See the Law of Deception

Chapter 69 Wang's Funeral Home (9)

When the two arrived at the duty room, they saw Meng Ning sitting there, looking tense and haggard, having not slept all night.

She was the only one in the duty room.

When the two pushed open the door, Meng Ning's body trembled violently, and she stood up from the chair in a tense manner, looking as if she might jump out the window and escape at the slightest sign of trouble.

He became completely like a frightened bird.

"Don't be afraid, it's us."

Lu Jinzhao first tried to comfort her, then looked at her carefully, and glanced around the duty room. Guessing what she must have gone through last night, he asked, "Where's Chen Hai?"

Hearing this question, Meng Ning, who had initially relaxed upon seeing her companion, tensed up again: "He..."

He's gone.

Meng Ning answered in this way.

"What do you mean by 'disappeared'?" Xiao Ping asked, puzzled.

So Meng Ning told the two of them, somewhat incoherently, what had happened the night before.

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Lu Jinzhao fell silent after hearing this. She was wondering, why?
Chen Hai has not returned for a long time; under those circumstances, he is most likely dead.

What taboo did he break that led to his death?
Seeing that Meng Ning was really scared, Xiao Ping, although he was also a little scared after hearing Meng Ning's description, still forced himself to say a few words of comfort.

"Go back and rest for a bit. It's daytime now, so everything's fine."

He said this, even though he himself couldn't be sure whether something would happen during the day.

"No." Meng Ning shook her head: "Let me stay with you. I'll be wherever you are."

She didn't want to be alone anymore.

No one knows how she managed to stay alone until dawn after her teammates were killed by the ghost.

"Torment" is an understatement to describe what she experienced over the past few hours.

Before Xiao Ping could say anything more, the sound of the door being pushed open suddenly rang out.

With her companion by her side, Meng Ning did not show any extreme reaction this time, but Lu Jinzhao looked at the door with an extremely wary gaze, which was somewhat unexpected.

She didn't hear any footsteps approaching.

The door was pushed open, and the young man who had told them to behave properly yesterday was standing outside.

He didn't go into the duty room, but just stood at the door and looked at the three of them, saying, "I'm here to tell you that the duty shifts are changing today."

"There was a slight accident last night, and the people on the day shift today went to collect his body."

"Remember what I said."

After saying that, he left.

Lu Jinzhao listened very carefully, and his footsteps now sounded normal again.

But just before the door was opened, she hadn't heard anything at all.

"Is Chen Hai really dead?"

Meng Ning murmured, but after speaking, she realized that she had been switched to the day shift and was the one who was to collect Chen Hai's body.

Her hands trembled slightly as she looked at Lu Jinzhao and Xiao Ping, pleadingly asking, "Can you come with me?"

Even though she knew she might not have made such a request, she had no other choice and didn't want to face it alone.

Xiao Ping hesitated, feeling a little scared, but Lu Jinzhao beside him nodded: "I can go with you."

“Then I’ll go too,” Xiao Ping said immediately.

Unlike Xiao Ping's hesitation, Lu Jinzhao decided to go and see for herself as soon as she heard the staff member mention it. Her understanding of last night's events came entirely from Meng Ning, and she needed more clues and details.

"That's great, thank you so much." Meng Ning's face showed gratitude.

With the help of two other companions, Meng Ning mustered her courage and followed them to retrieve the necessary items: a bell and a body bag.

The three then arrived at the entrance on the first floor leading to the morgue.

"It was this elevator that suddenly started ringing last night." Meng Ning was clearly still shaken; her steps were hesitant, and she didn't want to enter the elevator.

"Shall we not open the elevator?" she suggested.

“But from what you’ve said, Chen Hai was following you last night, so he most likely died on the stairs.”

Lu Jinzhao did not believe that everything would be fine if the elevator was not turned on.

There was probably something in the elevator last night, but that thing has most likely already come out, otherwise how could it have killed Chen Hai?
"..." Meng Ning paused for a moment, then realized that was indeed the case.

“But for now, we still have to go up the stairs, since we need to collect the body.” Seeing that his two teammates were hesitant, Lu Jinzhao could only point out the next steps.

She could tell that her teammates probably didn't have much mission experience, probably about the same as she had entered the platform a few times.

Did this allocation group several "Class C rookies" together?
Then this mission shouldn't be that difficult.

But Chen Hai died on the very first night, and his teammates didn't even know what taboo he had broken.

So where will this mission be "simple"?
Is this a way out?

Several thoughts raced through Lu Jinzhao's mind, but he couldn't be sure.

She led the way into the stairwell, followed by her two teammates.

Even during the day, the light in the hallway is still not sufficient.

After descending the entire flight of stairs and turning the corner, Lu Jinzhao saw Chen Hai's body on the stairs that continued downwards.

He heard his teammates gasp behind him, because Chen Hai's death was far from pleasant.

He wasn't lying on the ground.

He was still standing, his body still in the position of frantically climbing upwards.

He stretched one hand forward, as if trying to grab something in front of him, and his expression was terrified and ferocious, his mouth wide open as if calling for help or letting out a scream, but at this moment, he was silent.

If that were all, it wouldn't be so terrifying. What truly alarmed Lu Jinzhao was that every inch of Chen Hai's exposed skin had already begun to rot.

It was as if a layer of corpse oil had enveloped him; his skin was festering, and an unnatural purplish-black color appeared on his body. Large chunks of skin tissue fell to the ground, revealing the blackened flesh and blood underneath.

He was like a sculpture in a sewer, emitting a stench, a putrid smell, and covered in filthy blood.

However, less than five hours have passed since his death.

Chen Hai's death reminded Lu Jinzhao of someone.

Or rather, a corpse.

The body that she and Xiao Ping collected yesterday during the day.

The surface of that corpse, just like Chen Hai's at this moment, had disgusted Xiao Ping to no end back then.

Do all corpses that die here look like this?
Or was it that the corpse killed Chen Hai, which is why Chen Hai's corpse is like this?

"Should we... take his body to a coffin?" Xiao Ping asked a pointless question.

The reason they were only able to prepare the body for burial was because Chen Hai had died in a bad location, which meant they would have to touch his body.

Just looking at him is disgusting enough, let alone the fact that he was killed by a ghost.

(End of this chapter)