Chapter 0429 – “Red” Channel
Twisting his head and sweeping a glance at Li Xu and Ma Wei, Chen Ge whispered, “Don’t just stand there, come over and help.”
The mission requirement of the black cell phone was to enter the core area before midnight, he did not have a map in his hand and had no idea where the passageway to the core area of the Corpse Vault was, so he showed a strong interest in the secret passageway in the underground Corpse Vault.
The three of them combined their efforts to push open the cabinet, and behind the cabinet was a secret passage that could only accommodate one person to pass through.
The sound of whistling wind came from the other side of the secret tunnel, and the air was mixed with a putrid odor.
Chen Ge reached out and touched the edge of the tunnel, which was slippery and sticky, and there seemed to be moss growing on the edge of the tunnel, except that the “moss” was not green, but dark brown, and it seemed to have a reddish color when he shone a flashlight on it.
”Give me the flashlight.” Chen Ge took the flashlight from Li Xu’s hand and shone it inside, the tunnel was very narrow, there were many corners, and he didn’t know where it was leading to.
”Why is there a secret tunnel in the medical school’s storage room where the corpses are kept? Like it was dug many years ago, what is the purpose of this secret tunnel?” Chen Ge looked back at Li Xu and Ma Wei, who shook their heads repeatedly.
”Should we go in and take a look?”
Chen Ge was muttering to himself, but those two beside him turned pale after hearing his words.
Probably worried that he was being forced to explore by Chen Ge, out of the idea of self-preservation, Li Xu reminded in a low voice, “We’d better not run around, the school security guards all said that this underground corpse vault is haunted, just now, the two of us, Wei and I, also experienced it ourselves, this place is indeed very unsafe, and it really might be harboring all those dirty things from the legend.”
Chen Ge also didn’t want to drill into this kind of narrow passageway, the space was too small, not conducive for him to utilize his strength. Besides, in case he was attacked by monsters back and forth, it would be dangerous then.
While he was hesitating, the white cat next to him purred, got down on the ground, and slowly felt its way into the middle of the secret passage.
”The thing that attracted the white cat is in this passage?” Chen Ge took the skull crushing hammer and poked his upper body into the middle of the secret passage, “There’s a wind, there won’t be any suffocation.”
Hearing the cat’s cry, Li Xu and Ma Wei realized that the fierce guy in front of them even had a cat with him, and their gazes hovered between the white cat and Chen Ge as their impression of Chen Ge began to change subtly.
”You two stay here and don’t move, I’ll go in and take a look and come out.” Chen Ge himself went into the secret passage worrying about the back way being blocked, so he let the two crematorium workers watch for him, “That who, give me your cell phone, in case of an accident, it’s easy to contact.”
Chen Ge pointed at Li Xu, this dude had a bitter feeling in his heart, don’t normal people ask for cell phone numbers for easy contact? Why did this person directly ask for a cell phone?
People had to bow their heads under the roof, Li Xu handed his cell phone to Chen Ge.
”Don’t worry, if we can get out alive, I will definitely return the cell phone to you.”
Hearing Chen Ge’s comfort, Li Xu instead became more flustered.
After a brief exchange of two sentences, Chen Ge got clear on the names of the two men, and he would use Li Xu’s cell phone to call Ma Wei’s cell phone to notify those two men when something happened.
”If you guys are in danger, you can also ask for help towards me, if you really can’t resist the other party, then after notifying me, you can escape on your own first, don’t worry about me.” Chen Ge put Li Xu’s cell phone into his jacket pocket and followed the white cat into the middle of the secret passage.
When he first went in, he didn’t feel anything, but when he walked around the first corner, Chen Ge slowly realized that the air was much murkier, and those brown mosses growing on the walls had also become more numerous.
”The white cat swallowed the blood threads that the Weird Tales Association found behind the door, it’s now rushing inside, and the thing that attracted it is most likely related to the Weird Tales Association as well.”
The secret passageway became narrower and narrower, and the innermost area was almost covered by that kind of moss-like plant, Chen Ge used the cut of the skull crushing hammer to rub off a little bit of the “moss”, and found that this thing was just like a human being, and that after rubbing off the epidermis, a blood-red liquid would ooze out from underneath.
Chen Ge got close and smelled it, and found that the liquid had a fresh fragrance, and did not have the foul odor of blood.
”This can still grow in an underground corpse vault?”
Soon after the liquid flowed out, a small piece of “moss” that had been cut off by the skull crushing hammer began to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it seemed that the liquid seeping out from underneath the “moss” had the function of stimulating growth.
Chen Ge continued to walk forward, the secret passage became even lower, he needed to bend sideways to continue forward.
Slowly, the walls, the ground, and the top of his head were all covered with that kind of “moss”, which made it hard to step on it, giving people a very uncomfortable feeling.
”Where does this secret passage lead to?”
The air was getting murkier and murkier, but the color of the moss slowly became brighter and brighter, gradually turning from yellowish brown to light red.
After turning a few corners, Chen Ge couldn’t catch his breath, and he began to experience symptoms of oxygen deprivation.
Softly calling out to the white cat, Chen Ge slowed down his pace, he walked a few meters further in, at this time, those “moss” on the wall had completely turned blood red.
Stopping his footsteps, Chen Ge looked around, and in his heart, he suddenly recalled what Li Zheng had said.
There were three kinds of passages in the underground corpse vault, the white-painted ones, the unpainted ones and the blood-red ones, of which the blood-red ones were the most bizarre, and one had to keep absolutely quiet when entering them, otherwise something unknown would happen.
”This secret passage is the blood-red passage he was talking about?”
The deeper one went, the brighter the color of the “moss” on the walls became, and the narrower the passageway space became.
Chen Ge was practically sticking to the moss as he moved in, holding the skull crushing hammer in one hand, and when he entered a corner deeper into the passage, the spikes on the head of the hammer scratched the wall.
At first, Chen Ge didn’t care, but when the “moss” was rubbed off, he used his Yin pupil to vaguely see that there was something behind the “moss”.
After taking a few steps back, Chen Ge slowly crouched down sideways, and his pupils suddenly shrunk together when he looked at the gaping hole that had been cut out by the skull-crushing hammer.
A human face was revealed underneath the “moss”, it was a woman’s face, her skin was oozing blood outwards, what made it a bit unacceptable was that the blood oozing out of her face carried a faint fragrance.
”This passageway was built out of corpses?”
His body slightly stiffened, Chen Ge looked around himself, and he didn’t know how many human faces were hidden underneath the thick “moss”.
”It’s crazy.”
The white cat was still continuing to run forward, Chen Ge looked at the woman’s face, hesitated for a moment, and didn’t leave the white cat alone, he also followed.
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At the entrance of the secret passage, Li Xu and Ma Wei looked at each other.
”Let’s just stand here and wait for him to come out?” Li Xu minimized his voice, he was afraid that what he said would be heard by Chen Ge in the secret passage.
”Otherwise? I have a feeling that he might be testing us on purpose? Once we escape, he will immediately rush out and finish us both off.” Ma Wei cautiously replied back, the two of them really couldn’t figure out why they would meet a young man with a hammer in an underground corpse vault after ten o’clock at night.
”I think we’d better hurry up and leave, that person might be the ‘ghost’ the guards are talking about.” The more Li Xu thought about it, the more scared he became, his face was white, “When we first met him, he didn’t even have a light on him. It’s dark and gooey around here, if he’s a human how could he possibly see the scene around him clearly?”
When Ma Wei thought about it, he also felt that Li Xu had a point, “Yeah, there must be something wrong with those eyes of his, my heart panics every time I lock eyes with him.”