Chapter 29: The White Bone Cave

  "It's almost done, let's go out and take a look. Let's see who can get through the trap I set up." Qin Zhong said slowly getting up from his seat, with his hands behind his back, he headed upstairs. When he returned to the office, he found that Fang Shu and Lao Gui were both sleeping on their computer desks, snoring away.

  Qin Zhong swiftly lifted up the old ghost's foot, drew a rough outline on a piece of white paper, and then pressed his finger into the ink pad to make a fingerprint. He then cut off a small piece of fingernail from the old ghost's finger, and did the same thing on Fang Shu's body. After completing these tasks, he cleaned up the scene, replaced the tea water on the table, and rushed downstairs to reopen the door leading to room 137.

  At this moment, a head suddenly stretched out from the dark green door, and the two long canine teeth were displayed in front of Qin Zhong: "Director, we have settled everything below. As long as we settle it thoroughly, when we turn back, we will tear him down, ensuring that no one else can intervene in our team."

  "Good job, Big Tooth! I, Qin Zhong, didn't believe in you for nothing." Qin Zhong said as he turned around and entered the rest room. He put on his travel backpack, used a wooden stick to secure the dark green iron door from the inside, and then descended slowly along the soft ladder set up by Big Tooth and others with Meng Na by his side.

  Before long, they fell to the bottom of the cave. The cave was still very bright inside. What greeted Qin Zhong in the cave were Han Jun and Da Ya.

  "Little Bell, your design is great, it's absolutely watertight!"

  Qin Zhong's mouth slightly curled up and said, "Last time I came here, I almost didn't make it out. This time, I think I won't be so lucky. This woman is really a fierce ghost, able to summon even the white bones from within the cave. She's really given us a hard time."

  "Alright, this time it should be impossible, what we need to do is search for as much evidence as possible in this cave." Han Jun was the person who had been with Qin Zhong's father, and this was the wish of the entire Qin family.

  Qin Zhong nodded and said: "This time I came here just for these. Let's go, is the cable I pulled down ready?"

  "Alright, whoever comes down will become the second me!" Dàyá knew the feeling of being electrified and thought that if anyone came down from the hole, they would definitely have to try this feeling.

  Qin Zhong burst out laughing as soon as he heard it. He borrowed the DV from Han Jun and swept a circle inside the cave, then headed towards the two laboratories that the female ghost had mentioned. He didn't know the structure of this cave, but after returning last time, he tried to recall every place he walked through and drew a map on paper. Of course, these maps were just Qin Zhong's conjectures.

  However, Qin Zhong's conjecture diagram was actually not far from the actual situation. After a search, dozens of small rooms were found in the entire cave, each with various instruments placed inside, including knives, axes, iron chains, medical waste equipment, hospital beds, and sinks. In these places, Qin Zhong surprisingly discovered many white bones with different postures, some lying on the bed, some leaning against the wall corner, some locked by iron chains, some with a knife inserted in their chest, and some missing half of their body.

  Qin Zhong tried to go into the room of the Japanese military doctor, took a look around, and saw that the military uniform was scattered all over the place, already rotten through and through, but here he could find all sorts of clues about what had happened before.

  "Qin Zhong, take a look at these two skeletons," said Han Jun.

  Qin Zhong hastened his pace, approaching the two laboratories. Inside one of them, a corpse lay on the bed, its limbs bound by iron hoops that had not yet rotted away. In the corner of the room, a skeleton squatted, next to which stood an old Japanese Type 38 rifle with a bayonet still attached, now rusty and speckled with age.

  On the forehead of that corpse, a dagger was stuck, and on all the other corpses except the one on the bed, there were some obvious instruments wrapped around them.

  Qin Zhong understood what the female ghost had told him that day, he knew that this skeleton was the husband of the woman, he immediately took out a bag from his backpack and put the bones on the bed into it, then went to the next room and cleaned up the corpse in the same way. He turned back and took another look at the situation inside the house, using his DV to record the miserable scene in both rooms.

  This time it was the Red Cloak Woman's laboratory, Qin Zhong first calmed his nerves, he didn't know if he would cause the evil spirit in the needle to erupt again if he entered that woman's room, so he also made sufficient preparations, and during these few days outside, he studied his grandfather's notes and related books again, his purpose was to find out the reason for the formation of the evil spirits, unexpectedly, he also discovered something in these materials, the evil spirits would not talk about loyalty with humans, so he turned over a sum in his heart.

  Qin Zhong stopped at the location where the female skeleton was identified, and Han Jun also quietly stopped. He leaned in close to Qin Zhong and asked softly: "Why aren't we moving? This room should be the woman's."

  "I'm afraid something unexpected might happen, it's not necessarily as kind as it seems here." He said, flipping out the paper box with needles: "This thing, do you think I should seal it or believe she won't play tricks."

  The Korean army also frowned, thinking for half a day and still couldn't make up their minds. Dae was even more useless, he was completely clueless about these things, and it would be great if he could just lend Qin Zhong a hand.

  After a long time, Qin Zhong finally came back to his senses and shook his head silently: "People all say that ghosts talk nonsense, who can believe what ghosts say? Big sister, you tell me?"

  "Little Bell, I don't think so, wasn't this ghost quite sincere at that time?"

  Qin Zhong didn't respond to Han Jun, instead he wrapped the outer layer of the paper box with cinnabar paper and then stuck a talisman that he had studied for several days: "Big sister, calm down, according to what you said, I've taken care of your affairs, your belongings are mine now. I'll choose an auspicious day to bury you and your husband, and if there's a chance later on, I'll also help you clear your name."

  The cardboard box didn't react, Qin Zhong let out a sigh and slowly pushed open the thick iron door. The iron door emitted a series of dragging friction sounds. The lights in the corridor were all shining normally, but here there was not a single light on, only the lamp holder inside the house was flashing wildly with electric sparks.

  Qin Zhong's first feeling was that something was very wrong: "This is not good, this female ghost is going to play a trick." Before he could even finish speaking, the paper box that he had stuck the talisman on suddenly shot out like a rocket and flew straight towards a set of white bones inside the house.

  This skeleton is quite strange, unlike other skeletons. The skeleton is half-body on the bed, crawling with curved finger bones, as if it was extremely painful before death. It's unknown what kind of suffering and torture it experienced. Both legs are kneeling on the bed, with the pelvis tilted to one side, leaning against the leg bone. This clearly indicates that the deceased was humiliated and abused before death. Looking at the facial bones and chest area, they present a complete black color, poisoning is certain, if not mistaken, it should be death from toxic gas.

  Qin Zhong saw this scene and could imagine the situation on the day of the woman's death. The several devils in the house, wearing gas masks, insulting the deceased, made his heart tighten. He really wanted to take revenge on those devils at that time. From his heart, he couldn't help but emit a wave of hatred towards the Japanese invaders, and the unquenchable emotions stirred up the patriotic feelings in his heart.

  Although he thought so, at this moment, the female ghost's soul broke through the cinnabar paper and golden talisman, directly flying towards his skeleton. As soon as the dim red light entered the white bones, something even stranger happened. After the red light entered the skeleton, it suddenly turned green for a moment. Within two minutes, the skeleton flashed with green light, followed by a cracking sound. The skeletal frame that had maintained its posture suddenly scattered all over the ground, and the female ghost's soul flew out again.

  "What have you people done to my corpse?" This is indeed a predicament for ghosts.

  Qin Zhong looked at the scattered bones in surprise and sighed, "Elder sister, why did you fly out? I can just take your bones out and it's done. Why did you come out again? Besides, you've always been with me, don't you know what I'm doing?"