Brother Wei picked up the two water buckets from the ground and walked deeper into the corridor. Li Xu stayed where he was. He held the flashlight and could not help but want to shine it into the morgue. He knew very well that there was a dead body in the dark looking at him with its eyes open.
I'd better close the door. Out of sight, out of mind.
Li Jiu closed the door to the storeroom. He looked around. Brother Wei had already walked away, and he felt uneasy staying in the corridor alone.
Turning back to look, there seemed to be some kind of monster hiding in the corner where the light could not reach. He had a feeling that someone was hiding at the corner.
He wanted to look, but he did not dare do so.
After hesitating for a long time, he felt that staying with Brother Wei was safer.
This place is too scary. At least the two of us can look after each other.
Holding the flashlight, Li Xu kept turning back, afraid that something would suddenly jump out from behind him.
Hopefully, I'm just being too sensitive.
After Li Xu walked away, a scary-looking hammer with a blood groove appeared from the corner. Chen Ge tilted his head to look at the two people at the end of the corridor, and there was confusion in his eyes. Did that thing discover me?
He walked out from the corner and stopped at the door. The pictures that Zhang Li gave me didn't have any introduction to this morgue. Could this be the legendary Morgue No. 8?
Chen Ge pushed open the door and looked inside. Other than the glass containers that contained the cadavers, there was nothing out of place.
The dead are very peaceful; they probably volunteered to donate their bodies. I don't sense any resentment in this room. No matter how I look at it, this is different from the rumored Morgue No. 8.
Chen Ge had a lot of experience dealing with Haunted Houses. After a quick glance, he was even more confused. This underground morgue might be more complicated than he thought.
"Earlier, I think I heard the two say something about a handprint. Something has escaped …" Chen Ge was about to enter the room when the white cat that was lying on his backpack suddenly leaped off the ground and ran down the corridor.
There were other people in the corridor. Chen Ge did not want to expose himself, so he did not say anything. He temporarily retreated from Morgue 8 and followed closely behind the white cat.
After consuming the blood from the Society of Strange Tales, the white cat's body seemed to have grown larger and its movements became more agile. It moved quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was already several meters away.
"What's attracting it?"
Chen Ge knew the white cat very well. Every time they went out to do a Trial Mission, the white cat would always stay by his side. This cat used to be very courageous, but the comfortable life made it lose its wild nature. Most of the time, it was very timid. Therefore, unless it was absolutely necessary, she would not take the initiative to leave Chen Ge.
To prevent the white cat from getting lost, Chen Ge also sped up. The man and the cat arrived at the end of the tunnel.
This place seemed to have been sealed with bricks, but something happened later, causing the brick wall to be pushed down.
There was a pile of trash in the middle of the road, and there was a sign at the front. It said, "Disrepair, danger of collapse, no entry!"
The sticky liquid could be seen on the bricks next to the sign. That was where Li Xu and Brother Wei had run into.
"The outer perimeter is the newest expansion. It has seven storerooms, and if we go further in, we'll reach the middle section."
Western Jiujiang's Medical University had been built decades ago. It was the earliest medical school in Jiujiang, and the middle section of the underground morgue had preserved its original layout.
At the time, the cadavers were kept in the morgue. The pool was filled with formalin, and the pool was filled with the cadavers that the hospital bought through various channels. When the students needed to do experiments, they would be led by the teacher into the underground morgue to fish them out from the pool.
"The path to the central hub should be hidden in the middle section." Chen Ge put his phone away. The map provided by Zhang Li was mostly about the outer perimeter; there was very little about the middle section. The central hub was not shown on the map at all.
Stepping over the sign, Chen Ge used Yin Yang Vision to hold onto the wall to enter the middle section.
The air in the corridor became murky, and there was a thick, strange smell. Chen Ge twitched his nose, but he could not tell where the smell was coming from. It felt like he was surrounded by the smell — the walls, the floor, and the ceiling — the smell had seeped into the whole building.
"The middle section is the school's forbidden zone. Even the security and staff don't dare go there, so why are these two outsiders here?"
Chen Ge really did not understand. The two seemed to be more interested in 'adventure' than he was.
Covering his nose and mouth, Chen Ge slowed down. He stared at the white cat before him, making sure that the cat was within his sight.
After the white cat ran for several meters, it crouched down like it had seen a mouse and entered hunting mode.
This was the first time that Chen Ge had seen the white cat so serious. He crept closer and squatted down.
After a while, the stench in the air thickened, and the white cat continued to move forward.
The corridor became more dilapidated, and the white paint peeled off to reveal the grayish-brown wall behind it.
Several meters later, Chen Ge heard Li Xu and Brother Wei's voices coming from one of the rooms ahead. The thing that attracted the white cat appeared to be hiding inside that room as well.
Worried about the white cat's impulsiveness, Chen Ge picked it up and tossed it on top of his backpack. He walked to the door and poked his head out.
The room was much bigger than Chen Ge expected. There was a rectangular pool inside. Brother Wei stood inside the pool, and Li Xu stood at the edge of the pool.
"Every time, they leave behind a pile of them, waiting for us to deal with them. Do they really think we're not human?"
Li Xu coughed twice. He had seen many dead bodies, but whenever he saw these things, he would not be able to control himself.
The pungent smell leaked out from the pool, and it made Li Xu's eyes water.
"I told you to wait outside, but you refused to listen and came in here on your own. Who is to blame?" Brother Wei was wearing a mask as he poured the contents of the bucket into the pool. "Be grateful. Based on the agreement that we signed with the school, these things should be taken back to our crematorium for cremation. Now that we have a place to deal with them, it has saved us a lot of trouble."
"You're right." Li Jiu's face was pale. He looked at the things that had been dumped into the pond, and he still felt disgusted. "How do you think those medical students can endure this? These were all taken from human bodies. Just thinking about it makes me shiver."
The two talked for a long time, and Chen Ge could hear them clearly from the door. He finally understood the identity of these two and their purpose for coming here.
Li Xu and Brother Wei were both workers at a crematorium. The cadavers that were used during medical students' autopsy classes would be handed over to them for cremation.
Normally, every cadaver would have a tag on it. After cremation, the ashes would be returned to the family or directly buried at the public cemetery.
This was something that they did not dare do, but the autopsy room not only had autopsied cadavers, but there were also many things left behind.
These things were difficult to deal with, and they would take a whole night. Li Xu and Brother Wei thought that it was too much trouble, so they planned to dump these things into the sealed underground morgue.
They seemed to have done this before, and no one had discovered it.
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