"Stay alert. Something feels wrong. Everyone, be careful."
Gu Cheng warned them.
"What the hell is this place? It's so damn creepy, like something out of a horror movie."
"Are a few ghosts actually going to pop out in a minute?"
Fatty was running his mouth again, oblivious to the danger.
Hu Bayi kicked him from beside him and snapped, "What the hell is wrong with you? At a time like this, can't you think before you speak?"
Fatty Wang chuckled sheepishly. "Heh, I'm just trying to lighten the mood. Besides, there's no such thing as ghosts..."
He stopped abruptly. His eyes widened as he stared down the passage, almost bulging out of their sockets, and his face turned deathly pale in an instant.
Seeing his reaction, Hu Bayi instinctively looked down the passage too.
But he saw nothing.
"Fatty, what did you see?"
Hu Bayi asked gravely.
Fatty Wang swallowed with difficulty. "I saw a little kid run past the far end of the passage."
Hu Bayi's expression immediately darkened.
Gu Cheng had seen the child too.
The child had flashed past the end of the corridor.
This was his first time seeing the child, who looked about five or six years old and wore an unsettling green outfit. The child's face was deathly pale, as though coated in white putty, and the mere sight was deeply disturbing.
He could even hear the child's giggling, airy and unreal, as though it were right beside his ear.
Damn it. Seeing really is believing.
Those two kids weren't scary at all on TV.
Seeing one in person is seriously creepy.
If I hadn't prepared myself, I'd probably be just like Fatty right now.
He glanced at Fatty.
The man's face was deathly pale, his expression blank, and his hands trembled slightly.
Apparently, having his entire worldview shattered was a little too much for him to take all at once.
But he should be fine.
Gu Cheng had faith in Fatty.
"All right, don't overthink it. Remember, we're here to find Yingzi."
With that, Gu Cheng cautiously stepped inside, the Browning 1911 in his right hand and the Little Divine Edge in his left.
Ever since the bloody battle with the Black Flood Dragon, he had trusted the Little Divine Edge more than a submachine gun.
Hu Bayi told Fatty, "Stop standing there in a daze. Even if there are little ghosts, what do three grown men like us have to fear?"
Then he followed behind Gu Cheng.
Fatty Wang took two deep breaths, gritted his teeth, and went in after them.
The passage beyond the iron door was actually a corridor.
Rooms lined both sides.
Gu Cheng approached the first room.
He exchanged a glance with Hu Bayi, then gently pushed the door open.
It was pitch-black inside.
Judging by what they could see in the corridor's light, it seemed to be an office.
All three switched on their flashlights.
They had found these flashlights in the supply depot. They were military-grade, dry-cell flashlights with powerful beams.
The three quickly searched the office.
There was nothing there.
It was just an ordinary office.
The second, the third-they searched four or five rooms in succession, all ordinary offices.
Thud.
The door was kicked open.
Fatty Wang strode in ahead of the others.
After so many rooms without incident, Fatty's courage had returned.
But the sight inside this room made him freeze on the spot.
It was a large room, something like a laboratory.
Rows of shelves stood along one side, like a storeroom, holding glass jars of various sizes.
Many unidentified things floated in liquid inside the jars.
Some were insects.
Some were organs.
But most were bizarrely shaped things they couldn't identify.
The other side of the room was an area for conducting experiments.
It held a great deal of laboratory equipment.
Most disturbing of all was an operating table, with a person lying right on it.
Well.
A humanlike corpse would have been more accurate.
Why call the corpse humanlike?
Because it actually had four arms!
Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi were both taken aback at the sight of the corpse.
They exchanged a glance.
Then they cautiously approached it.
After decades, the corpse had long since dried into a mummy.
Hu Bayi examined it carefully, then said gravely, "It's human!"
Gu Cheng frowned. "A person with four arms?"
Hu Bayi said, "All four arms grew naturally from the shoulders. They weren't attached or surgically transplanted."
Gu Cheng was speechless.
"Come over here!"
Fatty suddenly called out.
Hearing him, Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi immediately ran over.
When they reached Fatty, the sight before them left them stunned.
They were at the farthest corner of the shelving.
Seven or eight glass containers over two meters tall stood against the wall, with people submerged inside them.
The liquid probably acted as a preservative.
That was why the corpses still looked so lifelike.
They looked like living people who had fallen asleep.
But that only made them look all the more disturbing.
It seemed as though they might open their eyes at any moment.
Most shocking of all, none of these seven or eight people were normal humans.
Like the dried corpse from before, they were all deformed, with either extra arms or extra legs.
He even saw one with two heads.
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