Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2493

As Lexie chanted, Felicia slowly calmed herself from the meltdown. Her gaze fixed squarely on Colton's body as she muttered, "Why… Why is his body… sitting here?"

Seeing that she had regained her composure, Lexie crouched to briefly examine Colton's body before explaining, "It's a walking corpse…

"Sometimes, when a person dies with strong enough resentment or lingering attachment, their body doesn't stay put."

There were old stories about elders laid to rest at home that would suddenly sit up in their coffins. Sometimes, corpses would disappear, only to later be found lying on the ground somewhere in the house or outside.

Instances like those were called walking corpses. They weren't truly alive, but they moved by sheer will. Usually, these states didn't last long. Once their lingering attachment faded, the body stopped.

Of course, in instances where lingering attachments remained, the corpse would continue to act as if alive. That was when it became something else entirely—a revenant.

In Colton's case, it was the former.

Off to the side, Mike was quietly recording the whole thing. Then, he piped up to ask, "He seemed too young to have any strong lingering attachment. Could it be a grudge?"

Felicia's face turned pale at that moment. Instantly, Lexie shot him a glare and warned him not to scare the former.

She clarified, "If it were a grudge, his body wouldn't look this peaceful. The fact that he became a walker means it was more likely a lingering attachment."

She paused, eyes scanning past the cliffside valley and out toward the endless stretch of forested mountains.

"His lingering attachment, combined with the miasma in the mountain range, was probably what triggered the walking corpse phenomenon."

Felicia seemed to understand, but her voice was still lost in confusion. "What kind of lingering attachment did he have…"

Lexie looked at her. "I'm not sure, but I know it had to do with you or the group."

She went on softly, "I don't know what happened with the others, but the corpse fog on you means he was near you—close enough to linger.

"Which likely means… Even after death, he followed you—maybe even tried to lead you all out, show you the right way."

According to what Felicia and the other survivors said, they continued searching for a way out of the mountains after leaving Colton's body behind. In the end, they found help on the fourth day.

That timeline lined up almost perfectly with how long Colton had been walking.

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