Jiang Cheng couldn't tell whether the person outside was telling the truth, but anyone who rashly opened a door in a mission world wouldn't live long. "Why should I believe you?"
After a brief silence, Doctor Zhou lowered his voice even further. "Those two corpses had been stripped naked. I saw a birthmark below Li Bai's chest—a triangular birthmark!" Perhaps he knew they had reached the most critical moment, because he spoke much faster than before.
"A birthmark." Jiang Cheng glanced uncertainly at Li Bai in the other room. At that moment, she was bound tightly from head to toe.
"Mm!"
A muffled groan suddenly came from outside the door. Doctor Zhou seemed to have run into some trouble.
"Are you all right?" Jiang Cheng pressed.
"Something spotted me, but I can't see it. I have to go, Jiang Cheng. I swear I really wasn't lying to you!"
After he said that, the rustling outside began again. From the sound of it, something was heading toward the room they had been in earlier.
Doctor Zhou had left. He hadn't begged Jiang Cheng to open the door at any point, as if he knew there was a taboo against opening doors in this mission.
But Jiang Cheng had to act. He turned around. "Zhu Jie, take off Li Bai's clothes and check whether she has a birthmark below her chest."
The room was dim. The flame in the oil lamp seemed to have been drained by some unknown force, leaving only a tiny flicker struggling to stay alive, as though it would go out at any moment.
By that faint light, Zhu Jie crawled over to Li Bai. When Li Bai heard that she wanted to check for a birthmark, she froze, then shook her head. "I don't mind you looking,