See the Law of Deception

Chapter 64 Wang's Funeral Home (4)

The two men moved the body to the dressing room, preparing to give it cosmetic treatment.

Although I had not studied it systematically before, the young man had just given me a brief explanation.

Inside the platform, they don't need any particularly sophisticated skills; they just need to perform the corresponding actions.

The two men picked up their tools, still pondering how to "repair" the corpse. But when the white sheet was lifted, even though they were mentally prepared to face the body directly, they couldn't help but gasp when they saw the corpse for the first time.

"This is..." Xiao Ping felt a chill run down his spine as he looked at the corpse in front of him. He couldn't help but ask, but after uttering two words, he didn't know how to continue describing it.

Under the white sheet, a female corpse lay flat on the transport vehicle. She was wearing clothes, but the two could not see the color of the clothes at all, because her whole body seemed to have been soaked in blood for a long time before being taken out. Her skin and clothes were completely covered with thick, dark red blood that had already congealed.

Her eyes were open, staring straight up. Her already dilated pupils radiated a strong sense of foreboding. When someone lifted the white cloth, those eyes would stare intently at the person who lifted it!

Her skin was already rotting, and thick liquid mixed with congealed blood scabs slowly trickled down her cheeks.

There was only a faint smell when the white sheet was on, but when the sheet was lifted, a strong stench followed, as if this was not a body that had just been brought in today, but a corpse that had been dead for many days and had already begun to fester!

"This isn't right!"

Xiao Ping couldn't help but gag, and suddenly took two steps back, not daring to look anymore.

When he mustered his strength to look up, he saw that Lu Jinzhao neither covered his mouth and nose nor stepped back, but stared straight at the body.

The young girl frowned slightly, revealing her distress, but she remained unmoved, unlike herself.
How did she do it?
Xiao Ping felt a surge of admiration. Looking at Lu Jinzhao's calm demeanor, he asked, "Did you notice anything?"

Lu Jinzhao's gaze had already swept over the body several times. She nodded, first picking up the white cloth to cover the body again, and then answered, "First of all, this body certainly didn't die in the last few days."

"It wasn't sent from the hospital either."

The perceived temperature inside the platform wasn't high, so it would have taken some time for the body to decompose to this extent.

Hospitals have cold storage facilities and wouldn't be so inhumane.

"The people who brought the body may not have been family members either."

"Judging from the marks, this body was most likely strangled by something and suffocated to death before its death."

Although the blood scabs covered most of the marks, Lu Jinzhao still managed to spot traces from the corpse's neck.

The body was not taken to the hospital for treatment and was only brought here after it had decomposed. The person who brought it here only made a sound of crying, but never showed up.

As Xiao Ping listened to Lu Jinzhao's gentle, soothing voice, a chill ran down his spine.

"This was just delivered... Could it be the murderer who killed her?!"

"I don't know." Lu Jinzhao shook his head.

Whether it is true or not is not important to the progress of the mission, so she does not intend to investigate.

"But how are we supposed to put on makeup with the body like this?" Xiao Ping was a little worried.

The decay was so severe that the skin would peel off with the slightest touch, making it impossible to even change clothes.

“Actually, the point isn’t the makeup.” Lu Jinzhao’s gaze fell on the bell placed to the side: “That person only said that the bell must be tied to the ankle of the deceased.”

"That's right." Xiao Ping slapped his forehead: "As long as the family members don't cause trouble, we've done our job well."

"The person who brought her here won't even show his face, so no one will say anything if we just burn it."

"We're only staying here for three days. If nothing goes wrong in those three days, we just hope we don't get fired."

That's why they have to follow the procedures; they need this "job." Xiao Ping picked up the bell: "That person only said to remember to bring the bell. As long as we bring the bell, we should be fine, right?"

As he spoke, he lifted the white cloth covering the body's feet, and even though it was just the feet, they still looked disgusting and horrifying.

Xiao Ping endured it for a while before reaching out to tie the bell. In the process, he inevitably got some unknown liquid on his skin, and he felt like gagging again.

"Alright, alright, let's hurry up and get it to the cold storage!"

Lu Jinzhao glanced at the bell on the woman's foot, then nodded: "Would you like to wash your hands first?"

"Yes, yes! Wait for me!" Xiao Ping said, and then quickly ran to the sink.

After washing their hands, the two pushed the transfer cart to the cold storage.

After seeing the body, Xiao Ping was much more nervous pushing the transport vehicle than before, and his gaze even intentionally or unintentionally avoided the body covered with a white sheet on the vehicle.

Two colleagues on the night shift, familiar with the night shift route, saw the two of them and the transfer vehicle and quickly came over, asking, "Is this today's?"

"how do you feel?"

Xiao Ping nodded first, then shook his head: "It's from today, I don't feel very good."

"The bell is tied on. Hopefully, nothing will happen tonight."

There's something fishy about the female corpse. In most horror movies and novels, something bad is bound to happen at night.

The platform they were on was 100% likely to be haunted, so there was no need to use the word "high probability" anymore.

Upon hearing his words, the two colleagues on the night shift looked rather grim, their faces showing hesitation.

"Please take the body inside first, and remember to close the door properly!"

The freezer is locked and opened from the outside, if it is locked properly.
But the group also knew that ordinary physical methods were completely useless when facing a ghost.

"We don't know what the taboos are for this mission. If we do as that person says, can we avoid some of the dangers?"

On the way to the cold storage, Xiao Ping couldn't help but worry.

If only we could know the taboos about ghosts beforehand and avoid violating any of them.

As they spoke, the two walked into the cold storage.

The funeral home's cold storage is built underground. Although there are stairs, they can only use the elevator when pushing the transport cart.

The elevator doors opened, and a chilly aura wafted from the empty elevator to the two of them. Xiao Ping couldn't help but rub the goosebumps that had risen on his arms.

"Hiss, it's so cold."

"Be careful once you go down," Lu Jinzhao instructed.

“I understand.” Xiao Ping nodded.

The two pushed the transfer cart into the elevator, which only had two options: the first floor and the second basement level.

The morgue is located on the second basement level.

As the elevator doors closed, their hearts sank slightly with the elevator's descent.

They knew in their hearts that the place they were going to was no ordinary morgue. Even in the real world, it was unlucky enough, let alone inside the platform.
(End of this chapter)