I Can Recognize Everything, But the Information is Wrong

Sister Yu was held in place by the talisman paper, but there was still a risk of zombification.

Tian Lin grasped her right hand, forcibly extracting the corpse energy from her body.

Over there, the old Village Chief's face fell, but just as he was about to shout 'officer', Tian Lin spoke first, "Let me examine the remaining corpses!"

By this point, how could Tian Lin not know the old Village Chief's purpose for bringing people to examine the corpses?

Not only did he want to kill people, but he also wanted to resurrect the dried corpses.

"Officer, this is not consistent with what you said before."

Tian Lin didn't bother wasting words with the old Village Chief and said, "I may change orders on a whim, but so what? Do you dare to disobey?"

Tian Lin's attitude was so firm because he couldn't comply with the old Village Chief's wishes.

Once these dried corpses in the coffins reanimated, none of them would be able to resist.

Fortunately, people do not fight against officials—even though the old Village Chief and his men were doing Evil Spirit rituals and were more powerful than Tian Lin, they really didn't dare argue with him anymore.

After that, Tian Lin spent more than an hour examining the dried corpses in the coffins.

And after more than an hour had passed, the sky had completely darkened.

The old Village Chief realized his plan had failed, but his face showed no emotion. He respectfully said to Tian Lin, "The gift you asked for, Officer, I will deliver it to your door early tomorrow morning. Since it's late now, please rest early."

Tian Lin glanced at the sky, brushing off the white mold on his body.

Despite having spiritual talismans, as he had absorbed too much corpse energy, his clothes were now covered in mold and fungi.

Tian Lin glanced at Sister Yu. Although she wasn't covered in white mold, her face was ashen, indicating she had already stiffened.

Who knows what trouble would arise if he left her here?

Tian Lin waved his wide sleeve, whisking Sister Yu with a gust of wind towards the guest room by the old night watchman.

Everyone was waiting for Tian Lin's appearance. This time, with Sister Mei and Wang Yanyu guarding the guest room door, no one dared to cause any trouble.

In short, Tian Lin successfully brought Sister Yu's body into the guest room.

Everyone's attention was quickly drawn to Sister Yu's corpse, each with different expressions, when Sister Mei said from the side, "It seems she's not from an official background."

Tian Lin nodded, "It's because she absorbed too much corpse energy, that she died not due to being an ordinary person."

He recounted the experiences of yesterday and today, and shared his conjectures.

Beside him, Zhou Ting frowned and said, "So, the villagers' method of murder is to use those dried corpses to infect us with corpse poison?"

Tian Lin nodded and said, "Moreover, I also noticed a phenomenon, which is that most of the clothing on those dried corpses is actually similar to the villagers' attire.

Although these dried corpses have been around for too long and no longer look like they used to after zombification, I boldly guess that these so-called dried corpses are actually the physical bodies of those villagers doing Evil Spirit rituals."

Zhou Ting reacted, "What do the villager spirits plan to do? Use us, then resurrect their bodies?"

Tian Lin's face looked grim, "I'm not sure—however, if that's truly their aim, then there might already be some resurrected dried corpses in the village."

Zhou Ting was puzzled, because according to Tian Lin, after he absorbed the corpse energy, the dried corpses didn't have a chance to come back to life.

Though the old Village Chief's plan seemed good, it actually fell apart after encountering Tian Lin.

But he soon understood what Tian Lin meant.

Because only Tian Lin could absorb the corpse energy from the dried corpses and survive. Before Tian Lin, Senior Brother Zuo and others had already entered the village.

So what about Senior Brother Zuo's situation? With the Wenda Sect disciples who came earlier, one or two bodies in Taiping Village should have completed the ritual and finally succeeded in reanimating, right?

"Currently, many thoughts are just guesses, all need verification. The immediate priority is to thoroughly identify who among us are ordinary people and who are officials."

Everyone looked at Tian Lin, then turned their eyes towards Wang Yanyu and Sister Mei.

According to Tian Lin's previous promise, Zhou Ting was to sacrifice Sister Yu to verify whether Sister Yu was an official.

Now that Sister Yu is dead, it was time for Tian Lin to fulfill his promise.

"Actually, there's no need for Sister Wang and Sister Mei to come forward; the same thing can verify who among us are ordinary people and who are officials."

Tian Lin explained about asking the old Village Chief to deliver a gift, leaving everyone in the room silent.

After a long pause, a male True Disciple couldn't help but say, "Tian Junior Brother, you thought of this method long ago, didn't you?"

The implication was, since there was such a good method, why did Sister Yu have to die?

"This was something I discussed with the old Village Chief casually today; I didn't consider it would work. Who would have thought it would actually succeed?"

Naturally, Tian Lin couldn't admit he had thought of the method early, or the accusation of deliberately causing Sister Yu's death would be too clear.

Fortunately, no one present held a grudge against Tian Lin for Sister Yu's death.

Because Tian Lin was the only one present who had absorbed corpse energy and survived—his usefulness was clearly far greater than Sister Yu's.

For survival, everyone was naturally more inclined to side with Tian Lin rather than Sister Yu.

Meanwhile, the world outside was completely dark. Fierce winds were howling outside, and the old watchman's door planks were rattling again.

Suddenly, a 'clang' of a door breaking resounded, followed by the old watchman's scream.

Tian Lin looked at Zhou Ting, who nodded in acknowledgment, "I managed to cover the door gods on the door planks, so the old watchman's door can no longer keep out those few soldiers."

Tian Lin couldn't help but say, "Without the old watchman's clapper role, how will we control the day and night?"

Zhou Ting raised the bamboo clapper and the gong in his hands and said, "I've already stolen everything from the old watchman, and I've also tested the function of this clapper and gong. As long as it's struck and provided with enough spiritual power, the time can be switched from day to night, and from night to day."

Tian Lin felt something stir, finding this gong unbelievably powerful, able to control time.

As if predicting Tian Lin's thought, Zhou Ting laughed, "I guess this thing only works here. Once it leaves the village, it probably won't have any effect."

As he spoke, she raised the clapper and struck it.

With the sound of the clapper, the gong and clapper seemed to drain the True Qi within Zhou Ting.

His face turned pale, and his entire demeanor instantly became haggard.

However, outside the house, the night showed a streak of daylight, as everyone looked out through the window lattice, they indeed saw the brilliant sun hanging in the sky.

It was unclear whether it was from too much excitement or from expending too much True Qi, Zhou Ting's entire face was flushed.

He smiled and said, "Sure enough, with this thing, we can control day and night. If we encounter danger during the day, we can change to night by hitting the gong. At night, if there's danger, we can also switch to daytime with it."

Tian Lin remained silent, looking towards the door.

Then the sound of footsteps came from outside, and the old Village Chief's voice said, "Honorable officers, I've come to present you with a gift, please open the door."