He quickly unwrapped the bandages tying the coffin to Claudia and noticed that her lifeforce had greatly diminished.
"What happened? Can you hear me!?" he called out but she was barely able to keep her eyes open.
Max tapped him on the shoulder and bent down to inspect the coffin, "Oh this is just amazing! Is it really what I think it is?!" and then he suddenly turned towards Hao Xuan in shock, "You...are a lot colder than I thought you would be..."
"What the fuck are you talking about?!" he glared back.
"Are- Didn't you have her carry the coffin on purpose? If this is what I think it is, it should extract lifeforce from anyone not on death's door upon direct contact. But if you enter the coffin with a life-threatening injury that lifeforce is then slowly transferred to you over a long period."
Hao Xuan's expression turned grim as he looked around and found Baba Jezda's figure not too far from them leaning over a well.
"You did this on purpose?!"