Chapter 449: Shedding Skin

Lin Feng was frightened.

Because this woman looks exactly like the woman in the coffin.

The only difference is she isn't as tall.

But her figure is also very tall and slender.

Wearing flat shoes, she appears to be about 1.8 meters tall.

Qi Yao has also seen this woman, so she is very wary.

Liu Cangyun looked at this woman, then at Lin Feng.

She was about to go forward to greet, but Lin Feng grabbed her.

Lin Feng was about to speak, but unexpectedly the woman turned and left.

Should we go up and ask?

Lin Feng walked to the entrance, watching the red-clad woman walk farther away.

Finally he watched her disappear at the street corner.

"Huh~"

Lin Feng let out a breath.

Then he and Qi Yao exchanged a glance.

"Cangyun, go back first."

Lin Feng said lightly.

Liu Cangyun nodded, with a hint of doubt, and returned to the restaurant.

"Yaoyao, do you think she is that woman from the coffin?"

Lin Feng furrowed his brows and said.

Qi Yao shook her head, "I don't know."

"Then... should we go take a look?" Lin Feng asked.

Qi Yao nodded.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Feng drove, taking Qi Yao, and set off.

The journey wasn't far.

But with Qi Yao present, Lin Feng still drove the car slowly.

Departed in the morning, arrived in Ordos by evening.

After resting a night, the second day, i. e., the second day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Feng drove half a day and arrived at the entrance of the underground space.

What surprised Lin Feng was that the cave entrance showed no signs of disturbance.

The marks he made there last time when he left are still there.

Immediately set up the tent, dug open the cave entrance, and erected a metal triangular frame.

Then, together with Qi Yao, they used a rope to descend into the earth cave.

Outside it's cold, but inside the cave it's warm like spring.

After turning on the generator, the underground space was brightly lit.

The two immediately came to the edge of the pool at the end.

The coffin was still placed there, its lid askew to one side.

Upon stepping forward and looking...

Indeed!

The corpse is gone!

"She... is alive!"

Lin Feng widened his eyes, face full of shock.

Now he can be absolutely certain that the woman who appeared at the entrance yesterday noon is the same corpse that originally lay in the coffin.

Qi Yao wore a thoughtful expression.

"Yaoyao, what have you figured out?"

Lin Feng asked.

Qi Yao picked up a flashlight and swept the light around.

Soon she saw something floating on the water.

"What is that?" Qi Yao asked.

Lin Feng focused his gaze and looked.

His vision is much better than Qi Yao's; he saw it clearly at once.

Floating on the water surface was a piece of scalp, with hair attached.

Lin Feng suddenly understood something.

He immediately took off his clothes and jumped into the water with a splash...

Half an hour later, a large pile of swollen, water-soaked stuff like soft plastic was piled at the pool's edge.

Actually this stuff is skin!

Scattered about, some large, some small.

There are also several pieces clearly from the chest and abdomen, with two holes...

Some instruments were left at the entrance.

Qi Yao took some skin samples and tested them.

Finally she got the result and told Lin Feng they are all stratum corneum; she shed her skin.

Each time she sheds her skin, her body shrinks a bit.

Lin Feng looked enlightened; no wonder that woman had become so much smaller.

With Qi Yao by his side, Lin Feng wasn't so afraid anymore, and he said with a smile, "I've only seen snakes shed their skin; each shedding makes them grow bigger, but she does the opposite!"

Qi Yao said, "This should be one of her abilities, an ability evolved to adapt to the environment. You said before that the Witch Tribe has always been hunted by humans, and the way to tell them apart is this ability to make themselves smaller; she can shrink, and likewise, she can also grow."

Now that he had an answer, Lin Feng was also afraid.

It turned out there was nothing so mysterious about it.

This woman's transformation also follows scientific laws.

Rather than her body being able to change size arbitrarily in an instant.

As for how this woman came to find him?

Lin Feng thought for a while; probably she smelled his scent.

But why did she come looking for him?

What business does she have?

If she had business, why did she leave again?

Moreover, the exit hadn't moved; how did she get out?

Lin Feng recalled the hole that Liu Erwa had dug out last time.

He walked over, shone a flashlight on it, and found the hole hadn't moved; the stone blocking it was still there, even the placement angle was the same.

After returning to the surface, Lin Feng sealed the hole.

Then he drove back.

Lin Feng wore a thoughtful expression, Qi Yao remained calm, staring blankly at the grassland outside the window.

There was something Lin Feng wanted to say, but in the end he didn't.

He was wondering whether, because of that time, that woman might have become pregnant……

A pregnant woman, bringing the child in her belly to look for the child's father—this reason also makes sense.

While Lin Feng was lost in random thoughts, his phone rang.

It was Huang Ziping calling.

"Boss, I succeeded! I really succeeded!"

After Lin Feng answered, Huang Ziping's excited voice came from the phone.

"Great!"

Lin Feng smiled and said, "I'll come over tomorrow."

"Okay, boss!"

After Huang Ziping finished speaking, Lin Feng hung up the phone.

At noon on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Feng returned to Yanjing.

Next, they were just preparing to go to the island.

Qi Yao packed her things, while Lin Feng drove in the afternoon to Huang Ziping's laboratory in the suburbs.

In the abandoned factory, a flat-shaped aircraft larger than before was placed.

The diameter was roughly left and right.

Huang Ziping demonstrated the anti-gravity aircraft in front of Lin Feng.

This time he didn't even connect the power cable.

Under Huang Ziping's control, the aircraft hovered continuously in midair.

After showing Lin Feng a demonstration, Huang Ziping pulled out a USB drive and handed it to Lin Feng, saying, "Boss, this is the aircraft's design schematics, along with various experimental data."

After Lin Feng took the USB drive, he patted Huang Ziping on the shoulder and laughed, "Nice work! Clean this place up; in a few days we'll go to an island and build a big one!"

"Good!"

Huang Ziping nodded heavily.