The final gentleman

The workers of Cold Lake Cemetery are more appropriately defined as "corpse collectors".

Unlike the seven divisions like the Seven Days Cemetery, each cemetery has different rules.

There is only one main cemetery here - Cold Lake. The other shore cemeteries surrounding the lake are only used to store "defective goods" and do not have too strict requirements.

However, as the core of the cemetery, Cold Lake itself has relatively complex rules.

The first is the regional division:

[Outer Ring] In the outer ring area where the lake water temperature is greater than or equal to -10°C, burials and body collection can be carried out at any time throughout the day.

[Central] In the middle area where the lake water temperature is between -10℃ and -30℃, relevant work is limited to 00:00-07:00.

[Inner Heart] In the center of the lake, where the temperature is below -30°C, the operating time is limited to 00:00-02:00.

In addition, there are a series of rules related to lakes:

1. It is prohibited to use any lighting equipment. If you find signs of freezing on the lake, you can use kerosene lamps or torches to disperse them. Once the ice disappears, you must turn off the light source immediately.

2. If you find a hand sticking out of the lake while rowing, please tie the black rope provided on the boat to your ring finger, and the arm will return to the lake.

If a black string is tied to the finger, the gesture of reaching out means "showing goodwill". Just give it a high-five and the arm will sink.

Please be sure to complete the above interaction, otherwise the arm will follow you all the time and may eventually attack the hull.

3. If floating debris is found in the lake, it must be caught with a fishing net and sent to the incinerator for destruction as soon as possible.

If you find paper items, you need to check the information recorded on it and meet the requirements as much as possible. If you are unsure about what to do with the information, ask your supervisor for advice.

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There are seven more rules similar to the above, which are very cumbersome. It's like serving a group of uncles and aunts living at the bottom of the lake, and having to do related work as cleaners.

Every rule has hidden dangers, and if you don't follow it well, your life will be in danger.

Because we are in the water, it is much more dangerous than the actual cemetery on the ground. It is no wonder that there are often no people here.

The matter that Yi Chen and Regan were temporarily called to help could be solved in just one night, but only gentlemen with cemetery experience like them could help. Ordinary corpse diggers would be very dangerous.

The request given by the lame Field was that five special corpses buried in the burial area in the middle of the lake should be dug out and packaged, and there would be organized corpse trucks on the shore to pick them up.

Considering that it was the first time for the two juniors to work, Field paddled the boat himself and drove them to the center of the lake ten minutes early.

As recorded in the rules, the temperature in this lake is frighteningly low.

However, as soon as the cold is felt, the gentleman's clothing immediately adapts to the velvet and thickening properties, and even generates heat internally.

This kind of warm and moist leather feels like there is a strong man who has just finished playing basketball sandwiched between the front, back, left and right.

While paddling towards the center of the lake, the calm lake stretched out its pale arms many times,

Yi Chen immediately complied with the rules and either tied a knot on their ring fingers or gave them high fives. The other party also seemed very happy, shaking his arms happily and sinking into the lake.

On the way, a paper boat was also found. After it was fished out through a fishing net, it actually said - [I want an autobiographical novel].

I don’t know why Yi Chen wants to laugh a little bit,

Field explained very seriously: "The demand for written objects shows that they are awakening their consciousness, and these needs must be met... Unfortunately, there is no time to read to them now, so they need to be salvaged."

Yi Chen caught the key word of ‘awakening consciousness’ from this sentence and thought of Reagan’s girlfriend.

But there is an essential difference in consciousness here. The corpses at the bottom of the lake can awaken consciousness because their bodies are intact and their brains are intact and even fresh.

But Reagan's girlfriend initially only had one spine left, and had to construct her own consciousness based on the genetic information remaining between the bones. The concept was completely different.

【Lake District】

The ship stopped just in time for midnight.

This time point, coupled with the hazy moon reflection on the lake, reminded Yi Chen of some bad memories. The former Twilight Clinic also changed at this time point, and the moon emerged.

This incident was far away from Zion, and Yi Chen was worried about the moon all the way.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look up at the sky.

However, the hazy moon had no intention of getting closer. It was still obscured by clouds and fog, and there was no abnormality.

At this time, the lame Field took out five body bags with moisturizing functions and handed them to the two of them.

"You have already seen the rules, I won't say any more, just go ahead."

Yi Chen and Reagan looked at each other and jumped into the minus 50 ℃ lake water together.

Gentlemen's clothing covers the whole body in advance to isolate the lake water and continuously keep warm.

The lake is not deep, and the two of them quickly dived to the "Lake Burial Area" with a depth of only ten meters.

There are a total of eight graves below, three of which have been excavated in advance.

The remaining five graves are the temporary missions of Yi Chen and Regan.

At this time, Little Putao came out to help improve the visibility, and at the same time talked about the situation here as a 'passer'.

"The corpses that can be buried in such an area are at least of high quality.

The three who were poached in advance are either fully mature like me and have awakened consciousness that can be used by the organization. Or dangerous lesions are dealt with in advance.

And the five corpses you need to deal with are not 'mature' enough to be exhumed.

It must be due to the spread of gray areas, and the bodies need to be moved in advance. After all, the natural gray area cannot be eliminated. Once it spreads to a small town, the corpses in the cemetery will become diseased. 』

"Does this mean that this cemetery will be closed soon?" 』

"That must be the case, otherwise why would the old man always have a straight face? Let's start work quickly. Seeing that the old man is willing to give me benefits, I will help a little bit. 』

Next is the cooperation between Yi Chen and Reagan to recover the corpse.

Gajigaji~

Yi Chen released the plants for rapid excavation. Once the entire body was excavated, Reagan would instantly cover it with a body bag controlled by his mind.

When the first grave was dug, both of them were stunned by the corpse lying inside.

A young corpse that is impeccable and pure from beginning to end,

The skin that was almost like pure water even had a faint gleam, but the next second he was wrapped in a body bag by Reagan.

Perhaps it was Xiao Putao, the ‘cemetery overlord’, who monitored the entire process.

Perhaps it was the coercion that Miss Faye released invisibly,

The process of recovering corpses was quite smooth. None of the corpses showed any resistance or attack tendency. At most, they just opened their jewel-like eyes and glanced at them.

In addition, the corpses in the tomb area in the center of the lake all looked to be no more than twenty years old, and their skin texture was almost the same, as moist as jade.

Soon it was the turn of the last grave.

The flat-structured plants were excavated as quickly as a shovel, but this body seemed to be buried deeper, and it was still missing after digging for a full two meters.

Just when the two of them were a little confused and wary,

The end of the plant touched a hard object that was not soil. It was the head of the corpse, and a streak of silver-white hair could barely be seen.

Yi Chen continued digging in the soil until the entire head appeared in front of his eyes, and Yi Chen was stunned.

The feeling of fear instantly occupied the entire eyeballs and permeated the whole body!

"How can it be!"

Buried among the last graves was a young man whose eyes were covered with gauze. The other eye was slowly opening, looking like a silver waning moon.

The mouth also opened and squirmed!

There was no sound transmission process, the sound echoed directly in Yi Chen's mind.

"William, long time no see~"

Gulu!

Yi Chen was so frightened that he choked in a mouthful of ice water at the bottom of the lake.

Almost immediately after entering the mouth, the esophagus and stomach were severely cracked by frostbite, and many organs throughout the body were frostbitten in a short period of time. The "black umbilical cord" hidden in the abdomen immediately rushed over to help repair it.

And Little Putao's calling voice also came from Yi Chen's head:

"William!" William! 』

The stimulation in the body and the sound transmission in the brain made Yi Chen shake his head violently.

When I open my eyes again,

The corpse head dug out in front of him no longer looked like [Moon Mark], but the corpse of a young man with naturally white hair and a similar appearance.

A ray of faint moonlight penetrating the lake happened to fall on the young man's face... It seemed that it was this ray of moonlight that caused the illusion just now.

Suddenly,

Yi Chen recalled in his mind the words he said when leaving the Twilight Clinic:

"The-Moon-is-watching-you."