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He put on a fawning smile and said to the old professor:

“Professor Miyano, this is Priestess Kato of Meiji Shrine. She is here to…”

Department Head Noguchi was patiently explaining.

The old professor waved his hand impatiently.

"This is a forensic medicine department, not a shrine. If you're trying to fool me, please leave!"

Noguchi looked at Kato Megumi with some embarrassment.

He had experienced Professor Miyano's stubbornness firsthand, yet even the principal couldn't handle this big shot. What could he do? The old man's skills were exceptional, and the forensic department was understaffed and couldn't be shut down.

Kato Megumi's face remained expressionless, still bearing a faint smile, as if she hadn't heard Professor Miyano's unfriendly words.

Just as the atmosphere was getting a little awkward, a commotion suddenly broke out outside the office door.

Then two young men dressed as college students walked in from outside.

The two were stunned when they saw Noguchi.

One of the young men, who was handsome and tall like a model, quickly bowed.

"Good morning, Mr. Noguchi and Professor Miyano!"

Another young man, with a gloomy demeanor and unkempt appearance, hesitated for a long time before remembering to bow to the two men.

"Ah."

Department Head Noguchi showed no fear in the face of Professor Miyano, and nodded lightly.

Then the handsome young man placed a folder on Professor Miyano's desk.

"Professor, these are the documents you asked me to organize last night."

Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Morgue

Professor Miyano picked up the folder, opened it, and looked through it. A look of great satisfaction immediately appeared on his face as he nodded as he read.

"Well done."

After a while, he put down the documents in his hand and looked at the handsome young man with a hint of anticipation.

"Suzuki-kun, are you really not considering switching to forensic medicine? With your talent in anatomy, you'll surpass me very quickly."

Suzuki Tomohito bowed to Professor Miyano with a wry smile.

"Thank you very much for your invitation, but I am very satisfied with my current major, so..."

Professor Miyano sighed deeply.

"That's true. Who would choose to study forensic medicine these days? The benefits are poor, the salary is low, and it's hard to find a girlfriend..."

Professor Miyano continued rambling on and on.

A hint of embarrassment crept onto the faces of Suzuki Tomoto and Noguchi.

This is the current predicament of the entire forensic medicine community in Japan.

Young people dislike the low pay of forensic doctors and find it difficult to find partners due to the job's limitations. As a result, fewer and fewer students are willing to study forensic medicine, and university forensic medicine departments can no longer operate, creating a vicious cycle.

Professor Miyano suddenly stopped, slapped his head, and smiled nonchalantly.

"Forget it, if I really took you away, wouldn't that old bastard Takeda come after me to the death?"

Professor Miyano failed to notice the flash of indignation in the eyes of the gloomy-looking young man beside him when he extended an invitation to Tomohito Suzuki.

However, Professor Miyano soon turned his attention to Kato Megumi and Xu Ming.

"Xiao Jian, I'm not trying to be mean, but even if you're going to hire someone to perform an exorcism, at least find someone who seems reliable. Look at these two, they're practically high school students!"

Hearing his words, Department Head Noguchi broke out in a cold sweat. To be honest, he couldn't afford to offend either side. On one side was a senior professor at the University of Tokyo, the only promising student in the Department of Forensic Medicine, and on the other side was a shrine maiden from Meiji Shrine.

Fortunately, Kato Megumi stepped forward to help him out of the predicament.

“Professor Miyano, exorcism is like surgery; it all depends on talent. Although I’m only a second-year high school student, I believe I can handle this case.”

Professor Miyano snorted coldly.

"Hmph! No need! I've already figured out a way to find the guy who destroyed the body!"

As he spoke, a smug smile appeared on his face.

"Last night I secretly applied fluorescent material to the body. If anyone dares to touch the body, they will definitely leave a trace!"

"I'll be able to catch that damn bastard!"

As he spoke, he gave Kato Megumi a provocative glance, then said to Noguchi:

"Why don't we go and see which bastard is up at night, playing with corpses in the morgue?"

"This……"

Noguchi glanced at Kato Megumi almost instinctively.

"Since Professor Miyano is so interested, why don't we all go and take a look together?"

Kato Megumi's faint smile remained unchanged.

A hint of admiration flashed in Xu Ming's eyes. Kato Megumi's self-control was truly remarkable. If it were him, being targeted with such sarcastic remarks, he would be lucky not to slap the other person.

Having failed to achieve the desired effect, Professor Miyano lost face. He snorted coldly, turned around, and left the office.

The two college students exchanged an awkward glance and quickly followed the professor.

"Minister Noguchi, let's go check it out on site too."

Kato Megumi made the suggestion.

"Okay, okay."

Department Head Noguchi readily agreed, then quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

He couldn't afford to offend either of them. He felt like Jerry caught in the middle, suffering from both sides.

Professor Miyano led the group out of the office and walked towards the end of the corridor.

A series of footsteps suddenly echoed in the dim and damp corridor, and in the distance, blurry black figures swayed as they walked into the deeper darkness.

After walking forty or fifty meters, we passed two abandoned classrooms along the way.

Noguchi whispered to Kato Megumi, "..."

"The medical school used to be able to recruit forensic students, but in the last two years, they haven't even been able to fill a single class. These young people nowadays... sigh!"

Noguchi sighed deeply, sounding somewhat pained.

This is the current state of the Japanese forensic medicine profession: most young people would rather choose to be respectable ordinary doctors, but very few would choose to be a forensic pathologist with poor benefits and social isolation.

As they were talking, Xu Ming was walking with the others towards the end of the corridor when he suddenly seemed to sense something and looked toward one of the abandoned classrooms.

Inside the classroom, directly opposite the main entrance, stood a blurry figure, motionless.

Xu Ming's pupils contracted involuntarily, he paused, and subconsciously put his hand in his pocket. Only when he grasped the smooth, cold, hard casing of the phone did Xu Ming feel slightly at ease.

"What's wrong, Xu Mingjun?"

Kato Megumi noticed Xu Ming's unusual behavior and turned to look at him.

Xu Ming didn't answer. Instead, he took out his phone and shone the built-in flashlight on the figure.

As the light shone on him, a figure appeared before Xu Ming's eyes: a body without skin, covered entirely by dark red muscle tissue, with its abdomen opened, revealing its internal organs, blood vessels, and bones.

It is a medical human model.

This model seems to be quite old, covered in dust, with its external muscle tissue appearing as a dull gray, making it look like a disfigured monster wearing a gray bodysuit.

Especially its eyes, which bulge outwards like a fish's, without the protection of eyelids.

The phone's dim light reflected an eerie glow.

Xu Ming scrutinized the mannequin for a moment, then shook his head.

"nothing."

Xu Ming quickly caught up with the group.

Kato Megumi gave him a meaningful look but said nothing.

Led by Professor Miyano, the group arrived at the end of the corridor, at a room with the lights on.

Xu Ming followed Kato Megumi inside, and a huge, gloomy underground room appeared before him.

The walls were unpainted, and the gray cement walls gave off a strong sense of roughness. The few chandeliers in the room were almost all clustered in the center.

Beneath the chandelier was a stainless steel dissection table gleaming with a cold, metallic sheen, covered with a white cloth, beneath which lay a protrusion shaped like a human body.

Without a doubt, it was a corpse awaiting autopsy.

Large shadows were cast in the areas not illuminated by the light.

In the shadows, a row of metal cabinets filled the front wall, each square cabinet door emitting a cold, icy light, as if a chill was faintly seeping out from the gaps in the doors.

Xu Ming's body stiffened the moment he saw the row of cabinets.

Those cabinets are the specially made freezers used in the morgue to store corpses!

Chapter 58 Fluorescent Labeling

Apart from Xu Ming, who was somewhat unaccustomed to the eerie and strange environment, the others seemed to have long been used to it, and their expressions showed no unusualness.

What surprised Xu Ming the most was that Kato Megumi also remained calm.

She was so calm, it was hard for a girl her age to believe.

Xu Ming noticed that she slowly looked around the morgue, and finally her gaze settled on the refrigerated morgue cabinet on the wall. She stared at it for a while before looking away.

Noticing Xu Ming's gaze, Kato Megumi pointed to the morgue freezer, then put her finger to her lips, making a shushing gesture.

Xu Ming immediately understood; there was indeed something wrong with that row of morgue freezers!

At this moment, Professor Miyano made no attempt to hide anything, quickly walked to the dissection site, and directly ripped off the white sheet covering the corpse.

The body of an adult male was suddenly exposed to everyone's view.

Its bloodless, grayish-white skin made it look like a plastic doll from a distance.

The corpse had several wounds of varying depths lying across its chest and abdomen, with the skin and flesh around the wounds turned outwards, resembling mouths of different sizes.