Chapter 106 Twenty-one. The hole in the forehead

   In most people’s minds, cemeteries are not such a comfortable place.

   Even family members are buried here.

   Not only because it is the resting place of the dead, or because every stele standing in the cemetery represents that there is a white bone underneath that will create a sense of being watched.

   Crucially, it also exists as a mortuary for the remains.

   At this point, the morgue is more frightening than the cemetery. After all, the latter is just one, and at most the tombstones are pasted with photos of the master before his death - the former is to store cold and stiff corpses.

  Belfast, Holy Father's Quarter, Cemetery.

   Withered trees with green buds on the street brought a touch of life to the desolate and heavy cemetery. Behind the shadowy dead branches, a patch of undulating tombstones spread to the distance, surrounded by a half-person-high iron fence.

  The carriage stopped outside the gate of the cemetery, Lu Li got off the carriage with an umbrella, and walked into the cemetery in the rain.

   On both sides of the cobblestone path, tombstones were battered by the wind and rain, and some of them stood crooked. As it was getting dark, things in the distance were already dormant in the dark, blurred, and the group of tombstones extending into the distance became difficult to see.

   At the end of the trail is a cathedral, with a dual-wielding **** sculpture standing on the spire, as white as new.

   This is also the reason why Anna directly admits counsel.

  Whether the church is useful in times of disaster, a ghost coming here is like a mouse breaking into a cat garden.

  Lu Li found a nun and proposed to her that he was going to the morgue to find Claire's body.

   "Excuse me, may I ask who you are...?" the nun asked politely.

   "Officer of Shouwang Township Police Station, Lu Li."

  With Deputy Sheriff Valentine, Lu Li was fearless.

   "Okay, please wait a moment." The nun stepped aside, and after a while, there was a faint voice. "Officer David, I'm Sister Mama of the Holy Father's Church. There is a police officer named Lu Li who wants to... um, I'll ask him."

   "Your name is Lu Li, right?" Mama put down the phone and came to Lu Li's side and asked in a soft tone. After getting Lu Li's affirmation, he returned to the phone: "His name is Lu Li, okay, Officer David, do you know him?"

There was silence in the microphone for dozens of seconds, and when the atmosphere was a little awkward, the voice finally sounded: "I just went to ask the deputy sheriff, and he said that the subordinate he sent to the morgue to investigate, and asked you to cooperate with his actions."

"Yes, I will."

   hung up the phone, and Mama, with her plump figure wrapped in a large nun's robe, returned to Lu Li: "It's been confirmed, please come with me."

"thanks."

  Lu Li put away his umbrella under the tall angel carved door and followed Sister Mama into the church.

  The church is empty and tall, and the stained glass that occupies most of the walls is inlaid with portraits. On the benches below sat scattered believers in shabby or bright clothes. They bowed their heads and murmured prayers. These figures echoed in the tall and complex conversation, forming echoes like mass.

   walked through the rows of seats, walked to the confession room near the auditorium, passed by again, and was taken inside the church.

   walked all the way, and finally the nun stopped in front of a bright silver heavy iron gate. Lu Li turned his head to look around, and at the end of the corridor was the back door of the cemetery.

   It seems that you can come here directly without going through the church.

   "Please wait a moment, I'll get the key."

   "Bring the information form of the corpse in the morgue as well." Lu Li said.

"OK."

  Mama turned and walked away with a soft smile.

   Perhaps it was because of his religious prejudice, and the fact that the appearance and figure of this mature Mama sister really did not match the word of a nun. Lu Li maintained his vigilance here. A few minutes later, Mama returned with a set of iron keys and a parchment.

  Lu Li took the sheepskin book and opened it after thanking him.

  Claire, Block D, Cabinet 6.

  It is easy to find Claire's "abode".

   tapped the name with his fingers, and Lu Li looked at Mama: "Open it, I'll go in by myself, you stay outside."

"God bless you."

  Mama drew a circle on Lu Li's chest and turned to open the metal door.

  Squeaky-squeaky—

  The door was slowly opened, and there seemed to be a white mist coming out of the morgue, and a cold and cold air rushed towards the face. Familiar incandescent light poured from the ceiling.

  The temperature is very low, and it seems that the corpses in the morgue will be well preserved.

  Mama stayed outside, Lu Li walked into the morgue, all sounds were blocked from the outside world, only the morgue was clean, cold, and dead. He suddenly noticed something and listened intently.

   If there is a near-nothing cry echoing in the whole cold and dead morgue.

   That seems to be coming from the church behind the wall, but it doesn't seem to be.

   Iron cabinets exuding chills were placed neatly against the wall. Lu Li walked past these morgue cabinets and approached Area D.

  Click—

   When passing a mortuary, the sound of the machine came from behind.

  OM—

   The pale incandescent lamp above his head flickered suddenly, flickering on and off.

   Lu Li tilted his head to look back and saw that the external wrench of a morgue was turned on.

   And when we passed it before, it was closed like the other morgues.

  Squeak-yah-

   In the slow sound of sour teeth, the cabinet door slowly opened, revealing a gradually widening slit little by little.

   A slender palm suddenly pressed the door of the morgue and closed it.

   Feeling the resistance on the other side of his palm, Lu Li's black eyes narrowed slightly, he pulled off the holster, and grasped the flintlock gun in his hand.

   At this moment, Lu Li noticed the maliciousness around him, as well as the almost dense aura of weak ghosts in the morgue, maybe seven or eight, or more.

"Quiet."

  Lu Li drank low.

  The resistance on the door of the ice freezer disappears instantly.

  Click—

  The wrench rotates by itself, and there is a locking sound inside.

  Lu Li put away the psychic gun, and his black eyes stopped for a moment on several freezers with meaning, no longer wasting time to go to the No. 6 cabinet in the D area.

   Unscrewed the wrench, pulled out the hospital bed from the iron cabinet, and lifted the white cloth.

   A thin, sun-baked female corpse appeared in front of him.

   Lu Li has never seen Claire, but it doesn't affect him from judging by her characteristics that she is Claire.

  Lu Li quietly looked at the skinny corpse that was almost like an ancient corpse, his black eyes suddenly froze and fell on Claire's forehead.

   There was an inexplicable crack on her forehead on her head, which had not much hair left.

  This crack seems to be a hole, not like a gunshot or a sharp gouge, it is one-half thinner than the little finger, and through the hole, you can faintly spy inside the brain.

   pushed the hospital bed back into the mortuary, and Lu Li walked to a morgue two adjacent cells.

  噔噔dong—

Lu Li raised his hand and knocked, and said simply: "Ask two questions, the first question: Do you have any impression of the corpse in the morgue I just opened. The second question: If so, does she have a ghost? "

   A few seconds passed, more than ten seconds passed, and half a minute later, a cold and slow old voice came from the cabinet door.

"…No no."

   There is no corresponding question for each of the two.

"OK, thanks."

  Lu Li thanked him and left the morgue without looking back.

Not long after    left, the morgue echoed with whispers one after another.

   (end of this chapter)