Chapter 78: Potato’s true power.
At first Lee tried to lie in his crate motionless, but the sudden silence that followed the shouts of alarm made him curious. He carefully looked through the grip hole and saw the still crowd below, and a moment later understood the cause for the whole thing.
The cyclops, along with another instructor were currently carrying out from the barracks something that resembled a bloodied person.
After looking more closely it was clear there wasn't much left over from them – they were skinned, organs removed and their flesh separated from their bones. Basically it was a bloody skeleton with some pieces of meat sticking to it.
'Alright!' Lee quickly analyzed, 'So far so good. You set me up as your murderer to get caught while escaping and now no one will look for you. But shouldn't someone look for the dead guy whoever it was?'
But the next moment a revelation hit Lee.
No one would look for the Potato's missing squad member from over a month ago! But wasn't the corpse supposed to be rotten? And where did the skin, flesh and organs go?
Lee had no clue about the first part, but a glance towards the cooking pots answered the second. For a moment he felt nauseated, but fortunately the events below diverted his attention.
While the guards were ordered to perform a thorough search, the kids were quickly lined up to find who was missing. When the nearby guard on the wall rushed down and didn't pay attention to the crate Lee was in, he had the impulse to jump out and leap over the fortress's wall.
With the lower gravity this world had there was a high chance he could survive the fall, but on the other hand, most of his bones would've been broken nevertheless. And there was no way to escape anywhere in that condition.