Han Sen had already seen a dead person beneath the tree. His eyesight was much better than Chu Ming's, so before Chu Ming could see it, Han Sen was able to see it clearly.
The person was wearing the clothing of the Alliance, so there was no mistaking it. But the clothing he was wearing was old, and it did not look like it had been made in recent years.
Han Sen guessed that this style of clothing must have been popular fifty or sixty years ago.
A surpasser had died there, but Han Sen could not see how he had died. There were no wounds on his body, and his clothes were still intact.
Strangely enough, the person looked as if he had been dead for a long time. His clothes were covered in dust, but his face was still clear. It was dry, but there was no sign of decay.
"This must be a human who has been dead for a long time." Han Sen told Qu Lanxi and Chu Ming what he had discovered.
When the three of them got closer, Qu Lanxi and Chu Ming were able to see a human body. His clothes were still intact, and his face was still intact.
He was a middle-aged man, and he had a mustache. He did not look like he was in pain, and he looked as if he had died peacefully.
The man had died leaning against the tree. The lifeforce of the tree was stronger than Han Sen had expected, and there was something strange about it that surprised Han Sen.
But there was nothing suspicious around the tree. There was not even a single creature. Aside from the human body, there was not even an ant.
"Let me see if he has anything on him."
Chu Ming searched the body. This person didn't have a backpack, but there were a few pockets on his body.
Chu Ming rummaged through a few pockets, and he really did find some things.
There was a wallet and a few items, but they were all ordinary items. There was nothing special about them.
"Perhaps there is something in the wallet that can prove his identity."
Chu Ming could not wait to open the wallet. There were a few crystal cards and a few cash notes. Aside from that, there was nothing else.
There was no business card or work ID, either. Chu Ming pulled out the crystal cards and examined them.
They were all smart cards, and he could not tell what they were.
When Han Sen saw one of the cards, his eyes narrowed. It had the symbol of Nine-Life Fox on it, so there was an 80% to 90% chance that this person was a member of Blood Legion.
Chu Ming and Qu Lanxi did not recognize anything, so Chu Ming decided to search the man's body to see if there were any pockets hidden in his pockets.
"He has been dead for a long time, and he is my elder. You should at least show him some respect. Dig a hole and bury him," Qu Lanxi said.
Chu Ming's hands did not stop moving, though. He kept on searching, and he said, "What kind of burial is this?
Dying in a place like this would be like dying in a foreign land. Let's see if we can find anything that can prove his identity, then we can bring his body back to the Alliance for a proper burial. "
Chu Ming said that, but he wanted to see if he could find anything useful. The man was a surpasser, after all, and there was a chance he might have a geno weapon on him.
If there was a high-class geno weapon left behind, it would be great. It was a dead man's belongings, after all.
Chu Ming didn't find anything in front of him, so he wanted to move the body to see if there was anything behind him. Maybe there was a butt pocket or something.
He moved the body, and something rolled out. It attracted Han Sen's attention.
Chu Ming was still holding the body, but he could not pick it up. Han Sen bent down and picked it up. It was an old pocket watch.
As early as an unknown number of years ago, there were no such things anymore. They were all small smart computers. This kind of purely mechanized pocket watch could only be seen in antique or handicraft shops.
Han Sen opened the pocket watch, and the time had stopped. It was now a quarter past nine. It was an antique watch, and it did not have a date, so it was impossible to tell when it stopped.
But it was pointless. In the sanctuaries, even a mechanical watch like this would not work.
Han Sen looked up, and when he saw the inside of the pocket watch, he froze.
On the inside of the pocket watch was a small picture. There were two people in the picture. A middle-aged man was holding a seven- or eight-year-old boy. The middle-aged man was the one who had died.
Han Sen had seen the picture of the little boy before.
The little boy in the picture was not Han Sen. It was Han Sen's father. In the family's photo album, there were many pictures of his father when he was young. Han Sen had seen them many times, so he could not be mistaken.
The little boy in the picture was definitely Han Sen's father. Even the clothes he was wearing were something Han Sen had seen before.
The accessories on their clothes were all the same. It was impossible for there to be such a coincidence. There were two little boys who looked the same. Moreover, they were wearing the same clothes and had the same hairstyle.
But if the little boy in the picture was Han Sen's father, who was the man in the picture?
Why would he keep a picture like this?
Obviously, the middle-aged man was not Han Sen's grandfather, nor was he his great-grandfather, Han Jingzhi. Han Sen had seen their pictures and videos, and they were very different from this man. There was no way he was mistaken.
Han Sen had a lot of thoughts in his mind, but he could not think of a reason.
"Hey, San Mu, the little boy in the picture looks a bit like you." Chu Ming looked at the little boy in the picture and joked.
"It means this pocket watch is destined to be mine. I will take it."
Han Sen took the opportunity to put the pocket watch in his pocket. He wanted to ask his mother when he returned to the Alliance. Maybe she knew who the middle-aged man was.
"It is just a pocket watch. Even if it is an antique, it is useless in this place. Why are you in such a hurry to steal it?"
Chu Ming curled his lips and rummaged through the corpses again, but he didn't find anything of value.
Han Sen was preparing to put the body back to its original position, but when he looked at the place the man was leaning against, he realized something was wrong.
The tree the man was leaning against had a different color than the one next to it. Their attention was attracted by the body, so they did not pay attention to it.
Han Sen took a closer look and found that the tree bark was darker in color. It was shaped like a door, and there was a scar-like protrusion on it. It looked like a doorknob.
The middle-aged man had died leaning against a tree door.