Chapter 120.1: Love Welfare Institute (2/2)

He lifted up Liu Huai, who was sliding down his body due to a lack of energy. Then he quickly walked in. Mu Ke followed closer. In a corner of the first floor, there was a yellow trash can filled with medical waste. It was filled with all types of blood transfusion bags and syringes. There were also very simple child-sized fixed bandage beds, which should be to prevent the children from moving when their blood was drawn.

It appeared that the children who were sent over in the early days had their blood drawn here. Then the corpse and blood drawing equipment were thrown into the medical waste bin together.

Investors who drew the children’s blood weren’t willing to see this cruel process. They allowed the nurses to quickly deal with it in this dirty and small corner for the compassionate investors.

The trash bin had been roughly kicked open by someone. Below it was a square, cellar-like entrance. It wasn’t big. The size of it was around 40 cm by 40 cm. It was basically the size for a child to pass through. Fortunately for Bai Liu, they were all slender and thin right now. They could still pass through this entrance.

There were some messy footprints next to the entrance. This should be left by the Miao Feichi duo. Bai Liu asked Mu Ke to help hold Liu Huai. Then he stepped forward to grab the ring buckle of the door handle. He pulled it and opened the cellar door.

For a while, flying dust, soil debris, the strong smell of blood and the warm and moist smell of fungal decay and fermentation spread. It wasn’t known how long the door boards hadn’t moved and how many people’s blood had fallen on it, revealing the thick, moldy wood underneath.

The dust was like tiny particles that could only be seen by people who almost drowned. It floated around the dark hole.

Bai Liu held his breath. He raised his head and glanced at the nervous Mu Ke. Then he jumped down without hesitation, not giving Mu Ke any chance to stop him.

“I’ll go down first. Wait until I say there are no problems before coming down.”

Mu Ke panicked and looked down.

It didn’t take long to hear Bai Liu’s reverberating voice. “There is no problem. Mu Ke, you put Liu Huai down first. Then you come down by yourself.”

Mu Ke carefully moved the armless Liu Huai. He first transported Liu Huai down. Then he supported his arms on the narrow edge of the hole and went down.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Then Mu Ke let go with his hand. He felt himself slipping through a wet and sticky passage before finally touching the ground. The texture of the ground was very strange. It was soft and swollen and there was the strong bloody smell of mushrooms. It felt like stepping on a mushroom field.

Mu Ke opened his eyes and the sight in front of him made him take a breath.

The four walls of the tunnel were densely packed with various mushrooms. They were colorful, different in size and fluorescent. They were like infected gastric mucosa. They were swollen and seemed like they would explode juices that would corrode a person’s arm.

These mushrooms had blood-red threads mixed inside them, like the blood ganoderma lucidum hyphae growing abnormally. The whole tunnel was filled with the strong smell of secretions and fermented products. It smelled like mushrooms soaked in inferior wine for 20 years. It made people dizzy and want to vomit.

Liu Huai and Mu Ke both showed slight vomiting reflexes. Only Bai Liu was slightly better.

Mu Ke retched and covered his mouth. “Why are there so many mushrooms growing here?”

“It is damp and dark. In addition, this path has corpses discarded. The humus is very suitable for the growth of mushrooms.” Bai Liu walked forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The soft and moist mushrooms didn’t go past his ankle. He looked around the tunnel. “If I’m not mistaken, they are inferior blood ganoderma lucidum that were bred from those who weren’t wanted by investors and dumped here.”

“Inferior blood ganoderma lucidum? Isn’t this thing treasured?!”

“It is the blood ganoderma lucidum grown from the blood of ‘pure’ children that is cherished.” Bai Liu’s eyes glanced over a slightly pulsating blood ganoderma lucidum on the wall that was around the size of a heart. “Our current timeline is 10 years ago. This group of investors hasn’t perfected their child screening mechanism or it is in the early/mid-stage of screening. Failure will inevitably occur in this process. The failed product might be ineffective or toxic. It can’t be used by the investors so it was thrown here.”

Bai Liu looked toward the other end of the tunnel. “If I’m not mistaken, this tunnel should be the location of the ‘buried on Sunday’ part of the song.”

The tunnel was like a corridor growing and proliferating inward that carried a strange vitality. Along with Bai Liu’s breathing, it slightly stretched and closed. A closer look showed that it was these blood ganoderma lucidum beating slowly. There were also the bodies of the deformed children lying on the ground with their eyes open, phones scattered by their hands.

Bai Liu came forward to pick up a phone. The system notified him that it was unusable due to the owner’s death and loss of energy.

Many of these deformed children were cut into incomplete chunks by Miao Feichi’s double knives and scattered among the mushrooms.

Some mushrooms on the ground were cut or trampled. Bai Liu looked down at the trampled traces. “Go, they are already inside. We have to hurry up.”

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