"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 . "
"Didn't you ask for help through the phone that night?" Chen Ge put down his phone . He was interested in the school's response .
"When I had just woken up, I already talked on the phone with that security guard . I told them that I was still in the morgue, but they didn't send anyone to come find me . I didn't know what was up with them . " From Zhang Li's tone, it sounded like he was still mad about that .
"Then did you discover anything weird when you left, like a big stain of formalin in the corridor or scratch marks on the wall . "
"I waited until 8 am and crawled out when I couldn't hear any movement anymore . My body was pulsing with pain, and there were many bruises . I was in a hurry to escape, so I didn't pay attention to such details . " That was where Zhang Li's story ended . After that, he saw the underground morgue as a banned location, and his personality turned bitter . "I advise you to stay away from that place . But if you insist on going, call people to accompany you and go during the day . " Zhang Li told Chen Ge other things that he had heard about the place .
"The corridor connecting the lab and morgue normally wasn't locked because even if it was, the door would be opened .
"During the previous expansion, the school added seven new morgues, but when people went to retrieve the bodies, they came across an 8th morgue . The morgue was closest to the original morgue, and it doesn't have a number .
"The roads that lead deeper into the morgue have been sealed many times, but no matter what, there is always a problem . I remember one time the school used bricks to seal up the corridor, but only two weeks later, the walls crumbled . When the admin went to check, they found out each brick was reeking with a thick stench of formalin .
"There are many similar legends . The migration of the old campus is related to this as well . I hear Western Jiujiang Medical University is also moving next year September . After that, this campus will be locked down . "
Chen Ge did not expect the school to move . Things were getting quite serious .
"The information that you've given me is very useful . I'll pass it on to the other officers . Also, it would be great if you can give me the map of the underground morgue tomorrow . " Chen Ge planned to leave after that, but when he was at the door, he suddenly remembered something . "Zhang Li, why are you staying at Hai Ming Apartments? I've heard rumors about this place, and it happened in the room just below yours . "
"Some madman committed suicide, I know that . I'm already an old tenant here . " Zhang Li's expression did not change . It appeared to be a mere coincidence that he was staying here .
"Then do you a student by the name of Men Nan who also used to stay here?" Chen Ge asked as an added thought .
"I know, the kid just wanted a cheap bargain and stayed inside the room next to the dead man . The room is cursed . A doctor once stayed there, but he moved away after one night . "
"How did you know he was a doctor?" Chen Ge paused to ask . "Doctors wouldn't wear their white robes outside of the hospital, and he only moved in for one day . No offense, but based on your personality, you wouldn't have gone forward to greet him, I don't think . "
"I've seen him around the campus before, that Doctor Gao . He is rich, so I wondered why he would move to such a dilapidated building . " Zhang Li was confused . "When I went downstairs to purchase cigarettes that night, I saw Doctor Gao standing in the corridor alone, doing God knows what . "
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