Chapter 88

A collapsed church was stationed in the east of Xiaozhou Village.

Inside the church, the floor tiles in the corners had been lifted and covered with tall weeds. The fragments of the seat were scattered randomly in the grass. The idol was pushed down to the ground, its wings were broken and several cracks appeared on the face of the stone carving. The elaborately carved stone was split with a knife, and painted with a few bloody patches.

A plainly dressed woman with a headscarf knelt in the barren grass and prayed with her head down, “God, if you really exist, please save those suffering. I am willing to use my life to redeem the sins I have committed.”

She whispered, and the sun shone down from the broken roof, shining on her low neck. The barren little church was silent and no one could answer her question. A little bird stopped on the collapsed wings of the idol, tilted its head and looked at her for a while, and then spread his wings and flew into the blue sky.

Kong Haobo and his party came to the gate of the Eastern Research Institute.

Compared to the village where pedestrians occasionally appeared, this place showed gradual disappearance of the trail. The barren grass reached to the knees and the iron gate that had been smashed was severely deformed. It was open crookedly, and occasionally made an unpleasant squeaking noise when shaken by the wind.

“Should Sir Kong call Sister Qianxun to come with us? They seem to want to come here and see.”

“I can always feel that there is something weird in this place. We should first explore the situation ourselves and then involve them.”

“Also, their level isn’t high. If something happens, we will have to put our energy into protecting them.”

The young men exchanged opinions and stepped into the grassy courtyard carefully.

Green plants climbed on the fence of the yard. The grass in the courtyard was half the height of a person. There were two tall modern buildings side by side. They had experienced severe damage. The glass was damaged, the wall was cracked and stained with large brown stains on the area.

A creaking sound came from a certain yard. The team members searched for a sound and saw someone in the corner. A plainly dressed, hooded woman at the well was shaking the wheel to fetch water.

Hearing the sound, the woman turned to look at them and reached out to wipe the sweat from her head. Her expression was calm, without any surprises. She was apparently accustomed to these outsiders.

“Do you live here?” Liu Hezheng stepped forward and asked.

“Yes, I am the only one left here. I am responsible for those patients who have not left.” 

The woman poured the water in the bucket into the big bucket brought by her, threw the bucket with the twine into the well again, “I know what you want, there is nothing here.”

“I think you misunderstood. We are not malicious,” Liu Hezheng showed a generous smile that belonged to the elders, “I just heard about the matter here and want to see the situation.”

The woman lowered her eyes and reached out to continue to fetch water, “You can go in and see the situation yourself, but please don’t hurt them. They are just victims and have not done anything wrong.”

Kong Haobo and others walked in from outside the gate of the building. The building was taller and more stylish than the houses in the village, and it was full of smooth and simple style in the post-industrial period. But in this place, the dilapidated atmosphere was even more infiltrating.

Many black-brown blood fingerprints were affixed to the wall outside the gate.

They went down the long corridor and through the hall. The light inside became very dim. All the windows were very small reinforced with anti-theft rails.

There were obviously various laboratories on both sides of the aisle, and some rooms were scattered with various strange experimental instruments. In the huge glass flasks were a sticky brown residue, hoses, distillers, and various liquids. The uncomfortable brown color remained in most glass-like vessels, similar to the color left after the blood had dried up.

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