Chapter 80: Identical
Yu Lianyun’s sensation would ultimately guide them toward the danger of death or toward the unknown they sought, with a fifty-fifty probability. He Jia’an and the others didn’t think too much about it; if there was a chance, they took it, and they quickly decided to follow Yu Lianyun’s sensation to investigate.
After passing through several winding corridors and experiencing several nearly identical cross corridors, He Jia’an and the others finally arrived at the door of a room with tightly closed door leaf. Above the door were numerous claw marks and slippery, sticky unknown liquid, as if a loyal dog trapped in love had once vented its longing and resentment for something behind the door.
After attempts to kick and ram the door failed, He Jia’an directly took out the remaining micro explosives and straightforwardly blew open the door to this room as well.
After blowing open the room door, He Jia’an and the others all heard a terrifying and eerie howl suddenly echoing inside the royal palace, followed by bursts of beast-like roars. High-frequency footsteps continuously came from various places in the royal palace.
“We need to hurry.” He Jia’an said in a deep voice, and then the three of them stepped into this deliberately sealed room together.
The room wasn’t large, probably only about forty square meters, like a storage room, with quite a few things covered in white cloth inside. The most eye-catching among them were the four coffins in the room.
“Why are there coffins here?” Li Yingqi was stunned. The Gluttonous Daughter couldn’t possibly be a vampire too, could she? Could she even think of sleeping inside coffins?
“Each coffin has a name written on it.” Yu Lianyun mustered her courage and stepped forward to examine them, discovering that the variously shaped coffins all had metal pieces nailed on them, with text engraved on the metal pieces. Although the fonts differed, the handwriting was the same, and the text was all in the Shenzhou Region’s script, though some were fonts only used in ancient Shenzhou.
One of the coffins had a very familiar name. Li Yingqi read it out in surprise: “Xie Li.”
“That’s the female killer’s name. This coffin is for the female killer.” He Jia’an immediately recognized the purpose of this coffin. He immediately tried to open it, but the coffin lid was nailed down tightly. It took the help of Li Yingqi and Yu Lianyun to finally open it, revealing the condition of the corpse inside.
When they saw the person lying in the coffin, the three of them once again widened their eyes in shock, and this time the surprise was mixed with horror emotions.
They saw Xie Li, who should have been smashed to pieces by the subway, now lying intact in the coffin. Her complexion was rosy, the corners of her mouth curved up, like a sleeping beauty dreaming sweetly. But when He Jia’an couldn’t resist his curiosity and probed Xie Li’s breath, he confirmed that this was indeed a corpse.
“How could this be?” He Jia’an was very puzzled.
Yu Lianyun stepped forward to check. She directly flipped open the corpse’s eyelids but immediately recoiled in fright. Under Xie Li’s eyelids, there were no eyeballs, only clumps of red flesh and blood.
“Is this corpse fake?” Li Yingqi swallowed and guessed.
Yu Lianyun shook her head, however, and said, “No, the texture is definitely human skin and human flesh.” She pursed her lips, coughed lightly, regained her courage, and checked the corpse again. She soon made another discovery. “No bones, the head’s weight is off too, the torso is overly full, no cavity for organs… This… this is just a corpse covered in a layer of human skin and grown only flesh and blood.”
“Why make such a corpse?” Li Yingqi was confused.
“Only the ever-changing Gluttonous Daughter could do something like this,” He Jia’an said with narrowed eyes. “It seems it’s true that the Gluttonous Daughter has feelings for her believers. She even specially made a coffin for her executioner. Since the corpse was damaged, she used her own flesh and blood to make a brand-new replacement corpse for her.”
Yu Lianyun couldn’t help but open her mouth in shock, then swallowed and said, “If that’s the case, then the other coffins—could they also be for her former executioners?”
“Open the coffins and see.” He Jia’an said directly.
Opening the two other coffins next to Xie Li’s, the names on them were “Xu Ying” and “An Zizhi,” with one male and one female lying inside respectively.
“These two names are both notorious murderers in history.” He Jia’an checked the records related to these two names on his portable electronic watch and found they were both outlaws from historical records.
“These two corpses are in the same condition as Xie Li’s.” Yu Lianyun examined the corpses and marveled, “Is this the power of the abnormal god? The made corpses are flesh-and-blood bodies, fine, but they can even remain undecayed forever.”
Then only the last coffin remained unopened. Li Yingqi read the name written in small seal script: “Zhong Zhe.” She checked the information but found no historical records of anyone with that name related both to murder and to ancient Cuizhu City. This executioner seemed more like Xie Li in style, exceptionally low-key.
When they lifted the sarcophagus lid and saw the appearance of the person in the coffin clearly, He Jia’an and the others felt as if they had been electrified, staring in astonishment at the corpse before them.
“Why… why does this person look so much like Xin Junmao?” Li Yingqi said in shock.
“No, the facial features have slight subtle differences, and their heights and builds are also slightly different.” Yu Lianyun shook her head vigorously to stay calm and analyzed.
He Jia’an frowned and suspected, “Could this Zhong Zhe be Xin Junmao’s ancestor?”
“That possibility can’t be ruled out, but there’s also the one-in-a-billion chance that in this world, in the past and future, there really are two faces that are almost identical,” Yu Lianyun said.
While He Jia’an and Yu Lianyun were focused on Zhong Zhe’s appearance, Li Yingqi noticed something else strange. She flipped open Zhong Zhe’s eyelids and found that unlike the other executioners, Zhong Zhe’s corpse had eyeballs, and his body seemed to have a complete skeleton and internal organs. “Wait, this is a real corpse.”
“It really is!” Yu Lianyun was stunned for a moment, then touched and observed it herself. After a while, she said with a strange expression, “But why is only his corpse complete?”
“Maybe the Gluttonous Daughter particularly favored this generation’s executioner,” He Jia’an sneered, then raised his eyebrow. “If that’s the case, then I might know why the Gluttonous Daughter is so obsessed with Xin Junmao—because he looks almost exactly like this generation’s executioner!”
Roar roar roar—
Bursts of roars came from outside the room, getting closer, accompanied by hurried footsteps.
“Let’s go, something’s coming.” He Jia’an immediately ordered a withdrawal from the room without hesitation.
As soon as the three rushed out the door, they saw several violently moving blood people charging out from a nearby corner. They moved too fast to turn, so they all leaped high into the air one after another, then bounced off the wall back onto the corridor, continuing to rush toward He Jia’an and the others.
Seeing this, the three immediately tossed several grenades behind them and ran for it.
Then continuous explosive loud noises rang out inside the royal palace, along with incessant monster wails.
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