Chapter 0418 – They are heavier than the living
”The construction team has pulled out, what is that walking around in the passageway?”
”I hung up the phone and covered my body with the cement bag on the ground, only showing my eyes.”
”Footsteps slowly approached and I squinted that way.”
”The light was dim, a blurry figure walked next to me, he moved in a slightly strange position, his body was very uncoordinated.”
”I held my breath, not daring to move.”
”The man circled around the house and was ready to leave, I lifted a corner of the cement bag, only to see a scene that I can’t forget in my life.”
Zhang Li’s lips turned purple as he spoke out this nightmare that had plagued him for years, “That person, the skull was empty, the face was hollowed out clean.”
Cigarette ash fell on the sofa, Tension’s arm couldn’t stop trembling, “A long time ago the bodies used for medical school autopsies weren’t posthumous donations, most of them were death row inmates, and after the inmates were struck down, their heads would turn out like that.”
When he said this, he was already somewhat unable to continue, Chen Ge really didn’t dare to force him this time, “Take a break, have a drink of water.”
”No need.” How many years have passed, Zhang Li was still scared when he thought back, he finished a cigarette with only a few puffs, “When I saw that death row inmate, I already realized the problem, the person who entered the house just now, and the group of people in the passageway outside, they should all be corpses for dissection.”
The situation that Tension was talking about at this moment was indeed much more horrifying than the corpses would move, at that time, it seemed that an orgy of corpses was being held in the underground passageway, and Tension was the only living person who entered.
After staying up until dawn and spending the night in a place like that, it was no wonder that there was a change in his personality.
”I really saw it, this matter has always been pressed in my heart, I didn’t dare to tell anyone, including my sister.” Pupils throbbing, Zhang Li’s eyebrows screwed together, his expression pained: “After the girl who argued with my sister a few years ago disappeared, my sister had suspected that the other party had run into the middle of the underground corpse vault, she was ready to enter the corpse vault to look for it, but in the end, she was stopped by my dead hands, that place really can’t be gone, it’s not a place where living people should stay.”
After saying the words in his heart, Tension seemed to feel a little better too, he touched the cigarette box and found that the poor quality cigarettes had already been smoked out.
”Smoke less, smoking is bad for your body.” Chen Ge sat on the chair, he memorized everything Tension said on his phone.
”It doesn’t matter, since that night, I don’t care about this anymore.” Tension rubbed the cigarette case into a ball, without a cigarette to smoke, he was a little disturbed and seemed to be having a hard time calming down, “Will you think I’m a psychopath? That what I saw that night was all a hallucination?”
Chen Ge shook his head, he was well aware of the dangers in the underground corpse vault, and the black cell phone had given hints that a group of eternals lived there.
”Actually, I sometimes wonder if what I saw that night was an illusion or not.”
”Do you remember how you escaped?” According to Tension, the number of corpses should have reached an exaggerated point.
”At that time, I hid under a cement bag, my body seemed to freeze as if I didn’t dare to move a muscle. It wasn’t until after five in the morning that those people in the passageway began to walk towards the depths of the passageway one after another.”
”During this process, didn’t you text for help from outsiders?” Chen Ge put down his own cell phone, he was more curious about the school’s reaction.
”When I just woke up, I had already talked to that security guard on the phone. I told him that I was in the underground corpse vault, but they never sent anyone over to rescue me, so I don’t know what’s going on.” One could hear from Tension’s tone that he was very uncomfortable in his heart.
”Then did you find anything unusual when you came out, such as a large area of formalin remaining in the passageway, scratches remaining on the walls, and so on.”
”I waited until eight o’clock in the morning, when there was no movement outside before I climbed up from the ground, at that time I was aching all over my body, multiple bruises on my body, and my heart was very scared, and I hurriedly ran outside without paying any attention at all.”
Zhang Li’s own story ends here, since then he took the underground corpse warehouse as a forbidden area, his temper is getting worse and worse.
”Underground Corpse Vault that place I advise you not to go there, if you really want to go, it’s best to call up some more people and go in during the day.” Zhang Li told Chen Ge some more stories he had heard elsewhere.
”The entrance to the passageway connecting the Corpse Vault and the laboratory is often not closed tightly, and even if it is closed tightly, it will still be opened by someone.”
”During the last expansion, the school added seven new morgue storage rooms, but when many people went to pick up the corpses, they would somehow see the eighth storage room, which was near the original site of the underground corpse storage room and had no number.”
”The road leading deeper into the underground corpse vault has been sealed several times, but no matter how it’s sealed there’s always a problem. I remember one time the school blocked off the passage with bricks, but after a week or two the wall suddenly fell down, and when the school staff went to check it out, they found a strong odor of formalin emanating from each brick.”
”There are many other things like this, the relocation of the Jiujiang Medical University is also related to the underground corpse vault, and I’ve heard that the Jiujiang School of Forensic Medicine will be relocated to a new campus next year at the latest, and by that time, this old campus will be left unused and used for another purpose.”
The School of Forensic Medicine was also going to be relocated this was something Chen Ge did not expect, he felt that things were getting a bit serious.
”The clues you provided are very useful to me, I will report these to a few other officers. Also, the map of the underground corpse vault you better give it to me tomorrow.” Chen Ge gave a few words of explanation before he was ready to leave, and as he stood up and walked to the door, he suddenly remembered something else: “Tension, why do you have to live in the Haiming Apartments? I heard that something happened in this place before, and it seems like it happened right below you.”
”There was a crazy person downstairs who committed suicide, that I know, I’m an old tenant here.” There was nothing unusual about Zhang Li’s expression, it seemed like a mere coincidence that he lived here.
”Then do you know that a student from your school called Men Nan also used to live in this building?” Chen Ge stopped and casually asked.
”I know, this stupid kid was greedy and lived next door to that room where a person had died. That room can’t be inhabited, there was a doctor who stayed there before, but he moved out after just one night.”
”How do you know he’s a doctor?” Chen Ge was carrying her bag and was a bit puzzled, “Doctors don’t run around in white coats outside the hospital, besides he just moved in for a day, with your character you shouldn’t take the initiative to chat with him.”
”I’ve seen him in school, that doctor’s surname is Gao, his family is very rich, at that time I was curious how he lived in this place.” Zhang Li really couldn’t figure it out, “That night when I went downstairs to buy cigarettes, I also saw Dr. Gao standing in the hallway, alone and not knowing what he was doing.”