Chapter 0430 – The Carnival Begins

　　”Who in their right mind would come to this place in the middle of the night? If we don’t leave, we’ll probably be too late later.” Li Xu quietly moved his position away from the secret passage behind the cabinet.

　　Ma Wei picked up his flashlight and shone it towards the secret passage, and after determining that Chen Ge wasn’t hiding in the corner of the secret passage, he also started to move back.

　　The two of them had a tacit understanding, neither of them spoke again, and helped each other leave this room.

　　The long corridor seemed to have changed in some way compared to when they came in, vaguely feeling that certain places were different from just now, but exactly where it had become different, the two couldn’t say.

　　Li Xu took the flashlight and walked in front, Ma Wei turned on the flashlight attached to his cell phone and followed behind.

　　”Be careful, there’s likely more than one monster in the underground corpse vault.”

　　The scene in front of them was simply the highest difficulty escape game for Ma Wei and Li Xu, they had to face corpses coming back from the dead, monsters that could appear at any time, psychopathic murderers with murderous weapons, and all sorts of unknown traps.

　　”Li Xu, should I throw my cell phone over here, with it I always feel like that person will call just now.” Ma Wei held his cell phone, but he felt very uneasy in his heart, more than once in his mind appeared Chen Ge dragging the skull crushing hammer with a horrible smile, in the appearance of calling him, just thinking about it made him feel }human.

　　”It’s better to keep it, this is the only communication tool we have to contact the outside world, but you remember to mute it, don’t expose our position at the critical moment because of a phone call.” Li Xu thought more, being in a dangerous situation, he seemed to have exploded into a potential that even he didn’t know.

　　Ma Wei changed his cell phone settings after hearing this, and the two of them stuck to the walls of the passageway and returned the same way.

　　Turning the corner, while passing through the eighth storage room, Li Xu, who was walking in front, paused for a moment: ”Was the door of this room opened by that person? Didn’t we close the door when we left?”

　　Sticky liquid remained on the handle of the iron door, and a strong odor of formalin gushed out from the room, Li Xu held up his flashlight and glanced towards the room, his eyes glared round at once.

　　”What’s wrong?” Ma Wei also realized something was wrong and came over to take a look.

　　Those glass containers in the house were all staying safely in place, but those large body teachers in the containers were all gone!

　　Li Xu’s legs were trembling as he shone his flashlight to the ground, and several water stains could be clearly seen on the concrete floor extending out from the room and into the middle of the passageway where they were.

　　”Those ‘people’ ran out, they are now in this passage as well.” Li Xu’s throat rolled as he slowly moved his flashlight, worried about what horrors would suddenly shine out.

　　”Do we still have to keep going forward?” Ma Wei was a bit uncertain, he couldn’t use the strength of his legs, he couldn’t run fast at all, and when he encountered danger, he could only stay where he was and wait for death, which was the most desperate thing for him.

　　Li Xu was also torn, the dark passageway hid corpses crawling out of glass containers and all kinds of unknown dangers, if he stayed here, he would have to face that madman again whose level of danger was not much lower than that of the monster.

　　”It’s better to go forward, let’s run with all our might, we can leave in ten minutes without any surprises.” Li Xu took Ma Wei’s cell phone over, “That person with the hammer shouldn’t have come out, I’ll call the police first and then contact the security guards outside.”

　　Li Xu took out his cell phone and dialed the phone, the alarm call was through, the other party also answered, but it was the signal that was seriously interfered with, a sentence could not be heard in full.

　　”It shouldn’t be ah! Although this place is underground, the signal is not very good, but it is not so bad that even the alarm phone can not be reached ah!”

　　There was something vaguely interfering with the communication in the middle of the underground corpse vault, Li Xu had no choice but to give up.

　　The house leakage was not a good thing, he felt that he had encountered all the unlucky things today.

　　”Let’s go outside first, if we encounter any monsters, we can retreat back again.” Li Xu supported Ma Wei as he squeezed out a bitter smile, “The only good news for us right now is that the man with the hammer and the monsters in the corpse vault don’t seem to be in the same gang.”

　　The bright light of the flashlight illuminated the road ahead, the two of them sped up, as they passed by the corpse vault number eight, a soft thud came from the vault.

　　How could they dare to go in and check it out now, keeping their heads down as if they hadn’t heard anything.

　　The passage is long and invisible, running through the seventh corpse warehouse, in front of them is a fork in the road, in the middle of the two passages, stood a black figure.

　　Not tall, very thin, it seems to hold something in its hand.

　　Ma Wei touched Li Xu’s arm, “Should we go over?”

　　Li Xu also couldn’t decide, he felt that today’s underground corpse warehouse seemed to be extraordinarily lively.

　　Slowly raising his hand, he raised his flashlight and let the light shine on the person in front of him.

　　Draped in a white loose jacket with black hair hanging down, standing at the fork in the road was a little girl.

　　Her head was lowered and her hands were holding a rotting and stinking apple.

　　This bizarre scene made both Li Xu and Ma Wei not dare to act rashly, and they both stopped where they were, feeling a burst of cold air surging to their hearts.

　　Being illuminated by the light, the girl slowly raised her head, she was sweet and cute looking, giving off the impression of a very quiet and introverted child.

　　She had a pair of light brown eyes, and her gaze was fixed on the apple in her palm, as if she wanted to savor the rotten and spoiled apple in her hand.

　　Delicate and smooth skin, delicate features, and lovely looks, this girl was in stark contrast to that rotten apple, but what made people wonder was that the girl looked at the apple with a trace of incomprehensible longing in her eyes.

　　The bright light from the flashlight made the girl frown gently, her small nose tip twitched gently as if she smelled something and slowly raised her head.

　　Light brown eyes looked towards Ma Wei and Li Xu, the corners of the girl’s mouth rose, her thin lips curving into a shallow arc.

　　That smile was simple, neither feeling goodwill nor containing malice, like a child finding a favorite toy.

　　The smile on the girl’s face became more and more pronounced, but other than that she showed no other abnormality, the child seemed to be acting completely according to instinct.

　　”Her hair and clothes are all wet, and the color of her skin is not quite normal, do you think she could have crawled out of the glass container?”

　　”There didn’t seem to be a girl in those containers when we went in just now.”

　　”Wasn’t there a container that was opened? I suspect that she ran out from that container.”

　　Ma Wei and Li Xu were furious at the girl’s look, and once they thought that the other party might be a corpse, the two of them became even more frightened, their bodies involuntarily stepping back.

　　While the girl stood still and didn’t move, strange sounds were coming from other directions of the passageway, wheels rolling in that corpse transportation passageway painted in white, and a few morgue cabinets in the middle of the No. 7 Corpse Warehouse next to it emitting thumping noises as if the things locked inside were about to come out.

　　The smell of formalin in the air became even stronger, leaving little time for Ma Wei and Li Xu to choose.

　　”Retreating inward is a dead end, going outward has a chance of survival!” Li Xu clenched his teeth as he grabbed Ma Wei’s arm, “Put up a fight! Let’s charge out together!”

　　”Good!”

　　The two of them made up their minds, as if they were cornered like wild beasts, ready to fight to the death!

　　Li Xu’s saw the gap beside the girl and dragged Ma Wei, his legs tensed up, like a spring, he scurried out.

　　”The passageway on the right is not painted white!”

　　Usually it was Li Xu who hid behind Ma Wei, this time when Ma Wei’s leg was injured, Li Xu stood out.

　　He opened the way in front, his expression was grim from extreme fear, his features deformed, and a hiss came out of his mouth, “Hurry!”

　　The two men rushed towards the girl with all their might, at this moment that sound of wheels in the passageway had also approached, all Li Xu and Ma Wei had to do was to enter the passageway that was not painted white before the sound of wheels approached.

　　Scrambling for time, the girl saw the two men rushing towards them, and did not move a muscle, the smile that she kept, other than that there was no more extra expression.

　　”It’s a chance!”

　　The girl was too careless, Li Xu raised his flashlight, he had planned everything in his head, when he ran to the girl he would drill through her side.

　　That gap was big enough for him and Ma Wei to pass through, and if the girl dared to get in the way, then he would knock her down hard with the flashlight in his hand.

　　Li Xu had never had such an exciting moment in the first twenty years of his life, and he was sure he could do it.

　　”Come on!”

　　Running at full speed, the moment the sound of the wheels stopped, Li Xu and Ma Wei also rushed to the corner of the passage!

　　The two of them ran past the girl, who didn’t stop them, and even kept her original position, not even moving.

　　Surprisingly smooth, Li Xu couldn’t get excited, he knew in his heart that it was not time to relax, leaving from the girl’s side was only the first step, there was still a long way to go if he wanted to escape from the underground corpse warehouse.

　　”Can’t be careless!”

　　He turned his head to look at the white-painted passageway next to him, there was a cart parked there that the school staff had used to transport the corpses, he couldn’t see the person who was pushing the cart, but what he could see was a few mannequins thrown on the cart, and among them there was another one whose head had been plucked off in a raw manner!

　　”Luckily I didn’t run from this side, those models have big problems at first sight.” Li Xu was glad that he made the most correct choice at the critical moment, he withdrew his gaze and took his flashlight to the unpainted passage next to him.

　　Tick!

　　Sticky liquid fell on his face, Li Xu raised his head in bewilderment, and the scene he entered made it hard for him to forget in his life.

　　The unpainted passageway was crawling with corpses, their limbs and torsos were sewn together by red silk threads, like puppets on strings crowding towards this side of the corridor.

　　There were too many of them, the pungent odor made Li Xu and Ma Wei’s sense of smell fail briefly, a deformed face took up the entire field of vision, full of limbs and stumps, the two of them even felt that their heads were buzzing, and their minds had frozen.

　　”Who can resist this?!”

　　The speed was so fast that Li Xu almost ran headlong into it, and it was Ma Wei who caught him at the critical moment.

　　”To the back! Retreat!”

　　The combination of these two people was also quite fantastic, hovering on the line of life and death several times, surprisingly, they both survived.

　　Going out was definitely out of the question, looking at the passageway full of monsters, Li Xu and Ma Wei suddenly felt that it was still the man with the hammer just now who was a little bit more affectionate.

　　The two of them flew backward, when they passed the girl’s side, the child who had been standing in place, her head slowly turned, as if a tightly wound doll, her spine made a crunching sound, and her head twisted a little bit to the back.

　　Lips whitened, the girl still wore a smile.

　　Head turned one hundred and eighty degrees, this girl who looked the most normal completely broke down the psychological defense of Li Xu and Ma Wei.

　　The two men were filled with blood that was frozen into ice, a deep chill and a sense of powerlessness surged to their hearts.

　　This time can only escape, in their hearts the only can save them is the man just now.

　　Without looking back, they ran into the middle area of the underground corpse storage in one breath, they entered the room where the mortuary pool was located, unlocked the door, and moved the closet to the back of the door.

　　Footsteps sounded on the corridor outside, and after a few seconds of silence, the door to the room where the morgue pool was located was slammed heavily.

　　Ma Wei and Li Xu pushed against the closet, barely holding on, and while the two of them were in a stalemate with the monster outside the door, the sound of bubbles exploding in the hole in the ground in the center of the morgue pool appeared again.

　　It wasn’t long before the various residues that had originally seeped into the ground began to tumble upwards, as if something was pushing them from below to climb out of the hole in the ground.

　　”We can’t stay in this house, Brother Wei, let’s enter the secret passage as well!” Li Xu’s proposal was very risky, after all, no one knows what’s on the other side of the secret passage, “Either way, we’re going to die, so we might as well put up another fight! That man went in so decisively just now, I feel like he should know something.”

　　”OK! Let’s do as you say.” Ma Wei picked up the wire on the ground and fixed the cabinet behind the door, being able to drag it for a while is a while.

　　The two finished drilling directly into the middle of the secret passage, they both ran fast, not even considering what dangers will be in front of them.

　　The secret passage was narrow, the two of them were in front of each other, and the distance between Chen Ge and the two of them slowly drew closer.

　　After running out a few meters, they heard the sound of a cabinet being pushed down from outside the secret passage.

　　Both of their hearts fluttered as they ran with all their might deeper into the secret passage.

　　……

　　Chen Ge walked in the secret passage for a long time, and the further in he went, the thicker the “moss” grew, and his coat and body inevitably touched those things.

　　Strangely enough, when the fragrant liquid in the “moss” dripped down onto his skin, his body temperature, which was originally much lower than normal, slowly began to rise, although only for a short moment, but it also made him feel a trace of warmth that he hadn’t felt for a long time.

　　”This is not a good sign.” Chen Ge knew that behind the “moss” were all corpses, and although he had been looking for something that could make his body temperature rise, if it was related to the corpses, then it was better to reconsider.

　　The passageway became even lower, and the deepest part of the passageway was almost completely blocked by “moss”.

　　The white cat drilled straight through, and Chen Ge had no choice but to reach out and push aside the patches of moss that blocked the way.

　　When his fingers touched the wall, there was a human face hidden underneath the reddish moss, their eyes were tightly closed, and Chen Ge walked right in front of their faces.

　　”These corpses should have been preserved by someone using a special method, looking almost as good as when they were alive.” Chen Ge rarely felt uncomfortable, “If they suddenly opened their eyes while I was passing by that would be a lot of fun.”