Chapter 58: The Unidentified Female Corpse

  Wang Jue poked my arm, and I suddenly realized that I had thought of a ghost. Officer Wu looked at us very seriously and said: "Yesterday, a female corpse was fished out from the Yun City River, but her identity has not been confirmed yet. Do you want to go take a look?"

  Identify the body? I don't believe my sister would be in trouble. Flesh and blood are connected, if she's in trouble, I must feel it. When I was a kid, every time I got into trouble and got hurt, she always had a premonition and appeared on time. Now, in this situation without any warning, even if you beat me to death, I wouldn't believe that an unidentified female corpse pulled from the river would have anything to do with her.

  I said I didn't want to go, but Wang Jue persuaded me on the side: "Go and take a look, it will be more at ease after seeing her, at least we know she is still alive."

  I hesitated for half a day, but couldn't resist his persuasion, and finally decided to take a look.

  The body is kept in the funeral home, and we agreed to meet at 9 o'clock the next morning at the entrance of the funeral home.

  Considering that there was no one at home, Wang Ju and I went back to his house together. I thought it would be a sleepless night, but somehow I fell asleep without knowing when, these past few days have been really exhausting.

  The next morning, it was Wang Jue who woke me up. The two of us hastily got dressed, had breakfast, and arrived at the funeral home.

  This is my first time coming to a funeral home, the courtyard here is full of flowers and has an open view. If it weren't for the smell of oil in the air, one would think it's some kind of garden villa. It's said that this smell is the unique odor from burning corpses, many people who smelled it felt nauseous and vomited.

  Officer Wu had been waiting for us at the gate for a long time. After the three of us met up, we rushed straight to the morgue.

  I used to hear old people say that the funeral home is the place with the heaviest yin energy. Indeed, taking the same corridor as an example, if it were placed in another building, people walking inside wouldn't have any special feeling, but placing it here often makes it appear especially dark, especially empty, and especially long, as if connecting two spaces, and after passing through, you arrive at another world.

  We wound our way down the stairs, through the corridors and past several doors until we came to a room. Officer Wu pushed open the door and went in directly, with Wang Jue and I following close behind.

  Inside, along the wall root, a row of refrigerators was placed, about two meters deep and sixty centimeters long and wide. Each refrigerator was like a drawer, with a handle at one end of the opening. Officer Wu walked to the front of a refrigerator, grasped the handle and pulled it open, revealing a female corpse.

  This isn't the first time I've seen a corpse, but I still feel intense nausea. The corpse is rotten beyond recognition, with half of its facial skin peeled off, lips torn apart, teeth exposed, and both arms covered in scars. Near the wrists, you can even see white bones sticking out. The feet are hidden inside the cold storage, temporarily out of sight. However, it's possible to vaguely make out that the muscles at the base of the thighs have been almost completely dug out. With a corpse this badly decomposed and injured, not only would identifying the person be difficult, but even determining the cause of death might be challenging!

  Wang Jue stood by, quietly watching, without saying a word.

  I really couldn't bear it and asked Officer Wu to close the refrigerator. He insisted that I take another careful look.

  Helpless, I took a step forward, barely making it to the front of the ice cabinet to take a look, pretending to identify the body, ready to turn around and leave quickly.

  Just as I was about to leave, my wrist was suddenly grabbed by an icy hand. Turning back, I saw that it was the female corpse who had grabbed me, and she was now lying on her back in the freezer, smiling at me with a terrifying smile using only half of her mouth.