Lu Feng looked around the hall. With the hanging paintings gone, only six charred characters remained on the stone walls.
Looking at the paired characters—"tomb tomb, within within, coffin coffin"—Lu Feng could not make sense of them for the moment.
Just as he was about to ask Wu Ying, he was startled to see Huo Qiu lying twisted in the corner by the doorway.
At that moment, Huo Qiu no longer possessed even a trace of life.
Noticing Lu Feng's gaze, Wu Ying explained, "That brat was pretending to be unconscious. When we let our guard down, he barged into this hall and tried to launch a desperate attack on you. Good thing I kept an eye out and stopped his last-ditch revenge."
"It was also his own fault for courting death. If he'd used that determination to flee, he might really have slipped away."
Remembering why Lu Feng had deliberately kept Huo Qiu alive.
Wu Ying continued, "It's just a pity about your plan. I'm afraid it'll be difficult to use him for your arrangement now."
Lu Feng quietly examined the corpse and said thoughtfully, "Not necessarily."
From Huo Qiu's perspective as he rushed through the door and was then dealt with by Wu Ying, he should only have seen Lu Feng's side and back as Lu Feng sat cross-legged. What he saw more clearly should have been the charred writing on the surrounding walls, as well as the black coffin in the center.
With that in mind, Lu Feng asked, "Brother Wu, do you know what exactly the six characters on these walls mean?"
If those characters held some other mystery, and Huo Qiu had transmitted this scene back through the Contract Gu before dying, that old fellow Huo Yuanqiu might well come in person.
It would depend