Who hid My Corpse!
Chapter 400: Fifty-two, Miss Hevnia... Hurry up

Chapter 400: Fifty-two, Miss Hevnia… Hurry up

The message brought back from the Forbidden Forest once again deeply shook those who were staying behind at the academy.

“How can such a thing happen? Even Mr. Zel can be murdered?”

“The Orchestra led by the Golden Note couldn’t beat him? That shouldn’t be possible!”

“But it has happened now! That guy must possess some power we don’t understand. Dammit, where are the other Orchestras? We must inform them of this situation; if that guy is capable of steadily taking down an Orchestra, we can’t let them go alone.”

“Is that guy hunting the Golden Note? He won’t eat up all the Orchestras, will he? Are we just delivering notes to him?”

“Impossible! If that guy truly had that kind of power, would he need to hide in the Forbidden Forest? Why wouldn’t he come out and fight directly?”

“Stop talking about meaningless things; what are we supposed to do now?!”

“We can only go and play the Resonance piece first, to pass the message to the other Orchestras in the Forbidden Forest and check on their status.”

The Players responsible for the night watch argued fiercely, shattering the unique silence of the snowy night into pieces, and it took a long time to quiet down again.

However, this was destined to be a sleepless night; every Player on duty stared intently at the pitch-black Forbidden Forest, as if by not doing so, the beast they were hunting would break free from the prison of darkness and charge towards them.

But what they didn’t know was that, behind them, in the temporary room assigned for the wounded and the dead bodies, a Player who should have been unconscious slowly opened his eyes.

In his pupils, once filled with fear, now only coldness and indifference remained.

He slowly sat up, reached into his clothes, and touched a handful of blood.

These injuries were not a disguise.

After all, even with that thing, having devoured an Orchestra led by a Golden Note, it couldn’t possibly have come without any cost.

But compared to the harvest, this cost was negligible.

He rolled up his sleeve and saw that within the silver Music Score, four Golden Notes had already been embedded.

It was just that the most recently added Golden Note was noticeably duller than the other three notes, as if its color had faded due to the ravages of time.

“Pity,” he said softly, “This one can no longer be used for the festival; otherwise, just three more and I’d have the complete set.”

He paused.

“That’s why I’ve always thought notes are like precious flowers. Although they have a cycle from sowing to Growth and then to withering that isn’t short, what truly captures people’s attention is just those few days when the flowers bloom… Don’t you think so, Miss Hevnia?”

He lifted his head, smiling as he watched Miss Hevnia step out of the darkness.

Although no longer the same face, the expression was still as graceful, identical to that of Daniel from two days ago.

Miss Hevnia stopped five or six meters away from him.

“How should I address you?” Miss Hevnia began calmly, “Should I still call you Mr. Daniel?”

He laughed, “That is your choice, of course; you can also call me by my real name—Cesar.”

…Cesar.

Miss Hevnia silently noted down the name.

“It seems you’re not the real Miss Hevnia either,” Cesar said, “So, how should I address you?”

Miss Hevnia was silent for a moment before saying, “I can’t remember my former name.”

“That so.” Cesar wasn’t annoyed; on the contrary, he smiled even more joyfully, “Then I’ll continue to call you Miss Hevnia. Do you know, Miss Hevnia, when I guessed your identity, I was quite shocked, as if… I had seen one of my own kind.”

He gazed at Miss Hevnia with eyes full of aggressiveness.

Not like looking at his own kind, still as if looking at prey.

“From when did you see through me?” asked Miss Hevnia.

“Which one are you referring to?” Cesar inquired with a smile, “Are you talking about the identity of your Music Score, or… the Corpse Blocks of a legendary figure?”

…Just as Mr. Visas had said.

He really had sensed Hevnia’s Corpse Blocks.

Though Miss Hevnia was surprised internally, she maintained her calm outwardly, “I want to know both.”

“Heh, no problem, I can tell you everything,” Cesar said generously, “About the Corpse Blocks of the legendary figure, I had some suspicions from the first time I saw them, but I wasn’t sure; it was only after the second and third encounters that I could be almost certain.”

He paused, then looked into Miss Hevnia’s eyes.

“Don’t you feel it too? That same-origin, magnificent, life force that seems to want to draw close to each other, like magnets? You have no reason not to notice it, do you?”

Miss Hevnia still said nothing.

Because she honestly didn’t know what that sensation was like.

Was it because of Bai Wei’s presence, shielding her from such meaningless attractions?

Miss Hevnia couldn’t be sure, so she naturally wouldn’t respond.

Fortunately, Cesar didn’t care about Miss Hevnia’s silence but instead spoke with a smile, “All right, ladies always have the right to remain silent. But I can roughly guess the reason… It seems you’re not fully familiar with that powerful force. That’s normal; in the Holy Sound, the records about that legendary figure are indeed scarce. I only began to understand everything after I had his power. Of course, if you want to know about this, I can also share it with you.”