Chapter 56 Searching the Box of Heads

The cartons containing the coffins were opened one by one, and even though their process for opening them was very laborious, they still insisted on doing it that way.

They first took apart the collision-proof cartons without removing the foam that was inside. After the outer cartons were removed, they lined up the foam-wrapped coffins one by one and placed them neatly in the warehouse.

Since the coffins were very heavy and the corrugated cardboard boxes holding them were very thick, everyone was exhausted and needed to rest by the time they got to the twentieth one. Li Cu gave Su Wan a look that meant that it was time to remove the plastic foam and open the coffins to see what was inside.

They should have opened the outer package on one and looked at the coffin first, but everyone chose to do it the uneconomical way. They all knew and accepted that this was a kind of delay tactic to escape the inevitable. Unfortunately, even if it was a means of escape, the time to face it had finally come.

After Li Cu’s look, nobody moved. Su Wan glanced at the door out of the corner of his eye, and Li Cu knew he wanted to escape in that direction.

He said angrily: “Can you not be so worthless? The time will come sooner or later. You’ve already seen the dismembered hand, are you afraid of seeing something else?”

Su Wan smiled bitterly and said: “Big Bro, can you tell me which box has the heads? You’re responsible for that one, so we’ll do the rest.”

Even as he unexpectedly got goose bumps, Li Cu felt a twinge in his heart and thought, I didn’t think Su Wan would have that kind of plan at this time. These poor guys don’t know what they’re involved in, and shouldn’t have to take on even more responsibility, but aren’t we brothers? Don’t we have to sacrifice ourselves for others at this time? Looks like the friendship between brothers can’t be trusted, and I have to rely on myself at the critical moment.

Li Cu had various thoughts racing through his mind, but he also knew that it had nothing to do with his friendship with these two. If the situation was reversed, he figured he was more of a bad guy than Su Wan was.

The light here was very bright, which made Li Cu feel a little more comfortable. He looked back at the warehouse door and went over to lock it before saying to them, “Alright then, let’s quit being sissies. I’ll open them and you all watch from the side. But you have to stay close to me and can’t leave me alone.”

Su Wan and Yang Hao nodded, but didn’t get any closer. Yang Hao lit a cigarette and pretended to be very calm, obviously not wanting to show his timidity in front of these people. But his unnatural stance revealed everything.

Li Cu had come back from the desert with stronger nerves, after all, so he took a deep breath and worked to harden his heart. His curiosity for the mystery slowly overcame his fear.

He walked up to one of the plastic coffins and slowly touched the clasp that would open it.  When he gave it a pull, the coffin lid automatically opened, and he glanced inside. It was a box of torsos. He could hardly tell them apart, but the flesh from the wounds was glistening white.

Li Cu resisted gagging and held his breath, trying not to smell the strange odor coming from the box. He went straight to the next box and then the next, and began pulling them open one by one.

In the end, he opened more than twenty coffins. A lot of the ice inside had already melted, emitting a white vapor as it came in contact with the air. Li Cu was so fast that Su Wan didn’t have time to see what was inside, only catching a glimpse of something glistening. It must be human limbs.

In any case, such a scene was still too exciting for them. Su Wan and Yang Hao’s handsome faces had become so incomparably pale that they almost matched the color of the flesh inside.

It wasn’t until the third to last coffin that Li Cu finally slowed down, because he saw a lot of black clumps inside after it was opened. Li Cu squatted down and then took a step back, staring blankly at the things in the coffin: there were a dozen heads.

“Su Wan, your dish is here.” Li Cu said.

No one paid any attention to him, and when Li Cu looked back, he found that Su Wan and Yang Hao were a few steps away from him.

Li Cu sighed, but didn’t feel very scared about it. It was probably because he had been too scared before and was now numb to it.

He said to the guys behind him, “I have to get these heads out first. When the ice melts, the skin will be soaked and we won’t be able to recognize them. If you won’t help, then at least go find a table to put them on.”

There was no reply, and when Li Cu called again, Su Wan shouted from a distance: “Impossible!”

Li Cu knew without looking back that he had retreated almost to the door, and darkly scolded him in his heart. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath before clenching his fists, stepping forward, and squatting down. He put his hand into the ice water, and then lifted a head up.

The ice water was bitterly cold, but he didn’t feel anything. His hands were trembling as he picked the head up and turned it around. All the hair from the head was sticking to his hands and kept dripping water on him.

Li Cu opened his eyes and saw a pair of muddy glasses and a blistered face that looked like a napkin soaked in water.

He suddenly felt like the sky was spinning, and ran to one side where he squatted on the ground and began to vomit.

It wasn’t until his eyes were dark from vomiting so much that he finally recovered. Looking up, he saw that Su Wan and Yang Hao had run out of the warehouse and were vomiting outside the door.

Damn it, Li Cu thought to himself, so fucking reliable.

Li Cu felt a little better after vomiting, so he grit his teeth and forced himself to crawl back to the frozen coffin. He was breathing hard as he tried to grab the heads that were inside one by one, but suddenly, he saw a ripple in the icy water.

The ripples were so big that the whole coffin was stirred up, and it seemed like something was living under the icy water.

Li Cu shook for a moment. He initially thought that his foot had touched the coffin, but then the whole coffin shook and the icy water spilled out.

“Fuck!”

I can’t be blamed for thinking the other party was sending me corpses. But in actual fact, were these corpses put inside to feed something?

He stood up and slowly approached the coffin, but the heads and hair inside made it impossible for him to see what was causing the underwater movement. He clearly saw, however, that the way the heads were floating in the ice water proved that there must be something inside.

“Come and help!” Li Cu shouted, “There’s still a live one here!”

Before the words fell, there was the sound of water splashing, and from amidst the entangled hair came something as thick as an arm, fiercely breaking the water’s surface and rushing towards his face.

Li Cu’s reaction was fast enough. He rolled quickly and the thing flashed past, crashing into the cardboard pile behind him.

Li Cu immediately jumped away from the cardboard boxes, hit his legs against the coffin behind him, and fell inside.

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