And the stone box she had just struggled to climb out of... Gu Youyou’s eyes widened, this was no stone box at all, it was clearly a giant stone coffin!
So, was this place actually a tomb chamber?
The coffin lid was leaning against the stone coffin, and the front of the lid was engraved with eight large traditional characters.
"Attain the Way, Immortality in Heaven and Earth!"
Gu Youyou’s face turned pale with fright. She stepped back a few paces, looked around at the strange tomb chamber, and then at the even stranger man standing in the coffin, who kept staring at her without blinking.
Is this... really a person?
So young to reside in a tomb chamber, to sleep in a coffin, and with such a vacant stare, could he be a legendary zombie of some sort?
But no, just now Gu Youyou had felt his breath on her face, and his body was soft; he was not a zombie.
But what kind of world had she traveled to? She was a bit confused.
This man wasn’t a zombie, nor could he be a normal person.
The murals in the tomb chamber depicted a fairyland shrouded in misty clouds, indicating that the owner of this place was a delusional individual obsessed with becoming an immortal. This place seemed quite old, certainly centuries old; therefore, the original owner couldn’t possibly be this man before her.
He appeared to be only in his twenties.
Gu Youyou rolled her eyes. From her analysis, this man was definitely an even more twisted individual than the original owner of the tomb; most likely, he had disposed of the owner’s body and taken over this place for himself.
A place was hidden in the hills behind Lotus Village; she guessed that this place, this man, was probably the one Jin Zijin was looking for.
Gu Youyou steadied herself, took a look around, and spotted the tomb’s door. She tried to move towards the door.
The man opposite her was still watching and stood in the coffin without any sign of stopping her.
Gu Youyou approached the tomb door, about to find out how to open it, when it suddenly opened on its own.
An automatic sensor door?
Gu Youyou was startled, but her heart jumped to her throat when the person who walked in from outside the tomb doorway.
This was the wild man.
That’s right, this place was the very place Jin Zijin had been searching for; the man in the coffin was probably the one Jin Zijin wanted to find.
The wild man held a deliciously roasted wild rabbit in one hand, and a medicine jar in the other. The moment he opened the door and saw Gu Youyou, he too was taken aback.
He opened his mouth but made no sound, yet his eyes were ominously dark.
Without any observable action on his part, the stone tomb door automatically closed from above and sealed the tomb chamber once again.
The wild man’s gaze carried a warning. He pursed his lips, signaling Gu Youyou to go back.
Gu Youyou snapped out of her shock and panic, quickly retreating several paces.
In the hands of such a person, she had to be more careful than ever.
She had barely escaped a haunted house, and she definitely didn’t want to die inexplicably here.
Gu Youyou tried to make herself as unobtrusive as possible, squatting obediently in a corner of the tomb chamber.
Seeing that she was being sensible, the wild man turned his attention away and split the roasted rabbit, giving half to the man in the coffin, who began to tear at the meat and eat.
Watching the man devour the food gleefully, the wild man even cracked a smile.
Similarly silent, but Gu Youyou could clearly see a loving glint in the wild man’s eyes, like a father contentedly watching his obedient child eat.