426 Cadaver Pool My House of Horrors

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Brother Wei picked up the two large water buckets and walked down the corridor. Li Jie stood where he was. He held the flashlight in his hand and forced himself to resist the urge to flash it into the morgue. He knew, in the darkness, the cadavers were all looking at him. "I'd better close the door."
Li Jiu closed the morgue and looked around. Brother Wei had already left, and it was quite scary standing there alone.
He turned back to look, and it felt like there were monsters just hiding in the edge of the light. He wanted to go and check, but he did not have the courage. After much deliberation, he felt it was safer to stay with Brother Wei. "This place is too creepy. Being together at least means that we have someone to look after each other."
Holding the flashlight, Li Jiu turned back every three steps that he made, deadly afraid that he might find someone following him. "Hopefully, I'm just being overly sensitive."
After Li Jiu walked away, a scary-looking hammer peeked around the corner. Chen Ge poked his head out to look at the pair that wandered away. His eyes were filled with confusion. Did the man discover me?
He walked out from the corner and stood at the door. The pictures given by Zhang Li didn't show this morgue. Could this be the mysterious Morgue No. 8 that shouldn't exist?
Chen Ge pushed open the steel door and looked in. Other than the glass tubes with dead bodies, there was nothing out of the ordinary. The dead look peaceful, so they should be voluntary donors. There is no trace of bad energy in here. This is not what I expected from Morgue No. 8.
Due to his experience, Chen Ge took a look around, and his confusion grew. The situation at the underground morgue seemed more complicated than he had anticipated. Just now, I think I heard the two talking about handprints and something crawling out.
Chen Ge was about to enter the room when the white cat jumped down from his shoulder and ran down the corridor.
There were other people in the corridor, and Chen Ge did not want to expose himself yet. Thus, he quickly retreated out of the morgue to chase after the cat. After consuming the society's blood, the cat's body seemed to have grown larger, and its reactions became faster. In a blink of an eye, it was already several meters away.
What is attracting it? Chen Ge was very familiar with the white cat. Whenever they were out on a mission, the white cat would stick close to him. The cat used to be very feral, but that had been lost after a period of complacency. Most of the time now, it would be very cowardly. Therefore, unless truly necessary, it would not leave Chen Ge willingly. To stop the white cat from going missing, Chen Ge also picked up his speed, and they reached the end of the corridor.
The place seemed to have been sealed up at one time, but something had later happened that caused the brick wall to crumble. There was all sorts of trash in the road, and there was a sign that read—Lack of maintenance over the years. Danger of falling objects. No entry!
There was trace of that sticky substance on the bricks next to the sign. Brother Wei and Li Jiu had gone this way. The outer perimeter with the seven morgues was the last expansion. Beyond this will be the middle section of the morgue.
Western Jiujiang Medical University had been built decades ago; it was Jiujiang's earliest medical university. The underground morgue had perfectly preserved the medical scene at the time.
Back then, they had still used cadaver pools to store dead bodies. The pools would be filled with formalin, and the bodies that the university gathered through various channels would be soaked there. When the students needed to experiment, the teachers would lead them to the underground morgue to fish the cadavers from the pools.
The road to the central hub should be somewhere in the middle section. Chen Ge put away his phone. The map provided by Zhang Li was mostly about the outer perimeter. There was little on the middle section and nothing on the central hub. Hopping over the sign, Chen Ge walked into the middle section, holding the wall.
The air in the corridor turned murky. There was a weird smell in the air. Chen Ge sniffed the air, but he could not tell where the smell came from. It felt like the smell was coming from all sides. It had soaked into the bricks of the ceiling and the walls.
"The middle section is the forbidden zone of the university. Normally, even the security team and the people from the school don't dare come here, so what are the two outsiders doing here?" Chen Ge really did not get it. The two seemed to like 'adventure' more than he did. Chen Ge slowed down and covered his nostrils and mouth with his hand. He stared at the white cat, making sure that the cat did not leave his sight.
After running several meters, the white cat leaned low to the ground and entered the hunting state like it had spotted a rat. This was the first time that Chen Ge had seen the white cat in such a serious state. He moved slowly with his body bent low.
After a while, the stench in the air thickened. The white cat continued to prowl. The corridor became older and more dilapidated. The white paint peeled of the wall to reveal the gray bricks.
After a few more meters, Chen Ge heard the voices of Li Jiu and Brother Wei coming from one of the rooms. The thing that had attracted the white cat came from that room as well. Afraid that the cat might do something hasty, Chen Ge picked it up and placed it in his backpack. He walked to the door and peered in.
The room was larger than Chen Ge anticipated. There was a large rectangular pool. Brother Wei stood in the middle of it while Li Jiu stood by the edge. Every time, they collect such a large amount before they call us to come deal with it. Do they really think we're not humans?
Li Jiu coughed twice. He had seen many bodies before, but whenever he saw these things, he could not stop his gag reflex.
The repulsive smell oozed from the pool, and Li Jiu's eyes were watering from it.
"I told you to wait outside, so who can you blame but yourself?" Brother Wei poured the content of the buckets inside the pool. "Just be satisfied, based on our contract with the school, we should be bringing these things back to our crematorium to burn them, but with this convenient dumping spot, we've already saved a lot of trouble."
"You have a point." Li Jiu's face was white. Looking at the things that had been dumped into the pool, he still felt like vomiting, "Just how did the medical students manage to do this? These are all picked from the human bodies. Just thinking about it makes me shudder."
The two continued their conversation, and Chen Ge heard everything. He finally knew the two's identity and their purpose for being there. Li Jiu and Brother Wei were workers at some crematorium. The university asked them to deal with the leftovers after autopsy classes.
Normally, each cadaver had their label. After cremation, the remains would be returned to the families or buried in a public cemetery. They could not do anything about that, but there were rarely whole cadavers in an autopsy room. There were many things that were left behind after autopsies.
These things were very hard to deal with, and they took a great deal of time. Li Jiu and Brother Wei wanted to save themselves some trouble, so they prepared to dump these things at the underground morgue.
They seemed to have done something like this before, and they had not been exposed.
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427 It Was Hiding Inside the Hole My House of Horrors

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"Brother Wei, is the hole stuck? How come it feels like it's sinking slower than usual this time?" Li Jiu resisted his discomfort and glanced at the cadaver pool.
"There's probably something stuck down there." Brother Wei frowned while holding the buckets. He was getting agitated. They needed to leave the place as soon as possible, but weird things kept happening. "Go and look for items like brooms and sticks."
"Brother, we're in a morgue—where am I supposed to find a broom?"
"Then, are you suggesting we just leave it like this? If the university finds out, a fine is one thing, but we'll definitely lose our jobs. They are very particular about the cadavers." Brother Wei was not in a good mood. He waved his hands to fling the remains stuck to his plastic gloves away. "Don't just stand there, go!"
Brother Wei was wearing a white coat, gloves, and a mask, but he only had a pair of sneakers on. He lowered his head to take a look, and he felt like his sneakers were soaked with something—it felt uncomfortable. After he was yelled at, Li Jiu had no choice but to go look around the room with a flashlight. He eventually walked to a wooden closet that was placed in a corner. He opened the closet, and it was filled with several large rusted metal hooks that had long chains attached to them.
"What are these for?" Li Jiu did not want to venture out of the room, so he took out one of the hooks. "Brother Wei, can this work?"
Brother Wei did not want to waste time either, so he accepted the hook from Li Jiu. The hook was large, but the end was not sharp. However, it was very heavy. If he dropped it into the pool, it would probably sink immediately. "I guess it'll have to do."
There was a hole that was larger than a normal man's shoulders in the pool, and Brother Wei had no idea what it was for. Brother Wei lowered the hook toward the hole, and the hook was slowly submerging into the hole. Blocked by the floating substance, Brother Wei could not see into the hole. He stood by there and gripped the chains that were attached to the end of the hook.
"Why hasn't it reached the end yet?" The hole was much deeper than he thought. "Who would dig such a deep hole at the bottom of the pool? Could it be the dead bodies?" If he had been anywhere but standing in a cadaver pool, he would have laughed.
"Just how deep is this hole?" When they were there the previous times, they just wanted to get things done, so he had really not considered that question before. To make sure the hook could continue to sink, Brother Wei squatted down. When there was about a quarter of the chain left, the hook finally hit something. Brother Wei grabbed the chain by both hands and pulled. He was shocked to discover that the hook was stuck.
"There was nothing in the way when it was sinking though, did it get caught on something? Maybe the thing that was clogging up the hole?" He pulled harder. Brother Wei was known for one thing—at the crematorium, he was the strongest. Brother Wei pulled like his life depended on it. The chain slowly pulled back, and it felt like the thing that was stuck on the end of the hook was especially heavy.
It looked like Brother Wei was fishing, but what could he possibly catch in a cadaver pool? Brother Wei had not considered that question. Half of his face was red, and even through the thick mask, one could hear him catching his breath. The chain was pulled out slowly, and it was covered with various indeterminate substances that gave it a creepy feeling.
"Come and help!" Brother Wei had pulling halfway through it when he suddenly realized that things were off. Earlier, when the hook stuck on something, it had been hard to pull, but at least the chain was still moving upwards. However, as he pulled, he noticed a resisting force from the other end. It felt like something was hiding inside the hole pulling back!
"Brother, I'm not wearing any gloves!" Li Jiu looked at the chain that was pulling out from the hole, and his legs were weak. Brother Wei gritted his teeth and leaned backwards. He used the weight of his body to stop the chain from sinking. He tried his best, and his mind was thinking about nothing but pulling that chain up.
"I don't believe I'm going to lose this." With his feet firmly planted on the ground, Brother Wei slowly moved back, and the chain pulled out little by little. The top of the hole started to bubble, and just as the hook was about to surface, the force inside the hole increased as if the thing inside the hole was only getting serious.
The chain was pulled taut for about a second before the force inside the hole suddenly increased. Without warning, Brother Wei's body was pulled toward the hole. His feet slipped, and he fell. He was yanked toward the hole!
"Ma Wei!" Li Jiu jumped into the pool and grabbed Brother Wei's coat at the last minute. His face almost touching the surface of the water, the smell of formalin made his eyes water. The chain danced on the water, and it was pulled into the hole by the force. The water was brownish and very murky. Ma Wei could see a blurry shadow sinking into the hole.
"What was that?" Cold sweat slid down his face. Ma Yin could not imagine what would have happened if he had been pulled into the hole. With both of his hands on the edge of the hole, Ma Yin collapsed to the ground with a blanched face.
"You didn't touch those things, right?" Li Jiu asked uncertainly. He was having a hard time just looking at the hole, much less coming in close contact with it.
"No." Ma Yin recovered after a long time. He stared at the hole and shivered. "Li Jiu, do you know of any fish that can survive in chemical water?"
"I know catfish can survive in sewers for a long time, but these chemicals are used to soak dead bodies—they're for dead people. No matter how strong the organism is, it would be useless!" Li Jiu got quite a scare as well. If Ma Yin had fallen into the hole, he would have needed to change partners.
"If it's not a fish, what could it be?" Ma Yin looked at the bubbling hole, and his voice shook. "When I was pulling on the chain, it was obvious that it got stuck on something. It felt like the thing was still asleep initially, but it got woken up by me."
Ma Yin was spooked. He looked at his hands. "The thing was powerful, at least twice as strong as me. Even with the advantage of the ground, I was still pulled away."
"Living deep inside a pool that is filled with formalin and dead bodies, twice the strength of a normal man…" Li Jiu did not dare to think any further. "Brother Wei, let's hustle! It's fine if we lose the job; our lives are more important!"
Ma Wei nodded. He also did not want to stay there. "Pull me up."
He grabbed Li Jiu's arm and tried to stand up, but he realized that his legs were powerless. He looked down, and Ma Yin saw that his shoes were completed wet like the content of the buckets had splashed on them.
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"Can you stand up?" Li Jiu took a long time before he helped Ma Wei up. Ma Wei stomped his feet on the ground, but he did not feel any better. He felt like the parts below his calves were slowly losing their senses.
"The thing in the bucket is probably poisonous. It must've reacted with the other chemicals in the water." Ma Wei had dropped out after high school, so he was not familiar with these things. He only knew that he needed to get to the hospital as soon as possible. "Li Jiu, your hands touched those things as well, right? Are they getting better?"
Li Jiu raised his palms. The red dots were spreading to form a rash, and it looked scary. "Some splashed on me, and it's becoming like this. Your whole shoes were soaked, so it must be worse for you. We need to leave this place fast."
Abandoning the two buckets, Li Jiu carried Ma Wei as they headed out from the pool. Before they could do so, the hole behind them gurgled like something was crawling out from it. At the same time, the tools closet placed in the corner of the room started to shake like there was someone coming out from inside.
"What's going on?" Li Jiu was panicking. He jumped out of the pool and grabbed Ma Wei's shoulders. "Quick! Those monsters are coming!"
He grabbed Ma Wei by both hands and yanked him out of the pool. The weird noises in the room grew, and the monster inside the hole started to crawl faster. The closet door burst open, and the rusted hooks fell to the ground.
After Ma Wei got out from the pool, the only thought they had was to run. The two stumbled to the door. The flashlight flickered, making the underground morgue scarier. The two were focused on escaping. When they reached the door, a man's face suddenly turned from the corner!
"What the f*ck!" Li Jiu was walking ahead, but he was not that brave. Under the light from the flashlight, the man's face looked paler than it was. The pair of eyes focused on them, and it felt like their bodies had frozen under his gaze. The face had appeared so suddenly that Li Jiu's heart almost jumped out from his chest. He staggered back several steps to knock into Ma Wei, who was behind him. His legs having lost all feeling, Ma Wei had trouble even walking. The sudden collision with Li Jiu made him lose his footing. The two rolled and collapsed to the ground, their voices echoing in the underground morgue.
"I saw it!
"There was a face at the door!
"The thing's outside!"
Their whole focus was on the hole in the cadaver pool and the closet at the corner, so they did not expect the real danger to come from the door. The only exit was blocked, and Li Jiu cried for help. Crawling on the ground, he clambered back into the room.
Ma Wei still had no idea what was happening. He was just scared by how Li Jiu was reacting. Not raising his head, he followed behind Li Jiu and crawled after the man. The room was only so big, and there was no place to hide. The two leaned against the innermost wall and saw despair in each other's eyes.
"There were no footsteps. It was just a face that showed up at the door!" Li Jiu waved his hands. He did not even know how to describe it anymore. Ma Yin had followed behind Li Jiu, so he did not see the face, but based on his partner's description, he was already feeling scared.
His legs were turning into jelly. If they ran into danger, he would not even be able to run. However, compared to Li Jiu, Ma Wei was calmer. He lifted the flashlight and slowly moved the light to the door.
A man with a backpack was standing on the corridor. He was of average build and had a smile on his face. He looked kind, but when Ma Wei's eyes moved to the man's left hand, his heart skipped a beat. The man was holding a hammer that was at least half a meter long. The hammerhead was covered with sticky blood stains, and the handle looked like it was made from human bones. It looked so scary!
A smiling face and wicked murder weapon, the first thing that came into Ma Wei's mind was the movies about crazed murderers. According to the movies, the killers would look like this when they were about to kill, and they saw torture as a hobby, an enjoyable activity. His body curled backwards. Ma Wei squeezed together with Li Jiu, and the two workers could not stop shaking.
"I was still discovered." Chen Ge also did not expect that the duo would suddenly run outside. He wanted to hide, but he realized that the next corner was about six meters away. He walked into the room with the hammer. Chen Ge did not think it was such a big issue being discovered by these two. From their reaction, they did not have that much courage.
The hammer dragged along the ground, and the white cat followed behind it. Weirdly enough, when Chen Ge entered the room, the sound from the hole and the closet became silent. Li Jiu and Ma Wei saw Chen Ge walk closer, and their foreheads were sweating. In the end, it was Ma Wei who gathered the courage and demanded in an officious tone, "Who are you? What are you doing in the underground morgue so late at night?"
"Who am I?" Chen Ge toyed with the hammer in his hand. Stopping before Li Jiu and Ma Yin, he smiled. "I still haven't come up with the answer yet. How about you help me think up an identity?"
"What?" Ma Wei was shocked. He certainly had not been expecting that. He looked at Chen Ge and the hammer that reeked of stale blood. He forced a smile and said, "You must be one of the security guards."
"Western Jiujiang Medical University's guards have a uniform, so obviously I'm not one of them."
Ma Wei did not know what to say. He had a feeling that the man was about to kill them. With someone holding his arm, Li Jiu beside Ma Wei opened his lips. "I believe you're one of the university staff. I know you have something to do here. Neither of us saw your face, so we will not disturb you from working."
With the help of the wall, Li Jiu slowly stood up. He held Ma Wei's shoulders, and they tried to move away from Chen Ge.
"Not a bad guess." Chen Ge looked at the two. "Then why are you two here? Don't try to lie to me. Tell me everything that has happened here."
"We're employees at Jiujiang's Song Lin Crematorium, and we're here to help the school deal with the cadavers." Li Jiu told Chen Ge in general what had happened. When he mentioned the monster in the hole and shaking closet, Chen Ge's interest was piqued.
Chen Ge walked to the closet first. He opened the closet and knocked on the back wall. "It's hollow behind this closet; I suspect there is a pathway behind this."
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Turning to look at Li Jiu and Ma Wei, Chen Ge ordered, "Don't just stand there, come and help."
The black phone's mission requirement was for him to enter the central hub before midnight. Without a map, Chen Ge had no idea where the corridor heading to the central hub was, so the fact that he had stumbled across a hidden pathway greatly interested him. The three pushed the closet aside, and behind it was a secret passage that was only wide enough for a single person. There was wind howling on the other end, and the air smelled of decay and rot.
Chen Ge reached out to touch the edge of the passage. It was wet and slippery, and there was something that looked like moss growing on the walls. However, the 'moss' was not green in color but dark brown. In fact, when it caught the light of the flashlight, it would glow red.
"Give me the flashlight." Chen Ge accepted the flashlight from Li Jiu and shone it down the passage. The passage was narrow and had many turns, so he had no idea where it led.
"Why would there be a secret passage in the room where the cadaver pool is? This looks like it has been dug years ago, what was the purpose?" Chen Ge looked at the two men, and they both shook their heads.
"Shall we go in to take a look?" Chen Ge was talking to himself, but when the two heard that, their expressions dropped. Probably worried that they would be forced by Chen Ge to scout ahead, Li Jiu said in a soft reminder, "We'd better not wander about. Even the security said this place is haunted. Brother Wei and I have personally experienced that this place is not safe—perhaps the legends are really true."
Chen Ge also did not want to crawl into the tunnel. The space was too small, and it limited his power. Furthermore, if he ran into monsters from both ends when he was inside the tunnel, it would be very dangerous. When he was hesitating, the white cat called, and it slowly crawled into the tunnel.
The thing that attracted the white cat is inside this passage? Chen Ge grabbed the hammer and leaned his upper body into the passage. There's a draft, so the chance of asphyxiation is low.
Hearing the cat, Li Jiu and Ma Wei realized that the scary-looking man brought a cat with him. Their eyes wandered between Chen Ge and the white cat, and their impression of Chen Ge changed slightly.
"You two stay here. I'll be back after I go and take a look." Chen Ge was worried that his retreat would be blocked, so he had the two workers help him guard the entrance. "That person over there, give me your phone. If there's an accident, at least we can call each other."
Chen Ge was pointing at Li Jiu, but the man was confused. Normally, people asked for phone number if they wanted to keep constant contact, right? Why did this man ask for his phone directly?
However, since he was too afraid to refuse, Li Jiu passed his phone to Chen Ge. "Don't worry, if we can leave this place alive, I'll definitely return you your phone."
Hearing that promise, Li Jiu became even more nervous. After some brief conversation, Chen Ge found out the two's names. If something happened, he would use Li Jiu's phone to call Ma Wei.
"If you run into danger, you can call me as well. If you cannot hold them off, just run after you've called me." Chen Ge put Li Jiu's phone into the pocket of his jacket and followed the white cat into the tunnel. It did not feel like anything when he first entered the tunnel, but after he turned the first corner, Chen Ge realized that the air had become murkier, and the moss on the wall had increased.
The white cat has swallowed the blood that the society found behind the door. Now that it's running ahead, the thing attracting it might be related to the society.
The passage narrowed and the deepest part of the tunnel was completely covered by the moss-like plant. Chen Ge used the hammerhead to scrape away some of the 'moss', and he realized that this thing was no different from a human. After the surface fell away, a red liquid would seep out from it. Chen Ge leaned in to sniff and found that the liquid was quite fragrant and did not have the smell of blood.
Something like this can grow underground?
After the liquid leaked out, the 'moss' that was scraped away regrew at a speed that was unimaginable. It seemed like the liquid had some regenerative power. Chen Ge continued to move forward. The tunnel had become so small that he needed to bend over to move forward. The 'moss' continued to grow, and it felt slick stepping on it.
Where will this passage lead to?
The air became misty, but the color of the 'moss' turned brighter, from brownish yellow to a faded red. After a few more corners, Chen Ge's breath caught in his lungs, he had trouble breathing. He called after the white cat and slowed down. He moved several meters, and the 'moss' on the wall had completely turned blood red.
Chen Ge looked around, and he was suddenly reminded of what Lee Zheng said. There were three types of corridors inside the underground morgue—the one with white paint, unpainted, and red paint. The blood red corridor was the creepiest and most mysterious. One had to be absolutely silent inside it, or something bad might happen.
Is this the red corridor that he mentioned?
The deeper he moved, the redder the 'moss' on the walls and the narrower the space. Chen Ge practically leaned against the 'moss' as he nudged further. He held the hammer in one hand, and as he turned a corner, the sharp part of the hammer scratched the wall.
Initially, Chen Ge was not paying attention, but when the 'moss' fell off, with the aid of the Yin Yang Vision, he could see something hidden behind the 'moss'. He stepped back and slowly squatted down. He looked at the opening that the hammer had just made, and his pupils narrowed.
There was a human face under the 'moss'—the face of a woman. Her skin was bleeding, and the most curious thing was that the blood from her face had a light fragrance to it.
This whole passage is built from human bodies?
Chen Ge froze, and he looked around. He wondered how many human faces were hidden under this 'moss'.
This is insane.
The white cat continued to run ahead. Chen Ge looked at the woman's face and hesitated. In the end, he chose to not abandon the white cat and continued to follow it.
…
At the entrance, Li Jiu and Ma Wei looked at each other.
"We're going to stay here to wait for him to come out?" Li Jiu lowered his voice to the smallest. He was afraid that Chen Ge might overhear him.
"What else can we do? I have a feeling he might be testing us. The moment we run, he might come out and kill us," Ma Yin warned. The two of them could not understand why they would run into a young man holding a hammer in an underground morgue in the middle of the night.
"I still think we should leave. That man could be the 'ghost' that the guards talked about." The more he thought about it, the more scared Li Jiu became. His face was white. "When we saw him, he didn't even carry a light. This place is so dark, so how did he manage to look in the dark?"
Ma Wei conceded to Li Jiu's point. "That's right, something is definitely different about his eyes. Whenever our eyes met, my heart would race with panic."
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"Which normal person would come to a place like this in the middle of the night? If we stay any longer, we probably won't be able to leave." Li Jiu silently nudged himself away from the secret passage behind the closet. Ma Wei used his flashlight to shine inside the passage. After he made sure that Chen Ge was not hiding around the next corner, he also started his retreat.
The two worked well together, and neither of them spoke as they helped each other walk out from the room. Compared to when they entered the place, the corridors seemed to have changed. They had a feeling that something was different from before, but what was different, the two could not put their fingers on it. Li Jiu walked in front with the flashlight. Ma Wei activated the flashlight function on his phone and followed closely behind.
"Be careful, there might be more than one monster in this underground morgue." The scenario was like the most difficult escape-the-room game for Li Jiu and Ma Wei. They had to face cadavers that came back to life, monsters that could show up at any time, crazed murderers walking around with a murder weapon, and unknown deadly traps.
"Li Jiu, should I just drop my phone here? Holding it makes me feel like the man might call me at any time." Ma Wei held his phone, but he did not feel any trace of security. The image of Chen Ge dragging Doctor Skull-cracker's hammer across the floor appeared in his mind more than once. The young man had a creepy smile on his face, and imagining him on the other end of the phone gave Ma Wei the creeps.
"I think we should keep it. This is our only means of communication with the outside world. However, remember to change it to silent mode in case our location gets exposed during the key moments." Li Jiu thought further and deeper. Being caught in a dangerous situation seemed to have brought out his hidden potential. Ma Wei followed his partner's advice and changed his phone's setting. The two stuck their backs to the wall and walked back the way they came.
After turning the corner, when they passed Morgue No. 8, Li Jiu, who walked in front, suddenly stopped. "Did the man open the door of the morgue? We closed the door when we left earlier, right?"
There was a sticky liquid stuck to the door handle. A thick mist of formalin circulated in the morgue. Li Jiu raised his flashlight and looked into the room. When he did, his eyes widened into two big circles.
"What's wrong?" Realizing something was wrong, Ma Wei also leaned over to take a look. The glass tubes in the room were sitting where they were, but the cadavers that they were supposed to be holding had all completely disappeared!
Li Jiu's legs were shivering, and he pointed his flashlight to the ground. There were a few water trails leading out of the room and entering the corridor they were in. "The 'people' inside the tubes have escaped, and they are now also in this corridor."
Li Jiu's Adam's Apple was quivering. He moved his flashlight slowly to the corner, worried that something scary might pop out.
"Should we continue to move forward?" Ma Wei asked with uncertainty. His legs were still weak, and he could not run fast. If they ran into danger, he would be stuck there, waiting for death—that was the most despairing thing for the man. Li Jiu was also conflicted. The dark corridor was hiding the cadavers that crawled out from the glass tubes and various unknown dangers. However, if they stayed there, they would need to face the crazed murderer who was not less dangerous than the monsters.
"I think we should still move forward. If we move at full speed, we should be able to leave in about ten minutes if there's no accident." Li Jiu grabbed Ma Wei's phone. "The person with the hammer is probably still in the passage. I'll call the police first before contacting the security guards that are outside."
Li Jiu used the phone to call the police, and the number was answered; however, the signal was so bad that he could barely finish a complete sentence.
"This shouldn't be! Even though we are underground and the signal is understandably not so good, it shouldn't be at the level where we cannot even contact the police!" There seemed to be something in the underground morgue disturbing the phone signal, and Li Jiu had to give up after giving it a few more tries. Misery loves company—he felt like all the bad luck had gathered on him that night.
"Let's move outward first. If we run into any monster, we'll retreat backward." Li Jiu held Ma Wei, and he forced a smile. "At the very least, the man with the hammer doesn't seem like he's in cahoots with the monsters inside this place. That's good news."
The flashlight shone the light down the corridor. The two picked up speed, and when they passed Morgue No. 8, there was a weird sound coming from inside the room. Of course, they did not have the courage to stop to take a look. They pretended they did not hear anything and continued to move forward.
The corridor was so dark that it felt like it was endless. They ran past Morgue No. 7, and at the end of the corridor was a split in the road. Standing in the middle of the junction was a dark figure. It was not tall and very thin. It seemed to be holding something in its palms. Ma Wei touched Li Jiu's arm. "Shall we continue to move forward?"
Li Jiu could not tell for sure. He felt like the underground morgue was exceptionally crowded that night. He raised the flashlight slowly to let the light fall on the person before them.
Wearing a white, loose jacket, with a head of long flowing hair, it was a little girl who stood at the junction. She had her face lowered and was holding a rotten apple in her hands. This curious scene made Ma Wei and Li Jiu stop moving. They froze where they were as a chill crawled up their spines.
Feeling the light on her, the girl slowly raised her head. She looked cute and sweet. It gave the feeling that she was a quiet, introverted child. She had a pair of light brown eyes, and her gaze was locked on the apple like she was considering giving the apple a bite.
With her silky-smooth skin, exquisite facial features, and cute appearance, the girl formed a great contrast with the rotten apple. However, the most curious thing was, staring at the apple, there was more than a hint of desire that was inexplicable in the girl's eyes. The light from the flashlight made the girl frown slightly. Her small nose twitched like she smelled something fresh, and she continued to lift her head.
The light brown eyes turned to fall on Ma Wei and Li Jiu. The edge of the girl's lips moved, and the thin lips curved into a light smile. The smile was pure and innocent. There was not really kindness, but there was no maliciousness either; it was as if the girl had found a toy that she liked. Other than the smile that appeared on the girl's face, nothing changed about her. The girl seemed to be acting according to her own consciousness.
"Her hair and dress are all wet, and her skin color is not normal. Do you think she could have crawled out from the glass tubes?"
"But when we entered the morgue earlier, we didn't see any tubes holding a girl."
"Wasn't there a tube that was already opened? I suspect she came out from that particular tube."
Ma Wei and Li Jiu were shivering under the girl's scrutiny. Considering the fact that she might be a dead body, the shivers became even more violent, and their bodies staggered involuntarily backward. The girl stood where she was, but there were weird noises coming from the corridor. There was the sound of wheels running on the ground coming from the corridor that was painted white, and Morgue No. 7 that was next to them had a knocking sound like the thing trapped inside was trying to come out. The smell of formalin in the air thickened. Li Jiu and Ma Wei did not have much time left to make a choice.
"Going back is definitely a dead end—we might still survive if we move forward!" Li Jiu gritted his teeth and grabbed Ma Wei's shoulder. "Let's give it our all! We'll charge our way out of here!"
"Okay!" The two made their decision, and like a cornered animal, they planned to make their last stand!
Li Jiu aimed for the opening next to the girl. Dragging Ma Wei, the muscles in his legs tensed, and he jumped forward like a spring. "The corridor on the right is not painted!"
Normally, it was Li Jiu hiding behind Ma Wei, but now that Ma Wei's legs were injured, Li Jiu stepped forward. He cut a way out for them, and his expression turned ugly due to fear. His features scrunched up together, and a yell escaped from his throat. "Quick!"
The two charged toward the girl, and the sound of the wheels coming from the corridor was nearing. What Li Jiu and Ma Wei needed to do was enter the corridor that did not have the white paint before the wheels arrived. Every second was important. The girl saw the two men charge after her, and she remained immobile. The smile continued to hang on her face like she was unaffected by what was happening around her.
"This is our chance!" The girl was too careless. Li Jiu raised the flashlight. He had planned everything in his mind. When they ran to the girl's side, they would crawl past the opening next to her. The gap was large enough for him and Ma Wei to go through. If the girl did anything to stop them, he would use the flashlight in his hands to whack at her. This was the most tense and important moment of Li Jiu's life, but he had confidence that he would be able to do this.
"Come on!" Running at full speed, when the sound of the wheels stopped, Ma Wei and Li Jiu had already reached the split in the road!
When they ran past the girl, the girl did not stop them; she just stood where she was, maintaining the same pose, not moving at all. It was surprisingly successful, but Li Jiu did not have the time to get excited because he knew it was not yet time to relax and celebrate. Running past the girl was just the first step; there was still a long journey before they could leave the underground morgue.
"Don't let your guard down!" He turned to look down the corridor that was painted white. There was a trolley used by the university staff to transport dead bodies sitting in it. They did not see anyone pushing the trolley, but they did see the several human bodies sitting inside the trolley, and one of them even had its head already yanked off!
"Thankfully, we didn't run down that way. Those bodies are definitely suspicious from the looks of it." Li Jiu was glad that he had made the right choice at the most crucial moment. He pulled back his gaze and used his flashlight to illuminate the unpainted corridor.
A sticky liquid dripped on his face. Li Jiu raised his head in confusion, and what he saw would be branded in his mind forever. The unpainted corridor was crawling with dead bodies, and their limbs and bodies were sewn together with red threads. They walked toward Li Jiu and Ma Wei like string puppets. There was so many of them. The pungent smell caused Ma Wei and Li Jiu's sense of smell to go haywire temporarily. Twisted dead faces fill their sight; everywhere they turned there were broken limbs and shattered bodies. Their brains were buzzing, and their thoughts were put on hold.
"Who would be able to survive this‽" Running on inertia, Li Jiu almost ran into the crowd of dead bodies, but thankfully, Ma Wei pointed on his shirt at the last minute. "Back, back! Retreat!"
The two were quite good at survival. They had danced on the line of life and death so many times, and they had survived each time. There was definitely no way they were getting out. Seeing the corridor filled with monsters, Ma Wei and Li Jiu suddenly realized that the man with the iron hammer looked much friendlier and nicer.
They retreated quickly, and when they passed the girl, the child who stood where she was slowly turned her head. Like a toy whose spring had been turned, the girl's spine creaked noisily as the head slowly twisted around. The lips were turning white, but the smile still did not leave her face.
The head turned 180 degrees, and the girl who looked so normal had completely shattered Li Jiu and Ma Wei's last psychological bulwark. The fire running through their veins froze instantly, and a deep chasm of chilling helplessness opened up to swallow the two men. At a time like this, they could only try their best to run and escape. In their mind, the only person who could save them then was the young man from before.
Without once turning back to look, they raced back down into the middle section of the underground morgue. They rushed into the room with the cadaver pool, locked the door from the inside, and moved the closet to block the entrance. There were footsteps coming from the corridor. After a few seconds of silence, something slammed heavily into the room where the cadaver pool was. Ma Wei and Li Jiu leaned against the closet.
Just as they were locked in a standstill with the monsters outside the door, the hole in the middle of the cadaver pool started to gurgle and bubble again. After some time, the human remains that were supposed to have sunk to the bottom of the hole started to gush upward like there was something pushing them up from below.
"We cannot stay in this room any longer. Brother Wei, let's go into the secret tunnel as well!" Li Jiu's suggestion was very risky. After all, no one knew what was at the other end of the passage. "Since there was no other option, why not just give it a try‽ The man did not hesitate when he entered the passage earlier. I feel like he should know something about this place."
"Okay! We'll do it your way." Ma Wei picked up the chain from the ground to tie the closet tight to the door. They needed to buy as much time as they could. The two crawled into the secret passage, and they moved so quickly, giving no thought to the type of danger that they might face inside the passage. The passage was small and narrow, so the two moved with one in front and the other at the back. The distance between them and Chen Ge slowly closed.
After running several meters, they could hear the sound of the closet being shoved down coming from outside. Their hearts shook, and they raced as fast as they could down the secret passage.
…
Chen Ge walked for a long time inside the passage, and the deeper he went, the thicker the layer of 'moss' became. It became so ubiquitous that he could not stop his shirt and body from accidentally touching it.
However, weirdly enough, when the fragrant liquid from the 'moss' touched the surface of his skin, his body temperature that had become so much lower than normal started to rise again. Even though it was only temporary, it made him feel warm, a sensation that he had not experienced in a long time.
This might not be a good development. Chen Ge was familiar with the fact that the 'moss' was covering human bodies. Even though he had been searching a method to make his body temperature return to normal, if the method was related to body bodies, he would need to give it a second consideration.
The ceiling of the corridor lowered, and the walls squeezed in from both sides. At the deepest part of the corridor, the path was almost completely swallowed by the 'moss'. The white cat scratched its way through, and without any other choice, Chen Ge had to use his hand to move the peels of 'moss' that blocked the way apart.
His fingers touched the wall. Under the bright red 'moss' were human faces. Their eyes were tightly closed, and Chen Ge literally walked before their eyes.
These human bodies are probably preserved with some special method. They look no different from normal, living humans. Chen Ge felt slightly uncomfortable. It would be no laughing matter if they suddenly opened their eyes when I am walking past them.
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