When we returned, we saw Ms. Wu curled up on the couch. She was staring at the stone tablet without blinking.

I asked her, “Did anyone come?”

“Just now, a man knocked on my door. I looked through the peephole and saw that he was a stranger.”

Since we had warned her earlier, she didn’t open the door. However, the man didn’t want to leave, and Ms. Wu had to call the apartment’s security to drive him away.

“Well done, Ms. Wu. If you had opened the door, we can’t even imagine what might have happened.”

Ms. Wu went to the kitchen to get some food for us while Chuyi took out the corpse wax we had collected. He told me to find some sheets of thick paper. He then rolled them into tubes in the size of candles and started to stuff the corpse wax into the tubes with his bare hands.

Soon after, he had created six candles made of corpse wax.

At the same time, Ms. Wu brought us...