After all, this place obviously has ghosts, so it's necessary to conduct a pre-investigation with three times the usual meticulousness.
It was only upon closer inspection that Li Qingming realized the flesh on the walls wasn't muscle, but dense clusters of nerves and blood vessels. They were growing vigorously along the walls and ground like ivy, with the white nerves acting as stems. The thickest were the main stems, from which a multitude of branches extended.
The blood vessels, resembling bulrush, twined around these stems and eventually thinned into capillaries at the end of each stem, stretching outwards to their limits.
In the areas not completely covered, one could see the exposed walls and floors, the material and style matching those on the lower floor.
Moreover, Li Qingming was now standing at the stairwell on the west side, with an impenetrable black fog behind him.
