I raised my blade and pointed it at Big Head, "Shut your mouth. I wasn't asking you."

I turned back to the constable and said, "Didn't you say people here can't die? How can selling your head mean you can't live?"

The constable was the most intact of the three.

He probably knew the most secrets.

The constable said, "There are people here without heads. We can sell our heads, and they can put them on."

I pondered, "People without heads can live?"

"I don't know!" the constable said. "We've just heard it said; we've never actually seen the headless."

"We won't sell our heads unless we're forced to. Although the head is the most valuable, we get nothing after selling it. The money goes to our relatives and friends outside."

Nie Xiaochun couldn't help but ask, "Since you can't die, why don't you resist? You can't be killed anyway, so why not just keep pestering them!"

The constable said with a mournful face, "We can't die, but getting chunks of flesh cut off us really hurts! You don't know how terrifying the methods of those big shots are."

"If they catch you, you might be trapped here for years, even decades, being tortured by them day and night!"

I asked, "Has anyone ever left here?"

"Yes!" the constable said. "Quite a few people have left. We watched them leave, either dying of envy or itching with hatred because they took away the limbs that were cut off us."

I said, "The village chief at the entrance is the master here?"

"No!" the constable said. "He's just one of the big shots in Da Meng Xiang."

"He calls himself the village chief and occupies the position at the village entrance, so he gets the most benefits."

"Didn't you see that his store is full of corpses? People here can pick and choose as long as they have money."

I said in a deep voice, "Is there anyone in Da Meng Xiang called Wang Qing Lao Zu?"

The constable said, "I've never heard of such a person!"

I pointed my knife at Big Head, "What about you!"

Big Head also denied, "I've never heard of him either!"

Ye Yang transmitted his voice to me, "Wang Qing Lao Zu shouldn't be unknown!"

I said in a deep voice, "Who are the big shots in Da Meng Xiang you're talking about?"

Big Head quickly said, "We only know the village chief at the entrance. We're not qualified to meet the real big shots."

Afraid I wouldn't believe him, Big Head added, "The village chief is one of the big shots in this village. There are four such villages in Da Meng Xiang."

"The further in you go, the more powerful the characters."

"However, it costs money to go in. The entrance fee alone is not a small amount. Even the village chief hasn't saved enough for the entrance fee."

"It costs money, it costs money..." I pondered, "I'll think about how to get money."

It wasn't that I hadn't thought about killing the village chief and robbing him directly, but the fact that people in this place couldn't be killed made me a little depressed.

I didn't dare gamble on whether I could be killed or not.

If they couldn't die, but I could, the four of us could be worn down to death by them.

I couldn't think about killing and robbing unless it was a last resort.

Moreover, I suspected that the people in Da Meng Xiang weren't born immortal; they must have been modified by something.

I couldn't stay in this place for too long; otherwise, I'd probably become like these people.

At that time, whether we could leave Da Meng Xiang would be unknown.

Nie Xiaochun asked at this moment, "A batch of dead people came from outside today. Who ordered that shipment?"

The constable replied, "That was ordered by a big shot in the Fourth Village, saying they were going to be sent to mine."

Nie Xiaochun said, "Have they ever asked for people before?"

"Never!" the constable said. "They used to hire us to mine. I don't know why they're getting people from outside this time."

"Those big shots are in a hurry for people, as if something big has happened."

Nie Xiaochun turned his head and said, "Where are those people now? Why don't we mix in with those dead people and go in?"

While I was hesitating, I heard a sound like a bell ringing outside.

The constable immediately became anxious, "Everyone, everyone... please, let us out! That's the big shots from the Upper Village summoning the people from the Lower Village. We'll be in big trouble if we're late!"

"Let's go take a look!" I sliced through the beggar's ropes with a knife and dragged him out.

Nie Xiaochun and Qin Xin also followed with two heads.

When we followed the crowd to the end of the village, we saw a wall more than ten meters high built behind the village. Someone walked out of the gate in the wall, followed by four ancient wooden cages for escorting prisoners.

The man tore off the black cloth covering the wooden cages, revealing the prisoners who had been skinned inside.

Only then did I see the appearance of those people. Weren't they the dead people who came on the ghost carriage? They had been skinned!

The leader raised his voice, "Someone attempted to impersonate laborers and sneak into the Upper Village. The village chief has ordered: skin them and expose them to the sun as a warning to others."

The man paused and said, "Where is the Lower Village chief?"