Chapter 0407 – Four Strange Things
After getting Chen Ge’s exact reply, Li Zheng’s tone was much lighter, he himself didn’t understand why, every time he called Chen Ge, he felt pressurized.
”I’ll hang up first if there’s nothing else, you take an early rest.”
Li Zheng was just about to hang up when Chen Ge opened his mouth, “Hold on, I have another question.”
”What question?”
”Liu Zhe surrendered, did he give an account of his last hiding place for the body? Has that body been found?”
”It’s pretty much the same as what we speculated before, Liu Zhe was a school staff member, he used his position to get the students to move the sculpture into the warehouse, then he himself sneaked over there at night and got the body out of the sculpture and hid it amongst the underground corpse vault.” Li Zheng’s voice turned low, as if he recalled some very unpleasant scene.
”Then you guys entered the underground corpse vault?” Chen Ge perked up his ears, the underground corpse vault was a three-star horror scene of the Scream Index, and even more so, it was the last pre-quest of the four-star horror scene Psychic Ghost School, so any information related to the underground corpse vault was very important to him.
”We went in with the school staff during the day today, and found the corpse in the fifth vault, we did a DNA match, and she is Ma Ying’s missing sister.”
As Li Zheng said these words, the black cell phone suddenly vibrated, Chen Ge took it out to find that he had received a message.
He didn’t open it to read it, but continued to inquire about Li Zheng, “Brother Zheng, can you tell me about the layout of the underground corpse vault? Do you have a map of the underground corpse vault in Jiujiang West Campus?”
The underground environment was very complex, and the map was too important to him.
Li Zheng was in his thirties this year, and there was no problem at all for Chen Ge to call him Brother Zheng, but he didn’t know why, but after hearing Chen Ge address him, Li Zheng’s sweat hairs inexplicably stood up, and an unsettling premonition surfaced in his heart, “There’s no map, but I know the approximate routes, and there was a school staff member there at the time, so why are you asking about this? ”
”I’m just simply curious.” Chen Ge had been talking about this for half a day before Li Zheng finally told the layout of the underground corpse vault.
”The underground corpse vault in the West Campus is the largest underground corpse vault in Jiujiang, and even in Central and South China, and has been in use since the founding of Jiujiang Medical University, and has a history of several decades by now. When we went in, the school staff specially explained that they wouldn’t let us run around, the passages in there are crisscrossed and roughly divided into three kinds according to their functions.”
”One is a corpse transportation passage painted with white wall paint, one is an unpainted passage for people to walk on, and there’s another passage painted with red wall paint, that staff member didn’t tell me what the red passage was for, but just said to go around and not to go in if we met it.”
Li Zheng’s words caught Chen Ge’s attention, it was the first time he had heard of a passageway that would be painted red: “Could it be because the existence of the ‘door’ has an effect on the neighborhood?”
”What are you talking about?” Li Zheng didn’t hear Chen Ge’s self-talk clearly.
”Nothing, you continue.”
”The staff can’t say exactly how big the underground corpse vault is, there are records filed for six vaults, but after actually entering, we’ve only traveled roughly a third of the distance, and we’ve already seen three small vaults and two medium-sized vaults.” Li Zheng’s side seemed to have something else to deal with, as he sped up his speech, “The large storage room is at the very end, and it’s said to be all mortuary pools, which is a large pool full of formalin, with all sorts of specimens preserved in it, and fished out when experiments need to be done. But that was all many years ago, long abandoned and not in use, and now they’ve all been replaced with freezers specialized in preserving corpses.”
Li Zheng roughly told Chen Ge the layout of the underground corpse vault, but saying it was the same as not saying it, the road was too complicated and there was no reference, Chen Ge felt that it was still dangerous for him to go in alone.
”Brother Zheng, when you guys went in, and you didn’t hear any strange sounds? Or anything strange happen?” The underground corpse vault was similar to the underground parking lot of one’s own haunted house, not seeing sunlight, and ghosts and monsters were likely to appear during the day.
”Strange things?” Li Zheng thought for a moment, “There are really a few, we went in through a passageway that wasn’t painted for the living to walk through, and when we passed through a passageway painted in white, we heard a sound similar to clapping coming from inside.”
Chen Ge became interested after hearing this, “Can you tell me more about it?”
”It was like someone standing at the other end of the passage and clapping their hands, but we didn’t see anything when we passed by, but the strange thing is that the passage painted with white paint looked a lot cleaner than the unpainted one, and it seems that there are often people walking around in it.”
Chen Ge took out a pen and paper and memorized all the highlights of what Li Zheng said.
”The second thing that’s more strange is that when we passed by the number one storage room, a group member saw someone walking around in the storage room, but the iron door of the number one storage room was clearly locked, and we should be the only ones who entered the underground corpse storage room during that time period.”
”We asked the staff, the other person said that it was because of too much tension, the underground corpse vault is very depressing, it is easy to cause all kinds of negative emotions in people, that person also comforted my group member, saying that he would get used to it slowly.”
”The third strange incident happened when we entered the fifth vault, at that time, everyone was looking for the corpse that Liu Zhe was talking about, but the door of the fifth vault closed on its own, it felt as if someone was closing the door from the outside, trying to trap us all inside.”
”The last incident then happened when we found the corpse and were ready to leave, we walked out of the warehouse number five and followed the same path back, taking the same road but taking twice as long as when we went in.” The fourth strange incident bothered Li Zheng the most, he still couldn’t figure out why it happened, “Don’t believe me, it’s a very strange feeling, it’s like the same road but stretched out.”
”What you said is quite scary.” Chen Ge looked at the information recorded on the white paper and put it away after confirming that it was correct.
”Scary is not so much.” Li Zheng seemed to have heard something from Chen Ge’s words and immediately changed his tone, “Chen Ge, that place is particularly dangerous, so don’t get any strange ideas.”
”What strange thoughts can I generate?” Chen Ge was also speechless, “Am I that kind of person?”
”To give you a heads up, don’t go over there alone. I still have things to do, so I won’t chat with you.” Li Zheng hung up the phone after saying that.
Chen Ge sat alone in the staff lounge, and he realized that he had still underestimated the danger of the underground corpse vault.
”Although the Living Coffin Village and the Third Sick Building are both three-star horror scenarios, the most terrifying existences in both scenarios have been weakened for a variety of reasons, which allowed me to take advantage of the loopholes.”
When Chen Ge went to the third sick building, only three of the ten patients were in the middle of the scene, and there was even less to say about the Living Coffin Village, where the most horrifying female ghost of the pitcher well was attached to Jiang Ling, and had no malicious intent towards Chen Ge at all.
”The three-star scene in its full state is still relatively dangerous with my current abilities.” Chen Ge twisted his head and looked at his shadow, somewhat torn.