"I am indeed beautiful. I hate the way you look at me."
Wei Ge spoke, and the young girl withdrew her slightly greedy gaze, leading the two of them farther into the house. Both Shade and Wei Ge could tell that the other woman had taken a liking to Wei Ge's appearance.
The interior of this house was naturally much larger than it appeared from outside, but unlike the utterly chaotic and disorderly interior of the House of False Men, this house had the standard layout of an Exhibition Hall.
After leaving the entrance hall covered in portraits of various people, the three entered a large Exhibition Room filled with human bodies. Those bodies were placed inside eggshell-shaped glass Containers filled with completely transparent liquid. None wore any clothing. Their bodies floated curled up in the solution, displaying every detail of their skin to the outside.
"The Skin Objects worn by these people are all the most basic kind. They have little value beyond looking somewhat attractive, but they are sufficient for display at the entrance."
The Guiding Young Lady introduced them as they passed through. Disgust appeared on Wei Ge's face, and she silently followed behind Shade. Shade, meanwhile, could sense that all these people possessed faint Life Force. But the people inside the Containers were not alive. The Skin Crafters had merely used some technique to make the corpses retain activity, allowing them to serve as better "display stands."
"Then are those portraits on the walls also Skin Objects meant for exhibition?"
Shade asked again. Densely packed oil paintings covered the walls, and every figure in them was lifelike.
"No, no. The figures in those oil paintings are all Skin Objects that have been lost from the Hall for one reason or another. If they ever have the