Organ rental company in another world

"Quickly check whose backpack was burned."

After Shared finished speaking, everyone checked their backpacks.

Three people's backpacks were burned, including Norn's.

Everyone understood the motive of the person who burned the backpack: as long as the team's food reserves were reduced, Shared could return home as soon as possible.

It has to be said that this is what everyone hopes for, after all, two unlucky guys have already died before, and no one wants to be the next one.

"It definitely wasn't me. I closed my eyes last night and it was morning. I didn't get up at all during that time."

"Me too. Everyone knows I'm a heavy sleeper. Once I'm asleep, you can yell in my ear and I won't wake up."

"He pinned me down the whole night. If I had gotten up, he would have known by now, right?"

……

The team members all spoke at once to prove their innocence, and it was impossible to tell from their expressions who was lying.

At this moment, Tina walked over and pointed at Norn and Mur, saying, "I saw them get up last night, although they got up to go to the toilet, but who knows what they did after they finished."

In an instant, Norn and Mur became the target of everyone's criticism. All eyes turned to them. As long as there were suspects, they didn't need to prove their innocence; they could just keep throwing dirt on them.

"Yeah, it's this guy who was yelling about leaving yesterday, it must be him."

"This kid is suspicious too. He's clearly only a Bronze-level, yet he followed me down to the ninth floor. He must be scared, right?"

Mur's face flushed red, and he jumped up abruptly: "That's right! I did get up last night, but I went to pee! I went back to sleep after I finished!"

He paused, then raised his hand, pointing directly at Norn: "It must have been him! Homan! That guy was acting suspiciously last night; he definitely wasn't up to anything!"

Norn turned to look at Mur. "Me? I went back to sleep after I peed. But what did you do after you peed? Do I really have to expose your dirty secrets?"

"You're talking nonsense! Don't make false accusations here!" Mur couldn't lie at all. He blushed after only a few words and his voice became stammering.

Sharred noticed something amiss and quickly asked Norn, "What did he do? Explain yourself, Homan!"

"Him? He went to drink Tina's urine."

Tina's cheeks flushed instantly, her amber eyes filled with embarrassment and anger. She turned her head and glared fiercely at Mur.

Mur was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and his speech became even more hesitant and stuttering:

"You...you're talking nonsense! I didn't...drink, poop..."

Mur's language system went on strike after his shameful act was exposed. He couldn't say anything clearly, and in a fit of rage, he swung his fist at Norn!

However, before the fist could even touch Norn's face, a large hand reached out from the side and clamped down on Mur's wrist like an iron clamp.

Arno stood beside Norn, his pale eyes beneath the iron mask coldly staring at Mur.

Mur's face contorted in pain, the force from Arno's wrist was astonishing, the bones creaking between Arno's fingers as if they were about to shatter at any moment.

"Enough! Stop it, all of you!" Shared's voice boomed in the pavilion.

Shared was well aware of the serious consequences of internal strife. Since he couldn't definitively prove who burned the backpack, he could only put the matter aside for now. It would be a loss if this caused further discord within the team.

"From now on, I will arrange for two people to take turns keeping watch at night. If this happens again, it will be the responsibility of the person on night watch!"

After speaking, Shared sat back down on the ground, feeling somewhat helpless.

Although they lost three packs of dry rations, they still had enough mouths to eat. Now their food supply was estimated to last only four days, which meant he only had two days to investigate the area.

Two days wasn't enough for him to explore the inner city, but now he had to make a choice: he should go and see the castle first.

"We're running out of time, let's go into the castle."

Sharred slung his backpack over his shoulder, and the others followed him out of the pavilion, across the wide stone-paved road of the inner city, and toward the main gate of the castle.

The castle's main gate faces the city gate and is always open, with no guards on either side responsible for opening it.

Upon entering, one is greeted by a huge main hall, with several massive magic rock pillars supporting the dome. Light streams in through narrow windows high up, casting slender beams of light onto the floor.

In stark contrast to its grandeur, the furnishings in the hall were extremely simple.

The walls and supporting pillars have slots for holding torches, but there are no torches on them.

The other furnishings were the same; chandeliers, statues—everything was carved from black magic rock. The entire castle was made of no other material than magic rock.

Norn felt that this was not a castle, but a model sculpted by a sculptor to be a one-to-one replica of a castle.

Directly opposite the main entrance is a wide staircase.

The staircase is made of solid black stone, and each step is polished so smooth that it can almost reflect a person's image.

The stairs connect to a huge platform.

On the platform, countless skulls were exposed, numbering at least a hundred.

"Are we really going to go up?" Mur asked timidly.

Although he knew these skeletons wouldn't attack people unless provoked, their sheer number still filled him with dread.

"Why not go? If anything goes wrong, you can protect me. Do you think I'm spending all this money just to have you come and take a walk with me?"

Sharred stepped onto the stairs, and the others quickly followed.

Once they reached the platform, they realized just how enormous the number of skeletons there was.

Besides the main path, both sides were densely packed with skeletons.

Their formation was extremely neat, forming a perfect line no matter which direction you looked at it from.

Each skeleton was dressed in uniform black armor and wielded a spear, iron sword, or warhammer.

The moment Shared and his group arrived at the platform, all the skeletons turned their heads in unison to look at the group of humans.

Uru instinctively reached for his sword, only to find it hidden behind his waist. Luckily, he had changed position beforehand; otherwise, even he wasn't confident he could escape unscathed from fighting this number of skeletons.

At the end of the main path leading out from the staircase, there sits a huge magic rock throne.

On the throne sat a tall skeleton.

It wore a broken crown on its head, the jewels of which were nowhere to be found, leaving only a few empty grooves.

He wore magnificent and complex decaying armor, his two skeletal hands rested on the armrests of the throne, and his empty eyes stared intently at the group of humans who had come to pay their respects.

emperor.

Everyone tacitly thought of this word.