Chapter 77: Shock
When they came during the day, they were driven out before they had time to observe carefully. Now Tan Xuan and Xiao Di had the opportunity to take a good look at this morgue. There was only one door in the house, not even a window. The moonlight sprinkled from the top of the head, covering the house with a hazy coat. It was clearly in front of them, but it seemed unreal. The surroundings were quiet, without a sound, as if this yard had been separated from the world of the living, without a trace of human breath.
Tan Xuan didn't stop after landing, and tiptoed to the door of the morgue. Tan Xuan shone the flashlight on the door, and it was still guarded by a padlock, but the padlock here was more attractive, the kind sold at hardware stores on the street for two yuan each.
"Here." Tan Xuan handed the flashlight to Xiao Di.
"What are you doing? Are you trying to pick the lock again?" Xiao Di asked with a frown.
"Nonsense, how can we get in without picking the lock this time?"
Tan Xuan retorted to Xiao Di without even raising his head, then took out a key chain from his pocket, found an ear pick from it and poked it into the keyhole, without even looking directly at the padlock, acting entirely based on his feeling.
"Can you do this?"
Xiao Di expressed doubts about Tan Xuan's abilities. If someone said that Tan Xuan could repair cars, Xiao Di could believe it, since he was an online car-hailing driver and dealt with cars every day. However, if someone said that Tan Xuan was knowledgeable about lock picking, Xiao Di didn't even dare to think about it.
But just as Xiao Di opened his mouth to question, he heard a "click" and saw Tan Xuan slowly straightening up, holding the lock he had just opened in his hand, and waving it in front of him ostentatiously.
"It's open here?" Xiao Di expressed some disbelief.
Tan Xuan snorted and said disdainfully: "What's so difficult about this? If you weren't blocking us horizontally and vertically, we wouldn't have had to climb the wall just now."
Bringing up the embarrassing thing again was a slap in the face, especially since there was some embarrassment when climbing the wall just now. Xiao Di's face turned red instantly. Fortunately, it was not easy to be discovered in the dark, and Tan Xuan did not focus his attention on him.
Xiao Di curled his lips, snorted, and said in a strange voice: "I didn't expect you to have the ability to dig doors and pick locks. I really don't know what you did before."
Tan Xuan glanced back at Xiao Di and said, "Stop talking nonsense. I'm going to open the door and go in. Do you want to go in?"
Xiao Di stood up straight, puffed out his chest, and said unhappily: "What you said is nonsense, why would I come here if I'm not going in? Am I here to keep watch for you?"
"Oh, then you be careful. Just watch when you get inside. Don't talk nonsense and don't touch anything." Tan Xuan changed his playful demeanor and reminded with a serious expression.
"I understand. You'd better hurry up, or people working the early shift will be here soon." Xiao Di urged unhappily. She was tired of being reminded all the time.
Tan Xuan slowly pushed open the door of the morgue. When the door was half open for one person to pass through, he walked in first quietly. Although Xiao Di said it lightly, he also imitated him very well, raising his legs high and stepping lightly, as if he was afraid to disturb the people sleeping inside.
“Ouch!”
Xiao Di didn't expect that Tan Xuan stopped after just two steps, and turned around and fell directly into Tan Xuan's arms.
"Why did you stop?" Xiao Di asked in a low voice. Although she was a little annoyed, she still remained somewhat restrained here.
"Close the door."
Tan Xuan walked back to the door and pushed it closed.
The morgue suddenly became dark. There had been some moonlight originally, but now there was no light at all. It was so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of you.
Xiao Di panicked and whispered, "Tan Xuan!"
Xiao Di's eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw Tan Xuan turning on the flashlight. Then he heard Tan Xuan say unhappily, "Why are you shouting? I'm not leaving. Are you using the flashlight as a rolling pin?"
Xiao Di rarely talked back. He pressed the switch of the flashlight in his hand, and another beam of light appeared in the room.
Although Xiao Di had participated in many police cases, she had only seen dead bodies or victims at the crime scene. This was her first time in the morgue, and the furnishings and layout inside were not what she had imagined. The morgue was not a freezer for corpses, but a room with a table and chairs, and some messy things on the table, which was very messy, making it look like a tool room.
There was a door on the right side of the room, and it was closed. Tan Xuan went over and turned the doorknob. The door was not locked, so it opened easily. Tan Xuan pushed the door open and walked in. Xiao Di followed closely behind Tan Xuan, turning on the flashlight to see the situation in the room at a glance. Tan Xuan turned on the switch on the wall inside the door, making the room bright immediately, and Xiao Di felt a little more secure.
This room is about the same size as the one outside, but there are no tables or chairs in the room. There is only a single-sized wooden bed in the middle of the room. There is a tool table against the wall. There is nothing on the table. It looks very clean, which is in sharp contrast to the room outside.
Xiao Di followed behind Tan Xuan, pursed his nose, poked Tan Xuan's waist, and asked in a low voice: "Hey, do you smell any strange smell in this room?"
"Strange smell?" Tan Xuan shook his head, "No."
"But I seem to smell a very strange smell. It's not a pungent smell, but it smells a bit disgusting." Xiao Di said seriously.
"Hehe..." Tan Xuan snorted and laughed, "The smell you are talking about is not a strange smell, it is the smell of a dead person. People with sensitive constitutions are prone to vomiting when they smell it."
"Dead body smell? Huff..." Xiao Di started to vomit. She just felt nauseous, but now she wanted to vomit after hearing what Tan Xuan said. Fortunately, she didn't eat much in the afternoon, so there was nothing to vomit, otherwise she would be in a complete mess.
Seeing Xiao Di's miserable state, Tan Xuan shook his head helplessly, "If you can't stand it, just go wait outside the house."
After a long dry heave, Xiao Di didn't vomit anything, but it took a while to calm down. Xiao Di held the bed in the room and shook his head, "It's okay, I just feel a little uncomfortable when I first came in, and this room seems to have a heavy yin energy and is a little cold, so I feel a little uncomfortable. Now that I'm here, there's nothing to be afraid of."
Looking at Xiao Di pretending to be strong, Tan Xuan suppressed his laughter and said, "What do you mean by heavy Yin energy? It's cold here because there is a freezer in the room next to it. It would be strange if it wasn't cold here."
"Oh, I see." Xiao Di patted his chest, let out a long breath, and then asked, "Why is there another bed here? The old man on duty won't sleep here, right? He's really brave."
"This bed is not for sleeping on."
"What's that for?"
"The body is kept here. The switches are turned on and off here. If the body died in an ugly way, it will be repaired here and then pushed to the farewell hall in front for the family to pay their respects before cremation."
"Ah!" Xiao Di immediately took his hand away from the bed and quickly stood on the other side of Tan Xuan. He shook his hands with disgust on his face, not knowing where to put them.
Tan Xuan glanced at Xiao Di, took out a pack of wet wipes from his pocket, took out one and handed it to Xiao Di, "Wipe it. That bed may not be that scary, but there are too many dead people lying on it, and no one may clean it properly, so it is inevitable that it is not clean."
"oh."
Xiao Di hurriedly took the wet wipes and wiped her hands carefully, even leaving space between her fingers. She was still not satisfied after wiping once, so she asked Tan Xuan for another wet wipe and continued wiping. She wiped over and over again. If Tan Xuan had not put away the remaining wet wipes, she would have wiped until there was not a single wipe left.
"Put the wipes away, don't leave them here."
"I know."
Without Tan Xuan's warning, Xiao Di also put away all the paper wipes. She didn't know whether what they were doing was illegal, but it would be better not to leave any obvious evidence. Although the purpose of coming here was good, who would believe it if she told others that she was doing this to save people?
When they pushed open the last door, the cold air inside made them shiver. Although the temperature was not freezing, it was cold enough in the house. Especially in Xiao Di's heart, it was even colder than a glass of iced Sprite.
Tan Xuan walked into the house, found the switch inside and turned on the light. The freezer containing the corpse appeared clearly in front of him. The layout of the house was very simple. Except for the door, there were metal freezers on the other three sides. Each side had two layers of drawers, and there were at least dozens of drawers in the whole house.
Xiao Di stood at the door and said timidly: "There are so many cabinets, which one is Wang Dongxue in? How do we find her?"
"How to find it? Just look for it one by one." Tan Xuan walked to the middle of the room and looked around at the freezers on both sides of his body. His expression was serious, and there was no trace of smile on his face.
Tan Xuan took out a cigarette from his pocket, took out a cigarette, lit it, and held it in his hand. Then he raised his fists over his left shoulder and said loudly: "The sky has the sun and the moon, and the world has yin and yang. Dear guests, I am here only to look for an old friend. Please forgive me for disturbing you."
After saying that, Tan Xuan turned around on the spot and then placed the cigarette on the concrete floor.
After the cigarette burned slowly for a while, Tan Xuan walked to the freezer on the side and knocked on the top drawer.
“Dang dang dang .”
Just like knocking on the door, the sound was not loud, nor impatient, but very polite. After knocking on one drawer, Tan Xuan knocked on the next level.
"What are you doing?" Xiao Di asked in confusion as she watched Tan Xuan's actions. She saw Tan Xuan lighting a cigarette and muttering, and thought that he would use some surprising means to find out where Wang Dongxue was. Unexpectedly, Tan Xuan actually "knocked on the door" one by one, and knocked on one door after another, without even pulling out the drawer. This did surprise her, but she was surprised at different things.
Tan Xuan did not answer Xiao Di, but just looked at her coldly, and then continued to knock on the next drawer.
"No, you are sick. How can you tell which one Wang Dongxue is in by knocking like that? Just open it and take a look. They are all dead."
Xiao Di was also annoyed. She had been scared all day, and now it was already this time. How could she tolerate this kind of procrastination? She forgot the fear in her heart and walked straight into the house. She came to the freezer closest to her and reached out to pull the drawer on the top layer.
"stop!"
It was too late for Tan Xuan to stop it, Xiao Di's hand had already grabbed the pull ring.
"Crack"
With a noise, the drawer containing the corpse was pulled down by Xiao Di and fell to the ground with a "clang".
Fortunately, Xiao Di reacted quickly and dodged to the side, barely avoiding being hit by the drawer.
"ah!"
Xiao Di screamed in fright, then patted his chest hard.
"It was too close, it almost hit me, how could this thing be so thick, I didn't even use any strength..."
Seeing that the drawer was empty and nothing was useful, Xiao Di let out a long sigh, stroked his chest and complained a few words, then looked up at Tan Xuan, only to see Tan Xuan looking at him with a grim face.
Xiao Di was startled for a moment, then stamped his feet angrily and yelled to Tan Xuan: "Why are you staring at me? Hurry up and help me put this box back."
Tan Xuan glanced at the half-smoked cigarette butt on the ground, then looked at Xiao Di, and snorted angrily, "It's too late. I'm really looking for trouble. Why did I bring you here? You're really incapable of doing anything but causing trouble."
"Hey, who do you think is more trouble than help?" Xiao Di was very dissatisfied with Tan Xuan's attitude. "I am trying to help you, too. Hurry up and put this back."
As she spoke, Xiao Di no longer cared that the drawer was originally used to hold the body, and she lowered her head to pull it out. However, as soon as she started, she found that the drawer, which was not heavy at first, was now very heavy, and she couldn't pull it. She tried again, but the drawer still lay on the ground without moving.
"Help me!" Xiao Di shouted at Tan Xuan. Tan Xuan did not move, but stood there with his hands behind his back, his expression became more serious, and the anger on his face became more intense.
Xiao Di wanted to shout, but she heard a knock on the door. Xiao Di turned her head and saw that the door was open, no one was knocking, and the sound did not come from that direction.
“Dangdangdang…”
The knocking sounds became more and more frequent and clearer. Xiao Di began to panic because she recognized that the sounds were coming from the refrigerators. And there was more than one place. It seemed that every drawer was making a "dangdang" sound. Moreover, the fluorescent lights in the room also flashed in coordination at this time, flickering on and off in a very inappropriate way.
"ah……"
Xiao Di let out a scream.
