"Well, um, store manager, it's very dangerous for you to do this!" When the gray masked clerk heard what the store manager said, he was so frightened that he waved his hands repeatedly and said: "The chefs rarely come to this back alley, and there is no one there.
I know how long he has been dead. It's cold now and I can't tell by smell. I haven't studied forensic medicine..."
"What do you want to say?"
"His mask can't be taken off. No one knows how long he has been dead. This process is too dangerous! The people from the Black Corpse Team have special experience in exorcising corpses. We still call them..."
"If our store closes, you won't have a job." The store manager said this coldly: "You should know very well how high the unemployment rate is now. You can still get a salary here, just
I don’t know how many people are luckier than me. Now in the slums, the streets are full of homeless people, thieves, rapists, and drug addicts. Do you plan to become one of them?"
Then, the store manager pointed to the restaurant behind him: "If this restaurant is closed, I will have no choice but to commit suicide. I have a large family to support. This is my luck. I was born with a black mask, and only black masks
Only those who have to apply for a business license can apply for a business license. You gray-masked people are destined to only work for others, and you cannot even be self-employed, because you are not even qualified to apply for a business license and can only be unlicensed vendors."
Hearing this, the clerk also became frightened.
"I, I can't lose my job. Countless bills pile up in the mailbox at my door every month... I feel like vomiting when I see the bills now..."
"I also have to pay a lot of bills every month! The debt I borrowed when I opened the restaurant has not been paid off yet! If the store is closed, then I will have only one choice. Buy a gun, and then I will
You killed me, and then I came home and killed my wife, mother, and children, and finally I committed suicide!"
When the store manager's words reached this point, the clerk looked at the body and said, "Okay, I understand."
Ten minutes later, the body was put into a sack. The clerk took two other unsuspecting clerks and said to them: "The store manager thought it was unlucky for the body to be in the back alley, so he asked us to move the body to the suburbs and bury it."
"Why do you still need to move the body?"
"That's right, we have to go back to serve the dishes later?"
The informed clerk said: "The store manager said he would give us extra bonuses."
"Isn't it? That stingy store manager is actually willing to pluck his hair? It's incredible."
"Yes, Jill, this corpse won't have any infectious diseases, right?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? If there is an infectious disease, isn't he afraid that you will get sick and then infect him?"
"That's right..." The two clerks who moved the corpse had no idea about the truth about the corpse in the sack, and they said with a smile: "New Year's Eve is coming soon. If I get more money, maybe I can buy some meat to go back to celebrate the festival."
"Jason, meat is as luxurious as legend to me now." Another clerk said: "But having said that, our industry will definitely not be able to rest on New Year's Eve."
"Binnie, you'll get over it after a while."
At this moment, another clerk who was moving the corpse said: "Do you know the holiday Christmas?"
When he heard the words "Christmas", Jill was slightly startled.
"I seem to have heard my parents say...Does this festival have any special significance? Is it to celebrate the New Year like New Year's Eve?"
…
"You mean you lost your memory, but you don't dare to tell others?"
While eating the dishes Dong Xie ordered for him, the beggar said incoherently: "So you have no idea about the concepts of black walls and masks?"
"Yes, I can't find my relatives at all... Can you tell me this information?"
"You can ask anyone about this kind of thing, right?"
"I think others may deliberately lie to me, but if you eat my food, you won't lie to me."
The beggar thought for a while and then said, "Then, can you give me some money?"
"It depends on your answer."
The beggar wiped his greasy mouth, then swallowed the food in his mouth, and said: "Well, how should I put it... You have forgotten things so completely, I think it is quite strange. It is like our ancestors
…”
Dong Xie was stunned for a moment, then said: "Ancestor?"
"Eighty years ago, our ancestors suddenly appeared in this place. When they came, they all wore masks on their faces. And all of them had no specific memories of before entering the Black Wall. Some people were
Some people come here while driving, some come here while brushing their teeth, and some even come here as babies."
"Completely... no memory of the past?"
"We only remember some basic life experiences and knowledge, but we don't remember the specific history..."
"Don't remember history at all?"
"I think about it. Someone has concluded that all the science knowledge has been retained, including industry, agriculture, economics and politics, but the memory of music, art, customs, etc. is very unclear."
Politics is actually considered a liberal arts, but this beggar obviously can't tell the difference.
…
"I remember that it was the people of our great-grandfather's generation who first appeared in the Black Wall. There are memories there." Gil supervised Jason and Binny as they moved the body to a remote place in the suburbs, and said: "
But I can’t remember exactly what this festival represents. It seems that during this festival, people will dress up as old people in red clothes, and they will also decorate a tree or something.”
"What a strange holiday."
"Yeah, why are you dressing up as an old man if you have nothing to do? It's just a holiday, so it doesn't matter."
"And decorating a tree is too tiring. How could our parents celebrate such a strange holiday before? Moreover, our great-grandparents don't seem to understand whether this holiday is called Christmas or Christmas Eve.
.”
"I remember that more than 80 years ago, when our great-grandparents first came to the Black Wall, their memories of the calendar were not clear. In the end, we gathered everyone's memories and restored the current calendar. However, most festivals
I can’t even remember them. I only remember festivals like New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.”
By this time, they had dug a hole.
"Okay, let's put the body in."
"okay."
At this moment, Jill became more and more nervous and kept staring at the sack.
He was ready to run away at any moment.
"Jason..."
"Um?"
"Yes, are there any cigarettes?"
"I don't have cigarettes. I do have marijuana. After the election of the congressmen promoted the legalization of marijuana, almost everyone in our family smoked it."
"I don't smoke marijuana, Jason, you'd better quit smoking too."
"You don't need to be so nervous. It is said that less than one in ten people smokes at least one kind of drug. Marijuana is considered good, at least it is legal now."
"Yes, Gil, now even the Gray Masks can apply to grow marijuana as long as they are over 18 years old. We will not touch cocaine or the like."
"Drugs are drugs, and I advise you not to touch them. The reason why those silver-faced congressmen legalized marijuana is to earn huge tax revenue from the marijuana trade."
"It's useless what you said."
By this time, the sacks had been moved into the pit, and both Jason and Binny began filling in the soil.
"The high unemployment rate did not start this year. During the economic depression in the past few years, there was an endless stream of people growing opium poppies, not to mention cannabis. The people above have always turned a blind eye to the cultivation of opium poppies and coca (the raw material of cocaine).
Close one eye. Also, Jason, one out of ten people smokes marijuana. If you go to the street and grab a hundred people, if there are not more than fifty people who have smoked marijuana, I will stand on my head and imitate the barking of a dog."
When Gil heard this, his face under the mask showed a surprised expression.
"Isn't it? So many?"
Binny filled in another handful of soil, raised his head and said to Jill: "When I was six years old, my father let me smoke marijuana. Marijuana was still illegal at that time."
"I used to work as a nurse in a hospital before working as a caterer." Jason also said: "Jill, let me tell you, even some hospitals will sell cocaine and morphine to the black market in order to make profits."
"real or fake?"
Gil's attention gradually shifted from the corpse to discussing with Jason and Benny the problem of drug proliferation inside the black wall. He didn't notice that at this time, the sack... suddenly trembled!