Me and My Cold CEO Wife

Chapter 2047 - 2036: Stone Houses on the Plaza

"What you meant earlier was that the Demon Beasts killed these people.""Yes."

Vivian pointed above the corpses, "At least the aura here is all from the Demon Beasts."

"Can you sense where they are?"

Ning Fan looked around warily, as if Demon Beasts might attack at any moment.

Vivian shook her head, "This is just residual aura. Soon, even this trace will dissipate."

"You mean vanished?"

Ning Fan's eyes narrowed, pondering to himself, "I wonder if it's like the disappearance in the western Cultivation World."

"It should be. This aura is very weak, even the residual aura on the corpse of a dead Demon Beast would exceed this by ten thousand times."

Vivian nodded, "So I'm sure these Demon Beasts are gone, at least not in this Demon Domain."

"If we could know how long these people have been dead, that would be great."

In environments like the Secret Realm of Demon Domain where cultivators live, traditional forensic measures don't work at all.

Take the corpses before us; they don't look decomposed, suggesting they died only two or three days ago.

But that's because the bodies were affected by Holy Power, slowing decomposition by many times, creating the illusion.

These people might have died months ago, or just a few days ago.

If judged by conventional standards, there would surely be a huge error.

"Let's check around first."

Ning Fan looked toward all directions.

Around the plaza, rows of stone houses were constructed.

Each stone house's style, size, including the gaps between houses, are exactly the same.

The building material of the stone houses seems sourced from the Mount of Light, emitting a faint white glow.

And these rows of stone houses are arranged in a semicircle, appearing to encircle the whole plaza.

Upon nearing the first row of stone houses, as Ning Fan expected, there was no trace of living people.

Initially thinking the stone houses only looked alike, it wasn't until several houses were opened that Ning Fan realized even the interiors were identical.

Stone tables, stone benches, stone beds, iron bowls, iron kettles...

Apart from necessities, there was no excess inside, truly offering only for rest.

Moreover, there was no modern equipment; even lighting was by oil lamps.

The only thing for passing time could be the Bible doctrine placed on the stone table.

Seeing this, Vivian sneered coldly, "Hypocritical Holy Church, making believers live such ascetic lives, all for the brainwashing and harvesting of Power of Faith."

"Stop with that nonsense."

Ning Fan derided, "I think you were hoping for something here."

Upon entering, Vivian's eyes gleamed as if she had stumbled upon treasure, waiting for what may come.

"I wasn't!"

Vivian turned her head away haughtily.

After scanning the next two rows of stone houses, Ning Fan generally understood their purpose.

The first row was for resting.

The second row was for training and praying. Besides some chapels, the other rooms were filled with various training equipment and weapons.

However, the stone houses storing weapons were all locked, which explained the absence of weapons in the plaza.

After breaking into them, Ning Fan found the weapons were all standard plate armor and Cross Swords he saw earlier, very ordinary iron tools.

As for the third row of stone houses, they were kitchens, bathrooms, toilets, and other living facilities.

After inspecting all three rows, not only were there no living people, but also no corpses.

Recalling the children's bodies in the plaza, Ning Fan could imagine the scene then.

Upon discovering the Demon Beasts, every man, woman, and child rushed out from the stone houses to fight the enemies.

It was so sudden that they didn't have time to retrieve their sealed weapons.

"Perhaps the Holy Church's rules were too strict, and without orders from a superior, they dared not break down doors forcefully."

Thinking of this, Ning Fan felt uneasy.

Under the baptism of the Church of Light, rather than humans, these believers were more like Puppets producing faith.

Just then, Ning Fan furrowed his brow; he noticed something was wrong, as if he had overlooked something.

Ning Fan suddenly asked, "Vivian, if you were the murderer, what would you do?"

"What do you mean?"

Vivian retorted cautiously, "I said this has nothing to do with me."

"Alright. I'm not suspecting you, why are you tense?"

The sequence of the dragon and her arrivals was just a few seconds apart.

In such a short time, Vivian couldn't have caused such a brutal massacre.

Even a pig knows to hide, let alone humans.

"I'm not tense!"

Though saying so, Vivian was still a bit uneasy, aware that Ning Fan had always wanted to teach her a lesson but lacked justification.

"If you encountered human resistance during your raids, what would you do?"

Ning Fan prompted, "I want to hear the truth, rest assured, I won't punish you."

"What else? Of course, I would kill them all."

Vivian boasted proudly, "Being chosen by me is their blessing. Ordinary treasures don't catch my eye."

"Your worldview is problematic."

After assessing, Ning Fan continued to ask, "And after? Like now, after killing all these people, what would you do next?"

"Of course, look for treasures."

Vivian glanced greedily at the stone houses, then her gaze dimmed, recalling the earlier fruitlessness.

"I understand."

Vivian asked puzzledly, "Understand what?"

"It's nothing. Let's check the mountain."

The reason Demon Beasts caused the plaza massacre.

Perhaps for feeding, or maybe for revenge.

But no matter the reason, it wouldn't "end there."

Since even Vivian, the Barbaric Dragon, knew to search the stone houses.

It's unreasonable that these bloodthirsty Demon Beasts would ignore the dwellings before them.

Yet these stone houses remained untouched, not a trace of disturbance.

Thinking back to Vivian's mention of the missing aura, Ning Fan suddenly considered something.

Could it be the bloodthirsty Demon Beasts vanished suddenly, preserving the stone houses?

After all, some corpses were relatively intact, merely dying from severe injuries and excessive bleeding.

"These Demon Beasts probably came from the mountain."

Ning Fan glanced at the Holy Mountain,

This entirely white Mount of Light had a faint white line, resembling a veil surrounding the mountain.

This faint veil was the mountain path, and there was only one.

The path's entrance corresponded to the circular archway, and those three rows of stone houses sat right beside the cliff below the mountain path entrance.

Demon Beasts descended from the mountain, they must reach the plaza first.

Of course, these Demon Beasts could choose to leap from the mountain.

But seeing the intact stone houses, Ning Fan surmised that the Demon Beasts didn't opt for such extreme measures.

And the following scene confirmed his speculation.