Captain Bai felt unwell upon seeing it; it truly ruined his appetite.
"Time is frozen in here. This corpse has been protected by something, maintaining its original state."
Zhou Lin reached out and lightly touched the space above the corpse, feeling that the space was indeed still.
"Is this just to scare people? What's the point of this setup?"
The metaphysics professor had no idea what the significance of this thing's appearance was.
"Perhaps to scare you, or perhaps for amusement."
Just as Zhou Lin finished speaking, he saw something flash beneath the quilt covering the corpse.
Zhou Lin's gaze shifted towards the foot of the bed, where he noticed a small hole with some wood shavings around it.
Could there be a living creature inside?
In the live broadcast room.
"Damn it, I was really hungry before, but now I have no appetite at all. This is... this is going to kill me."
"I just threw up what I ate. I'd rather see a zombie than see this thing appear."
"Stop talking. I have absolutely no interest anymore. Seeing plain rice makes me feel like I'm seeing maggots."
"You people in Great Xia are really disgusting. Even your haunted houses are this disgusting."
"Don't talk nonsense. If you keep talking, you'll see many more terrifying things later. You'll have nightmares."
...
Inside the tomb.
"Alright, let's go down and look at other things."
After speaking, Zhou Lin walked to the entrance and moved inside.
The last mercenary walked at the rear. He heard a rustling sound behind him and quickly turned around, but saw nothing at that moment.
"What's going on? Did I mishear?"
The mercenary whispered to himself after observing his surroundings.
"What's wrong? Why aren't you moving?"
The mercenary beside him asked, puzzled.
"It's nothing. I felt like there was something behind me, but when I turned around, I didn't see anything. Maybe I was seeing things."
After speaking, the mercenary left with his companions, heading further inside.
As soon as the two left, a black figure appeared behind them and then vanished.
Zhou Lin saw another wooden door nearby and pushed it open.
The moment he pushed the door open, dried corpses were hanging at the entrance.
The students behind Zhou Lin instinctively covered their mouths.
Their already tense hearts became even more so.
They were afraid of making a sound that might startle others.
At the front were huge trees. No, they weren't trees, but rather withered branches that had been forcibly fixed together, with many dried corpses attached to them. These corpses were all tattered and worn.
It looked as if a gust of wind could blow them down.
As Zhou Lin walked in, his gaze remained fixed on these withered branches.
"These dried corpses... are quite old. Are these people who were buried alive as sacrifices?"
The metaphysics professor asked, not entirely understanding.
"But they don't look like it. Sacrifices were usually slaves or the lowest class of people. These people are wearing clothes that suggest some level of importance."
Guo Liang observed the surroundings carefully, examining their clothing, which didn't resemble that of slaves.
"It's not certain if these are dried corpses. Don't rush to conclusions."
Zhou Lin turned back to them, as if he had heard something amusing.
"They aren't? Did I misjudge? No, there are definitely heads, hands, and feet on them. Aren't they?"
The metaphysics professor was horrified, looking at the dried corpses but then questioning if they were. What else could they be? Had they all seen ghosts?
What was going on?
"What you see isn't necessarily real. Could these be made of wood?"
Guo Liang became even more curious.
Captain Bai and his companions walked towards the large structure, examining the dried corpses closely. The lowest one had hollow, black eyes and a strange smile on its lips.
But this corpse had been hanged, its tongue still hanging near its mouth, almost falling out.
Looking at the black eye sockets and the upturned corners of its mouth, Captain Bai felt his scalp tingle.
"Heh heh..."
As Captain Bai stared at the dried corpse, he heard a "heh heh" sound near his ear.
Captain Bai's scalp tingled, and the hairs on his body stood on end.
As if the dried corpse felt Captain Bai wasn't sufficiently terrified, a pure white eye suddenly appeared in its dark eye socket, staring fiercely at Captain Bai.
"Ah..."
Captain Bai suddenly cried out and took a step back.
"Ah..."
"What the hell is that?"
"Ah..."
Several students, hearing Captain Bai's cry, instinctively screamed along.
It was a chain reaction of fear.
"Captain, what did you see?"
The mercenaries beside them rushed to ask Captain Bai.
"I saw that the dried corpse had eyes, and it made a sound. I heard it."
Captain Bai said urgently, taking a few deep breaths to calm himself and avoid frightening himself further.
"No way? White's eyes?"
The mercenary said again upon hearing this and glanced at the dried corpse, not seeing any eyes on it.
"Are you sure you're not seeing things? I don't see anything."
The mercenary still looked at the dried corpse uncertainly, but after a long time, no eyes appeared.
Guo Liang looked at another dried corpse. It appeared as a dried corpse one moment, and a tree stump the next, constantly shifting back and forth.
Guo Liang thought he was mistaken and kept rubbing his eyes, thinking he was seeing things.
"Metaphysics professor, take a look here. What's going on? Am I also seeing things? Is this a tree stump or a dried corpse?"
Guo Liang quickly called the metaphysics professor over, eagerly asking.
The metaphysics professor glanced at the dried corpse.
"It's a dried corpse. I don't see any tree stump. Are you seeing things?"
The metaphysics professor quickly replied.
"Then I am seeing things? What's going on?"
Guo Liang still felt something was off, but he couldn't pinpoint what it was.
In the live broadcast room.
"Oh my god, something's not right. Am I also seeing things? Why do I see tree stumps tied up on it?"
"It's not just you seeing things. I see it too. Maybe we're all seeing things?"
"I'm more inclined to believe what the expert said. The expert is right."