4.4 The undead Manor - Part 2

He looked towards me with his mouth wide open in shock. He couldn't even let a single word out as he slowly looked back towards the body. He then quickly left the hand and moved backward.

The body was on the bank of the river in a half-emerged state. It was covered in sand to the point where it was even hard to notice.

"Oh damn!"

Jackie was the first one to express his surprise in words. I was pretty surprised myself because no matter what you have been through, these kinds of situations were always somewhat scary.

"What should we do?" Jackie asked.

Markus was in no state to respond, and I could understand how he was feeling. If I were in his place, I would have probably gotten a trauma as well.

"L-let's pull the body out and check the condition. Depending on that, we can decide what to do next," I replied.

"Okay."