Chapter 65: The Black Shadow That Vanished into Thin Air

  Yang Zhengcai was originally a clever person, and after hearing Liu Li's words, he was shocked: "Officer Liu, what do you mean? The black shadow we just saw is one of the five staff members under me?"

  "Maybe? You try calling first." Liu Li urged.

  Yang Zhengcai took out his mobile phone and, as Liu Li had intended, started calling each of the five employees under him one by one. As Yang Zhengcai was making the calls, Liu Li carefully listened to the movements around them.

  After about two or three minutes, Yang finally put the phone in his pocket: "Officer Liu, I've already called those five people, but sorry, none of them answered the phone.

  Those people are all clever, they know that calling in the middle of the night is definitely not a good thing. So even if they saw me making the call, they would pretend not to have seen it and wait until the next morning after waking up to return my call. The excuses were always the same: either they were asleep and didn't hear their phone ringing or they had put their phone on silent mode.

  After listening to Yang Zhengcai's words, Liu Li nodded: "If the black shadow just now was a staff member under your command, then when you made the call just now, the other party's mobile phone should have rung."

  But I listened carefully for half a day, and didn't hear any movement. There are only three possibilities: one, that black shadow is far away from us; two, the other party doesn't carry a mobile phone with them; three, my previous inference was incorrect, and the black shadow isn't someone working under you.

  But anyway, let's find that black shadow first, he entered here, it's like entering a cage, as long as we search carefully, I believe we can definitely find that black shadow.

  After finishing, Liu Li let Ren Dongchao stay at the door, and he and Yang Zhengcai went to find people in those rooms inside. However, when Liu Li saw that Ren Dongchao was scared by the atmosphere here, he had no choice but to leave Yang Zhengcai behind as well.

  Liu Li had Yang Zhengcai and Ren Dongchao wait outside the mourning hall, while he himself searched for the black shadow inside. Although Liu Li appeared to be fearless when speaking earlier, as soon as Ren Dongchao and Yang Zhengcai left his side, he suddenly regretted it, because he was also afraid.

  Inside the large funeral home, only Liu Li and that unknown black shadow were present. After finding the light switch in the hall, Liu Li wanted to turn on the lights to boost his courage, but all the energy-saving lamps inside the funeral home were broken.

  "Yang Zhengcai is really something, all the money from the crematorium was used in the office area, and as a result, they can't even afford to install energy-saving lamps here. What kind of thing is this? They don't know how to allocate funds at all. Can't they just turn on the lights here? Now it's gotten to the point where I have to use a flashlight to find people."

  In his heart, Yang Zhengcai cursed, and then Liu Li had to take the flashlight and search for the black shadow in each room. He first searched along the left corridor, which had eight rooms. The first to sixth rooms belonged to the mourning hall, while the seventh and eighth were autopsy rooms.

  Liu Li entered the mourning hall and searched one by one. The reason why there are so many houses in the mourning hall is that the mortician in each house needs to perform special makeup according to the way the deceased died.

  For example, the bodies of those who died normally and those who died in a car accident need to be cosmetically treated and preserved according to their degree of integrity. The items placed inside these funeral homes are all cosmetics for the deceased and mourning clothes. Seeing the dazzling array of funeral supplies, Liu Lijun suddenly jumped out.

  After finding the autopsy room, Liu Li came to the dissection room. The two rooms were connected, and at the entrance, there was a very eye-catching large iron bed. Next to it was a tool cabinet over one meter high. After opening the cabinet, Liu Li found that inside were all tools for dissecting corpses.

  In addition to these two things, there is also a skeleton model and several chairs in the autopsy room. Moreover, some legal systems are hung on the wall of the autopsy room, such as matters that forensic doctors should pay attention to when performing autopsies and procedures.

  Liu Li almost laughed when he saw this, thinking to himself: "The systems posted elsewhere are for the parties involved to see, with the purpose of preventing case-handling police from violating discipline. But what kind of system is this in the autopsy room? Everyone who comes here can't speak up, even if the forensic doctor violates regulations and procedures during the autopsy, who can stand up and complain?"

  After leaving the autopsy room, Liu Li couldn't help but think to himself: "Strange? Where did that guy hide? As a police officer, I have two companions outside, carrying guns and flashlights, yet my heart is still racing with fear.

  "But why didn't that figure react at all? That guy can hide instantly in this eerie and terrifying environment, and when facing those funeral objects, he is neither panicked nor screaming. It seems that the other party should be accustomed to contacting these objects and has already developed immunity."

  After figuring this out, Liu Li searched the morgue and autopsy room again, but still didn't find anything. Helpless, he had to return to the funeral parlor's main hall. What Liu Li didn't know was that shortly after he left the autopsy room, an icebox storing a corpse in the autopsy room suddenly opened by itself.

  Standing in the grand hall of the funeral parlor, looking down the corridor that led to the cremation chamber at the back, Liu shone his flashlight into it and gazed at the dark passageway ahead. He hesitated for a moment, but then overcame his inner fear and walked alone towards the cremation chamber.

  Liu Li walked alone in the dark corridor, listening to his footsteps echoing, and his heart was also trembling. Since entering this funeral home, his inner self had not been calm, he was also afraid, and he felt terrified of the atmosphere here, only that he had never shown it.

  At the end of the corridor was a hall-like room with three huge stoves, which stood there like fierce beasts, giving people a thrilling and frightening feeling.

  At this time, the mouth of the furnace was still filled with a faint smell of charred meat. After smelling this smell, Liu Li became even more frightened. He knew that this was the smell left after the cremation furnace had finished burning the body, and because there was no ventilation here, this smell had been lingering in the crematorium all along.

  Liu Li plucked up the courage to search the cremation room thoroughly, even checking the furnace's hearth, but he still couldn't find that figure. Seeing this result, a chill ran down Liu Li's spine as he thought to himself: "How could this be? Could it be that the black shadow was really a ghost?"

  After having this idea in his mind, Liu Li also felt a little scared. The sense of fear instantly covered his heart, and he didn't see anything else. Liu Li turned around and left the place.

  Out of the mourning hall, Yang Zhengcai and Ren Dongchao were standing guard at the door. Seeing this situation, Liu Li told Yang Zhengcai and the others about his search results. After hearing that Liu Li had searched around inside but didn't find the black shadow, Yang Zhengcai and Ren Dongchao's expressions became even more tense. It seemed that both of them associated the black shadow with a ghost.

  Looking back at the funeral parlor, Liu Li announced that he would return to the office area first. After returning to the office area, Liu Li asked Yang Zhengcai to inform the five employees who were on leave that they must report to the crematorium tomorrow afternoon at 8:30.

  The Son of Tianhe River