Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

"The five grave incense sticks correspond to the five days of a funeral. Funerals vary in different dynasties and eras, but I've roughly deduced these five: encoffining, wake, announcing the death, condolences, and burial."

"After all, there aren't any extra items here to provide for other rituals."

"If the grave incense is used up prematurely, everyone will die."

Shigure Kira seemed to understand but still couldn't help but ask, "But what does this have to do with the you in the coffin? You're clearly still alive now. This is completely illogical."

Li Mo turned his head to look at his own portrait. "I can't explain the reason to you, but without a doubt, the blood I dripped had an effect."

"You can see that the me on the spirit tablet only has a head, while there is no head in the coffin."

"Are the corpse and the spirit tablet fake?" Shigure Kira said.

"Uncertain, but they're most likely real," Li Mo replied.

"…You, died?"

"So you're a ghost now?"

Questions arose one after another.

The scene once again fell into silence and oppression.

Because they indeed didn't know that Li Mo had died once in the previous ten minutes and that even his head had been eaten.

And Li Mo himself was also puzzled. Why was his body from before the reset here? Was this body from the first death or the second death just now?

Or was this not a body from before the reset, but just some bizarre phenomenon that distorted his perception?

If it was the first situation, then it didn't matter which death it was. What was important was why the body from before the reset was here.

Who put it there?

The head-eating ghosts were just the lowest level ghosts. Their strength could even be stopped for a short time.

Their biggest danger was nothing more than grafting themselves onto the living, then mixing into the crowd and waiting until 7 PM at night to eat the people around them.

And those who were grafted by head-eating ghosts weren't even aware that they were ghosts.

However, this wasn't that dangerous.

The truly dangerous anomaly was the culprit that had led to Li Mo's first death, the rule that caused instant decapitation when he opened a door.

...

Wait, who did I see in my first death?

Li Mo suddenly sobered up. He suddenly realized the meaning of this funeral.

No... that's not right.

Perhaps the one who should lie down in the black coffin wasn't him, but—

Kiana.

The enemy he had to face was definitely not the head-eating ghosts, those embarrassing things.

Li Mo instantly affirmed this idea.

In the memories of his first death, he clearly felt the abnormal Kiana holding him and eating him bit by bit.

And so far, Li Mo didn't even have a second piece of information related to Kiana.

That was strange. It should be known that Kiana had immediately appeared behind him after the first death.

That meant as long as he died, Kiana would immediately appear.

And the corpse in the black coffin was probably placed there personally by Kiana. As for why it didn't have a head, perhaps the head was eaten by the head-eating ghosts and became the current... "him."

Thinking of this, Li Mo felt a chill down his spine. He felt goosebumps, even though his emotions had been obliterated for the most part after dying twice.

Perhaps the current him wasn't himself at all, but a head-eating ghost.

It was just that he hadn't noticed yet.

The real Li Mo had already died in the bizarre surge just now.

"!" Li Mo immediately touched his neck. This action made Shigure Kira and the others very confused. Why was he touching his neck for no reason?

But the students who escaped the broadcasting room with Li Mo suddenly realized something and followed Li Mo, touching their own necks.

"Captain? What are they doing?"

"Yeah, that's a weird action. Could they all be ghosts..."

Shigure Kira had an abstract expression like a meme of "you ask me, I ask who." "Uh, maybe they were startled just now and want to move their necks."

At this time, Saori Tsuruyo spoke up to explain, "No, Shigure Kira, head-eating ghosts can eat our heads and then graft onto other people's bodies, pretending to be human."

Shigure Kira: "Ah? That's possible!? But wouldn't they be recognized when they graft onto someone else's body? They must remember that they were eaten by a head-eating ghost, wouldn't they doubt their own memories when they revive?"

Saori Tsuruyo: "They won't. Those who are eaten by head-eating ghosts will have their memories tampered with and will think that everything is reasonable, even if there are obvious loopholes in the facts. Before in the broadcasting room, we also mistook a cleaner for our head of discipline, but St. Freya doesn't have a head of discipline. However... the head of discipline was indeed a very good person."

"The only loophole is that the necks of those who are parasitized by head-eating ghosts aren't connected perfectly to their heads. There's an invisible seam, which can be felt."

At this point, Saori Tsuruyo's eyes showed respect. Ekri chose to not cause trouble for anyone. Not everyone has the courage to admit that they're a ghost.

"Hiss... That sounds a bit terrifying. No, I have to touch mine too!" Upon hearing that, Shigure Kira and her team members immediately reached out to touch their necks.

Li Mo interrupted, "No need. You're not head-eating ghosts. I'm sure of it."

Shigure Kira: "How do you know?"

Li Mo pointed at the clock. "After 7 PM, head-eating ghosts' behavior logic will change. They'll become irritable. If anyone among us has been parasitized by head-eating ghosts, they would have already revealed their flaws and started killing people by now, and the heads outside would have rushed in."

"After all, I said earlier that grave incense could suppress, but it doesn't mean it can stop, especially the ghosts during a bizarre tide. And under the circumstances of grave incense burning, the auditorium only has the ability to block ghosts' perception, not to stop them."

"Once one of us is grafted by a head-eating ghost, the ghosts outside will sense it, and then they'll immediately rush in to attack us."

After Li Mo finished speaking, everyone slowly put their hands down, relieved. No one wanted to be close to a teammate, only for their teammate's head to suddenly rotate 180 degrees, smile strangely, and suddenly bite their head.

However, some timid people were still constantly observing other people's necks to see if there were any cracks.

Shigure Kira took a deep breath and then asked in confusion, "Then why did you touch your own neck? If you're a ghost, you would have started killing people by now, too."

Li Mo didn't answer and kept silent for a long time.

"My situation is different from yours..."

"So you suspect you're already dead and that the corpse in the coffin is the real you, and what's alive now is you grafted by a head-eating ghost?" Shigure Kira analyzed. Instantly, a terrifying truth was presented before everyone.

Li Mo put his hand down. "But now I've confirmed that I'm not a head-eating ghost. The corpse in the coffin was caused by other reasons..."

"What reasons?" Shigure Kira had a relentless attitude.

"I don't want to explain. I can't explain either."

Li Mo narrowed his eyes slightly, glancing at the headless male corpse in the coffin, then slowly covered the coffin completely, and then slowly walked to the entrance of the auditorium, stopping at the edge of the auditorium and looking up at the endless dark sky.

The bright moon hung high, and the pure moonlight sprinkled over every corner, omnipresent…

Li Mo pointed at the lonely and desolate crimson moon, which looked like a burst blood vessel and a blood-dripping scarlet eyeball.

Whether Li Mo looked at the blood moon or not, he could always feel a crazy and obsessed gaze watching him.

As if it wanted to record every single one of his actions and every single word he said.

Just like a child in a normal family where every corner of their bedroom, bathroom, and living room was installed with surveillance cameras, where everything they did had no privacy.

This intense sense of surveillance made Li Mo feel very uncomfortable. Fortunately, after dying twice, he seemed to no longer feel repulsed by it.

Feeling repulsed by someone invading your privacy was a luxury that emotional beings could afford. Li Mo couldn't enjoy it.

"She's there, monitoring everything." Li Mo said in a heavy voice, "There, and here."

"There? Here? What are you talking about?"

"..."

She's behind me.

Li Mo didn't say these words. It was enough as long as he was sure that Kiana couldn't directly enter reality.