The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

372: Corpse

Feng Wu watched the man open the sarcophagus.
He didn’t listen to Zo, so something would definitely happen.
Feng Wu bit her lip.
She could already see the baleful aura seeping through.

The others gripped their weapons tightly as they watched the guy’s movements.
If treasure was revealed, odds were high a battle would erupt.

Even Bisi pointed her staff at the guy.
As soon as the treasure was revealed, she would attack him.

Finally the lid was pushed aside.
The others rushed in as soon as the sarcophagus was opened.
They wanted to see what good things were inside.

Upon stepping forward what greeted them was a beautifully dressed girl in Chinese attire.
Her clothes were white and looked like sacrificial attire.
A silver bracelet adorned her wrist and a string of copper bells wrapped around her waist.
She had no other accessories other than those two things.

She was a natural beauty of seventeen or eighteen with red stained lips.
Although she must have died many, many years ago, she looked frozen at her most beautiful, untouched by time.

If it weren’t for a her lack of breathing, it would have looked like she was just sleeping.
Who would have thought they were looking at a corpse centuries old.

“This. . . this how is this possible? The sea god’s tomb was created in ancient times.
It’s been thousands of years since then.
How can this corpse not rot after so long?” cried out someone in alarm.

“That’s right.
How can the body remain the same after tens of thousands of years.
Even if the sarcophagus is good, it’s no treasure.
It’s possible for it to keep the corpse from decaying for so long.”

“Could the girl have something on her body that prevents decay?”

The eyes of the man who opened the sarcophagus lit up.
The more he thought about that possibility, the more feasible it seemed.

Wasn’t it true? If there was no treasure, how could the body remain unchanged even after so many years?

He immediately reached out to touch the girl’s body in order to grope for whatever treasures possibly hidden on her.

“What are you doing? Even a female corpse isn’t respected?! Are you that starved?!” A brother behind the guy spoke up.

The buddy next to him answered.
“You can’t tell? He’s looking for treasure, a treasure that keeps a corpse from rotting.”

The two guys who spoke were very young, probably not more than thirty.
They should have been from strong families, so they had no interest treasures that kept a corpse from rotting.

“Don’t let him take all the good stuff for himself.
There’s another sarcophagus.” Someone jealous of the man spoke up.

That reminded everyone of the other sarcophagus.
They were emboldened after seeing no harm come to the guy who opened the first one.

They got the second one opened in no time with everyone working together.

This one had a very handsome, young man also dressed in similar attire.
His skin was alabaster smooth and just as delicate as the girl’s.
Like her, he also a string of copper bells around his waist with no other accessories on his body.

They were overjoyed at the sight.

Great! He was also preserved, so there had to be treasure inside.
Time to find the treasure!

A group of men began groping the boy’s body trying to find the treasure they imagined had to be on him somewhere.
The other group was doing the same to the girl, as if they hadn’t seen a girl in years, their hands groped all over.

“Ah!” A sudden scream rang out.

Those picking at the young boy’s clothes turned around to find the people around the girl’s coffin had dispersed.

Standing was a guy with a hole where his heart used to be, scratched out by a hand as pale as alabaster.

The hand belonged to the female corpse.
Her eyes, now open, were crimson red.
Looking into her eyes was like looking at a scene with boundless mountains covered in dead bodies.
It was as if you could hear the whine of dead souls coming from a sea of blood.

They saw the scene through the hole in the guy's chest.

“The corpse is different!”

From the guy being killed to the yell and everyone’s retreat from the female corpse, all of it happened in an instant.
Though it was fast, those who were experienced felt it in slow motion.

“Be careful not to touch the string with the bells!”

But the warning came too late.
Among the people trying to loot the boy’s corpse, one person had already planned on grabbing the copper bells.
He hadn’t felt any magic coming from them, but the bell appeared on both bodies, so come to think of it, it would be a good idea to take it for later to study.

The other fellow was killed just as this guy was about to grab for the bell.
The scream surprised him and he involuntarily tore the string and bells off the corpse.
Instantly, the male corpse opened his eyes and the man who ripped the bells off followed in the footsteps of the other dead fellow: a hole in his chest, his heart torn out.

“Let’s work together!”

The sudden outburst from the two corpses surprised everyone, but they were all from hardened backgrounds, so they weren’t surprised for long.
They quickly raised their weapons to meet the enemy head on.

The sword users slashed at the two corpses but it was no use.
Their attacks were swept to the side with just a slight wave of the hand.

“They’re too powerful!”

“What the hell was that?! I know I hit the girl just now, but it felt like I was hitting stone!”

The people who were swept to the ground cried out.
They couldn’t believe corpses so strong existed.

They had been thrown to the ground with just a single wave of their hand.