Chapter 18: Collapse

"This is it." Before the taxi could stop, Yang Wenbin jumped out of the passenger seat and limped towards the old warehouse mentioned in the note. Yan Junli hurriedly paid for the car and chased after him.

The warehouse is small and unremarkable, hidden in a mess of weeds and gravel piles that you can't find without looking closely. Black smoke rises from the huge chimney of the chemical plant on the side, standing like a giant beast in the sky as the sun sets. Yang Wenbin pushed aside the weeds that were one person high, carefully avoided the stones and glass slag on the ground, and came to the closed door of the warehouse.

The old gray warehouse resembles a giant mouth, and the closed, rusty door resembles an entrance to a bloody mouth. Yang Wenbin stepped forward and tried to push the door, but the door was not locked, but the rusty edges were stuck together.

"Let me try, shall you?" Yan Junli stepped forward to help, but was rejected by Yang Wenbin.

"It's okay, I can do it." Saying that, Yang Wenbin mustered up all his strength and relied on the strength of his whole body to hit the warehouse door. With a harsh and ugly sound of metal rubbing, the door of the warehouse suddenly opened, causing Yang Wenbin to stagger several steps.

The warehouse was very dark, and as far as the eye could see, it was filled with cobwebs. As soon as the flashlight shone over, two fat mice ran by.

"There it is!" Yang Wenbin suddenly found something, and ran over excitedly, "I saw the corpse, a male corpse, wearing a plaid shirt and jeans, this is definitely Tao Mingming!" Tao Mingliang also had a corpse beside him. ”

"And a corpse?" Yan Junli asked, and quickened his pace.

"Yes, it should be the old man Tao Mingliang mentioned who wanted to kill him, he was wearing an old jacket-"

Suddenly, Yang Wenbin seemed to have pressed the mute button, and stopped abruptly halfway through his words. Only the echo of the previous sentence remained in the air.

"What's wrong?" Somehow, Yan Junli's heart tightened, and he had a bad premonition, and hurriedly ran to Yang Wenbin.

But Yang Wenbin seemed to have lost his soul suddenly, his eyes were not focused, his mouth was open and closed, but he couldn't speak for a while. After a while, he suddenly began to gasp violently, as if he was about to be crushed by the air if he didn't breathe hard, and then he pointed with a trembling finger at another corpse lying on the ground.

Yan Junli immediately shone the flashlight at the corpse, at first he didn't see anything wrong, until his eyes fell on the jacket and he felt that something was wrong. Yan Junli immediately squatted down and turned the corpse over. Then the corpse's old, wrinkled face burst into his eyes without warning.

Yan Junli gasped.

This person, Yan Junli, had just visited a few days ago, and welcomed him in with a smile, and set up a table of delicious food and drink to entertain him.

The old man, who had always had a kind smile on his face, was now stiffened, lying on the cold ground, emitting the stench of rotting corpses.

The old man who died next to Tao Mingliang was none other than him. It is Uncle Zhu who adopted and raised Yang Wenbin as an adult, and is like a father to him.

"No, how is this possible......" Yang Wenbin took a few steps back, blinked his eyes as if incomprehensible, and then suddenly began to laugh nervously, shaking his head vigorously, "What kind of joke is this?" It's not funny at all! ”

Li Hong and Poppy, who arrived later, opened their mouths in surprise when they saw the corpse lying on the ground, but no one could explain all this to Yang Wenbin.

"Joker! Xia Baiyan! Come out! Yang Wenbin was already furious, and he began to shout hysterically into the void, "What is this? Get out of here! Where did you find the corpse disguised as him? This joke is not funny at all! Aren't you amazing? Come out! I'm going to tear you to shreds!! ”

But all that responded was the silence that permeated the air, as if laughing at him.

"Okay, you're done! What do I care about you, you're a madman! Yang Wenbin angrily took out his mobile phone and began to dial, "It's ridiculous, I'm going to call Zhu Bo to tell him that there will be such a nonsensical thing, I want to tell him ......"

The prompt sound in the mobile phone was hollowly "beeped", and then soon, the sound of the mobile phone ringing sounded in the empty warehouse, and happily surrounded the entire empty place. And the bell rang from the man's pocket.

Yan Junli was silent, took out the ringing mobile phone from the corpse's pocket, and pressed the hang up button.

Li Hong couldn't stand it anymore, and said with a crying voice, "Doctor Yang...... This corpse is Zhu Bo! ”

Yang Wenbin was stunned for a moment, only to feel that a lot of noisy sounds suddenly poured into his head, and he couldn't think anymore. He didn't know what was going on, and he refused to think about the current situation, and before that terrible sentence came to his mind, Yang Wenbin's knees were already overwhelmed, and his whole body fell to the ground.

"Wen Bin!"

"Doctor Yang!"

Someone came to help him. Someone called him. But Yang Wenbin's brain was only cloudy, the noise filled his ears, and all the neurons stopped working. He covered his ears and gasped violently, the pressure in the air forcing him to breathe. He knew that everything his body had done was just to stop that terrible sentence from entering his mind, but no matter how hard he tried, that sentence still ruthlessly broke through all barriers, **naked in his mind.

- Zhu Bo, dead.

"Wen Bin! Wenbin! What happened to you? Are you okay? In the gradually returning sight and hearing, the first thing Yang Wenbin saw was Yan Junli's anxious expression. Yan Junli almost held Yang Wenbin in his arms and looked at him worriedly.

Yang Wenbin's ears were still ringing violently, and he pushed Yan Junli away and staggered to his feet. His stomach was tumbling, and the violent nausea forced him to squat down and vomit. But when Yan Junli rushed over and wanted to help him up, Yang Wenbin pushed him away rudely.

"Go away! Don't come near me! Yang Wenbin waved his arms in confusion, and the three of them had no choice but to stop approaching him, allowing him to stagger out of the warehouse. But Yang Wenbin just wanted to get rid of the noisy chirps in his ears.

Yang Wenbin roamed aimlessly, like a zombie in a post-apocalyptic movie. He wandered indifferently through the strange and familiar streets, he did not know how long he had walked, nor what direction he had taken, and time had lost its meaning in great grief.

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