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Chapter 417: Scary Night

Translator: Lonelytree Editor: Millman97

“The renovation team already did not want to stay inside the deeper part of the morgue, so they sealed up the road that led into the morgue and started expanding outward, following the blueprint. After we left the deeper part of the morgue, the accidents stopped, and the renovation started to rush for the deadline. When they were close to the deadline, to rush the progress, they worked into the night.

“The school also knew how hard it was for the team, so they would assign people to send them water and provide aid.” Zhang Li’s teeth gritted as he continued. “The school handed this chore to the teachers that stayed at the school dormitory and the security team. Initially, everyone would go together, but after a while, the teachers would leave early since everything was going well. Other people from the security team took this opportunity to push all the work onto .

“The underground morgue had been renovated many tis, so the internal routes were very complicated. I was new, and even with the map, the chance of getting lost was still high. Three days to the deadline, the people from the team were nervous, and they had to hire a new batch of workers to hurry up the process. They worked day and night, so I had to stay to accompany them. It was fine during the day, but the place changed after the sun fell.

“It was middle of sumr at the ti, and outside was as hot as an oven. However, once you entered the morgue, it was not only not hot, you would shiver uncontrollably for no reason. The new batch of workers did not know about the things that happened in the deeper part of the morgue and they thought the working environnt was alright. When so of them got tired at night, they laid a mattress on the floor and slept just like that.” Zhang Li squeezed the cigarette against the tal plate as his story was reaching its end.

“The underground morgue was different at night, but how different, I could not really tell. In any case, that night, the strange thing happened again.

“I received a call at 1 am saying that soone on the team had disappeared. I quickly called everyone else and headed to the underground morgue. When we were halfway there, the people called again, saying that the man had been found. At the ti, I was so angry, but I was even angrier at the teacher who was responsible for watching over the renovation. The man berated , saying that I had disturbed his sleep and worried him before I understood everything.

“I could not say anything to explain myself. So, I returned to my bedroom. Not long after that, the people from the renovation team called again, saying that a different person had disappeared. This ti, I asked the man for more details. The man said, when the first person disappeared, he said that he heard soone calling his na and he raised his head to see soone waving at him, so he had followed the person. When he was halfway down the corridor, he had realized that the corridor led deeper into the morgue. At that mont, he knew that sothing was wrong, so he quickly ran back.

“The second person disappeared after he went out in search of the first man. His phone was not reachable, and no one knew where he was. The incident sounded serious, so as I rushed to the morgue, I called the teacher. After the teacher knew the gravity of the situation, he told to calm the people first, and he would arrive shortly.

“That night, I stayed with the renovation team in the underground morgue, and around dawn, we found the missing man inside the deeper part of the morgue. He was lying next to the half-dug pool, unconscious.

“No one could explain this situation, and anxiety spread through the team. They refused to stay there any longer, but since the deadline was coming soon and their work was almost done, it would be a waste to give up then.

“In the end, it was the school who settled the problem. They assigned the security team to stay with the renovation team in the underground morgue to ensure that the project could be finished on ti. That night, two guards and I stayed back so that the team could co to us directly if there was any problem.

“I really could not stand it anymore after midnight, so I found a corner to take a nap. It was quite peaceful that night; there was no accident. The project was reaching its end. After spending so much ti in the morgue, that morning, I hit the bed and slept.

“On that last night, we returned to the underground morgue. Everything was going fine, and I believed that the peacefulness would persist through the night, so I found an isolated room and covered myself up with several old cent bags as I tried to sneak a bit of shut eye. Perhaps my mind had been too stressed at the ti—sleep ca quickly.

“When I opened my blurry eyes, the underground morgue beca so dark. The lights brought by the renovation team had all been switched off, and only the old-fashioned lights on the wall were still on.

“I curled up in the corner and looked outward. People were moving in the outside corridor, and it sounded like the team was still working. I had just woken up, so my mind was not that sharp. I took out the phone to check the ti. Before I got a clear look at the ti, I suddenly heard footsteps. Soone was coming into the room. I was sleeping while people were working—that wasn’t good, so I hid myself deeper and kept myself quiet.

“The person walked around the room and left. I glanced at the ti; it was 3:40 am. There were several unanswered calls and unread ssages on my phone. I clicked the ssages open and realized that they were from my teammates, asking where I was.”

The smoke in the room had not dissipated, but Zhang Li took out another cigarette. He lit it and puffed on it.

“At the ti, it really did not cross my mind, so I replied to him—’I’m still in the morgue. Where are you guys? Did you two sneak back into the bedroom already?’

“I was a newbie, so I’d been trying to buddy up to him. I even joked about how they left without telling .

“About ten seconds later, the man replied, telling to show myself instantly because people were looking for .

“I was confused. The team was still working outside, and these two had run away from their post. Yet, they told that people were looking for .

“Just as I was about to send a reply, the man called. After I answered it, I realized that things were different from what I thought.

“The man imdiately told that the renovation had finished a long ti ago, and the team had already all retreated. They wanted to know what I was doing inside the underground morgue.”

Zhang Li bit the cigarette in his mouth into half, and his hands gripped his knees. “When he said that, I glanced out the room. One of the people walking on the corridor seed to have heard and was walking toward the room that I was hiding in.”

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