The male corpse was probably in his twenties, with handsome features, hair that reached his shoulders, and a silver rose earring in his left ear. It looked like he might have been an uninhibited artist during his lifetime.
He looked pale, motionless, not breathing, and his chest did not rise at all——
He is probably dead.
But Lu Zhan was suspicious. He checked the male corpse's breathing and found nothing unusual. However, he did not give up. He was about to explore the left chest of the corpse, but was stopped by a hand.
"What do you want to do?" Bai Mo asked.
"See if he still has a heartbeat."
Lu Zhan explained that he felt there was something wrong with the corpse.
The other party was wearing the latest brand-name clothes. Although they looked fake at first glance, it obviously showed that the other party had just appeared in this place not long ago, and there was no mud on his body as Xia Yuxi had said before, and there was no pain of suffocation on his face...
…
So how did this guy die?
Or...is he really dead?
Unexpectedly, after hearing what he said, Bai Mo immediately shook his head and said, "No, you can't touch other people's chests."
"Why?" Lu Zhan was stunned. Could it be some kind of taboo among the tombkeepers?
Bai Mo glanced at Xia Yuxi who was not far away and whispered: "What if the person in the coffin is a woman?"
"How could it be a woman?" Lu Zhan seemed a little confused. He pointed at the head of the male corpse, "Even if you don't look at the face, you should know that he is a man by looking at his chest..."
"I know, but this is my dream." Bai Mo shook his head and said, "He is indeed very flat, but being flat does not necessarily mean he is a man."
"What is it but a man?"
Lu Zhan could tell that Bai Mo had become a little abnormal again. He had been like this since he came to this place. You must know that now is not the time to worry about whether the body is male or female.
However, this may be one of the gravekeeper's ways of self-deception. The other party seems to be distracting himself with some alternative concerns.
Xia Yuxi, who was on the side, naturally heard Bai Mo's words and felt that she had been greatly humiliated. She pointed at Bai Mo and gritted her teeth and said, "What's wrong with Ping? Did Ping provoke you?"
I haven't even settled a score with this guy yet, how dare he blame himself first?
Although she was very angry, she controlled her emotions in time and kept her voice low.
Hearing Xia Yuxi's voice, Lu Zhan was stunned for a moment, then glanced at her, and then he reacted, showing an expression of sudden realization——
"Understand?" Bai Mo said.
"Understood."
He nodded solemnly, thinking that was the case, no wonder Xu Jing said that this woman was very rich...
Bai Mo thought for a while and felt that even if he was dreaming, he couldn't go too far.
So he walked up to Xia Yuxi, patted her shoulder gently, and said earnestly: "Don't be discouraged, this is not a big deal. After all, as the old saying goes, the ordinary is the truth."
When Lu Zhan heard this, he suppressed his laughter and quickly winked at Xia Yuxi.
Xia Yuxi was furious, but she quickly understood what Lu Zhan meant. She pushed Bai Mo away and gritted her teeth and said, "It doesn't matter if he is a boy or girl, I just want to check this guy's heartbeat!"
After saying that, she approached the coffin directly and touched the left chest of the corpse.
There was no heartbeat and the body was extremely cold.
She shook her head at Lu Zhan.
But Lu Zhan still felt something was wrong. After all, the strong force that came from the coffin just now was not fake. Even if the person in the coffin was not a living person, it could not be as simple as an ordinary corpse.
And from what the old man said, there should be some living people in this room.
But speaking of which...where did the one-eyed old man go?
There was no sign of the old man in the house, he seemed to have disappeared quietly.
Lu Zhan gave up thinking about this problem for the time being. He waved to Xia Yuxi and said, "Give me the knife in your hand."
Hearing this, Xia Yuxi quickly handed the ice carving knife to him.
Seeing Lu Zhan walking toward the coffin with a knife, Bai Mo was a little confused: "What do you want to do again?"
"nothing."
Lu Zhan's tone was casual, but under the shocked gazes of Bai Mo and the others, he stabbed the corpse in the coffin with a knife.
"Save someone under the knife!"
At this moment, a horrified voice sounded in the room, and the young man in the coffin opened his eyes instantly, and actually performed a sword-catching performance with his bare hands.
Lu Zhan didn't hold back at all with this knife, but the young man still caught it. He kept trembling and begged for mercy loudly: "Brother, have mercy on me, brother, have mercy on me!"
Lu Zhan had no intention of stopping and said coldly: "Who are you and why are you pretending to be dead in the coffin?"
"I am pretending to be dead to survive. If I don't pretend to be dead, I will really die!"
"Stay alive?" Lu Zhan sneered, "Then why are you pretending to be a ghost to scare us?"
"What an injustice!" The young man looked aggrieved, "I left that gap for breathing. Who knew you suddenly wanted to close the coffin? Can I not move?"
Lu Zhan thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case. He put the knife away but did not relax his vigilance.
The young man spent the rest of his life feeling as if he was exhausted. He lay in the coffin and kept breathing. After a while, he got out of the coffin and said with a smile: "Hello, everyone, my name is Gu Nian."
"Are you alive or dead?"
Lu Zhan asked suddenly without any intention of introducing himself.
The young man named Gu Nian was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand why. He answered after a while: "Of course he is a living person."
"Then how did you appear here?"
"I, I..."
Seeing that the young man was about to speak but hesitated, Lu Zhan raised the ice carving knife in his hand, and the threat was self-evident.
Seeing this, Gu Nian trembled all over and quickly replied: "Door, we came in through one door!"
"us?"
"Yes, us. We all came in through the door." Gu Nian explained honestly, "Just now you said there was a person who could walk through walls. He is actually one of my companions."
"What door?" Lu Zhan continued to ask.
If this guy is telling the truth, then the way the other person entered this place is obviously different from him and Xia Yuxi. Maybe this is a way to leave this place!
Forced by Lu Zhan's power, Gu Nian sighed and had to answer: "That door is in a tunnel in Jiye City. Only a few of us know about it. We pushed it open and came here."
"There are a lot of monsters in this place, as well as a group of murderous corpses. I had no choice but to hide in a coffin and pretend to be alive."
"Where is the door?"
"I don't know." Gu said in pain, "After I opened the door, I was chased everywhere by monsters. This place is like a maze. I can't find the location of the door."
Having said this, his face turned a little gloomy, "Many of us died, and the rest were all scattered."
Bai Mo had been listening quietly, and suddenly asked: "What kind of door are you talking about?"
Gu Nian stared at him for a while, then recalled: "It's not a door. The door here is a rectangular parallelepiped with different patterns printed on all sides. It's more like it is made up of four doors spliced together."
"There is only one door in the tunnel of Jiye City, and the pattern corresponds to one of the doors in this place."
"Four doors..." Lu Zhan murmured.
Bai Mo remained silent.
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the door, and the figure of the one-eyed old man appeared in the darkness at the door, with a faint hint of scarlet on his white crutches.
"Uncle, what did you do just now?"
"Oh, it's nothing."
The old man raised his crutch and gently wiped it with the cuffs of his military coat. His eyes fell on Gu Nian and his voice was cold.
"...It's just catching a little ant that doesn't know whether to live or die."