The Lost Tomb Vol. 1

Chapter 19: Female Corpse

That cold stare was enough to make my hair stand on end but I found myself unable to look away. For a while, I didn't even really know how to react. I was now hanging there like a sausage with no way to escape. The only thing I could do was pray and try my best to break free. But after hanging there for fifteen minutes without seeing the armored corpse or its eyeballs move, I couldn't help but wonder if it was all an illusion. But even immortals would feel uncomfortable with those strange eyes staring at them like this. I finally looked away, telling myself that I had to find a way to get down quickly. With my head hanging upside down like this and all the blood flowing downward, my brain felt like it was about to burst.

I used all of my strength to look up and found that my body was truly in a miserable state. Almost every inch of my skin was covered in bruises and vines were wrapped around my legs. I turned around and couldn't help but gasp. There were all kinds of corpses hanging all over the place as far as the eye could see. Rather than saying there were dozens or hundreds of them, it felt more accurate to say that there were tens of thousands of them. They were all swaying in the wind like a bunch of wind chimes made up of many bones, which made for an unsettling sight.

I took a closer look and found that there were both human and animal corpses hanging from the branches. Most of them had completely dried up but a few were still rotting, their stench filling the air from time to time. Corpse-eaters of various sizes crowded on these corpses like flies and gnawed on their flesh. It made me grateful that I had gotten some of Poker-Face's blood from Pan Zi before and wiped it on my body since it seemed like it was really working. Even though it was a bit immoral to do such a thing, it was still better than losing my arms or legs.

At this time, I suddenly remembered that the fat guy had also been caught by the ghost-hand vines and I couldn't help worrying about him. But when I looked around, I couldn't see anything besides the vines. I felt around in my pockets but only ended up finding my digital camera, which wasn't useful at all.

Just as I was starting to feel annoyed, the vines around my legs suddenly loosened and my whole body sank down. Thinking that I was about to fall, I hurriedly wrapped my arms around my head, but it turned out that the vine had only loosened its hold a little bit.

I opened my eyes and found that my face was mere inches away from the female corpse's face. If I had fallen just a little further down, our lips would've been touching. I was so terrified that I hurriedly closed my mouth and tried my best to shrink my neck back, but at this time, I suddenly saw a small dagger attached to the waist of the armored corpse lying beside her. I couldn't help feeling overjoyed and said to myself, beautiful fairy, due to my current situation, I must ask your friend to borrow his knife. He won't mind, will he?

I then twisted my waist and used all of my strength to reach for the dagger. After swaying back and forth two or three times, I suddenly exerted my strength, grabbed the dagger's hilt, and yanked hard. But the dagger fit so snugly inside its scabbard that I not only didn't pull it out, but I actually managed to pull the whole belt off of the armored corpse.

When I saw what I had done, I immediately thought to myself, shit! Now that I've ripped his belt off, he's bound to become hostile!

I quickly clamped onto the scabbard with my legs and used all of my strength to yank the knife out. I could tell by the flash of cold light across the blade's edge that it was a good knife. This is a gift from the heavens, I thought to myself. Then I used all of my strength to lift my upper body and start cutting at the vine wrapped around my legs. At that time, I just wanted to cut the vine off and wasn't thinking about what was below me, so when the vine broke and I fell, it was too late to regret it. Within a fraction of a second, I was lying on top of that female corpse.

To be honest, it was fortunate that I was able to hold myself back a little bit so that my full body weight wasn't pressing down the moment I landed. Otherwise, the female corpse's feces would've definitely been pressed out. But the inertia was so great that it was impossible to keep my distance from the female corpse and my whole face ended up pressed against hers. The sensation of her freezing cold lips was enough to make my hair stand on end.

As I lay there stunned for a moment, I couldn't help but wonder if her tongue would come out of her mouth, enter my throat, and suck out all my internal organs. When I thought of this, I felt a little grateful that she was a good-looking female corpse. If it had been a male corpse, I would've been disgusted to death.

After I lay there for a long time without seeing any signs of a tongue sticking out, I thought to myself, I'm finally lucky. I came across a fair and reasonable person. I slowly raised my head and began to move it away from the female corpse's face, but my head was only halfway up when there was a sudden burst of fragrance in the air and the female corpse's arms suddenly wrapped around my shoulders. I immediately froze, my whole body scared stiff. At this time, the corpse beside me made a thud sound. I knew right away that it was bad and cried in my heart, Brother, don't be mistaken! It's your wife who won't let me go! I'm not flirting with her!

I turned my head to take a look and found that the noise had merely come from a piece of armor falling off from where I had torn the corpse's belt off before. I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The only thing I could be thankful for right now was that the female corpse was the one holding me instead of the monster beside her. Otherwise, I probably would've peed my pants.

This deadlock lasted for more than ten seconds. When I saw that the female corpse wasn't making any further moves, I sneakily tried to move my head out from under her arms. But as soon as I moved, her arms also moved with me. When I moved forward, she moved forward; when I moved backward, she also moved backward.

I decided that the best way to break free from her was to lift my neck with a jerk and then roll away, but I didn't expect her arms to be wrapped around me so tightly. When I jerked my head up, I actually ended up pulling her into a seated position. The shock of the sudden movement caused the female corpse's mouth to open, revealing something inside her mouth.