The matter was settled after the fatty, Du Moyu, apologized.

The group walked and chatted, but before they reached the Wu family mansion, they encountered the two villagers from before. The villagers were flustered and seemed to have lost their souls. "Masters, the village chief asks you to come over immediately. Something terrible has happened in the village!"

Chen Hao didn't trust these villagers either and pressed, "Don't panic. What happened?"

"The night watchman… the night watchman… he's dead!" As one of the villagers said this, he shuddered violently.

"The night watchman… dead?" Fatty couldn't help but cry out.

Just now, they were talking about how the night watchman's health seemed to be getting worse and worse. Yu Chengmu had also said that the night watchman was full of death aura, and his time was probably near, but no one expected it to be so soon.

Suddenly, a strange thought occupied their minds. Could it be that the headless chicken wasn't prepared for them, but for the night watchman himself?

Based on their observations, this night watchman was clearly not an ordinary person. It seemed reasonable that such a person could foresee his own death.

The two villagers led the way, and the group quickly arrived at the courtyard they had visited before. Pushing open the door, the village chief was pacing anxiously inside. Seeing them arrive, he immediately greeted them. "Masters, you've finally arrived! I was so worried!"

"What exactly happened?" Jiang Cheng cut to the chase.

"The night watchman is dead." The village chief frowned. "I just received the news and immediately sent people to find you."

The night watchman's death wasn't a big deal in itself, but after all, the tasks were always conveyed by the night watchman, and the village chief acted according to the night watchman's arrangements. Now that the night watchman was gone, what about their task tonight?

They hadn't even seen the Great River Goddess they were longing for, so the task was definitely not over yet.

As if sensing Jiang Cheng's doubts, the village chief immediately said in a pleading tone, "Although the night watchman is dead, masters, you can't abandon our village. Although you were brought here by the night watchman, but… in short, you can't leave us. I… I'll kneel down to you with my old bones." As he spoke, the village chief really knelt down with a thud.

"What are you doing?" Jiang Cheng subconsciously dodged the direction the village chief was kneeling. Although he questioned the village chief's motives, Jiang Cheng felt he couldn't bear to have someone of this age kneeling in front of him.

Compared to him, Yu Chengmu was much more at ease. He strolled forward, slowly helping the village chief up, and said with a smile, "Old man, what are you doing?"

"You… ah no, masters promised?" The village chief was still worried about this issue.

"Tell us what happened first. How can we consider agreeing if you don't tell us what the situation is?" Lei Mingyu said impatiently. In his opinion, the village chief was just as cunning as Yu Chengmu.

But this was a mission world, so they had to continue according to the main plot. It seemed that after the night watchman's death, the village chief had become their main source of information.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, look at my head, I get anxious and…"

The village chief still wanted to be polite, but A Biao gave him a look, telling him to stop talking nonsense. The village chief reacted and immediately said, "Masters, it's like this. Although the night watchman is gone, he left me a letter before he died, with instructions to send him off tonight."

Speaking of this, the village chief suddenly became serious and straightened his back. "The night watchman said that he hadn't done anything major for the village in his life, except for patrolling and guarding the village in peace. Now that he's reached the end of his life, he wants to contribute one last time to the village."

Lei Mingyu found it strange and couldn't help but ask, "What does he want to do?"

"He wants to use his body to suppress the grievances of the Great River Goddess." The village chief said with a serious expression, "He wants you masters to guard his body to the banks of the Du River, and then throw his body into the river."

"So… tonight we're sending a corpse?" Du Moyu couldn't help but say.

Yu Chengmu stroked his goatee, squinted his eyes, and lifted his heavy eyelids. "It's not sending a corpse, it's leading a corpse, and leading the corpse of… the night watchman."

"Leading a corpse…" The expressions of several people changed slightly. This night watchman didn't look easy to deal with. He was full of strangeness when he was alive, and he might turn into a fierce ghost after death.

Scary as it was, this was clearly the arrangement of the mission, and they didn't dare not go.

Yu Chengmu was silent for a moment, then continued to ask, "Did the night watchman have any other instructions in the letter?"

The village chief showed a look of reminiscence.

Lei Mingyu got angry just looking at him and impatiently reached out his hand. "I said, you don't need to think so hard. Just take out the letter left by the night watchman and show it to us, and we'll know everything, right?"

Hearing this, the village chief wore a distressed expression, with wrinkles all over his face. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It wasn't dawn yet when I saw the letter. At that time, things happened suddenly, and I was too nervous. I accidentally brought the letter close to the candle, and then… then it was burned to ashes." The village chief slapped his thigh, his expression more ugly than death.

Du Moyu sneered, "So, there's no proof of death."

"Everything I said is true. If you don't believe me, I'll take you to see the ashes after the letter was burned." As he spoke, the village chief turned around, making a gesture to take them to identify the ashes.

"No need." Yu Chengmu interrupted him. "Answer my previous question. Were there any other instructions in the letter? Please think carefully."

The village chief fell into deep thought. After a few seconds, his eyes suddenly lit up. "That's right, I remembered. The night watchman also told you to be especially careful of the coffin carrying his body on the road."

"He said that the Great River Goddess now has extremely strong resentment, and there are only two ways to suppress it. First, is the method he chose tonight, called sealing the coffin for burial. After his body is thrown into the river, the Great River Goddess's body will float to the surface. You must seize the time to retrieve the Great River Goddess's body and then seal it in this coffin. The coffin lid must be secured with seventeen three-cun (cun is a Chinese unit of measurement, approx. 1.3 inches) long…"

"Soul-Suppressing Nails." Yu Chengmu reminded.

"Yes, yes, yes, that's it, those Soul-Suppressing Nails or whatever!" The village chief slapped his forehead and glanced at Yu Chengmu with an expression that said, 'You're really excellent.' "Use these nails to nail the coffin lid all around, and that way, the Great River Goddess will no longer kill people."

Jia Jinliang coughed twice and asked in a low, hoarse voice, "Then what about the second method?"

"The second method…" Hearing this, the village chief's expression became subtle, and his tone was strange. "Speaking of which, this second method is just an alternative, and the night watchman didn't say it in detail."

Noticing the murderous look in A Biao's eyes, the village chief immediately said, "This second method is called sealing the marriage. You need to find the Great River Goddess's sweetheart, and then…"