The light from the phone's flashlight shone into the coffin, and in an instant, Ye Qiu could see everything inside clearly.

Inside, there indeed lay a woman dressed in white, with an exceptionally beautiful appearance. However, at this moment, her face was deathly pale, without a trace of life, evidently already deceased. Judging by her condition, Ye Qiu deduced that she hadn't been dead for long.

"At most a week."

Ye Qiu surmised. He then shone the flashlight on the photo above the mourning hall and compared it with the woman's face. After confirming they were the same person, he inspected the woman again.

He wasn't a pervert intending to do anything to the corpse, but he wanted to see how she had died and if there were any injuries on her body.

However, Ye Qiu was disappointed. The woman showed no visible injuries.

"She wasn't strangled to death, and her complexion doesn't suggest poisoning or an overdose. Besides, considering her age, it doesn't seem like a natural death. What happened?"

The flashlight circled around the woman's body, revealing it to be intact. She evidently hadn't fallen to her death or been hit.

Yet, the more things seemed this way, the stranger it became.

Everywhere was filled with questions.

Ye Qiu frowned, then looked at the woman's body. After hesitating for a moment, he decided to remove the woman's white clothing to check for any hidden injuries.

"Apologies, I just want to figure out what happened here!"

Ye Qiu held the phone in his mouth, forcefully pushed aside the coffin cover, and then bent down to untie the woman's clothing.

The woman wore white clothes fastened with buttons, which were easy to remove. Once removed, her body was exposed. Shockingly, Ye Qiu found it still intact. Turning the body over, when he touched it, he felt it was very cold.

He couldn't help but shiver, muttering, "Why is it so cold."

Ye Qiu hadn't interacted with a corpse before, although he had killed people. He didn't know what long-dead bodies felt like, assuming they might all feel this cold. Unconcerned, he turned the woman's body over and, seeing no injuries, frowned as he pulled down her pants. After a full inspection, he found nothing noteworthy.

However, just as he was dressing the woman again, he suddenly noticed a mass of bruising on her knees—both legs were like this.

"This..."

Ye Qiu fell into deep thought, pondering, "This is clearly the kind of bruising that comes after prolonged kneeling. Could this woman have knelt for a long time while she was alive? What event could have caused her to kneel this long, and who made an adult kneel until her knees were bruised all over?"

With the discovery of the abnormality on her legs, Ye Qiu's mind was filled with even more questions.

Deeply puzzled by this village and the cause of these women's deaths.

"Sorry for the intrusion."

After dressing the woman, Ye Qiu apologized, then closed the coffin cover. He failed to see that, at the moment the coffin was sealed, the woman's fingers twitched slightly.

After confirming that there was indeed a dead body inside the coffin, Ye Qiu didn't check the other coffins. Instead, he stood in deep thought.

Based on the discovery of the bruising on the woman's legs, he determined that the woman had offended someone during her life and had been forced to kneel on the ground.

However, the cause of her death remained unclear.

"Are the other women like this too?"

Thinking this, Ye Qiu, who initially didn't want to disturb the other women, hesitated, then checked a few more until he ended up inspecting all twenty of them. He was filled with shock and deep incomprehension.

"How could all twenty women have bruising on their knees? What had they experienced in life? What happened, and how did they die?"

At that moment, Ye Qiu felt the matter was filled with eerie elements. Beyond the bruises on their knees, the twenty women's bodies bore no other injuries.

The cause of their death was unknown, yet these twenty women didn't seem like villagers. They appeared to be vibrant young city women.

It wasn't that Ye Qiu looked down on rural people, but villagers often work hard, facing sun exposure, and don't have time for skincare, resulting in rough, darkened skin.

But these twenty beautiful women had delicate skin, which, although lifeless and extremely pale at the moment, suggested their skin had been smooth in life.

There were also twenty photos of them, each displaying a beauty comparable to some models and celebrities.

As such, Ye Qiu concluded these twenty women hailed from big cities and were not locals.

However, the more clues he gathered, the more questions arose in Ye Qiu's mind.

"Why would city girls come to this village, and why did they die after arriving? How did they die, and what's with the bruising on their knees?"

Ye Qiu frowned tightly, feeling this matter was definitely not simple. There might be an earth-shattering secret hidden within.

Thinking of this, he decided to postpone the delivery to Xu Batian, and considering there were police looking for him outside, he wanted to understand what was truly going on.

Ye Qiu took out his phone, opened Baidu, and searched for information on human body temperature post-mortem.

After finding the answer, Ye Qiu felt even more puzzled.

Upon touching the corpses earlier, he felt they were excessively cold. One could be excused, but for all twenty to be like this seemed indicative of the village's strangeness. Thus, after checking, he found that the temperature of these bodies was indeed abnormal—particularly so.

"Interesting."

Though the series of mysteries puzzled Ye Qiu, he found it extremely intriguing.

For someone with obsessive-compulsive tendencies, the desire to understand something became a challenge. The sense of achievement after understanding it was indescribable.

Therefore, at the moment, Ye Qiu desired that sense of achievement, so he decided to investigate this eerie village.

Returning to his car and starting it, he drove through the village.

At each house, Ye Qiu stopped and called out, only to find there wasn't anyone inside.

One could be forgiven, but after checking all the houses, he discovered the village was empty, leaving him with a sense of fear.

"Damn, this really is a creepy village."

Ye Qiu felt the situation grow even more intriguing, driving through the village in search of clues.

After making a circle, he found nothing.

Then he drove back slowly to the village road where the mourning halls and coffins were placed.

However, at the moment he drove back, he noticed changes happening to the almost twenty mourning halls and coffins by the roadside. His pupils shrunk suddenly, and he slammed the brakes, finding himself incredulous at the scene before him.

Swallowing hard, he shouted in disbelief, "Damn, did they come back to life?"

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