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"": "Luo Bin slowly backed into the opening and made his way down.
The sloping passage descended several meters before reaching another room in the Underground Room.
There was a bed and a desk here, but there was also a corpse sitting at the desk!
Xu Lu held a talisman in one hand, shielding Bai Xian as he stared warily at the corpse. In his other hand, he held a flashlight, its beam trained on the body.
Fine scales covered the corpse's surface, with downy feathers poking out between them.
"Squeak, squeak!" Fourth Master Gray cried, darting over the corpse's head and preparing to gouge out its eyes.
"Don't touch him," Luo Bin said gravely.
Fourth Master Gray looked displeased but stopped.
"Ascension... abnormal ascension... why would scales grow? I've never seen this..." Xu Lu's brow furrowed.
"The one earlier was like this too," Luo Bin explained.
"Someone from Primordial Calculation, or an outsider? One of Yuan Yinxin and Zhou Sanming's people?" Xu Lu put away his talisman, his confusion deepening. "He died here... could this place be dangerous? Is there poison here too?"
Xu Lu had remembered every detail Luo Bin had told him earlier.
"He was quite young before he died. It doesn't look like he died of old age here. This posture... was he interrupted while doing something?" As he spoke, Xu Lu approached the man.
"He really was." Reaching out, Xu Lu took a notebook from beneath the man's hand.
The man's final act before death had been writing in that notebook.
"Come take a look, Mr. Luo."
Xu Lu beckoned him over.
"This place isn't safe."
Luo Bin stared at the corpse.
He began to feel that his earlier judgment might have been wrong.
The previous Ascended Corpse had died while