No idea whether it had been blessed, but that was exactly why Yu Xing had come to the garden.
The strange smell he'd noticed before entering the house had been the stench of decay.
Now that he'd found what he was looking for, he and Masha dug up the body buried beneath the flowers.
More accurately, he did the digging with his cane while Masha cheered him on from the side.
[You are digging up bones in the garden. Stamina -15]
Stamina could be fully restored by resting and sleeping. Since it was early morning, Yu Xing and Masha were both at full stamina. Losing 15 points was no big deal.
Afraid Yu Xing would get bored, Masha even tried to make conversation. "Brother Roy, why do you know so much about the language of flowers? Did you study it?"
Yu Xing smiled. "I had a friend once who was like a flower sprite. He was interested in all kinds of flowers. I picked up a few unusual meanings just by being around him."
Soon, one flower after another toppled over. The earth was turned up, revealing a human skeleton.
That's right—not only were the fingers stripped of flesh. The entire body was. It could no longer be called a corpse, only a skeleton.
Many of its broken bones couldn't be pieced back together during the excavation, so by the time Yu Xing pulled it out of the ground, it had fallen apart into a scattered mess.
It took them a great deal of time and effort just to dig up all the bones they could find.
Masha was afraid of ghosts, but she wasn't nearly as frightened of corpses as he'd expected. As she put it, "I'm only scared of things that move. What's there to be afraid of