We followed Mr. He deeper into his hometown, but the ground beneath our feet became increasingly slippery.

They had to hold each other's clothes tightly with every step to maintain their balance.

The wetness I had just touched was still on my fingertips, but the further I went in, the more I smelled a strange, rotten odor.

This smell isn't like something that's been sitting out for a long time. Instead of a normal musty smell, it has a fishy, ​​rotten quality, as if something has been rotting in the dark for a long time.

The further you go in, the more pungent the smell becomes.

"Brother He, why does this place smell...rotten?"

Before I could even mention Zhou Pang, I couldn't help but speak first.

His voice is considered quite deep by today's standards, but after being ejected several times in the narrow passage, it sounded so weak and ethereal.

At this moment, the girl clung tightly to my arm from behind; she seemed a little uneasy.

Mr. He didn't stop walking at all, but he responded with a single sentence without even turning his head.

"I've had this mezzanine open for years. I originally planned to have people live here, but now a lot of the sea marrow and other crops have rotted, and the smell won't go away. Just bear with it."

Mr. He's explanation was comprehensive, but I still couldn't put my mind at ease. It did smell of rotten mold, but it definitely couldn't be this kind of fishy, ​​putrid stench.

Just then, Lei Jijianjian's nerves tightened in my mind: "Suddenly be careful, this smell also feels wrong to me, it smells like a rotting corpse!"

My heart skipped a beat, and I immediately stopped in my tracks. At that moment, Fatty Zhou frowned slightly and moved closer to me, his expression carrying a hint of warning.

"Let me tell you, Brother He is running a legitimate business. Don't let your heart lead you to believe everything is dirty!"

I didn't refute him. This week, Pang is just like Mr. He's fan.

Just then, the passage ahead suddenly widened. The narrow path, which had previously only allowed Yiyi and me to walk side by side, suddenly opened up considerably.

It looked like an underground parking lot that had been hollowed out. It was tall enough for two people to stand on top of each other, and wide enough for four of us to have room to spare.

The walls overhead were pitted and uneven, and water was even dripping from them, making the sound exceptionally clear.

Boss He always walked in front, touching the wall, and reached out to grab a rusty gate handle, his fingers turning white.

With a sudden yank, the gate opened with a whoosh, the circuitry behind it buzzed, and then rows of cold fluorescent lights lit up from the top.

The pale light instantly filled the entire space, and my first impression of this light was that it was very cold and eerie.

In a flash, I glanced at the people present, and they all had deathly pale faces, as if they had just been pulled out of the water.

"We've arrived... the Sea Marrow is here..."

Before Mr. He could finish speaking, he turned around and saw us. The girl and I were already stunned.

At that moment, I almost forgot to breathe.

"Master, where is this place?!"

Even Lei Jijian let out a curse.

Yes, this is hardly a place for storing sea marrow.

The entire empty room was filled with coffins!

I was completely stunned and stood there.

Zhou Pang, who had been very confident about the trip, was now stunned and frozen in place.

These are not the kind of exquisite wooden furniture, but rather very rough, thin wood, some of which are not even painted.

When I worked at the funeral home, seeing these kinds of deaths, I could basically tell that the family didn't have much money, and some of them were in very gruesome circumstances.

I looked around carefully and saw that some of the coffins I could see didn't even have lids, leaving a small gap through which I could see the dark mass inside.

Some of the coffins had dark-colored water characters on them, which, when illuminated by the light, looked like congealed blood.

I was practically terrified.

"What's going on?!"

I pulled Yiyi back two steps, and I already had the lightning sword in my hand.

We are ready to take action against this Boss He at any time.

He's not going to put us in here too, is he?

At that moment, a blue-white arc of electricity shot up from the lightning sword, instantly illuminating the coffin in front of it.

But as soon as the light shone a little, Lei Jijian told me in my mind that the yin energy here was too heavy, and even his little bit of light could not last long!

"This coffin is truly haunted, Master!"

Lei Jijian's voice betrayed an undisguised tension.

"That stench from earlier came from inside the coffin!"

Fatty Zhou also spoke slightly. At this moment, I was looking at him, and he had already reached the wall.

"Brother He, what's going on here? Didn't you bring them here to get sea marrow? There are so many coffins..."

Mr. He was taken aback by our reaction. He then sighed, put down the oil lamp, and waved to me.

Seeing that he didn't seem to have any ill intentions, I put away the lightning sword in my hand.

The moment the lightning sword withdrew its electric strike, it immediately complained in my mind that it absolutely did not want to come to this place a second time!

Then, Mr. He walked to the coffin closest to us, and after a brief inspection, he slowly began to speak.

"Don't worry, what's the rush? These aren't meant to harm anyone. I put everything here; it's just been sitting here for too long and it's started to smell..."

As he spoke, the boss reached out and grabbed the edge of the coffin lid, gritted his teeth, and yanked it upwards.

With a creak, the rough wood was pried open, creating a loud scraping sound and the sound of air colliding.

In this empty environment, it sounded particularly jarring.

At the same time, an even stronger smell of revenge wafted over, as if it were worse than food that hadn't been eaten for ten days.

Yi Yi, Zhou Pang in the corner, and I were all choked by the fumes and couldn't help but cover our noses.

Upon closer inspection, I discovered that the coffin contained a desiccated corpse!

Holy crap!

My worldview is about to explode! Hiding a corpse in a hotel?!

The corpse's skin was wrinkled like tree bark, clinging tightly to the bones.

His eyes were wide open, with a hazy gray in the pupils, and his mouth was also agape, as if he was screaming before he died.

The clothes on the corpse were already tattered beyond recognition, and the entire body had slightly enlarged.

It has a bit of a giant-like feel to it.

Just as I was about to ask more questions, Mr. He finally stopped pretending.

"This is the guest who tried to attack me before." His voice was unusually calm, as if there was a stone pressing on his throat.