And she herself was lying in a coffin.

You need to get something fresh, but not something so "fresh"!

Su Muye is still in the village.

Su Deng licked her teeth, remaining calm, and climbed out of the coffin. She scanned the surroundings with her flashlight and tentatively called out.

"Qin Xian?"

No one responded; the silence was so profound that only her own breathing could be heard.

This place resembles a mortuary built inside a cave, surrounded by rock walls, with coffins scattered across the ground.

Some coffins were covered, while others were open.

Su Deng went over to check and found that every open coffin was empty. Her gaze fell on the closed coffins.

The coffins weren't nailed shut. She gripped her dagger, slashed along the edge, and kicked them open. The moment the coffin lids were kicked off, a putrid, stench wafted out.

Inside the coffin was a rotten, unrecognizable corpse. Half of the head, withered flesh, clung to the bones. The putridity was like the stench of sludge, rotten eggs, rotten meat, and rotten vegetable leaves that had been fermenting together in a stinking ditch for a long time.

"vomit--"

Su Deng couldn't hold it in any longer and ran to the side to vomit. Fortunately, she hadn't eaten anything, so she only vomited a lot of bile.

It took her a long while to come to her senses and wipe away the tears welling up in her eyes.

The face mask in the store costs 60 points.

After thinking for a moment, Su Deng cut a piece of cloth from her own clothes, made it into a simple mask, tied it to her face, and then kicked down a coffin lid.

It was also a rotting corpse.

After a brief pause, she opened several more in a row.

Each of the covered coffins contained a corpse. Judging from their similar levels of decomposition, they must have all died around the same time. Only their genders could be vaguely discerned, not their ages.

Looking at the arrangement of the hundreds of coffins, Su Deng felt a sense of familiarity. She frowned and thought for a long time, then, suppressing her nausea, she rolled over and jumped onto a coffin with a lid.

She raised the lamp in her hand, circled around and examined all the coffins, then squatted down and used a dagger to carve two patterns on the coffin lid at her feet.

One of them depicts the route taken by the sacrificial procession during its tour of the village.

One image shows the location of the coffins in these underground caves.

That’s right!

Su Deng's eyes narrowed slightly, but after staring at the marks she had drawn for a long time, she still couldn't figure out what kind of talisman it was.

After a moment's thought, she called out, "404".

404: I am here

Despite shouting, Su Deng didn't expect the ailing system to pay attention to him, but to his surprise, it actually responded.

Su Deng raised an eyebrow and asked, "Do you know what kind of talisman this is?"

[404: It's not a talisman, it's an array.]