C131 Asking for old woman

The freezer coffin was empty. There was no longer the corpse of the old woman.

"What's going on?" I asked.

He waited for a while, but no one answered.

I stretched my arms back, patted the hump on my back, and asked, "What's going on?"

Another moment. Still no answer.

Perhaps, its knowledge of the things hidden in the hump behind its back was limited and it was unable to answer them