Naked Corpse

When Ji Xun woke up, he found himself in a completely unfamiliar room.

Two thoughts instantly sprang into his mind.

First, organ harvesting.

Second, a honey trap.

It was a sealed room. The walls were the color of concrete, and aside from a bed and a cubicle that looked like a toilet, there was no furnishing whatsoever. There were no windows, no furniture. It looked like a prison cell, an escape room, or some kind of themed sex room.

But it definitely wasn't a proper room.

Ji Xun himself was lying on that large bed, naked, and his mental state wasn't particularly good either.

Beside him lay a woman, also naked.

After a few glances to confirm, well, there was nothing left to the imagination.

It was an exquisitely beautiful body, with intoxicatingly delicate skin, full breasts, and a refined face that seemed faintly demonic.

"What the hell is going on?"

This sudden stroke of luck did not make Ji Xun feel aroused. Instead, it instinctively put him on guard.

He tried hard to recall whether he had blacked out from drinking or been knocked unconscious. But his memories were clear: he had gone to sleep normally last night, only to wake up in this unfamiliar room.

This wasn't a dream.

Ji Xun quickly confirmed that.

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

And no tattooed brutes had burst in demanding money.

So it probably wasn't a honey trap, nor was it an organ-harvesting operation.

After looking once more at the beautiful woman beside him, who showed no reaction whatsoever, Ji Xun reached out to touch her, intending to wake her and ask what was going on.

But the moment he touched her, his brow furrowed.

The sensation was very wrong.

"No!"

Ji Xun's expression instantly turned grave. He reached out again and carefully touched her skin. It was full, smooth, and elastic.

But strangely, it was ice-cold.

That was not the body temperature of a living person.

Dead?

A flicker of surprise passed through Ji Xun's eyes.

After pondering for a moment, he reached out and checked the naked woman's carotid artery. He seemed to discover something unusual, and his expression grew increasingly solemn.

Sure enough, there was no pulse.

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

"Strange."

Ji Xun looked at the corpse before him, and the gravity in his eyes gradually turned into confusion.

It wasn't that he had never seen a corpse before, nor was he frightened by the thought of having slept beside one all night.

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

Compared to that fleeting shock, this bizarre scene made him feel that something was wrong everywhere he looked.

Ji Xun examined it again carefully. There were no obvious wounds anywhere on the woman's body.

Other than the lack of heartbeat and breathing, and a body temperature lower than normal, her physical characteristics were almost identical to those of a living person.

That was what made it so incomprehensible.

Under normal circumstances, within ten hours after death, a person's body temperature would continuously drop by roughly one degree per hour.

In other words, it would take about a day for the corpse's temperature to equal the ambient temperature.

Ji Xun had confirmed it when he touched her earlier. The woman's body temperature was already about the same as the room temperature.

Judging from that, she had roughly died over twenty hours ago.

But then another problem arose.

A corpse would begin to stiffen half an hour after death and become completely rigid after around twelve hours.

Yet the corpse before him still had smooth skin, full and elastic flesh, and joints that were not stiff.

A living corpse?

That made no sense at all.

The environment was fine. The temperature was fine. So what exactly was wrong?

For the first time, Ji Xun began to doubt his own judgment.

Could rigor mortis be affected by other factors?

Or perhaps...

This wasn't a human at all?

"A prank?"

As soon as the thought arose, Ji Xun carefully examined the corpse once more.

He pinched it all over, inspected the details of its hair, and confirmed that it had normal bones and internal organs. There were bodily fluids in its mouth as well.

In other words, this was not some prank silicone doll, nor some other bizarre thing.

It really was a human corpse!

Now Ji Xun was truly at a loss.

How did I wake up and end up sleeping here?

And why was there such a strange corpse beside me?

Ji Xun's eyes shifted rapidly as he pondered for a moment.

He stopped looking at the corpse and instead began examining the room again.

This room was also extremely strange.

The rusty iron door was tightly shut, with no lock that could be opened from inside. It looked like a prison.

But judging from the absurdly thick lock and its complex structure, it looked more like the door to a bank vault.

Or perhaps... a laboratory used to imprison some high-risk existence?

Judging from the rust, it also seemed as though it had been abandoned for a long time.

Yet as he observed it, it was as though some mysterious force had responded to his thoughts from the unseen. An even more bizarre scene appeared.

You have touched the extraordinary and gained Revelation.

Ji Xun stared at the extra line of text before him and nearly thought his eyes were playing tricks on him.

He blinked, but it was still perfectly clear.

Then he looked again at the corpse on the bed and saw another line of text.

Fallen Witch

Details: First Rank B-Class Calamity; Mental Contaminant, a mutated witch that manipulates desire. It excels at mental attacks and survives by feeding on human vitality and souls. If you cannot kill it, perhaps one last night of pleasure at the end of your life would not be such a bad choice.

Fuck!

It really wasn't human!

Ji Xun narrowed his eyes slightly as he read that.

Although he had no idea what this "Revelation" was, he suddenly seemed to understand.

Since the current situation could not be understood through normal logic, he would have to use another way of thinking.

All the abnormalities combined seemed to point toward a different possibility.

At that moment, an absurd thought suddenly surfaced in his mind. What if... I transmigrated?

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

After that instant of shock, Ji Xun did not show much outward reaction. Instead, a thoughtful look appeared in his eyes as he repeatedly considered whether this hypothesis made sense.

Clearly.

Once the possibility of transmigration was added, all his previous confusion suddenly became clear.

Only then could it perfectly explain why he had appeared here and why the corpse on the bed was so strange.

Oh.

Right.

It wasn't a corpse!

What exactly did "B-Class," "Calamity," and "Mental Contaminant" mean?

Probably monsters?

Or humanoid creatures from another world?

Ji Xun changed his perspective and reassessed everything before him.

He did not know what the words revealed by that mysterious force were, but things were clearly developing in an increasingly bizarre direction.

Seeing that the corpse's description said it could drain human vitality and souls, he knew that staying with it was obviously not a good choice.

He should leave first.

With a glance, he saw that his clothes were scattered beneath the bed.

Ji Xun stood up, intending to get dressed and open the door to take a look. Perhaps he could find some other clues.

But the moment he got up, a wave of weakness suddenly struck him. His legs gave out, and he fell solidly back onto the female corpse beside him.

Splat~

Her body heaved beneath him, and his hands sank into soft, full flesh.

Ji Xun struggled to push himself up from that smooth sensation. The corner of his eye twitched sharply, and he immediately understood something.

Looking at his body, where his ribs stood out in rows, he finally understood why he had transmigrated here.

And with that look, he actually saw his own body data.