Xiu He’s delicate features started to crumble. Her body emitted a pungent odor similar to a decomposing corpse, with maggots crawling all over the body.

Her eye sockets were hollow and dark. She stared at Xu Lan and snickered, with mounds of worms falling out from her mouth. Xu Lan was so disgusted that he had acid reflux.

“Fu*k! She looked perfectly fine just a moment ago! How did she turn into this!” Xu Lan chastised as he frowned.

“Forget about it, let’s get her up there and let the mayor decide,” her appearance was so revolting that Bai Wu felt apprehensive even though he had transformed into his dragon form. He flinched while he tried to catch hold of Xiu He.

“Keke, even that old scum Daoist wasn’t able to cause me any harm. I can’t believe that I’ve lost to you guys today. Haha! I refuse to acquiesce!” Xiu He looked up to the sky and released a long sigh. Filthy blood gurgled out her empty eyes, contaminating the clear well water.

“Cut the crap, I don’t want to spend any more time in this spooky, bloodcurdling place!” Xu Lan urged.

“Mayor, our headmaster and superintendent fell into the well! We have to find a way to rescue them!” Sheng Ya was the first to stand out from the crowd and said.

“They fell down! How did the fall! I warned you guys from the beginning to stay away from the well! Those who fell into the well had no chance to live to see the sun on the next morning! You can ask around the town, see who’s willing to go down!”

‘Thump, thump’, the mayor pounded his walking stick on the floor. He looked towards the young adults around him, but all of them took a step back. No one was willing to come forward.

The mayor gave out a long sigh and prepared to return home with his son’s assistance!

‘Crash!’, a hand emerged and clung onto the wall of the well. Xu Lan slowly climbed up from the well, and Bai Wu was following closely behind. The crowd was dumbfounded and gaped at them as they climbed out from the well. They were the first ones in forty years to return from the well alive!

“Mayor! I didn’t know you’re here! Do you want to come and take a look?” Xu Lan asked seemingly unintentionally while he wrung his clothes.

“No!… There’s no need to,” the mayor answered without hesitation.

Xu Lan shrugged his shoulders and pulled Bai Wu up ashore. The whole town was surprised when both of them stood in front of everyone, alive and unharmed.

“Mayor, let’s have a chat somewhere. We just saw Xiu He, she has some questions for you,” Bai Wu avoided Xu Lan’s hand dextrously and asked the mayor while he stared at him piercingly.

The mayor was stupefied and stared at Bai Wu horrifically. He started to cough so badly that he was forced to bend his back downwards.

“You gaslighting, ungrateful wretches! We offered you kind advice but you chose to ignore them. Not only you went against our advice, but you also caused public distress by flaunting the name of the deceased. Our Darkwater Town can no longer accommodate you Big Buddhas!”

The mayor’s son apprehended Bai Wu and his team righteously while he held the mayor in his arm.

“Hey, you haven’t even listened to what we have to say. How can you assume that we are lying?” Bai Wu staggered forward and said when he saw that the mayor was about to leave. Sheng Ya went up to him immediately to steady him.

“Okay! Come to my place! I want to know what she wants to say to me!” The mayor’s voice bellowed like a wind box while he coughed violently.

The tallest building of Darkwater Town was packed with all kinds of people. Everybody desperately wanted to know the relationship between Xiu He and the mayor. They wanted to know why there was a homicide in such an ordinary town. They were also curious about what Xiu He wanted to ask the mayor.