After leaving the base, Victor shot into the sky. He flew straight toward his mother's graveyard. On the way, he recalled his conversation with Bruce.
At the time, they had already discovered that his mother's grave had been disturbed. The moisture level of the soil was off. But he had already identified a suspect then: his father. He believed his father had dug up his mother's grave and taken her body away.
But what if the order had been reversed? What if his mother had come back to life, dug herself out of the grave, and only then been taken away by his father?
Victor soon arrived at the cemetery. He dug up his mother's grave again. Last time, he had only given it a cursory look, his mind filled with confusion and rage over his father's actions. Blinded by emotion, he had failed to realize that the truth might have been the complete opposite of what he imagined.
This time, he excavated the entire grave and even pulled out the coffin itself. He carefully inspected every inch of it and discovered scratch marks and signs of pushing beneath the lid—the so-called coffin board.
Fortunately, Western coffins were not nailed shut. After the viewing was over, the lid was simply placed on and the coffin buried. Some had clasps or similar mechanisms, but they were actually easy to open. After all, it was merely a ceremonial object, not something designed to keep corpses from rising. There was no need to seal it airtight.
Moreover, cemeteries like this usually buried coffins rather shallowly. People believed that burying someone too deep would obstruct the deceased's path to Heaven. That was why, in so many movies, the grave was only a little deeper than the coffin itself. When filling it in, a few