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At Wei City county office, blood-stained corpses lay quietly in the mortuary. The mortuary was eerie and grim. The bodies rested in open coffins without lids, and were not placed directly on the floor.
An elder had explained that the ground’s dampness could easily breed unclean spirits or attract powerful ghosts and evil entities from the mountains and wilderness. Therefore, coffins were usually not placed directly on the ground when storing corpses.
The county’s coroner, surnamed Liu, had come to inspect the bodies in the public mortuary. Suddenly, he let out a shout, “The coffin holding a recently deceased wanderer from the jianghu was completely empty!”
“Ah!” Coroner Liu cried out, his face pale.
Who would dare to steal a corpse from the county’s mortuary?...
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