1.The first time Ling Jiangye met Xia Bai, all he saw was a dangerously pretty face and an alarming lack of survival instincts.He genuinely couldn’t understand how someone like this had managed to stay alive in a horror game.That was—until Ling Jiangye was gravely injured inside a dungeon, barely clinging to life.Xia Bai suddenly appeared out of nowhere, gazing at him with a pair of beautiful, sincere eyes.His small Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed nervously.“Um… can I have your corpse?”Ling Jiangye: “?”Xia Bai tilted his head. Behind him, corpses emerged one by one, staring hungrily.He asked again, still very polite:“May I have your corpse?”Ling Jiangye fell silent.2.Xia Bai and his teammate were locked inside a morgue by other players.A cold wind swept through the room, lifting the white sheets covering the bodies.“My heart is pounding,” the teammate whispered.“Same,” Xia Bai replied.They exchanged a look of perfect understanding.“One, two, three—RUN!”“AAAAAH!”The teammate bolted for the door, eyes red with terror.“AAAAAH!”Xia Bai sprinted toward the corpses instead, face flushed with excitement.“…?”3.After being dragged into a deadly horror game, the system announced:[Scan complete. Player’s soul affinity detected: corpses.]Xia Bai, who had grown up digging up corpses and treating them like family, glanced away guiltily.[Player role assigned: Corpse Collector.][Skill: Living Dead.][Please strive to become a responsible master of corpses.]More and more corpses gathered behind him—most of them former players who had died in the game.They gave him their bodies, their abilities, their protection.They stayed with him, guarded him, and kept him company.Only then did Xia Bai truly understand the purpose his grandfather had taught him—the lifelong duty of a corpse handler.“No matter how far the journey,we send the dead home.”