Chapter 11: Quarrels in the morgue
Qi Lu finally woke up, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he was startled by the scene in front of him, and he almost jumped out of bed.
"Don't be nervous, I'm not a monster." A thin man sat at the head of the bed, looking at him with a smile.
"I said Lao Wu, can you come in and say hello, I want to scare people to death silently!" Qi Lu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this familiar face, he sat up and moved his muscles and bones, and then picked up the clothes next to the bed and put them on.
The middle-aged man, who was exchanging mobile phones with Qi Lu at the door of the funeral home, slowly took out a stainless steel wine jug from his underwear pocket and took a sip of wine before saying to him: "If you want not to be frightened, remember to lock the door when you sleep in the future." ”
"What!" Qi Lu's hand to tie the buttons of his clothes stopped, because he remembered that he had obviously locked the door last night, but Lao Wu told him that the door was not locked at all.
Qi Lu's eyes quickly swept the dilapidated and messy room, and found that everything was placed where it should have been, and there was no trace of anyone turning it over at all. Suddenly, Qi Lu felt that the locks of this funeral parlor seemed to be useless, and he locked the door in the morgue last time, Ding Xiaolan came in easily, and it was the same for Lao Wu today.
Qi Lu asked hesitantly, "Are you sure I didn't lock the door?" ”
"Yes, when I came, I saw that your door was open, and I thought you were up a long time ago." Lao Wu took another sip of wine, and the damp musty smell in the room mixed with the smell of wine, which made Qi Lu feel a little uncomfortable.
Qi Lu got up from the bed, exchanged his mobile phone with Lao Wu and asked him, "Have you seen the photo?" Can you find out what the cause is? ”
"Look, it won't be a human anyway."
Qi Lu was still waiting for Lao Wu to continue, but Lao Wu's words had already been finished. Qi Lu couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, his half-tone attitude towards him was as strange as his bad habit of drinking.
It was raining outside, and Qi Lu looked out through the glass window, and the sky and the earth seemed to be hung with an incomparably wide bead curtain, a misty one. The rain flowed down the eaves like beads with broken threads, gradually joining into a line.
"By the way, I have something to tell you." Qi Lu told Lao Wu about Chen Jixian's discovery of zombies yesterday, and then asked him if he had any opinions.
Lao Wu was neither surprised nor frightened after hearing this, as if this kind of thing had become commonplace for him. He said leisurely: "It seems that this Taoist priest who is a monk halfway through the road is not good at learning. ”
Qi Lu exclaimed: "How can you say that? ”
"He was roughly right about the function of the Feng Shui Graveyard, but the name was wrong. This is not a four-phase ghost game, but a mixed element yin and evil game. It was lost during the Warring States period, but I didn't expect it to reappear today. ”
"Is that as evil as you say?" Qi Lu didn't believe it.
"Then let me ask you, since the Han Dynasty, there has been basically no use of bronze artifacts, how do you explain the unearthed Xuanwu?"
"yes, that's what I've always been unable to figure out." Qi Lu suddenly remembered something, so he asked Lao Wu: "According to what you say, isn't the history of this tomb very long?" ”
"That's right! That's what worries me, if it's really more than 2,000 years old, it's not a pediatric creature like zombies buried in the grave. ”
"What is it that is not a zombie?"
"Although the ancestor of zombies, the Drought Fish, was born in the last years of the Xia Dynasty, it was only during the Song Dynasty that its descendants evolved into the form of zombies. When the dead bodies buried in the grave become zombies, it will not exceed the middle of the Ming Dynasty at the earliest, and in the Qing Dynasty, that is when the zombies are most active, so now we see many zombies in ghost movies wearing Qing Dynasty costumes. ”
Qi Lu asked: "You said so much, but you still didn't tell me what this evil thing is?" ”
"The tomb you found predates the appearance of zombies, I can only be sure that this is not a zombie, and you have to see it with your own eyes to find out."
"Cut, what you said for a long time is equivalent to talking in vain." Seeing that Lao Wu was so perfunctory, Qi Lu was so angry that he wanted to punch him.
"No matter what it is, I'm afraid that this parallel Taoist priest will suffer when he digs the grave."
This reminded Qi Lu, and he hurriedly smiled and said, "Why don't you come here or not, just help?" ”
"Come on." Lao Wu said angrily: "You know that I am cowardly, in case I can't subdue this ghost thing, but I am injured by it, wouldn't it erode my old book." ”
Qi Lu let out a long sigh, feeling that it was a miracle that he could get along with someone like Lao Wu who was timid, drunk, and careless for a long time.
Lao Wu stretched out his hand to check his lower pulse, and then told him: "It is indeed corpse poison, but it did not hurt your body, but you still have to be careful in the future, when you encounter some spells with high cultivation of flying stiffness or immortal bones, their corpse poison is even afraid of Da Luo Jin Immortal, you can't resist it." ”
"Hehe, if I really encounter such a high-level monster, I will run away, how can it have such a chance." Qi Lu laughed.
"Okay, I'll go back first, and I'll call if there's anything." Lao Wu said to him before going out: "Remember to take a few more photos when digging the grave and collect some evidence casually." ”
Qi Lu nodded in agreement, and at the same time he saw that the time was almost eight o'clock, so he sent Lao Wu out, and he happened to go to work.
Qi Lu walked through the corridor, and as soon as he came to the morgue, he heard two men making noise inside, and hurriedly pushed the door in.
Seeing Qi Lu coming in, the two men stopped arguing and turned to look at him coldly. Especially the young man in the white coat, there seemed to be a little unhappiness in his eyes.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" The young man regarded Qi Lu as an uninvited guest. It's no wonder that Qi Lu only officially went to work today, and most of the employees of the funeral home didn't know him.
"Master Zheng, my name is Qi Lu, and I'm the new administrator." Qi Lu replied without humility or arrogance, knowing that he was Zheng Lin, the body makeup artist of the funeral home. Because when he was in the cafeteria yesterday, Qi Lu secretly matched the photos of the staff bulletin board with the employees who ate, so he knew his name and occupation.
Zheng Lin pointed to the middle-aged man in front of him with a slightly hunched back and said, "You came just in time, help me invite this master to the door, don't let him disturb my work." ”
"I spent money, and I can't watch you put makeup on my daughter? It just doesn't make sense! "The middle-aged man's face is so angry that he wants to deform.
Not to be outdone, Zheng Lin retorted: "You are pointing fingers at the side, saying that I applied uneven powder to her face, and saying that my lips should be lightened, can I still work with peace of mind?" ”
Qi Lu then understood why they were arguing, it turned out that the family of the deceased thought that Zheng Lin's makeup was not good, and he was going to see how effective Zheng Lin's makeup was on the deceased, but as soon as the person turned his head, his whole body froze.
On the morgue, the white cloth covering the corpse has been lifted, isn't she the woman who Qi Lu met in front of the funeral home who claimed to be a ghost?
Qi Lu then remembered that today was the day of her cremation, looking at the pretty face that was white and bloodless, Qi Lu couldn't help but feel an inexplicable depression in his heart. The woman's memories were ringing in his head, and he always felt that her eyes would open and meet him at any moment, and he could not forget the bloody eyes that suddenly appeared in his hallucination when he first came to the morgue.
"My daughter cared most about other people's evaluation of her appearance before her death, how can you be worthy of her with such a perfunctory work attitude?" The middle-aged man was scolding Zheng Lin, and Zheng Lin's face was already a little unbearable.
"Comrades, don't worry about these juniors. Makeup is a technical job that requires a quiet environment, so why don't I sit outside with you and see the results later. If this kid really messes up, I'll teach him a lesson. ”
Lao Wang came out of nowhere, chatting with the middle-aged man like a homely person. Sure enough, Jiang was still old and spicy, and Lao Wang talked to him for less than three minutes, and the middle-aged man went out to smoke with Lao Wang.
Qi Lu wanted to stay in the house to see what could help Zheng Lin, but when he saw that his face was colorless and his eyes were staring at him, he knew that he was unhappy, and he also walked out of the door to smoke with Lao Wang.