The person in the coffin did not cry out like Wan Xin did.

But once the patterns on the coffin disappeared, the soundproofing effect vanished too.

Their conversations outside should have reached into the coffin.

At this moment, the coffin lid was pushed open from the inside, and a cautious-looking youth poked his head out.

He seemed about the same age as the youth Wan Xin became when he wore the watch, though his expression was far colder and more composed than Wan Xin’s.

As soon as Wan Xin saw that face, he couldn’t help but get excited and blurt out:

“My dear family! Super Brother! You’re back too!!”

Li Ku recognized him as well—

The one who followed Lin Jing said nothing beyond a brief self-introduction.

Out of the five-person group, he was the least conspicuous.

But Li Ku didn’t look down on this low-presence youth at all: “I remember you. The one beside Lin Jing, your watch identity is Tu Tianyou.”

“Why are you in this coffin?”

According to Wan Xin’s account...

At the time, the only person bleeding onto the wall should have been him.

Did Lin Jing later arrange for someone else to bleed? Or had something gone wrong with Lin Jing and the others?

The Administrator didn’t know Yang Wenchao, but from Wan Xin’s earlier description, he had gathered some information.

So he directly ordered Li Hongbin and the others to keep digging the grave.

Yang Wenchao, with a flash of movement, leaped right out of the coffin.

He scanned the surroundings with cautious eyes.

During that time, his gaze lingered on Jiang Ye for a few seconds, showing some hesitation.

But he didn’t say much.

His final look fell on Li Ku, and he asked:

“Why are you all here? Were you dug out of coffins too?”

Li Ku thought for a moment, then gave a brief explanation.

He said—he had come here via the Blood Pool Elevator hidden space, while Wan Xin had just been dug out of a coffin.

And that was not long before he arrived.

Yang Wenchao seemed thoughtful and glanced at Wan Xin’s wrist.

Following his line of sight, Wan Xin explained directly: “We really came back through resurrection coffins!”

“Although I don’t know why—despite being resurrected, the watch was still on our wrists...”

“But in this apartment environment, we can take the watch off and then restore our bodies!”

“And I just handed my watch to Jiang Ye.”

The amnesiac Jiang Ye, of course, didn’t recognize Yang Wenchao.

But from Wan Xin’s tone, it was clear this Yang Wenchao probably knew him?

Thinking that, the fact immediately confirmed it—

Yang Wenchao pondered briefly, then also took off his watch and, very naturally, handed it to Jiang Ye.

This seamless motion...

made Jiang Ye more convinced—

As expected!

He had been a big shot before losing his memory!

These two were his subordinates!

And that Lin Jing might be one of his subordinates too...

Hehe (*^▽^*)

Since they handed over the watches so smoothly, Jiang Ye naturally didn’t refuse to accept them.

He took the watch with equal smoothness.

Then Yang Wenchao asked him, “What do you think?”

?

Jiang Ye was baffled: What?

Think about what?

About looking at the watch or looking at you?

He couldn’t understand what Yang Wenchao was asking...

However...

between exposing his amnesia and letting others assume things about him, Jiang Ye chose the latter without hesitation.

He casually weighed the watch, put on a thoughtful expression.

Then he countered Yang Wenchao: “You tell me first, what do you think?”

Yang Wenchao, unsurprisingly, didn’t overthink it and assumed Jiang Ye already had an opinion but was withholding it.

He went on to candidly state the thought that had been in his mind:

“When Wan Xin and I were resurrected in the same coffin in the ‘dual-soul fusion’ state, it basically confirmed—”

“That the process of resurrection from the Reincarnation Graveyard to this underground burial ground was carried out by that mysterious coffin, which constructed a physical body for us.”

“So our souls ended up squeezed into the same physical body.”

“This resurrection’s constructed body built by the coffin was clearly a bit special.”

“First, the watch—which can also construct a player’s body—was still on our wrists.”

“Second, after removing the watch, we could restore our original bodies...”

“So it’s safe to say—”

“This prison watch and the resurrection coffin both seem to have the ability to construct physical bodies.”

“Except that the prison watch constructs a body based on the identity registered on the watch.”

“In other words, whoever wears the watch will have the watch owner’s body constructed for them.”

“But the resurrection coffin constructs a body based on the identity of the conscious soul inside the coffin.”

“In other words, the coffin constructs the physical body corresponding to whatever identity the consciousness inside it has.”

“For Wan Xin and me, being resurrected while wearing the watch... could be considered as experiencing a double body construction?”

“Don’t you find it strange? Our conscious souls can, after death, return to the resurrection coffin...”

“Yet the watches we wore are physical objects. Why were they also able to appear inside the coffin and be resurrected with us?”

What Yang Wenchao wanted to probe with “what does Jiang Ye think” was precisely how Jiang Ye interpreted the fact that the prison watch could follow a player’s conscious soul and appear in the resurrection coffin with them.

If it truly belonged to Wan Xin and him, then their watches resurrecting with them might be barely understandable...

But those two watches did not essentially belong to them.

They were identities stolen from others.

And yet these things still resurrected with them...

It was something Yang Wenchao could not fathom.

However...

He couldn’t figure it out, and the amnesiac Jiang Ye was even more clueless!

He couldn’t quickly understand some of the information within Yang Wenchao’s words!

What is the Reincarnation Graveyard? 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

What is dual-soul fusion?

What does constructing a physical body mean... this sounds so mystical?!

Fortunately, since he possessed a Guiwen clone—this conscious soul clone—Jiang Ye could, with effort, barely parse Yang Wenchao’s meaning.

First and easiest to grasp was that both the resurrection coffin and the prison watch could construct physical bodies.

Although he didn’t understand the principle, it seemed confirmed.

Then, the different effects the prison watch and resurrection coffin had when constructing bodies seemed to imply different functions.

The prison watch constructing a body should be similar to the mimic mask effect?

Because a player who already has a body will have their bodily form changed upon wearing the prison watch.

This effect alone is comparable to the mimic mask.

But the prison watch is obviously more advanced than the mimic mask.

Even a bodiless consciousness might be able to wear the watch, and the watch could create a body out of nothing.

Moreover, the body constructed by the watch would not be eroded by the mist.

It also has a “time” limit, and possibly other effects Jiang Ye didn’t yet know.

Overall, a prison watch-made body is a special body that can survive inside the mist.

As for the body constructed by the resurrection coffin...

As the name implies, it’s intended to help players resurrect.

Perhaps one can simply understand it like this—

Players with resurrection slots leave a special anchor point inside the coffin.

When the player dies...

It appears to be death, but actually only the body dies while the consciousness does not completely vanish.

Some deaths may leave consciousness entirely intact;

some may leave only a sliver of lingering awareness.

As long as even a sliver of consciousness remains, it should be possible for the coffin’s special anchor to capture it.

It’s roughly like... summoning a soul?

Once the conscious soul is captured, the coffin constructs a physical body for it.

And the constructed body, as Yang Wenchao said, is built according to that conscious soul’s identity.

That “dual-soul fusion” issue probably stems from the coffin only being able to construct one body.

So when two souls were trapped in the same coffin, it constructed just one body for both, creating the “dual-soul fusion” bug.

If the resurrection coffin’s principle is like this, Wan Xin’s experience still has an extra point to explain—

According to Wan Xin’s description, when he was absorbed into the wall of that Hexagonal Palace...

he seemed to have already died?

Or more precisely, his body died.

Normally when a body dies, the soul should be in an unconscious state.

But whether due to the wall’s special effect or something special about Wan Xin himself,

he had apparently already died but his conscious soul retained his pre-death awareness.

Then he followed the other monsters and experienced a monster revival.

During the monsters’ revival process, all the monsters were drawn by the consciousness stream to what appeared to be the World Tree root system.

It looked like they were meant to become nourishment for the World Tree.

But for some unknown reason...

Wan Xin suddenly appeared in the resurrection coffin.

By rights, Wan Xin should have been captured by the coffin’s special anchor at the time his body died and resurrected within the coffin.

But he had some additional, unexplained experience...

Why he suddenly appeared in the coffin remains unclear...

So Jiang Ye guessed there might be another explanation—

Perhaps the resurrection coffin’s special anchor has a limited capture range?

Only existences within that “instance” could be captured?

At the time Wan Xin died on the first floor of the Blood Pool Elevator, he might not have been inside the instance?

Later, when he entered the World Tree root system, perhaps the World Tree underwent some change that drew him into the instance, and then the resurrection coffin’s anchor captured him?

In Jiang Ye’s mind, he vaguely constructed a framework to make sense of it for himself.

Not necessarily correct.

But Wan Xin suddenly resurrecting from that root system into the coffin surely had a reason!

As for why the watch he wore in life—someone else’s watch—could also resurrect with him...

that was Yang Wenchao’s real question.

Jiang Ye thought it over and couldn’t come up with an answer.

Mainly because he knew too little about the prison watch.

But to address Yang Wenchao’s doubt, he offered a simple analysis:

“This is indeed strange, but it could relate to your special death experience.”

“Maybe we can run some experiments on this later.”

“For example, Administrator 4444,” he looked at the Administrator, “don’t you still have resurrection slots?”

“Perhaps you can die while wearing a watch.”

“Then we’ll see whether you resurrect with the watch on you, or whether only you resurrect and the watch pops out alone.”

“At least that would tell us whether Yang Wenchao’s and Wan Xin’s watches resurrecting with them are exceptions or a general phenomenon.”

While saying this, Jiang Ye asked Yang Wenchao: “You still haven’t said how you died, or how you appeared in the coffin.”

Right after he asked, Li Ku chimed in:

“When you were in the coffin, did the watch’s time flow normally?”

Wan Xin shook his head straightaway: “When I was in the coffin, I couldn’t see the time on the watch at all. I was only intent on getting out, so I didn’t pay attention.”

Yang Wenchao was more reliable and said directly: “Before the coffin opened, the time on the watch did not progress.”

“I noticed the watch’s time starting to move when I could hear voices outside the coffin.”

Hearing this, Li Ku looked thoughtful and turned to the Administrator:

“Can your mini black box used to open coffins store our watches for us?”

This question was very specific. The Administrator paused and then said: “It’s possible, but the two watches must go into two separate bone ash boxes.”

“How about this—you take one, I keep the other?”

Li Ku looked at Jiang Ye.

After all, the two newly obtained watches were now in Jiang Ye’s hands.

Jiang Ye was particularly interested in those bone ash boxes, but he didn’t agree outright. He asked the Administrator: “How many bone ash boxes do you have?”

“Several,” the Administrator answered curtly, adding, “We might get more when we explore the Underground Palace later.”

Jiang Ye nodded: “Fine. Put the two watches into bone ash boxes—one for you, one for me. Besides that, give me one extra bone ash box.”

The Administrator agreed without much hesitation.

Once the two watches were placed in bone ash boxes, their time indeed froze.

Jiang Ye watched the Administrator’s expression and asked directly: “You already knew this, didn’t you?”

“You put Li Ku’s watch into a bone ash box before, right?”

The Administrator raised an eyebrow and didn’t answer directly, but the implication was clear.

Jiang Ye didn’t press further and turned his gaze back to Yang Wenchao.

Yang Wenchao then narrated his perspective of events.

First, after Wan Xin bled onto the wall, he was immediately absorbed into a desiccated corpse.

Whether due to the wall’s special nature or a trait of Moon People players where bones vanish after death, Wan Xin’s desiccated corpse quickly disappeared...

Leaving the four to study the wall.

It looked like research, but Yang Wenchao suspected Lin Jing knew something.

He seemed not to be studying, but waiting for something!

Sure enough, the wall gave off distant ghostly wails.

Then gusts of cold wind swept through, as if countless monsters had swarmed out of the wall!

“At that moment... the Jade Flask that had been carried into the Blood Pool by the despair-cursed version of He Yuliang suddenly appeared on the wall!”

“Or more accurately, the flask’s mouth formed a special spatial channel on the wall.”