【4】

Standard Arabic numerals, carved on the stone arch.

The hollow, printed iron gate with spikes on the top was slowly pushed open.

There is a wooden cart, shovel, hemp rope and sacks on the side of the door for repairing, changing or leveling the cemetery.

Yi Chen put the ax and the kerosene lamp on the cart together.

Huh ~ take a deep breath,

Pushing the wooden cart,

When the cart's rollers pressed into the soil of the cemetery, there was no danger as expected.

Yi Chen also looked around when he stepped into Cemetery No. 4.

At a rough glance,

I haven’t found any ‘monsters’ wandering here,

There is nothing strange about it,

Compared with other cemeteries, this place feels "fair".

suitable temperature and humidity,

Hard soil with few weeds,

The proportions of open space, graves and vegetation are just right.

but,

There are two special places worth noting.

1. The vegetation here, especially the trees distributed on the edges, give people a feeling of withering and may break at any time...The leaves are also falling off in pieces, unlike other cemeteries that are as leafy as other cemeteries.

2. There are more than 60 graves here, which is more than other cemeteries.

Moreover, there is no ‘uniformity’ in the style of tombstones, and there are all kinds of tombstones.

Stone, wood and even metal,

Rectangle, arch, cross,

As messy as a mass grave,

Yi Chen pushed the wooden cart between the cemeteries,

After carefully observing every area he passed, and further confirming that there was no 'foreign object', his tense heartstrings relaxed slightly.

Immediately afterwards,

Call up the 'original distribution map' from your brain, compare it with the cemetery in front of you, and try to find the difference in quantity and order.

After all, I have an engineering background,

He was quite good at this kind of 'finding differences', and he soon got an answer, an answer that made Yi Chen shudder.

【One more grave】

This extra tomb is located deeper,

A cross-shaped metal tombstone is inserted into the ground.

The raised height of the tomb is consistent with the surrounding area.

Looking at the extra grave, Yi Chen thought:

"According to the rules, the extra graves need to be completely leveled.

If there is a body buried inside,

According to Rule V, it should be possible to transfer to Cemetery No. 7, which is dedicated to unknown corpses.

However... things are certainly not that simple, otherwise the original owner of this body would not have chosen to commit suicide, so he must be careful.』

After confirming that there is nothing unusual around you, start work.

Didn't attack the metal cross,

In his opinion, this symbol of sacred cross may be able to suppress evil spirits.

Pick up the shovel on the cart and aim it at the raised mound of soil...check!

When he was in the orphanage, he often helped with a lot of farm work in the backyard, and he was pretty good at using a shovel.

when!

Until a loud metal collision sound came,

Under the light of the kerosene lamp, part of the coffin lid was revealed.

"Metal coffin?"

Shovel away the surface soil,

The dark hexagonal coffin lid tightly sealed the coffin body, and there was no sign of the coffin being opened.

Now that I have made up my mind to solve the problem and clean up the mess,

Yi Chen faced the metal coffin in front of him and immediately found an effective fulcrum.

Try knocking,

Ga!

The sound of the coffin lid being pried open was like a sharp thorn, instantly piercing the curtain of silence in the cemetery.

The firelight released by the kerosene lamp couldn't wait to squeeze into it, showing the specific situation inside the coffin.

"This is……"

A naked adult male corpse,

His skin was completely green, with marble-like lines formed by rotting blood vessels and covered with corpse spots... and it was also covered with a large amount of moss.

The beads between the eyes have long since disappeared, replaced by colonies of fungi.

These slightly squirming fungi resemble the compound eyes of insects.

"Moss, fungus?

How could these things grow in this completely sealed metal coffin?"

While doubtful,

Yi Chen noticed another additional detail.

The body is placed flat between the palms of both sides,

nails falling off,

On the surface of the nail flesh, slender roots actually grew, extending to the bottom of the coffin.

It gives people a feeling of being 'glued' to the bottom of the coffin.

An indescribable strange feeling grew in Yi Chen's heart, which even stimulated the emergence of fear. He gave up the idea of ​​'transporting the corpse' and

He grabbed the kerosene lamp and tried to throw it into it,

Give this weird corpse an 'on-site cremation',

The idea has been formed, and the right hand also makes a downward throwing motion...

However,

Just when the kerosene lamp was about to be released,

The image of the lighthouse leading the way flashed through my mind,

The intuition in his brain told Yi Chen that the kerosene lamp, which was the only light source in the cemetery, must not be destroyed.

Yi Chen, who was born in engineering, values ​​​​itself very much and understands the meaning of intuition.

【intuition】

It is the result of the brain, under certain opportunities, super-quickly collecting environmental factors, integrating all memory data, including subconscious data, and conducting comprehensive analysis.

Since self-awareness cannot keep up with this process, it gives people the feeling of coming out of nowhere.

Some people don’t take it seriously,

However, it is often a correct and valid analysis result.

This intuition kept the kerosene lamp in his hand instead of throwing it away.

"The only source of light...I can't yet determine what the real 'danger' is.

If there is a problem in the entire cemetery, once I lose the light source, I may be swallowed up by the darkness here instantly.

Let’s just follow the original idea and transport the body.”

Yi Chen slapped his cheek with his hand to improve his concentration.
To be continued...