Corpse Recovery Diver
Chapter 336 - 60

Chapter 336: Chapter 60

"Everyone in a village is a highway robber?"

Tan Wenbin found this somewhat hard to believe. Although his family had been in the police force for generations, Tan Yunlong hardly ever discussed work at home, and the police situations faced by different regions varied.

Xue Liangliang explained: "It’s uncommon, but not rare, for a village to engage in collective crime as a unit.

Take, for example, this mountain village we’re currently looking at. They have limited contact with the outside world, the villagers’ range of activities for life and production is narrow, and with kinship serving as a bond, it’s not difficult to understand how a small-scale crime syndicate could develop."

"But hasn’t anyone reported them?"

Xue Liangliang looked at Tan Wenbin and countered: "Would you report your deskmate for cheating on an exam?"

"That’s different. Cheating on an exam and breaking the law to commit murder are not the same."

"That’s because you realize that.

But why would you try smoking when it’s clearly harmful?

You’ve seen your father smoke, and your peers do it too, so subconsciously, you might think smoking isn’t a big deal. When a large number of people in a village are engaged in criminal activities, those living among them may develop similar thoughts, considering it’s not something too serious."

Tan Wenbin nodded thoughtfully, then turned his head to look at Zhu Yang in front of him, lamenting:

"He has a wife and kids at home..."

Zhu Yang was from the same hometown as them, but that was secondary. The main point was that he was indeed a good guy, warm and kind-hearted, who liked to read novels in his spare time and occasionally dropped a few witty, literary jokes when speaking.

He said he didn’t like being a truck driver, but for his family’s sake, he had to trap himself behind the wheel.

Now, he was trapped here.

Xue Liangliang then discussed with Li Zhiyuan another matter: "Xiao Yuan, if it weren’t for that little girl, would we be in danger now?"

Run Sheng knocked on his chest with a steel pipe, producing a few dull thuds.

Meaning, he was still there.

Xue Liangliang shrugged: "Run Sheng, I know you’re tough, but what if they had guns?"

Run Sheng frowned, unable to refute.

That’s why he now preferred watching wuxia movies on TV instead of cop dramas, because the latter featured guns.

Li Zhiyuan spoke up: "We could speculate that way, but it’s pointless. That little girl didn’t come to help save us. The three of you genuinely had a dead look on your faces, and she just wanted to snatch away your life force. It just so happened that several bad events came together, resulting in a negative times negative equals positive effect."

Xue Liangliang: "That repair shop owner, he was also feigning honesty, mentioning that the robbers ahead had guns, with the aim of luring us into this village."

"Possibly they were also testing us; if we weren’t afraid of guns and continued driving forward, they might suspect we have some formidable weapons ourselves."

"Would their calculations be that deep?"

"Yes, because I didn’t see him lying."

"Xiao Yuan, you don’t need to take this responsibility on yourself, none of us saw through it."

Li Zhiyuan shook his head; ever since he had finished studying "Yin Yang Face Reading," he could mostly tell when normal people lied to him.

But that repair shop owner didn’t show any micro-expressions, suggesting that the person was not only psychologically strong but also experienced.

"Brother Liangliang, it’s possible that the repair shop owner is the leader here." Li Zhiyuan made a waving gesture, "Let’s circle around and check inside the ancestral hall."

The water level wasn’t very deep, and even Li Zhiyuan could easily wade through it, except they had to pass around the densely packed bodies, which created a truly oppressive atmosphere.

Fortunately, there were no abnormalities with the dead in the pond, and the four safely made it across.

Reaching under the main hall of the ancestral hall, Li Zhiyuan felt something and looked up, noticing that the eaves were adorned with numerous copper coins and swords, both old and new, probably due to regular maintenance.

Li Zhiyuan then pressed his palm on the column in front of him; it didn’t feel cold but faintly warm instead.

He quickly scanned the other corners outside the hall, detail by detail, and his gaze grew serious.

"What’s wrong, Xiao Yuan?"

"Brother Liangliang, the person who built this ancestral hall was a true expert. Although the building is small and the pattern modest, it has created a small loop of Dragon Water Absorption, and combined with the spirit of this place’s Feng Shui climate, it’s like opening a small blessing within a blessed land."

"Does that mean this village’s ancestors were wealthy?"

"Yes, not just wealthy. This kind of skill, in ancient times, was usually reserved for imperial tombs."

"Then they must have been very impressive. I once heard from a visiting professor during my internship that craftsmen who could design and construct imperial tombs in ancient times had wealth and status far higher than today’s top developers in Beijing."

"An intriguing comparison."

Xue Liangliang sighed: "But in the end, their descendants have still fallen to this state."

As they entered the hall, they saw ancestral tablets placed on the altar, all with the surname "Wang."

"Brother Liangliang, don’t you feel that there are too few tablets here?"

"Huh?"

"Compared to the age and architectural skill used to build this ancestral hall, there should be more tablets consecrated here."

"Some family ancestral halls have high requirements for enshrining tablets. It’s like that in my ancestral village too."

Li Zhiyuan walked up to the altar, leapt up, and took down the oldest tablet from the very top, flipping it over to inspect it.

"Brother Liangliang, it’s not right, even the oldest tablet here isn’t that old."

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