"Are you and Shihan related?" Shangguan Xin asked with a faint smile.
I roughly explained why I appeared here. Shangguan Xin was a little stunned after hearing this: "Are you the legendary mortuary student? Is it true that I heard that there is a morgue below our college?"
Lao Song specifically explained this to me: Because of the special nature of mortuary science, there is a morgue under the College of Humanities, but ordinary students don't know about it, so Shangguan Xin asked this question.
"Haha, I've only been here two days, so I'm not very clear about this. But since I'm a student in the funeral department, I'll treat it as an internship. But it's you, Shangguan Xin: you have a really good relationship with Zhao Shihan Okay, you actually came to hold a wake for her? "
"Do you think it's strange that a girl like me would come to hold a wake for a friend by myself?" Shangguan Xin grasped my key point very keenly, and then said softly: "Actually, do you know? I think there is something fishy about Shihan's death..."
"What's strange?"
Just when I asked this, a big man in black suddenly appeared in front of me: Zhao Haocheng came over.
"Boy, since you're just a staff member, can you please sit down and sit down! This is my sister's funeral hall!" Zhao Haocheng glared at me angrily, and then looked at Shangguan Xin with a 'gentle' look: "This is My name is Shangguan Xin, isn't it? It's quite late now, you..."
"Thank you, I don't need it. I want to talk to this classmate, could you please stand far away?" Shangguan Xin said coldly. said. The first contact with
was a big hit. Zhao Haocheng didn’t know what to say, but the expression he looked at me was almost the same as a bull’s eyes when he sees red cloth.
Picking up girls in front of his sister’s funeral hall? You are really good enough.
For a moment, Zhao Haocheng was either leaving or not. When he was embarrassed, his vision suddenly went dark.
There is a power outage in the mourning hall?
The funeral parlor is a special unit with a backup power supply. The power outage probably lasted less than 3 seconds. The backup power supply was activated immediately. However, this backup power supply is not the same as the regular power supply. It can only guarantee the emergency lighting and ice coffin in the mourning hall. Electricity for Class I facilities.
The entire mourning hall suddenly dimmed, with only the edge of the ice coffin and the area with emergency lighting against the wall being brighter.
At the moment of the power outage, I felt a small hand grab my wrist.
That hand felt small and tender, but very cold. It felt like it should be Shangguan Xin's hand, and it suddenly grabbed me hard.
It is normal for a girl to suddenly grab the hand of a boy next to her because of nervousness. When three seconds passed and the emergency power came on, I suddenly felt chills all over my body.
Emergency lighting is rarely used, so it flashes a few times before turning on.
But at that shining moment, I suddenly felt that the person sitting next to me was not Shangguan Xin.
but Zhao Shihan!
Zhao Shihan's eyes were wide open and she was still in the state of not closing her eyes. Wearing the student uniform we personally put on for her, she pinched my wrist with a cold hand.
For a moment, I felt as if a bomb was exploding in my head. All the pores in my body suddenly opened, and my heart began to beat wildly!
But it all happened in an instant, and then I felt that everything in front of me seemed to be blurred again, and then became clear again.
It was still Shangguan Xin who pinched my wrist. She also looked very nervous and leaned towards me, reacting exactly like a normal frightened girl.
But what did I see at that moment?
"Why is there a power outage?" Shangguan Xin complained.
Before I could speak, I heard a "bang dang" sound from the side, like the sound of something falling to the ground.
Shangguan Xin and I turned around and saw that Zhao Haocheng was actually kneeling on the ground, facing Zhao Shihan's ice coffin, and his whole body was shaking.
"Hey!" I called him, and Zhao Haocheng suddenly raised his head, first looked at the ice coffin, and then turned to look at us.
Zhao Haocheng's face looked so distorted: it was as if the muscles in his entire face were out of control. This is the first time I've seen a human face make such an expression?
"What's wrong with you?" I asked tentatively.
"You, you, you... you..." Zhao Haocheng took a few deep breaths, as if he couldn't stand up, and couldn't speak clearly.
Although his face was facing us, I could see that his eyes did not hit my face, but focused on Shangguan Xin's face behind me.
"Uh uh uh..." Zhao Haocheng seemed to be trying to stand up but failed. Then he took several steps back using his hands and feet, and suddenly bumped into a table in the mourning hall.
Then he climbed out of the mourning hall like a dog, using his hands and feet together!
"Is this?"
"It's so funny..."
Shangguan Xin behind me chuckled. At this time, all the lights in the mourning hall came on again, and the power seemed to be completely restored.
I took another look at Shangguan Xin beside me. She was the same as before.
Realizing that he had pinched my wrist, Shangguan Xin let go of my hand a little embarrassed and said, "I'm sorry, I'm a little nervous because of the power outage..."
I nodded and said nothing.
I am a person who has learned physical skills and corpse control skills in my family since I was a child. I have full confidence in my own consciousness and nerves and can never be controlled by others.
But at that moment I felt very clearly: I saw Zhao Shihan, who had died long ago, sitting next to me!
This is definitely not because I'm in a trance or seeing things wrong, but someone is showing something similar to an illusion around me.
If not, then there is a ghost beside me!
And the only living thing around me now is this Shangguan Xin.
"That guy Zhao Haocheng has finally left. How about we continue the topic just now?" Shangguan Xin said with a smile.
"Um...can I ask you something first, Shangguan Xin." I took a breath and said, "You are just an ordinary girl. Why can you stay in the same place with a stranger?" In an empty mourning hall? "It's weird, isn't it?" Shangguan Xin smiled and said, "I am actually studying law, and Chinese language is my elective subject, and Shihan and I are We met at the Hanfu Club."
sat down and she said to me with a smile: "I haven't been afraid of corpses since I was a child, because I have a strange characteristic: I have a very good memory. I am the fastest at memorizing the law, because I have a very abnormal study habit: I like to read in scary places like graves. "
" Reading at graves? "I don't understand.
"The more I read in such a scary place, the more I can concentrate. When I was studying in my hometown, starting from junior high school, I often took a book and a flashlight to read near the grave mound near my house. The effect was very good. This habit continues to this day, but there seems to be no scary place in our school, so I often find places where no one or very few people go to read in the middle of the night. "
" Because of this, I am not afraid of corpses or funeral parlors at all. A place like this, am I a bit perverted?"
I nodded: "It's not really a pervert, it's just a matter of one's habits."
"Thank you, and this is Shihan's funeral hall, me and her. Very familiar, and besides, you are here, why should I be afraid?" Shangguan Xin said with a smile.
"Okay... to you, why did you just say that there was something fishy about Zhao Shihan's death?" I looked at Shangguan Xin and asked.
"Let's start from the beginning. Are you interested in listening? And...it involves some topics between girls." Shangguan Xin said a little shyly.
"It doesn't matter, it's okay anyway, just talk about it."
"Well... it's 12 o'clock, wait a minute."
Shangguan Xin looked at the wall clock in the mourning hall, stood up, and I stood up with him. stand up.
At every hour in the mourning hall, three sticks of incense need to be burned for the deceased. The regulations in each place are different. Zhao Shanfu asked me to help him "take care" of his daughter. The main purpose was to ask me to burn incense for him and Take care of the everlasting fire.
The everlasting flame is an oil lamp lit with vegetable oil under observation. According to regulations, this lamp cannot be extinguished, so be sure to refuel at all times.
However, these procedures have been simplified in many places now: the everlasting flame has become a type of electric light, which can be regarded as a kind of advancement with the times.
At 12 o'clock on time, after burning three sticks of incense, Shangguan Xin looked at her ancient clothes and said somewhat inappropriately: "This dress is very beautiful, but it still feels uncomfortable to wear it for a long time. Is there any room here that can Want to change clothes? "
Although this mourning hall is large, there is only a toilet and a family lounge as ancillary facilities. I looked around and found that only the family lounge, which was the room where Liu Yuwei was sleeping, was available.
"Go there." I pointed to the room on the side.
"Okay, thank you." When Shangguan Xin came, she brought a bag with probably some clothes in it. When she walked to the family room, I looked inside.
This room is not big. There are only two beds in it. One of them is already occupied by Liu Yuwei, who is sleeping soundly.
"Okay, please wait a moment."
I nodded knowingly, closed the door and returned to the mourning hall.
At this time, it seemed that the power supply was still a little unstable. The light flashed again, but there was no power outage.
looked at the door behind me, and I immediately rushed to the edge of the ice coffin silently.
Because Shangguan Xin never left the ice coffin, we didn't have the chance to go up to see what the situation was. Now that she was gone, I found the opportunity.
immediately rushed to the ice coffin. When I saw the situation inside, my hair stood up immediately!
The corpse has its eyes opened!
The ice coffin was covered with a longevity quilt, and Zhao Shihan, who was wearing a student uniform, actually had her eyes wide open!
How can a corpse in an ice coffin open its eyes?
took a closer look at the finger marks left on the ice coffin when Shangguan Xin was singing a few hours ago.
Although it has been several hours, the fingerprints are still faintly imprinted on the ice coffin.
From the texture, I don’t quite understand what this kind of fingerprint means, but the texture looks like the notes of the staff. It is not drawn casually. There should be a certain pattern, but I've never seen anything like this.
can't care about this now. If the corpse transformation begins to occur, and it is such a violent corpse transformation, the corpse problem must be dealt with as soon as possible.
Generally speaking, it is difficult to imagine that a corpse would open its eyes in an ice coffin without being affected by any external force. If this happens, it can only mean that some amazing changes have occurred inside the corpse.
I directly opened the lid of the freezer and placed it aside.
The eyes of the corpse were wide open and looked extremely scary. I first tried to press down the eyes of the corpse with my hands, but it didn't work.
In this case, you must use transparent glue to stick it.
looked around but couldn't find it, so I couldn't care less about it: I had to confirm the degree of transformation inside the corpse first.
took out the autopsy needle. Now I have to explore the degree of corpse transformation inside the corpse's brain.
This requires inserting a postmortem needle into the nostrils of the corpse.
Just when my autopsy needle had just touched the face of the corpse, a hand suddenly grabbed my wrist!
Zhao Shihan raised a hand and squeezed my hand tightly!
That hand was thin and small, but it was full of power, and it was getting tighter and tighter. It was hard to imagine that it was the power of a corpse.
Could it be that the zombies have reached the level of zombies that can move?
The corpse had been dead for less than 48 hours. It had been frozen and embalmed. How could it be possible that it could still transform to this extent under such circumstances?
This is simply beyond everything I have learned in my family over the years!
struggled hard. It shouldn't be a problem for me to break free from the zombie's grasp, but I unexpectedly found that I couldn't break free: that thin and small arm was full of power, and there was a strong force coming from the middle of my hand. The extremely cold feeling immediately made my arms numb.
doesn’t work! Something big will happen if this continues!
At this moment, I suddenly felt someone tapping my shoulder.
Everything in front of me suddenly blurred again, and then gradually became clear...
I was sitting on the chair in front of the ice coffin, my own left hand pinching my own right hand?
Shangguan Xin was beside me, patted my shoulder and asked in a questioning tone: "What's wrong with you? Are you sitting here pinching yourself?"
What's going on?
I looked at the marks on my hands that were pinched by myself, and fell into an unprecedented panic.
illusion? Is it really an illusion? I saw a lot of hallucinations?
Is this still the case? Is there something I don’t know about playing with me?
"Classmate Zhang Heng, what's wrong with you?"
Only then did I raise my head and look at Shangguan Xin.
This look made me even more surprised.
Shangguan Xin had taken off her Hanfu and put on ordinary clothes: a light plain white shawl shirt, underneath which seemed to be a suspender-like tunic, and the lower body was made up of very casual casual pants. , wearing a small belt, looking playful and casual, with a pair of small leather shoes with slightly higher heels on her feet.
Originally, Shangguan Xin was a small girl with a relatively small frame. After taking off the Hanfu, which covered her head to toes, and her figure was invisible, she looked even thinner and softer. Her arms and thighs were very thin. She looks very weak, and she is indeed a Lin Daiyu type.
But now I don’t care about admiring other people’s figures. Instead, I keep touching my head and asking: "You...when did you come to me?"
"When I came out, I saw you sitting there and pinching yourself. My hands didn't move. I called you twice and you didn't respond, so I came over and patted you on the shoulder. "What's wrong with you?" "I'm sorry... I may be a little confused." I calmed down and stood up. .
There must be magic, but who is doing it?
I took a breath and looked at Shangguan Xin carefully.
Seeing that my gaze seemed a little unkind, Shangguan Xin quickly sensed something, frowned and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
From my personal bag, I took out a yellow soul-reviving jade and tied it around my neck. inside, and then smiled: "It's okay, I haven't slept well for two days, maybe I feel a little uncomfortable. Can you sit down? Aren't you sleepy?"
looked a little suspicious of my attitude, but Shangguan Xin still sat down, a little strange. He looked at me: "Then you'd better go to sleep for a while. I'll be fine here. I usually sleep during the day and I'm most awake at night."
"It's okay... By the way, didn't you say you think Zhao Shihan Is there something strange about death? "What's going on?" I laughed.
"Well, you want to know? Then I'll tell you slowly." Shangguan Xin nodded.
I poured two cups of tea, looked around, calmed down and listened.
"When I was a freshman, Shihan and I joined the Hanfu club. At that time, the Hanfu club had just been established. There were no people and no funds. The sponsorship of our club was basically brought by Shihan."
"Her family has money. Yeah. It's normal." I said with a smile.
"Haha, almost.Shangguan Xin smiled and nodded: "Although Shihan is our main force, she actually doesn't have much time to participate in our activities, but she does like Hanfu, don't you know?" Shihan's hands are very skillful: many of the Hanfu are made or modified by her herself, and they are very beautiful. It is rare to see girls with such skillful hands nowadays. I get along very well with her and other sisters in the Hanfu Club, among which she and I have the best relationship. "
" After our relationship gets better, we will talk about girls to each other... By the way, do you think I am gossip? "Speaking of this, Shangguan Xin asked hesitantly.
"It doesn't matter, just keep talking. "I smiled and shook my head.
"Shihan told me that she didn't want to go home: It would be okay if she didn't run into her father every time she went home, but if she did, she would always meet her father coming home with different women. , some women were so disgusting that they even pointed at Zhao Shihan and asked her father who this woman was, which made Shihan very distressed. Sometimes she even stayed in my dormitory instead of going home."
" Later , she came more and more. Once, Shihan and I slept in the same bed..."
"You two were in the same bed? I laughed and said, "Is there such a thing?" "
"Um... Actually, it's normal among girls. My sister and I have slept together under the same quilt since we were young. Shihan also likes to sleep with me in her arms, saying that she feels like holding me like a doll..." Shangguan Xin looked a little confused. He said in embarrassment.
"Well...in the same bed, what next?" "I smiled and continued to ask.
"In the middle of the night, Shihan suddenly turned over and hugged me, and said to me in a very strange voice: "Someone wants to kill me."
I wrinkled Frowning: "What kind of weird accent?"
"I can't describe it. I was sleeping vaguely at that time." Shangguan Xin thought for a moment: "It's just like... It seems like it's not Shihan at all. "Speaking, but the feeling of someone using Shihan's body to speak."
I nodded: "Then what?" I was shocked at that time, and I immediately asked: Shihan, who wants to kill you? Have you had a nightmare? "
" But Shihan ignored me. I couldn't see clearly under the quilt at that time, but Shihan strangled her neck with one hand, and then used that weird voice. The voice said: "Kill me like this. ""
"Strangle?" I nodded, this was indeed Zhao Shihan's way of committing suicide.
"After saying this, Shihan fell asleep again, and then didn't speak again, which scared me so much that I couldn't sleep all night. Later, when I asked her the next day, she said that she had never dreamed at all. Talking in sleep, and laughing at whether I was dreaming..."
"Now that I think about it... I actually don't know if I was dreaming at that time..." Shangguan Xin said with her face in embarrassment.
"That's it? Is there anything else?" I nodded and continued to ask.
"There is another thing that is even more strange..." Shangguan Xin thought for a moment and said, "It was the end of last semester and summer vacation was about to begin. Shihan suddenly called me and said: Her mother is back."
Mom is back?
I immediately remembered the note on the ground:
Mom is back.
"Do you know Zhao Shihan's mother?" I asked immediately.
"This is the reason I have never understood: Didn't Shihan's mother die very early?" Shangguan Xin said doubtfully: "Shihan's father is the richest man in the local area and very famous, but because Shihan himself She is very low-key and deliberately conceals it. Not many people know that her father is Zhao Shanfu. Zhao Shanfu’s first wife, Shihan’s mother, died more than ten years ago. This is a lot of people. Everyone knows this. How could her mother suddenly come out? "
" Because I had already gone home and Shihan told me on the phone.I didn't understand what was going on, so I told Shihan: Didn't your mother leave very early? Why are you back? Shihan, are you drunk? "
" Shihan replied: Xin'er, you don't know: my mother is not dead, my mother is back, really back, I will bring her to see you. "
" That's it. After I finished speaking, I hung up. When I called again, no one answered. "
I breathed a sigh of relief and nodded.
Looking at me, Shangguan Xin looked at me with a complex expression: "Isn't it a bit scary? Didn't scare you? "
I nodded and stood up. After looking at the ice coffin, I sat down again. After thinking for a while, I looked at Shangguan Xin.
"Shangguan Xin, although I don't know what your purpose is, but I can be sure: you At least half of what he told me was an out-and-out lie! "
Text/"The Weird Things in Mortuary Science"
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