C67 Three Robbers

Lin Xiaoqiang hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary. Needing a place to stay for the night, he had no choice but to follow the trio to a dilapidated mud house.

The structure seemed on the verge of collapse, its courtyard a jumble of crumbling mud walls, strewn with haphazard piles of wood and dry, tangled weeds.

As they passed through the so-called main gate into the courtyard