Who hid My Corpse!

With that necklace as a mark, tracking Lair wasn't a difficult task, but Carter was a bit puzzled: "But your deal with him hasn't been concluded, is it really okay to let him leave like this?"

"He's already seen the Heavenly Voice Obedience, so half of the deal is already done," Diana said calmly, "Next, it depends on whether he really wants to keep his life."

Diana knew that she was the least necessary to panic, as long as she didn't leave the Contract Land, and held the Heavenly Voice Obedience, even if her identity was exposed, it wouldn't be too bad.

The Contract Land could seal even the largest body of Visas, would it be afraid of a few insignificant Corpse Blocks?

She believed the tongue would find its way back, but before that, she also wanted to know what exactly Lair was trying to do, and why he suddenly changed his face.

"What's in the south?" Diana asked.

Carter recalled for a moment and said, "A once lost village."

Diana understood.

The reason it was once lost,

is because it has been found now.

A village near the gathering spot?

Diana seemed to guess something and then slightly lifted the corner of her mouth, "Seems interesting."

She paused and gave instructions.

"Catch up to him, now."

...

"Why must you leave?"

"Didn't you hear what that person said? There's a big world outside!"

"He is deceiving you!"

"How could he be deceiving me? Have we ever seen such an outsider?"

"Even if he's not lying to you, even if what he says is true, so what?"

"What do you mean 'so what', isn't that enough? Why should we stay in this small place, breathing sand every day?"

"Our ancestors lived like this."

"Is it right just because our ancestors lived like this? Did you see that guy, he's older than my father, but he looks younger than me! Don't you remember what he said, out there, people can live to fifty! Here, in another ten years, I'll be dead, I don't want to die just like that!"

"But you still have children..."

"So what? No one can stop me! No one can stop me!"

"Wah wah wah (baby's crying)..."

The mature young man shook off his wife's hand, ignoring his son crying in the swaddle, he pushed open the door and walked forward resolutely.

The merchant in the black cloak was looking at him with a sidelong glance.

"Oh, decided?"

"Decided, take me away!" The young man said through gritted teeth, "Let's go now!"

"You do have courage," the merchant said with a smile, "I hope you can maintain this courage outside."

"Of course!"

"Then come with me."

The young man followed the merchant, while the cries of his wife and child, the sighs of his parents, and the strange looks of the villagers continued to torment him.

So he suddenly turned back and shouted at it all.

"You just wait for me! I will come back soon, I will prove you all wrong, every one of you!"

Then he disappeared into the sweeping sand, engraving the village outline in the sand firmly in his heart.

...

Seeing that outline in the sand, Lair's hands trembled.

And this made Bai Wei certain he had found the right place.

Bai Wei hadn't been to the Contract Land, but based on the image of the village in Lair's memory, and his left eye's gaze piercing through the sweeping sand, he found this place.

He didn't rush Lair, because returning here, the conclusion was already predetermined.

Lair stood in the sand like a statue for a long time, finally lifting his trembling legs step by step toward the place called "home" when about to be buried by sand.

Five years ago, he didn't know what home meant, because he had never left home.

It wasn't until leaving the No-man's Land and reaching the world outside that he understood the meaning of home.

In these five years, he had imagined countless homecoming scenes, but never expected it to be like this.

The fog was thick, so seeing the village outline in the fog meant getting very close to it,

but even at this extremely close distance, he walked for a long time, so long that he himself couldn't remember.

Was it a few minutes, a few hours, or... years?

When the village was no longer a silhouette in his eyes, and the sweeping sand could no longer obscure his sight, Lair's knees weakened, and he fell to the ground.

Because he saw it.

The village was empty, like a silent tombstone.

Yet it already explained everything.

...

"As expected." This scene naturally fell into Diana's eyes who had been following closely thanks to Carter, "So that's how it is."

Such a scene needed no further explanation to understand that Lair was from this village.

"He's from the No-man's Land." Carter said, "And ran outside to become a Black Merchant."

But there was nothing strange about it, as Black Merchants had always recruited suitable people from the No-man's Land to expand their ranks, but due to mental confinement, few could be taken out, so initially, Carter and Diana hadn't thought in this direction.

Now that they knew Lair's identity, all of Lair's perplexing actions before could be explained.

"It's really interesting, the tongue chose such a person to work for itself, was it coincidence or calculation?" Diana chuckled softly, "Was he certain this person wouldn't be used by us?"

Diana paused, with a trace of contemplation in her voice.

"But how could he know so much about the No-man's Land?"

Carter listened quietly, not interrupting Diana's thoughts.

Until Diana asked, "What happened to this village?"

Carter was about to answer, but saw Lair suddenly rise in the distance, running into the village like a mad dog.

...

Lair was not resigned to fate, otherwise five years ago he wouldn't have left his hometown abandoning his wife and children.

And now it was the same, even if his family was truly gone, he wanted to know how they had disappeared, alive to see them, dead to see their bodies.

After all... what if?

What if they weren't dead? What if they had escaped?

Just like five years ago, everyone thought Harlow was a liar, only Lair had a glimmer of hope in his heart.

What if he wasn't?

So now he ran into the village, wanting to see it with his own eyes.

The village was empty, looking as though it had been abandoned for some time, naturally sinking Lair's heart.

But he forced himself not to think too much and returned to his house in the shortest time.

The house was naturally empty too, only chaos met his eyes.

Unkempt and dusty bed, food decayed beyond recognition, fragments of bottles and jars scattered on the ground.

This further deepened Lair's despair.

Because all this indicated that the people inside didn't leave normally but were suddenly taken away.

Where could they be taken?

It's self-explanatory.

Lair clenched his teeth tightly, still not giving up, wanting to call out his son's name, but he froze as he opened his mouth.

Because he had already left before naming his son.

So he could only call out to his wife and parents, but received no response.

He rummaged through the entire house, finding nothing but two sets of children's clothes.

In the end, he sat on the ground in despair and looked at the clothes in his hand with reddened eyes.

From the clothes, it seemed this was already a young man.

But...

Lair's mind recalled the scene seen at the Heavenly Voice Obedience earlier, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably, his teeth nearly breaking.

Why did it have to be him, why...

At this moment, Bai Wei spoke again, "There's something on the doorframe."

Something on the doorframe?

Lair instinctively raised his head and looked at the doorframe.

He saw a carved mark.

The mark looked a bit familiar.

After a short moment of being dazed, Lair suddenly remembered.

It was... the mark of the Black Merchant!