In the cremation room, Xiang Yifeng and I were forced to keep backing away.
The five people were expressionless, looking as though they thought nothing of us.
With that swagger, they had to be experts.
"Give us the body, and we won't fight today."
The leader smiled at us. "Since we dared to come, we have something to rely on. You won't gain anything by fighting us. I don't think there's any need."
Xiang Yifeng and I sighed and took another two steps back. "You win. We admit defeat. Be gentle with the body."
The five slowly approached the body bag. Four watched us warily while their leader unzipped it.
The moment the zipper opened, the "body" inside moved. Zhang Rong drove a knife straight into the man's neck.
Xiang Yifeng and I drew our knives and charged, engaging the remaining four.
These five really were experts. Even the three of us couldn't overcome them right away.
But not being able to overcome them right away didn't mean we never would.
In the end, we brought down the remaining four.
We didn't kill those four. Although there was a cremation furnace here, disposing of bodies without leaving a trace wasn't that easy.
Cremating one body generally took between forty minutes and an hour and a half. We didn't have enough time to burn five bodies.
Zhang Rong and I hurriedly tied up the four, while Xiang Yifeng wheeled the man who had been stabbed toward the cremation furnace, ready to push him inside.
"Behave yourselves, and we won't kill you today."
Holding my knife, I scraped it across the four men's faces and mocked them. "You wanted to steal Professor Hu's body, huh? Want me to tell you where it is?"
The four were clearly defiant. Even tied up, they