"Ugh!"
Ethan really almost threw up on the spot.
He had no idea how long this corpse had been soaking in the water tank. Not only had it already bloated up beyond recognition, but its eyes were actually still open. The pupils had long since dilated, leaving behind only a hazy gray.
But the corpse's tongue had also swollen from soaking in the water and had stuck straight out of its mouth, turning into a huge slab of pink flesh.
Bizarre and extremely foul-smelling.
Ethan couldn't hold back a mouthful of sour water and spat it directly onto the corpse's face.
It wasn't that he had been scared.
He had simply been overwhelmed by the smell.
It was a little hard to control.
Ring~ Ring~
The cell phone in the corpse's stomach was still ringing relentlessly.
Ethan thought about it. Either way, sooner or later he had to do it, so he might as well get it over with.
While the phone was still ringing, Ethan gently placed his hand on the corpse's neck, then slowly moved it down toward the corpse's stomach.
The corpse was even colder than the water. Touching it felt like touching a block of ice.
There was a coldness that went straight through from the inside out.
On top of that, the corpse had already been soaking in the water for several days, and the flesh had long since gone rotten. When he touched it now, it had the greasy feel of fatty meat, along with the sensation of rotten matter that would crumble apart with a hard press.
It was exactly like washing a piece of fatty pork in water, greasy and disgusting.
But he had no choice… for the sake of finding this thing that was barely even worthy of being called a clue, Ethan could only grit his teeth and do it.
After all, who knew whether the silver key from Clue 3 might be inside this phone.
Bzzz~
Bzzzz~
Ethan endured the disgust and checked bit by bit.
Finally, near the spot where the corpse's chest approached its stomach, he felt the vibration of the phone ringing.
"Here!"
Ethan was happy.
He immediately stopped caring whether it was disgusting or not, simply picked up the wooden sword in his hand, and stabbed it down at the spot where the phone was vibrating.
Pfft!
Maybe there was too much gas inside the corpse.
The instant Ethan stabbed down with the sword, the corpse actually began making a long, continuous series of sounds like it was farting.
A foul stench… a truly foul stench instantly passed through the gaps between Ethan's fingers and entered his nostrils.
For a moment, Ethan didn't even know what words he could use to describe that smell. It was as if you took every foul-smelling thing in the entire world and put them together, and even then you couldn't produce a smell like this.
Like fermented herring cans, smelly tofu, paint, and even those pungent correction fluids.
Anyway, countless strange smells had mixed together and were all rushing into Ethan's nostrils.
If Ethan hadn't covered his nose with his hand beforehand, the smell probably could have been a hundred times stronger.
'Faster!'
'A little faster!'
Ethan tightly covered his mouth and nose with one hand, but still gritted his teeth and reached his hand into the wound cut open by the wooden sword, searching for the phone.
After all, the phone had already been ringing for so long. It could stop at any moment, and if it stopped... wouldn't it be even more troublesome for him to find it then.
"Found it!"
Fortunately, Ethan was lucky. He finally pulled the phone out of the sticky stomach fluids.
It was an old-fashioned keypad phone, with a very small screen, about the size of a watch face. The display was also black and white, with a slightly yellow-green backlight.
But just as Ethan saw the screen's backlight, he noticed, the phone had somehow been answered.
And the caller displayed on the screen was…
[Wife]
["Hello, honey!"]
["When are you coming home?"]
["I've got something to tell you. Yesterday, when I went downstairs, I ran into that dog downstairs that shits everywhere. I killed it, and I threw its body into the water tank on the old lady's rooftop."]
["I want her to experience how stinky it is when a dog contaminates her family's water tank! Hahaha…"]
["Honey?"]
["Why aren't you saying anything?"]
Splash!
When Ethan heard the eerie old woman's voice coming from the phone, he was so frightened that he could no longer hold onto the slippery phone in his hand, and it fell back into the water with a splash.
Glug! Glug! Glug!
The phone had been soaked in water, and soon the screen went dark.
The voice from the phone naturally disappeared along with it, but Ethan was so frightened that the hair all over his body stood on end.
Because, he discovered that someone was lying.
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