Chapter 427 - It Was Hiding Inside the Hole (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“Brother Wei, is the hole stuck? How come it feels like it’s sinking slower than usual this time?” Li Jiu resisted his discomfort and glanced at the cadaver pool.

“There’s probably something stuck down there.” Brother Wei frowned while holding the buckets. He was getting agitated. They needed to leave the place as soon as possible, but weird things kept happening. “Go and look for items like brooms and sticks.”

“Brother, we’re in a morgue—where am I supposed to find a broom?”

“Then, are you suggesting we just leave it like this? If the university finds out, a fine is one thing, but we’ll definitely lose our jobs. They are very particular about the cadavers.” Brother Wei was not in a good mood. He waved his hands to fling the remains stuck to his plastic gloves away. “Don’t just stand there, go!”

Brother Wei was wearing a white coat, gloves, and a mask, but he only had a pair of sneakers on. He lowered his head to take a look, and he felt like his sneakers were soaked with something—it felt uncomfortable. After he was yelled at, Li Jiu had no choice but to go look around the room with a flashlight. He eventually walked to a wooden closet that was placed in a corner. He opened the closet, and it was filled with several large rusted metal hooks that had long chains attached to them.

“What are these for?” Li Jiu did not want to venture out of the room, so he took out one of the hooks. “Brother Wei, can this work?”

Brother Wei did not want to waste time either, so he accepted the hook from Li Jiu. The hook was large, but the end was not sharp. However, it was very heavy. If he dropped it into the pool, it would probably sink immediately. “I guess it’ll have to do.”

There was a hole that was larger than a normal man’s shoulders in the pool, and Brother Wei had no idea what it was for. Brother Wei lowered the hook toward the hole, and the hook was slowly submerging into the hole. Blocked by the floating substance, Brother Wei could not see into the hole. He stood by there and gripped the chains that were attached to the end of the hook.

“Why hasn’t it reached the end yet?” The hole was much deeper than he thought. “Who would dig such a deep hole at the bottom of the pool? Could it be the dead bodies?” If he had been anywhere but standing in a cadaver pool, he would have laughed.

“Just how deep is this hole?” When they were there the previous times, they just wanted to get things done, so he had really not considered that question before. To make sure the hook could continue to sink, Brother Wei squatted down. When there was about a quarter of the chain left, the hook finally hit something. Brother Wei grabbed the chain by both hands and pulled. He was shocked to discover that the hook was stuck.

“There was nothing in the way when it was sinking though, did it get caught on something? Maybe the thing that was clogging up the hole?” He pulled harder. Brother Wei was known for one thing—at the crematorium, he was the strongest. Brother Wei pulled like his life depended on it. The chain slowly pulled back, and it felt like the thing that was stuck on the end of the hook was especially heavy.

It looked like Brother Wei was fishing, but what could he possibly catch in a cadaver pool? Brother Wei had not considered that question. Half of his face was red, and even through the thick mask, one could hear him catching his breath. The chain was pulled out slowly, and it was covered with various indeterminate substances that gave it a creepy feeling.

“Come and help!” Brother Wei had pulling halfway through it when he suddenly realized that things were off. Earlier, when the hook stuck on something, it had been hard to pull, but at least the chain was still moving upwards. However, as he pulled, he noticed a resisting force from the other end. It felt like something was hiding inside the hole pulling back!