thefictionvixens Chapter 105 Taking a Bath in Formaldehyde Pool
Chapter 105 Taking a Bath in Formaldehyde Pool
Chapter 105 Taking a Bath in Formaldehyde Pool
The fact that a patient who had died came back to life and went to dig up the body quickly alarmed the police.
Dr. Vincent, who was following behind, and the patient's family members were questioned three times.
By the time the final round of questioning ended, it was already evening.
The people who inquired about the matter in Vincent's office were an inspector and a trainee inspector, but Vincent had just seen from the window that they had arrived in a church carriage.
As the questioning concluded and the two inspectors rose to leave, Dr. Vincent suddenly asked, "Gentlemen, did I encounter any supernatural phenomena this afternoon?"
The inspector replied, "This could be the result of a series of coincidences. If you feel fear or unease, you can go to church to pray and confess."
Because things related to the house can be explained by "common sense" to some extent, and other people will just listen to them as ghost stories.
Therefore, this inspector, or rather this member of the "Night Watch" team, Ryan, was merely trying his best to cover it up and did not sign a confidentiality agreement with Vincent.
Just then, a panicked, pale-faced old man rushed in. Seeing the two inspectors, he breathed a slight sigh of relief: "Thank God, you haven't left yet. They—no, they—they want to get up! Good heavens, they want to come out! They're about to come out!"
Vincent certainly recognized the old man; he was Uncle Fitz, the morgue guard. He had a strange temper and rarely interacted with others. Ryan, a member of the "Night Watch" team, also knew the old man. Fitz had been guarding the morgue for over twenty years and had encountered two extraordinary cases. They had previously signed a confidentiality agreement with the old man.
After hearing what Uncle Fitz said, Dr. Vincent roughly understood that the "they" the old man was referring to were the two bodies he had collected that afternoon.
Vincent immediately reassured Fitz and tried his best to get the old man to explain what had happened.
After Ryan and his colleagues learned that there were two bodies struggling to open the lid, they said to the old man, "Let's go take a look."
Vincent quickly replied, "One of them is my patient."
He was eager to figure out what was going on, so he decided to follow them in this way.
Ryan glanced at the doctor but did not refuse his request to follow, because they might need to perform a final examination on the body later to avoid treating the survivor as dead.
So the group immediately went down to the basement level, and as soon as they arrived, they smelled the formaldehyde solution.
Upon opening the morgue door, the group saw that the lids of two wooden boxes had been opened.
The morgue was very poorly equipped, consisting of only a row of long, narrow wooden boxes that could hold a person.
At this moment, everyone felt that the room was extremely cold, a cold that seeped into their bones. They looked at the ice blocks in the corner of the room and assumed that the ice blocks were the cause of the cold.
The body was placed in a wooden box, and only after the family came to claim it would it be put into a coffin and taken away.
If the body remains unclaimed for several days, it will be disposed of again, placed in the formaldehyde pool inside the room. The medical school will periodically collect the bodies. The better the body is preserved, the higher the price.
At this moment, the lids of two wooden boxes were lying on the ground, as if they had been pushed open from the inside.
But the body was nowhere to be found.
Ryan held a "sleep-inducing charm" in his hand, squatted down to examine it, and then looked at the two doors on the inside of the morgue.
Those were two iron doors, perfectly sealed together.
Ryan and his colleague followed the trail to the door, where they seemed to hear the sound of rushing water.
They exchanged a glance, then each took a door and yanked the iron gate open.
Ryan was about to throw out the "sleep-inducing spell" when he froze in front of the door.
In the Formolin pool, there were two people—no, two corpses—taking a bath!
A corpse was carefully removing its bandages, revealing severely burned, somewhat festering wounds from which thick, yellow fluid was constantly oozing. It was carefully cleaning those wounds.
Another corpse, with a flattened head and bizarre facial features, was carefully cleaning the dirt and rubble from its skull.
If it weren't for the few bodies still floating in the formaldehyde pool, Ryan and his colleagues would have thought they had entered a bathhouse.
Vincent, who was following behind, felt a chill run through his body and his legs went weak: "By the goddess above, this is truly a medical miracle."
Ryan then came to his senses and, while reciting the word "sleep" in ancient Hermes, threw out the talisman in his hand.
The two bodies that were taking a bath suddenly and slowly tilted to the side.
But just as they were about to collapse, they seemed to suddenly regain their strength and stood up straight again, then continued taking a shower.
Ryan pulled out his revolver, which was full of "Exorcism" and "Purification" bullets. He realized that the corpse in front of him was not an ordinary zombie.
The two "Night Watchers" did not fire their guns. Instead, they took two steps back because they were worried that they would not be able to deal with the zombies in front of them. So, they tacitly covered the escape of the ordinary people first and then went to call for help.
At this moment, Vincent suddenly said, "Or else—or else let them finish washing—"
Ryan paused for a moment. The idea was novel, but it also seemed worth observing further. Because these two zombies hadn't shown any intention of harming anyone from beginning to end.
Ryan then dismissed Fitz and Vincent, while they continued to watch the zombies bathe.
Fitz fled as if escaping, but Vincent refused to leave, insisting on giving the patient another examination.
At this moment, the two corpses, now cleaned, emerged from the Formarium pool, bowed slightly to Ryan and the others as if to thank them for waiting, then picked up the lid of the wooden box, lay down inside, and finally closed it for themselves.
An eerie silence suddenly fell over the morgue.
Ryan, who was holding a gun, and another colleague stared at the closed wooden box in front of them, speechless for a long time.
Normally, when you encounter this situation, you'd inevitably have to fight it out. Did you expect it to be resolved so easily this time?
"Get out of here," Ryan said immediately, and they locked the door from the outside after leaving.
After they walked away, another wooden box opened, and a man in his twenties with a wicked smile sat up: "This doctor is quite interesting."
This is the Raphael he is playing.
He took a deep breath; the performance was working well. He opened the door, "hypnotizing" the "night watch squad" waiting outside.
The members and Vincent walked away.
Ryan took a carriage and returned to the Night Watch headquarters as quickly as possible, where he found Leonard Mitchell, who was on duty that day.
This is a member of the "Red Gloves," but recently a large number of "Night Watchers" have been transferred to the Amanda Mountains to fight against the Church of War, so Leonard was temporarily transferred to work at the "Night Watchers" headquarters for a few days.
Leonard smiled after hearing Ryan's report and said, "Fortunately, they were just playing around."