Chapter 155: Old Memories Like a Deep Dream

Although the mayor looked very young, his experience was by no means inferior to mine. Otherwise, he would not have claimed to have witnessed Lin Feng's methods firsthand.

After I subdued the horde of corpses, the mayor immediately dispersed the crowd, telling them to return to whatever they were doing and that they would be notified once the town administration handled the situation.

Once the other residents of Majiazhuang had left, the mayor invited Yin Cheng and me into the side room of the ancestral hall.

With his brows tightly knitted and a deeply troubled expression, the mayor adjusted his glasses, then looked up at me. "May I ask how to address you, sir?"

I grinned. "I wouldn't call myself a sir. My name is Jiang Huai, from the Jianghuai One-Stop Funeral Service Parlor."

"You're from the Jianghuai One-Stop Funeral Service Parlor? Then Boss Jiang is..."

"My grandfather."

It was quite normal for the mayor to know my family, as my grandfather had brought me here before.

"So you are Boss Jiang's grandson. No wonder you possess such remarkable abilities."

I hurriedly waved my hand. Although I was not old, I still felt somewhat uncomfortable with such formal pleasantries.

"Mr. Mayor, let's drop the formalities. The entirety of Majiazhuang has now become Lin Feng's stronghold. Doesn't your town attract a large number of tourists for the sacrifices every year?"

The mayor looked at me with tightly knitted brows and nodded.

Without hesitation, I recounted everything that had happened over the past few days to the mayor. Upon hearing my account, he was utterly shocked.

"A batch was rescued and another batch was killed just last night." I pointed at Yin Cheng and said, "He is a tourist who arrived recently as well. His name is Yin Cheng. His partner was abducted at the Happiness Hotel last night and was rescued, though she suffered psychological trauma."

I paused for a moment and continued, "All of this is Lin Feng's doing."

"Crack!"

The mayor slammed his palm onto the table, making the objects on top jump. "Damned old witch! After all these years, she's still coming back to plague my Majiazhuang!"

"Mr. Jiang, I had no idea about any of this. I haven't been doing my job properly as mayor."

The mayor's face was filled with helplessness.

However, I had no right to evaluate his performance in these matters. "Mr. Mayor, there's no point in discussing that with me now. I just want to know what on earth happened in the ancestral hall."

I glanced around at the rows of corpses lying flat on the ground outside and asked, "What is going on with these people?"

I scratched my head and continued, "I remember seeing all of them yesterday. How did this suddenly happen?"

Upon hearing my question, the mayor took off his glasses and wiped his face.

When he looked up at me again, his eyes were bloodshot. "I truly don't know... I truly don't know what happened. Before dawn this morning, I received a report that numerous people had died simultaneously in town!"

"When I saw the corpses, I was completely dumbfounded."

The mayor told me that the method of death for all dozens of these people was identical.

Upon inspection, the blood in everyone's body had been completely drained.

The most bizarre thing was that there wasn't a single wound on their bodies. The doctor who came to examine the corpses stated that the blood in their bodies didn't look like it had been drained out, but rather as if it had been evaporated by something.

"I've been a doctor all my life, and I've never seen anything like this. The blood in their bodies had been evaporated accumulation by accumulation over time, and all their internal organs had stopped functioning a long time ago."

"In scientific terms, these people should have been dead long ago, yet they..."

Hearing the doctor's conclusion, a name that the mayor had long since banished to the back of his mind immediately surfaced: Lin Feng!

Decades ago, when the nation had just stabilized, the mayor was still a young man who had just started working.

One day, an old woman suddenly arrived in Majiazhuang. At that time, the old woman was filthy, carrying only a bundle containing some ragged clothes, and was skin and bones.

At first glance, she had only a single breath left hanging, as if she could kick the bucket at any moment.

In that era, everyone was pitiful, and the Ma family at the eastern end of the village took the old woman in.

The old woman seemed barely capable of speech, but she could eat a lot, and she was willing to help with chores.

As time passed, the old woman stayed and became familiar with everyone around her.

An extra person in Majiazhuang was not a major event, but one day, the entire Ma family who had taken in the old woman was found brutally murdered in their home.

Their corpses were shriveled, without a single drop of blood left in their bodies.

Their skin was like inferior wall plaster; the moment it was touched, it began to peel off in flakes.

Although the technical means of that era were limited, they still reached a conclusion: this family had been dead for over a month.

Since they had been dead for over a month, who was it that everyone had been seeing every day?

After a series of investigations, they finally targeted the foreign old woman, Lin Feng.

At this point, the mayor massaged his temples and let out a deep sigh.

"That day was the nightmare of my life."

There were over twenty people participating in the arrest back then. They did not see Lin Feng that day; what greeted them were the long-dead corpses of the Ma family.

If the mayor hadn't been lucky, he probably would have lost his life there too.

Out of more than twenty people, the mayor was the only one who survived. What kind of luck was that?

Later, however, the mayor discovered that his survival was not a matter of luck, but deliberately orchestrated by Lin Feng.

Her purpose was to plant a corpse parasite in his body, using his flesh as an incubation incubator for the worm.

The mayor pulled open his collar, and I saw right in the center of his chest a charred black patch about the size of an adult's fist.

Around this charred circle, spell incantations seemed to have been carved with a knife.

At this point, the scar had healed, forming the pattern of a demon-suppressing curse.

"If not for Boss Jiang, my life would likely have been gone!"

I blinked. "Are you saying my grandfather saved you back then?"

"That's right! Boss Jiang lent a helping hand back then, which was how Lin Feng was driven back. It's just a pity she wasn't captured."

"I never imagined that after all these years, she had been right here in Majiazhuang all along, right beside us!"

The look in someone's eyes when they love someone cannot be hidden; similarly, the look when they hate someone is even harder to conceal.

"Those people in Majiazhuang were all killed by Lin Feng! It was all her doing!"

I nodded. "It's definitely her, but you probably haven't investigated the identities of these dead people yet."

"Unsurprisingly, they all came to Majiazhuang recently, and they are all missing persons."

"They are all puppets of Lin Feng, or rather, the Golden Cicada Society. They wouldn't have been exposed so quickly, but the people I killed last night included the spellcasters who controlled these corpses."

"Once the spellcasters died, they couldn't go on living either, which is why this situation occurred."

"Then... is Lin Feng here right now?"