Chapter 22 Saint Lan Monastery 22

Weird World

Now that she could legitimately go to the second basement level, Wen Qi didn't waste any time.

When she received the crumpled paper from the idol yesterday, she wanted to check if a morgue still existed.

In retrospect, the note on the crumpled paper, "How could a monastery have a morgue?", was incorrect, while the prankish note that followed was genuine.

Who exactly is helping the Chosen One? Yet they also enjoy playing pranks.

Soon, Wen Qi took the elevator to the second basement level.

Sure enough, there was a morgue. It was a long corridor, and the second basement level was much larger than the first basement level.

Viewers watching the live stream saw everything around Wen Qi.

The second basement level is too gloomy, and the lighting is very poor.

"It's so cold!" Wen Qi exclaimed, shivering. "I'm freezing."

She clapped her hands together and realized there were no voice-activated lights here.

They could only search everywhere for the light.

Since cloaked figures have come here to make their selections, they certainly wouldn't make their choices under such circumstances.

Unable to find any light switches near the stairwell, Wen Qi had to focus her efforts on each individual room.

She arrived at room number 1 in the morgue, where the door was locked, there was no keyhole, and no fingerprint or iris recognition.

Each door was made of a bronze-like material, and you had to turn the gears on it.

Wen Qi thought to herself, since the dean didn't recognize that she was an imposter, then the dean tacitly agreed that Nora could open the door.

Is there a big difference between pastors and monks?

Wen Qi placed her hands on the gears and tried to turn them, but no matter how she tried, she couldn't turn them, and it wasn't a matter of insufficient strength.

Just as she was about to take out the strange object and smash it, she suddenly thought of a way she could try.

Wen Qi tried to activate the strange power within her body, and sure enough, she was able to open the door.

This test proved significant, as it allowed her to confirm that the Dean possessed supernatural powers, and that Nora also had supernatural powers.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why both the Dean and Nora could open this door.

Does this also mean that the Dean and Nora are more bizarre than those waiters? After all, the waiters are just strong and fast, but they are far inferior to him who is holding the strange object.

Thinking of this, Wen Qi felt even less confident about achieving an SSS rating, realizing she couldn't beat the Dean and Nora.

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Wen Qi opened the door and casually switched on the incandescent light on the wall, allowing her to see the room clearly.

The biting cold made Wen Qi shiver instantly.

There were ten beds of varying sizes in the room, on which lay many corpses, some human and some animal.

The remains were all of people aged between ten and twenty, mostly male.

The body wasn't covered with a white sheet, and the bed where the body was placed was made of ice; no wonder the entire second basement level was so cold.

There was a little bit of bodily fluid on the ground, and the air was filled with the stench of decay and formaldehyde, which was pungent and unpleasant.

Perhaps the ice bed wasn't there from the beginning, or perhaps the body had already begun to decompose when it was brought here.

The bodies had some bruises, and most of them were missing limbs, heads, eyes, or dirt.

Some were even reduced to mere body parts, haphazardly piled on an ice bed, seemingly unprocessed.

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The viewers in front of the screen were also quite frightened by this scene.

This is a completely different concept from the corpses they usually see in suspense dramas.

The audience in the Dragon Kingdom began to worry about Wen Qi, fearing that if the dean discovered her identity, her fate would be dire.

After examining all the corpses, Wen Qi became even more convinced that the legend of MT was similar to Muti's human body witch medicine.

The planet where the Saint Lan Monastery is located is so similar to a certain country in the Blue Star Flying Continent; it's practically a reflection of Blue Star itself.

Otherwise, how could MT and muti have such a high degree of overlap?

News reports in the real world, particularly in China, have also documented the punishment and legal accountability of some morally corrupt doctors who perform illegal organ transplants.

Although there are few reports, it cannot be denied that such things exist, and they also exist in other countries on Earth. In fact, the illegal trade in organ transplants is even more rampant in the black markets of other countries.

Some impoverished countries have even legalized the sale of organs, a practice that is unacceptable in the cultural values ​​of both China and Wenqi.

Wen Qi had previously seen news reports about the US black market, where organs were openly priced.

Aside from the brain and muscles, there is nothing in a person that cannot be bought or sold, from teeth and corneas to internal organs, stem cells, and skin.

A pair of eyes can sell for $1,500, a liver for $150,000, and a heart for a little over $100,000.

Even the stomach and spleen have five hundred parts, the small intestine has two thousand five, and the skin has ten meters per square inch.

Organ transplantation is rife with exploitation and tramples on the health rights of the poor.

Some people spend money to prolong their lives, while others trade their lives for money.

Even though she was poor, Wen Qi didn't understand how to make money this way; health was the most important thing.

While Wen Qi was analyzing the possible truth behind the monastery, the higher-ups at the Loongson base also came to similar conclusions.

Of course, all of this was Wen Qi's speculation, not something she learned from the pastor, the dean, or any of the surviving members of the harvested faith.

The accuracy of all these inferences remains to be examined and further investigated.

Or perhaps the truth is even crueler and more unacceptable than this.

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Wen Qi quickly finished looking through the rooms in the morgue, and found that the layout of several of the rooms was completely different from the way the bodies were preserved.

The number 13 that the dean mentioned only contained four bodies, all of whom appeared to have died recently.

The preservation method is no longer using ice beds, but other methods are used to preserve the remains, resulting in a very high level of activity.

Perhaps they used some kind of supernatural power.

Wen Qi couldn't tell how those people died, but there were no stitches on their bodies.

Wen Qi noticed that next to the second female body was a piece of cardboard.

It says: cornea, kidney, leg bone, and there are checkmarks next to them.

Just then, Wen Qi's actions received another reward notice.

[Announcement to the entire planet: Congratulations to Wen Qi, the Chosen One of the Dragon Kingdom, for discovering some clues to the truth about the Saint Lan Monastery and receiving an additional random resource reward.]

[The entire nation of Dragon Kingdom is rewarded with a +5 to physical fitness and two million tons of coal resources, which have already been deployed within the country.]

It seems that the cloaked lady who just left needed to trade the above three items.

Wen Qi could now barely confirm that the Saint Lan Monastery was involved in the sale of organs, cells, and tissues, but organ transplantation was only one of the monastery's businesses.

The fact that cells, tissues, and organs are being traded suggests that monasteries practically own the remains.

Wen Qi couldn't imagine whether these bodies came from donations or from murder committed by the monastery.

Or was it a stolen body?

However, based on the information currently available, the second answer is clearly more in line with reality.

Wen Qi didn't dare to stay here any longer. She wasn't the real Nora and didn't know the transaction process.

I promised the dean I'd come to the second basement level only to investigate the truth, but now I have to retreat, and I can't afford to get myself into trouble.