There's a big problem with dreams in this world.

"The accident happened ten days ago, on the night of..."

Based on the young man's description, Lu Qing and the priest gradually understood what had happened that night.

It was the fourth day since the expedition entered the fog. As usual, the way back was covered by fog, and even if they went back, they could not find the original marks.

So the expedition team could only find a suitable place to rest and prepare to make a fire.

However, before the campfire could be lit, an uninvited guest appeared in their field of vision.

The other person was shrouded in mist, making it impossible to see their face, and they did not respond when spoken to.

The young man, his face filled with terror and his voice trembling, recounted what happened next.

"That man shrouded in mist killed every member of the expedition team. I saw with my own eyes Bohr's body torn in two and thrown to the ground..."

"I ran away in fear, and for some reason, that person didn't chase me."

"When I looked back, I only saw him standing there. I could feel that he was staring at me with his eyes from behind the mist."

The young man's face turned even paler, and cold sweat involuntarily broke out on his body.

"I don't know how I got out of the fog. I ran for a long time and kept moving around. I didn't dare to light a fire at night, for fear of attracting that person."

"I survived by relying on wild vegetables and mushrooms in the forest, and kept moving forward. I miraculously found the marks we left behind and finally made it back yesterday."

"Um......."

After hearing the young man's words, both the priest and Lu Qing fell silent.

After a while, the priest patted the young man on the shoulder and said:

"Now that you're back, rest well here. The God of Light will bless you."

As he spoke, the priest looked at Lu Qing and gestured for the two of them to go out first.

"It seems there are no clues. All we know is that there is a person shrouded in mist who committed murder," Lu Qing thought to herself.

"Let's ask the bakery owner," Lu Qing said, looking at the priest.

“Yes,” the priest said.

The bakery owner clearly knew something; he was still locked inside and couldn't hear what the young man was saying.

Although it's unclear what the bakery owner knew or why he killed the young man who returned from the mist.

But since the other party knows something, we can't let this clue go.

The two returned to the door of the room where the bakery owner was locked up, pushed the door open, and the bakery owner, who was tightly bound with rope, reappeared before them.

Before anyone could ask, the bakery owner, seeing Lu Qing and the priest return, cried out first:

"Save me, please save me! Anna, Anna's ghost has come to me!"

Looking at the man in front of her, whose face was filled with terror, Lu Qing couldn't help but take a step back and frowned, saying:

"Anna, why Anna?"

"The informants are all dead. It must be Anna, no doubt about it. She's already come after me. Everyone else is dead, only I'm left. No, I don't want to die!"

The bakery owner spoke incoherently, as if he were releasing all the emotions that had been building up inside him.

"Are all the informants dead?"

Although the bakery owner's words were somewhat incoherent, based on the clues obtained earlier, it was related to Anna, and he was still an "informant."

The informant here probably refers to the person who told the knight about Anna's strange behavior in the town.

The bakery owner was probably one of them, while the others were all dead...

"Does it refer to the members of the expedition who died?"

"Was the young man not killed because he wasn't an informant?"

Lu Qing pondered the information in the bakery owner's words. Before she could even speak, the priest beside her had already taken action.

The priest looked at the middle-aged man with a serious expression and snorted coldly:

"Hmph, no matter what, you did that kind of thing. You'll have to reflect on your actions in prison later."

"No! Don't put me in jail, Anna will kill me!" the bakery owner said in terror.

"I wasn't the one who killed that night, it was Anna!"

"She controlled my body!"

Okay, it seems things are mostly clear now.

If what the bakery owner said is true, then the person who entered the fog and killed the expedition team that day was the bakery owner.

However, the bakery owner was unaware that his body was shrouded in a layer of mist.

It was precisely because he knew that the innkeeper's son was not dead that he was afraid that the other party would wake up and reveal that he had committed murder.

As for whether Anna was the one who manipulated his body to kill, we don't know. As for the informants mentioned by the bakery owner, they should all be dead.

"But what does this have to do with my dream goal?"

Thinking this, Lu Qing asked:

"What about the raw meat in the bread a few days ago?"

After venting his anger, the bakery owner sobered up a bit and honestly answered Lu Qing's question:

"Those were the corpses of the expedition members that I killed after I was controlled. They wriggled together and followed behind me, sneaking into my house under the cover of night."

“My body was being controlled, and I saw those disgusting clumps of flesh gathering in my room with my own eyes.”

"No matter how many times I throw them away, or even burn them to ashes, these damned chunks of flesh will return to my room the following night."

"In all the times I tried, I wondered if the raw meat could be mixed into bread, so that once it was swallowed, it would never come back."

"Anyway, I'll turn him into minced meat. Even if it tastes weird, those poor people who can only afford bread will still eat it."

"But I didn't expect that the minced meat would gather together in the bread, and in the end, the poor people found it, but no one ate it."

"That kind of stinky meat wouldn't even be eaten by stray dogs, so I eventually gave up on the idea of ​​getting living things to eat it."

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Chapter Sixteen: Achieving the First Secondary Objective!

"You might as well just eat it yourself," Lu Qing said with disgust.

It's truly astonishing that the other party could come up with such a thing as making someone eat this rotten, decaying meat. Even ordinary meat can cause diarrhea, let alone meat that's associated with evil spirits.

Moreover, if the bakery owner wasn't lying, then it's a case of doxxing.

"I had no choice; I was forced into it!"

Seeing Lu Qing's dissatisfaction, the bakery owner became quite agitated.

He was afraid of death, and if he could avoid it, he would accept going to prison. But the bakery owner didn't believe that a mere prison could keep evil spirits out.

"Alright, that's enough. Let's go to the bakery and see what that lump of meat you're talking about is." The priest interrupted the two.

Upon hearing the priest's words, the bakery owner said:

"The piece of meat was in my room, making no noise, and it always smelled fishy and foul."

“I can take you there, but could you please untie me? I don’t want the townspeople to see me tied up.”

"You're not thinking of running away, are you?" Lu Qing asked the bakery owner with a suspicious look.

Hearing Lu Qing's words, the other party chuckled twice and said, "How could that be? My hand is still hurting. I wouldn't dare to run away even if you gave me ten lives."

Lu Qing touched the dagger at her waist and looked at the priest.

After seeing the priest shake his head, Lu Qing turned to the bakery owner and said, "Don't worry about it. We know where you live anyway, we can go by ourselves."

The bakery owner's house is right next to the bakery, a fact known to almost everyone in the town. This was something Lu Qing learned from someone next to her when she went to buy bread.

"No, no, don't leave me here alone, you can tie me up!"

The bakery owner panicked instantly. He didn't want to be locked in the church; if Anna came looking for him now, he'd be dead for sure.

It's better to be with the priest and Lu Qing than to be alone.

Oh, no, that's not right either. John and another believer are also in the church, as well as the young man who is currently resting.

In short, the bakery owner wanted to stay close to the priest and Lu Qing to feel a sense of security.

And to be honest, ever since that young man returned, he had a bad feeling.

This made him extremely anxious; otherwise, he wouldn't have come to the church with a knife to assassinate the young man.

“Take him with you. There’s no reason why that lump of flesh is following him. Taking him along might help us discover something,” the old priest said at this moment.

"Ok."

Lu Qing glanced at the bakery owner, grabbed his rope, and followed the priest out of the church.

The three walked toward the location of the bakery, avoiding the square where Anna had been burned to death.

Along the way, the townspeople all looked surprised when they saw the bakery owner tied up.

Especially the old priest standing next to the other party, which made the townspeople suspect that the bakery owner had done something wrong.

"Make way, everyone. What we're about to do is very dangerous, so please don't all come over here."

The priest frowned as he looked at the townspeople who had followed out of curiosity, then turned around and said.

The older generation in the town knew a bit about the old priest. After hearing what he said, they could only suppress their curiosity and leave with the young people next to them.

"Let's go quickly, don't disturb the old priest. Maybe he's dealing with the fog outside the town?"

“Since the old priest says it’s dangerous, then let’s leave quickly. We don’t have the abilities of the believers of the God of Light.”

The young people were pulled away by the older generation, and some who were unwilling to leave also left after hearing that it was related to the fog outside the town.

After all, the survivors of the expedition team had just returned today, and they looked exhausted. They didn't want to end up like that survivor.

Once most of the people had left, the priest turned around and continued walking with the two towards their destination.

After walking for about five or six minutes, the group finally arrived at the bakery owner's house.

This is a very ordinary wooden house, except that it is a bit larger than other types of houses.

Well, that's just Lu Qing's feeling, but just by looking at the size of the house, you can tell that the bakery owner is indeed much richer than the average town resident.