Kiss of Death

  I don't know what they were thinking, asking me to kiss a female corpse. Although I've already given away my first kiss, I'm still a young man with aspirations, having received good education and grown up under the care of the people and the Party's teachings. A youth as excellent as I am, now being asked to kiss a dead body? If this gets out, it would be strange if people didn't laugh at me.

  "Hurry up, otherwise you'll only be able to hold her like this forever. Previously, we could have cut off your hand to save your life, but now it's too late. We can only open this eight-layer lock and remove the bracelet from Xing Hou's hand to break the curse of the guardian corpse. What she is guarding is not the corpse, but this bracelet." Lin Ruoshui said.

  Death is death, and I'm also a person without prospects. After listening to Lin Ruoshui's few words of flattery, I suddenly forgave her for her attitude towards me back then. I really don't have any manly spirit at all.

  So I opened my mouth and slowly bit towards the key handle that was exposed in the female corpse's mouth.

  "Wait a minute." Wu Liu Qi suddenly said.

  "What's wrong?" Lin Ruoshui asked.

  "He can't bite like this, we have to help him. What if he accidentally drops the key into the female corpse's belly again?" Wu Liuqi said, and then came to the back of the female corpse, first pinching her neck and pressing against her chin to prevent the key from falling out.

  Then, I saw the key sticking out a bit further, just enough for me to grab it with my teeth. So, I took a deep breath and put my mouth forward, and when my lips touched hers, I almost felt an electric shock. I didn't know if it was because I hadn't kissed anyone in a long time or if I really had feelings for this female corpse, but my whole body suddenly felt a surge of power, as if I had been energized.

  Gently biting the key, I slowly pulled my head out and watched as the key moved outward bit by bit. My heart also relaxed bit by bit, and the feeling of being bound by the female corpse's body was greatly reduced.

  Just as the key was about to be bitten out, my hair was suddenly pulled back with great force, and my head quickly tilted backward, almost sticking to my own back. The pain in my neck was so severe that it felt like it was going to break. I didn't know why Lin Ruoshui treated me this way, did she want to kill me because she thought I was beyond saving?

  But soon, my neck was pushed back again, and when I faced the female corpse once more, her face underwent a shocking transformation. A stream of foul-smelling water flowed out of her mouth, and her skin began to wither and shrink. The previously seductive lips now became dry and lifeless, devoid of any elasticity. This beautiful female corpse suddenly transformed into a stinking sack of skin, limp and weak in front of me.

  It's really as the saying goes, no matter how beautiful you are born, after death, it's just a pile of dry bones and a skin bag.

  "This corpse's body is full of mechanisms, just now when you bit out the key, I heard a sound from her belly, so I knew that there must be another mechanism behind this key. As expected, when I pulled your head to the back, two flying arrows had already flown past your neck." Lin Ruoshui said to me, while shining his flashlight on a pair of black things nailed to the wall in the distance, which I couldn't see very clearly either.

  "You should have told me in advance, so I could be prepared."

  "Ready? If I told you, you'd get nervous, and when you're nervous, who knows what might really happen." Lin Ruoshui said with a smile, extending her hand to me.

  "What's up?" I looked at her hand and asked, thinking she wanted to shake hands with me.

  "Keys, isn't that what we've been searching for with so much effort?" Lin Ruoshui said.

  "Huh? Didn't you take the key away a long time ago? Did you not take it just now when you pulled my hair?" I asked curiously.

  "How is that possible? I just saved you in the nick of time, where did I have the spare time to grab the key? Don't you feel anything?" Lin Ruoshui was even more curious than me.

  Since she didn't take it, and I didn't take it either, where would the key go? Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a shock. When Lin Ruoshui pulled my hair, my head was tilted back, at that time because it was too painful and I didn't notice anything, just feeling something fell directly into my throat, when I was being choked and uncomfortable, my head was straightened again, and the thing went down with a gurgle.

  "Ah! No way!" Thinking of this, the key that had been in the female corpse's mouth for over a thousand years was actually swallowed by me. Not to mention whether I can get it out or not, the bacteria on the key could totally kill me!

  So I quickly used my hand to cover my mouth and climbed onto the edge of the coffin, vomiting. Lin Ruoshui and Wu Liuqi on the side could only watch helplessly, unable to do anything. Now they just hoped that I hadn't swallowed too deeply and could spit it out.

  But no matter how I vomited, the key didn't come out. This is bad, do I have to pull it out with a big diarrhea? That would be too disgusting.Thinking of this, I couldn't help but vomit again, and when I put my hand in again, I seemed to touch something like a thin thread, and slowly pulled it out. When I held it in both hands, I found that it was a golden thread.

  "This is the key, it's in that woman's corpse belly with the key tied up, hurry and pull it out, we still have hope!" Lin Ruoshui said excitedly.

  Helpless, I had to slowly pull the gold thread outwards, and as I pulled, I felt a strange sensation from my belly to my chest. When it passed through my throat, that dry retching feeling came again, forcing me to speed up. As the key was yanked out of my throat, I felt like I'd undergone a stomach-washing-like torture, with acidic water spraying out of my mouth once more, accompanied by some strange flavors.

  "Alright, alright, with the key it's easy." Lin Ruoshui immediately fetched the key, wiped it clean with her backpack, and then jumped into the coffin.

  All I heard were a few clicks, and it seemed like the lock had been opened. Now I was so exhausted that I didn't have any strength to see what they took out. Anyway, they would let me see after they got it.