the last gentleman

Chapter 153

The workers of the Cold Lake Cemetery are more appropriately defined by "Corpse Collector".

Different from the seven divisions like the Seven Days Cemetery, each cemetery has different rules,
There is only one main cemetery here - Lenghu, and the rest of the shore cemeteries around the lake are only used to store 'defective products', and there are not too strict requirements.

However, as the core of the cemetery, Lenghu itself has relatively complicated rules.
The first is the area division:
[Outer ring] In the outer ring area where the lake water temperature is greater than or equal to -10°C, burials and corpses can be carried out at any time of the day.

【中环】湖水温度介于-10℃到-30℃的中间区域，仅限于00:00-07:00进行相关工作。

【内心】湖泊中心，温度低于-30℃的区域，作业时间限定为00:00-02:00。

In addition, there are a series of rules related to lakes:

1. It is forbidden to use any lighting equipment. If you find signs of ice on the lake, you can use kerosene lamps or torches to disperse it. Once the ice disappears, turn off the light source immediately.

2. If you find a hand sticking out of the lake during boating, please tie the black rope provided on the boat to your ring finger, and your arm will return to the lake.

If the fingers are tied with a black rope, the gesture of reaching out means 'goodwill', just give him a high-five, and the arm will sink.

Be sure to complete the above interaction behavior, otherwise the arm will follow all the time, and may eventually attack the hull.

3. If floating debris is found in the lake, it needs to be caught with a fishing net and sent to the incinerator for destruction as soon as possible.

If you find a note-like item, you need to check the information recorded above, and meet the requirements as much as possible.If in doubt about what to do with the information, ask your supervisor for advice.

……

There are seven other rules similar to the above, which are very cumbersome, like serving a group of uncles and aunts who live at the bottom of the lake, and have to take on the work of cleaners.

Every rule has hidden dangers, and if you don't serve it well, your life will be in danger.

Because being in the water area is much more dangerous than the actual ground cemetery, it is no wonder that there are often no people recruited here.

It only took one night for Yi Chen and Reagan to be temporarily called in to help, but only gentlemen like them who had experience in cemeteries could help. Ordinary corpse hunters would be very dangerous.

The request given by the lame Field was to dig out and package the five special corpses buried in the burial area in the middle of the lake, and there would be an organized corpse truck on the shore to take care of them.

Considering that it was the first time for the two juniors to work, Field paddled himself and drove them to the center of the lake 10 minutes earlier.

As recorded in the rules, the temperature of this lake is frighteningly low,

However, at the first moment when you feel the cold, the gentleman's clothing immediately adapts to the fleece and thickens, and even generates heat internally.

This warm and moist leather feels like a strong man who just finished playing basketball is sandwiched between the front, back, left, and right.

During the paddling to the center of the lake, the calm lake also stretched out pale arms many times,

Yi Chen immediately complied with the rules, either tying their ring fingers with a knot, or giving them high fives. The other party also seemed very happy, shaking his arms happily and sinking into the lake.

On the way, I also found a paper boat. After I caught it through a fishing net, it actually said - [I want an autobiographical novel].

I don't know why Yi Chen wants to laugh a little,
Field explained very seriously: "The demand for text items shows that they are awakening consciousness, and these needs must be met... Unfortunately, there is no time to read to them now, and they need to be salvaged."

From this sentence, Yi Chen captured the keyword of 'awakening consciousness', which reminded him of Reagan's girlfriend.

But there is an essential difference in consciousness here. The corpses at the bottom of the lake can awaken consciousness because their bodies are complete, and they retain a complete, even fresh brain.

But Reagan's girlfriend had only one spine left at first, and she had to construct her own consciousness based on the genetic information left between the bones. The concept was completely different.

【Huxin District】

The ship stopped, just at midnight.

This time point, together with the hazy moon reflection on the lake, reminded Yi Chen of some bad memories. The former Twilight Clinic also changed at this time point, and the moon emerged.

The incident was far away from Zion, and Yi Chen was worried about the moon all the way.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look up at the sky.

It's just that the hazy moon didn't mean to get closer, it was still covered by clouds and mist, and there was no abnormality.

At this time, the lame Field took out five body bags with moisturizing functions and handed them to the two.

"You have already read the rules, I will not say more, go."

Yi Chen and Reagan looked at each other and jumped into the minus 50°C lake together.

Gentleman's clothing covers the whole body in advance to isolate the lake water and keep warm.

The lake is not deep, and the two quickly dived to the "burial area in the middle of the lake" which is only ten meters deep.
There are a total of eight graves below, and three of them have been excavated in advance.

The remaining five graves are temporary tasks for Yi Chen and Reagan.

At this time, Little Putao followed and helped to improve the visibility of the field of vision, and at the same time talked about the situation here as an 'experienced person'.

"The corpses that can be buried in this area are at least high quality,
The three that were poached in advance were either fully mature like me, with awakened awareness that could be used by the organization.Either that dangerous lesions were dealt with in advance.

And the five bodies you need to dispose of aren't 'ripe' enough to be exhumed,
It must be the reason for the spread of the gray area, and the corpse needs to be moved in advance.After all, the natural gray area cannot be eliminated. Once it spreads to the small town, the corpses in the cemetery will all be diseased. 』

『Does this mean that the cemetery will be closed soon? 』

"It must be so, otherwise why is the old man always so stern?Hurry up and start working, seeing that the old man is willing to give me benefits, I will also help a little. 』

Next is the cooperation between Yi Chen and Reagan to retrieve the corpse.

creak creak ~
Yi Chen releases the plants for rapid excavation. Once the entire body is excavated, Reagan will instantly trap it with a mind-controlled body bag.

When the first grave was dug, both of them were stunned by the corpse lying inside.

An impeccable, pure and unblemished corpse of a teenager,

The almost pure water-like skin was even glowing faintly, but in the next second, Reagan wrapped him in a body bag.

Perhaps it was Little Putao, the 'overlord of the cemetery' who monitored the whole process,

Perhaps it was the coercion that Miss Faye released from the invisible,

The process of recovering the corpses was quite smooth. None of the corpses had the tendency to resist or attack. At most, they just opened their jewel-like eyes and glanced at them.

In addition, the corpses in the cemetery in the middle of the lake all look to be no more than 20 years old, and their skin texture is almost the same, as moist as jade.

Soon it was the turn of the last grave.

The plants with a flat structure were dug quickly like a shovel, but this corpse seemed to be buried relatively deep, and it was still missing after digging a full two meters.

Just when the two were a little confused and vigilant,

The end of the plant touched a non-soil hard object, which was the head of the corpse, and the silver-white hair could barely be seen.

Continue digging until the whole head appeared in front of his eyes, Yi Chen froze for a moment.

The sense of fear instantly occupied the entire eyeball and permeated the whole body!
"how is this possible!"

Buried among the last mounds is a young man with gauze covering one eye, and the other eye is slowly opening in the shape of a silver crescent moon.

The mouth also opened and squirmed!
There was no sound transmission process, the sound directly echoed in Yi Chen's mind.

"William, long time no see~"

Gollum!

Yi Chen was so frightened that he choked into a mouthful of ice water from the bottom of the lake,
Almost immediately after the entrance, the esophagus and stomach were severely cracked, and many organs in the whole body were frostbitten in a short period of time. The "black umbilical cord" hidden in the abdomen immediately came to help repair it.

And in Yi Chen's head came the calling voice of Little Putao:

"William!William! 』

The stimulation in the body and the sound transmission in the brain made Yi Chen shake his head violently.

When you open your eyes again,
The head of the corpse dug out in front of him is no longer the appearance of [Moon Scar], but the corpse of a young man with natural white hair and a similar appearance.

A beam of faint moonlight piercing through the lake happened to fall on the young man's face... It seems that this ray of moonlight caused the illusion just now.

Suddenly,
In Yi Chen's mind, he recalled the words when he parted from the Twilight Clinic:
"The-Moon-is-watching-you."

(End of this chapter)