Outside the game, Xu Feng had gone so long without smelling rotting corpses that when he suddenly entered it again, the stench clinging to his clothes hit him all at once.
Xu Feng: "Urgh!"
He retched.
When he opened his eyes, he found himself in the courtyard outside the "guest room" at Three Matron Temple. It was morning, bright and sunny.
The blue bricks beneath him had been worn smooth and gleaming. Before him, the doors stood open to reveal the statue of the Longflow River God, whose face remained as kindly as ever.
In fact, the god's affinity for him had been steadily rising over the past few days Xu Feng had spent at Three Matron Temple.
But after that first dry heave...
He couldn't seem to stop.
Vomiting was like that. If you could hold it back, fine. Once you couldn't, it just kept coming.
After retching twice more, Xu Feng felt he might actually throw up.
By the time tears sprang to his eyes, Xu Feng finally managed to stop himself. He apologized a few times, offered Three Incense Sticks to the Longflow River God, then got up from the ground.
That settled it.
He hardly needed to slip back into character. The clothes alone plunged him into Zhao San's life. The tremendous progress brought by consuming the Great Fish Essence had sharpened Xu Feng's ability to pick up scents around him.
That ability had its good and bad sides.
Right now, it was unquestionably bad.
Xu Feng sighed. Purely as scenery went, the mountains around Three Matron Temple Village were lovely, full of shady green trees. But doing Corpse Stitching here was another matter!
"Might as well sew! What else can I do?"
Xu Feng opened his [Character Panel] and gave it a look. Little had