Rise of the Desperate: Billy Wood's Save and Restart System

Chapter 75: Breaking Apart

"Dear," the elderly man started.

The elderly woman cut him off, saying, "We can't let her body rot in the house. We'll do a proper cremation."

Billy raised an eyebrow as he asked, "How are you going to do that? Will you be setting up a pyre or something?"

"How else will you suggest burning her body? You're not going to say we should douse her body in gasoline and set her on fire, do you?" the old woman asked as she stared Billy in the eyes.

He sighed. "That's not what I'm saying. First of all, we don't have any gasoline, or I didn't see any at least. Second, burning her body is going to draw attention to ourselves. It's hard to miss the signs of something burning."

Depending on how big the fire was, the smoke that would come out from burning Jacqueline's body might be visible from miles away. That kind of attention wasn't something they wanted. Someone might come to investigate what was going on, which could lead to another situation like what lead to Jacqueline's death. He didn't eve