"How could it be them?" Luo Yu's eyes widened as a storm stirred in his heart.
Even though he had always felt there was something eerie about this place, he had never imagined that the two people inside the coffin would be them. It was unbelievable.
He quickly rose to his feet and shouted to those around him:
"Stop eating, continue and you'll be seeing Yama."
With that shout, all the ravenous teammates who were feasting were dumbfounded, Zhu Qing almost choked on the meat he had just stuffed into his mouth.
As for the benevolent-looking village chief and the villagers next to him, their expressions shifted subtly.
"What are you yelling for, kid?"
"Exactly, why startle everyone like that?"
The captains of Martial University halted their eating but did not speak carelessly. Instead, a few team members stood up and shouted out their discontent.
"Heh, you can't stop a ghost that's bound to die, and I'm not your daddy. If you're in a rush to be reincarnated, I won't stop you. Keep eating if you like," Luo Yu said with a cold chuckle, arms folded across his chest.
"You..." The shouting team members glared at him with indignation, but the chopsticks in their hands remained still.
"Quite the tough talkers, but your actions are very honest," Luo Yu said, shaking his head with a smile.
"My lord, what... what do you mean by this?" The elderly village chief's face twisted with fear and a sense of being wronged, sliding over on his knees.
A village man who appeared simple and honest stood up and said, "What do you outsiders mean by this? We've welcomed you kindly and now you're accusing our food of being tainted? Though we're mere mortals, we too have our dignity."
"Dignity my ass, shut it," Luo Yu replied unmercifully. If he weren't so far away, he would have already slapped across the man's face.
At this moment, Pan Ren, the captain of Demon Province Martial University, spoke up, "Brother Xia, I'm not sure what you've discovered to cause such a stir."
All eyes turned to him.
Someone from the Northeast Martial University team muttered, "What could a rookie on his first dungeon run possibly discover?"
"Most likely he's just being overreactive."
"Yeah, scaring us out of our wits in the middle of the night."
"So many of us didn't find anything wrong, what can he possibly uncover?"
"That's right."
"These villagers all seem like good people, I've checked several times and found nothing amiss."
Luo Yu could clearly hear these deliberately loud comments and sneered repeatedly.
"If you can't discover the problem, that just shows incompetence, not that there isn't a problem here."
This statement was like throwing a spark into a barrel of gunpowder; the atmosphere exploded instantly.
"Damn it, what do you mean by that, you brat!"
"Who here isn't seasoned? Who are you trying to teach a lesson?"
"Exactly, we've protected you. Otherwise, you would have lost your life in the mountain's jungle."
"Who are you calling incompetent? So arrogant, too arrogant."
Luo Yu's harmless smile widened as he said, "I'm not one with a good temper, so you better keep your mouths clean, otherwise, with the malicious spirits here, it's uncertain who will be destroyed first."
"You dare threaten us..." The majority of the team members were furious. Each one was an arrogant prodigy, with noses held high, unable to tolerate insults from an unknown person.
"Enough! Everybody just shut up."
"Boom!"
Zhu Qing's fist exploded the table. Flames swirled around him as he stood up, his eyes now red with flames, looked towards Luo Yu.
"Go on, tell us, the problem lies here."
Unaffected by Zhu Qing's intimidating aura, Luo Yu walked towards the elderly village chief, who was kneeling with a wronged expression on his face.
He reached out and slapped the chief's face repeatedly.
"Slap!"
"Slap! Slap!!"
The villagers became agitated.
Luo Yu smiled and said:
"Alright, cut the crap."
"You little trash, I spotted right away you're not human. Won't you reappear in your true form swiftly?"
"I'm wronged... I'm wronged..." the village chief wept profusely.
"The common people may be killed but not humiliated. What exactly are you trying to do, sir?" The villagers; young and strong men had red eyes and were trying to rush over, but were held back by a few old men.
Many team members looked unhappy and wanted to come forward to stop Luo Yu.
"These are clearly good folk."
"We can't oppress the common people!"
"Be quiet," Pan Ren spoke while tapping the table, and Cao Ritian also sat quietly, observing.
It was clear that while the three spoke lightly of Luo Yu, what they truly thought, nobody knew.
That they had initially wanted to pull Luo Yu to their own team indicated as much.
"Won't cry until you see the coffin?"
Luo Yu lifted the village chief as if he were picking up a chick and moved step by step towards the coffin.
"Bang!"
Luo Yu tossed the village chief to the ground.
"Come, help me open the coffin lid," Luo Yu said.
"Let's have a good look at the remains of your dear departed daughter and husband."
Trembling, the village chief's eyes reddened, tears streaming down as he said, "My... my lord, please no!"
"The souls of my little girl and my husband will not rest in peace, it would be a grave sin."
"You can't do this! Disturbing a coffin is immoral." A team member with green pupils jumped out and ran to Luo Yu's side to stop him.
"My special eyes have the ability to detect anomalies; I can assure you there's absolutely nothing wrong with these villagers and the food."
"Tsk, a legendary Saint?" Luo Yu retorted with a fierce slap that landed with a crisp "smack," silencing everyone. "Who do you think you are to give guarantees?"
"You hit me?" The team member with green eyes was furious.
Luo Yu kicked one of the coffin lids hard.
The nails sealing the coffin lid burst open, flinging the lid away and revealing the figure lying inside: a young man.
The team member with green pupils instantly paled and shut his mouth.
"What is this?"
Zhu Qing's pupils contracted.
Everyone else also flew over instantly, their faces filled with shock.
They might not recognize the person in the coffin, but they had no trouble recognizing the modern combat uniform he wore.