Climbing Everest

"Is he alive? Quick, check whether that Kingdom member inside the shroud is alive!" Zard said excitedly. "But if he really is alive, what do we do? Kill him again?"

Ever since Qing Chen had wrapped the dead Kingdom member in the shroud, Zard had checked the time every so often, waiting for twenty-four hours to pass.

Big Yu said irritably, "If he were going to come back to life, he should've started moving long ago. We must have guessed wrong. This thing can't bring people back from the dead. There are two Forbidden Items in the Federation that can take a life in someone's place, but among the Federation's hundreds of Forbidden Items, not one can resurrect someone else. Birth, aging, sickness, and death are laws of nature. They can't be reversed."

Qing Chen crouched down and untied the shroud. The corpse inside had already begun to stiffen.

That meant the shroud could not even preserve a corpse.

"So we really did guess wrong," he said thoughtfully. "If it can't revive people, what is it for?"

Yang Yang suddenly said, "When the shroud wrapped around the corpse, it disappeared from my force field perception."

Qing Chen froze for a moment. "You couldn't sense it at all?"

"Mm." Yang Yang nodded. "But in my perception, there's a void in the force field there, so I can still determine its location. It can't be used to evade phased-array radar."

Qing Chen was a little disappointed. Radar technology in the Federation was advanced now. Even if someone could completely absorb electromagnetic waves, they still could not hide themselves.

What exactly was this shroud for? Qing Chen, Yang Yang, Big Yu, and Zard stared at one another, completely at a loss.

Without any information at all, figuring out the rules of a Forbidden