The cardboard boxes containing the coffins were opened one by one, a process that was very inefficient, yet they insisted on doing it this way. They first removed the outer cardboard boxes without taking apart the foam padding inside. After removing the outer boxes, they lined up the coffins wrapped in foam padding neatly in the warehouse, one after another.

Because the coffins were extremely heavy and the outer corrugated boxes were very sturdy, by the time they reached the twentieth box, everyone was exhausted. After taking a short break, Li Cu made eye contact with Su Wan, signaling that it was time to remove the foam and open the coffins to see what was inside.

Ideally, they should have opened one outer package to check one coffin at a time, but everyone chose to follow this inefficient method. They all knew it was a form of avoidance and accepted it, but unfortunately, avoidance always leads to a moment of confrontation.

After making eye contact, everyone remained still. Su Wan even turned his head toward the door, and Li Cu knew, from a psychological perspective, that he must have wanted to flee in that direction.

Li Cu said irritably, “Can you not be so cowardly? This day was bound to come. We’ve already seen a severed hand; are you still afraid of seeing other things?”

Su Wan smiled wryly and said, “Boss, can you tell me which box contains the head? You take care of the one with the head, and we’ll handle the rest.”

Li Cu felt a shiver run down his spine; he hadn’t expected this, and goosebumps formed on his skin. He thought, “I didn’t realize Su Wan would come up with such a sensible idea at this moment.”

Poor Su Wan and Yang Hao had no idea they were being dragged into this. Li Cu felt he should bear more responsibility, but aren’t we buddies? Shouldn’t a buddy sacrifice for the other during such times? This is why buddy loyalty is unreliable; when it comes down to it, one must rely on oneself.

Li Cu’s mind was in a jumble, but he also knew this had nothing to do with brotherly loyalty. If the roles were reversed, he would probably be even sneakier than Su Wan.

The lights in the warehouse were very bright, which made Li Cu feel a bit more comfortable. He turned to look at the warehouse door, walked over, and locked it. He said to them, “Let’s not be wishy-washy. I’ll open it, and you all just stand by and watch. But stay close; don’t leave me to face this alone.”

Su Wan and Yang Hao nodded but didn’t move any closer. Yang Hao lit a cigarette, pretending to be calm, clearly not wanting to show his fear in front of the others. However, his awkward leg position betrayed everything.

Having returned from the desert, Li Cu had strengthened his nerves significantly. He took deep breaths to mentally prepare himself, and his desire to solve the mystery gradually overpowered his fear.

He walked over to the plastic coffins, slowly feeling around until he found the latch to open one. He pulled it, and the coffin lid flipped open automatically. He took a glance inside; it was a box containing a torso. He couldn’t tell which part it was, but the flesh around the wound was exposed and white.

Suppressing the urge to vomit, Li Cu held his breath to avoid the strange, fatty smell emanating from the box and moved on to the next one, opening it, and then the next.

More than twenty coffins were all opened by him, and the ice inside had mostly melted, emitting wisps of white vapor. Because Li Zu’s speed was too fast, Su Wan didn’t have time to look and didn’t know what was inside; all he could see was a white mass. It was definitely human limbs.

Regardless, such a scene was still too stimulating for them. The faces of Su Wan and Yang Hao turned incredibly pale, almost as pale as the flesh inside.

It wasn’t until the third coffin that Li Zu slowed down a bit, for when that coffin was opened, a mass of black could be seen inside. Li Zu crouched down for a moment, stepped back, and stared blankly at the thing inside the coffin: it was a cluster of more than a dozen human heads.

“Su Wan, your dish has arrived,” Li Zu said.

No one responded to him. Li Zu turned around and found that Su Wan and Yang Hao had moved several steps further away from him.

Li Zu sighed. He felt that he wasn’t very scared anymore; perhaps it was because he had been so terrified earlier that his body had gone numb.

He said to the people behind him, “I need to get these heads out first. The ice is melting, and the skin will rot; we won’t be able to identify them. If you’re not going to help, at least help me get a platform out.”

There was no response. Li Zu called again, and only then did Su Wan shout from a distance, “No way!”

Li Zu didn’t turn around but knew he was almost at the door. He cursed inwardly. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, clenched his fists, stepped forward, crouched down, and reached into the icy water to pull up a human head.

The icy water was bone-chillingly cold, but he felt nothing. His hands were trembling as he lifted the head, turned around, and felt the hair sticking to his hand, dripping water continuously.

Li Zu opened his eyes and saw a pair of murky eyes and a face that was peeling, like a soaked napkin.

Then he felt the world spin around him and rushed to the side, squatting down to start vomiting.

After he vomited until his vision went black, he finally recovered. Raising his eyes, he saw that Su Wan and Yang Hao had already run out of the warehouse and were vomiting outside.

“Dammit,” Li Zu thought, “they’re really unreliable.”

After he finished throwing up, Li Zu felt a bit better. He gritted his teeth and forced himself to crawl back, trying to breathe deeply, wanting to bring out the heads one by one. Suddenly, he saw ripples suddenly appearing in the icy water of the coffins.

The ripples were very strong, shaking the entire coffin as if something alive was beneath the icy water.

Li Zu shivered. At first, he thought his foot had bumped into the coffin, but then the whole coffin shook. Ice water splashed out.

“Damn it,” he thought. “Could it be that what they sent over wasn’t corpses at all, but something else? Are these bodies just here for it to eat?”

He stood up and slowly approached the coffin. The heads and hair made it hard to see the movement under the water, but he clearly saw the heads floating in the icy water, proving that there was definitely something inside.

“Come help!” Li Zu shouted, “There’s a live one here!!”

Before his words fell, with a splash, something as thick as an arm suddenly burst out from the tangled hair, slamming onto his face.

Li Cu reacted quickly, rolling to the side just in time as the object crashed into a pile of cardboard behind him. He immediately backed away from the cardboard boxes and bumped into the coffin behind him, tumbling inside.