Intruder

"Still not dead?"

Chen Shouyi was surprised and subconsciously looked at the corpse's eyes.

Its eyes were half-open, half-closed. Through its eyelids, Chen Shouyi vaguely sensed a faint, eerie glow emanating from the corpse's eyes, possibly due to the light.

After watching for a while, he retreated back into the courtyard.

It wasn't out of fear, but the smell was too unbearable.

As Chen Shouyi sat down, Chen Xingyue leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Did you find anything?"

"It's right there, why don't you go see for yourself?" Chen Shouyi glanced at her and said.

"Don't be so stingy, saying it won't kill you."

"Don't mention death, be careful not to jinx it!"

Chen Xingyue was a little scared:

"Brother, if you keep this up, I won't talk to you anymore."

"I'm not teasing you anymore." Chen Shouyi stopped joking and whispered, "His hands are still moving, but they're tied up. You probably won't have anything to do today."

Chen Xingyue immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Time slowly passed, and the moonlight seemed to grow colder.

During this time, the old man started to falter and was persuaded to go to sleep.

Around one in the morning, the mourning hall began to shake with thuds, and the corpse started to struggle.

Everyone immediately stopped and looked at each other, their faces filled with uncertainty and surprise.

After a long while, Old Man Wang's second son, Wang Dewen, bravely went to the mourning hall to take a look. He returned with a pale face, "It's... it's nothing, Dad is tied up securely."

Everyone heard this and breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Shouyi keenly noticed that his sister's small hands, which had been tightly gripping his pant leg, had also loosened.

He couldn't help but find it amusing. If she was so scared, why did she come out?

The thudding vibrations continued, becoming more and more violent.

Accompanied by forceful grunts from deep within the corpse's throat, it sounded quite eerie in the dead of night.

But Chen Shouyi only felt bored.

He could only continue to endure.

He even somewhat hoped that Old Man Wang could break free and liven up the atmosphere.

Unfortunately, in this low-magic environment, Old Man Wang was powerless.

After who knows how long, dawn finally broke, and the corpse's movements gradually subsided.

On the way back, Chen Xingyue yawned and said with a skip in her step, "Just like that, 5,000 is in the bag. I didn't expect it to be so easy."

"You only get two thousand, three thousand is mine." Chen Shouyi cruelly shattered her dream.

"You don't need to remind me, you greedy guts!" Chen Xingyue snorted coldly and said, "If I had known it would be this easy, I would have come alone."

She could have gotten 5,000 in total, but now she wouldn't even get half.

"Without me, would you have dared to come?" Chen Shouyi glanced sideways at his sister.

He had long seen through his sister's facade of strength.

"What wouldn't I dare to do? I can't be bothered to talk to you."

"Sigh, I earned 3,000 so easily, I don't even know how to spend it?" Chen Shouyi put on a thoughtful expression, looking utterly punchable.

"Brother, you are really annoying, do you know that?" Chen Xingyue gritted her teeth behind him, looking at his backside, wishing she could kick him.

"You dare to call your brother annoying? I was originally planning not to take it."

"Brother, you are my real brother, you are the best." Chen Xingyue's expression changed instantly, saying it shamelessly.

As a "rich man" with over 200,000 in savings, how could he really have the heart to take his sister's hard-earned money? He was just joking with her earlier.

When they reached the doorstep, they found that their parents were already awake.

Looking at their tired faces, it was clear they had also been worried and hadn't slept well all night.

"Don't come in yet, step over the brazier to ward off bad luck." Mother Chen superstitiously lit a bundle of dry mugwort in a broken pot.

After sleeping for a few hours to catch up on sleep in the morning, Chen Shouyi felt energetic upon waking.

After lunch, Chen Shouyi, carrying his briefcase, went to the unfinished building again.

The military police were still patrolling nearby, but this time Chen Shouyi couldn't hold back.

He hadn't been to the deserted island these past few days, and he was worried about the Barbarians' movements.

Taking advantage of the police's inattention, his figure flickered, and he dashed towards the unfinished building.

The journey was uneventful, and he reached the underground parking lot.

His expression turned somewhat startled and uncertain.

The ground of the parking lot was covered in a thick layer of dust. Every step left a clear footprint. Originally, there was only his footprint, but now, another set had appeared.

His expression grew serious as he followed the footprints step by step.

The newcomer's objective was clear: to follow his tracks until they disappeared at the entrance of the passage.

"Finally, someone discovered this passage?"

Despite his surprise, Chen Shouyi wasn't entirely shocked. The unfinished building wasn't in a remote, deserted location, but near the street. Anyone with a keen eye could easily notice his unusual movements.

He took a deep breath, calming himself.

Soon, he noticed something strange.

The other person's footprints only went in one direction, proving they were still inside. However, dust had accumulated on them, with a thickness similar to his most recent footprints.

How many days had it been since he last visited the Otherworld?

It had been over four days.

He already had a faint suspicion.

That person was probably dead.

But thinking further wouldn't help. He should go in and see for himself first.

Chen Shouyi stepped into the passage, and as the scene shifted, he saw a corpse.

The body was face down, dressed in a suit, looking like a white-collar worker.

Chen Shouyi's first glance fell on the shoes the corpse was wearing. The pattern on the shoes was identical to the footprints, clearly indicating this was the person who discovered the passage.

He had been dead for a long time. The body was bloated and beginning to rot, his legs unnaturally twisted. This was likely caused by the overwhelming gravity, forcing him to suddenly collapse to his knees.

Chen Shouyi subconsciously looked at the distance between the corpse and the passage, which was more than twenty meters.

He couldn't understand how this person had managed to run so far.

The triple gravity was already extremely dangerous for ordinary people. A fall on Earth might only result in a scraped knee, but here, it could cause broken bones at best, or be fatal at worst.

It wasn't until Chen Shouyi noticed a pile of Gold Sand glittering enticingly in the sunlight not far ahead that he suddenly understood.

"People die for wealth, birds starve for food." The saying was true.

The person probably saw his pile of Gold Sand and ventured deeper, risking it all.

This Gold Sand was less than half a jin, worth at most forty to fifty thousand. Yet, it cost him his life.

However, it was a good thing for Chen Shouyi.

Although the corpse was starting to smell, it had to be dealt with.

Having witnessed Old Man Wang's bizarre transformation, Chen Shouyi had become highly sensitive to corpses. Even in the environment of Earth, strange changes had occurred, let alone in this Otherworld with its higher concentration of mysterious energy.

He held his breath, grabbed one of the corpse's legs, and began dragging it down the mountain.

Ten minutes later, he threw the corpse into the sea and then meticulously washed his hands.

On his way back, he found a wallet, which had clearly fallen from the corpse's pocket during the dragging.

The wallet was open, revealing a photograph.

He originally intended to ignore it. No matter how much money was inside, he wouldn't pick it up. But upon seeing the photograph clipped to the wallet, he couldn't help but crouch down and retrieve it.

It was a photo of a family of three.

A cute little girl sat on her father's shoulders in the picture, smiling happily.

Chen Shouyi suddenly crumpled the photo into a ball and threw it far away.

I didn't kill him!

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