"What's wrong?"
Hu Feifei looked a little bewildered, but she was alert enough to move away from the dried meat immediately, as though it might explode.
Xia Nan's voice also drew Qin Manjiang's and Lin Ruonan's attention, and both turned to look at him.
"This is human flesh."
Xia Nan kept it brief.
But the moment he finished speaking, Hu Feifei and Lin Ruonan went pale.
The two women had just been thinking about making meat soup. Now, at Xia Nan's words, their minds ran wild, as though they could see a head bobbing in boiling water.
"Urgh..." Hu Feifei couldn't help retching. She looked at Xia Nan in disbelief. "But... doesn't all meat look the same once it's cut up like this? Could you have made a mistake...?"
"He's a forensic doctor," Qin Manjiang said.
That silenced Hu Feifei.
"Can you tell how long this meat has been here?" Qin Manjiang asked.
Xia Nan approached the piece of meat on the wall and examined it carefully. "For it to dry out this much, given the conditions on this snow mountain, it's been at least a week."
Then it hadn't been freshly killed...
It belonged to someone who had died before they entered this ghost story.
But were there other people on this snow mountain?
Yes.
Judging by the state of the cabin, someone had lived here at least before winter arrived.
Someone had even lived here after winter began and the snow started falling. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been anything left here to keep warm with.
But... where had the cabin's owner gone?
Had the cabin's owner made the dried meat on the wall?
Had he killed that person?
"Uh... um, if... if we spend the night here, the cabin's owner won't suddenly come back, will he?"
Hu Feifei