"Aren't you afraid?" Sister Xu asked with a smile.
Lin Fan was afraid of that, so it was natural that he couldn't be indifferent to the dead.
Over the years, the only deaths she had seen were at the funerals of her family members, a number she could count on one hand.
Separated by the crystal coffin and with the filter of his family, Lin Fan, who was only concerned with sadness, naturally had no time to be afraid.
Oh, and there's a green turtle...
That memory... was really not that great. It took her a long time to gradually forget it, and she still couldn't completely ignore it.
As an ordinary person, I would instinctively feel repulsion and fear towards these dead people and corpses, regardless of whether I am taboo or not.
"I'm scared," Lin Fan admitted readily, offering a wry smile. "But I can't always hide behind you, can I? I'm already an adult, and if I can't even breathe, I'd be so unworthy of everyone's care."
How could she not have any idea of how her colleagues in the Special Affairs Office treated her?
It was because the treatment was so good that she wanted to do more, whether it was to give back or repay the favor, otherwise she would always feel uneasy.
She encouraged herself in her heart.
If this were a living person... well, no matter how she lived, then there would be nothing to be afraid of.
If this was a dead person, she must have been dead for countless years. Just a pile of bones, no different from the stone table and stone flowers outside. What was there to be afraid of? Could she jump up and hit me?
Well...it might not be impossible...
Thinking of this, he added, "Besides, if anything were to change, I'm the fastest here, and I have the stars to support me. So I'd be the best choice."
Sister Xu didn't say anything, but her eyes were filled with satisfaction, as if she saw her own child finally grow up.
He handed the coat to John Woo again and asked them to retreat to the pier connecting to the isolated island.
Although it seemed safer to be farther away, it was too far away and the three of them couldn't communicate without headphones, so they chose a suitable location.
They could observe Lin Fan's movements, and if something went wrong, they would have more room to run. It was safer than if all three of them stayed on the island.
Sister Xu stroked the little chrysanthemum in her hand and watched Lin Fan tremblingly reaching towards where the woman lay. His hands and feet were timid but strong and calm. She smiled and whispered to Wu Yusen, "This little Lin Fan is not as pretty as she says. She looks timid and she is also timid at heart."
"She's a newcomer after all. It's good enough that she can do this." John Woo stared at Lin Fan like an old father and slowly squatted down, not forgetting to speak well of her.
"That's true." Sister Xu watched without blinking, the corners of her mouth curled up. "He's a good kid. I like him."
Who wouldn't like it? Wu Yusen asked calmly, smiling gently.
Lin Fan squatted tremblingly in a very unsightly posture, and put the tip of his index finger under the woman's nose... It seemed that she was not breathing.
She calmed herself down slightly, adjusted her stance, and stepped forward, steadying her hand, keeping it firmly under the man's nose for a moment. Then, smiling, she jumped up and ran towards the two people in the middle of the plank road.
"He's not breathing, he's dead!"
After shouting a few words, she felt that it was not a good idea. Why was she so happy that someone died? She slowed down her pace with a little embarrassment and scratched her face sheepishly.
Sister Xu and the other girl looked at her silly look and smiled at each other.
"Just because someone isn't breathing doesn't mean they're dead. We still need to check their heartbeat," Sister Xu said. "So don't be too happy too soon."
She didn't mean to deliberately discourage Lin Fan's enthusiasm, but based on her work experience, there were many examples of people pretending to be dead even though they had no breathing or heartbeat.
In her opinion, the dead are not necessarily safer than the living.
Moreover, the man was lying there as if he was sleeping, not even a withered dead look at all...
If this underground space is really as old as they suspected, then the condition of the person before them...
"How can there be a heartbeat even if there's no breathing?" Lin Fan's joy suddenly faded. "Why would I still feel for it?"
To be honest, she rejected it in her heart.
But things are already halfway done, we can’t change people in the middle, right?
Lin Fan gritted his teeth, turned around and walked back, determined to persevere to the end.
"Do you know how to feel your heartbeat? You don't touch your chest," Wu Yusen instructed earnestly. Seeing Lin Fan turn around blankly, he knew he had asked the right question. "There's a large artery on the side of the neck. Just feel there."
Seeing Lin Fan running off again, Wu Yusen turned to ask Sister Xu. "I heard that if you encounter this kind of situation..." He raised his chin but didn't say it directly, "If you come into contact with human breath, will it cause something like that?"
"Pretending to be dead?" Sister Xu didn't have as many reservations as him and said it directly. "That kind of situation can happen."
"Then..." John Woo immediately looked at Lin Fan who was moving forward step by step.
"That's subject to certain conditions," Sister Xu scoffed. "You think you can just breathe on a corpse and bring it back to life? That would be a mess."
"That's good." Old Man Wu breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Fan mustered up his courage, stretched out two fingers, and touched the woman's neck.
Upon touching it, the fingertips didn't feel cold or hard. Instead, it felt soft and slightly elastic...
Lin Fan retracted his hand and wanted to turn back to ask Sister Xu for help, but then gave up.
Nothing has been found out yet. Even if I tell Sister Xu that this person’s skin feels abnormal, what will happen?
Still have to continue.
Lin Fan convinced himself within seconds and mentally prepared himself again, reaching out again, this time with a little more force.
The skin under the hand does have the elasticity of a normal person, but the temperature is abnormal.
You don’t feel cold when you first stretch out your hand, but after staying there for a while, you can feel the coolness coming from your fingertips, a bit like a cool pillow in the summer, cool but not icy.
But such body temperature is obviously difficult to maintain basic survival for normal people.
Lin Fan ignored the strangeness that he couldn't understand and focused on checking his pulse.
Unfamiliar with the anatomy of the human body, she felt around her neck, lingering for a long time on a rough patch that might have been the carotid artery, but she felt nothing.
Maybe it was because she had been touching him for too long and nothing had happened, so the fear in her heart was not as great as it was at the beginning.
After confirming again and again that there was indeed no sign of a pulse, she turned around and stood up. Just as she was about to move her hand away, she vaguely felt an unusual beating.
Lin Fan froze, turned around in disbelief, looked at the motionless woman in front of him, and pressed his hand back.
"What did she discover?" Wu Yusen saw that Lin Fan had turned around and was about to stand up, but then squatted back down, knowing that something was wrong.
"What else could it be? A heartbeat." Sister Xu sighed lightly.
"Is there really a heartbeat?" Wu Yusen's heart tightened. "Is this person still alive?"
"It doesn't look dead." Sister Xu nimbly turned the small chrysanthemum between her fingers. "This is troublesome. For me, dead things are easier to deal with!"
Wu Yusen looked worriedly at Lin Fan, who was squatting with his back to them, and tightened his grip on the gun at his waist.
It's not easy to live.