Fifty-two. Weird Shadow in the Forest

Anna carefully knelt in the rain, praying over the char-burnt body. Her actions somewhat resembled a curious child reaching through the bars of a circus lion's cage to touch the lion.

There was neither breath nor heartbeat, the body was completely dead.

Anna stared blankly for a while, suddenly remembering she was outside alone, she quickly turned back towards the cabin and passed through the closed wooden doors into the house.

The bright, steady light of the fire brought warmth, dispelling the cold.

Lu Li was tidying up the cabin; he picked up the overturned pots and placed them aside, rearranged the stones around the fireplace, resetting the collapsed fire and added new wood.

Lu Li removed the bedding from the bed, wiped the wooden planks around the campfire dry, and wrapped up the few suspicious pieces of meat, throwing them into a quiet corner of the pot.

"Take the corpse outside and bring some wood back while you're at it,"