The face that was originally rosy visibly withered at a noticeable speed, leaving only bones.
"Fuck! They were preserving the corpse!"
Wayne Carlton cursed out loud, pushed Clara Giles away, and squatted down to carefully pick up the fragments of the luminous pearl on the ground.
No matter how he managed, he couldn't piece the fragments back together. Placing them back inside the coffin did not produce any effect, and the corpse could not be restored to its original state.
Clara Giles' lips trembled, her face turned pale as paper, and her voice quivered, "I... I didn't expect this to happen..."
Neither of the others had the heart to comfort her. After swearing in both shock and fear, they put their hands together and prayed to the heavens, their hearts filled with unease.
What the naked eye couldn't see, was when the luminous pearl was shattered, a woman clad in luxurious clothes that had been inside the body floated out.
