Chapter 145: Conspiracy


    “The vige doctor has been here,” The man exined, “Hong Hong’s mother is fine. The doctor said that she needed to rest a lot before he left.”


    “Is that so?” Jiang Cheng looked at the closed door. He nodded with some regret, “Then, we’ll be leaving.”


    “Please.”


    …


    On the way back, Chen Xiaomeng nced at Jiang Cheng. Thetter appeared confident and inscrutable.


    “There’s something wrong with that man.” Chen Xiaomeng began, “Hong Hong looks like she’s scared of him. Plus, a girl her age wouldn’t know about the distance between males and females. He probably taught her to say that.”


    Jiang Cheng narrowed his eyes to block the setting sun. “Of course. Or else why would he choose this hour to work on the vegetable patch? Clearly, he saw us and hurried over to Hong Hong’s home.” The sun was setting, and the night would soon arrive. The night was a nightmarish existence for the vigers. However, the man chose this hour toe to work in the small field? Clearly, this was suspicious.


    Chen Xiaomeng added, “Based on his appearance, he is not a farmer. His pair of leather shoes are practically shining.” A well-dressed strange man said that he came to Hong Hong’s ce to help with the gardening.


    At that point, both stopped talking. Since they had seen through the man’s fake identity, the next step was to predict his goal. This was very simple. He was there to monitor them. The man’s real goal was probably to prevent them from interacting with Hong Hong’s family to gain valuable information. The vige head was most likely behind this.Chen Xiaomeng’s group’s movement in the vige had alerted them. Along the way, the nearby houses were old and decrepit, but from the vegetables andundries in the yard, one could tell that they were still upied. However, there had been no signs of human life at all.


    Chen Xiaomeng paused and whispered, “Do you know…”


    “I do,” Jiang Cheng interrupted.


    “How do you know what I was about to ask?” Chen Xiaomeng gasped.


    Jiang Cheng didn’t stop moving. “You can’t figure out why there are still so many men in the vige if the ghost kills one to three men every few days for the past twenty years.”


    Chen Xiaomeng widened her eyes.


    “But you get it now, right?” Jiang Cheng nced at her.


    Chen Xiaomeng took a deep breath. She took in the vige around her. “It’s the vige head.” She looked at the courtyard of the Qian Family with the building that was conspicuously taller than the rest of the vige. “The vige head purposely situated us in the Qian Family’s courtyard because the ghost’s targets are the people from the Qian Family. Once we stay there, the ghost will murder us, thinking that we’re parts of the Qian Family. This will ensure the safety of the other vigers.


    “That is the secret behind the survival of Little Ravine Vige. I believe the vige head will invite some outsiders to stay in the Qian Family yard at set intervals of time. In the end, they would be killed by the ghosts.”


    This matched the information they gathered in An Ping Town. Outsiders kept going missing around Little Ravine Vige. The woman who went to search for her husband at the inn didn’t dress like the locals. Her husband was probably an outsider tricked into entering Little Ravine Vige.


    This would exin why An Ping Town’s people detested Little Ravine Vige’s people so much. Just as the elder from the town said, they should stay away from the people from the mountain vige. They represented… misfortune.


    Jiang Cheng studied the woman before him with interest. He was not averse to bad people because they had their reasons to walk on the other side of thew. He hated idiots because idiocy had no excuse. Thankfully, Chen Xiaomeng was not dumb. She was much better than the two dummies, Zhou Rong and Bei Qian. This was why Jiang Cheng chose her. In the nightmare realm, good people and bad people might die, but dumb people will definitely die.


    “Do you know how to leave this vige?” Chen Xiaomeng raised her brow.


    “No.”


    “Interesting,” Chen Xiaomeng smiled, “Because I do.”


    “Do you n to leave now?”


    “Do you wish for the vigers to turn on us first before leaving?” Chen Xiaomeng shrugged. She took out the fruit and took a bite. The fruit looked small, but it was very juicy. It made Jiang Cheng so hungry. “We can leaveter. I want to check out Hong Hong’s home.”


    “It’s your choice.” Chen Xiaomeng tossed the core away.


    When they returned to the courtyard, it was already dark. The charcoal in the houses were still burning but there was no one around. Yu Man and Lee Lu hadn’t returned.


    “Where are they?” Chen Xiaomeng asked.


    “How would I know?” Jiang Cheng shrugged, “I wasn’t the one who was grouped with them this afternoon.”


    Needless to say, something had happened to them. However, it was unclear if they encountered the ghost or the vigers. If it were thetter, they would have been detained.


    Jiang Cheng had been pondering this issue of bnce. So far, much evidence had proved that the ghost in this mission wouldn’t kill females. However, this didn’t mean that the female yers were safe.


    Based on Jiang Cheng’s understanding, the nightmare might seem absurd, but it ran on aplicated and careful mechanism. Every traveller had the same chance at survival. Perhaps the ghost would favour the fairer sex, but under the fairness of the rules, the female yers would attract malice from other parties.


    He could imagine the consequences of two beautiful young women losing their way in Little Ravine Vige. They wouldn’t die, but they would wish that they had died.


    Chen Xiaomeng realised that too. As a female, her face darkened. “When we return to Hong Hong’s ce at night, pay attention to the surroundings. If we can save them, our risks at An Ping Inn will be lowered.”


    Jiang Cheng tutted.


    Chen Xiaomeng was uninterested in Lee Lu and Yu Man’s survival. However, she did hate the vigers’ actions. She would choose to save them because they still had value as trap testers.


    She valued rationality above emotions. Jiang Cheng was very satisfied.


    Inparison, Jiang Cheng was reminded of the Fatty at home… He was often useless and stood in his way… But damn, was he a good cook.