Why is Old Lin wearing a red wedding dress?
Is it because his corpse was burned together with the red wedding dress?
I couldn't help but stand there stunned, even forgetting to turn around and run away.
Seeing me, Old Lin in the red wedding dress showed a look of urgency on his face. "Run for your life!"
Only then did I come to my senses that I was still in danger at the moment, and that eerie female corpse was right behind me.
I wanted to take a step and run away, but it was already too late.
A pair of cold hands landed on my shoulders, and wet blood was dripping down from the fingers.
"Chen Feng, don't I look good? Why do you run away when you see me?"
The female voice behind me carried a charming tone, but when she opened her mouth, a strong stench of corpses wafted over, making one can't help but retch.
I was terrified and tried to run away, but my shoulders were tightly grasped by the other party. The grip was so tight that my collarbones ached, and I simply couldn't break free.
"Chen Zi, wake up, quickly wake up!"
I opened my eyes and found that it was actually Huang Po who was holding my shoulders and shaking me non - stop.
"Ouch! Stop shaking me, it hurts!"
"Chen Zi, you're finally awake." Huang Po let go of his hands. "What did you dream about? You've been shouting all the time."
I was stunned for a moment and then told Huang Po what I had seen in the dream just now.
"This female corpse is pestering you, but why is Old Lin also involved?"
"I don't know." I also couldn't figure it out. What I saw in the dream was too strange.
"Forget it, stop thinking about it. Let's go to the office and get a couple of cups of coffee. Don't sleep anymore. Wait until the cremation of the corpses is completed."
"Okay."
There was nothing we could do. The only hope was that after the cremation of the corpses, these strange things would come to an end.
In the following time, nothing unexpected happened. The two of us went to the office to get coffee and each gulped down several cups. Finally, we weren't sleepy anymore.
At six o'clock in the morning, the corpses in several incinerators had all been cremated.
Huang Po and I followed the procedure, turned off the incinerators, and pulled out the red - hot stretcher beds to wait for them to cool down.
Influenced by TV dramas, ordinary people think that as long as a corpse is thrown into the incinerator, it can be directly burned into fine ashes. In fact, it's not the case.
What can be burned to ashes in the human body is mainly flesh and internal organs. Even if the bones are burned through, they will still maintain the general shape of the bones. They have to be smashed with a hammer.
That's because bones are made of calcium. Burning bones is similar to burning stones, except that bones are a bit more brittle than stones.
Huang Po and I had a good understanding. We started with the first three normal corpses and pulled out the stretcher beds one by one.
When we pulled out the stretcher bed of Jiang Lixin, Huang Po and I were immediately stunned.
There was only fine ash on the stretcher bed, and there was no bone residue at all.
This was simply impossible, because no matter how a corpse was burned, there would definitely be large bone fragments left.
Even for a newly - born baby, whose bones are very soft and have little calcium, the bones will break when touched after cremation. But they have to be touched first to break.
Huang Po and I had been corpse carriers for so long and had also cremated the corpses of infants. When the stretcher beds were pulled out, there was still bone residue, just very little.
As for adults, even for the elderly with osteoporosis, a hammer is still needed in the end, it just takes a little less effort.
This female corpse, who looked very much like Jiang Lixin, was young and had strong bones. There was no way that no bone fragments were left.
"What the hell is going on? How come there isn't even a bone fragment left?" I couldn't help swearing.
"Clean up the others first and we'll talk about it later."
As Huang Po said, he came to the last incinerator, opened the door, and pulled out the stretcher bed.
The stretcher bed where Old Lin was placed was normal, and there were calcium residues on the entire skeleton.
The anxiety in my heart eased a little. Fortunately, Old Lin's situation was normal. One eerie female corpse was already hard enough to deal with. If Old Lin became strange too, it would be a disaster.
Huang Po was much calmer than me. He pulled me to clean up the normal ashes first.
The two of us smashed the bone residues of the three corpses into small pieces, put them into the crusher to grind, and then filled them into the urns respectively.
When we came to Jiang Lixin's stretcher bed, we walked around it in tacit agreement and went straight to Old Lin's stretcher bed.
It was obvious that Old Lin also suffered from osteoporosis. We easily smashed the remaining skeleton.
When we were cleaning up the ashes, I used an iron shovel to scoop the ashes off the stretcher bed. Only then did I notice that there seemed to be something soft under Old Lin's ashes.
I shoveled up that soft thing and was immediately stunned.
It was a piece of cloth that had been burned to a charred black, and the embroidered pattern of two phoenixes presenting auspiciousness could still be vaguely recognized on it.
Wasn't this the red wedding dress the female corpse was wearing? Huang Po and I looked at each other in surprise.
By this time, we realized that this red wedding dress was also very strange.
In order to incinerate the corpses, the temperature in the incinerator was very high. No fabric could withstand the temperature of the incinerator, not even asbestos.
This red wedding dress had been burned in the incinerator at a temperature of over a thousand degrees for a whole night, but it still remained. It was simply incredible.
"What the hell should we do?" I picked up the piece of the wedding dress with the shovel, feeling a bit at a loss.
"Throw it in the trash later. If the incinerator can't burn it, what else can we do?"
Apart from this piece of the wedding dress, there was nothing wrong with Old Lin's ashes. Soon, we filled it into the urn.
After finishing dealing with these four corpses, we were a bit tired. We took a short rest before coming to the incinerator where the female corpse was, ready to clean up the ashes.
Actually, I could tell something was wrong even without cleaning up the ashes.
As long - time employees at the funeral parlor, we had a clear idea of how much bone fragments and ashes should be left after incinerating an adult corpse.
There was very little ash on this stretcher bed. If we really put it into an urn, it probably wouldn't even fill a third of it. Handing it over like this would make the family members scold us.
"Did some of it fall through? Should we clean the incinerator?" I suggested.
During incineration, the corpse was indeed placed on the stretcher bed, and most of the ashes would end up on the stretcher bed after burning.
However, some ashes would still fall into the incinerator. Usually, it was very little. Huang Po and I had no other choice.
"Then clean out the ashes in the incinerator too."
Just as I was about to clean the ashes in the incinerator, I accidentally glanced at the open incinerator door and couldn't help but freeze.
On the inside of the furnace door, there was a palm print smeared with oil ash, as if someone had pushed the door with dirty hands and left it there.
At the sight of this palm print smeared with oil ash, a terrifying image immediately popped into my mind.
While Huang Po and I went to the office to get coffee to perk ourselves up, there was no one in the cremation room.
The female corpse, ablaze with raging flames, pushed open the door of the incinerator from inside and sneakily slipped out.
Just thinking about this scene gave me a shock and I immediately looked down at the ground.
On the dark - colored tile floor, there was a string of inconspicuous footprints smeared with oil ash, leading outside the cremation room.
Had the female corpse escaped?!