Chapter 785: The dog is a real dog, Director Zhuang, you’re the dog!
"Although I'd heard before that the owner of this Hospital was involved in grey industries, I really didn't expect them to be bold enough to rent out a section of the morgue separately."
The fatty looked at the oppressive surroundings and grumbled in a low voice.
The morgue was essentially a giant disguised refrigerator, a constant-temperature storage point for many underworld needs. What this Hospital did was privately lease out this morgue as a temporary storage point for black market industries, such as preserving smuggled organs, transshipping drug stockpiles, and protecting smuggled antiques from light and moisture.
The Hospital earned black money through rent, while the underworld gained a hidden and safe cold storage base; it was a mutually beneficial, win-win cooperation.
However, they didn't expect that the business the Hospital took on this time would lead to a major accident.
An antique smuggler left something here and then vanished without a trace, and the Hospital began to experience a series of supernatural events, eventually leading to the bizarre deaths of two night-shift security guards.
Because of the gruesome deaths of the guards, the Hospital didn't dare let the Police investigate these anomalies. So, after suppressing the matter through financial connections, they immediately sought several famous metaphysics masters from Hong Kong to ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) investigate.
As it turned out, these masters were either fakes who couldn't find anything, or they had real skills but lacked the power to help. In the end, the matter dragged on for over a month. Not only could the Hospital's grey business not continue, but even its regular business was affected. Many people who heard the rumors didn't dare visit the Hospital for treatment and avoided it like the plague.
The Hospital tried everything but couldn't solve the problem. Finally, they spent a large sum of money to invite a powerful master to seal all the issues on this floor, preventing further leakage of the supernatural events. Then, they immediately brought in Zhou Zhiyi and the others' "Anti-Supernatural Science Company" to have them tour the Hospital and help provide an endorsement.
After all, Zhou Zhiyi and his team were now famous for debunking metaphysics through scientific means, solving multiple pseudo-supernatural events and proving that ghosts and gods were just rumors and fantasies.
So, the Hospital's main goal in inviting Zhou Zhiyi and the others this time was to use their popularity to prove that the Hospital had successfully resolved the problem, thereby restoring its original operational status.
Thus, from the beginning, the people at the Hospital didn't expect Zhou Zhiyi and the others to actually solve the Hospital's trouble.
Only—
"There's nothing in this box!"
After laboriously prying open the wooden box in front of him, the fatty Wang Budao was instantly dumbfounded.
"Didn't they say that Grave Robber's box was placed here and had never been opened? Why is it empty now?"
Wang Budao spat and started cursing: "Could we have been tricked?"
Chu Xin was also a bit scared: "Could that thing have already escaped? Are we in great danger right now?"
Wang Budao immediately began to pull out his equipment alertly: "It's possible. Could it be a Reanimated Corpse?"
"No."
Zhou Zhiyi interrupted Wang Budao.
Looking at the dark, empty wooden box, the young man reached out without hesitation, carefully feeling and inspecting the walls of the box. Then, his fingertips happened to rub off a smear of scarlet stain.
After holding it to his nose and sniffing it carefully for a moment, he looked at the two people beside him: "The residue here is a mix of animal musk. Although there's a scent of human blood, it's mostly mixed with the strong, pungent smell of dog blood."
"What? Dog blood?"
Wang Budao also leaned into the wooden box to sniff carefully. Aside from the old, rotting stench of a corpse, there was indeed a lingering animal musk.
Moreover, the corpse stench was very faint, while the animal blood smell was very strong.
"It's Black Dog Blood."
Wang Budao was best at distinguishing this, but after he identified it, his expression changed drastically.
But for people like them, this wasn't good news.
Black Dog Blood is extremely yang and rigid, a hard currency specifically for countering zombies and evil spirits. If it were an ordinary zombie, it would naturally fear the extreme yang baleful aura of Black Dog Blood and would be suppressed upon contact, not daring to lurk here. But the thing in this box not only didn't fear it but also managed to leave the box silently, showing how difficult it is to deal with.
"Eh?"
Zhou Zhiyi leaned down slightly: "There seems to be some writing in this box—"
"What?"
The other two followed suit and looked down. At the same time, the camera lens moved in the opposite direction—
A creature covered in long hair, looking like a cross between a dog and a human, was currently crouching quietly above everyone's heads.
Although it had no eyes, it eerily sensed the camera's gaze. Its limbs, which were gripping the ceiling, began to twist and make a creaking sound.
Then its head turned slowly, continuing to forcibly twist in a direction that was definitely not human, rotating its head along with the slit in its mouth to the absolute limit—
Finally, a crisp sound of bones "snapping into place" echoed in the silent space.
"Crack."
But the three people directly below continued their bowing posture, seemingly unaware.
The space fell into a deathly silence once more.
Only upon listening closely would one realize that besides the heartbeats of the three people, only the sound of dripping water remained—
"Drip—"
"Drip—"
"Drip—"
When another drop of blood fell to the floor, the three people originally gathered around the wooden box suddenly scattered!
"Run!"
The first to run out was Chu Xin. Aside from her eyes, she had no combat power. In such an absolutely dangerous situation, the fact that she could even run without being a hindrance was a miracle!
Following closely behind her was Wang Budao. This fatty was actually quite agile. As he ran, he didn't forget to throw equipment from his bag behind him. Regardless of whether the opponent was a zombie or not, he grabbed the high-quality Black Dog Blood he had prepared and splashed it backward.
As for Zhou Zhiyi at the back, he formed a hand seal while drawing his sword, raising his hand to slash at the opponent's arm!
But he didn't expect that although the guy's arm was also covered in hair, it felt like a block of iron when struck, with no physical sensation of hitting an object. Zhou Zhiyi immediately knew he was no match!
Sure enough, in the next moment, he was sent flying backward!
"Bang!"
Chu Xin and Wang Budao, who were running in front, only felt something fly over their heads. When they looked up, they saw that Zhou Zhiyi had already been thrown to the very front at an incredibly exaggerated speed!
In the blink of an eye, the order of the people had completely reversed.
"Are you kidding me?!"
Wang Budao was dumbfounded.
What on earth is this thing? It's so powerful?!
However, Zhou Zhiyi didn't have time to answer him, because after scrambling up from the ground, he also bolted forward: "Don't worry about that! Saving our lives is more important!"
Can't win! We can't win!
Run fast!!!
So the three of them ran forward as if a dog were chasing them from behind, scrambling and crawling—
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"Huff, huff, huff—"
After this scene was filmed, everyone on set was drenched in sweat from exhaustion.
Xiao He was slightly better, but he was still dripping with sweat, while the other two weren't doing so well.
Cheng Jingyu was truly frightened by the monster chasing them.
This thing was just like visiting a haunted house; even if you know it's fake, you're still afraid of being chased by an evil ghost NPC during an immersive playthrough! Besides, the atmosphere on this set was even more realistic, and she was truly scared into running for her life.
And for Lv Dun, it was truly the distress of a fatty. He had been running for his life back and forth, which was already an overload of exercise for him. He really needed to sit down and have a good rest.
After everyone caught their breath, Xiao He finally looked at the "monster" wagging its tail over there and complained loudly: "Whoa, Director Zhuang really set a dog on us!"
The dog is real, and Director Zhuang, you're a dog too!!!