novelraw Chapter 675: Deception of the Dead
Chapter 675: Deception of the Dead
Chapter 675: Deception of the Dead"I didn’t expect to find another underground room here," Wesker said, furrowing his brow. "It seems that those who stole the corpses from the Funeral Home wanted to bring them here, but what did they want to do with them?"
At this time, the leader of the special police team said seriously, "We haven’t investigated this underground room yet because we detected a large amount of toxic gas inside. We need to wait for the protective suits and gas masks to arrive before we can enter."
Liu Xing walked over to take a look at the situation in the underground room and found that it was filled with a faint white mist.
As a professional, Sergei’s interest was piqued when he heard about the toxic gas. He took out a small bottle from his portable box, which contained a small white mouse.
Because the bottle had multiple air holes, Sergei directly threw the bottle into the underground room and observed the mouse’s condition with a flashlight.
Five seconds later, the mouse, which had been frightened, suddenly died, bleeding from its seven orifices.
"This toxic gas is quite potent, taking effect so quickly," Sergei exclaimed.
Liu Xing nodded, looking puzzled. "So why did they release this toxic gas? Is there something hidden in this underground room?"
Wesker walked over, saying confidently, "Although the power of this toxic gas is terrifying, we can see that its flow rate is actually very low. This suggests that the main purpose of the gas is to prevent us from entering the underground room freely, implying that there’s something in the room that the owner doesn’t want us to discover. Of course, the gas may also be used to kill any living organisms that couldn’t be removed from the underground room."
As soon as Wesker finished speaking, the protective suits and gas masks arrived from the special police team.Although Liu Xing and the others wanted to check the situation in the underground room as soon as possible, they gave up the idea after seeing the power of the toxic gas. After all, a wise man doesn’t stand under a dangerous wall.
So, the special police team sent three officers, fully equipped with protective gear, into the underground room.
Fortunately, nothing went wrong.
Five minutes later, the three officers returned to the living room on the first floor, and one of them reported on the situation in the underground room.
The underground room was very large, covering an area of around 500-600 square meters, and was divided into multiple sections by curtains. Many of these sections appeared to be used for various experiments, with surgical tables and tools, as well as all sorts of bottles and jars.
Most importantly, there was a row of refrigerators in the corner of the room, which seemed to be used to store corpses.
In addition, they found a button that controlled the release of the toxic gas.
After confirming that the special police team’s protective gear was reliable, Wesker borrowed a few sets from his old friend and led Liu Xing and the others into the underground room. If they had waited for the gas to dissipate naturally, they might not have been able to enter the room until tomorrow.
After entering the underground room, Liu Xing saw various colorful, semi-transparent curtains, which seemed to be used to distinguish the different functions of each section.
"Let’s split up and search now. If anyone finds something important or encounters an emergency, shout loudly, and the others must rush over immediately," Wesker said seriously.
Liu Xing and the others nodded and dispersed.
Liu Xing didn’t walk far before entering a section surrounded by red curtains. According to general practice, red represented danger, but in a place like this, the more dangerous the area, the more important it was likely to be.
Liu Xing took a rough look at the situation in this section and found that it was very similar to Sergei’s autopsy room. In the center was a standard surgical table, with a full set of surgical instruments beside it. Most importantly, Liu Xing found fresh bloodstains on the surgical table and instruments.
However, from the bloodstains, Liu Xing could confirm that the blood came from corpses, so the members of the Cult of the Cadaver must have been dissecting the corpses brought back from the Funeral Home before the Gralki cultists attacked.
So why did the Cult of the Cadaver members want to dissect these corpses?
Liu Xing was baffled. Could it be that the Cult of the Cadaver members wanted to eat the corpses?
The Cult of the Cadaver was called the Cult of the Cadaver, not the Ghoul cult, because its members indeed ate human corpses, almost all of them having a cannibalistic tendency.
Liu Xing had heard a rumor in the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall that the high-ranking members of the Cult of the Cadaver had already made it a habit to eat only human corpses three meals a day. Therefore, the Cult of the Cadaver operated many graveyards and hospitals in their activity areas to obtain "fresh food".
So Liu Xing suspected that the Cult of the Cadaver members were trying to catch multiple birds with one stone, taking all the corpses from the Funeral Home to enjoy a "feast".
Liu Xing thought about it and felt a bit nauseous. Compared to other secret cults, the Cult of the Cadaver was more disgusting, although all secret cults liked to perform human sacrifices, but few cults ate human flesh.
Liu Xing walked around this section and then entered the next one, which looked like a chemistry laboratory. Liu Xing felt like he was back in his high school chemistry class.
However, the bottles containing various chemical reagents had been opened and dumped into the sink, so Liu Xing couldn’t determine what kind of chemical experiments the Cult of the Cadaver members were conducting.
Liu Xing noticed that a pile of torn papers had been thrown into the trash can. Could this be the Cult of the Cadaver members’ research report?
However, to be cautious, Liu Xing didn’t rush to take out the papers. After all, the papers wouldn’t disappear, and it was better to let the forensic experts handle them.
Liu Xing walked around this section and found nothing important except for the torn papers, as the Cult of the Cadaver members had clearly taken away the important things.
So Liu Xing could only move on to the next section.
However, just then, Liu Xing heard Jill’s scream.
Liu Xing quickly searched for the source of the sound and found Jill.
The area where Jill was located also had an operating table, but on this operating table lay a naked corpse, covered in red, network-like wounds. It was extremely eerie, no wonder Jill was frightened by this corpse.
However, Liu Xing knew that this corpse should be a follower of Gralki, because followers of Gralki who were granted "eternal life" would all end up like this.
At this time, Leon and the others also arrived.
Sergei, upon seeing the corpse on the operating table, opened his mouth and said, "How did this corpse become like this? I remember that when I autopsied him, everything was normal."
"Is this one of the corpses that was taken away with Vite?" Wesker asked.
Sergei nodded and continued, "This corpse’s name is Jorma, a ordinary servant from Locke Manor. According to his colleagues, he was from Saven Valley, and because of a conflict with his father, he ran away from home and lived alone in London, not wanting to discuss his family matters with friends, so we still don’t know his exact background and haven’t contacted his family."
A person from Saven Valley?
Liu Xing looked at the corpse with some surprise, never expecting that he was from Saven Valley, or rather, Liu Xing didn’t expect to see someone from Saven Valley on the territory of the Cult of the Cadaver.
Didn’t the Cult of the Cadaver fear that he was a follower of Gralki?
However, Liu Xing quickly realized that he was overthinking, because according to "Chris"’s memories, Saven Valley was a large area, and due to its river valley terrain, it was suitable for building towns, so Saven Valley had many human settlements a long time ago. As a result, within Saven Valley, there were still many large towns, and Saven Valley’s tourism industry was also relatively developed.
Therefore, the permanent residents and floating population within Saven Valley were not inferior to those of first-tier cities in England.
So, the Cult of the Cadaver wouldn’t be so foolish as to treat all people in Saven Valley as followers of Gralki, especially since Gralki didn’t have the ability to spread its influence throughout Saven Valley... because there were other Great Old Ones competing with Gralki for territory in Saven Valley.
However, to get back to the point, Jorma had indeed been transformed by Gralki, but this should have happened after Jorma’s death. Liu Xing didn’t know what effect this transformation would have, because Gralki’s followers, in the strict sense, were all undead, and Jorma was already a corpse.
Was Gralki trying to create a biohazard crisis?
Apart from this, Liu Xing also realized that his previous thinking had been wrong. It was possible that Bai Hecheng was not a clone created by the Cult of the Cadaver, but rather a reanimated corpse revived by Gralki.
Because initially, Gralki’s followers had taken away Bai Hecheng and two other corpses, and then Gralki’s avatar should have transformed them. According to the setting, Gralki’s main body was still very weak and couldn’t leave Saven Valley.
However, during the transformation process, whether intentionally or unintentionally, Bai Hecheng was directly "revived", but the other two corpses were not so "lucky".
As for why Gralki’s followers did this, Liu Xing thought that they also wanted to plant a mole within the police department, because Gralki could control these transformed corpses, allowing it to observe the police department’s internal situation through their eyes, and even make them do things within the police department, such as assassinating Allen.
And the Cult of the Cadaver should have discovered Gralki’s followers’ plan, so they sent people to the Funeral Home to steal the two corpses and bring them back to Rose Manor for research, because everyone was an expert in corpse research, and maybe they could learn from each other.
Of course, Gralki’s followers definitely didn’t want to see this happen, so they organized a team to attack Rose Manor, ultimately forcing the Cult of the Cadaver’s members to give up on the corpse.
Liu Xing felt that he had finally figured everything out... or so he thought.
Liu Xing still wasn’t sure if Bai Hecheng was one of them, because Bai Hecheng might have been brought by the Cult of the Cadaver.
But no matter what, Bai Hecheng, who was currently within the police department, was a ticking time bomb.
"Sergei, what should we do with this corpse? I feel like it might be problematic," Wesker said.
Sergei nodded and picked up a scalpel from the side, saying, "This corpse is indeed problematic. The red, network-like wounds on its body are too strange, something I’ve never seen before. But we can’t forget about Vite’s situation, which is even stranger, so I think we should bring this corpse back for research, maybe we can figure out why Vite was able to come back to life."
Sergei finished speaking and tried to make a cut on the corpse’s red, network-like wounds.
Just as Sergei’s knife touched the corpse, something strange happened.
The corpse suddenly sat up, its eyes opening to reveal grayish-white pupils.
The most terrifying thing was that the red, network-like wounds on its body suddenly turned bright red.
Liu Xing and the others were shocked and took a few steps back.
Luckily, Liu Xing didn’t lose any sanity points.
"What the hell is this ghost thing?" Wesker pulled out his handgun and aimed it at Jorma’s corpse.
Luckily, the special police team’s protective gear included a gun holster, otherwise Wesker wouldn’t have been able to pull out his handgun.
However, at this time, Jorma’s corpse didn’t move, and if not for the extremely eerie wounds on its body, Liu Xing and the others might have thought that Jorma’s corpse was just pretending to be dead... well, pretending to be dead wasn’t ordinary either.
Just like that, Liu Xing and the others stood off against Jorma’s corpse for a while, and then Jorma’s corpse made another shocking move - it got down from the table!
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