullying a little girl who had just been frightened.

Han Zhou sneered and glared at Tang Li. She was just taking advantage of his refusal to reveal the deals related to those "sect geniuses" to do whatever she wanted.

Too lazy to argue with her, he turned to Lian Shi beside him: "What about 'Sand'? If we're talking about experience traveling all over the country, you're the one in this house who has seen the most."

Lian Shi didn't give Han Zhou a friendly look, and said to Lian Sheng and Tang Li, "I have witnessed a few cases."

He wasn't looking at Han Zhou, but he was indeed asking him a question.

"Have you ever tried killing those who have come back from the dead?" His voice was low and deep, his eyes were as still as water, and his weathered face was nonchalant, but his words carried a ruthless edge, as if cutting through a tangled mess with a sharp knife.

Han Zhou raised an eyebrow slightly, and instead of answering, asked, "It seems you have killed someone? I'd like to hear the details."

"It was about three years ago, you should have heard of her name, Granny Blue."

Lian Shi paused for a moment, just in time to meet Tang Li's blank gaze. Lian Sheng then added a couple of explanations for him: "The old woman in blue is a well-known martial arts master. Three years ago, she was at the peak of her career."

"She always looked like a hunched old woman, dressed in a simple blue shirt. At three-quarters past midnight, she would knock on doors from house to house, asking if there were any children in the house."

"If the answer is no, she will rip out the heart and liver of the person who opened the door; if the answer is yes, she will take away the child who was pushed out to shield the family from disaster. Of course, the children she takes away all disappear without a trace."

Tang Li opened her mouth in shock, thinking to herself that if left unmanaged, these martial arts practitioners would truly be lawless.

"About a hundred households," Lian Shi began. "They either had their children kidnapped or lost their relatives who opened the door. So they came together, and the hundred or so households raised enough money to pay me the commission. They asked me to kill the old woman in blue."

"I went to a house ahead of time and waited for her to knock on the door. At three-quarters past midnight, there was indeed a knock on the door. I went to open the door and saw an old woman dressed in a blue shirt standing outside."

"I'm famous. Most assassins would run away as soon as they saw me. But the old woman in blue didn't run away; she even asked me if I had any children at home."

A simple, understated sentence summed up the outcome: "She's not hard to kill."

"But it was indeed troublesome. The maid wanted me to cut off every piece of flesh from her body. When I did this, she suddenly went crazy and still had the strength to run around, calling out incoherently as if she were calling a child nicknamed Qiuqiu."

"There are plenty of people who go mad before they die, but not many who have the guts to smash their heads against the wall in front of me before they die," Lian Shi said calmly. "Her withered head slammed against the wall, dirtying the employer's white wall."

"At that time, I only made more than 400 cuts, but my service standard is more than 1,000 cuts."

"At that time, I was certain that the old woman in blue was dead and was grieving the failure of the mission when she suddenly stood up unsteadily. The large hole in her head was still bleeding profusely. She grabbed my arm and asked if I had any children at home."

"I was happy again. Now that she was alive again, I continued to complete the task. This time, the old woman in blue cooperated well. She just screamed and didn't run around. After I finished the remaining cuts, she had become a skeleton, but she was still breathing and her eyes were staring straight at me."

"Normally, at this point, I would just leave the person on the ground to die. But this old woman in blue was too strange, so I snapped her neck and gave her a quick death."

Everyone's expressions turned serious, realizing that what followed was the important part.

Lian Shi slowed down as if carefully choosing his next adjective, "From her neck, it wasn't just blood flowing out. There was also something oily. Like... the stuff left at the bottom of a pot of fried meatballs and fried meat that had been fried thousands of times."

"Once this oil is released, it emits an extremely tempting aroma, like the aroma of fried meatballs or fried meat. I got hungry from the smell, but I don't have the habit of eating people. However, the overflowing aroma was really enticing. Even the rats came over because of the smell. They ignored me and licked the blue-clothed old woman's neck a few times. Suddenly, they were dead, lying on their backs."

"I then regained my senses and realized that I couldn't eat it no matter how delicious it was. However, at this moment, more and more oil was flowing from the blue-clothed old woman's neck, spreading on the ground as if it were alive, stretching out its tentacles to probe everywhere. I suddenly realized that this oil was looking for the blue-clothed old woman's head."

"I don't know what else they want to do."

"So they returned the blue-clad old woman's head to them."