manynovel Chapter 34 Ghostly Encounters
Chapter 34 Ghostly Encounters
"Understood, sir. Our job is to guard the bathrooms, the laundry room, and the third district," Su Zixu replied.
He then pointed to Edwin and said, "He's one of the guys from District 3 who worked with us. There were others before, but it seems they all died in the accident just now."
"understood."
As the young prison guard spoke, he took out a name tag from his pocket and handed it to Su Zixu, saying, "Now you are the team leader."
Edwin was handed over to Boss Quaid for his poor management of District Three. He's leaving now; you can recruit whatever men are needed yourself.
After saying that, he gave Su Zixu a knowing look, then spoke a few words to another prison guard who was with him, and left with Edwin.
Old Zeng gestured to another prison guard to take them back to the laundry room to inspect the work there.
The three of them remained silent the entire way.
In the laundry room, Ron was so exhausted that he slumped against the wall and sat on the floor.
Previously, when the mold outbreak occurred, Ron poured disinfectant into basin after basin.
He ran back and forth, frantically exhausting his energy.
Just when he felt that his physical strength was exhausted and his body had reached its limit, he found that the mold seemed to have stopped spreading, which made him feel relieved.
He knew this meant that Lao Zeng and his team had successfully solved the problem.
He then slowed down his cleaning of the mold until he had finished cleaning all the mold in the basement, at which point Ron collapsed against the wall.
Not long after, when he saw Lao Zeng and the other man appear, Ron got up from the ground, supporting his aching back.
"Brother Luo, you've really gone to a lot of trouble, but this mold will disappear on its own if you don't clean it up, hehehehehe." Old Zeng said with an embarrassed smile.
"I don't know either. It's not a big problem, just a little tired." Ron patted his pants and shook his head helplessly. "It's better that you guys came back safe and sound. Let's go eat first."
He gestured with his eyes for the two of them to leave first, and that they could talk about it at the dinner table.
After dealing with the prison guards' inspection, the three went to the restaurant.
"Because of the accident, there are fewer people cooking today," Ron said, looking at the food trays at the serving station.
"Well, it's not all bad, because of the staff shortage, the prison guard we tricked got promoted."
He also gave me a work badge for Zone 3, which will make it much easier for us to explore Zone 3 again,” Su Zixu added.
Later, during the meal, Lao Zeng and Su Zixu each shared their experiences with Ron.
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At the same time in the afternoon, just as the mold was quietly spreading, Lizzie and her two companions followed a female prison guard to the bathroom on the lower level.
The three men quickly got to work after the prison guards left.
"Should I go to the men's side first to get that form, and then go to Zone 3?" Tian Tian looked at Li Qi for her opinion.
"There might not be enough time."
As Lizzie spoke, she opened the hand-drawn sketch, looked at it for a while, and then said:
"We're not far from Zone 3, but if you go to get the form first, there won't be enough time. It's better to be safe than sorry."
"Then let's proceed according to our plan."
As Tian Tian spoke, she stepped on Li Qi's shoulder and used the wall in the shower room to reach the baffle of the vent.
They only had four hours at most.
"Wait a minute, Tiantian, take these candles away."
The speaker was Zhang Qingxi, who shakily pulled a lighter and three large candles from her pocket.
Lizzie's eyes lit up when she saw the candles: "Wow, Sister Xi, where did you find these candles and lighter?"
"Hey, I found it in the library and the restaurant. I don't know if it'll be useful, but I was worried it might be, so I just took it anyway," Zhang Qingxi said, scratching his head sheepishly.
"The lighter... I swiped it from a prison guard's pocket. Hehe, anyway, I'm glad it helped everyone."
"This is a huge help, Sister hope. This candle looks like it will burn for almost an hour."
Tian Tian handed the dismantled panel to Lizzie with one hand, took the candle with the other, threw it into the pipe, and then climbed in herself.
The sound coming from the ceiling quickly disappeared overhead.
In the passage, Tian Tian carefully moved forward, relying on her amazing memory. To avoid damaging the candle, she wrapped it in her coat and tied the coat diagonally around her body.
About fifteen minutes later, or perhaps less, a fourth vent appeared in front of Tian Tian, with dim white light escaping from the gaps in the wind deflector.
Her intuition told her she had arrived.
As Tian Tian got closer to the ventilation opening, she smelled a pungent stench of decay and blood.
She cautiously peeked down, and what she saw made Tian Tian's body involuntarily tremble.
According to Tian Tian's later description, this was a dimly lit but very spacious slaughterhouse located on the basement level of Zone 3.
There were four people processing a corpse in the slaughterhouse, but Tian Tian couldn't see their faces, probably because of the angle.
The walls were covered with human skins, their internal organs and flesh removed. Judging from their physiological characteristics, these people were both men and women.
There were many buckets on the ground, each containing severed limbs and scattered pieces of meat.
She overheard the people below joking that they would be serving pork chops to the prisoners that night.
Upon hearing this, Tian Tian's stomach began to churn. She quickly covered her mouth, suppressing the urge to vomit, and continued to observe for a while.
"Where did all these people's internal organs go?" Tian Tian kept adjusting her observation angle, but she still couldn't see the buckets storing the internal organs.
At this moment, a terrible suspicion had formed in her mind, but there wasn't much time to observe any further. She had to quickly find clues that would help them escape this dream.
After crawling for a while and then climbing a short distance, Tian Tian arrived above a cell on the first floor.
In the cramped room, a blonde woman in a black prison uniform was curled up in a corner, her head against the wall, as if she were asleep.
Seeing that there was nothing strange about it, Tian Tian prepared to go to the next cell.
Before taking action, she lit the first candle to keep track of time and also to provide light for herself.
When the third candle is used up, she has to return.
The strange thing begins in the next cell.
Tian Tian still saw the same woman as before, but now the woman was pacing back and forth in the room, looking very uneasy.
At this moment, Tian Tian was also very uneasy. She did not believe that there would be two prisoners who looked so similar in prison at the same time, unless they were twins.
Without lingering, she recalled the instructions on the blueprints and moved on to the next one.
But as she saw the people in the third cell, a sense of fear began to grow in her heart.
It was still that blonde woman, but she looked even more haggard now.
Compared to the scenes seen in the previous two instances, the cell in the third instance contained an easel and some paints in addition to the bed and toilet.
"When exactly did I get infected? I didn't touch anything."
Tian Tian realized something was wrong, but she couldn't figure out where she had gone wrong.
"Calm down. I knew it wouldn't all go smoothly. Panicking will only hasten my death." Tian Tian pressed her wildly beating heart, forcing herself to calm down.
After a brief moment of thought, she realized that she might be experiencing a maze of illusions.
And it had already begun the moment she saw this woman.
Judging from the other person's expression, they wanted her to continue watching.
Based on the current situation, there is no way to break the "ghost wall" problem for now. It might be safer to just follow the other party's lead and continue on.
Jumping down rashly will only increase uncertainty, and you might end up destroying your own path to survival.
After making up her mind, Tian Tian continued circling.
This time, as Tian Tian approached the cell, she heard a familiar male voice, his tone revealing a sense of superiority and disdain.
"Quide," Tian Tian silently called out the name in her heart.
To avoid being discovered, Tian Tian used her hand to shield the candle flame.
There were no lights in the cell at that moment; the only light came from an oil lamp that the man was carrying.
Listening to their conversation, Tian Tian finally realized that the blonde woman was Jenny, whom Joe had mentioned in his diary.
The content of their conversation confirmed everything they had seen in the library.
"In other words, Quaid agreed to help Joe rescue Jenny on the surface, but in reality he didn't help at all."
Instead of helping, they did something despicable, which could lead to Joe being framed.
Quaid falsely accused Joe of raping Jenny during a prison visit, leading to Joe's death row inmate status and the murder of both men.
Tian Tian pieced together all the known clues and began to speculate about how to survive this dream.
Just then, the two men in the cell began to speak more aggressively.
"You got involved in things you shouldn't have known; you're doomed."
Quaid's voice sounded gloating, with a hint of madness.