Chapter 137 Cooperation

As Ye Yang's cold flame inched towards the corpse's brow, the corpse seemed to sense the danger, as if trying to dodge backward, trembling slightly.

While Ye Yang's longsword continued to advance, I suddenly saw a wisp of true energy flowing from Ye Yang's sword tip, rushing towards the corpse's face.

That wasn't Ye Yang's way of wielding his sword. No matter how slow Ye Yang's sword was, his sword energy wouldn't be so scattered and weak.

Was the corpse absorbing Ye Yang's sword energy?

I drew my blade to kill the corpse, but Ye Yang stopped me, "Don't move, let him absorb it."

Although I didn't know what Ye Yang was up to, I took a step back with my blade.

I watched as Ye Yang's sword energy flowed continuously towards the corpse like water, and Ye Yang's face began to pale.

Just as I couldn't resist the urge to attack, Ye Yang's wrist suddenly shook, forcibly cutting off the flowing sword energy.

The corpse sitting in the yellow brick chair slowly opened its eyes, "How did you get in here?"

As soon as it spoke, the smell of burnt flesh spread out.

Was this corpse recently burned to death?

My ghost eyes were always open, the blood light in my eyes flickering like a tide, but I couldn't see any ghostly fluctuations on its body.

In other words, no one had sealed its soul into the corpse.

Rather, this person wasn't dead yet.

I couldn't imagine how a person could still be alive after being burned like charcoal.

Unless, it wasn't human to begin with.

I asked, "Who are you?"

It answered irrelevantly, "Why did you come to the Yin-Yang Inn?"

We were deadlocked by such a simple question.

Neither of us wanted to answer the other's question first, nor did we want to be at a disadvantage.

Seeing that I wasn't speaking, Ye Yang knew that I was about to make a move, and quickly sent me a telepathic message, "Don't act rashly, this person is not simple. He can't be threatened."

Even without Ye Yang's warning, I knew that this guy was almost invulnerable.

Take his life?

Aside from not knowing how to kill him, even if I did, killing him would only be doing him a favor.

This guy was already overcooked. Living meant enduring the torment of burns every moment.

Killing him would earn his gratitude.

Use other methods?

Without knowing his identity or weaknesses, what could I use to threaten him?

Ye Yang immediately said, "Wait for Ling to come!"

I understood what Ye Yang meant. He wasn't trying to pass the buck to Ling, but rather, he knew that Ling had suggested splitting up because she had seen through the mystery of this room.

Ling had deliberately walked away to find out the truth about Room 81.

While we were still deadlocked, Ling walked in, stepping on the broken stones on the ground.

Ling deliberately made noise to remind us that she was coming, to avoid any misunderstandings.

When the corpse saw Ling, its eyes widened suddenly, but it quickly returned to normal, "How did you get in here?"

Ling walked to a spot not far from the corpse, "Should I call you Shopkeeper?"

The corpse hesitated for a moment before saying, "My surname is Qin, you can call me Shopkeeper Qin."

"But how did you know I was the shopkeeper of the Yin-Yang Inn?"

Ling said, "I carefully examined Room 81."

"I found that from different positions in Room 81, you can see different buildings in the inn. You could say that as long as I move my position, it's like standing outside the doors of different rooms."

"Besides the shopkeeper, probably no one else needs to check on the inn's tenants all the time, right?"

I understood what Ling meant. She was saying that Room 81 was like the Yin-Yang Inn's surveillance room, except they weren't using cameras, but some kind of secret technique.

Shopkeeper Qin said, "You're right! In this room, you can not only see everything in the inn, but you can also appear outside the door of any room at any time."

"Likewise, if you have the ability to reverse the formation, you can enter this room from anywhere."

"However, apart from the five major shopkeepers, no one knows how to reverse the formation."

"How did you get in here?"

I understood. The main reason we were able to enter Room 81 was because someone had deliberately exposed that yellow brick.

That should be a node in Room 81's guardian formation that had been deliberately damaged.

Only from there would it be easiest to enter Room 81. If we had tried another spot, Ye Yang might not have been able to get in.

Ling said, "Don't worry about how we got in. Just understand that we can cooperate, and that's enough."

"Cooperate?" Shopkeeper Qin laughed, "You say cooperate with me? It's questionable whether you can even survive, and you're talking about cooperation?"

"As soon as you came in, the place where you used to live will send out a warning. The people who have taken over the inn will find out immediately."

"The people you left in your residence are doomed, and you are too."

"Why would I cooperate with a bunch of dead people?"

"Putting your hopes on dead people, isn't that foolish?"