Naked Corpse

Ji Xun woke up to find himself in a completely unfamiliar room.

Two thoughts immediately flashed through his mind.

First, organ harvesting;

Second, a honey trap.

It was a sealed room, with cement-colored walls all around. Apart from a bed and what looked like a toilet cubicle, there were no other furnishings. There were no windows, no furniture. It looked like a prison cell, an escape room, or perhaps some kind of themed adult room.

But it was definitely not a proper room.

Ji Xun himself was lying on the large bed, unclothed, and not in good mental condition.

And beside him, a woman was also lying down, also unclothed.

He glanced a few times to confirm. Yes, everything was visible.

It was a stunningly beautiful body, with intoxicatingly delicate skin, full breasts, and a face that was exquisitely, almost eerily, beautiful.

"What's going on?"

The sudden good fortune didn't make Ji Xun feel lustful. Instead, he instinctively felt alerted.

He tried hard to recall if he had blacked out from drinking too much or if he had been hit on the head. But his memory was clear: he had fallen asleep normally last night and woken up in this strange room.

This wasn't a dream.

Ji Xun quickly confirmed this.

Although his waist was so sore he could barely straighten up, there were no wounds. His kidneys were clearly still there.

Nor did a group of burly men with tattoos rush in demanding money.

So it wasn't a honey trap, nor an organ harvesting scheme.

He looked at the beautiful woman beside him, who was completely unresponsive, and reached out to touch her, intending to wake her up and ask about the situation.

But the moment he touched her, he frowned.

The sensation was very unnatural.

"Something's wrong!"

Ji Xun's expression instantly turned serious. He reached out again to carefully touch her skin, which was full, delicate, and elastic.

But strangely, it was ice-cold.

This was not the body temperature of a living person.

Dead?

A flicker of surprise crossed Ji Xun's eyes.

After a moment of thought, he reached out to test the carotid artery of the naked woman. He immediately seemed to discover something abnormal, and his expression grew increasingly solemn.

As expected, he felt no pulse.

At this moment, he confirmed it. This was a corpse.

"That's strange..."

Ji Xun looked at the corpse in front of him, his solemn expression gradually turning into confusion.

He wasn't someone who hadn't seen a corpse before, nor was he afraid of having slept with a corpse all night.

It was just that he had never seen such a "strange" corpse.

Compared to the fleeting shock, this bizarre scene made him feel that something was off.

Ji Xun examined her carefully again. The woman had no obvious wounds on her body.

Apart from the lack of heartbeat and breathing, and a body temperature lower than that of a normal person, all other physical characteristics were almost identical to a living person.

This was the baffling part.

Under normal circumstances, a corpse's temperature would drop by about one degree Celsius per hour within ten hours of death.

This meant that it would take about a day for the corpse's temperature to reach the ambient temperature.

When Ji Xun touched her, he had already confirmed that the woman's body temperature was now similar to the room temperature.

From this perspective, her time of death was roughly estimated to be twenty hours ago.

But here came the problem.

A corpse would begin to stiffen half an hour after death and would be completely stiff in about twelve hours.

Yet, the corpse in front of him had skin that was as delicate as usual, plump and elastic, and her joints were not stiff.

A living corpse?

This was truly baffling.

The environment was fine, the temperature was fine. What was wrong?

For the first time, Ji Xun doubted his own judgment.

Were there other factors that influenced rigor mortis?

Or perhaps, This isn't a person at all?

"A prank?"

As the thought occurred, Ji Xun carefully examined the corpse again.

He pinched it all over, discerning the details of the hair, confirming it had normal bones and internal organs, and that there was bodily fluid in its mouth.

This meant that what he was looking at wasn't a realistic silicone doll used for a prank, or some other strange thing.

It was a real human corpse!

This time, Ji Xun was truly confused.

How did I end up sleeping here after a single night's sleep?

And why is there such a strange corpse next to me?

Ji Xun's eyes darted around as he pondered for a moment.

He stopped looking at the corpse and instead surveyed the environment of the room.

This room was also very strange.

The rusted iron door was tightly shut, with no lock on the inside that could open it, making it look like a prison.

However, judging by the unusually heavy and complex structure of the lock, it was more like a bank vault door.

Or perhaps... a laboratory for containing some high-risk entity?

Judging by the rust, it looked like it had been abandoned for a long time.

Yet, as he observed, it was as if a mysterious force responded to his thoughts from afar, and an even more bizarre scene unfolded.

"You have touched the extraordinary and gained Enlightenment."

Ji Xun stared at the line of text that had appeared before him, almost thinking he was hallucinating.

He blinked, and it was still clear.

He then looked at the corpse on the bed and saw another line of text.

[Fallen Witch]

Details: First-tier B-Class Calamity; a Mental Contaminant, a mutated witch that manipulates desire. It specializes in mental attacks, surviving by feeding on human essence and souls; if you cannot kill it, perhaps finding some pleasure at the end of your life is also a good choice;

Damn it!

It really isn't human!

Ji Xun's eyes narrowed slightly upon reading this.

Although he didn't know what this "Enlightenment" was, he suddenly felt like he understood.

Since the current situation couldn't be understood with normal reasoning, he would try a different approach.

The accumulation of all these abnormal circumstances seemed to point towards another line of thought.

At this moment, a bizarre thought suddenly popped into his mind: "For example... I've transmigrated?"

All signs indicated that this was most likely not his original world.

After a moment of stunned thought, Ji Xun's expression didn't show much surprise. Instead, a thoughtful look appeared in his eyes as he repeatedly considered whether this hypothesis was logical.

Clearly.

Once the hypothesis of transmigration was introduced, all the previous confusions were suddenly cleared up.

This would perfectly explain why he was here, and why the corpse on the bed was so strange.

Oh, Right.

It's not a corpse!

What are these "B-Class," "Calamity," and "Mental Contaminant" things?

Are they monsters?

Or are they humanoid creatures from another world?

Ji Xun re-examined everything before him with a new perspective.

He didn't know what the text revealed before his eyes by some mysterious power was, but things were clearly developing in an increasingly bizarre direction.

He saw that the corpse's description mentioned it absorbed human essence, and he knew that staying with it now was definitely not a good choice.

He should leave first.

He glanced over and saw his clothes scattered beneath the bed.

Ji Xun stood up, intending to get dressed and open the door to look for other clues.

However, as soon as he stood up, a wave of weakness suddenly surged through him, his legs suddenly went soft, and he fell back onto the female corpse beside him with a thud.

"Splat~"

The waves surged, and his hands met a full, soft expanse.

Ji Xun struggled to prop himself up amidst the delicate sensation, the corner of his eye twitching sharply as he finally understood.

Looking at his body, with its ribs laid out in neat rows, he finally grasped why he had transmigrated.

And with this realization, he even saw his own body's data.

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