"A zombie? Never mind. Lisette, kill him."
Without much thought, Ye Qiyan gave Lisette the order to act.
Just as the Second Hand behind Lisette was about to take the "mummy's" head off-
The mummy actually showed a look of terror and rasped out a plea for mercy.
"No, don't! Don't kill me-!"
"Wait."
Ye Qiyan held Lisette's hand down, frowning at the mummy.
A corpse that could talk?
No, a talking corpse was not really all that surprising.
What was truly surprising was that this fellow did not seem to be a corpse.
Instead, he was a living person?
A living person who had reduced himself to something like a mummy?
Thinking back carefully, the sound he had just made was not a corpse's groaning, but... "hungry"?
"What are you?"
The "mummy"-no, the Dry Man-kept shaking his head. At the rate it swayed, it felt as though his brain might fly off his neck at any moment.
"I, I'm... a Train Conductor!"
"I... I'm so hungry..."
Hungry?
Ye Qiyan took a carrot from his backpack, glanced at the few teeth remaining in the Dry Man's mouth, and silently exchanged it for a packaged Little Cake.
But the instant the Dry Man saw the cake, it seemed to trigger some bad memory, and he hurriedly backed away several steps.
"No, no, I won't eat it! No cake! I don't want cake!"
"Then what do you eat? All I have is this and carrots."
"I want, I want a carrot..."
"..."
Watching him desperately gnaw bits off the carrot with his few remaining teeth and swallow them, Ye Qiyan glanced toward the large iron door behind him.
Beyond it seemed to be a passage leading to the Underground Waterway.
He could faintly hear flowing water from within.
Hm?
No.
That was