When he gave us the Key, the manager on duty was a little nervous, so he chattered again.
"You must all remember, do not let them touch the things inside. Otherwise, if you do not do so, you will not be able to explain yourself and something might happen to you all."
I nodded my head and casually replied. With such a big person, how could it be easy for them to casually bump into him?
"Alright then. After you finish looking, take the Key to the duty room and give it to me. It won't be easy for me to explain it here."
The manager on duty told us again before he left.
Zhang Tiangang and I, who were holding Key, looked at each other. Under the urging of curiosity, we quickly opened the door to the room opposite.
The moment we opened the door, the air was so still that the end of the window inside the door shook, scaring us.
Following which, a light fragrance slowly drifted out from the room.
I lifted up the Nose and smelled it, but I felt that this scent was very unfamiliar. It wasn't like the perfume that ordinary girls wear, but a natural flower scent.
Zhang Tiangang told me that this was the Cherry Blossom's fragrance. When he was in university, there was a row of cherry blossoms planted in the school, and this fragrance would appear when the flowers bloomed.
I looked at Zhang Tiangang with a little shock. "I didn't expect you to be a cultured person, went to university, and boasted to me."
Zhang Tiangang coldly glanced at me, and said, don't look down on me, he's a proper university student, what he learned is still the most popular civil engineering major back then.
I asked him what university he was in back then, but when Zhang Tiangang heard my question, he stopped answering and walked in.
This room was about three hundred square meters in size, much larger than ours, but it was extremely spacious. Other than a locked room, there wasn't even a proper desk. There was only a row of iron cabinets.
It was the same green tin cabinet that was always used in the library. The top was exactly as the manager on duty had said, filled with bottles and jars.
Some were made of iron, some were made of clay, and some were made of glass. However, most of them were made of black clay, covered with a layer of cotton paper.
On the middle level, I saw a glass container that was over half a meter tall. There was light yellow liquid inside, and the smell of formalin permeated the air. Inside the liquid, there was a baby's corpse with a placenta attached to it.
The pair of eyes were staring blankly at the world outside the glass jar.
My gaze unerringly fell on my body. I was carrying an infant's corpse on my back, and after looking at it for a bit, I felt my hair stand on end.
Zhang Tiangang, however, ignored me, and set his gaze on the two big box s that were near the big iron chest.
"The fragrance that we smelt just now was coming from here."
Zhang Tiangang looked at me, and my gaze hurriedly left the infant's corpse, and looked at the box he was pointing to.
The two box s did not have seals or locks on them. The style was an old-fashioned suitcase from the sixties and seventies. The outside was covered in cow skin.
"Why don't we open it and take a look?" Zhang Tiangang forgot about me and said.
"I feel that this matter is related to the Puppet Buji. Otherwise, none of us would have offended them, so why would someone suddenly want to fight with us?"
Perhaps the answer lies in this. Sometimes, curiosity can kill a cat, but human progress cannot be achieved without the curiosity of a group of suicidal people.
I also really want to see what's inside this box. It's also because there's only the two of us here, so without thinking much, I opened the buttons on the luggage.
A crisp sound came from the metal button as the trunk was opened.
Soon after, a thick aroma of cherry blossoms wafted out from the box.
We opened the trunk in a flash.
The moment it was opened, suddenly, a cat's cry came from inside.
Meow.
There was actually a black cat inside the trunk, upon seeing Zhang Tiangang who opened the trunk, jumped, and landed on his arm.
Zhang Tiangang was so shocked that he almost died. He quickly took his hands out of the luggage, and the black cat and Zhang Tiangang stared at each other.
The cat let out a cold cry, and then bit Zhang Tiangang's arm.
This was winter, and Zhang Tiangang was wearing an extremely thick fur coat. His two fangs had actually pierced through the coat to the point that blood flowed out from his teeth.
Logically speaking, the cat's bite power should not be great, but it made Zhang Tiangang scream in pain.
Seeing that, I immediately tried to chase the cat away, but after the cat bit down, a smile seemed to appear on its face. It turned its head to look at me, then jumped off Zhang Tiangang's arm like a stream of smoke and ran out through the crack in the door.
"Are you alright?" I quickly pushed Zhang Tiangang's arm away. The place where he was just bitten was still bleeding, and the blood that was flowing out was completely black.
In just one or two seconds, a large portion of Zhang Tiangang's arm had already turned black.
Seeing that, I panicked a little, maybe the cat had poison in its mouth, so I quickly supported Zhang Tiangang and prepared to leave.
Zhang Tiangang clenched his teeth, took off his shoelace and tied it around his arm, then said with a pale face:
"Don't worry, open up the box and see what it is."
I nodded and opened the suitcase. The manager on duty was right, it was a set of mini kimonos with a few bundles of red silk inside.
Zhang Tiangang took a look at the thread, sighed, and said:
"It really is the Puppet Buji. I think they already knew that we would come in, that's why they left a cat inside."
Curiosity sometimes really kills the cat. I stomped my foot and said,
"Damn it, this is fishing for us. I'll take you to find a doctor first."
While talking, I pulled Zhang Tiangang and was about to walk out when I suddenly heard a baby's cry coming from behind.
The sound was very mournful and I heard the cries of the baby. I felt as though the temperature in the room dropped by a level.
The air in the surroundings also gradually became moist.
Upon seeing this situation, Zhang Tiangang lowered his voice and shouted "Not good, pull me and wanted to rush out, but just as we were a step away from the door, a sound came from the other side of the door.
I turned my head and looked into the house. The glass jar on the tin shelf had opened, and the baby specimen had disappeared.