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While speaking, he quickly flipped through the fish scale album.
Although the records on it were rather blurry, it was obvious that the property had changed hands several times, the most recent being fifty years ago.
Li Yan pondered, "A fifty-year-old estate, unattended and unoccupied, likely has issues."
He then instructed Officer Yang to summon nearby residents.
"This house has a strange aura."
An elder living nearby shook his head, "I remember when I was a child, this estate was occupied by a band of beggars. Because it was run-down and the owners were nowhere to be found, people did not pay much attention to it."
"Who would have thought that within days, these beggars slaughtered one another, leaving corpses everywhere, the stench of blood overwhelming."
