Chapter 16
“Ding Dong——”
The mechanical cable creaked, and the elevator steadily stopped at the third basement level. With a clatter, the thick metal door panel opened.
In the next second, the youth wearing a white T-shirt with an indifferent expression walked out of the elevator.
The corridor leading to the morgue was cold and damp, and perhaps because it was too far from the ground, an air of coldness ran straight from the soles of his feet to his brain. Lian Xi walked forward expressionlessly, his monotonous footsteps echoing in the empty corridor.
He walked forward step by step, and finally, he walked to the two spacious, whitened doors.
Lian Xi raised his head.
On each side of the gates, there were four large black letters on a white background.
Left: ‘Restrain your grief, accept fate.’ (condolence phrase).
Right: (The deceased) Rest in Peace.
Standing in front of the gate, the handsome and beautiful youth slightly narrowed his eyes. Then, he raised his hand and pushed open the door.
Crash!
It was as if the door hadn’t been pushed open for a long time, aged and obsolete, and made a creaking sound when pushed. As soon as the door opened, the dim light inside caused people to subconsciously squint their eyes in order to see clearly. However, the door had only just opened a crack when Lian Xi abruptly pursed his lips as he quickly stretched out his left hand.
The bell on his wrist was automatically moved even without wind.
“Buzz!”
Lian Xi reached out and grabbed the small black insect that scuttled in front of him.
After the bug was caught in his palm, it struggled twice and then suddenly lost its voice. Lian Xi frowned and threw the bug to the ground, stomping it thoroughly with his foot.
He raised his head and walked into the morgue.
The morgue had two rooms, connected in the center.
The first room was for storing the clothes and other personal items with large and small cabinets containing different kinds of clothes and dying relics.
There is only one person in life, and they do not become companions when they die.
You come naked and go naked, and you can’t take a penny with you.
Walking to the next room, I was greeted by extremely cold and chilly air.
The freezer exudes an eerie chill, and the appliances roar and buzz.
Not knowing if it was a coincidence or an accident, but there wasn’t a single doctor on duty in the morgue today. Lian Xi gazed at the rows and rows of freezers, he bowed slightly before taking a step into the room.
Walking to the first freezer first, Lian Xi took a deep breath, suddenly grabbed the handle and pulled it open with force.
Clatter!
There was no one.
Closing the freezer, he walked to the second freezer.
There was no one in three freezers in a row until he pulled open the fourth one.
It appeared to be a middle-aged man who had died unexpectedly, his head nearly split in half, possibly hit by a car or lost his footing from a height.
After pulling six freezers, two had bodies in them.
By the seventh freezer, Lian Xi pulled one open.
His gaze gradually froze.
Lian Xi lowered his head and looked at the silent female corpse lying in the freezer.
The long white cloth covered her naked body, frozen for a long time, so that her lips were bluish in color, and a light white frost stained her cheeks and eyelashes. Her eyes were closed and she slept calmly. It looked no different from the bodies in the first few freezers, yet Lian Xi knew…
It was these eyes that had just stared at him in the elevator without blinking.
It was these lips that asked him a question!
A coolness rose steeply at his back, Lian Xi pursed his lips tightly, he hesitated for a moment and reached out to the nose of this female corpse.
After a minute …
She has no breath.
The woman’s hee hee hee hee laughter seemed to echo continuously in the morgue.
Lian Xi’s complexion was unchanged, he was about to push this freezer back, suddenly, with a flinty gaze, Lian Xi reached out and grabbed a tiny black bug that had burrowed out of the female corpse’s ear.
The strangling bug, Lian Xi flattened his palm and observed it for a moment, not realizing that there was any difference between this bug and ordinary black bugs.
It was not right!
Lian Xi immediately pulled open the entire freezer.
At this time, he did not care about the difference between men and women, Lian Xi lifted the white cloth.
The naked body of a woman appeared in front of her.
This female body should have died of disease, and the body was very complete and clean. But Lian Xi scrutinized it carefully and slowly frowned.
He reached out and pressed on the female corpse’s belly.
Pressing hard–
This small abdomen was actually like a piece of paper, and with a snap, it was pressed all the way down, tightly connected to the skin of the back!
… Where are her organs?
Lian Xi checked again for a long time.
“Her internal organs are gone.”
Suddenly fraudulent corpses, strange and treacherous little black bugs, and mysteriously disappeared internal organs….
Lian Xi thought for a moment, took a piece of paper and wrapped the black bugs up, casually putting them into his pocket.
Lian Xi tidied up the corpse’s grooming, closed the door of the freezer, and slightly half bowed, before he raised his steps and walked out. When he was almost out of the freezer, he saw a half-used mop and a tattered cleaner’s clothes in the corner of the morgue.
His eyes lingered on the mop and the clothes for a long time, Lian Xi pushed open the door of the morgue with big strides and walked out.
In the corridor, he collided head-on with an elderly couple and a doctor in a white coat.
The old couple held each other and cried their hearts out.
“Doctor, why is this so sudden, sudden.. gone. How can it be ah! Impossible ah!”
“We were still getting vegetables in the field in the morning, wasn’t she just fine last night…”
Doctor: “Condolences, go this way.”
When he brushed past Lian Xi, the doctor looked at him one more time, said strangely in his heart, ‘Which family member is this?’ and withdrew his eyes.
As Lian Xi walked to the elevator entrance, behind him came the howling of the husband and wife in the morgue.
“Lin Lin ah!”
“My Lin Lin eh! You let us to see the child die before oneself, how can you let us live!!!”
With a ding-dong sound, the elevator arrived and Lian Xi walked in.
Su City Park Hospital, in front of the outpatient department.
An old beggar dressed in rags, his face yellow and black, he staggered out from the small door on the side of the outpatient hall.
He seemed to be drunk, walking two steps and swaying, staggering, the people around him saw from afar, and each of them disliked him and ran away from him.
But there were still people who didn’t notice him.
A pair of young men and women got out of the cab and ran quickly into the hospital gate.
The flat-headed young man walking in front impatiently turned back to greet his girlfriend: “Can you hurry up? If you want to see a doctor, I’ll take time off work to accompany you, but if you’re taking so long, can I still be able to go to work in the afternoon?”
Dyed with blonde hair girl and lip studs, got out of the car, and when she heard her boyfriend’s words, she immediately became angry and sneered, “You call this a fucking doctor’s appointment? I’m here to check if I’m carrying your seed?!”
“Laozi, everyday, wear a condom well…” He said it like this, but all of a sudden the momentum disappeared, the young man deflated, and honestly assisted his girlfriend’s hand.
Two people did not pay attention or be careful, and this old beggar ran into each other.
Old beggar: “Aiyoo (Ouch!) !”
The young man stared straight: “What are you doing! Are you blind or something? How can this hospital have many kinds of people, they even let the beggar in?”
Hearing this, the old beggar raised his head, a pair of yellow dark eyes, staring straight at the young man.
The little youth swallowed his saliva: “What are you looking at?!”
Girlfriend beside inexplicably felt chills in her heart. She looked at the old beggar blackened teeth and nails in the dirt, pulling her boyfriend: “Forget it, don’t bother with him, let’s go.”
Two young people ran together into the hospital outpatient hall, far away, and can still hear their quarrel.
“That stink beggar, fuck, stared at me. Just now, did you not see it ah?”
“Okay. Can you give your son some virtue? Argue with that old thing, you don’t think it’s too dirty ah.”
Under the brilliant sunlight, the old beggar looked at the pair of youngsters’ distant backs with false eyes. He hemmed and hawed, scratched his greasy, sticky hair on his scalp, and gently picked at it. A small black insect, invisible to the naked eye, flew out of his hair and, with a whoosh, burrowed into the woman’s cochlea.
“Ouch, what is it? It bit me.”
“Mosquitoes, right? The hospital’s garbage makes so much green, all mosquitoes.”
The old beggar opened a mouthful of dirty black teeth, and took another step towards the hospital gate. When he stepped out of the gate, the hospital morgue, Lian Xi just happened to enter the door, his foot flattened a small insect.
The old beggar’s footsteps paused, cackled a few times, muttered, “This little guy really has something”, and then wobbled away from the hospital.
Nine o’clock in the morning, the park hospital.
The crowd is like a tidal wave.
***
As soon as Su Jiao opened his eyes in the morning, he pushed open the door, lazily called out “Lian Xi”, and his gaze brushed against a man in black.
Lord Hei Wu Chang swept him lightly.
The short roommate shivered, grasped the wall and rolled back to his room, crying and calling Lian Xi: “Lian Xi, where are you? Why haven’t you come back yet?”
Lian Xi just came out from the hospital: “I’ll be right back, what’s wrong? You don’t bring breakfast, it’s almost noon, you order takeout yourself.”
Su Jiao: “Am I the kind of person who calls you and brings you breakfast?”
Lian Xi: “Oh generous.”
Su Jiao: “…”
Su Jiao: “Since when are you coming back? As soon as I opened the door, I was scared to death. That Black Impermanence, he was standing in the living room of our house!”
In his heart, a sentence quickly flashed, “What do you mean our living room? This is the landlord’s living room?”, then Lian Xi said: “You help me to greet the Excellency Hei Wu Chang, do not neglect him.”
Su Jiao: “？？？”
“Why are you suddenly so kind and generous. Do you and him know each other?”
Lian Xi: “I don’t know them. Be kind, he is official; when you die, you may have to look up to them.”
“You’re the one who died, your whole family died!”
Lian Xi: “My whole family did die to the point that I’m the only one left.”
“….”
Hanging up the phone, Lian Xi got into a cab.
He didn’t have time to care about his short roommate’s death.
People’s golden light big brother is the Black Impermanence, not a life-supporting ghost, and you’re not dead, why do they care about you?
They are afraid that they won’t even bother to give you even a glance from the corner of their eyes.
And in fact, Lian Xi also guessed right. Su Jiao did enough psychological preparation, it is not easy to drum up the courage to walk out of the room, who expected …
“F*ck? Where is the person?”
The handsome and indifferent man in black stood in front of the elevator with his hands in his pockets, his eyelids hitching together diffidently, idly surveying the large metal lump that went up and down, shuttling constantly.
An intense blackness brewed and diffused in the man’s pupils, and the thick walls were as nothing in his eyes at the moment.
His line of sight penetrated through the walls, and he saw that there were constantly people wearing yellow and blue clothes who walked into this iron lump from the first floor, ran to a certain floor, knocked on the door to deliver something, and then rode down and left in this iron lump again.
Just like that, I watched for ten minutes.
Lord Hei Wu Chang felt that he had figured out the doorway.
He pressed the elevator button and stepped inside.
It didn’t take more than a few seconds.
Ding-dong!
The elevator arrived at the first floor.
…… ooh.
With a slight movement of his eyes, without stepping out of the elevator, Chief Lie calmly stretched out his finger and pressed the button for the “9th” floor like a gift. Just as the elevator door was about to close, a young and cheerful voice came from outside.
“Eh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, the brother inside please help push the elevator!”
Of course, chief Lie didn’t care.
But the young guy still caught up.
He was seen rushing into the elevator with soybean milk in his left hand and a bag of doughnuts in his right hand, in a hurry. He quietly looked at the man, thinking that this person is really heartless, not even a little help. Then he took a look at the elevator button …
“Uh, you’re on the ninth floor too?”
The man lowered his eyes, looked at him fixedly for a few seconds, then hooked his lips and didn’t say anything.
Young little guy: “….”
Fuck, quite frightening!
Young little guy: “I’m also on the ninth floor. There’s only two families on each floor, we should be across the hall, are you new to the neighborhood? I know your roommate pretty well.”
Chief Lie always looks at him, like a smile yet not a smile.
Young guy: “….”
What’s wrong with this guy!
The elevator dings to the ninth floor and the young guy walks out of the elevator door speechlessly.
Su Jiao happened to open the door and saw chief Lie and the young guy across the street.
Seeing this all dressed in black Hei Wu Chang, Su Jiao’s scalp went numb, turned around and wanted to run into the house, but then remembered what Lian Xi said.
Right, when he dies, he will still have to rely on this Black Impermanence!
Alas, bureaucracy does great harm; causes a serious (or unpleasant) consequence!
Su Jiao hardened his head, “That, since you’re back. Do you want to come in?”
“Not in hurry.”
A low magnetic voice slowly sounded, only to see the man in black finally take a step and walk out of the elevator.
However, he did not walk towards his own door.
Instead, he took a step and walked to the young guy who was carrying a large pile of breakfast while opening the door.
The young little guy turned back, “Eh … do you have something else?”
Lie Chen smiled. His voice was calm and emotionless, “Um——”
“You should reincarnate.”
Can’t Save the World by Pretending to be Dead Chapter 16
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