Chapter 337 - Other Than Myself, They All Came (2/2)

The sound of fighting came from the fog. It was likely the society’s Red Specter fighting the villagers behind the door.

“Let them fight, we need to find something.”

Wading through the fog, Jiang Ling led Chen Ge and Fan Yu to the center of the village. The fog there was light, and in the middle of the village, a group of villagers were kneeling. Their bodies were heavily deformed, and their faces looked ugly. Even though they were wearing human clothes, they could not be considered humans.

“What are they doing?”

“Repenting.”

The monsters had their heads lowered, and their bodies were facing the ancestral hall. Right in front of it was a red coffin!

Different from real life, the coffin behind the door blocked the entrance to the ancestral hall. The hall was the place where the villagers sent respect to their ancestors, but the coffin blocked the entrance fully.

“We’ll be able to survive after we open that coffin.” Jiang Ling walked around the crowd to slowly head toward the ancestral hall. “Do not awaken these monsters.”

The three held their breath as they moved slowly toward the ancestral hall. The fog moved like it could sense the presence of living humans. Some of the monsters slowly raised their heads.

Fan Yu and Jiang Ling walked ahead, and Chen Ge covered them from behind. His heart chilled as he looked at the monsters on the ground. Red paper money covered the floor, and the monsters looked like they were attending a funeral. They were forced to make sad expressions, but the tears could not be forced out.

A funeral?

After Chen Ge entered the Coffin Village, he realized that the village had many traditions related to funerals, like the white lanterns that hung on the street, paper money, and coffins.

Both in real life and the world behind the door, there was a funeral, a funeral that had not ended until today. Chen Ge took out his black phone to take a look. Even after I entered the world behind the door, the phone didn’t say that the mission has failed. Looks like as long as I am inside the village, regardless of whether it is inside the door or outside of it, the mission is still in effect.

He looked for the mission message. He saw the name Coffin Village on the black phone. Initially, he had thought this name was weird, and he did not think much of it. However, after concluding the stuff that he saw at the village, he had some ideas.

The screen moved, and Chen Ge looked at the details provided by the mission. “That day, other than myself, they all came.”

The mission hint was short. Chen Ge slowly narrowed his eyes. He finally understood what it meant. These people came to ‘my’ funeral to cry on ‘my’ behalf. That is why there’s a myself. The hint is telling me that the key is the funerals.

Chen Ge turned to look at the ancestral hall, and Jiang Ling had already reached the red coffin.