"What's wrong?" Cao Yuan asked doubtfully when he saw Lin Qiye stop.
Lin Qiye said nothing. He merely gently pushed open the door. Outside lay a narrow corridor, and in its center was a corpse that had been cut in half at the waist.
It was a woman's corpse. Her upper and lower body had been completely severed, and dark red blood stained the surrounding floor. Through the pool of blood, they could vaguely make out that she was wearing a recruit's uniform.
"She was one of us." Li Shaoguang's voice was somewhat hoarse. "I knew her. She was quite pretty. One of my comrades even said he wanted to pursue her before... I never expected..."
This was the second corpse they had found today.
Lin Qiye walked to the edge of the blood pool and swept every inch of her corpse with Mental Power before speaking gravely:
"There was only this one wound at her waist. The cut was extremely smooth. She should have been severed in one strike by some kind of sharp weapon. The muscles in her upper body remained stiff. The situation must have been tense at the time. She was on guard against something, or rather... confronting something.
"But whatever she had been confronting... no, that 'Mystery' was far stronger than her. It only took one slash to cut off half her body, leaving her no chance to resist."
Li Shaoguang's expression was extremely ugly. "Wasn't that 'Mystery' supposed to be skilled at trapping enemies? How could it be this strong?"
Cao Yuan pondered for a moment. "Could that 'Mystery' have used a Forbidden Ruin involving space to directly divide her body?"
"No. If it had been spatial power, the wound wouldn't look like this. A wound like this could only have been made by