Among the five people, except for the one nearly fifty years old, the others were all smoking. Each cigarette was smoked halfway before being discarded and extinguished with the sole of their shoe.

Tan Wenbin noticed this too and turned his head, chuckling lightly: Damn, I can't afford to waste cigarettes like this.

The woman was holding a child, looking very pitiful, and she didn't proactively seek help from Li Zhiyuan either.

Li Zhiyuan said to Run Sheng, "Brother Runsheng, go set up a tent for her, and give her my sleeping bag."

"Alright."

Run Sheng went to set up the tent, deliberately choosing a spot distant from the three of them.

At nightfall, the temperature in the mountains dropped quickly.

The elderly couple pushed out a gasoline drum from the house, placed firewood inside, and ignited it, bringing both light and warmth.

Upon seeing this, the five people first reacted by checking if Li Zhiyuan's group of three would come over.

Li Zhiyuan and the other two continued to stay in their original place.

For a moment, the five of them looked at each other, unsure whether to go over and warm themselves by the fire.

However, letting the fire burn without going over themselves seemed unreasonable.

Eventually, the oldest among them waved, and the five of them came over to sit around the fire.

The night deepened, but at the field, few truly fell asleep. Though the five had their eyes closed, their posture clearly wasn't sleeping.

Although the two black car drivers stayed inside the house, they could still see the flashes of red from cigarette ends inside through the window.

"Ding-a-ling... Ding-a-ling... Ding-a-ling..."

Bells sounded from afar, not from the main road but from the lower path.

The elderly couple, who had already retired for the night, put on their coats again and came out, taking two white sails from the house and erecting them in the courtyard.

The five were "awoken," seeing these white sails, looking somewhat incredulous.

The two black car drivers also came out of the house. After seeing the white sails, they immediately went to talk to the elderly couple, lowering their voices but speaking quickly.

The elderly couple reacted with surprise, continuously questioning them.

Li Zhiyuan had good hearing and overheard the conversation.

The two black car drivers were shocked that their place actually had a passageway to Yin?

The elderly couple were astonished: how come you two driving black cars understand this stuff so well?

As members of the corpse-driving Wang Family, they encountered corpse drivers in the wild.

The bell sound grew closer, and shadowy figures appeared on the distant path.

Leading the way was someone dressed in a yellow Taoist robe, wearing a Three Pure One's Belt around his waist, with an Eight Diagrams Mirror on his chest, a celestial crown atop his head, a bell in his right hand, and sprinkling paper money with his left.

He was rather stingy, tossing them out one by one.

However, his posture seemed strange, somewhat stiff.

Coming closer, it was discovered that there was another person in a yellow Taoist robe behind him, also scattering paper money, one by one.

The cause of their stiff walking was revealed: each of the two Taoists had a bamboo pole tucked under their arm.

Between the two, there was another person, whose feet did not touch the ground.

The elderly couple finished their debate with the two black car drivers; the old man began tossing paper money into the fire pit, burning it, while the old woman took a mirror and swung it at the courtyard entrance, guiding the way.

All five of the returning villagers stood up in a line; except for the oldest one, the other four showed mocking expressions.

Such expressions, in the flickering firelight, were made more distinct and obvious.

Li Zhiyuan knew what they were mocking, because judging from their actions, those two corpse drivers were taking a low-end route, using traditional bamboo poles to prop up the corpse and walk with them.

Truly skilled corpse drivers could use techniques to drive the corpses, letting the corpses walk by themselves.

Li Zhiyuan frowned slightly; he certainly didn't share the professional class prejudice inherent in the corpse driver legacy. He was merely curious what was so worth driving in a corpse?

Two living people transporting a corpse—weren't there plenty of ways? Was there a need to respect tradition so much?

Li Zhiyuan's gaze intensified, activating his Walking Yin.

He looked at the corpse drivers, clearly close now, but could only vaguely see a mass of black mist.

Seems...there's an issue?

If nothing were seen, it would be quite normal, indicating no evil or spirits were present. But a black mist—clearly attempting to cover something up, preventing investigation?

The corpse drivers were about fifty meters from the courtyard.

Li Zhiyuan began attempting methods from Wei Zhengdao's Black Skin Book, adjusting his mental frequency, in hopes of conducting new investigations through that "black mist."

In the past, he always used this approach to resonate with dead-fall entities.

Run Sheng and Tan Wenbin maintained vigilance, especially upon seeing Xiao Yuan's eyelids start to tremble rapidly, both instinctively guarded the teenager more tightly.

When the corpse drivers were twenty meters from entering the courtyard, Li Zhiyuan received feedback from within the black mist.

He sensed it, two responses!

The boy immediately stopped his actions, ending the Walking Yin.

Two responses indicated two evil entities!

But the problem was, viewed in reality, it was clearly two yellow-robed Taoists carrying a corpse forward.

So, that corpse being carried was the living person, while the two corpse-driving Taoists were the corpses?

Li Zhiyuan subconsciously took a deep breath, feeling a chill in his heart.

Having crossed the river three times, he should've accumulated immense confidence, yet at this moment, he felt profound apprehension.

Because in the same scenario, when placed among corpse recovery divers, it would be equivalent to two dead men carrying a person, walking along the path.

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