After swiping the card, a passage full of formalin smell appeared in front of me. This passage was not very long, about 20 meters. It went down slowly. At the end of the passage, there was a fork on the left and right. Mo Xiaolan

He explained to me: "The one on the left is the road leading to the seven memorial halls, and the right is the morgue and cremation area."

I followed Mo Xiaolan to the morgue. The morgue is actually an "ice cellar" with a corpse cabinet placed to the north. The cabinet has three floors in total, with 7 compartments on each floor, all in the form of drawers. Obviously,

This corpse cabinet can hold up to twenty-one corpses. There are also three mobile crystal coffins placed in front of the corpse cabinet, and three corpses "sleep" in them. Mo Xiaolan introduced: "This

The three corpses will be pushed to the memorial hall soon, and your work will be carried out here. Each corpse must be checked to ensure that it is correct." Just after finishing speaking, a corpse transporter came back pushing a trolley with a crystal coffin.

The corpse transporter looked at Mo Xiaolan and me dully. Mo Xiaolan took the initiative to greet him: "Master Zhu, is the corpse memorial service over?" Master Zhu didn't seem to be very happy and replied: "Nonsense.

Why should I push it back before the memorial ceremony is over? It will be sent to the cremation area for cremation." After saying that, Master Zhu pushed the crystal coffin and walked straight inside.

The so-called inside is to go east past the morgue, and there is another door. The door is quite thick, just like the door used in civil air defense facilities. I saw Master Zhu pushing the door bolt of the door, and the door slowly opened, reflecting the

What caught my eyes were three incinerators. Two crematorians were at the middle incinerator, methodically beating some white objects with hammers. Mo Xiaolan said to me from the side: "Brother Jiang, that is

Do you want to go in and take a look after crushing the unburned bones and putting them into the urn? Anyway, I don’t go into the cremation area.

The first time I entered the "backcourt" of the funeral home, the horror of what I witnessed far exceeded my curiosity. When I saw Master Zhu delivering a corpse to the two cremators who were pounding the ashes, in front of their eyes,

Inside, what I saw in front of me was not human corpses, but workers in the factory completing work on parts. To be honest, I really didn’t dare to look at it, but I couldn’t appear particularly brave in front of Mo Xiaolan.

Small, so I reluctantly moved a few steps towards the heavy door, stood at the door and watched them working "seriously":

The two cremators, one tall and one short, were beating the ashes there. The short one shoveled the crushed ashes into the urn. The tall one asked Master Zhu: "Why did you send another one? There are still a few to be burned today."

?”

"This one has been burned, and there are three more."

"What's wrong these days? In the past, if you burned more than twenty pots a day, it was already an overload of work. Now there are no less than forty pots a day. Look, today there are already thirty-eight less!" That short man said

While shoveling the ashes, the man complained:

"Our curator is the same. The workload has doubled, the manpower has not been added, and the salary has not been increased. It is really killing him." Master Zhu also echoed the complaint.

"Okay! Master Zhu, this corpse will be placed in the No. 3 furnace. It's useless to complain, but these ghosts heard it!" The tall man obviously felt a little hardworking and uncomplaining.

Master Zhu pushed the crystal coffin to the furnace with "three" written on it. The tall man opened the furnace door and saw that the furnace cavity was yellowish. The bottom of the furnace cavity was a track with a movable ceramic plate on the track.

Master Zhu pulled out the ceramic plate in the furnace cavity, and then opened the cover of the crystal coffin. The tall man walked to the other side of the crystal coffin calmly, turned the shaker at the bottom of the crystal coffin, and saw the contents of the coffin.

The corpse slowly raised its head and feet, and after a while, the corpse was moved to the ceramic plate. After everything was settled, Master Zhu covered the crystal coffin and took it away. The tall master looked at the cremation sheet that Master Zhu gave him.

, he raised his head and shouted toward the window: "Hua Asan has ascended to heaven!" Before he finished speaking, there was a sound of crying at the window, and among the crying, there was a loud voice: "Master,

Help the old man burn it clean." Before he finished speaking, a pack of cigarettes fell at the tall man's feet. The tall man picked up the cigarette and said to the short man: "Horse face, it's on fire!"

"Horse Face? How come you have such a weird name?" I was a little puzzled, but when I thought about Director Xiao saying that I can't call him by his first name here, I was relieved. I guess "Horse Face" must be the title of a short person.

The short man known as the horse face came to the side of the No. 3 furnace and pressed the green button. The ceramic plate carrying Hua Asan's body slowly slid into the furnace cavity. The tall man pushed the

After closing the furnace door, he directly pressed a button on his side. After a while, a "Woo" sound came from the furnace cavity. Through the furnace door of furnace No. 3, the inside of the furnace cavity could be seen. Except for the bottom, no fire was spurting out.

Except for this, strong pillars of fire were erupted from the top, left and right places.

The tall man took out the cigarettes he had just picked up, took them out, and gave five cigarettes to the short man and Master Zhu. He also handed me five cigarettes. I quickly refused to take them. The tall man said a little embarrassedly: "Young man, you

Don’t you understand the rules of the crematorium?”

I shook my head numbly.

"Here, everything is for the first time. Even if you don't smoke, you still have to bring cigarettes. You don't accept gifts from the dead. Do you want to wait for him to come to your door in person and give it to you?" The tall man said:

As soon as I heard this rule, I quickly accepted the five cigarettes. The short man and Master Zhu both laughed "hehe" when they saw this.

Hua Asan's body was being incinerated. Master Zhu pushed the empty crystal coffin back to the morgue, and then said to me who was still standing at the gate: "It is also a rule to close the door when burning a corpse. Do you want to watch inside or go back to the morgue?"

Time?" I quickly retreated to the morgue. Master Zhu slowly closed the door. After placing the empty crystal coffin, he came to a crystal coffin containing a corpse, picked up the cremation sheet, and

While watching, he muttered to himself: "It's a pity that I passed away at the age of 63 because of lung cancer!" After saying that, he pushed the crystal coffin and left the morgue, walking straight towards the memorial hall.

Mo Xiaolan walked up to me and said to me softly: "We are almost familiar? If you can, let's go. We are going to Qingsong Hotel."

I nodded, and while leaving the morgue with Mo Xiaolan, I said, "Sister Xiao Mo, are the people who work here difficult to deal with?"

"It's okay! The Master Zhu you just saw, as well as Master Qiong and Master Zhao in the cremation area, are very easy to deal with. It's just that they deal with dead people almost every day, so it's inevitable that they have some psychological shadow."

"Master Qiong and Master Zhao? Is the taller one Master Qiong?"

"No, Master Qiong doesn't like to talk much, he's the shorter one. Master Zhao is quite talkative, he's the taller one."

"Are these three masters the only ones in the cremation area and morgue?"

"No, there are six in total, four cremators and two corpse carriers. They are divided into two shifts, with one day off and one day off. You can see the other two cremators and one corpse carrier tomorrow. I

I won’t introduce much here. You should communicate with them more yourself. Anyway, communicating with people is your specialty, and you are a respectable psychological expert." Mo Xiaolan said to me with a more or less naughty tone:

I smiled "haha" and walked to the entrance. Mo Xiaolan said to me: "Brother Xiao Jiang, you need to swipe your card to enter here. When you go out, you don't need to swipe your card. You just need to enter your password here." I followed.

Following Mo Xiaolan's guidance, I saw an inconspicuous digital button on the right side of the passage door. While inputting the password there, Mo Xiaolan said to me: "The password is 545454."

I was a little surprised and said: "Am I going to die? This is too unlucky?"

Mo Xiaolan shrugged and said, "I don't quite understand this either. Just remember that everything that exists here has its own reason."

"Um!"

The passage door opened, and a wave of heat immediately hit me. Mo Xiaolan said to me: "Brother Jiang, please arrange your working hours as soon as possible to facilitate my assessment."

"What do you think would be a better arrangement?"

"Is it okay from four in the morning to twelve noon?"

"So early?"

"Brother Jiang, maybe you don't know much about this industry. Many family members of the deceased attach great importance to the first furnace. Because the ashes from the first furnace are pure, the funeral time of many family members of the deceased will be surprisingly early. 5,

It’s common to arrive at the funeral home at 6 o’clock.”

"Don't you have working hours? From 7 am to 15 pm."

"Brother Jiang, you don't know that there are many special deceased people who cannot be incinerated in the normal time."

"Huh? Special deceased?"

"Yes, there are many! Famous people who don't want to be too public, serious infections that need to be burned in time, prisoners who have been sentenced to death, contaminated corpses, etc."

"Oh! I can understand what you said, but after all, these people are in the minority. Do they need to go to work at 4 o'clock every morning?"

"It is precisely because of those special groups and many connected people that they try to enjoy those special time periods. Being the first person at 7 o'clock is not considered an ability. I can be the first person at 6 o'clock; you can be the first person at 6 o'clock.

If I grab it, I can take the lead at five o'clock. In this way, it gradually evolves into a situation where someone comes to take the lead at five o'clock."

"Can this specialness also bring benefits to you in disguise?" I asked "badly":
Chapter completed!