Running A Cemetery in North America

"Oh, he just went to investigate in the village, saying he wanted to ask the villagers about the origin of the guy who kidnapped Lin Wan, but there's no need for that now since you've returned safely. Let's leave this place first."

Shi Langfei hurriedly said.

This mountain forest looked strange; if not for searching for Lin Wan, he wouldn't want to stay here even for a second.

"Alright." Sun Yan nodded.

The group walked out of the forest and arrived near Auntie Chai's residence, only to see Gu Xing's figure walking toward them.

Behind him were more than a dozen villagers holding hoes and pickaxes, hurrying in their direction.

The moment he saw the villagers from Chai Family Village, the man brought out of the cave by Sun Yan became visibly panicked and hid behind Sun Yan, nervously shouting, "No good, they're here. I can't be caught by them; they'll definitely send me away as a sacrificial offering at sea!"

"Shi Langfei! Sun Yan! Stay away from that guy! He's a demon!"

Seeing the mysterious man standing beside Sun Yan and the others, Gu Xing urgently shouted.

Shi Langfei looked puzzled, "What is this guy talking about, he seems to be babbling nonsense."

Lin Wan asked puzzled, "Could it be the people from Chai Family Village told him something?"

Sun Yan was about to explain to Gu Xing when his expression suddenly changed.

Gu Xing, who was at the front, didn't notice that the dozen villagers behind him revealed eerie smiles upon seeing the man who left the cave with them, and they raised their hoes to strike the back of Gu Xing's head.

If it hit, even as the Tomb Guardian, Gu Xing would lose half his life.

"Watch out!" Sun Yan shouted loudly.

Gu Xing froze, not understanding Sun Yan's words, but instinctively dodged to the side, and the next second he felt a pain in his shoulder and fell to the ground.

Only when he looked up did he see the villagers crazily raising their hoes to strike at him.

If not for Sun Yan's warning and his quick reflexes, that hoe just now would have directly smashed his head.

Having narrowly escaped death, Gu Xing quickly rolled to the side to avoid the villagers' attacks. Though unclear about what's happening, these villagers didn't give up and were still determined to harm him, which provoked anger in Gu Xing's heart, not caring about much, he leaped up from the ground.

His left arm instantly grew scales, blocking the hoe with his hand, simultaneously kicking and breaking a villager's leg, disabling their ability to move.

"What do you intend to do?" Gu Xing shouted.

"Capture them! These outsiders have already been in contact with that guy; they must be captured, or it's troublesome without a sacrificial priest!"

The remaining villagers sternly shouted, even though Gu Xing demonstrated extraordinary abilities, they still fearlessly launched attacks on him.

Although Gu Xing wasn't aware of the secrets of Chai Family Village, encountering this situation now, it was clear that Chai Family Village definitely had issues, and he shouldn't remain clueless.

He swiftly acted, letting out a dragon's roar, the villagers close to him were deafened by the sound waves at this close range, they clutched their heads and let out painful howls.

Blood seeped unstoppably from their ears; Gu Xing's roar had directly ruptured their eardrums.

"Ah! My ears!"

"I can't hear, I can't hear anything!"

The panicked villagers frantically swung their hoes, but they were just ordinary people and couldn't be a match for Gu Xing.

Within a few moves, most villagers had their limbs broken by Gu Xing, and Gu Xing took a step forward, grabbing one villager's neck, lifting him off the ground.

In front of the Tomb Guardian, ordinary people posed no threat at all; if not for their sneak attack, they wouldn't even have a chance to injure Gu Xing.

"Speak, what exactly are you planning? Why attack me, and what does the sacrificial priest mean?"

Gu Xing applied pressure on his grip as he questioned villager harshly.

The villager's face turned red from the choke, he struggled to say, "You..., you won't escape Chai Family Village, you've been chosen as sacrificial priests, you'll be the great medicine for Saintess Cizhou!"

By now, Sun Yan and other had arrived, Lin Wan hurriedly said, "Don't kill him yet."

Gu Xing then released the villager, frowned, and said, "What exactly is going on."

"Chai Family Village has issues. Those villagers who went missing at sea might be related to Chai Family Village; we just found out."

Looking at the injured villagers, Sun Yan asked, "Does the whole Chai Family Village know about Lin Wan being taken away now?"

"I'm not sure. I only asked a few families about this matter, and one man immediately enthusiastically brought people to accompany me to the back mountain to search, I didn't expect them to be like this." Gu Xing shook his head.

"What did they say to you, why did you mention demons earlier?" Shi Langfei asked.

"These villagers told me that a foreigner once came to their village and quickly settled down with his family, but this man was a demon, using wicked demon techniques. He not only killed his wife and children but also harmed the villagers, many villagers died at his hands years ago,

Later, when this demon was exposed, he was chased by the villagers and completely vanished into the mountains. However, for years, he has been capturing villagers and taking them into the mountains as food; those he captured never returned." Gu Xing explained slowly.

The man protested unhappily, "How could I be such a person! It's slander, all slander. I haven't caught anyone from this village."

"Let's not talk about this now, tie these people up, they can't be allowed to go back and inform others in Chai Family Village." Sun Yan said sternly.

"So what do we do now, after this incident, we can't return to Auntie Chai's house." Lin Wan asked.

Shi Langfei thought for a moment, "Let's hide these villagers in the back mountain first, then use their clothes to enter Chai Family Village again and investigate the village's issues."

"No way, they all recognize me, if I enter the village, I'll be discovered, no way, this definitely won't work."

The man shook his head vigorously, expressing strong refusal.

It was clear he had deep psychological trauma regarding Chai Family Village. Seeing this, Sun Yan could only ask him, "You don't have to go, but tell us, from your understanding of Chai Family Village, how can we investigate the relationship between the village and Saintess Cizhou effectively?"

The man thought for a while before seriously saying, "Although most villagers in Chai Family Village have the surname Chai, there's a distinction between main and branch family. The main Chai family is located in the village center. If anyone knows the most about Chai Family Village, it's the Chai Clan. You can visit the main Chai residence; perhaps you can find what you seek there."

"Alright, thank you."

They knocked out the villagers from Chai Family Village, carried them into the back mountain, and left Gu Xing to watch over them.

Sun Yan, Shi Langfei, and Lin Wan changed into villagers' clothes, and under the cover of night, headed back to Chai Family Village.