As Qi Gu finished speaking, the other four people in the private room looked bewildered, then shocked. Dead? How could they be dead? They could clearly still talk and run, and still had thoughts of their own...
How could anyone be like this after dying?
Qi Gu said, "Some ghosts forget that they've died and think they're still alive. Then they live like ordinary people until their bodies start rotting and stinking..."
"If you still don't believe me, take a look at your torsos and limbs." Qi Gu looked at the four people opposite him. Only then did they realize that despite it being October, when the weather was still hot, they were all wearing long sleeves and trousers, covering themselves from head to toe.
They hurriedly pulled up their sleeves and saw the lividity already developing on their arms.
While they believed they were still alive, they automatically overlooked anything wrong with their bodies. They even subconsciously acted to conceal the fact that they were dead. Just like how this private room was filled with at least four or five different perfumes, so overpowering that they made people's heads swim.
Once they had confirmed Qi Gu's words, lividity began appearing on their previously fairly normal faces. Their faces turned deathly pale, each looking as though their time had come.
They were dead. So they were already dead.
The thought filled them all with sorrow.
Neither Qi Gu nor Lin Hanzhi interrupted. They quietly waited for them to digest the news that they were dead.
After a long while, Xu Leyan raised his head and looked at Qi Gu. "Master... how did I die? Why can't I remember anything?"
The other three had the same question, so all four pairs of eyes turned to Qi Gu.
Dead, yet unable to