Pulling apart the turf used for concealment, one could clearly see a thick iron door on the ground.

However—

"Do we need a key?"

Gangye Yoshiko furrowed her brow and was just about to say something to Beichuan Si.

Then—

Boom!!!

The iron door shattered in front of her, with chunks of earth flying.

A pitch-black entrance appeared before her.

"Let's go." Beichuan Si put away the Death Aura Hammer and took the lead.

"..." Gangye Yoshiko.

She rubbed her eyes, glanced again at the entrance where the whole piece of land was nearly lifted, shrugged as if giving up something, and followed behind Beichuan Si.

The underground chamber wasn't deep, measuring only about three meters in height.

But after following Beichuan Si down some twenty steps, the scene inside was fully revealed to Gangye Yoshiko and Beichuan Si.

Shiny bottles and jars containing various human substitute organs were displayed.

Eyes, fingers, livers, stomachs, intestines...

These organs had been soaked for so long that they had even begun to discolor.

On the table, a grinding dish contained a blackish powder, its true nature unknown.

"What is this..."

Gangye Yoshiko furrowed her brows tightly, turning her phone camera.

Then she saw it.

Dozens of bodies neatly arranged... completely hollowed out from the inside.

"These are all the people used as experimental subjects for Ruyue Nao..." Gangye Yoshiko opened her mouth, instinctively moving two steps forward.

Then—

The still bodies in front of her suddenly sprang to life.

The corpse did not hesitate to grasp Gangye Yoshiko's neck.

No, not just this body! More than ten other corpses lunged at her like living creatures.

The sudden change made Gangye Yoshiko's eyes widen; she barely managed to block the palm from the first body, but was already overwhelmed by the ones following.

Bang!!!

Another earth-shaking tremor.

It was as if a truck had hit these bodies, with dry, bloodless limbs scattered everywhere, and bones making crisp sounds.

"Beichuan, what in the world is this?"

Gangye Yoshiko rolled back, then stood next to Beichuan Si, her eyes uncertain as she gazed at the scattered body parts on the floor.

"This must be the curse technique Shirasaki Chiyoda mentioned," Beichuan Si retrieved his hammer, his eyes gleaming. "It's not over yet."

"It's not over? Wait, even if it's not over, Beichuan, what is that expression on your face?"

Yes.

There was a hint of interest on Beichuan Si's face.

Showing such an expression at the sight of bodies?

Had he ever shown such expression when he was with Shinkai?

"The expression on my face?" Beichuan Si looked at Gangye Yoshiko somewhat strangely, not quite understanding what she was talking about.

But he quickly turned his head back.

Because those scarred bodies, even with arms and legs smashed in reversed directions, were starting to move again.

Watching these bodies still able to move in such a state, Beichuan Si's eyes flickered with a stream of black energy.

Under the vision of Death Aura, he could clearly see a mass of dark resentments accumulating in the heads of these corpses.

Was that the source of their power?

Beichuan Si flipped his palm, and a ghostly, eerie trail of blue fire shot out.

Boom!!!

The ghostly blue fire landed on the bodies, writhing as if alive, and instantly burst into flames!

Following behind Beichuan Si, Gangye Yoshiko's expression changed upon seeing this scene:

"Beichuan! There's still much to investigate in this underground chamber! Don't set fires..."

"This is the flame of resentment, the fire of the soul. It doesn't damage anything other than resentment and the soul itself."

"Beichuan, do I look like someone who understands these things?" Gangye Yoshiko forced a smile on her face and retorted.

"No worries." Beichuan Si replied calmly, "I don't understand the principle behind it either."

Why the fire at Shenzhu Village could burn spiritual bodies was something that probably needed to be asked of Magong Yongshi and the others.

Unfortunately, today he had not brought the Shinra Bell, nor had he brought Nishijou Kurenai, so he could not clarify further.

Once Beichuan Si said this, Gangye Yoshiko could not say anything more.

The duo then turned to look at the pile of corpses in the fire.

Under the fierce burning of the fire, the wisps of resentment were evaporated and extracted, while the mobility of the corpses also diminished until there was no movement left at all.

Just as Beichuan Si had said, the fire did not cause any damage to the wooden framework and other objects.

The faint blue flames clung to the surfaces of the corpses as if burning something inside them.

Beichuan Si shifted his gaze from the corpses: "Let's not concern ourselves with those corpses for now. I just found this on the table."

He lifted the notebook in his hand.

"What's this?"

Gangye Yoshiko walked over.

"Something like experimental notes. It must have been discarded and unused by Ruyue Nao."

Beichuan Si, using the flashlight on his phone, and Gangye Yoshiko together flipped through the notebook.

Just as Beichuan Si had said.

This notebook was used by Ruyue Nao to record her experimental processes.

Her primary objective was to manipulate corpses with resentment to transport illegal drugs.

The knowledge recorded here also gave Beichuan Si a sense of having his horizons broadened.

The curse technique passed down to Nao would use resentment as a carrier for her thoughts, inserting it into the brains of corpses, driving the corpses with intense yearnings to perform the actions she desired.

Of course, the initial experiments were challenging, so Nao used corpses of cats and dogs as test subjects.

But she soon discovered

that the corpses of animals like cats and dogs could not serve as carriers of 'human resentment.'

Just as spiritual bodies and human bodies repel each other, it was natural for cats and dogs not to bear human resentment.

Perhaps she could manipulate these animal corpses directly, but there was a limited range of control. Having the corpses of cats and dogs act as independent carriers, functioning outside of her control, was not feasible.

After that, she switched to using human corpses.

Through her day after day experiments, she was gradually able to manipulate the corpses outside of her control range.

But then another problem emerged,

which was the singularity of the commands.

For example, if the instruction embedded in the corpses was 'move forward,' then the corpses would only know to move forward; if it was 'attack,' then the corpses could only attack others.

Assembling a series of commands into a complete system still required a lot of refinement.

"But before she could finish developing this system to control the corpses, Shirasaki Chiyoda was captured by you, Beichuan, and the Church of Truth and Happiness was directly broken up. She had no choice but to fade into the background and put her experiment on hold."

After reading through the notebook, Gangye Yoshiko couldn't help but exhale a cold breath.

If Ruyue Nao had managed to complete her experiment, then she could have used the dead bodies to circulate 'Happiness Fragrance'—the banned substance.

This wouldn't just save costs but completely avoid risk as well.

If it weren't for Beichuan Si passing on the information about the Church of Truth and Happiness in time, she couldn't even begin to imagine what would have happened next.

Gangye Yoshiko turned her head, intending to thank Beichuan Si again,

but she found that Beichuan Si was deep in thought, looking at the notebook in his hands, his eyes flickering.

Clearly, his thoughts had already drifted elsewhere.

"What are you thinking about, Beichuan?" Gangye Yoshiko couldn't help but ask.

"...I'm pondering some things, things about the way Ruyue Nao died."

Beichuan Si handed the notebook to Gangye Yoshiko, then tapped his finger on the table, his eyes thoughtful,

"Liangzi, have you ever wondered why Ruyue Nao would choose suicide?"

"What could the reason for Ruyue Nao's suicide be?"

"And why would Ruyue Nao choose such a method to take her own life?"

Three questions made Gangye Yoshiko react.

Yes.

What was Ruyue Nao's real purpose in committing suicide?

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