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Chapter 84 Wang's Funeral Home (24)

There are six candles, and five are left.

When the candle in Meng Ning's hand was down to its last centimeter, it became too hot to hold, so she turned to look at Lu Jinzhao, the meaning of which was clear: Lu Jinzhao was next.

Lu Jinzhao didn't dawdle and took out a candle to light it.

The faint light flickered back on, dispelling some of the cold and fear. As Lu Jinzhao walked toward the crematorium with the candle in hand, he suddenly noticed that Meng Ning's steps had slowed down.

She turned around and saw Meng Ning taking out her phone to type. A moment later, the phone was handed to her, and in the candlelight, Lu Jinzhao saw Meng Ning's emotional face.

[I've been thinking, since the train arrived this morning, should we stop patrolling?!]

Was she so excited because of this idea?

Lu Jinzhao picked up his phone and typed:

Can you be sure that young man is a normal human being?

Meng Ning looked at the words on the sticky note with a puzzled expression, so Lu Jinzhao had to explain it more clearly:
I'm not sure if we can skip patrolling tonight. I'm worried that if we don't complete the "work" we're supposed to do, we might encounter extra obstacles on our way to board the train.

【Summoning Ghosts】The difficult journey to board the train at the platform left a deep shadow on Lu Jinzhao. Although it was only a very short journey, she almost paid the price of her life to get back to the train.

At this moment, they were doing what funeral home employees are supposed to do, so the young man seemed to be just an ordinary indigenous person. But if they slack off and don't do their job, will they really get away with it?
Even in a typical workplace, such an incident would come at a price, let alone inside a train station.
[And is it safer without patrols?]

Is the current danger the patrol?

It is darkness that is everywhere.
Therefore, Lu Jinzhao's view is more inclined to be to survive by completing the patrol, even on the last night.

After reading this line, Meng Ning's excited expression subsided.

Yes, she was overwhelmed by the sudden thought that made her feel much safer without patrolling.

But now, where in the entire funeral home is there any "safety" to speak of?

She put her phone away and shook her head to indicate that she was alright.

Seeing that Meng Ning had calmed down, Lu Jinzhao stopped looking at her and turned to continue walking towards the crematorium. Just then, Yangpi, who had been silent for a while, suddenly reappeared.

Why don't you try what she said?

You can't completely ignore her advice just because she seems weak.

Suddenly, a line of distorted bloody words appeared before his eyes in the darkness. To be honest, even though Lu Jinzhao had seen it many times, he still felt extremely unlucky!

She did not reply, seemingly ignoring the sheepskin.

But she silently scoffed inwardly.

Originally, she thought it would be better to continue the patrol mission based on her own experience and cautious mindset, but now that Yangpi had spoken, she was almost certain that, according to Meng Ning, she was doomed.

After all, sheepskin never hides its malice, sometimes even to the point of being so blunt as to be foolish.

It will laugh at itself, see itself in a sorry state, and look forward to its own death, but it will never offer any sincere or useful advice.

If it makes a suggestion, then that suggestion will most likely lead to death.

Conversely, sometimes using the sheepskin as a way to eliminate options isn't so bad. Lu Jinzhao only briefly considered the sheepskin in her mind before focusing all her attention on the present.

She had already walked outside the crematorium.

Although it's called a cremation room, it's actually more like a factory, except instead of machine tools, it contains incinerators.

For some reason, Lu Jinchao noticed that the closer she got to the crematorium, the higher the temperature seemed to rise.

This phenomenon was not present last night.

"A new paranormal phenomenon tonight?"

Moreover, it appeared in the crematorium, which had never had any problems before.

As if affected by the temperature, Lu Jinzhao noticed that the candles burned faster as they approached the crematorium.

But she knew in her heart that the air temperature was not high enough to affect the candle's burning; it could only be that a ghost had appeared.

She couldn't see the ghost's figure, probably because the candle was still burning, but the accelerating speed was also a reminder that she couldn't stay here any longer!
Lu Jinzhao immediately started running. Fortunately, she wasn't far from the entrance of the crematorium. By the time she reached the entrance, the candle had already burned down to about one-fifth of its length.

She didn't dare to delay even for a second, and her hand immediately landed on the doorknob. But as soon as she touched it, Lu Jinzhao almost let go of the handle, because, for some reason, the doorknob of the crematorium was extremely hot!

It looked like a branding iron just taken out of a fire!
It's instinctive to let go of something hot, but Lu Jinzhao overcame this instinct and continued to hold the doorknob before quickly pulling open the door to the crematorium.

She had only intended to glance inside casually and leave immediately, but as soon as the door opened, she saw a scene she had never imagined!
The incinerator closest to the door was actually burning!
The intense flames reddened her vision, and the scorching heat made her feel as if she were inside an incinerator.

She saw the orange flames, and she also saw the burning corpse in the unclosed incinerator, its charred skin. In her deaf ears, she seemed to hear the shrill screams from its throat as its flesh burned, and its eyes suddenly opening and looking at her!
Lu Jinzhao suddenly took a step back.

He instinctively pulled the doorknob back, and the door slammed shut with a bang.

She let go, and her palm, which had been gripping the doorknob, was bright red with large blisters; she had actually been scalded.

This is so unscientific.

But this is a platform.

As she had expected, the candle she was holding was now almost gone.

Compared to the intense pain she felt when she gripped the doorknob, the burning sensation of a candle about to burn out seemed much better.

She looked at Meng Ning, who was clearly distraught. It seemed that she had also witnessed what had just happened.

what is that?
That can't be a person, it can only be a ghost.

Is it that ghost that "can only kill in the dark"?

It was one of the bodies sent to this funeral home, and it turned into a ghost when it was cremated.
Therefore, its method of killing is to block light when a person is in complete darkness.

But Lu Jinzhao felt that what they had just witnessed was more than just a reminder of that.

As she pondered, she thought of Chen Hai and Xiao Ping; their deaths were remarkably similar to the female corpse's.

So, what just happened was a foreshadowing that if they were caught by that ghost, they would be "burned" alive in the silent darkness.
(End of this chapter)