In the dark space, Qi Si retrieved the hiking backpack from his item inventory.
Taking items stored in the inventory did not require direct physical contact. He only needed to issue a command with his mind, and the item would appear within one centimeter of the player.
In other words, if a player wanted to, they could even summon an item above their own head and smash themselves in the face with it.
The hiking backpack took shape on the clean floor to Qi Si's right, pressed tightly against the chair leg and mere inches from the steadily advancing pool of blood.
Qi Si controlled the Cursed Pendulum to unzip the backpack, revealing towels, pens and paper, a candy jar, and other items stuffed inside.
The transparent candy jar was packed with freshly collected tadpoles, each pressed against the next and filling nearly every gap. Their heads and tails still twitched faintly.
Beside the candy jar was a cloth bundle that pulsed and trembled. Inside was the frog whose eyes Qi Si had covered with a towel.
"Doctor Cheng... I don't want to die... Can you save me?"
The mournful plea drifted in and out beside his ear. On the iron bed before him, the woman's corpse sat up, its head twisted at an unnatural angle toward Qi Si, its wide-open eyes empty.
Herpes-like bloodstains crawled over her entire body like clothing. Wherever they touched, flesh rotted at a visible speed. The stench of decay mingled with the smell of blood, assailing his nostrils, while the fear belonging to Cheng An's original body was unreasonably forced into his heart.
Qi Si could not look away. He could only watch as the woman decayed beyond recognition in a matter of seconds, thick yellow and oily green putrid fluid floating atop the