Chapter 210 Morgue

In this world, no one is the center of everything.

Time never flows for individuals.

While Caesar and Kim climbed out of the well with great difficulty, everyone else was doing their own things.

……

two days ago.

Brixham General Hospital.

This is the only large hospital in the town.

Moreover, due to the highly developed tourism industry, the supporting facilities and medical standards are not bad.

In a sunny clinic, the mid-aged doctor with a shaved head straightened up and put the suture needle and catgut back into the tray.

"Alright, try to avoid getting wet for ten days, and also give up spicy food. The wound is quite large, and it will take about a month to heal."

The doctor said as he put on gauze and tape: "Also, if you are bullied at school, I suggest you contact Kidcape. They will provide you with some legal support or expose the situation to the TV station."

"Thank you."

Chu Zihang bowed his head calmly to thank the doctor and slightly moved his muscles after the local anesthesia. He instinctively wanted to find some clothes, but then he found that he was shirtless when he came.

The woman hurriedly stopped him from moving around and asked again and again with concern: "Doctor, is my child okay?"

"Don't worry, it's no big deal."

After washing his palms, the doctor comforted the patient's family as usual: "As long as you don't do strenuous exercise before recovery, I guarantee that there won't be any scars left... But it's best to come for a checkup every ten days."

……

After paying the bill, the two left the hospital.

The car rumbled over the rough road at 30 mph.

The woman gripped the steering wheel absentmindedly.

From time to time, she looked up and looked at the boy reflected in the rearview mirror, who was looking out the window with his head tilted.

Chu Zihang felt it.

But he pretended to know nothing.

After a long time.

The silent woman finally asked, "Adam, tell me, what happened?"

Chu Zihang sighed in his heart.

"...No, it's nothing."

He turned around, looked into the woman's eyes through the mirror, and said seriously, "Please don't worry, it was just an accident."

"Accident?! Then tell me what the accident is?!"

The woman was a little angry.

She subconsciously raised her voice, but softened it when she thought of her son's injury: "Please, Adam! I'm your mother! I have the right and I must know this!"

Chu Zihang had no choice but to remain silent.

Yes... every mother will not remain indifferent when seeing her son injured, and getting to the bottom of the matter is an essential step.

Chu Zihang was very clear about this.

But he really didn't know how to deal with it.

Things related to dragons should not be told to ordinary people.

So...want to make up a reason?

So you say that the injury was indeed caused by being blocked by gangsters?

But what if the woman heard it and called the police?

Will it be like that old man?
Chu Zihang didn't dare to gamble.

He took over the body of the other man's son, and even...it might have directly led to Adam's death.

Therefore, he should not let women suffer any danger.

The atmosphere in the car became tense.

The woman looked at her son's stubborn face and took a deep breath. "Okay...Adam, I don't have to ask. But you have to promise me that you will protect yourself from now on."

She paused.

Then he said in a very soft voice: "I have already lost William... so Adam, I absolutely cannot lose you again!"

Chu Zihang looked at the pair of red eyes in the mirror, pursed his lips, and lowered his head with mixed feelings.

"……I see."

The woman stopped talking and turned her attention back to driving, gradually increasing the speed of the car.

Blurry blocks of color flashed quickly outside the car window.

Chu Zihang looked at the elongated landscape lines, clenched his hands and stared blankly.

He suddenly missed Su Xiaoyan.

I don't know if she would still remember to drink a glass of milk before going to bed without his reminder...

……

The car slowly stopped.

When Chu Zihang got off the car, he subconsciously looked towards the old man's house diagonally opposite.

——A white car was parked at the gate, and the old man's family seemed to have returned. They had no idea what was going on, and a child was running happily in the courtyard.

Chu Zihang was in a bad mood.

"What do you want to eat for lunch?" the woman asked him. "How about steak?"

"Okay." Chu Zihang said.

The woman glanced at her phone and didn't get out of the car: "It's too late to make it yourself, I'll go to the restaurant next door to buy one... You stay home and rest!"

Chu Zihang nodded.

He watched the car drive away, returned to his room upstairs, found a gray short-sleeved shirt from the closet and put it on.

20 minute later.

The woman came back from buying food.

The two sat opposite each other at the dining table in silence.

The woman felt a little distressed when she saw her son in this state. In her opinion, Adam's abnormal behavior today was because he had not yet recovered from his father's death.

Damn Jones!
She cursed loudly in her mind.

hum-

Sudden.

A phone call came in.

The woman picked up the phone with a frown, hung up after a moment, and stuffed the food into her mouth.

"I'm sorry, Adam...something happened at the hotel and I need to go take care of it. You stay home alone and be safe. Call me if you need anything."

"It's okay, I can take care of myself." Chu Zihang put down his chopsticks and said seriously.

——He naturally hopes to have his own time to go out and investigate.

The woman felt a little guilty and a little worried.

She knew that she should stay at home to accompany and take care of her injured son, but after William's death, the hotel he left behind was their family's only source of income, and she couldn't just ignore it if something happened.

"I'll be back soon!"

The woman left a final word and hurried out.

After seeing the woman leave, Chu Zihang quickly finished his food.

He stood up, thought for a moment, then leaned back on the table and wrote a message on the note paper with a black pen: I left something in the hospital and I have to go back to get it now.

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The morgues in hospitals are designed separately from the general departments. Some have a separate small building, while others are placed in the basement.

Hospitals in small towns naturally would not be so luxurious as to choose the first option.

Chu Zihang stood in front of the guide map in the lobby on the first floor, but couldn't find the location of the morgue. After thinking about it, he turned around and went to the underground parking lot.

According to his experience, underground morgues usually have a direct exit passage, and most of them are closely connected to the underground parking lot.

After walking up the 40-degree ramp, Chu Zihang stood at the entrance and looked at No. Middle School.

This place is much bigger than I imagined.

A dozen sturdy square pillars supported the cement on the top floor, dividing the field of vision with shadows and blind spots. The long incandescent light above my head was a little dim, and it made a crackling sound due to poor contact.

White lines outline dense squares, with lifeless cars piled on top, like narrow coffins for corpses.

Chu Zihang walked past various license plates with an expressionless face.

soon.

At the deepest part of the parking lot, on a wall covered with white lime, he found a small door of the same color, very hidden.

He put his hand against the crack in the door, and a slight breeze blew across his palm.

——This is not a utility room. Chu Zihang immediately made a judgment.

He tried pushing and pulling the door and found it was locked.

So without hesitation.

He took out a long, narrow wire and inserted it deep into the keyhole. Using the knowledge taught by the Executive Department, he gently stirred it at a small angle.

Click~

The bolt pops open.

Chu Zihang was not in a hurry to enter.

He pushed open a narrow gap and carefully looked inside through the gap.

In front of me was a quiet, narrow corridor with a cold white light covering the tiled floor. A cart covered with a black plastic sheet was parked nearby.

Above his head, he also saw a surveillance camera with a flashing red light.

Chu Zihang took a step back and checked the time.

It is now 12:15 noon.

Generally speaking, there are only two people in charge of the morgue, one for the day shift and the other for the night shift. There are no extra people to take turns to rest during the day.

and so.

Chu Zihang decided to take a gamble.

——During the lunch break, work efficiency and mental concentration are at their lowest.

He put on the doctor's white coat he had stolen, put on a mask and walked into the morgue.

A chill passed over my ankles. I didn't know if it was an illusion, but the brightness here seemed dimmer than outside the parking lot.

He gently closed the door behind him and walked forward with a normal demeanor.

…There was no alarm.

Chu Zihang breathed a sigh of relief.

There are many rooms on both sides of the corridor, which are divided into different places according to the type of case that caused the death, and are distinguished by white wooden signs hanging on the doors.

These rooms are not big. After all, the death rate from the same cause in the same period of time will not be too high.

Chu Zihang looked around and read the information on the wooden sign.

Myocardial infarction.

Tumor.

cancer.

……

The entire morgue was very quiet. Apart from the whirring cold air, the only sounds were the deliberately light footsteps and the distorted shadows on the ground.

The air was filled with the smell of disinfectant.

Until one moment, he suddenly saw a room that was several times larger than other morgues - [Disaster/Accidental Body Storage Area].

Chu Zihang stopped.

He grasped the cold handle and walked in with a normal expression.

There was very little stuff in the room.

There was nothing else here except the snowflake cabinet standing against the wall opposite the door and an operating table in the middle of the room.

Chu Zihang pulled out the drawers of the snow cabinet in order and identified the bodies by the labels tied to the black body bags.

Somewhat unexpectedly, there were many more bodies parked here than he had imagined. Chu Zihang also identified the family of four who died last night through the photos on the labels.

About ten minutes.

Chu Zihang finally found Ian Jones's body in the middle of the second floor.

He took the entire body bag out of the drawer with all his strength, held it on his shoulder, and brought it to the operating table nearby.

Sniff~

Chu Zihang opened the zipper and a faint stench of corpse wafted out.

In the white cold air, he lowered his head and observed the stiff corpse in the black bag.

This was a child who was about the same age as his current body, about twelve or thirteen years old. He lay there naked, his flaxen hair drooping softly on his forehead, his skin showing an unnatural paleness after death, which made the dark spots on his cheeks particularly obvious.

Chu Zihang noticed that his head was twisted to one side in a very unnatural way. He reached out and pressed it, and he understood.

"The spine is broken."

After he made his judgment, he looked up, but suddenly he felt that something seemed wrong!
There seemed to be a touch of bright color in the cold white morgue.

Chu Zihang turned his gaze away stiffly.

——He actually saw a pair of sea blue eyes!
On the operating table, Ian opened his eyelids, twisted his neck, and his unfocused pupils were staring blankly at him!

Chu Zihang was shocked and stepped back quickly!

【what happened? 】

Chu Zihang quickly recalled the previous details and was sure that the other person had his eyes closed when he opened the body bag!

He looked at the pale corpse on the operating table warily, but suddenly he was stunned again -

Those sea-blue eyes closed again!

The broken neck returned to its original shape, as if the twisting just now was an illusion!
Chu Zihang narrowed his pupils.

No sound came from the empty morgue, even the sound of breathing disappeared.

He stared at the corpse for a long time, but still didn't notice any second abnormality.

Chu Zihang frowned and stepped forward again.

——This body is indeed strange, but he came here to find something wrong.

I thought about it.

Chu Zihang simply lifted Ian up and prepared to carefully examine this corpse that was most likely possessed by the mastermind.

But just as he pulled the body bag out from under Ian...

Click~

A hard black metal object actually fell out from inside!
When Chu Zihang heard the voice, his pupils shrank and he looked over subconsciously.

——It was a small button phone!

But...how could there be such a thing?

Was it some doctor who landed here?
Or... has the mastermind come back?

Chu Zihang suddenly wanted to check out the surveillance footage in the morgue.

He waited for a moment, and when he found nothing wrong, he carefully stepped forward and picked up the phone from the ground.

Chu Zihang pressed the buttons tentatively, but the phone seemed to be out of battery, and the screen remained dark no matter how hard he pressed.

He was about to put it away and plan to go back and charge it to see what was inside.

……

But at this moment!
squeak~

The friction sound of the bolt and the doorpost suddenly came from behind!

Chu Zihang turned around quickly.

"Hey! Who are you? How did you get in here?"

A doctor in a white coat was standing at the door. He was stunned when he saw the situation in the morgue, then he came to his senses and shouted loudly.

"Feel sorry."

Chu Zihang apologized immediately when he saw the newcomer: "I was a little curious about this place, so I sneaked in to see what it looked like... Sorry, I'll leave now."

"Curious? About the corpse?" The doctor's eyes became more suspicious.

He saw Ian lying naked on the operating table, frowned, and looked more alert: "What's your name? What's your parents' phone number?"

Chu Zihang was silent.

This was the first time that his parents were called to the police station because of getting into trouble.

He was somewhat resistant to calling a woman over to clean his butt.

"Wait! What are you holding in your hand?" The doctor saw the phone Chu Zihang was holding and his eyes widened: "Damn it! You don't know how to take a picture? Bring it to me now!"

"No, I didn't take any photos." Chu Zihang shook his head, "This phone is broken and there is no way to open it."

The doctor looked incredulous: "Bring it here, let me see it!"

Chu Zihang shrugged, stretched out his hand and walked forward.

But suddenly, he stopped!
……

On that dark shadow on the cold white ground...

A wriggling tentacle was slowly extending from behind the doctor.

(End of this chapter)