The reason why Chen Ge came to ask Zhang Li specifically was because the security guard behaved too abnormally in the haunted house. He must have had some special experience.

Zhang Ting's gloom and depression come from deep within his bones. He must be hiding many secrets in his heart that he cannot share with others.

Being stared at by Chen Ge, Zhang Ting felt a little nervous. He opened his mouth several times, but no sound came out.

"Don't be shy. Tell me everything you heard and saw." The more Zhang Li said this, the more curious Chen Ge became.

"It's not that I don't want to say it, I'm just afraid that if I say it, you won't believe it." Zhang Li took out a cigarette from his pocket and held it in his hand: "Can I have a cigarette?"

"You are in your own home, do whatever you want, don't worry about me."

After getting Chen Ge's consent, Zhang Li lit the cigarette and took a deep puff. He really enjoyed the feeling of the tobacco stimulating his lungs. It seemed that only this could make him forget his worries for a short while.

Slowly exhaling a puff of smoke, Zhang Li's first words attracted Chen Ge: "The corpses in the underground corpse warehouse will move by themselves."

"The body moves?"

"There are things that are hundreds of times more terrifying than moving." Zhang Li's hands trembled slightly. "When I first arrived at Jiujiang Forensic Medical College as a security guard, the underground corpse storage at the west campus was being expanded. All the original pools for storing corpses were stopped from use and were to be replaced with brand new morgue cabinets."

"The underground morgue is located under the west campus, and the construction is quite difficult."

"At first, the school intended to renovate the several large warehouses at the deepest part of the morgue, dig out the morgue pool, and then renovate it."

"They hired a professional construction team to do it, and they expected to complete the renovation within half a month. But the next day after the construction team entered the underground corpse storage, an accident happened."

"A worker accidentally fell into the body pool while cleaning the formalin in the body pool. The pool was not deep, but the worker couldn't climb out. He felt that many people grabbed him and wouldn't let him leave." Zhang Li quickly finished a cigarette. He gestured with his hands to Chen Ge: "That large body pool is very similar to the bathhouse in the past, but the liquid in the body pool is yellow-brown and opaque. You can only roughly see the hands, feet, back and hair of the corpse."

"What happened to the worker who fell into the pool?" This was what Chen Ge was more curious about.

"Next to the morgue, there is an iron hook used to pull corpses out of the pool. Medical students usually use that thing to pull corpses out of the pool when doing experiments. Other workers present at the time threw the iron hook into the pool and let the person who fell in grab it. It took several people to pull him out." Zhang Li lit another cigarette. He was a heavy smoker, especially when thinking about the things he tried his best to avoid: "When the worker fell into the pool, he accidentally drank a few sips of formalin in the pool. He was then sent to the hospital for gastric lavage. He was fine, but I heard that after his body recovered, his brain had problems and he often muttered to himself."

"Can you still contact that worker now? Did he say anything before he went crazy?"

"I'm not sure. It happened a long time ago. If you really want to know, I can go to the school and ask for you, but don't hold your hopes too high."

"It's okay, just continue talking." Chen Ge took out his mobile phone, ready to record important things at any time.

"After sending the worker to the hospital, construction continued as normal, but on the second night, another strange thing happened." Zhang Li's expression was solemn, as if he still felt very uncomfortable when recalling it now: "The number of bodies transported away by the construction team and school staff during the day has changed."

"Is this what you mean by corpses moving?"

"I guess so, but even more terrifying things are yet to come." Zhang Li was only telling other people's stories, and he did not mention why he became like this.

His voice got lower and lower, and the tension seemed to be a little cold. He took another deep puff of cigarette and said, "On the third day, the construction team went deep into the underground morgue again. After they dealt with the bodies in the first warehouse, they dug up the morgue pool that was built more than 20 years ago. The scene at that time scared all the workers."

"The bottom of the morgue pool is like a human body, covered with blood vessels. The moment they were exposed to the light, they quickly shrank." Zhang Li frowned, leaning back on the sofa with a bad look on his face. "I was helping out at the time and took a look inside. How should I put it? It felt like the pool had life."

"Blood vessels have grown at the bottom of the morgue?" Chen Ge noted Zhang Li's words.

"The person in charge of the construction team even went to the school leaders for this matter. The leaders didn't know the reason either, and finally concluded that it was an extremely rare fungus." Zhang Li shook his head slightly: "Even someone like me who has never been to school knows that they are talking nonsense. Someone on the construction team also raised objections. In the end, I heard that the school doubled the remuneration on the original basis, and the construction team agreed to continue working."

"That afternoon, the construction team removed the edge of the pool and dug deeper, trying to clear a space. But the more they dug, the more they felt something was wrong. The soil beneath the pool smelled of formalin and was reddish in color. Dark brown threads could be seen in it that broke at the touch."

"No one knows what that thing is. It doesn't look like the roots of a plant, nor does it look like the corpse of an insect."

"The construction team reported the situation of the underground corpse storage to the school. They took out some soil samples. After the school looked at them, they couldn't explain it clearly. They just urged the construction team to speed up the progress."

"To reassure the construction team, the school staff stayed with them the whole time, telling them not to worry, that these were all normal phenomena." Zhang Li seemed very dissatisfied with the school's approach, and his tone changed slightly: "I had just arrived at the school as a security guard, and no one wanted to help in the underground morgue, so they pushed it to me. I was just an errand boy for the school, and I was not familiar with the construction team, so I ended up getting bullied by both sides."

"The progress of the underground morgue renovation was very slow. All kinds of strange things kept happening, and people on the construction team were injured one after another. Finally, they couldn't stand it anymore, and all the workers went on strike. The school had no choice but to change the plan after discussing with the project manager."

"They are planning to expand and build a new corpse storage facility. The original corpse storage facility will be abandoned and will no longer be used."

"But the school's compromise also has requirements. They gave the construction team a strict order to complete the renovation within one month. If the construction team still drags their feet and fails to complete the work within the specified date, it will be regarded as a breach of contract."