Wynne felt cold in the car and got goosebumps after listening to Ms Wan.
"Really? Would they lie to you?" 'Wynne asked.
"It's true, the chief also told me this by calling, the mine was sealed now. Because not only was my brother alive in the mine, but so were the other dead workers, they all never thought they were dead, and even asked the villagers to help them out, which freaked them out. It's said the workers turned into ghosts. Eventually, they called us for coming back." Ms. Wan replied.
Dooley sat beside Wynne and, after listening, took one look at her, explained, "This was not a ghost, your brother who had become mummy."
"Mummy? What is a mummy?" Asked Wynne.
She was cut off.
"Doo, you're so good. You know everything." "Ms. Wan said to Dooley immediately, ingratiating, who swept at Ms. Wan, and responded with silence.
Turning back to Wynne: "We'll find out later."
At two o 'clock in the afternoon, they arrived at the village.
As the car pulled up, several women gathered around, the wives of those workers who had died in the mines ten years ago.
Ms. Wan gave the wives some presents out of her trunk and consulted them on mysterious matters about her brother.
The wives glanced at each other, and then watching Wynne.
"Is this the man you found?" "One of the women asked Ms. Wan in suspicion.
Wynne was cued that the case should be a difficult one. Why else did Ms. Wan promise to give them $10,000 before they even started? Ten thousand dollars was a lot of money for a common single woman.
"She has the reptile spirit who can help us. Let them have a try. Her mother and I are best friends." Ms. Wan explained to them.
After sending a slightly suspicious look to Dooley and Wynne, they ushered them inside. Wynne smelt an extremely strong odor as she just stepped into the room.
In the centre of the main hall standing benches propped up under wooden boards, the size of doors, on which laying several men covered with quilts, and from whom the smell came.
"What's wrong with these men?" Wynne asked Ms. Wan beside.
Ms.Wan sent everyone out except herself and Wynne.
"Wynne." Ms.Wan called to her in a low voice.
Wynne looked at her curiously, and waited a long time until she heard something cold in her voice.
"I heard from your mother that you have a very powerful snake spirit. When your grandmother were raising him, she commanded it to harm a lot of people. In fact, I invited you here because I wanted your spirit to use sorcery secretly to poison the miners who came back to life." Ms. Wan said.
"Poison all the workers?" Wynne was shocked for what she heard! She supposed to come for helping, disappointingly, she was asked for murdering.
"I want to move on! When the mine accident, we these families, were paid hundreds of thousands of compensation, now the miners are still alive in the mine, if they are rescued, then we these poor women how to do? Do I have to give the money back? Even the wives of several dead miners have remarried. What do you expect them to do? Since they have all died once, why they can't die again." "Ms. Wan protested, shedding a few tears.
"But your brother is in the well, too." Wynne reminded her.
"I know, but what can I do? The reality is that I'm old and I don't know how I'm going to live if I lose the money. How could they be alive when they were already dead, locked at the bottom of a well for ten years? It must be a ghost. Please, help me." She pleaded with her, sobbing.
Even Wynne knew that people couldn't be alive when they had been buried for ten years. But when she heard Ms. Wan's request, it was as if something had broken in her heart. It turned out that there really were people in this world for money, willing to murder their closest families.
"Please..." Said Ms. Wan.
Wynne replied that she needed to consult Dooley and left the room.
He was leaning back in a chair in the shade under the eaves, staring off into the distance, with a glass of iced juice in his hand. Several women gathered around him, fanning him with their hand fans.
"We should increase the price to sixty thousand for her request." Dooley said to Wynne, who was near him.
Damn it. Did also Dooley love money so much? Wynne never imagined.
"You go and talk to Ms. Wan. If you agree to pay us $60,000, we will do it for you. Otherwise, we will go back." Dooley said to the women around him. And rose from his chair to leave.
"I agree." Ms. Wan came out of the room and called Dooley: "As long as you can solve it, we all can pay you $60,000." "Ms. Wan said, looking at the women around, who bowed their heads in silence.
-- Yet not even a one disagreed.
Then, Dooley asked Ms. Wan to prepare about 200 meters of rope and lead them to the mine where the accident happened.