"Who would come here in the middle of the night? If we don't leave now, it will be too late." Li Xu quietly moved away from the secret passage behind the cabinet.
Ma Wei picked up the flashlight and shone it into the secret passage. After making sure that Chen Ge was not hiding in the corner of the secret passage, he also began to retreat.
The two of them had a tacit understanding. No one spoke again. They supported each other and left the room.
The corridor seemed to have changed in some way compared to when they came in. They vaguely felt that some places were different from before, but they couldn't tell exactly where they were different.
Li Xu walked in front with a flashlight, and Ma Wei turned on the flashlight attached to his mobile phone and followed behind.
"Be careful, there may be more than one monster in the underground corpse warehouse."
The scene before them was simply the most difficult escape game for Ma Wei and Li Xu. They had to face corpses that had resurrected from the dead, monsters that might appear at any time, perverted murderers armed with weapons, and various unknown traps.
"Li Xu, should I throw my phone over here? I always feel that the man just now will call me with it." Ma Wei held his phone, but he felt very uneasy. The image of Chen Ge dragging the skull crusher with a terrifying smile on his face and calling him appeared in his mind more than once. It was creepy just to think about it.
"Let's keep it. This is our only means of communication with the outside world. But remember to turn it to silent mode, so as not to expose our location because of a phone call at the critical moment." Li Xu thought a lot. Being in danger, he seemed to have burst out potential that he didn't even know about.
After hearing this, Ma Wei changed the settings of his phone, and the two of them returned along the wall of the passage.
After turning the corner and passing Warehouse No. 8, Li Xu, who was walking in front, paused and asked, "Was the door of this room opened by that person? Didn't we close all the doors when we left?"
There was sticky liquid left on the iron door handle, and a strong smell of formaldehyde filled the house. Li Xu raised a flashlight and took a look inside the house. His eyes suddenly widened.
“What’s wrong?” Ma Wei also noticed something was wrong and leaned over to take a look.
The glass containers in the room remained safely in place, but the cadavers in the containers were all gone!
Li Xu's legs were shaking. He shone the flashlight on the ground and could clearly see several water stains on the cement floor extending out of the room and into the passage where they were.
"Those 'people' ran out, and they are now in this passage." Li Xu's Adam's apple rolled, and he slowly moved the flashlight, worried that something horrible would suddenly appear.
"Should we continue moving forward?" Ma Wei was a little uncertain. His legs were powerless and he couldn't run fast at all. If he encountered danger, he could only stay where he was and wait to die. This was the most desperate thing for him.
Li Xu also became conflicted. The dark passage was filled with corpses that had crawled out of glass containers, as well as various unknown dangers. If he stayed here, he would have to face that madman who was no less dangerous than a monster.
"Let's move forward. We'll run as fast as we can. If nothing goes wrong, we'll be able to leave in ten minutes." Li Xu took Ma Wei's phone and said, "The man with the hammer shouldn't have come out yet. I'll call the police first and then contact the security guard outside."
Li Xu took out his cell phone and made a call. The call to the police went through and the other party answered, but the signal was severely interfered and he couldn't hear a complete sentence.
"That shouldn't be the case! Even though we're underground and the signal isn't very good, it shouldn't be so bad that we can't even get through to the police!"
There was something in the underground morgue that was interfering with communications, so Li Xu had no choice but to give up.
As if it weren't raining, he felt like he had encountered all kinds of bad luck today.
"Let's go out first. If we encounter any monsters, we can retreat back." Li Xu supported Ma Wei and forced a bitter smile: "The only good news for us now is that the man with the hammer and the monster in the corpse warehouse don't seem to be in the same group."
The flashlight illuminated the road ahead and the two men quickened their pace. When they passed Morgue No. 8, a slight sound was heard from the warehouse.
They didn't dare to go in and check now, so they just lowered their heads and pretended they heard nothing.
The passage was so long that one could not see the end. After running past Corpse Room No. 7, there was a fork in the road. In the middle of the two passages stood a black figure.
It is not tall and very thin, and it seems to be holding something in its hands.
Ma Wei touched Li Xu's arm and asked, "Do you want to go over?"
Li Xu couldn't make up his mind either. He felt that the underground morgue seemed particularly lively today.
Slowly raising his hand, he raised the flashlight and shone the light on the person in front of him.
Wearing a loose white coat and with her black hair hanging down, there was a little girl standing at the fork in the road.
She lowered her head and held a rotten and smelly apple in her hands.
This strange scene made Li Xu and Ma Wei dare not act rashly. They stopped where they were, feeling a chill rising in their hearts.
Illuminated by the light, the girl slowly raised her head. She had a sweet and lovely look, giving people the impression of being a very quiet and introverted child.
She had a pair of light brown eyes, and her gaze was fixed on the apple in her palm, as if she wanted to taste the rotten apple in her hand.
The girl's smooth skin, delicate features and lovely appearance formed a sharp contrast with the rotten apple. But what was puzzling was that when the girl looked at the apple, there was a hint of incomprehensible desire in her eyes.
The bright light from the flashlight made the girl frown slightly. The tip of her small nose twitched slightly, as if she smelled something, and she slowly raised her head.
The light brown eyes looked at Ma Wei and Li Xu, the girl's mouth corners raised, and her thin lips curved into a shallow arc.
That smile was very innocent, containing neither kindness nor malice, just like a child who had found a favorite toy.
The smile on the girl's face became more and more obvious, but other than that she showed no other abnormalities. The child seemed to be acting completely on instinct.
"Her hair and clothes are wet, and her skin color is not normal. Do you think she crawled out of the glass container?"
"When we went in just now, there didn't seem to be any girls in those containers."
"Wasn't there a container that was opened? I suspect she escaped from that container."
Ma Wei and Li Xu were frightened by the girl's gaze. When they thought that the other person might be a corpse, they became even more frightened and involuntarily stepped back.
The girl stood there without moving, but strange noises came from other directions of the passage. Wheels were rolling in the white-painted corpse transport passage, and several morgues in the nearby corpse storage No. 7 made banging noises, as if the things locked inside were trying to come out.
The smell of formaldehyde in the air became stronger, and Ma Wei and Li Xu had little time to choose.
"Retreating inwards is a dead end, but going outwards still offers a glimmer of hope!" Li Xu gritted his teeth and grabbed Ma Wei's arm: "Let's fight! Let's rush out together!"
"good!"
The two men made up their minds and were ready to fight to the death, like wild beasts cornered into a corner!
Li Xu spotted the gap next to the girl, grabbed Ma Wei, tensed his leg muscles, and rushed out like a spring.
“The right passage isn’t painted white!”
Usually Li Xu hid behind Ma Wei, but this time when Ma Wei's leg was injured, Li Xu stood up.
He led the way, his expression ferocious and distorted due to extreme fear, and he let out a roar: "Hurry!"
The two men rushed towards the girl with all their might. At this moment, the sound of wheels in the passage was approaching. What Li Xu and Ma Wei had to do was to enter the passage that was not painted white before the sound of wheels got closer.
Every second counts. The girl saw the two men rushing towards her and remained motionless, keeping her smile on her face. Apart from that, there was no other extra expression on her face.
“This is an opportunity!”
The girl was too careless. Li Xu raised the flashlight. He had already planned everything in his mind. When he ran to the girl, he would sneak past her.
The gap was big enough for him and Ma Wei to pass through. If the girl dared to stop them, he would knock her down with the flashlight in his hand.
Li Xu had never experienced such an exciting moment in his life of more than 20 years, and he believed that he could do it.
"bring it on!"
Running at full speed, the moment the sound of the wheels stopped, Li Xu and Ma Wei also rushed to the corner of the passage!
The two of them ran past the girl, but she did not stop them. She even maintained her original posture without moving.
It went unexpectedly smoothly. Li Xu had no time to get excited. He knew in his heart that it was not the time to relax yet. Leaving the girl was only the first step. He still had a long way to go if he wanted to escape from the underground morgue.
"Don't be careless!"
He turned his head and looked at the white-painted passage next to him. There was a cart used by school staff to transport corpses parked there. He couldn't see the person pushing the cart, but he could see several human models thrown on the cart, one of which had its head ripped off!
"Fortunately, I didn't run from this side. Those models obviously had big problems." Li Xu was very glad that he made the most correct choice at the critical moment. He retracted his gaze and shone the flashlight towards the unpainted passage next to him.
Tick!
The sticky liquid fell on his face, and Li Xu raised his head in a daze. The scene he saw was something he would never forget in his life.
The unpainted passage was filled with corpses, their limbs and torsos stitched together with red thread, as they crowded toward the corridor like puppets.
There were too many of them, and the pungent smell caused Li Xu and Ma Wei's sense of smell to temporarily fail. Deformed faces occupied their entire field of vision, and their minds were full of limbs and body parts. They even felt their heads buzzing and their thoughts had solidified.
"Who can resist this?!"
The speed was too fast and Li Xu almost crashed into it. It was Ma Wei who caught him at the critical moment.
"Back! Retreat!"
The combination of these two people is also quite dreamy. They hovered on the line between life and death several times, but they managed to survive.
There was definitely no way out. Looking at the monsters filling the passage, Li Xu and Ma Wei suddenly felt that the man holding the hammer was more approachable.
As they retreated quickly, and when they passed the girl, the child who had been standing there slowly turned his head, like a clockwork doll, his spine made a crisp sound, and his head twisted backwards little by little.
Her lips were pale, but the girl was still smiling.
With her head turned 180 degrees, this seemingly normal girl completely broke down the psychological defenses of Li Xu and Ma Wei.
The passion in their hearts was frozen, and a deep chill and feeling of powerlessness surged into their hearts.
At this time they could only run away. In their hearts, the only one who could save them was the man just now.
Without looking back, they ran into the middle area of the underground morgue. They entered the room where the morgue was located, locked the door, and moved the wardrobe behind the door.
Footsteps were heard in the corridor outside. After a few seconds of silence, the door of the room where the morgue was located was slammed heavily.
Ma Wei and Li Xu held on to the cabinet, barely holding on. While the two were in a stalemate with the monster outside the door, the sound of bubbles bursting was heard again in the hole in the middle of the morgue pool.
Not long after, the various residues that had seeped into the ground began to surge upwards, as if something was pushing them from below, trying to crawl out of the hole.
"We can't stay in this room, Brother Wei, let's go into the secret passage!" Li Xu's suggestion was very risky. After all, no one knew what was on the other side of the secret passage. "We're going to die anyway, so we might as well give it a try! The man who just went in was so decisive. I feel like he must know something."
“Just do as you say.” Ma Wei picked up the iron chain on the ground and fixed the cabinet behind the door, trying to drag it as long as possible.
After they finished, the two of them went straight into the secret passage. They ran very fast without considering any danger ahead.
The secret passage was narrow, and the two men walked one in front and one behind, gradually closing the distance between them and Chen Ge.
After running a few meters, they heard the sound of a cabinet being pushed down outside the secret passage.
Both of their hearts were trembling, and they ran as fast as they could into the depths of the secret passage.
…
Chen Ge walked in the secret passage for a long time. The further he went, the thicker the "moss" grew. His coat and body inevitably touched those things.
Strangely enough, when the fragrant liquid in the "moss" dripped onto the surface of his skin, his body temperature, which was originally much lower than that of normal people, began to slowly rise. Although it was only for a brief moment, it made him feel a long-lost warmth.
"This is not a good sign." Chen Ge knew that there were corpses behind the "moss". Although he had been looking for something that could raise his body temperature, if it was related to corpses, he would think twice.
The secret passage became lower and lower, and the deepest part of the passage was almost completely blocked by "moss".
The white cat went straight through, and Chen Ge had no choice but to reach out and push away the "moss" that was blocking the road.
His fingers touched the wall, and under the bright red "moss" were human faces with their eyes tightly closed. Chen Ge walked in front of their faces.
"These corpses must have been preserved using special methods. They look almost the same as when they were alive." Chen Ge rarely felt uncomfortable: "It would be fun if they suddenly opened their eyes when I passed by."