# Chapter 2700: Corpse Warehouse
The room in this tower was not small, but it was now completely filled, with a strong stench seeping from every corner. Some of the piled corpse bags still maintained human shapes, while others had already swollen and deformed. There was no need to look inside to know what condition the bodies were in.
"Are all of these corpses?" Qi Cong couldn't believe it. "Even if the Box Carrier wants to use them for puppets, this storage method is too crude and simple. They've all gone rotten!"
"Is anyone still alive?" Zhu Bu listened intently for a moment, then reached up and pulled down two corpse bags from the upper layer. Cutting them open, although the two people inside were beaten black and blue, at least they were still breathing.
The two in the bags hadn't died yet, but their bodies were completely immobile. Seeing the dolls appear before them, their sluggish brains made them think these were the doll people from the castle. In despair, they even tried to bite off their tongues to commit suicide.
Biting off one's tongue might not necessarily cause death, but it was still better than being tortured by the Box Carrier.
"She's Xiao Mei." The Painting Woman recognized one of them. She took off her head covering, walked over, crouched beside the corpse bag, fiddled around, and pulled out an item from the other person's body, indicating she had seen it on Xiao Mei before.
Xiao Mei was the outer zone player who had teamed up with Xu Huo to clear the instance before. When the 039 instance ended, Xu Huo had suggested she leave early. Unexpectedly, not only had she not left, but she had also ended up in the Box Carrier's castle. Wasn't this the same destination by different paths?
Xiao Mei was now crying uncontrollably. Unfortunately, her face was so swollen that the tears couldn't flow down, instead pooling in her eye sockets and mixing with blood, making her look especially horrifying.
"You're so ugly." The Painting Woman used Xiao Mei's clothes to wipe her face and asked her, "Have you seen the roly-poly toy?"
Xiao Mei shook her head slightly.
"Since we've run into her, let's just take her out." Yan Jiayu found an antidote and injected it into her. Just as she was about to pull the person up, she heard the recovering woman quickly say, "Get out! There's..."
Before she could finish, the pile of corpses collapsed toward them, and then a skeletal monster-like mutant leaped out from beneath the pile. It opened its huge eyeballs and looked at each person present one by one. It wasn't in a hurry to attack but instead pulled a corpse bag from the side and threw it into its mouth.
Its appearance was very similar to a skeletal monster, with dried-up flesh on its body, but its internal organs were still intact. Xu Huo and the others could clearly see the corpse sliding down its throat, forming a bulging shape on its withered body.
After eating the corpse bag, bloodshot veins suddenly crawled across its black eyeballs, and then it roared at Xu Huo and the others!
It was a beast-like roar that could make one tremble from the soul. Almost at the same time, Xu Huo and the others turned around without thinking and fled outside.
"Stop!" But the next second, Xu Huo, who had been at the front, suddenly stopped and ordered the others not to move forward.
Unfortunately, it was too late. Zhu Bu reacted quickly enough and stopped in time, but Hong Xi, who was carrying Dai He beside him, wasn't so lucky. The two of them took just one more step than Zhu Bu, and their bodies were sliced into several square blocks, mixed together as they fell to the ground!
The people behind were all horrified, not only because of the gruesome way the two died but also because the force that killed them appeared suddenly. In that instant, the space in front of Xu Huo had been cut into grid-like small squares, each seemingly independent. It wasn't a net formed by ordinary space power rays but countless squares stacked together. Under such circumstances, it was impossible for anyone to pass through!
Even someone proficient in space evolution couldn't do it!
Zhu Bu stared at his companion's corpse with eyes wide with rage, then quickly suppressed his grief and said, "My control over space power just now failed! That monster can manipulate space power!"
With no new living props appearing and such a massive change in space power, it could only be that mutant!
"Here it comes!" Ji Ji Bird warned loudly.
The long-limbed mutant crawled quickly over the corpse pile like a spider and suddenly pounced on Qi Cong and Yan Jiayu!
Yan Jiayu's external manifestation was a prop, so she wasn't the main target of the mutant's attack. It was more interested in Qi Cong. Therefore, when the two dodged in opposite directions, it chose to pursue Qi Cong!
"Why is it me again!" Qi Cong was already seriously injured. He had taken quite a few potions, but his recovery wasn't that fast. So when the mutant was right on his tail, he was still barely hopping forward.
The monster's breath was right behind his head. Qi Cong was almost knocked unconscious by the stench. He couldn't run fast enough and could only shout for help!
Xu Huo was the first to use Time Freeze to immobilize the monster. Then Yan Jiayu, who had turned back to rescue him, grabbed a corpse bag at her feet and used it as a weapon to smash at the monster. However, this attack didn't affect the monster. Under the restraint of time power, it suddenly stood still.
"Just keep it frozen like that!" Zhu Bu shouted, manipulating space power to form a large area of Space Ray Blades around the mutant, directly skewering it like a hedgehog!
Space power was invisible, but the wounds on the mutant and the sounds it made when injured were very clear. However, because time was slowed, the wounds also appeared very slowly. Even under such circumstances, the mutant still couldn't break free from the time power.
Zhu Bu's eyes darkened sharply, and he pulled more than a dozen Space Ray Blades straight through the mutant's body!
Time power triggered by a Super Evolver couldn't be easily shaken off, while the Time Freeze formed by time items was easily canceled out by time-space items because the time power triggered by such items was very unstable. Even a top-tier A-class player like Dou Shengnan would find it very difficult to break free once frozen by time power.
Xu Huo had learned from the One-Third Game that under time, there is no space. This meant that when time power was introduced into another space, it was often unaffected by space power. They coexisted as if transparent. At this moment, Zhu Bu was attacking with space power. Compared to items and instruments that couldn't easily get close, this was a very effective attack method, even if it was a bit slower, since the mutant didn't have any defensive instruments.
"Again!" Xu Huo didn't release the mutant but reminded Zhu Bu to finish it off.
Zhu Bu had the same intention, but just as the Space Ray Blades were gathering again, a plump roly-poly toy, as tall as two people, suddenly shot out of nowhere and knocked him flying!
Zhu Bu fell into the area covered by time power, frozen in the motion of falling. The roly-poly toy spun in the air, quickly knocked Yan Jiayu and Qi Cong to the ground, and then flew toward Xu Huo!
"Li Chun!" Xu Huo quickly retreated, once again triggering time power. But the roly-poly toy seemed to sense it and directly increased its speed, immediately dodging past him!