Chapter 318 Seven Coffins
Ning Xuan put down the documents in his hand and said, "I'm going out for a while. Are you in the office or coming with me?"
"I'll go with you, maybe I can help!" Chu Runrun said with a smile.
"good!"
Ning Xuan immediately took Chu Ruanruan to the construction site.
On the way, Chu Runrun tried to tell fortunes, but the fortune showed that this trip would be unlucky rather than auspicious.
Chu Runrun thought that she had made a mistake in divination because she was not skilled enough, but she tried three times and the results were exactly the same.
However, this ominous omen was not directed at Ning Xuan or her, but at someone else.
As for who that person is, Chu Ruanruan still doesn't know.
The project under construction is the land that was previously obtained for free from Yuanda Company. After several months, the main structure of the commercial plaza has been basically completed.
When they arrived at the construction site, Ning Xuan and Chu Runrun saw Chen Feng waiting anxiously at the door.
"Uncle Chen, what happened?" Ning Xuan asked.
"Mr. Ning, Miss, just come in with me and you'll know."
Chen Feng handed two safety helmets to Ning Xuan and Chu Runrun, and then took them into the construction site.
The main structure of the commercial building was well built, but as soon as they entered, Chu Runrun and Ning Xuan saw a large collapsed area.
"Boss Ning, Miss, please be careful!"
Uncle Chen took a flashlight and shone it into the collapsed area, and seven coffins were clearly displayed before him.
"Coffin!" Chu Runrun said in surprise.
"Yes! Coffins! Seven of them."
"Why did this place collapse?" Ning Xuan frowned.
"When the workers came to work this morning, the ground cracked as soon as the cement was laid. The worker was startled and ran out quickly. As soon as he came out, the ground collapsed.
At first, the soil above had sunk and the coffins were nowhere to be seen. When the workers went down to check, they discovered seven coffins inside. They were so scared that they ran out quickly.
"Is anyone injured?" Ning Xuan asked.
"A worker cut his hand on the gravel while going down to investigate, but it's not a serious problem and has been bandaged."
"That's good." Ning Xuan frowned.
"Then Mr. Ning, what should we do now?" Chen Feng asked.
Ning Xuan looked at Chu Ruanruan and asked in a low voice: "Ruanruan, can this coffin be moved?"
Chu Ruanruan shook her head: "I don't know either. I have to go down and take a look."
"Uncle Chen, bring the ladder over. Ruanruan and I will go down and take a look." Ning Xuan said.
"OK!"
Chen Feng hurriedly went to find a ladder to lower it down.
Ning Xuan and Chu Runrun slowly climbed down the ladder. When they reached the bottom, they felt the soil was extremely soft and there was a smell of blood.
Chu Runrun squatted down and grabbed a handful of soil. The soil smelled extremely fishy, as if it had been irrigated with blood.
"Ruanruan, is this blood?" Ning Xuan frowned.
Chu Ruanruan nodded: "Yes, but it's been a long time, the blood has become smelly."
Chu Runrun walked to the coffin, brushed off the loose soil on top, turned on the light and examined the coffin carefully.
"This coffin is made of locust wood!" Chu Runrun said in surprise.
Just by looking at the name of locust wood, you can tell that it is definitely not a suitable wood for making coffins. The word "locust" can be broken down into "wood" and "ghost".
Using locust wood to make coffins is the most likely to attract ghosts, and it will bring disaster to future generations, and may even cause a family to become extinct.
Therefore, the craftsmen who make coffins will pay special attention to it. Not only will they not use locust wood to make coffins, they will not even place things made of locust wood in the house, let alone plant locust trees.
The seven coffins here are all made of locust wood. Who are the people inside?
Chu Runrun was about to open the coffin but was stopped by Ning Xuan.
"Let me do it!"
As he spoke, Ning Xuan used a hammer to pry off the iron nails on the coffin lid.
"Ruanruan, please step back a little. I'm going to open the coffin."
"Wait a moment!"
Chu Runrun stopped Ning Xuan, took out a ball of cinnabar thread from her bag, pulled it through the gap in the coffin, and wrapped it several times.
"Open it again now!" Chu Runrun said.
Ning Xuan pushed the shovel in and pried up the coffin lid. As the gap in the coffin lid grew larger, a stronger smell of blood came out.
Even the workers watching from above couldn't help but cover their noses.
"Why does it stink so bad?"
Chu Ruanruan frowned as she looked at the contents of the coffin and said, "How can a rotting corpse not stink?"
"Rotten corpse!" Everyone was shocked, and the brave ones even moved forward to see what was going on inside.
But the next second, after seeing what was in the coffin, they all hid aside and vomited.
There was a corpse lying in the coffin, swollen like a ball. It was obvious that the corpse was an obese man.
Maggots were crawling all over the corpse, and pus and blood were oozing out of the exploded flesh.
Dark red and transparent yellow are intertwined, with white maggots as embellishments. If you ignore the fact that it is a corpse, it might be very beautiful.
Ning Xuan, who was obsessed with mysophobia, couldn't stand it anymore, but he couldn't leave Chu Runrun alone there, so he could only grit his teeth and endure it.
Although Chu Runrun felt uncomfortable with the smell, she could tolerate it after eating too much snail noodles and stinky tofu.
The bodies in the coffins were estimated to have been dead for about eight or nine days, but the construction of this commercial building had already started a long time ago. How were these seven coffins transported in?
"Did you find anything wrong when laying the foundation?" Chu Runrun asked.
"No! There was nothing underground when we were laying the foundation, including when we built the walls and poured concrete later. There was no problem with the entire ground, and the soil was not as loose as it is now. If we hadn't dug a deep foundation, I'm afraid the building would have collapsed." Chen Feng sighed.
If there was no problem when the entire building was built, then how were these seven coffins transported underground and buried without anyone noticing?
Chu Runrun looked at the ground carefully, and the soil didn't look like it had been dug up by anyone.
The appearance of these seven coffins was too strange and it was completely impossible for ordinary people to do it.
"Brother, here..."
When Chu Runrun turned around, she saw Ning Xuan's face was pale, and it was obvious that he had reached the limit of his patience.
"Brother, let's go upstairs and talk first."
Ning Xuan suppressed his nausea and let Chu Runrun go up first before he climbed up himself.
After walking away and breathing some fresh air, Ning Xuan's complexion slowly recovered.
"Brother, I'll take you to eat snail noodles and stinky tofu more often in the future to train your sense of smell." Chu Runrun said with a smile.
Ning Xuan shook his head repeatedly: "That's not necessary!"
Chu Ruanruan chuckled and took out a mint candy from her pocket and handed it to Ning Xuan: "Eat one, you will feel much better."
Ning Xuan felt much more comfortable after holding the mint candy in his mouth.
"Brother, I will call my uncle and Uncle Zhuo now. The body in this coffin did not die of natural causes. I estimate that the time of death was eight or nine days ago. The construction site may need to be temporarily suspended, but this may affect the future development here." Chu Ruanruan said.
"It doesn't matter. Ning's company doesn't rely solely on this one project. Just let your uncle come." Ning Xuan said.
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