"My mother was there when Zhao Xiangmei was caught by the police," the woman said, "According to her recollection, Zhao Xiangmei was caught by the police in the Qian family compound. At that time, she was already seriously injured, covered in blood, her hair stuck to her face with blood and mud. Her forehead was torn, and it was impossible to see her original appearance."

"Her face was ruined, but you should be able to recognize her voice," Chen Xiaomeng said.

The woman shook her head with a strange expression, "Her throat seemed to have problems, she couldn't speak at all, not even make a sound."

"Just when the police brought several abducted women, wanting them to take a closer look to see if it was Zhao Xiangmei who had abducted them, someone took the lead and shouted to beat her to death. Then the parents, who had suppressed their anger, couldn't control themselves anymore and swarmed up, directly breaking through the established cordon and snatching her away."

Jiang Cheng and Chen Xiaomeng knew what happened after that.

This pitiful woman, who was regarded as a trafficker, was beaten by angry parents and finally abandoned by the Hanzhen Pool.

Of course, she was still alive at the time.

Hearing this, a subtle look flashed in Jiang Cheng and Chen Xiaomeng's eyes.

They had been to Hanzhen Pool, which was located deep in the mountains, with rugged roads and a very hidden location. Even younger people in the village couldn't find their way there.

How did the parents of those women who came for the first time... find it?

Obviously, someone was secretly guiding them.

First, a trick of substituting one thing for another, then deceiving the heavens and crossing the sea, and finally destroying the evidence.

The Qian family used an innocent victim to swap out their daughter, Qian Jianxiu, and then packaged Qian Jianxiu as this disappeared victim.

This explained why none of the 29 abducted women were missing.

Everyone... was alive.

Jiang Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly. He already knew where Qian Jianxiu was hiding now, at the Anping Inn in Anping Town!

The disfigured woman hidden in the secret room... was the murderer from 20 years ago, the daughter of the old village chief Qian, Qian Jianxiu!

And the person the ghost was looking for was her!

This also explained why the ghost placed the incomplete corpses near Anping Town after killing people.

This was a silent threat!

Jiang Cheng thought of the pair of blood-red eyes he saw deep in the Hanzhen Pool, eyes filled with resentment.

She was tortured while alive, but after death, she still bore a bad name. No wonder...

As a woman, Chen Xiaomeng could understand this pitiful woman's situation better than Jiang Cheng. She found it hard to imagine what it would be like if the same thing happened to her.

From a wealthy young lady with a good family background, she was reduced to such a remote mountain village.

She was tortured and humiliated. Finally, she looked forward to the police rescuing her, but her appearance was ruined, her throat was poisoned, and she was beaten to death by her misunderstood relatives.

She endured the beatings time and time again with her weak body, but she still refused to swallow her last breath.

It wasn't any great belief that was supporting her, but hatred!

The purest hatred.

When she crawled on the stone tablet with her broken arms and wrote the curse, this young woman covered in blood had already died.

And it was from this moment on.

The nightmare of Xiaoshijian Village... descended.

This woman, who was once weak and thin, even timid and submissive, transformed into the most terrifying evil ghost. No one knew how much anger her thin body carried.

She roamed in the night, dragging one by one the people who had hurt her into the abyss.

Jiang Cheng could imagine the pain and fear of those men before they died. They would kneel down and beg, plead for forgiveness, and struggle and scream in pain...

What a moving picture...

Thinking about it, he couldn't help but laugh.

Fighting evil with evil, repaying blood with blood, that was what justice should look like.

Since the sunlight tolerated sin, then let the darkness judge justice.

The woman stared at Jiang Cheng with wide eyes.

She didn't understand why the man in front of her was laughing, and... the way he smiled was clearly more terrifying than his cold expression just now.

Thinking of this, the woman couldn't help but tremble.

Chen Xiaomeng stared at Jiang Cheng's profile. His eyes were hidden in the darkness, as if they had merged with the night.

"Continue," Jiang Cheng restrained his laughter, smiled at the woman, his face filled with something they couldn't understand.

He seemed... to be in a good mood.

Stared at by Jiang Cheng, the woman's breathing suddenly became rapid.

She didn't even realize that from the moment Jiang Cheng started laughing, she had been holding her breath, not daring to breathe.

"When my mother saw the stone tablet with her own eyes, she became even more convinced of her judgment. She said that although Zhao Xiangmei looked very cultured, she was an absolute illiterate. She couldn't read, let alone write," the woman said nervously, "So the person who died was definitely not Zhao Xiangmei."

"In those days, very few women could write, and there wasn't even one in the village, so that person must have been one of the abducted women."

"Does your mother know which of the abducted women could write?" Jiang Cheng asked.

The woman shook her head, "I don't know. The abducted women were guarded separately to prevent them from giving up and plotting to escape the village."

"Didn't your mother tell anyone else about this?"

"Hoo—" The woman exhaled a long breath, a hint of undisguised anger flashing in her eyes, "Of course she did. She couldn't bear to see a woman who suffered the same fate as her suffer such injustice after death, and she didn't want Zhao Xiangmei to get away with it."

"She went everywhere to report this, but unexpectedly, no one in the village paid any attention to it, especially the Qian village chief's family, who insisted that the case had been closed, the main culprit Zhao Xiangmei was dead, and the body was thrown in Hanzhen Pool."

"At that time, the Qian village chief had been taken away by the police, and some Qian family men were also arrested, but the Qian family was powerful in the village, so they were the ones who actually had the final say," the woman explained.

"My mother couldn't eat or sleep because of this matter, and finally fell ill and could only lie at home to recuperate," the woman's tone suddenly turned cold as she said this. "One day, when I came back from working in the fields, I found several people from the Qian family, as well as the village doctor, at my house. They said they were there to treat my mother's illness."

"I didn't believe they were so kind, so I wanted to drive them away, but they didn't say anything, picked up their things and left."

"But after they left, I found that there were dregs of medicine at the corners of my unconscious mother's mouth, and there were traces of dark colors on the pillow. I went back to the stove and found a bowl that had just been washed."

"From then on, my mother could no longer speak, and her lower body was paralyzed, so she could only lie in bed and couldn't go anywhere," the woman said through gritted teeth.