"Today is Uncle Tong's wife's death anniversary. He left early in the morning and will probably not come back until around six in the afternoon." Director Yang answered Lu Xiaohong.
Lu Xiaohong nodded and said, "Then take us to meet the staff on duty these days first."
"Okay, okay, I've asked everyone to wait in Hall No. 1. Look at me. I'm so anxious that I'll keep you standing here. I'll take you there right now." Director Yang said a little embarrassed.
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"It's okay, it's okay!" Shi Xian said with a smile.
Lian Ruowei pursed her lips and closed the book, and the group followed Director Yang towards the main building.
Seeing that Director Yang was really distracted by the incident of throwing the corpse, I didn't ask him any more about the ashes, and quietly walked inside with Lu Xiaohong.
It’s already here, and there’s no rush for it.
Hall No. 1 is on the first floor, which should be used to decorate the farewell hall. In order to facilitate the layout according to the customer's requirements, the huge hall is empty and has no furnishings.
A dozen men of various ages gathered in a circle in the corner of the hall, talking quietly about something, with a look of confusion on their faces.
"Director Yang!"
Seeing us walking in, everyone stopped talking, greeted Director Yang respectfully, and looked at us expectantly.
"These are some Celestial Masters invited by the Celestial Master's Mansion to investigate the incident of missing corpses. Please cooperate with me and tell me what you know!" Director Yang did not put on airs in front of his subordinates and said very kindly.
"good……"
Everyone responded, and it was obvious that they also respected Director Yang.
"Old Lu, you are very thoughtful, so you should ask!" Shi Xian looked at Lu Xiaohong, then turned to look at Lian Ruowei: "Ruowei, take notes!"
Lu Xiaohong nodded.
Even Ruowei took out the small notebook again and opened it.
"How many corpses have you lost in total?" Lu Xiaohong asked one of the funeral home employees.
"Three!" the man replied.
"When was the first body discovered missing?" Lu Xiaohong asked again.
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As Lu Xiaohong asked questions, the whole story slowly emerged in front of us.
The first body disappeared twenty days ago.
At that time, there was only one person on duty at night.
The person on duty was a young man named Xiao Huang, who was responsible for putting makeup on the corpse. Because he liked to drink and was always drunk and swaying, everyone called him Dao Dao.
Every time it was his turn to be on duty, he would drink till he was so drunk that he would go to the duty room at night and fall asleep. When he woke up at dawn the next day, he would be on duty for just one shift.
In his words, even if some lonely ghost came out in the middle of the night to scare him, he would not be able to scare him even if he was so fast asleep.
In fact, this is nothing.
The employees of the funeral home have to take turns to be on duty, and everyone uses different methods to relieve their fear. Some people turn on the TV loudly and make a lot of noise, and some can't sleep and play games all night long. In short, this room is not very big unless you leave the duty room.
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There is no need to worry about thieves.
After all, this is a funeral parlor. There is nothing of value except the dead and ashes. Taxi drivers don’t want to come here, and no thieves will come here to cause trouble.
To put it bluntly, duty is basically just to prevent emergencies such as fires.
That night, as usual, Daangdao drank until he was staggering and then returned to the duty room and fell asleep.
It was an uneventful night, nothing different from usual.
Early the next morning, Huanghuang got up and started preparing for the day's work.
There was a farewell ceremony at nine o'clock in the morning. The deceased was a relative of Director Yang. Director Yang called Huanghuang at dawn and asked him to put makeup on the body first.
When I walked to the morgue and took a look, I was dumbfounded. The body of the deceased that had been delivered the previous afternoon had disappeared overnight.
He obviously did a routine check before drinking.
The corpses in the morgue are kept in separate cabinets that can be frozen. Each cabinet is marked with a number. The corpse is pulled out of the cabinet before the farewell ceremony or cremation.
This place is locked for a long time and no one will come in except the staff.
Could it be that the corpse escaped on its own?
But when he came in, the lock was not damaged, and there was no sign of it even being tampered with.
It was so early in the morning that Huang Huang was suddenly covered in white hair and sweat.
He opened the other cabinets one by one and checked. The bodies were all still there, and there was no mistake. Only that body was missing!
Huanghuang quickly called Director Yang.
Curator Yang quickly asked someone to check the surveillance of that night. In the surveillance records, except for Huanghuang's last routine check and entering the morgue, no one else came in or out.
However, the monitoring record was blank for about three minutes at 3:03 in the morning, and the screen was full of snowflakes. However, this can also be understood as monitoring scheduled updates or program switching, so this situation occurred.
It has happened often before.
What's more, it only takes three minutes to transport the body out of the morgue, and it has to go through the hall and yard without being photographed by surveillance. It's impossible to think about it.
But the body was indeed missing.
After checking the surveillance, Director Yang organized all the staff to search every corner of the funeral home, but still found nothing.
Fortunately, the missing body was a relative of Director Yang. After Director Yang's dealings, the family members did not cause trouble and only made the funeral home pay a sum of money.
Because he was worried that the missing body would happen again, Director Yang sent two more people on the night shift that day, and required that one person must stay awake and hear the noise outside at any time.
Everyone originally thought that Director Yang's actions were unnecessary, and it was indeed the case. Nothing happened again for several days, but the missing body was never recovered.
Just when the strings in everyone's hearts were completely relaxed, the second body was lost.
That night it was Lao Tian who was about to retire, Hu Tu, the financial manager, and Xiao Chen, a young employee known as Chen Bold.
After the three of them inspected the morgue and other places again at twelve o'clock in the evening, Hu Tu and Chen Daring wanted to go to bed when they returned to the duty room, but Lao Tian refused and dragged them to fight with the landlord all night.
Although Lao Tian is about to retire, he has a strong sense of responsibility. He did not allow Hu Tu and Chen Bing to speak too loudly during the Landlord fight. He always paid attention to the movements outside the duty room. Even if the sound of the wind blowing was too loud, he would drag them down.
Let them go out and have a look.
Nothing happened all night.
But when they opened the cabinet in the morgue to check again the next morning, they were shocked to find that another body was missing.
The monitoring was the same as last time. It failed again at 3:03 in the morning, and there was a three-minute blank.
The funeral home exploded.
This time the body disappeared under the noses of Lao Tian and the others.
The two bodies disappeared exactly one week or seven days apart. This chapter has been completed!