A body bag, but it was empty.
The appearance of such specialized equipment undoubtedly made the situation more complicated.
The original theory had been that the people Head-Peeking Brother had swallowed were likely employees of Art Prison. Something Ivan had done had brought them here, where they'd eventually run into his opponent.
Now it seemed things weren't that simple.
Had someone really brought frozen bodies here in body bags?
What had been going on in this tree hollow made me even more curious.
"I've been here before..."
The situation was complicated, but at least Head-Peeking Brother had finally learned to answer questions without being prompted. As he looked over the scene with me, he seemed to recall more.
"Was it the one that tasted the best?"
He'd been to a place this deep? Fu Qian gave a slight nod.
"No... It was another person. They weren't as cold..."
The conversation was rather disturbing, but Head-Peeking Brother seemed to be handling it better now. He answered quickly and with certainty.
So they'd been brought here in separate batches?
As the saying went, trust the person you put to work. Though he had only Head-Peeking Brother's word for it, Fu Qian naturally followed the thought through.
It seemed this wasn't an isolated case. There was more than one body here that had been brought in frozen, and they'd arrived at different times rather than all at once.
But that raised another question: why was the girl's body the coldest—because it was the most recent?
One possible answer came to mind easily.
According to Head-Peeking Brother, the two missing people had only arrived here yesterday.
His sense of time might not be reliable, given his mental state. But if they really had become corpses, there was a good chance they'd still be relatively