Chapter 21: The Ritual of Returning to the Soul
Although the melody of the old record player still echoed in the duty room, the caretaker who was lying on the rocking chair with his legs crossed had closed his eyes leisurely, and the man who was over half a hundred years old could not resist the invasion of sleepiness and tiredness, and he lowered the brim of his hat, trying to hide the outside world from capturing his sleepy facial expression. Mu Tianyu stood in the shadow outside the iron gate, hesitating whether to sneak in, but the patrol officer's searchlight guidance in the dark was not easy to deal with, maybe he would really be regarded as a murderer to sneak in and destroy the evidence. The fence at the back of the building is not high, and it is easy to climb over.
In the morgue, a staff member is cleaning, not only tall, but also a completely fat man, with a headset on his head, dancing to dynamic music, he swings a broom in his hand to the rhythm, even if the job is dry and boring, and the location is so absurd.
It's no wonder that the media claim that the gloomy atmosphere is heavy, and the dark light is the main cognitive component, walking through a remote path with the branches of the trees around it faintly rattling in the night breeze. The door to the building is locked, the card reader is still lit green, and the device is in operation, and you must verify your identity to enter. The moonlight vanished after climbing over the wall, apparently obscured by the eaves overhead, but it was all eerie, as the location itself could be imagined. The windowsill on the third floor was glowing with a faint light, Mu Tianyu looked around, and made sure that there was no one around, and he was also climbing up, his movements were fast, but it was far less than before. In the past six months, he gradually regained his memory before he began to find himself.
The deep corridor, Mu Tianyu saw it after entering through the window, the sliding door was open, and the iron lock wrapped around the doorknob was still shaking slightly, it seemed that the staff had just entered, and the faint light was also seeping out from inside, and there were bursts of different sounds from time to time. Mu Tianyu cautiously walked to the sliding door, he was close to the wall, and other sounds wandered in the corridor, as long as he poked his head out, he could see it, but he was worried that he would also be discovered by the other party. But then, he felt that he was too worried, because the tall, fat man who was mopping the floor was so engrossed in the music that even the way he mopped the floor was very dramatic.
The depth of the corridor is about thirty meters, and the width is only about four meters, Mu Tianyu found a time, when the fat man turned around and twisted his fat buttocks and waist, he took a leap and rushed in, Mu Tianyu accelerated his pace, but the hurried footsteps were nothing compared to the shocking rhythm in the other party's headset. The distance was gradually shortening, it was a very popular TP music "Swing with Me" a few years ago, the strong melody reached Mu Tianyu's ears, not only that, but also the soft hum of the fat man, he wriggled his ass to the rhythm, waved the dust cleaner in his hand, and the water stains splashed everywhere. Mu Tianyu dodged a splash of sewage, sped up sharply, and slipped into the morgue.
Wow, Mu Tianyu glanced around and sighed, the room was full of body bags, and even several corpse carts were parked at the door, all loaded with corpses, and the dust was sealed in the body bags. Why are there so many corpses in the Department of Forensic Medicine? Mu Tianyu said secretly, when he was in Dero City before, he had been to the local forensic department for a lot of time, but it was not like here, where dozens of corpses were piled up in a space of seventy or eighty square meters. There was air conditioning inside, and the ambient temperature dropped suddenly, and Mu Tianyu remembered that his suit jacket had been forgotten in the taxi. He noticed a register hanging on the wall of the door, which read:
[A total of 12 corpses in Group C were sent to the De'an Crematorium on the evening of the 26th to carry people, Tang Zuqiang, and Wang Quan. Reviewer, Zhang Qi. 】
On the twenty-sixth, it was today, oh, I see, they were going to the banquet, so the bodies were not transported. Mu Tianyu looked at the messy body bags. He checked the labels on the body bags one by one: No. F12 Crane Street, Liu Yuyang, the cause of death fell from the building, and the family could not be contacted; Lower river channel of the Rhine, the woman's information is unknown, the cause of death is drowning, no identity verification; Perfume Penang Place Ocean Bank, Chow Ward Tak (robber), cause of death shot killed; Perfume Penang Plaza Ocean Bank, man unknown (robber), cause of death shot to death; Xia Hua College, Yu Yan, the cause of death was vicious homicide. Mu Tianyu stayed next to a body bag, he reached out and just touched the zipper of the body bag, when a slight fluctuation next to him surprised him.
He turned his head to look at the body bag on the frame of the cart next to him, and sure enough, it was a very delicate wriggling, which was on the surface of the body bag. Mu Tianyu hesitated, and the subtle movements continued one after another, but he still walked over, picked up the label that was swaying in the wind, and fixed his eyes to take a look: Xia Hua Academy, Yang Huanqiang, the cause of death was unexpected. It turned out to be him, and the cause of death was an accident? Mu Tianyu guessed what kind of wound could be defined as an accident, and then dragged the zipper.
Everything around was extremely quiet, even the sound of the fat man cleaning outside the door was gone, only the sound of zipper clicking, Mu Tianyu's frowning brows suddenly trembled, his eyes trembled, and he saw the arm of the deceased. The white flesh of the corpse was not a big deal, but countless turbid liquids faintly appeared on the flesh of the other party, and if you looked closely, it seemed that this strange thing had merged into the veins of the corpse, and then it was found that the dead flesh in its entire fingernails was covered with black calluses, like some kind of mutated dead flesh. Zombie? Mu Tianyu was stunned in his heart. But then, he suddenly understood something, all the body bags around him were trembling, and he didn't stop, he took a deep breath and unzipped another body bag, the second, the third, the fourth...... All the bodies of the dead have been mutated.
Oh no, how did I forget about this, corpse transformation can be spread through corpse qi. Mu Tianyu hurriedly walked to the corner of the morgue, he saw the air conditioner, and pulled down the gate forcefully, closing it completely. The corpse transformation of Yu Yan's body has attracted all the dead corpses in the morgue, if dozens of mutated corpses appear at the same time, I am afraid that the entire Tiandu City will be plunged into panic and horror tonight.
Mu Tianyu became nervous, although his memory was restored, he still couldn't remember some of it, if he was allowed to face so many violent corpses alone, it was estimated that there would be no chance of winning. He was in the morgue, frantically searching, and finally found medical equipment on an iron stand, took a pair of pliers from the box, and came to the middle of the room. He cleared an open area, removed the messy cart, and then squatted on the cold concrete floor, laboriously carving some kind of pattern on the ground with iron tongs. As he carved, he kept an eye on the movements around him, and the tremors from the body bags intensified, as if the atmosphere had a morale-boosting effect, and everything was out of control.
The pattern resembles an upside-down "8" shape, with strange and simple characters depicted around it, Mu Tianyu took out a candle from his trouser pocket, broke it from it, and then held half of each hand and put it into the two circles of the "8" shape on the ground, even psychic people do not necessarily know about this ritual, if it is not an experienced exorcist who understands the importance of this soul return ritual. He gasped for air, his hands fumbling in his pockets. "Oh,!" He exclaimed, the lighter had fallen under his suit jacket. He got up and searched again, but there was nothing in the morgue that could ignite the fire, and the violent shaking became more pronounced and more irritable, and even the sound of the iron frame colliding was like rolling thunder.
At the end of the day, Mu Tianyu frowned and sniffed, the smell of smoke? He sighed with joy and immediately ran out of the door of the morgue.
(Put aside the emotions of trouble, drive away the gloom of loss, follow the pace of freedom, yearn for the endless sea, jump over the steep canyons, break through the obstacles, and be unstoppable.) The powerful melody and inspiring lyrics show the fat man with a cigarette in his left hand, behind him, swaying his head, singing with all his heart, using the broom as a microphone, his right hand leaning his head against his open mouth, and the other end of the pestle on the ground, his feet and body moving in front of him and behind him with a sense of rhythm. Mu Tianyu didn't hesitate at all, and directly snatched the cigarette butt between the middle finger and index finger of his left hand, but how could the soul singer who had already entered a state of madness notice such a slight change, even if the two fingers of his left hand still maintained a cigarette posture.
Mu Tianyu lit one of the candles, a small flame suddenly burned, his arms were horizontal, placed in front of his chest, his right palm was on top, his left palm was down, his palms were touching, his eyes were slightly closed, and his mouth read: "Your souls can be driven to the skin of dust with evil thoughts, and you want to break free from the shackles of the contract and break into the mortal world, the cold water of the other world will gradually fade, the blazing flames will burn your twisted souls, and the call of your relatives will float in the depths of your memory, return to your own body, return to the other world, may the soul be appeased, May loved ones have peace of mind. Mu Tianyu opened his eyes uneasily, but the other candle did not burn, which should be the reason why the lead was rough and too short after breaking the candle. The more tense the moment, the more likely it is to make mistakes, all the body bags in the room begin to struggle violently, the cart swings violently, and the rollers begin to move. Mu Tianyu sighed, ignored it, closed his eyes tightly, and continued to meditate.
The rhythm of the heart-piercing music came to an abrupt end, and the fat man made an ending gesture, extremely chic, holding a microphone (broom) in his right hand and a cigarette in his left hand and putting it in his mouth, he enjoyed the gorgeous and handsome scene, and his mind echoed with cheering applause and screams. But then, he took a sharp puff of cigarette, but found nothing, and opened his eyes blankly, and in his dull eyes, the cigarette in his left hand was gone. Hey, where's my cigarette? He turned around in wonder, and in the empty corridor, the cigarette butt had not fallen. Knock Knock...... Knock Knock...... The violent sound still came to his mind, and the fat man was puzzled, wasn't the song finished? He thought there was something wrong with the headset and took it off, but then, his mind flew like a bolt from the blue, and he stared at the morgue in amazement. The sound of clanging came from inside. With a snap, the broom fell to the ground, and the sound resounded through the corridor, startling him, and with uneasy curiosity, he trembled and moved his legs gradually.
"May the souls be appeased, and may your loved ones be at ease! Back to the Otherworld! Mu Tianyu shouted in his heart, he opened his eyes suddenly, and another candle burst into flames, and finally lit. At the same time, the entire morgue was quiet again, Mu Tianyu gasped, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and sighed, but he was really a little nervous, and almost caused a catastrophe. He climbed up, the dead body next to him was exposed beyond the opened zipper with the struggle just now, but on the surface of the skin, the black miasma had disappeared, he shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly, and then put the cold corpse back into the bag.
However, at this moment, he looked back with an indifferent expression, and he was still dragging the arm of a corpse in his hand, and the fat man at the door was like a frozen picture, staring at him dumbfounded. Mu Tianyu was shocked and immediately explained: "Oh, I'm so sorry, I ...... it" Boom! There was a dull sound, and the fat man fell to the sky, fainting in fright. Mu Tianyu stared at the huge body that fell to the ground, and said embarrassedly: "I, I'm not a ghost. ”