Traveling through time and space to achieve a well-off life with your family

The enemy hiding in the dark was very vigilant and had not appeared in the past few days. Therefore, neither Hen Yi who was patrolling outside nor Xiong Tai who was standing guard around the shelter could detect any abnormal situation.

However, strange things happened to the Fierce Crows. There were frequent reports from young orcs and old beastmen that every night, someone would call them outside and ask them to go out together. They were so scared that in just three days, their mental conditions had become seriously problematic. For a while, some people were panicking. Even the Fierce Crows, who were always open-minded and casual, could not help but feel afraid of this situation. After all, only the young orcs and old beastmen said these voices, and no one else said they heard them.

When Xiongwu came to Cheng Mo to talk about this, Cheng Mo's eyes became sharp. With his keen intuition, he immediately realized that something was wrong. What on earth would target the cubs and the old orcs? If it was just the noise, it might be explained that someone was deliberately making noise nearby. However, why were only the cubs and the old orcs affected, while the other young orcs were unaware? What is even more puzzling is that when everyone reported the noise problem, Hen Yi had quickly led some people to patrol the area, but did not find any traces of orcs. Then, it can be inferred that the troublemaker is probably not an orc. Thinking further, if these things can cleverly lure the cubs away, it means that they have a certain degree of wisdom, or there may be people behind them who direct their actions.

Cheng Mo wrote down and summarized the clues one by one, always feeling that he had forgotten something. Suddenly he remembered that when Yan Hai died, he also said that he heard the voice of the high priest, but now the high priest and Yan Hai are both dead. Only Kong Fu and another orc who were at the scene knew the details. So Cheng Mo got up without hesitation and went to find Kong Fu to find out the situation again.

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After listening to Kong Fu's words, Cheng Mo was silent for a long time. Kong Fu stood there uneasily, his heart full of anxiety and worry. He knew that what he said was a bit bizarre, but it was indeed the truth! Before his death, Yan Hai did say that he heard the voice of the high priest, and then suddenly ran away. More importantly, he jumped into the water and drowned, not pushed into the water by others. The orcs who saw the body at the time carefully examined it for a long time, but did not find any signs of resistance or fighting on the body. This is also the most strange thing, so Kong Fu and others did not tell Cheng Mo at the first time, but now Kong Fu told Cheng Mo about it.

Cheng Mo sat on the chair with his eyes closed, tapping the armrest with his fingers. He kept wondering why Yan Hai committed suicide. No one knew what he was thinking before he died. Cheng Mo couldn't help but wonder if Kong Fu and the orc had lied, but they had no reason to lie.

After hesitating for a moment, Kong Fu finally mustered up the courage to speak: "City Lord... Actually, I have also heard the voice of the high priest recently..."

Cheng Mo suddenly opened his eyes, stared at Kong Fu sharply, and asked, "Did you hear it too?"

Kong Fu nodded and looked around nervously. Since this shelter was carefully prepared in advance and there were many such shelters in the City of Enlightenment, the orc residents here were not too crowded. Each family was separated by animal skins to maintain a certain degree of independence and privacy.

After seeing that no one was around, Kong Fu walked to Cheng Mo, leaned close to Cheng Mo's ear and whispered, "Because of the incident with Old Yan, I haven't been able to sleep well for several nights. In addition, the kid at home is young, so I have to keep a close eye on him every day, for fear that he will run around and cause trouble. As a result, I actually heard the voice of the high priest in the middle of the night last night... He said that he wanted me to take the child to find him! I didn't dare to find out where the voice came from, and I didn't sleep all night holding the kid. In the early hours of the morning, I heard the voice again, and this time he only let me go out to find him alone! How could I dare to do it! But I was worried that it was just my hallucination, so I didn't dare to tell anyone. I originally planned to come to you to talk about this matter in a few days."

"So, do you think that voice is the voice of the high priest?" Cheng Mo asked in a very low voice.

Kong Fu couldn't help but tremble all over, shaking her head vigorously and said, "Impossible! It definitely couldn't be the high priest! When I heard that voice, I was just scared! The high priest's voice has always given me endless peace, and how could that voice be related to the high priest?!"

Cheng Mo nodded slightly to show his agreement, and then casually mentioned, "The high priest is a good person! I often think of the high priest. Do you remember? The high priest always liked to invite others to sit down and knit scarves together. Maybe he wanted to find you this time to knit a scarf with you..."

However, Kong Fu looked at Cheng Mo hesitantly and refuted: "Goodbye! The high priest should sleep peacefully beside the Beast God! But, Lord City Lord, did you remember it wrongly? The high priest used to dislike knitting scarves with others the most. He said that his scarf knitting skills were not good and he dared not let others see the scarves he knitted! He also said that his scarf knitting speed was slow and poor, and it was easy to mislead others if he knitted scarves with others..."

Hearing this, Cheng Mo unclenched his fist, looked up at Kong Fu, raised the corner of his mouth slightly to reveal a smile, and said softly: "Yes... I remembered it wrongly... I'm old, and my brain doesn't work very well, and I can't remember many things..." His voice was filled with helplessness and self-mockery, as if he was hiding his inner guilt.

Then, Cheng Mo chatted with Kong Fu for a few more words, then turned and left, walking towards another orc. That orc was the one who wanted to carry Yan Hai away that day but was rejected.

In fact, Cheng Mo had doubts about Yan Hai's death from the beginning, but the situation was chaotic at the time and he had no time to find out the truth. It was not until today from Kong Fu and the beastman that he realized that he had missed so many clues. Yan Hai did not drown accidentally, but voluntarily. Yan Hai was attracted by the voice of the "high priest" and ran away. What happened after that? If we can find the thing that makes the voice of the "high priest", we can probably know the truth of the matter.

The conclusion drawn from this orc was exactly the same as that drawn from Kong Fu. Cheng Mo couldn't help but frowning and rubbing his forehead with his hand. He felt a headache. He now wondered if it was really the ghost of the high priest causing trouble?

He initially suspected that Kong Fu and the orc might have killed Yan Hai, but he thought it was impossible, so he suspected that other orcs might have killed Yan Hai, or that Kong Fu and the orc might not be the same person now. Although he knew it was impossible, Cheng Mo still tried it, but it turned out that these two people were the real deal. But what caused Yan Hai to commit suicide? What did the "high priest" say to Yan Hai? Did he induce Yan Hai to commit suicide?

Cheng Mo shook his head and said to himself: "No, the high priest was a good man when he was alive, and he must be a kind ghost after his death. How could he come out to harm people..."