Curse The Mainframe - Chapter 442

Chantelle’s hand was abruptly stopped before she managed to touch the corpse of the Grand Meister.

“What?” she said, drawing back a little. She was surprised and slightly shocked. Her heartbeat had elevated because of his sudden words.

She eyed Alec, who had reached out to grab her, rather unhappily.

The other man had not been paying attention to her at all, but now he suddenly stopped her? What did he think he was doing, exactly?

She didn’t understand what he meant by this.

Alec made sure that the idiot who was going to so carelessly touch the corpse wasn’t going to continue her action and let go, resisting the urge to dust off his hands. She was dusty from head to toe and looked rather sorry.

“Don’t touch the corpse,” he said with as much patience as he could. “There’s an array on it that will activate once you do.”

Chantelle quickly took a step back. “You should have said so earlier!” she said, feeling a lingering sense of fear. “Thanks are in order, I suppose,” she said grudgingly, “so thanks.”

Generally, no one was mad enough to lay an array on their body, which had made her careless, but at his reminded, caution flooded back into her. A person on the verge of death… what did they not dare to do?

“What’s the array?”

Everyone remained silent as Alec’s eyes traced over blank space, patiently waiting for him to speak.

Alec then turned his attention towards the walls that were surrounding them. To their surprise, they noticed that there were now faint words written on the wall behind them where the entrance used to be.

It was apparently the inheritance left behind by the Grand Meister for those who entered this place and managed to find the ‘hole’ that Chantelle had dropped into previously.

The words wrote, “If you wish to be the owner of my inheritance, then accept me as your master and pay your respects.”

Instantly, the five of them were suspicious. Alec had already said that the array would start once they touched the Grand Meister and acknowledging them as their master meant that they would have to touch the corpse.

In that case, it was obviously a trap!

Thinking up to this point, Chantelle sucked in a cold breath, feeling the lingering fear from before coming back with a vengeance. At this point, she wholly believed in this gently smiling man’s words.

She was no longer blinded by her anger and knew that they were telling the truth. She was relatively calm now, and her logical processing went back to normal.

If that man had not stopped her earlier, she would have something bad befall her already.

Chantelle cursed loudly. “Damn this old man! This is obviously a trap! Accept him as a master? What need does a dead man need someone to accept him as a master for? There’s obviously sinister intentions!”

Katherine agreed with her. “Hmph. You should count yourself lucky that teacher saved you and stopped you from activating the array even though you were impudent earlier.”

Chantelle put her hands on her h.i.p.s and glowered at Katherine, who remained unphased.

It was true that she was grateful to him, but she also knew that part of it was because if she had activated the array, then all of them would be in trouble.

Still, she wasn’t a person who didn’t know how to be grateful, but her gratefulness didn’t mean that it extended to this arrogant woman in front of her!

Le Xuan stepped in before the mood got too rough. “Okay, just calm down for now. This could potentially be a life and death situation, but all of you are still in the mood to joke around?”

The two females turned their faces away in opposite directions with a huff, causing Le Xuan to twitch her lips.

Ignoring the females in the room, Ye Sha moved closer to Alec, talking to him in a voice that only Alec could hear clearly. To the others, it just looked like Ye Sha was moving his lips without making any sound.

“This place isn’t as simple as it seems. But it shouldn’t be too dangerous either.”

Alec nodded quietly. He was still engrossed in the array that he could see before his eyes.

This wasn’t a normal array. In fact, it contained a lot of either forbidden or banned knowledge, and the people from nowadays did not transmit or circulate this information anymore.

It was similar to what that Inspector Fade had used earlier to change bodies at will, only this one was directed at the departed.

This was classified under lost knowledge of the previous eras and deemed as sinful.

Alec finally retracted his gaze for a moment before he looked towards Bunbun and Fenrir, instructing them to check out the hole in the ground that wasn’t big enough for a grown man to stand up straight.

The two familiars jumped in, and Alec held out his hand, summoning Loeri from outside the cave.

He had left it there so that they would have a failsafe, but at this point, there wasn’t much point, so he called it back now.

“Loeri, can you map out this place. Every nook and cranny cannot be missed. Go with Fenrir and Bunbun.”

Loeri rubbed its mushroom cap on Alec’s finger before it hopped down into the hole together with Bunbun and Fenrir.

Alec called attention to himself. “Don’t move around randomly. I figured out what the array does. It’s supposed to bring the dead corpse back to life.”

Hearing his words, they were subconsciously startled.

“Resurrection?” Chantelle blurted out; her eyes wide with shock.

Ye Sha dispelled their thoughts instantly. “Resurrection is impossible in our current world. It doesn’t matter what realm you go to. It goes against the laws of nature. It should be something else.”

Alec nodded in agreement. “Resurrection is impossible, but stealing a body is completely within the limits.”

Katherine had a look of disgust on her face, while Chantelle took a step back in alarm. They were appalled.

Luckily, Chantelle really had not touched the corpse. All her hair was standing on end when she thought about how she had nearly met her end. She could imagine it now… a stinky old man having taken over her bomb of a body?

That was a f.u.c.k.i.n.g disgrace!

Chantelle’s features morphed to reflect disgust like Katherine’s, before the two looked at each other and realized that they were wearing the same expression.

“Hmph!”

“Tch!”

Le Xuan ignored the two prideful idiots, continuing to question Alec. “Is there a way to deactivate it? How else can we get out of here?”

Alec inclined his head. “I cannot deactivate that array since it was made with an exchange in lifeforce. But there should be a way out. If that person comes back to ‘life’ then they need a way out. With the passage closed, the way out should be in the hole that Chantelle emerged from earlier.”

The tension in the cavern calmed a little at his words. The situation wasn’t as bad as it previously seemed.

Alec’s calm demeanour obviously had a calming effect on this group of people, and Ye Sha had never been nervous in the first place. Even now, he was still eating something.

Katherine looked at him disdainfully, while her eyes lingered on the snacks in his hand…

Chantelle’s eyes followed Katherine’s gaze and she didn’t have any such reservations. She strode forward and slung an arm over his shoulders. “Little boy, why don’t you share some with me?”

Ye Sha paused briefly, confused, but he obediently handed over his snacks.

Katherine could have exploded in anger.

Le Xuan looked at their hilarious behaviour from the side and her lips twitched.

Could they not be so childish at this critical moment…