Chapter 21: The Horror (Part II)
"Dry corpses? How can it be? ”
Yuge heard my trembling voice, and hurriedly walked to the scattered peach blossom pile to take a closer look, it didn't matter, she herself was so frightened that she hurriedly fled to me, grabbed my arm and trembled.
Hidden by the fragrant peach blossoms is really a corpse, a corpse that looks like it has been dried for a long time, it is lying on the floor in the shape of a "big" figure, like the Vitruvian man in Leonardo da Vinci's painting. It's just that the skin on his body has been completely peeled off, and all we can see is the red and white flesh and blood on his body, and after more time, the muscles on his body have long atrophied to the point that they can't look like they're gone, and the blood vessels that should have been light blue have become black at the moment, losing their elasticity, so they are shriveled and stuck to the flesh. Amazingly, despite the passage of time, the flesh remained ruddy, and it seemed that drops of blood would seep out at any moment.
We looked down his body, the abdominal cavity had been completely hollowed out, leaving only eight ribs and sternum and the thick layer of milky white fat in the stomach area was stored there alone, and the internal organs seemed to have been taken out, if it weren't for the male ** officer who had shrunk into a ball between his legs, we couldn't tell whether this person was a man or a woman before his death. Looking up, because his face had been peeled off, his face was blurred with flesh and blood, and his jawbone was not slightly bitten like ordinary dead people, but exaggeratedly opened, and it seemed that he was skinned alive, and through the shape of the mouth, I seemed to feel the intense pain when he was skinned before he died, and the terrible sound echoed in my ears.
Peel! How can there be such torture in this era! What a deep hatred this is!
Yuge curled up in my arms, eyes closed. She is usually braver than me, and she is not usually afraid of what we humans are afraid of, but today, such a situation makes it impossible for her to face it again. "Izumi, it's terrible!"
I shuddered at the sight, but we had to have someone to take a closer look at the body. "You don't move, I'll take a closer look."
Yu Ge held my hand tightly. "You have to be careful, if it doesn't work, let's call the police."
Yu Ge and I have experienced a lot of terrible things, but such a cruel and bloody scene is really rare in my life, which reminds me of the inhumane torture in ancient China, Ling Chi, beheading, and splitting the corpses of five horses, these names alone make people tremble. This is not some demon or monster, not some supernatural rumor, but it is the most terrifying existence in this world, this is the creation of human beings themselves, inflicting an extreme pain on another person to satisfy their own twisted pleasure, no matter how terrible the ghost is, it is just a rumor, and the horror caused by this torture is vivid and empathetic.
Just thinking of the tragic situation of this man before his death made my heart twist like a knife, unable to move an inch, barely holding on to the wall and moving towards the corpse.
This corpse, there is no trace of decay, if it is in normal times, it will have a rotten stench, placed in such a dark corner of the warehouse will inevitably attract flies, insects, snakes and rats, but now due to the cover of peach blossom fragrance, it can still maintain a certain degree of freshness, and the corpse is stored cleanly, lying quietly in the peach petals, there is an indescribable beauty, a kind of artistic sense caused by the extreme blood.
A dead body lying on a bed of petals.
"Izumi? Wouldn't this be high...... Plateau? Yu Ge asked.
I looked at the corpse with a violent vomiting sensation, this person was less than 1.7 meters tall before his death, and with the thick fat layer on his abdomen, I could conclude that this was not a plateau.
"Definitely not, the plateau is elongated."
"Then you open the other two peach blossom piles and see if there are such corpses inside." Yu Ge stood aside and said tremblingly.
Yuge, as a monster with mana, you don't go into battle in person, let me put a powerless person in danger, to be honest, my nerves are already a little numb now, my eyes have become dry, and I see things with double vision.
I kicked open the second peach blossom pile, revealing a corpse in the same miserable shape as the previous one, the same bloody flesh and blood, the same mouth wide open, except that this one looked fatter and burlier, this person looked like a long-time exerciser, because his muscles were still very strong, and the color of flesh and blood was more ruddy than the previous corpse.
"Yu Ge, I guess these two corpses should not have been moved here at the same time, because the two people's flesh and blood have different degrees of weathering."
"Izumi! You don't have to analyze this, I don't want to hear it, you just tell me if it's a plateau. ”
I shook my head. "Obviously not, Gao Yuan is much thinner than this man."
"Then kick the last peach blossom heap away!"
I was a little timid at this time, I was afraid that it was really a plateau inside, I was afraid that Gao Yuan would also die a tragic death like this, I really couldn't accept such a result, although he was a little careful, but there was no reason for him to die so miserably.
I carefully pushed the last peach blossom pile away from the very edge, and first one arm was revealed, this one was obviously different from the previous two corpses, the first two were naked flesh and blood, and this one was still wearing a flat suit.
The sense of foreboding grew stronger.
I then shook all the peach petals to the ground, and a complete human form appeared before our eyes.
"Plateau!" I exclaimed.
It's really Gao Yuan, this can't be wrong, Gao Yuan's skin is intact, he is still wearing the suit he wore on the day of the interview, his hair is still neatly combed, there is no trace of pain on his face, and there is even a smile on the corner of his mouth, he just lies there peacefully, motionless. It looks like I just accidentally fell asleep.
"Yuge, it's the plateau, he doesn't seem to be dead." I accidentally touched his arm with my hand and found it still warm.
Yu Ge hurriedly ran over and carefully examined Gao Yuan's body. She lifted Gao Yuan's shirt, and then I saw that there was a huge hole in the heart of Gao Yuan, and the blood had gathered a thick layer at the wound.
"Him!" I couldn't believe my eyes for a moment.
"His heart seems to have been gouged out."
I sat on the ground, my mind blank, fear and sadness eating away at my sanity at the same time, and my whole body was washed by cold sweat. "He's dead?"
"But he does still have a temperature." Yu Ge gasped and tried to calm himself. "He's alive!"
"How can you be alive without a heart?"
Yu Ge gently put his hand into the bloody hole, and when he stretched out his hand again, he found that his hands were covered with hot blood and steaming. "I don't know how to explain it, he was temporarily sealed and all metabolism was stopped, as if he was hibernating. Although he has no heart, he can still live for a long time. ”
I was speechless.
"And you see there's a lot of claw marks on this wound." Yu Ge pointed it out to me.
There are indeed many small claw marks around the wounds on the plateau, which are particularly eye-catching under the light.
"What does this mean?"
"It means that the vixen is very entangled when he pulls out his heart." Yu Ge was also sweating at this time, wet all over, and his hair was clinging to his scalp. "It's because of the entanglement, so after this vixen took out his heart, he sealed his bloodline with mana."
"Why?"
Yu Ge shook his head. "The vixen is a very emotional monster, and we can't guess what she thinks."
Xiaoyan heard my name as Gao Yuan, and rushed in from the outside desperately.
"Did you find him?" With a smile on her face, she thought that the plateau was still alive.
The two bloody corpses and the bloody hole in the chest of the plateau were undisguised in her eyes.
"Ahh She screamed and fainted.