Some less perceptive people might not yet have clearly understood that this was akin to the appearance of "ghosts" in conventional understanding.
Or rather, in terms of its cause—after preliminarily and indirectly confirming that the concept of a "soul" might truly exist, what exactly did that represent?
But that did not stop them from instinctively feeling even more uneasy.
Among the group, someone forced a laugh. "The situation here is a little unexpected—should we consider going back aboveground first to report it, then discuss this properly?"
A teammate who had come with him also spoke up in agreement. "Yeah, the negative energy field down here was already heavy. We thought there were just a few Walking Corpses. Who knew it had even nurtured restless spirits?"
"Everyone should avoid charging in recklessly."
The others did not seem to get much from those words, but the middle-aged man surnamed Lan considered them carefully, his expression shifting slightly.
He immediately asked the man who had spoken a few questions.
"Brother Zheng, you seem to know something about this?"
"I wouldn't say I know much, not at all—" The man surnamed Zheng, Zheng Mian, froze for a moment and repeatedly shook his head. "I just saw some things online before. Stuff circulating on foreign dark web sites.
"It should have been uploaded by a user involved in enhancing and manipulating corpses. There were some complete corpse-processing spiritual rituals, methods for building altars and the like. Many did not even have clear requirements, and if ordinary people were determined enough, they could even learn and use some of it."
"Like the figures in those photos from before, and some of the things we've seen since coming down here. They feel somewhat similar to what I saw."
It would have been better if he had not