Chapter 511: Anna (2)

It was as if she were helping them, deliberately guiding them.

But if she was really an ally, why did she threaten and intimidate them at the highway rest stop?

Sean couldn’t figure it out.

He’d just have to find her and ask.

But the woman seemed to have vanished into thin air. They had nearly circled the entire formation of the dead and scoured the secret chamber, yet there was no sign of her.

All they found, in another corner, was a white dress.

Sean picked up the dress, held it up against Elise for comparison, and said, “This is the one.”

Elise dodged away in disgust and grumbled, “You say that like I’ve worn it before.”

Sean explained, “You two have similar builds.”

Elise: “?”

‘He can tell that just by looking?’

Sean turned back to the formation of the dead. “She must have hidden herself among them,” he mused.

Rejection was written all over Elise’s face. “You’re not actually thinking of going in there to look for her, are you?”

Sean shook his head. “There’s no need.”

It wasn’t so much that the woman in white was hiding, but rather that she had returned to her original place.

She must also be someone resurrected by Undead Magic. All of her actions were at the command of some Wizard. Now that her task was complete, it was only natural for her to rejoin the ranks.

If the person pulling the strings didn’t want to talk, then finding the woman in white would be pointless. Like Chris, she would do nothing more than stare at them.

“Sean, there are some boxes over here,” Elvire called out in a low voice from the corner.

Sean’s eyes lit up. “Hm?”

‘Boxes?’

Elvire added, “But they’re full of clothes.”

She was quite bold. Without waiting for Sean and Elise, she opened the boxes herself, completely unafraid of any potential traps. She had actually wanted to give Sean a surprise. If the boxes had contained what he was looking for, he would have surely praised her and said all the things she loved to hear.

Even though they were in the middle of serious business, it didn’t stop her from indulging in her own harmless little whims.

But to Elvire’s surprise, the large boxes didn’t contain a single Magic Potion, let alone the treasures she had imagined. They were filled with clothes of all kinds, including a dress like the one the “ghost” woman wore, only not in white.

Even stranger, one of the boxes was filled with hotel uniforms.

“Come see. Aren’t these the same as the uniforms the receptionists at William Castle wear?” Elvire asked.

Sean’s scalp began to prickle again. “Don’t tell me all the hotel employees are corpses.”

‘So the three shifts weren’t actually three shifts at all? Was it because as resurrected Undead, they couldn’t stay outside for too long, so they had to come back and get someone to replace them?’

“‘Fair-skinned and beautiful…'”

Sean recalled the phrase.

He also remembered the Magic Power uncontrollably radiating from the receptionist and the cleaning lady.

For a moment, Sean’s heart suddenly clenched.

‘So this whole time in Cadola Royal City, we’ve been interacting with the dead??’

Before he could dwell on the thought, Elise suddenly cried out.

“Sean!”

“I remember now!”

Sean: “?”

“What did you remember?”

‘Yelling like that at a time like this is terrifying!’

Elise stared at the formation of the dead, her face filled with terror. She pointed at one of them and stammered, “Him… I’ve seen him!”

“He’s the one I told you about! The one I said looked familiar, but I couldn’t remember from where!”

At the time, Elise could only logically deduce that she must have seen the man at the farm. Now, more details came flooding back.

The moment she saw the man’s face again among the formation of the dead, a memory flashed through her mind like lightning.

“The hospital!”

“Holkaydo Hospital!”

Elise’s voice trembled. She met the man’s vacant gaze and unconsciously backed away until she bumped into Sean.

“An orderly?” Sean asked.

“No.” Elise did her best to suppress her terror, but she couldn’t stop herself from grabbing Sean’s arm. “I didn’t see him in person. It was a photograph.”

The photograph was from the morgue at Holkaydo Hospital.

They hadn’t found a single body there, but they had uncovered a number of files. Among them was a register containing the personal information of every Wizard killed by the Florist Family.

And now, a Wizard who had been killed long ago was standing right before her eyes, alive, even living in this city like an ordinary person… What did that mean?

Across all of Cadola Royal City, how many other “fair-skinned and beautiful” people were there, just like him, like the receptionists and the cleaning lady at William Castle??

This wasn’t a model city at all. It was a city of the dead!

Obviously, Elise and Sean had arrived at the same conclusion.

It was just that the revelation hit her much harder than it hit Sean.

Because she had actually seen the man that very morning and even said hello to him.

“Just try to calm down,” Sean said, trying to soothe Elise.

‘Though he was starting to panic a little himself.’

He was expecting trouble, and it looked like trouble was right on schedule.

Their current situation was even worse than the worst-case scenario they had initially imagined.

If things were really as they suspected—that all the local residents were resurrected from the dead—then there was truly no escape.

The only good news was that they were Soul Reflections.

‘If we really can’t escape, we can just log off.’

This was the main reason Sean had managed to maintain his composure as the “brother-in-law” of the group.

However, Elvire’s next words shattered that final safety net.