Something's wrong with this demon.

Chapter 19

Inside the room, a single lamp flickered dimly.

In the dim light, a naked man lay on the ground near the window, his eyes wide open.

The ground was stained red with blood.

A fist-sized hole appeared in his chest, and his heart was nowhere to be found!

The woman's screams echoed throughout the entire building.

Everywhere there were sounds of panicked running, shouting, and cries for help.

As Luo Qingchen was standing at the door observing, she suddenly sensed a strange movement of some kind of power within her body.

His eyes flashed, he glanced left and right, and without any hesitation, he immediately entered the room, came to the body, and placed one hand on the body's arm.

At the same time, his eyes were fixed on the doorway.

The warm blood inside the corpse, which was gushing rapidly from the bloody hole in the chest, suddenly stopped.

Luo Qingchen's second health bar, which had been empty, was now rapidly replenishing its blood volume!

10%!

20%!

50%!

In the blink of an eye, it has grown to 60%!

By this time, there was very little blood left in the corpse.

Luo Qingchen immediately withdrew her hand, glanced at the door again, and reached into the corpse's clothes once more, quickly pulling out a money pouch.

Just then, hurried footsteps came from outside the door!

Luo Qingchen immediately stood up, retreated to the doorway, turned her back to the door, and looked at the broken window and the claw mark on it.

"Brother Luo!"

Chen Ju rushed over, burst into the room, and upon seeing the body, his expression changed drastically. He asked, "Did you see the murderer?"

Luo Qingchen turned to look at him and said, "I just arrived too."

He paused, then asked, "Brother Chen, weren't you just keeping watch in the main hall? Where did you go?"

Chen Ju immediately put on a bitter face and said, "I suddenly had an upset stomach and went to the outhouse. Ugh, who knew this would happen so soon after I left!"

At this moment, Zhang Jiu also arrived in a hurry with Wang Long, Wang Hu, and two other people.

Upon seeing the horrific scene inside the room and the claw mark on the window, the expressions of the group all changed.

"Didn't you see the killer?"

Zhang Jiu asked with a gloomy expression.

Chen Ju shook his head and quickly explained, "Brother Luo and I have already patrolled this area. At that time, Miss Miao's door was closed and there were guests inside, so we couldn't have come in to check."

The girl named Amiao was still naked, slumped in the hall, crying.

"Sun Tong, Zhou Yan, you two stay here and keep watch! Wang Long and Wang Hu, you two go check outside the windows and in the yard!"

Zhang Jiu immediately gave the order.

The four agreed, two went into the room, and the other two left quickly.

Zhang Jiu led Chen Ju and Luo Qingchen to the woman named A Miao in the hall and asked in a deep voice, "Miss A Miao, what happened in the room at that time? Did you see anything?"

At this moment, Sun Ping had already brought over some clothes and wrapped them around A Miao's body.

A-Miao was pale and trembling uncontrollably, looking terribly frightened. She cried as she spoke, "I was lying in bed when the customer finished and said... said he was going to get some water. Then I suddenly heard... heard the window shatter and the customer scream. When I got out of bed to look... sob sob..."

"Didn't you see anything?"

Zhang Jiu frowned.

Amiao shook her head, curled up into a ball, and continued to cry.

Zhang Jiu glanced at her again, but didn't ask any more questions. He then led Chen Ju and Luo Qingchen back to their room.

Upon entering the room, they saw Sun Tong and Zhou Yan, who had just stayed there, holding porcelain bottles and collecting blood from the wound in the corpse's chest.

Since the blood had stopped flowing, the two men were holding a porcelain bottle in one hand and pressing down on the corpse with the other.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Jiu roared angrily, "Aren't you two afraid of dying? You don't even know what that killing thing is, yet you dare to collect blood?"

Chen Ju also teased, "Brother Sun, Brother Zhou, be careful, the blood might be poisonous."

The two men stood up, holding the porcelain bottle.

Sun Tong said with a bitter expression, "If we weren't forced to, who would dare to risk using this blood? Neither of us has had a medicinal bath in a long time. If we really have no blood, what other options do we have?"

Zhou Yan looked at the corpse and asked in confusion, "Boss, not only is the heart and face gone, but the blood in the body also seems to have dried up."

Zhang Jiu's expression shifted, and he walked over, squatting down to examine the area.

"Has the blood run dry too?"

Chen Ju looked astonished and went over to check as well.

Luo Qingchen followed without making a sound.

"When Zhao Wu died, there was still blood in his body, so how come...?"

As Zhou Yan was speaking, Zhang Jiu immediately looked up and glared at him.

Zhou Yan suddenly realized what was happening, glanced at Luo Qingchen, then looked at the corpse and said nothing more.

"Notify the town guards outside; this is the only thing we can do."

Zhang Jiu stood up and sighed.

At this moment, Luo Qingchen suddenly spoke up: "Boss, why do I find that the claw marks on this window are the same as the claw marks in the first room behind? Could it be... that someone died there before?"

The room suddenly fell silent.

The expressions on their faces varied.

Zhang Jiu turned around, patted his shoulder, and said with a wry smile, "Brother Luo, it's not that we intentionally wanted to hide it from you, it's just that we don't know how to explain this. Someone did die here before, but that was a long time ago, and there are rules in the building and above that this matter cannot be discussed, much less spread."

Luo Qingchen's expression was grave: "The murderer is...?"

Zhang Jiu shook his head, his expression grave, and said, "We don't know if it's a human or a monster."

When Luo Qingchen was about to ask again, Zhang Jiu waved his hand and said, "I won't say anymore. Let's talk about it another time. You should all go back and rest. The people from the town garrison will be here later; just leave this to them."

The group nodded and left the room.

When Zhang Jiu was the only one left in the room, he glanced at the door, squatted down next to the corpse again, and then touched the corpse all over, even taking off the corpse's shoes and checking the inside of the shoes.

"Where's the purse? Has it already been taken?"

Zhang Jiu's expression shifted, his gaze turning gloomy.

Outside the window, the night was as black as ink.

After parting ways with Chen Ju in the backyard, Luo Qingchen went into the second room, locked the door, and closed the windows.

The room was pitch black; he didn't turn on the light.

After waiting patiently for a while, he carefully took out the money bag he had just searched the corpse and poured out the silver inside.

It was all loose silver, and after careful weighing, it amounted to more than thirty taels!

With the forty-odd taels he picked up outside Baixianglou, and the twelve taels that Ayun had just given him, the eight hundred taels of silver needed to repair the Ten Soul Banner were finally enough!

It was truly a miraculous escape from a desperate situation!

He suppressed his joy and carefully collected all the loose silver.

Then, he closed his eyes again and looked at the second health bar in his body.

The blood in the health bar, which had been completely depleted, has now increased to 60%; while the blood in the first health bar is at 100%!

In other words, he can continue his medicinal bath cultivation!

Of course, not tonight.

His gaze fell on the window.

I wonder what exactly that monster that leaves claw marks, kills people, rips out their hearts, and eats their faces is.

He needs to be careful.

Outside the window, night was deepening.

After an unknown amount of time, a dark figure suddenly appeared outside the window of the second room in the backyard. After listening intently for a while, the figure took out a thin tube and silently inserted it through the crack in the window.

A plume of green smoke quickly filled the entire room.