The risk far outweighed the potential gain, so Su Xiao decided not to use the cursed coins.
Walking through the black mist, Su Xiao found the oversized white-fat candle in his hand extremely useful. Not only did it clear the black mist quickly, but the passage it formed was over five meters high and nearly three meters wide. It illuminated nearly six meters ahead, making the passage much more spacious.
Even if something unexpected happened now, Su Xiao could still fight within the black mist.
Su Xiao increased his pace. After walking for about ten minutes, a wooden house appeared ahead. It wasn't because he was lucky, but because the white-fat candle's range of illumination had increased, raising the odds of finding a wooden house.
Just as Su Xiao was about to push open the wooden house's door, he heard voices conversing inside.
"How is it?"
"Mm, everything's ready. We're just waiting for this batch of people to arrive."
"Your chains are long enough. Kill them one by one, whoever comes. We have nothing to trade, and we can't obtain Shadow Stones through trade either."
"If we get Shadow Stones..."
"Of course you'll go first. We're brothers, after all."
After hearing this exchange, Su Xiao was basically certain that the two dead ones inside the wooden house meant no good and were extremely poor.
Su Xiao wasn't afraid of the dead ones harboring ill intent. He was afraid they were poor. In that case, even fighting them would only waste white-fat candle.
Su Xiao pushed the wooden door open a crack. It was pitch-black inside, and the two dead ones within didn't even have white-fat candles.
Seeing this, Su Xiao turned around and left. He had only walked a few meters when the wooden door behind him was yanked open.