"Brother Wei, is this hole almost filled up? Why do I feel that the seepage speed is a bit slow today?" Li Xu suppressed his discomfort and took a look into the morgue pool.
"It's probably blocked down there." Brother Wei was holding a bucket, his brows furrowed, a little irritated. The more scared he was, the weirder things he encountered: "Go outside and look for a broom, a stick, or something like that."
"Brother, this is a morgue, where do you want me to find a broom for you?"
"I can't get this thing down halfway. What if someone sees me? The school will hold me accountable. Fines are secondary. I will definitely lose my job. Medical schools like theirs take cadavers very seriously." Brother Wei was in a bad mood. He shook his hands to get rid of the residue on his plastic gloves. "Don't stand there like an idiot. Go!"
He was wearing a white coat, a mask and plastic gloves, but Wei Ge's shoes were just ordinary sneakers. He looked down and felt that his shoes seemed to be wet by something and were very uncomfortable to wear.
Li Xu had no choice but to look for tools. He walked around the room with a flashlight and came to a wooden cabinet in the corner where tools were stored.
When I opened the cabinet door, I saw several large rusty iron hooks with long chains.
"What is this for?" Li Xu didn't want to go out alone, so he dragged the iron hook out: "Brother Wei, how about trying this?"
Brother Wei didn't want to waste time, so he took the hook from Li Xu and took a look at it.
The hook is very large and the tip is not very sharp. Its only feature is that it is relatively heavy. If it is thrown into a pool, it will probably sink immediately.
"Just make do with what you have."
There is a hole in the middle of the morgue pool that is slightly wider than the shoulder of an ordinary person. No one knows what it is used for.
Brother Wei put the iron hook into the hole and watched it slowly sink. Soon the hook was submerged by the debris in the hole.
He stood aside, holding the chain and lowering it little by little.
"Why hasn't it reached the end yet?" The hole in the morgue pool was much deeper than he had imagined. "Who would dig such a deep hole at the bottom of the morgue pool? Is it a corpse?"
If it was outside, Brother Wei would probably be amused by his own thoughts. But the point was, he was the one standing in the morgue now.
"How deep is this cave?" He was just thinking about saving trouble when he came here the first few times, and he really didn't think about this question.
In order to allow the chain to extend as far as possible, Brother Wei squatted down.
When there was only a quarter of the chain left, the hook finally touched something.
Brother Wei grabbed the chain with both hands. He pulled it up and was surprised to find that the chain was stuck and could not be pulled up.
"There was no resistance when it was sinking. Could it be that it was hooked on something? Is that the thing that blocked the hole?"
The strength in his hands continued to increase. I can't say anything else about Brother Wei, but in terms of strength, he is one of the best in the entire crematorium.
Brother Wei pulled hard, and the chain slowly moved upwards. He felt as if the end of the iron hook was hooked on something, which was particularly heavy.
The scene in front of him was a bit like fishing, but what could be caught in the morgue pool was something that Brother Wei had never thought about before he came.
Most of his face was flushed red, and even through the thick mask, one could hear his breathing.
The chain was pulled out little by little, and there were all kinds of debris on the chain, which was scary to look at.
"Come and help!"
Brother Wei was halfway through pulling when he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Although the thing hooked on the end of the chain was very heavy, it was moving slowly upwards. However, as he pulled, he found another force coming from the other side of the chain, as if there was something hiding in the hole filled with anatomical remains and formalin, and was trying to drag him in!
"Brother, I don't have gloves!" Li Xu's legs went weak as he looked at the chain that was pulled out from the residual liquid.
Brother Wei gritted his teeth, leaned back, and used his body weight to stop the chain from moving down.
He used all his strength and had no time to think about anything else.
"I just don't believe it." Pushing the ground with his legs, Brother Wei slowly moved backwards, dragging the chain out bit by bit.
Bubbles began to appear on the surface of the water in the cave where various impurities were floating. When the iron chain was about to be pulled out, the force in the cave became stronger again, as if the other party was starting to get serious at this time.
The chain was stretched straight. After about one or two seconds, the power in the cave suddenly increased sharply. Caught off guard, Brother Wei's body was directly brought to the other side of the cave.
His feet slipped and he fell to the ground, falling towards the direction of the hole!
"Ma Wei!" Li Xu jumped into the pool and grabbed Brother Wei's coat at the last moment.
His face was almost touching the suspended objects. The pungent smell made Ma Wei unable to open his eyes. The chains slid past him at a high speed and were dragged directly into the cave by the force.
The water surface was yellowish-brown and very turbid. Ma Wei vaguely saw a dark shadow sinking into the cave.
“What is that?” The cold sweat on his forehead slid down his cheeks and dripped into the hole. Ma Wei simply couldn’t imagine what would happen if he plunged into these anatomical remains.
Ma Wei sat on the ground with his hands on the edge of the hole, his face pale.
"You didn't touch those things, did you?" Li Xu was a little uncertain. He couldn't stand just looking at the hole in the ground, let alone putting his face close to it and having close contact with it.
“No.” Ma Wei took a while to recover. He stared at the hole, and the more he looked, the more horrified he felt. “Li Xu, have you ever heard of any fish that can live in chemicals?”
"I know catfish can live for a long time in the sewer and have strong vitality, but these chemicals are used to soak corpses. They are for dead people. No matter how strong their vitality is, it will be useless!" Li Xu was also scared just now. If Ma Wei really plunged in, he would probably have to change his partner in the future.
“If it’s not a fish, then what could it be?” Ma Wei looked at the bubbling hole, his voice trembling slightly. “When I pulled the chain up just now, I could clearly feel something hooked underneath. It was just that it seemed to be asleep at first, and I woke it up later.”
Ma Wei was still frightened. He looked at his hands and said, "That thing was very strong, at least twice as strong as mine. Even with my weight advantage, I was easily dragged away by it."
"Living deep in a cave full of anatomical remains and formalin, with twice the strength of an average person..." Li Xu didn't dare to think any further: "Brother Wei, let's go quickly! If we lose our jobs, we lose them. Our lives are more important!"
Ma Wei nodded. He didn’t want to stay here any longer. “Give me a hand.”
He grabbed Li Xu's hand and wanted to stand up, but when he tried, he found that his legs were completely powerless.
Looking down, Ma Wei realized that his shoes had become wet at some point, as if the contents of the bucket had splashed onto them.