The Painting and Passerby A on the Leaderboard
The writing on the stone slab was bright red, and the letters had bled beneath the surface. Xu Huo couldn't tell whether it was special pigment or real blood, but placed beside the preserved corpse, those few lines looked like a curse from an avenger.
This girl was Xia Xi Duolai Ti.
Old Mr. Yue's records included a photo of her. More than a hundred years had passed, but the young girl had been sealed in a special resin, and her appearance hadn't changed in the slightest.
Xu Huo stood silently before the body for a long time. At last, he opened his Personal Panel and bought a sealing tool from the game platform. He planned to remove the corpse along with the amber and put them in a container item.
But when he lifted one corner of the amber, he discovered a color beneath it that didn't belong on a metal box—it was an oil painting.
At the same time, the game platform sent him a notification:
[Congratulations, Passerby A, on finding the oil painting "Enbel Maiden." Would you like to clear the Dungeon now?]
Xu Huo ignored the message. He carefully removed the amber, wrapped it, and set it aside before turning his attention to the painting, which was only thinly wrapped in plastic and placed at the bottom of the box.
Both Players and Master Suolan's fans assumed that "Enbel Maiden" was a painting. And, of course, it was. Master Suolan was a Painter; she couldn't have considered a corpse her own work. So it wasn't surprising that there was a painting, nor was it strange for it to have been stored with the body. Whether Master Suolan had been accidentally caught up in Xia Xi Duolai