Chapter 418 - Heavier than Living People (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“If the renovation team had all evacuated, who were the people walking in the corridor? I hung up the phone and moved the cement bags to cover my body even more, only exposing my eyes. The footsteps came closer, and I turned my eyes to look. The light was dim, and a blurry shadow walked to stand beside me. The way he moved was weird, like he could not coordinate his limbs. I held my breath and did not dare to move. The man walked around the room and prepared to leave. I edged the cement bag slightly away, and what saw will follow me forever.”

Zhang Li’s lips were purple, and he finally voiced the nightmare that had followed him for so many years. “The man’s face was empty; his whole face had been picked clean.”

The cigarette dust fell on the couch, and Zhang Li’s arms could not stop shaking. “Way before body donor was a thing, the medical university used dead bodies from the penitentiary. After a criminal died from a gunshot, their head would look like that.” Zhang Li had problem continuing.

This time, Chen Ge did not dare force the man. “Why don’t you take a rest? Have some water.”

“It’s fine.” Even though it had been years, thinking back, Zhang Li was still very afraid. He finished the cigarette and continued. “When I saw the criminal, I knew the problem. The people who entered the room and the people in the corridor, they were all dead bodies used for autopsy classes.”

What Zhang Li described was indeed scarier than moving corpses. At the time, there had been a party down in the morgue, and Zhang Li had been the only living human guest. He had survived at that party until morning—no wonder he ended up in this state.

“I really did see it, and I kept it in my heart. I didn’t dare tell anyone, not even my sister.” His pupils danced, and Zhang Li’s frowned creased deeply. His expression was filled with pain. “A few years ago, when the girl who had the argument with my sister disappeared, my sister suspected that she might have wandered into the underground morgue. She planned to expand her search there, but I stopped her firmly. The place was not somewhere a living person should go.”

After sharing the thing that was trapped inside his heart, Zhang Li did feel better. He touched the box of cigarette and realized that he had already finished the whole box.

“Maybe you should stop taking so many cigarettes—it’s not good for your body.” Chen Ge sat in the chair and recorded everything that Zhang Li said on his phone.

“It’s fine. After that night, I no longer cared about these things.” Zhang Li crumbled the paper box, and without the cigarette, he was feeling rather unnerved. “Do you think I have lost my mind? Was I hallucinating that night?”

Chen Ge shook his head. He knew about the danger in the underground morgue. The black phone hinted at a group of people who were in search of immortality.

“Actually, I myself suspect that I was hallucinating that night.”

“Do you still remember how you escaped that night?” Based on what Zhang Li had said, there should be in an insurmountable number of dead bodies.

“When I was hiding underneath the bags of cement, my body felt like it was frozen. I didn’t even dare move an inch. I stayed in that position until 5 am, and the thing in the corridor started to move deeper into the morgue.”