Chapter 0416 – Corpse Vault Expansion
The reason why Chen Ge had specifically come to inquire about Zhang Li was because this security guard had behaved too abnormally in the haunted house, and he must have had special experiences.
Zhang Li’s gloominess and depression was coming from his bones, and he should be harboring a lot of secrets in his heart that he couldn’t share with others.
Being stared at by Chen Ge, Tension was slightly nervous, he opened his mouth several times, but no sound came out.
”Don’t have any scruples, tell me everything you’ve heard and seen.” The more Tension was like this, the more curious Chen Ge felt.
”It’s not that I don’t want to tell, I’m afraid that if I do, you won’t believe me either.” Zhang Li fished out a cigarette from his pocket and held it in his hand, “Can I have a cigarette?”
”You’re in your own home, do whatever you want, don’t care about me.”
After getting Chen Ge’s consent, Tension lit the cigarette and took a hard drag, he enjoyed the feeling of the tobacco stimulating his lungs, it seemed that only this could make him briefly forget about those annoying things.
Slowly exhaling a mouthful of smoke, the first words that Tension said attracted Chen Ge: “Those corpses in the underground corpse vault they will move on their own.”
”Corpses will move?”
”There are things hundreds of times more terrifying than moving.” Zhang Li’s hands gently trembled, “When I first arrived at Jiujiang Forensic Medical College as a security guard, it was just in time for the expansion of the underground corpse vault on the West Campus, and all of those original pools for storing corpses were discontinued, ready to be replaced with brand new morgue cabinets.”
”Underground corpse storage in the West Campus under, construction is more difficult.”
”At first, the school’s intention was to remodel several large storage rooms in the deepest part of the corpse vault, dig up the mortuary pools, and redecorate them all over again.”
”They hired a professional construction team to get it, and expected to complete the renovation within half a month, but on the second day after the construction team entered the underground corpse vault, an accident happened.”
”A worker was cleaning the formalin in the mortuary pool when he accidentally fell into the corpse pool, the pool wasn’t too deep but the worker couldn’t climb out, he felt that a lot of people grabbed him and wouldn’t let him leave.” Zhang Li quickly finished a cigarette, his hands gestured with Chen Ge: “That kind of large mortuary pool is very similar to the bathhouse in the past, except that the liquid in the corpse pool is yellowish-brown and opaque, and you can only roughly see some of the corpse’s hands, feet, spine, and hair, etc.”
”What happened to the worker who fell into the pool in the end?” Chen Ge was more curious about this.
”Next to the mortuary pool there was one of those iron hooks used to pull corpses, and usually when medical students did experiments, they used that to drag a corpse up from the pool. The other workers who were there at the time threw the iron hook into the pool for the one who fell in to grab, and it took the combined efforts of several people to drag him up.” Zhang Li lit another cigarette, he was addicted to cigarettes, especially when recalling things that he tried his best to avoid, “When the worker fell into the pool, he accidentally drank a few mouthfuls of the pool’s formalin, he was then sent to the hospital to have his stomach pumped, and the man was not seriously hurt, but I heard that after his body healed, his brain went out of order, and he was often in a state of delirium.”
”That worker can you still get in touch with now? Did he say anything before he went crazy?”
”I’m not sure, it’s been a long time since this happened, if you really want to know, I can go to the school and ask for you, but don’t get your hopes up.”
”It’s fine, you continue on.” Chen Ge took out his own cell phone, ready to record the important stuff down.
”After sending that worker to the hospital, the construction continued as normal, but the very next night, another strange thing happened.” Zhang Li’s expression was grave, as if he still felt very uncomfortable now that he thought back on it, “The number of corpses that were transported out by the construction team and school staff during the daytime changed.”
”Is this what you mean by the corpses moving around?”
”Sort of, but something even more horrifying is yet to come.” Tension told stories about other people, he didn’t mention why he was in this state.
The voice was getting lower and lower, Tension seemed to be a bit cold, he took another deep drag of his cigarette, “On the third day the construction team entered the depths of the underground corpse vault again, they finished disposing of the corpses amongst the first vault, and dug up that mortuary pool that had been built more than twenty years ago, and the scene at that time terrified all the workers.”
”The bottom of the morgue pool was covered with blood vessels just like the human body, and those things rapidly dried up the moment they were hit by the light.” Zhang Li frowned as he leaned his back on the sofa, his face was very pale, “I was helping out at the time, and I glanced inside, how can I put it? It felt like that pool was alive.”
”Blood vessels grew at the bottom of the mortuary pool?” Chen Ge memorized Tension’s words.
”The person in charge of the construction team also specifically looked for the school leadership because of this matter, the leadership was not clear about the reason, and finally came to the conclusion that it was an extremely rare type of fungus.” Zhang Li gently shook his head: “Even people like me who have never been to school know that they are talking nonsense, the construction team side there are also some people raised objections, and finally heard that the school in the original basis, and then doubled the remuneration, the construction team only agreed to continue to do.”
”That afternoon, the construction team removed the edge of the pool and dug deeper down, trying to clear a space, but the more they dug, the more they felt that something was wrong, the smell of formalin was emanating from all of the dirt underneath that pool, and the dirt was reddish in color, and in it, you could also see dark brown, silk threads that crumbled when you touched them.”
”No one knew what the hell it was, it didn’t look like plant roots or bug corpses.”
”The construction team reacted to the school about the underground corpse vault, they got some sample soil out, and after the school looked at it, they couldn’t say anything about it, they just pushed the construction team to speed up the process.”
”In order to settle the construction team’s mind, the school’s staff also stayed with them all the time, giving them the message that there was no need to worry, that these were normal phenomena.” Zhang Li seemed to be very dissatisfied with the school’s approach, his tone of voice changed slightly, “I just arrived at the school as a security guard at the time, into the underground corpse vault to help with this job no one was willing to do, and finally pushed it onto me, the school side I was an errand boy, the construction team side I was not familiar with, and finally suffered on both sides.”
”Underground corpse warehouse remodeling progress is very slow, always happen all kinds of strange things, the construction team side of the people also one after another injured, finally they really can not stand it, workers all strike. The school had no choice, and after discussing with the head of the project, they changed their plans.”
”They were going to expand the new corpse vault outwards, and the original corpse vault was abandoned and stopped being used.”
”But the school’s compromise came with a requirement, they gave the construction team a death order, they had to complete the remodeling within a month. If the construction team still drags their feet and doesn’t finish within the specified date, it will be considered a breach of contract.”