The funeral

Sheng Qingqiao scratched her head, then reached out and poked the black ash on her leg; a small piece crumbled at the touch.

He moved his legs and, finding he could still walk using his shinbones, grinned optimistically, "Probably? It should be fine. It's not a big deal, at worst I'll just get some weird prosthetics."

"Can you pretend?" Bai Yang looked at him, Sheng Qingqiao was taken aback.

Luo Jiayu nodded. "Yes, yes, there are many useful leg-shaped Weird Object. I have a lot of tentacles at home that I can use! I can bring you one, no, I can bring you several, so you can switch between them!"

Sheng Qingqiao declined, "No, thank you, but I don't want to become a fish monster yet."

Bai Yang didn't reveal the answer, as he didn't know whether another strange Weird Object could be placed inside a strange creature, and whether their Rules would conflict.

"If we can walk, let's not waste any more time." Bai Yang pointed to the river in front of them. "This strange thing scattered us all; it must have crammed people into every area. We're in danger, and the others are definitely in danger too."

"Since some of the people from this Castle were buried by the nobles in the Forest, the river, and the Garden, do you think there might be people in this river?"

Luo Jiayu immediately stepped forward. "I'll go see, I'm a good swimmer!"

Neither Bai Yang nor Sheng Qingqiao tried to take it from her. Sheng Qingqiao was in such a state that she could barely stand, and Bai Yang couldn't swim at all, so she was the only one who could swim.

After Luo Jiayu jumped into the water, blue fish scales slowly grew on her skin, the dust on her Long Hair was washed away, and the burns on her body caused by the flames began to be slowly repaired by the water.

She took a deep breath and plunged into the center of the lake, her body moving freely through the dense mass of corpses Skeletons like a real fish.

The silt and weeds at the bottom of the river made it difficult to see clearly. After swimming downstream for a while, she saw a cloth bag that was flashing red at the bottom of the river.

A few minutes later, Luo Jiayu swam out of the water, dragging the bound Tao Yuan with him.

"Cough cough--"

As soon as Tao Yuan got out of the water, he started coughing violently and vomited up all the water he had drunk.

While patting her back to help, Luo Jiayu emptied the water from her own clothes and shoes. "Luckily we arrived in time. Sister Tao Yuan was tied up and locked in a sack filled with stones; she almost drowned!"

Sheng Qingqiao exclaimed in astonishment, "Even in this state, you still managed to rescue her so quickly? How long were you down there?"

"I'm a good swimmer, I'm just as comfortable in the water as you are on land," Luo Jiayu laughed. "I didn't see that dark-colored bag either, but Tao Yuan was clever; she used the light from the Weird Object to signal for help, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to find her."

As she spoke, Tao Yuan finally recovered. She tied her wet hair back up, wiped the water off her face, and thanked Luo Jiayu.

"That rope can suppress energy. Luckily you arrived quickly." Tao Yuan had also practiced holding her breath. If she had the support of energy, she could have lasted longer. However, her energy was suppressed. If she had failed to break through by force, she, an ordinary person, would only have lasted a few minutes in the water at most.

So she chose to conserve her energy and wait for rescue, and thankfully, she was rescued.

"Hurry up and find the others; their situation isn't much better than ours," she said.

"Good."

The group ran quickly to the Garden, looking around to see which way to go, when Bai Yang looked up and saw Tang Pin waving to them from the Castle.

"... Look up," he said.

The group looked up in unison and saw Tang Pin hanging from the pointed roof, waving at them calmly, like a large bat.

"Uh... that's indeed a good way to neutralize the force of Sister Tang's Long Staff," Sheng Qingqiao commented.

Tao Yuan raised her hand and smacked him on the head. "Stop being so cheeky, think about how to save him."

"I'll do it."

Bai Yang waved his hand, sending the two Little Cat onto the roof. He then cut the rope in a few quick movements. Tang Pin grabbed the nearby spire and jumped down from the various rooftops.

After Tang Pin came down, she immediately pointed to the front of the Garden and said, "Quick, I see An Ying and Bai Ao are still buried in the ground. A few minutes ago, they were still half-buried, but now only their heads are left!"

Buried alive?

A large group of people ran to the place Tang Pin had mentioned, and sure enough, they saw two heads.

The two heads were buried side by side in the ground, with most of their heads buried except for their eyes and nostrils.

The two could not speak, but their eyes were enough to show how excited they were.

Bai Yang said, "If it weren't for An Ying, your hair being so conspicuous, I probably wouldn't have noticed you being buried here even if I were just passing by."

Tao Yuan agreed, saying that it was hard to miss a white head growing out of the land.

Despite their words, the group didn't waste any time and quickly dug the person out of the dirt.

Sheng Qingqiao knelt and dug, she muttered, "What is this Butler trying to do to torture people like this?"

Without looking up, Tao Yuan continued digging with the Chainsaw: "That goes without saying, many people must have died this way to treat us. Be careful with your leg, don't break it again."

After the two finally managed to free the dog's mouth from the dirt, the Bai Ao kept politely swearing.

It was more than ten minutes later when everyone finally dug them out of the ground.

After searching the surrounding area without finding any of their companions, Tao Yuan had no choice but to use Weird Object to find them. Following the scent, they made their way to the back of the Castle.

Here, they met their remaining teammates.

Tao Yuan put away the Weird Object and asked, "Wang Ding, Mi Chuchu, what are you doing here? What happened?"

"We've only been here a short time ourselves."

Wang Ding and Mi Chuchu turned to look at them while pointing to the sky above.

The group looked up in the direction they were looking and saw a huge crystal coffin hanging in the air on the wall behind the Castle.

The crystal coffin was made of bright red flowers in full bloom, and lying in the center of the flowers was Qin Rang, his eyes closed and his face deathly pale.

"We just tried, but we can't break the coffin or get close to it," Mi Chuchu said to Tao Yuan. "As soon as we get close, a voice prompts us that we need to complete a funeral for Qin Rang before we can take the coffin away. If the funeral isn't completed, the coffin can't be buried."

"A funeral?" An Ying pondered, setting aside the question of why a funeral was necessary, focusing instead on figuring out how to solve the problem and save the person. "Did anyone bring any paper money?"

Everyone shook their heads; why would they carry such a thing with them?

Wang Ding silently noted. "Remember to bring these next time."

"I have to have a funeral done? That sounds really strange to me," Tao Yuan muttered. What if the funeral just becomes a reality after it's done...? No, no, no, I can't think like that.

An Ying also considered this possibility, and when she met Wang Ding's complicated gaze, they both felt a little worried.

"If there's no paper money, how about playing the suona?" Luo Jiayu looked at Tang Pin, her eyes conveying a clear meaning.

Tang Pin shook her head. "The flute and the suona are not the same instrument. I don't know how to play the suona, nor do I own one."

What about the white cloth strip or clothing?