Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Midnight Morgue

Wu Lang was in the inpatient building, and after walking around casually, he took the elevator downstairs and walked in the direction of the hospital morgue.

The dark night seemed to be smeared heavily on the sky, and there was not even a glimmer of stars. The night fog hit, and the midsummer night was a little cool, and there were few stars in sight in the hazy moonlight. The sky was not pure black, but a vast expanse of deep blue that stretched into the distance......

The white moonlight passed through the shadows of the trees, reflecting pale white spots on the black and inky ground.

On the side of the road leading to the morgue, the bleak trees stood one by one, wet marks of dew, reflecting the silvery white light of the moonlight.

The quiet and uninhabited road, silently exuding the taste of loneliness, the street lamp is probably short-circuited, from the yellow old lampshade from time to time flashes a faint light, the light is a little strange, a moment white, a moment yellow, always dim and matte.

The door of the morgue was open, the second floor was dark, there was no light, Wu Lang walked in slowly, saw a glimmer of light from the window of the duty room, then walked to the door, knocked on the closed door, no one answered.

Subsequently, Wu Lang walked to the staircase leading to the morgue on the basement floor, the sensor light in the corridor was extinguished, Wu Lang did not make any sound, but took out his mobile phone, turned on the flashlight function, a beam of white LED light, and then illuminated the steps of the corridor.

There are only seven short steps of the stairs, Wu Lang walked down the steps, through the corridor, although the lights in the morgue were transparent, but it revealed an indescribable terrifying and eerie atmosphere, there was no one inside, Wu Lang immediately walked to the studio not far from the side, the door was open, and a figure in a white coat was leaning down, facing the morgue, busy.

"When" ...... "dang" ...... "dang......

Wu Lang knocked lightly on the open door three times, "Hello, Master Wang, I'm sorry to disturb you." ”

"It's you, why are you coming to the morgue so late?" Master Wang, who was wearing a mask, slowly turned his head and looked at Wu Lang.

"My name is Wu Lang, I just graduated from Haizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and I came to our hospital for an internship, so I came here to have a look. After Wu Lang finished speaking, he stretched out his hand with a smile.

Master Wang, who was wearing a mask, looked at Wu Lang in a daze for a full minute before slowly putting down the eyebrow pencil in his hand, taking off the rubber gloves he was wearing, and stretching his hand over.

"You were the first person to take the initiative to shake hands with me, thank you!" Master Wang stared at Wu Lang tightly and said.

"I don't have these taboos, give them the last perfect grooming in the world, as a woman, you are very remarkable, I admire and respect you from the bottom of my heart. Wu Lang said.

"I'm going to have to finish this body before I can get out, if you're not afraid, put on your mask and watch from the sidelines. After Master Wang finished speaking, he pointed to the table next to him.

Wu Lang then turned around and walked to the table, opened the drawer, took out a mask from it and put it on, walked to Master Wang's side, and watched carefully.

The body was a middle-aged man, the bare limbs were intact, but the deceased's head had been severely deformed, half of his face had sunk into his head, his skull was shattered, his hair was still sticking to bone chips and blood crusts, his neck was also broken in half, his nose was connected to the right cheek, a piece of flesh was gone, his lower lip was missing more than half, and there was a little wrinkle left, his right eyeball was also deflated, and his face was pitted. The facial features were distorted, looking like a puppet whose face had been stepped on, of course, it was much more terrifying than the puppet, the pink flesh and the broken bones......

On the workbench, there is a palette, a few paintbrushes, some cosmetics, paints, and some disinfectants. Master Wang carefully cleaned the face of the body with alcohol cotton wool......

"This person is in a car accident, just sent over, I have to take advantage of his body is not stiff, repair it, otherwise, put it in the freezer overnight, tomorrow in the process, very troublesome." Master Wang's hand was moving, and he was talking to Wu Lang.

"Master Wang, this kind of body is very difficult to deal with. Wu Lang said softly.

"Yes, this kind of body has to be filled and repaired, the nose has to be pinched with materials, the cheeks have been filled, the lips have been sewn, and the neck has to be cleaned and sewn up, and the gluing is complete. I have to take the photos before my death, and I can't say that it is exactly the same, but the restoration is already very good, but some of the parents who died are not satisfied, so I have to explain to them patiently, the makeup of the dead and the living is completely different. ”

Master Wang used tweezers to remove the hair and bone fragments from the deceased's head, filled the collapsed part with material, and then carefully stitched it with needle and thread, and then applied foundation, blush, and lip gloss......

Wu Lang carefully watched every movement and step of Master Wang, and quickly memorized it in his brain.

It took more than two hours for Master Wang to finish the body, then opened the freezer and pushed the body inside.

"Alright, let's go out and talk. After Master Wang finished speaking, he walked straight out, and Wu Lang followed immediately.

When the two came to the second floor, Master Wang opened the door, took out two bags of instant noodles in buckets, tore open the lids, connected the boiling water on the water dispenser, and took out two bags of peanuts, two ham sausages, and a bottle of burning knives from the glass cabinet.

"You sit down first, I'll take a shower. After Master Wang finished speaking, he walked into the bathroom on the side.

Wu Lang sat on the sofa and looked at the layout of the room: this is a small living room with a guest and a bedroom, a bathroom, a coffee table, no TV, and a laptop on the desk next to it. There is also no kitchen, and there is an induction cooker and some pots and pans, spices, and a box of instant noodles on the floor, which is placed in the corner of the wall.

Master Wang, wearing a light-colored loungewear in shorts and shorts, walked out of the bathroom, kept patting his wet hair with a towel, his figure was even, there was no trace of fat, for a thirty-five-year-old woman, the maintenance was quite good.

"After this body is repaired, will it be sent to the funeral home?" Wu Lang looked at Master Wang and asked.

"Well, the body of a natural death is the easiest to put on makeup, and after cleaning, apply foundation, touch it up, and send it to the farewell hall. Occasionally, after death, the body's eyelids shrink and the eyes open and the mouth open, so it is necessary to massage the eyes and mouth with a hot compress. If you can't close it, you have to use a special softener. After Master Wang finished speaking, he handed Wu Lang a bucket of instant noodles.

Wu Lang hurriedly caught it with both hands and looked at Master Wang, who was bowing his head and eating.

"The hardest thing to deal with is after the corruption, and there are the bodies after drowning, because it's hard to apply makeup. Some people have internal organ diseases, and when they put on makeup, their facial features will bleed outward, and it is difficult to put on makeup. Corrupted corpses can barely be put on makeup, because the skin can easily fall off and accidentally stick to the gloves. And the stench, that smell lingers under the nose for days. Master Wang looked at Wu Lang, who was also eating instant noodles with his head down, and the look of appreciation in his eyes flashed.

"Some of the makeup time is very short, some time is very long, this depends on the experience of the master, the master according to the stomach to feel the degree of thawing, and then inject antiseptic inside, to avoid makeup and the corpse after arriving at the farewell hall to decompose the water. Wearing clothes and body bags are covered, except for special ones. When cleaning the body, you have to take off your underwear, just like a living person, who will take a bath in your underwear, so what else do you wash? Master Wang continued to explain to Wu Lang.

"It's a little difficult to get dressed, but it's better if the limbs are intact, I'm afraid that some of them will break into pieces, and some of the facial features are full of maggots, and the maggots have red threads in them. Then you have to shape, fill, glue, stitch, repair, that is really difficult, the focus is on the head and face, the body is wrapped in clothes, there are a little imperfections, you can't see it. Generally, in the cold storage, the freezing time is slightly longer, in order to choose an auspicious day of the zodiac, and then there are disputes, and there are a few that no one has claimed for 10,000 years. Master Wang looked at Wu Lang, who looked up and drank all the instant noodle soup, and nodded secretly.

Wu Lang picked up the 80-degree burning knife on the table, looked at it, then poured it into the glass and handed it to Master Wang with both hands.

"Thank you for teaching me so much knowledge and increasing my knowledge, I respect you. After Wu Lang finished speaking, he raised his head and drank the burning knife wine in his hand.

Master Wang took the glass in his hand, watched Wu Lang's actions, was stunned for a moment, and then drank it all.

"Young man, your mental capacity and alcohol consumption are very good, amazing. Master Wang smiled at Wu Lang.