Daily life of civil servants in the prefectural government

Going up the stairs, Su Xiyan suddenly stopped and looked back.I don't know if it was his illusion, he always felt that someone was watching them from behind just now, that kind of eerie and malicious eyes, just one glance made the hairs on his back stand upside down.

He looked around vigilantly, always feeling like in a horror movie, a monster would sneak out and follow them, waiting for an opportunity to attack.

Cui Zhao saw him turning his head cautiously like a little squirrel, couldn't help turning his head to face himself, and kissed him.

After all, he was still a little scrupulous, and instead of kissing directly, he gnawed on Su Xiyan's forehead.He used a lot of strength, and the place is really quiet enough. The sound of chirping was a bit obvious. When he touched the saliva mark on his head, the tip of Su Xiyan's ears turned red all of a sudden.

"what are you doing!"

He no longer cared about paying attention to what was behind him, but glared at Cui Zhao angrily, and walked up first.If his gaze was still a little intimidating at ordinary times, when he was shy, the aura of shyness disappeared in an instant.Cui Zhao felt as if a small hook had been scratched in his heart by his staring. Not only was he not ashamed, but he wanted to lean in and kiss him a few more times.

In the end, thinking that the time was wrong, he forcibly restrained himself, his eyes seemed to glance back inadvertently, and the black shadow that secretly emerged from the hall shrank back quietly.

"You are so cute, what's wrong with me kissing you?"

Cui Zhao followed up entangledly, took Su Xiyan's hand directly, squeezed it into his hand, rubbed it, and then clasped it tightly.He is very familiar with this action. When he was taking care of Su Xiyan during this period, he often used various methods to secretly take advantage of it.

Su Xiyan didn't shake him off, he was so angry that it wasn't because of Cui Zhao's kissing him, he... If he wanted to kiss him, couldn't he change the time and change the place?

In broad daylight, why is he in such a hurry?Thinking of the possibility that something hidden in the dark might have seen the scene just now, Su Xiyan felt that the temperature in her ears couldn't go down no matter what.

As if knowing what he was thinking, Cui Zhao moved closer and whispered in his ear: "I can't help it."

Su Xiyan made a wrong step and almost fell down the stairs, but Cui Zhao stopped him and dragged him back.

The stairs were not long, and there were only two turns, and they went up to the second floor.The second floor is divided into two areas, left and right. One side is where the corpses are stored in the freezer, and the other side is the former cremation room. The corpses will be pushed into this room, and after the final farewell to relatives and friends, they will be pushed into the incinerator for burning into ashes, and then stored in the rest hall on the third floor.

According to Su Xiyan and the others, the cremation room here has been changed to a freezer area similar to the one next door after the cremation service was not carried out, which means that there were corpses stored on both sides.If the police sent someone to check, it should be here, but they stood in the corridor for a long time but did not hear any movement.

Listening carefully, only the breathing of the two of them was clearly audible.

The light in the corridor was successfully turned on, completely illuminating the slightly dark corridor. Occasionally, some gray handprints and shoe prints could be seen on the whitewashed walls, the ground was roughly swept, and there were still a lot of ashes hidden in the corners. and peeled off walls.On the top of the wall, yellowed water stains slenderly slid down. At first glance, this is an old place that has not received much attention.

Su Xiyan and Cui Zhao exchanged vigilant glances, stepped forward slowly, and they unanimously chose the room on the right, which was closer to the corridor and had more room to move around the door.

The door was made of wood, painted with a layer of white paint, and had a cold luster under the light.The doorknob is an old-fashioned round turn handle with a keyhole embedded in the middle. Generally speaking, such doorknobs are not locked.

Cui Zhao stretched out his hand to touch the doorknob, but before he could use any force, the door squeaked and slowly opened a gap by itself.

The door was left open.

Did the previous people go to the door, or did someone specially leave the door for them?

Cui Zhao's movements only stayed for a moment, and then he opened the door openly, revealing the appearance of the room.The cold air came oncoming, and a row of neatly placed freezers came into view. There was a stainless steel push bed in front of the freezer, which should be used to push the corpses in conjunction with the freezer.

The freezer is also made of stainless steel, like a row of large safes, shining with the cold luster of steel.The freezers have a smaller doorknob and numbers pasted on it with blue tape, arranged in order from left to right.

There was no one in the room.

The police who were supposed to be here to check the scene were not here, they just disappeared without a sound, just like the funeral home workers said when they reported the incident.It's just that at that time he was talking about corpses, but what disappeared now were people and corpses.

Su Xiyan opened a freezer, and it was indeed empty, with no dead body.Cui Zhao opened the row of freezers next to him, there were four in total from top to bottom, and all of them were empty.

The old funeral home has only three floors. Where can they hide?

Su Xiyan walked around the freezer, and when he reached the edge of the freezer, near the wall, he suddenly froze for a moment, took two steps inside and looked around.He saw a mass of blackened walls and a half-locked iron door, which was a low door that was no higher than his waist height.

Is that... the old-fashioned entrance to the incinerator?

"Yan Yan," his waist sank, and he was pulled out like a carrot.Su Xiyan turned her head just in time to see Cui Zhao's displeasure frowning, "Don't drill everywhere, you still have injuries."

"It's all healed and scabbed. If you don't move violently, you'll be fine."

Su Xiyan retorted indifferently, but seeing Cui Zhao's increasingly ugly face, he still raised his hands in surrender, and moved aside to signal that he would stop making trouble.

"I seemed to see something in it just now, let's go and have a look."

Both of them were of standard stature, and it was very easy to squeeze through the gap between the freezer and the wall.But on the way, Su Xiyan felt something greasy on the wall, and when he rubbed it with his fingers, a white oily flower came out, with a faint smell of rancidity.

What is this?

Su Xiyan groped up and down the wall, but found that only the wall up to his waist and abdomen had that greasy feeling, and the rest of the wall had a very normal cold feeling of the wall.

He was about to touch back to check the freezer when a hand that had been warm reached out and clasped his wrist.

"Are you a disobedient kid? Why did you start groping around in just one turn?"

The light beside the freezer was dim, and he couldn't see Cui Zhao's expression clearly, but Su Xiyan could hear his dissatisfaction from his tone.There was a rustling sound next to his ear, and then a gentle touch covered his palm, Cui Zhao wiped his hands clean with a tissue, and then led him to continue walking forward.

Because of the need to store the corpses, the total length of the freezer was at least two meters, and there were a bunch of messy wires hidden in the gaps at the edges. It took them a little more time to avoid these wires when they walked over.Fortunately, the space behind the freezer was not as narrow as they imagined, and it was quite spacious in terms of preparation.

What came into view was a green iron door about one meter long, which locked the space behind and completely sealed off the entrance of the old-fashioned incinerator.On the wall at the edge of the iron gate, there was a circle of black fire marks, which licked up to more than half of the wall.And there are as many as four such entrances on this wall.

The black traces were due to the fact that the flames in the old-fashioned incinerators at that time were too large, and the flames that emerged blackened a section of the outer wall, and there were two short tracks on the ground for pushing the corpses in.

Su Xiyan looked away from the rectangular red display above the iron door, just in time to see Cui Zhao pulling out a half-jammed black leather notebook from under the iron door.

It was a book specially used for recording in the police station. Su Xiyan saw them take it when taking notes. There was also a police badge printed on the title page, which looked quite nice.

Cui Zhao opened the book, and Su Xiyan leaned over to read it, and there were scattered summaries about some cases.Turning to the back is to write the records when they arrived at the funeral home today.

"A simple investigation has been conducted on the outside of the funeral parlor. No traces of overturning the wall were found on the wall, but a few strange handprints were found on the inside of the wall, close to the ground. They have been photographed and recorded. It is suspected that the construction workers accidentally left behind when building the wall. traces."

"The first floor of the funeral home has been checked and no abnormalities were found."

"All the corpses in the freezer on the second floor of the funeral parlor disappeared, no signs of damage were found on the doors and windows, and found in the vents and incinerator..."

The handwriting stopped abruptly at this point, and there was no further recording. A row of messy marks were drawn crookedly at the bottom of the line of words, piercing deeply through the paper, as if someone lost control of the handwriting after being frightened. down.Su Xiyan looked at it for a long time before he could barely see half of the word "help" from the messy lines. Did he want to ask for help?

What happened at that time that made it too late for him to leave a message for help on the paper?

And what did they find in the vents and incinerators?

There was a chill on his back, and Su Xiyan subconsciously leaned against Cui Zhao, but when he got close, he smelled a strong rotten smell.

"What's going on? What's the smell?"

"I told you not to touch it," Cui Zhao sighed helplessly. He took out another napkin and wiped his clothes. On his chest near his shoulders, he rubbed a piece of semi-solidified light yellow Traces, this is the source of the rancid smell he just tasted.

Cui Zhao wiped the trace vigorously and then threw the wiped tissue aside in disgust. Su Xiyan somehow felt that the smell was familiar, so he subconsciously put his hands under his nose and sniffed.

"vomit……"

"Now you know it's disgusting?"

Cui Zhao was overjoyed, he leaned over with a smile and insisted on hugging Su Xiyan, these things were just scratched when he squeezed from the edge of the freezer and the wall.Cui Zhao opened the way ahead, and most of them rubbed against him, so the smell was extra strong.

"Oh, don't come here, you stink to death." Su Xiyan retreated three feet, wishing to cover her nose. "What is this, why does it smell so bad?"

"Corpse oil, haven't you seen this?"

Cui Zhao took out the only remaining napkin in a relaxed tone, grabbed two small pieces from the top and stuffed them into his nose, tried to breathe for a while and confirmed that they could be used, then grabbed two more and gave them to Su Xiyan. superior.

"Maybe they accidentally scraped it off when they moved the corpse. The corpse should be a fat man with a layer of oil on his stomach. When he squeezed it, it was cut off and stuck to the wall."

Su Xiyan showed a disgusted expression, he couldn't imagine how those people insisted on pushing an extra fat corpse out of that path.Can you do anything at will just because the corpse can't speak?Absolutely abusive!

but……

"What are they doing with dead bodies in here?"

"...Open it and have a look and you'll know."

Cui Zhao raised his chin and pointed to the entrance of the incinerator in front of him.

How could it be said to open it? Su Xiyan looked at the entrance of the incinerator, and felt as if he saw the danger zone when he was playing a horror game. He always felt that opening the door would result in a kill.

No matter whether it's a female ghost girl or a chubby corpse, it doesn't make him happy.This mission that was originally to earn a pennant now looks not easy at all, and it is completely different from what the person in charge told them before.

Su Xiyan took out a few talisman papers and temporarily sealed the entrances of the other three incinerators.I don't know if it was an illusion, but the moment he touched the iron door, he felt a warm temperature coming from it, and he also smelled a faint burnt aroma in his nostrils, as if it had just been burned inside. Something seemed to make one's back chill.

However, this feeling only lasted for a moment and then disappeared. The feeling of touching the iron door was still cold, without the slightest warmth.Susiyan took a closer look at the red rectangular display above the entrance of the incinerator.

All three options are blacked out, and the power supply inside the front has been completely cut off.

I don't know if it was because his nerves were too tense at this time, but he heard the sound of water dripping in a trance.

"Tick, tick-"

The sound is slow and rhythmic, and it takes a long time for a drop to drip down, some near and some far away.

With a pale face, Su Xiyan told Cui Zhao what he had found, and received a soft and gentle expression.His heart sank slightly. If what he heard was hallucinations, then Cui Zhao would definitely veto it. His silence means...

Is what he heard true? !

"Tick, tick-"

The grinding sound continued, Cui Zhao squatted down, and easily broke the iron lock hanging on the iron door with his bare hands.Then he squeezed the handle of the iron door and pulled hard.

The lower end of the iron gate rubbed against the concrete floor, making a piercing sound, and a strong burnt smell came out suddenly.As soon as Su Xiyan raised his eyes, he saw the stuff stuffed into the incinerator. In the next second, he couldn't control himself completely, turned around and supported the wall next to him and vomited a few times.

There was a strange mixture of burnt and rancid smells in the air.