Half a face rose abruptly from the cave, and the surrounding temperature began to drop rapidly.

Zhou Ze subconsciously gasped; the situation he feared most had materialized.

Zhou Ze had considered before that since he was now Zhou Ze, regardless of souls or memories, it at least proved that from eighty years ago until now, the original him, confined in the research institute and used as a research subject by the Japanese, had been tampered with, or he wouldn't be here.

Did that mean his original body might not be here anymore?

But Zhou Ze was wrong.

The body was still here.

And it had undergone a strange transformation.

Tang Shi had said there was a demon here.

Zhou Ze hadn't felt anything.

However,

A man's reputation is like a tree's shadow. Having seen the scene of this tattered body rampaging in his dreams, and witnessing its own uncontrollable madness, Zhou Ze still felt uneasy facing it now.

"Buzz!"

A ripple spread out.

The single eye on that half-face opened. The eye still held that familiar emptiness, as if there was no eyeball at all. But in the next moment, clumps of straw-like roots burst out of the eye socket and gradually extended, even completing the missing half of the face, making it seem "complete." But in reality, it looked even more bizarre and incongruous.

"Bang!"

A skeletal hand reached out from the edge, gripped the ground, and the body slowly began to climb upward.

The movements were slow, a little sluggish, like a puppet being controlled by a crude apprentice artisan. And, one could sense its struggle.

But that aura seemed innate, even though its body was broken, even though the soul originally within it had gone through something and ended up with Zhou Ze.

"Thump!"

It crawled out of the cave, but instantly, its body began to retreat uncontrollably, as if some invisible force was suppressing it.

A series of sparks appeared on the ground, indicating the intensity of the friction.

"Roar!"

It opened its mouth, the remaining half of its mouth opening in an exaggerated and horrifying way. The other half of its face, woven from grass stalks, instantly collapsed and scattered. It was roaring silently, clearly furious about the situation.

"Plop..."

Zhou Ze and Tang Shi didn't react at all, they just watched as the broken body, which had finally managed to crawl out, knelt on the ground again, and was then forcibly dragged back into the cave.

The whole scene and process looked a little comical, a grand and imposing entrance, followed by a bizarre dragging back down, like an actor who takes the stage and exits before speaking a single line.

However, this situation greatly reduced the pressure on Zhou Ze and the others, and the solemnity that had accumulated in their hearts was also dispelled.

"Boss, is that you from before?"

The old Taoist asked Zhou Ze.

Zhou Ze nodded.

"Looks like there's a problem with this body. It really is growing grass on its head."

Zhou Ze didn't bother to respond, but unexpectedly, the old Taoist became addicted to talking to himself and continued:

"Boss, I feel like you've really got bad luck. Your ancestral grave keeps getting robbed. First, your previous life's corpse was ground into ashes and eaten as black sesame paste.

"Then this corpse is being used as a potted plant. Tsk, tsk, Boss, my profession is looking after graves. Next time you plan to die, look for me. I'll definitely choose a safe one for you..."

The old Taoist got more and more excited, but when he saw Zhou Ze's gaze, his voice slowly faded away.

"Go ahead and see what's down there," Zhou Ze said to the old Taoist.

"Huh?"

The old Taoist was shocked.

Crap,

I'm just a passerby, responsible for licking up loot and shouting '6666' on the sidelines.

You want me to go ahead and take a look?

The old Taoist looked at Tang Shi, hoping that Miss Tang would reject the boss's order, which was clearly a personal vendetta.

But unexpectedly, Tang Shi nodded directly in agreement:

"That's fine."

"..." The old Taoist.

The old Taoist had no choice but to bite the bullet and slowly walk forward.

"Don't worry too much. That thing was clearly restricted here, so in the past eighty years, it's obviously undergone a mutation, even been occupied by something else. But it still can't leave here.

"And you and your boss are both 'ghosts.' You're a living person and won't stimulate whatever might be down there."

Tang Shi explained to the old Taoist from behind.

Hearing this, the old Taoist felt much more at ease. After approaching the edge, he shone his flashlight down and quickly glanced.

"Boss, it looks like a well down there, and there's water," the old Taoist called out.

Zhou Ze and Tang Shi then approached. Sure enough, it wasn't a cave, but a well.

"What do we do now? Who knows how your soul got out in the first place?" Tang Shi squatted down beside the well, a little helplessly tidying her hair. "Or, should we just leave? Wait for the expert team to come down tomorrow. After they discover this place, let them find a way to blow it up with bombs. Anyway, it can't escape."

"You think they'll blow it up?" Zhou Ze asked rhetorically. "If they discover this body, that is."

"Huh?"

"A body that can still move even after dying like this. Regardless of national borders or consciousness, they'll definitely take it back to use as a research subject."

"Well, that's a good thing too. You can make your own contribution to modern medicine," Tang Shi said, seemingly indifferent.

"You're very beautiful," Zhou Ze said.

"Thank you."

"But do you know how many young men don't have the money or opportunity to release their accumulated physiological needs every day? Why don't you go help them?"

A flash of purple light flickered in Tang Shi's eyes. Clearly, she was angry.

She remembered that Zhou Ze wasn't like this before.

Indeed,

People change.

Especially when you realize that your strength means you no longer need to kowtow to the person in front of you. It's human nature, and the one who's least used to it is often the one who used to be in a high position.

"Hey, hey, hey, you two, stop arguing, stop arguing. The water down there is starting to boil."

The old Taoist pointed below. He knew Tang Shi's personality and also understood his boss's anger after his corpse had been stolen. Now that he's discovered that there's a problem with his corpse again, it's definitely hard to accept.

The water in the well began to "gurgle, gurgle" as it boiled.

Immediately afterward,

The water level began to rise rapidly, as if underground springs were surging out.

For a time,

The water level even submerged the cave and began to spread around. This pace and rate were even more terrifying than a fire hydrant bursting.

Rats were washed up again, followed by many things like grass stalks and branches.

The speed of the water gushing out became faster and faster. He even heard something cry out below, and the water flow increased several times over.

In an instant, the water level in the research institute had reached people's waists.

Tang Shi's body subconsciously retreated, keeping the surrounding water away from her. But in the next moment, a hand suddenly grabbed her ankle underwater.

"Swish!"

Two shards of glass instantly cut into the water, but all that was seen was a surge of water below. Tang Shi was grabbed and flipped upside down into the water.

After entering the water, Tang Shi saw that the broken body that had crawled out and been dragged back had actually climbed out again silently.

Ankle was extremely painful and cold. Under the control of her mind power, the surrounding water currents madly impacted the body, but the other party was like a large tonnage steel plate, standing still!

"Plop!"

Just then,

Zhou Ze plunged into the water, directly pouncing on the broken body. His fingernails mercilessly pierced into the other party's skull, not showing any mercy just because the other party was his previous body.

"Roar!"

The broken body opened its mouth, released Tang Shi's ankle, and then grabbed Zhou Ze's neck with both hands. The two of them were entangled and wrestling together.

"Gurgle... Gurgle... Gurgle..."

Sounds began to come from under the water again, while the old Taoist was standing on the desk, his head almost touching the ceiling. Seeing Tang Shi emerge from the water, he immediately reached out and pulled her over.

"Where's the boss? Where's the boss?"

Tang Shi, with a sullen face, didn't bother to look at her still bleeding ankle and directly put her hands into the water before letting out a stern shout.

"Splash..."

The surface of the water, which had almost filled the laboratory, was suddenly split open, revealing Zhou Ze and the figure of the broken body.

The broken body kept pulling on Zhou Ze, but Zhou Ze's fingernails were firmly embedded in the other's skull.

However, it could be clearly seen that the target of the broken body was not Zhou Ze at all. It was still firmly walking in one direction, which was the direction where Tang Shi was.

For a time,

In the dark,

Tang Shi had a premonition that

what that thing wanted was not Zhou Ze, who had countless connections with it, but herself!

What exactly was going on?

"Glug glug... glug glug..."

The water flow began to spin rapidly. The water surface that had previously covered the entire laboratory began to drop rapidly, like a bathtub filled with water being unplugged.

The huge vortex itself carried a natural suction force. In addition, after losing the protection and concealment of these waters, the broken body, which had once again crawled out of the cave, once again felt the terrible repulsive and imprisoning force. Under extreme unwillingness, his body began to slide back rapidly, until it fell into the cave again.

And Zhou Ze, whom he had been holding on to,

This time, he was not spared either.

All that was heard was the sound of a stone falling into the water.

Zhou Ze and the broken body fell into the well together.

The surroundings were completely calm and tranquil.

There wasn't even a drop of water left on the ground.

It was still dry.