The room in the tower was quite large, but it was now packed to the brim. A powerful stench seeped from every corner. Some of the heaps of body bags still retained the shape of people, while others had swollen and become misshapen. There was no need to look inside to know what the corpses had turned into.
"Are these all corpses?" Qi Cong asked in disbelief. "Even if the Suitcase Man wants to use them as puppets, this is way too crude a way to store them. They've gone rotten!"
"Is anyone still alive?" Zhu Bu listened intently for a moment, then pulled down two body bags from the top layer and sliced them open. The two people inside were bruised and battered, but at least they were still breathing.
The two people in the bags hadn't died yet, but they were completely unable to move. When they saw the dolls standing before them, their sluggish minds mistook them for the castle's puppet people. In despair, they even tried to bite through their tongues and kill themselves.
Biting through your tongue wasn't necessarily fatal, but it was better than being tortured by the Suitcase Man.
"She's Xiao Mei." The painted woman recognized her. She took off her headpiece, walked over, and crouched beside the body bag. After rummaging around a little, she pulled an item off Xiao Mei, confirming that she'd seen it on her before.
Xiao Mei was the Outer District Player who had teamed up with Xu Huo to clear a Dungeon. When the District 039 Dungeon ended, Xu Huo had advised her to leave as soon as possible. He hadn't expected her not only to stay, but also to run into the Suitcase Man in his castle. What a strange twist of fate.
Xiao Mei was