Chapter 0443 – Wei Jiuqing

　　Chen Ge did not expect the old man to make records in this way, the fact that the other party could still do these things when his veins were crawling up his body and he was in extreme pain showed that this person’s willpower was extremely strong and far beyond normal people.

　　”Old man, you dug out this wound yourself, you can compare it to your own fingernails. Just a moment ago I saw with my own eyes that you dug it out with the index and middle fingers of your other hand.”

　　”I dug it out myself? But how come I don’t remember any of this?”

　　While the two were conversing, the sound of ragged breathing came from the corridor, and the monster with its face gouged out came over.

　　The horrible face was pressed against the window of the fourth storage room, its line of sight was blocked by the shelves filled with specimens, after the couldn’t see the scene inside the room, it seemed to be preparing to come in.

　　The door of the room trembled, the creature’s strength was great.

　　”Stay where you are.” The old man lowered his sleeves and stepped out from inside the shelves, he walked straight to the door and opened the door of the room.

　　The huge monster pieced together by the mutilated corpses poked its head into the room, it had no face, its cranial cavity was clean and dry, and it was unknown how it sensed the outside world.

　　”Who let you in?” The old man’s voice was stern.

　　In terms of height and size, he was only half the size of that monster, but in terms of aura, the two sides were not even on the same level.

　　The old man’s eyes had a sharp gaze, and after he realized that the monster didn’t leave, he raised his arm to stop in front of the monster, “This isn’t the place for you to come, get out!”

　　Hiding behind the shelves, Chen Ge also felt that the scene in front of him was a bit unbelievable, the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, but it felt like the aura was just the opposite.

　　”The world in the old man’s eyes is different from what I see, maybe in his eyes, the one who came in is just an unsuspecting ordinary person.”

　　The monster was blocked by the old man in the doorway, it seemed to have sensed Chen Ge, a slit split open in its stomach, and its wide palms dragged a rope full of blood stains from behind it.

　　The smell and stench of blood emanated out, and the monster bared its fangs, but at this time, the old man not only didn’t back down, but also took another step forward.

　　He chortled at the monster, his voice getting louder and louder.

　　The two sides were frozen in the doorway for a while, the monster’s stomach split open and let out a sound similar to a gasp, it was furious to the extreme, but there was nothing it could do about it, and it finally left in a very unwilling manner.

　　Waiting for the monster to disappear at the end of the corridor, only then did the old man close the door and return inside the shelves, lifting the clothes off his arms, “Let’s continue the topic just now, you saw me digging and injuring myself with your own eyes, but why do I have no impression at all.”

　　”Master, you don’t have a single memory in your mind about wounds, veins, or death?”

　　”It seems like I’ve been having the same nightmare lately, when I close my eyes, a lot of veins will wrap around my body, I desperately struggle against it, but I’ll still be dragged into the darkness by those veins, and then I’ll wake up after that.” The old man touched the wounds on his arms, “When did these wounds stay, I don’t remember at all.”

　　Chen Ge told the old man everything that had just happened, but only halfway through, the organs on the walls began to beat frantically, and rough gasping sounds resounded in the corridor outside, so he had no choice but to stop.

　　”It’s better to wait a little longer, now that we don’t have the strength to defend ourselves, it’s useless to tell you.” Chen Ge could sort of see that as soon as the old man recalled something important, the blood-colored world behind the door would forcefully take control of him, and the monsters that had been roaming the corridor would come over.

　　Having muddled through this time, Chen Ge didn’t think he would still be so lucky next time.

　　It was more important to break the blood membrane than to make the old man remember everything.

　　”Old man, is there anything else you need my help with?”

　　Chen Ge suddenly opened his mouth, and the old man couldn’t figure out the situation, he pondered for a long time before his eyes gazed at Chen Ge, “I want you to take me to Corpse Vault No. 8.”

　　”Corpse Vault number eight?” Chen Ge didn’t expect the old man to make such a request, “That Corpse Vault is sealed off, what are you doing there?”

　　”I don’t know, but I feel that something important to me is locked up in there, maybe I went in before and forgot something in there.”

　　”Do you have to go inside Corpse Vault 8 to do that?” It would take time to unlock the door, and in the process of opening the door it would probably attract more than one monster, and then one’s situation could be dangerous.

　　”Yes.” The old man nodded, he was stubborn and recognized that he only needed Chen Ge to do this one thing for him.

　　Entering the 8th Corpse Vault was dangerous, but Chen Ge couldn’t find any other “people” in a short period of time, and he now felt that the Scarlet World had begun to notice him, and the situation might become even more unfavorable for him if he dragged on.

　　”Staying amongst the blood mist of the world behind the door, the blood film on the surface of your skin will continue to thicken, and there are two other unlucky people in the room in the core area, if I delay for too long on my side, I’m afraid that the two of them will directly suffocate and die.”

　　Chen Ge finally nodded, “Alright, I’ll take you to the eighth storage room.”

　　Getting Chen Ge’s affirmative reply, the old man’s expression soothed a lot, he couldn’t help but look at Chen Ge with a trace of appreciation in his gaze, he himself didn’t know why, he just felt that looking at this kid was particularly easy on the eyes.

　　In fact, the old man would have such an illusion just because Chen Ge was an outsider, he was completely different from those monsters inside the door, the old man felt a trace of rare humanity from him.

　　If Li Xu and Ma Wei were to come over instead, the old man would probably feel that those two were a bit more cordial.

　　”The key to the eighth storage room should be in the principal’s office, it’s more difficult to get over there, I know a road leading there, of which the nearest one has more security guards, and there’s another one that is traveled by very few people, but ……”

　　”It doesn’t need to be that troublesome, opening the door doesn’t necessarily require a key.” Chen Ge felt that he just wanted to break the blood membrane and fulfill the old man’s wish, he didn’t want to get into that much trouble, “Just follow me directly to Corpse Warehouse No. 8.”

　　Chen Ge walked to the door, the old man reminded him again without worry: “Every time I leave this room, a very bad premonition will appear in my heart, I don’t know why, so you’ll pay more attention later. There is also another point, we absolutely cannot be seen by others.”

　　The old man seemed to have had the experience of sneaking away before, he could no longer remember exactly what had happened at that time, he just had a vague impression.

　　”Don’t worry, I’m here.” There was only a thin layer of blood membrane left on Chen Ge’s body, and after completing the old man’s wish, he should be able to gain complete recognition, and then he would no longer need to hide.

　　Opening the door, Chen Ge stepped out of the house, nothing had changed in the passageway when he came out.

　　But when the old man stepped out of the door, the entire passageway shook slightly, and the frequency of those organs contracting on the walls became significantly faster.

　　”Don’t delay, go straight through! Hurry up!”

　　The peripheral area of the underground corpse vault had a complicated terrain that connected many buildings, and Chen Ge was glad that he had memorized the map on his cell phone’s photo before he came in.

　　Holding the skull crushing hammer, Chen Ge lightly walked towards the eighth corpse vault, while the old man followed him with a firm gaze in his eyes.

　　After the old man left the room, the Scarlet World had clearly changed, if before it was the calm before the storm, now the prelude to the storm had arrived.

　　There was no turning back, and there was no other choice, Chen Ge led the old man through the passageway quickly.

　　He was ready to charge through no matter who was blocking him!

　　A strange odor drifted out from the walls, the blood flow among the veins above his head became faster again, and those morgue cabinets in the corpse storage on both sides made banging sounds, as if those blood vessels that seemed like pythons were feeling hungry again.

　　After turning a few corners, Chen Ge heard footsteps coming from the front, he gripped the skull crushing hammer tightly, not only did he not slow down, but also ran faster and faster.

　　The person on the other side of the corridor seemed to have heard his footsteps as well, the other party was instead less bold and decisively stopped.

　　Turning the corner, Chen Ge saw two “logisticians” with bodies that looked like mud repairing the passageway, pushing a cart with mutilated corpses inside.

　　They patiently put the corpses into the cracks in the walls, and then sewed the walls together with red blood.

　　The two monsters were working seriously and did not take it to heart when they saw Chen Ge coming over, until they saw the old man and then revealed a ghostly expression and looked nervous.

　　”Discovered.”

　　Chen Ge carried his skull crushing hammer and was ready to go over to silence them, but was stopped by the old man, “Don’t bother with them, these guys are very timid, if you hurt them, the security guards will come over right away, but if you don’t care about them, they won’t have the guts to ventilate them.”

　　The old man finished staring at the two monsters, the two monsters were very sensible and turned around, just as if they couldn’t see Chen Ge and the old man, and continued to start working.

　　”I’ve dealt with them more, so I understand them better.”

　　Chen Ge could already tell that those monsters were a bit afraid of the old man: “Your old man is also a tough guy.”

　　”I can’t talk about it, let’s go to the No. 8 Corpse Warehouse first, we’ll talk again when we get there.”

　　The atmosphere in the passageway became more and more depressing, and those organs on the walls had already started to ooze blood, the situation was not optimistic.

　　Turning a few corners, Chen Ge and the old man only took a few minutes to run to the entrance of the number eight vault.

　　At this time, the walls, the floor, and the veins above their heads in the passageway had all started to ooze blood outwards, and the blood mist around them had also gotten much thicker.

　　”The door is locked, how can I open it without a key?” The old man stood in the middle of the blood mist, he had felt a great pain in his head ever since he left that room, as if something was trying to break through some kind of restriction to drill out.

　　”Leave it to me.”

　　There was no turning back now, Chen Ge’s eyes were fixed on the lock on the door, and he raised the Cranium Shattering Hammer high!

　　”Boom!”

　　The door of the room trembled, and the organs on the wall next to it shook out blood.

　　”It’s still sturdy.” Chen Ge gritted his teeth and swung the hammer playfully as he aimed at the place where the door shaft wall was combined.

　　He had started out with the intention of smashing the door, and he had this impulse the first time he passed by.

　　In fact, even if this door was very strong, Chen Ge wasn’t afraid, the big deal was that he would smash the wall next to it together, no matter what, he could always find a way to enter.

　　As Chen Ge continued to smash, there was a constant stream of blood crawling out of the blood trough, making it even more hideous to look at.

　　After a dozen or so consecutive swings, Chen Ge realized that the blood filaments were not only decorative, but also seemed to have other special effects, and it seemed that it was because of those blood filaments that the skull crushing hammer was able to cause great damage to the items in the blood-colored world behind the door.

　　Chen Ge himself didn’t know how many smashes he had made, the commotion was too great, and it was completely different from the old man’s previous plan as well.

　　He was still thinking of having Chen Ge steal the key and then quietly come over and open the door to find the item that was important to him.

　　But Chen Ge’s style of doing things was completely out of the ordinary, probably even the “principal” hidden deep in the underground corpse vault would never have imagined that someone would dare to be so crazy.

　　The door trembled, the chain above it rattled, the lock was already loose, and what was even more terrifying was that the wall next to the lock was about to be smashed through by Chen Ge.

　　Gasps came from both ends of the corridor, and some “security guards” came over.

　　”Is it done?” The old man was watching from the back with his heart pounding, his admiration for Chen Ge just a moment ago now transformed into a very subtle emotion.

　　”Immediately!” Chen Ge clenched his teeth, took a few steps back, and with the strength of his body, he swung the hammer and slammed it!

　　”Boom!”

　　The door of warehouse number eight slammed heavily against the wall, and the head of the hammer went unabated, smashing into the edge of the wall and rubbing off a large chunk of dirt.

　　The locked door was smashed open by Chen Ge, and at this time, those “security guards” on both sides of the corridor with their faces hollowed out also ran over.

　　They were tall, made up of countless corpses, carrying grudges and pain, their stomachs cracked open, and their arms kept reaching out.

　　”Quickly come in!”

　　Chen Ge and the old man entered the eighth storage room together, the old man’s wish had been realized, and the blood film on the surface of Chen Ge’s body was slowly thinning.

　　He closed the door to the room and held the skull crushing hammer against the door panel with his back, “I hope I can drag it out until the blood film disappears ……”

　　Chen Ge originally didn’t care about this storehouse number eight, but when he looked up, his entire body froze.

　　There was a slight difference between the construction of the eighth storage room in the world inside the gate and the real world, and there was an additional special container made of blood and flesh in the eighth storage room in the world inside the gate, in which a man around forty years old and wearing a white lab coat was imprisoned.

　　”Dr. Chen?!”

　　This man imprisoned in the container was none other than Dr. Chen of the Nine Rivers Children’s Welfare Institute, who seemed to be the one who drove away No. 10 of the Weird Tales Association in the final moments of the Living Coffin Village Trial Mission.

　　”How did he get here? Could it be that he lost the fight?”

　　As Chen Ge pondered, the door of the room behind him was pounded, and a single bloodied arm reached in through the doorway.

　　Those two monsters with their faces and skulls gouged out came over!

　　”Old master, have you found what you lost? I can’t hold out much longer!” Chen Ge still had the last thin layer of blood film on his arm, and he couldn’t get rid of it.

　　He had already opened was to call out the ghost’s name, but he just couldn’t get a response.

　　”Take it easy.” The old man walked past the front of one of the empty glass containers, finally stopping in front of the one that contained his own body in the real world, his palm pressed against the glass, his eyes looking at a paragraph of introduction in front of the container.

　　”Wei Jiuqing, professor of the Jiujiang School of Forensic Medicine, founded the Jiujiang Life Science Institute during his lifetime, and after suffering from lung cancer at the age of 73, he made a will to donate his body for medical teaching purposes.”

　　He looked at the line on the container and countless memories exploded in his mind.

　　There were about his life, his research, and the final image was framed when his body was about to fail.

　　In the middle of his hospital room, he was about to donate his body to the school, when his children were blocking it, and in his weakened state, he took his pen and said his last words.

　　”I’d rather they make a thousand wrong cuts on me than a single wrong cut on a patient.”