LWGP - Chapter 156
Chapter 156: Corpse Resuscitation
The most terrifying thing was that due to these two people's "hints," other strange gurgling sounds started up at the same time, accompanied by the sizzling sound from the incinerator.
Ah, this? Some of the more proper people, like Yan Guanqi, Xie Lu, Qiao Xuejing, and others, were speechless.
But they couldn't say anything, because their stamina was also depleted to its limit.
To be honest, they were hungry too, but they had an image to maintain.
Their stomachs absolutely could not be allowed to growl. Absolutely not!
"Actually, it's understandable. Stop looking, let's all go make some food…"
In reality, few people here were soft-hearted. They wouldn't lose their appetite just because Zhang Jue's corpse was being cremated.
Speaking of which, were the sweet potatoes in the fields of the simple dungeon sweet or not?
So after this was said, everyone was about to return to their groups to replenish their stamina, but just then.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
All the lights went out.
The entire 10th-floor space lost all its lights. The only thing remaining was the fiery red incinerator.
The firelight radiated out, illuminating everyone. A crimson glow crept over each person's body and face.
As everyone stood astonished, on guard and alarmed, the burning corpse inside the incinerator suddenly sat up, making a gacha or perhaps a splat sound.
It sounded like the joints of a limb, burned to a crisp, being bent.
!
Everyone was suddenly shocked, and as they all looked towards it.
One of its hands shot straight up, pointing a finger outside, right at them.
This scene was too sudden, too terrifying. Everyone saw its movement, saw its finger, and even more so, saw the seemingly quenched eye sockets of the corpse sitting in the flames.
It was still sizzling and oozing oil.
Finally, a chorus of pig-slaughtering screams erupted!
Far too many people were scared out of their wits.
Even Yan Guanqi and the others couldn't hide their racing hearts and terrified expressions. Then, the crowd scrambled back, leaving a singled-out Wang Shu.
Wang Shu was terrified and infinitely wronged—I'm not the only fatty here, there's that guy in red too! Why the hell are you pointing at me!
This is fucking terrifying!
Wang Shu immediately grabbed Wang Jiu's sleeve, his fat body hiding behind her, while Dao Dao scrambled to climb onto Qiao Xuejing.
Scared this pig to death!
But there were also some who were extremely calm.
Tan Yingzhou: "Sometimes, within three days of death, the body's muscles haven't completely deteriorated. Uneven heating during cremation can cause muscle reactions, resulting in phenomena like sitting up or convulsions. But this corpse should have been dead for a long time and shouldn't have such a reaction."
Xie Jiang: "It's simple. Either this corpse hasn't been dead for three days, or someone is playing tricks."
Just as he finished speaking, cracking and rumbling sounds were heard.
Xie Jiang and Tan Yingzhou were startled, their faces filled with horror.
"Not good!"
"Get out, quick!"
It was too late. After the rumble, the ordinary main door of the 10th floor was replaced by a mechanism, becoming a different door.
This door was bombarded by some experts who rushed over—and didn't move an inch.
Damn it, they were all trapped in here!
A completely sealed space!
That's right, the mastermind behind this Mist Town dungeon seemed to particularly enjoy playing games involving enclosed spaces.
Jiang Bingze and Wen Shan didn't react as quickly as Xie Jiang's group, but they noticed that Wang Jiu's reaction was off.
What was she looking at? It seemed she was staring intently at the incinerator.
Everyone followed her gaze and faintly saw something behind the burning, shriveling corpse.
In the deepest part of the furnace chamber.
It was hard to see clearly.
It wasn't until the corpse toppled over that they saw a coffin inside.
It was deathly still, and in the flames, they could still see an incomparably black and ancient character for "longevity."
A wooden coffin, yet it stubbornly remained unburnt in such high temperatures.
On the contrary, it was perfectly intact, as if newly made.
Everyone: "…"
This was fucking scarier than before.
Having witnessed the Research Institute's various advanced technologies and biological development methods, suddenly being confronted with such an old-fashioned, traditional Chinese coffin…
Everyone felt a jarring culture shock, like a delicate southerner used to light flavors suddenly being forced to eat a super-spicy Chongqing hot pot.
"This… Master, I've only heard of roasted duck, never roasted coffin. Could this be a ghost and demon dungeon? Is the planner sick in the head, or is this damn old geezer sick in the head?"
Just shut up, you damn fatty!
Scared as he was, Wang Shu's mouth was still quite cheeky.
Now that the coffin had appeared, it was obviously a dangerous existence. But they couldn't attack rashly. Those with insight skills all cast them at it.
Wang Jiu also looked.
Mysterious Coffin of Mist Town (Sealed within is a Blood Corpse, extremely dangerous)
Attributes: Unknown.
Skills: Unknown.
When viewed with the Demon's Eye, these notification messages appeared grim and bloody, as if they were dripping blood.
With such a dangerous thing trapped in the same space as them, who could be at ease?
Especially since it was inexplicably making strange sounds.
It sounded like long fingernails scratching the coffin lid, a tearing sound that made one's scalp tingle, intermittent and sporadic.
Oh my god, is this a fantasy dungeon? A jiangshi?!
Wang Jiu looked at the coffin, lost in thought.
This sound?
Everyone launched their attacks at it, but more than half the power was nullified by the incinerator's flames, leaving little force by the time they reached the coffin.
After all, melee fighters couldn't get close, and arcanists and mages mostly used elemental attacks. The flames inside the incinerator were terrifyingly strong, and other elemental attacks simply couldn't stand up to them.
After various attempts, everyone finally confirmed that they couldn't attack it while the incinerator was operating.
"In that case, we can only wait for the fire to go out, or for the coffin to come out on its own."
Wen Shan's tone wasn't good, because this meant they were being led by the nose by the person behind the scenes.
But they had no other choice. At least the currently strongest, Cai Market and Tan Yingzhou, showed no reaction.
Wang Jiu also showed no reaction.
Everyone was currently exhausted and didn't have much stamina or Spirit Power to deal with this terrifying coffin. They could only rest for the time being. They tacitly arranged for people to stand guard by the incinerator, so that if the coffin made any strange moves, they would all work together to deal with it.
As for the rest, their main priority was to rest and recover.
Except for the centermost room, the other rooms were normal. All the teams went into the rooms to rest, though a few individuals took a room alone.
For example, Wang Jiu and Tan Yingzhou. Both chose to take a room alone, and no one fought them for it.
There were enough rooms anyway.
In the room, Wang Jiu destroyed the surveillance eye as usual, and then the Puppet appeared again… A strange sound emerged in the dim room, and a moment later, Holy Light descended within.
Everything returned to silence.
In the dimness, Wang Jiu, who had taken a stamina pill, still closed her eyes in exhaustion, her breathing gradually steadying.
But her mind and consciousness did not fall completely asleep. It split into several parts, controlling different Puppets to go to different places.
One was in a car, one was underground, one was in a government building, and some others…
One of them was even private messaging someone.
The entire space was without light, save for the glow of the incinerator. But it was blocked by the morgue area, leaving the rooms almost completely dark. Each team left someone on guard in their room.
In front of the incinerator, as the leaders of the two teams, Xie Jiang and Tan Yingzhou stood guard. As they watched, they both glanced at each other at the same time.
It seems… a bit tiring?
Both of them narrowed their eyes but said nothing, though their expressions grew a few shades gloomier.
This dungeon was even more dangerous than they had imagined.
The person behind the scenes was still well hidden.
Time passed, minute by minute, second by second.
After an unknown amount of time, a blood-curdling scream suddenly came from outside.
Everyone woke up one after another, but they had no mind to care about the source of the scream, because they first discovered another bizarre phenomenon—someone on their team was dead.
Not just an ordinary death, but completely killed.
Their HP was cleared to 0.
After the initial shock and commotion, each team fell into endless anger, grief, and terror.
What kind of method was this?
Who was it?!!
Everyone moved their teammates' bodies to an open area. In the silence, the atmosphere grew increasingly strange.
Wang Shu and his group noticed everyone sizing them up.
No one on their team had died.
Even the teams from Cai Market and Tan Yingzhou had each lost their weakest member, and their deaths were gruesome.
Only Wang Jiu's team was completely unscathed.
That's right, not even a pig was harmed.
Under everyone's flickering, suspicious gazes, Wang Shu and the others didn't speak rashly. They just contacted Wang Jiu, who was still behind her closed door.
Unfortunately, there was no response.
Until Li Chui couldn't help but speak up, "It was her, wasn't it?"
Before he could finish, smack! Tan Yingzhou slapped him across the face.
Li Chui's head was knocked aside, and he spat blood. His face quickly swelled up like a pig's head. He was utterly shocked. "Uncle!"
His eyes turned red.
But Tan Yingzhou said expressionlessly, "Is it your place to speak here?"
Li Chui should have been furious, but he was frightened, because he had never seen Tan Yingzhou with such a grim expression.
Dong Long also stopped Li Chui in the team channel, telling him to shut up and save his own skin.
Because the door opened.
With a creak, Wang Jiu walked out. After seeing the pile of corpses in front of her, she only glanced at them once.
The bodies had all been drained of blood, turning into dried corpses.
It was a horrifying sight, and difficult for many who had spent day and night with the deceased to accept. At this moment, seeing her emerge, they all glared at her angrily.
They became even more enraged, especially seeing Wang Jiu's indifferent expression, as if she thought nothing of it. But when Wang Jiu's gaze swept coolly over them, everyone flinched.
Um, today's Wang Jiu seemed much scarier than usual. Even a single hair on her eyebrow seemed to proclaim her bad mood.
Everyone was afraid of her and didn't dare to run their mouths, but they couldn't help but be suspicious.
This had nothing to do with her style or disposition; it was because she fit the profile of the perpetrator too well.
1. In the first-floor maze, she could pass through it directly, which proves she has the ability to ignore physical barriers, fitting the condition of being able to enter each room to kill.
2. She has a blood-draining method. With her killing power, she could basically one-shot all the HP of the deceased here with a single strike.
Facing everyone's suspicious gazes, Wang Jiu took the milk Wang Shu had heated up early in the morning, took a sip, and said nothing. But Xie Lu spoke up.
"She's not the only one here with a blood-draining method. If you don't want to expose yourself, there's no need to use this as a pretext to prejudge someone's guilt, lest you end up using it yourself later and making things awkward."
Qiao Xuejing also spoke: "As for breaking into a room to kill, rather than saying someone broke in, it's better to explore why, in a room with several people, one person was silently drained of their HP and blood and died, while the others were unharmed and completely unaware. There are no more than two reasons, right? 1. The perpetrator still has a shred of benevolence and spared the others. 2. It's a locked-room murder, and the killer is among the other survivors. Or…"
Speaking of which, is Lao Wang a person with a heart of benevolence?
She is not.
Xie Lu and the others collectively acknowledged this fact.
She paused, then gave everyone a deep look. "Or, the group is the murderer, and the group survives."
These words enraged many people, who furiously demanded to know what she meant!
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