dkrc Chapter 166 Cold Storage and Collectibles
Chapter 166 Cold Storage and Collectibles
Chapter 166 Cold Storage and Collectibles
"Guo Fan?"
Li Jiuhe didn't feel anything about the name because it sounded very ordinary.
He hesitated for a moment, then dipped his brush in blood and wrote: "My name is Li Jun."
This name is also very common; it's the kind of name that you'd likely run into if you threw it into a roster.
Now he not only has to deal with the beheading butcher and figure out how to break the scene, but also has to be wary of the Moth Woman's accomplices who have already entered.
The main problem is that he doesn't know who the other person is, so he has to be careful.
This headless young man was clearly no ordinary person, because Li Jiuhe's decision to come here to investigate was not without reason.
First of all, this is the cafeteria. If these people want to survive, there is a high probability that they will come to the cafeteria to get a lot of food.
Therefore, you may obtain crucial information here.
Secondly, the heads of those who were beheaded all disappeared, taken away by the beheading butcher. So there might be a place in the resort specifically for that guy to collect these heads.
The place where these heads are collected must not only be somewhat secluded, but also convenient for preserving them.
So it's either a basement room or the cafeteria area.
Because this resort is quite large and is located on an island, it's inevitable that some food will be kept chilled, so there must be cold storage facilities.
This cold storage is usually located not far from the kitchen.
Now it seems that the heavy metal door behind where the headless young man was should be the door to the cold storage.
That's why Guo Fan said their ideas were "coincidentally in agreement," meaning he had also thought of this place.
Of course, Guo Fan is different from Li Jiuhe. He only made his decision after so many people died in the early stages and he had thought about it for a while.
When Li Jiuhe arrived here, much of the information had already been obtained by these tourists, much of which they had obtained at the cost of their lives.
"Li Jun." Guo Fan didn't think much of it and continued writing on the ground, "Our heads should be in the cold storage. I can't open the door by myself, so come and help."
Li Jiuhe didn't get up, but immediately wrote: "Is there any danger after opening it?"
Although he didn't see the body at the entrance of the cold storage, if Guo Fan had been there for some time, then perhaps he had already tried it and couldn't have been waiting there indefinitely.
"I'll go in first. If there's any danger, let me handle it."
Guo Fan answered without any hesitation, which suggests that he is a good partner.
Li Jiuhe stood up, ready to act together with him.
Anyway, he's taking advantage of this opportunity to keep trying and making mistakes. He can make mistakes, but these people can't, so he doesn't need to worry about anything.
The two walked to the door of the cold storage, grabbed the round rotating handle on the door at the same time, and turned it forcefully to the left at Guo Fan's signal.
At first, when they exerted force, the round handle didn't budge. Li Jiuhe and Guo Fan used all the strength of the headless body and finally heard a click.
It only became smooth after I loosened my grip.
After turning around about four or five times, the metal door opened outwards, and the two took a few steps back as a blast of cold air rushed towards them.
It was equally dark inside, with no light, so they couldn't see anything. The only thing they could make out in their hazy vision was a row of refrigerated cabinets in the middle of the warehouse, surrounded by shelves with various items on them.
As for what the item is, it's unclear.
Guo Fan picked up a fire axe from a dark corner and gestured for Li Jiuhe to stay outside while he went in to investigate.
Li Jiuhe was slightly taken aback when he saw the fire axe.
He approached the dark corner and looked closely, discovering two or three headless corpses there. One of them was none other than the old man surnamed Yan who had found his own head earlier.
Li Jiuhe immediately turned around and found that Guo Fan had already entered the cold storage.
He never expected that the old man surnamed Yan who came here in search of food was already dead. Not only had he become a headless corpse again, but even his fire axe had ended up in Guo Fan's hands.
According to Chen Song, if his head is found and reattached, and then cut off again, then he will no longer have 48.
Hours of safe time.
That is to say, the old man surnamed Yan has died completely.
"Where's his head?" Li Jiuhe asked in surprise.
My wariness of Guo Fan increased even more; now it seems that his actions at this moment make me wary.
Li Jiuhe no longer followed the plan the two had just agreed upon to stay outside the cold storage to keep watch, but immediately got up and went into the cold storage as well.
Because he was headless, he didn't feel cold at all the moment he stepped into the cold storage.
Through his blurry vision, Li Jiuhe could see that the cold storage was about 100 square meters. The walls were surrounded by shelves with various kinds of fresh food on them. In the middle of the cold storage, in addition to a row of cabinets, there were hooks on the ceiling above, with a large amount of pork hanging there.
The air inside the cold storage wasn't actually that cold, after all, the power had been out for several days, and the floor was covered with water stains from melted ice.
Many of the frozen meats had already been thawed, and blood was flowing out.
Li Jiuhe walked inside and saw Guo Fan's headless body crawling in front of the two freezers at the back, taking out human heads one by one, placing them on the ground, and then quickly smashing them with the fire axe in his hand.
At this moment, at least thirty heads on the ground had been destroyed by him, and no one knew why he did it.
Moreover, he couldn't possibly destroy so many heads in such a short time.
"He's been here before! And his purpose wasn't to find his own head." Li Jiuhe immediately realized.
Guo Fan was taken aback when he suddenly noticed that Li Jiuhe was not waiting outside, but had also gone into the cold storage. He then looked very anxious and stood up to signal Li Jiuhe to go out and help him keep watch.
But Li Jiuhe ignored it and went to the freezer to take a look, and found that it was indeed full of human heads.
Among them, he immediately spotted his own head and the woman's head in the safe.
Because their heads had just been cut off not long ago, they were placed in a position very close to the top.
Guo Fan noticed this scene and immediately took Li Jiuhe's head out and handed it to him, telling him to take it back quickly and continue to guard outside for him.
Li Jiuhe took his head, but instead of putting it back, he gestured and asked Guo Fan why he had destroyed those heads.
Seeing that Li Jiuhe wouldn't listen to him, Guo Fan ignored him and took out several more human heads from the freezer, quickly smashing them in front of Li Jiuhe.
While decapitating the person, the guy also turned his body towards the entrance of the cold storage, seemingly to check if there was any movement there.
"He knew someone was coming!" Li Jiuhe immediately looked towards the entrance of the cold storage.
About five seconds later, a figure suddenly appeared at the doorway, moving incredibly fast, clearly having run there at top speed.
The man's head and body were intact, and he was carrying a heavy fish knife; he was none other than the beheading butcher.
The moment Li Jiuhe saw the beheading butcher appear, he realized that if he had stayed at the entrance of the cold storage, he might have already been attacked.
With his current headless body, his reactions are even slower, and he will definitely be instantly killed by the butcher.
Normally, without heads, butchers would pay less attention to these headless bodies, or even ignore them altogether.
But now that they've already raided the butcher's house, and Guo Fan is even more ruthless, smashing his collection, this guy definitely won't let them off the hook.
Because Li Jiuhe was standing near the door, he immediately covered his head and retreated when the beheading butcher rushed in.
But the butcher was faster. The moment he got close, he pierced through Li Jiuhe's chest cavity with a knife, piercing through his still-beating heart, and then snatched the head from Li Jiuhe's hands.
Li Jiuhe's headless body fell to the ground.
In his blurry vision, he saw the butcher pounce on Guo Fan, but Guo Fan had already stopped destroying the heads.
He quickly stepped back, and at the same time, he reached behind his back with his left hand and slapped the hood of his coat.
Suddenly, a thin head rolled out of the hood and fell to the ground.
Li Jiuhe felt his life slipping away. After being injured a second time by the butcher's fish knife, he was truly going to die this time.
However, his blurry vision remained fixed on the head that had fallen out of the hood, and then he was shocked to see that the head was actually that of the old man surnamed Yan.
The old man's headless body lay in a dark corner outside, while Guo Fan had hidden the man's head inside the hood of his clothes.
Guo Fan's clothes were loose and very trendy, with a hood so big that two heads could fit inside. Moreover, the old man surnamed Yan had a small head, so Li Jiuhe hadn't noticed it before.
Upon seeing the fresh human head, the beheading butcher, who had been chasing Guo Fan, paused and stopped.
He picked up the head of the old man surnamed Yan from under his feet without any expression.
In that short time, Guo Fan had already run to the outside of the cold storage.
Upon arriving here, Guo Fan immediately shrank into a dark corner, lying motionless beside the other headless bodies.
In reality, the butcher only begins his killing spree after the cold storage has been breached, including by the lookout outside and the people who have entered the cold storage.
However, once the person leaves the cold storage, they will no longer pose a threat to the butcher, and the pursuit will automatically stop.
Guo Fan's actions at this moment are simply a way to have double insurance.
Li Jiuhe's consciousness completely disappeared, but for him, this moment was already worth it.
Everything went dark for a moment, then gradually brightened.
Chen Song's voice reached my ears.
"Don't talk about him!"
While giving him a warning, Chen Song looked around in terror.
"Okay, let's not discuss it anymore." This time, Li Jiuhe was different from last time; he nodded and ended the current topic.
The fact that his own head was still intact gave him the illusion of being reborn.
Relieved, Chen Song said, "I'm going to the cafeteria to find something to eat, then I'll find a place to hide. What are you guys planning to do? Want to come along?"
Li Jiuhe shook his head: "The kitchen is dangerous. That old man surnamed Yan hasn't returned yet; he might have already met with an accident."
"Really?" Chen Song was taken aback. "But I haven't eaten for over a day, and I'm so hungry I feel anxious."
Ma Li took a piece of chocolate out of her bag: "Here, this is my snack, have some first."
Chen Song's eyes lit up. After thanking him, he took the fruit, tore open the wrapper, and swallowed it in one gulp, much like Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit.
Ma Li whispered to Li Jiuhe, "I still have a lot of snacks in my bag, it's okay."
This queen ant was, after all, an insect, and an ant that loved sweets, so her pouch was almost full of all sorts of small sweets.
When she had nothing to do, she would take out these sweets to amuse her ant chicks, and she never expected them to come in so handy now.
Li Jiuhe recalled what happened after he was transformed into a headless body.
He felt that Guo Fan was very likely an accomplice of the Moth Girl they were looking for.
This guy had his own complete plan, knew there were a lot of heads in the cold storage, and had been inside more than once.
It looks like he had already gone in and killed some people.
So, does destroying all the heads severely damage the beheading butcher?
Or does Guo Fan have ulterior motives?
Li Jiuhe also noticed that when they were in the cold storage, Guo Fan would destroy the head as soon as it was taken out, as if he wasn't worried about it being taken by mistake at all.
Furthermore, Guo Fan's head was not seen in the freezer.
Could it be that this guy's head wasn't even in the cold storage?
Was his decapitation intentional? Because in that case, a headless body could avoid many dangers and provide at least a 48-hour safety period.
This is consistent with Li Jiuhe's previous speculation.
For example, it would be extremely dangerous for a person with a complete body to appear near a cold storage facility, because the beheading butcher might return at any time.
If only a headless body is wandering around nearby, as long as it doesn't enter the cold storage, the beheading butcher will ignore it even if he returns.
Because the headless body held no value for him.
The butcher will not attack the headless body unless it threatens him.
It seems that Guo Fan is not only an accomplice of the Moth Girl, but he has also obtained a lot of information about the haunted house scene.
Destroying the killer's "collection" is one thing, but there may be some additional steps to completely eliminate the killer.
Moreover, even after Li Jiuhe was killed, he knew he could use a fresh human head to attract the butcher's attention, as this would give him a chance to escape.
In this way, at least for now, Li Jiuhe knows about this method.
However, human heads are a scarce commodity, and Guo Fan most likely killed the old man surnamed Yan and took his head as a backup.
However, the guy's own head was nowhere to be found, so Li Jiuhe believed that Guo Fan might have deliberately cut off his own head, then hidden it before carrying out this plan.
After a quick review, two issues remain to be addressed. The first is that Li Jiuhe still doesn't know how to truly eliminate the Butcher, and the second is what Guo Fan's sequence ability is.
This guy was able to solve the previous haunted house scenes one after another. Although it wasn't done in one go, but probably took a long time, his sequencing ability should not be ignored.
After all, Guo Fan had the ability to make so many Sequencers work for him and secretly controlled the people in the Yuanmeng City Investigation Bureau.
"Find a place to hide first; my companion and I have other things to do."
Li Jiuhe stopped talking to Chen Song and instead pulled Ma Li to the back corridor, then returned to the lounge where they first discovered the headless corpse.
I glanced at the headless corpse in the room. The body was still there, and it was exactly the same as before, without having been moved.
Li Jiuhe and Ma Li sat on the small bed in the outer room and began to talk quietly.
"Release another swarm of ants and search the first floor, including the restaurant, kitchen, activity room, library, training center, and basement. If there is an underground garage, search the entire area, leaving no corner unchecked."
Ma Li said, "Then I'll release half of the ant larvae. If there are more of them, the search efficiency will be higher."
Li Jiuhe nodded: "Specifically, we need to look for human heads, to see if any of these places have been hidden, like the girl's head in the safe."
"it is good."
Soon, a dense swarm of black ants crawled out from under Ma Li's skirt. This time, the number was quite astonishing. However, the swarm of black ants immediately dispersed and turned into more small ants, crawling out into cracks in doors and windows. In no time, they were all gone.
However, Ma Li also left a team of black ants in this room to search for the lockers that had been locked and never opened.
According to the previous rules, if the butcher kills someone without anyone noticing, he might impersonate that person, approach that person's companions, and then secretly kill more people.
Guo Fan's headless body is still guarding outside the cold storage, waiting for an opportunity to "cooperate" with other headless bodies to enter the cold storage.
However, in his plan, everyone else is just cannon fodder, their only role being to warn him of the killer's arrival and to hold the killer off for a while.
This gave him ample time to destroy one or two more heads in the freezer.
Therefore, destroying human heads should be the key to solving this scenario!
There were just too many heads in those freezers; both freezers were completely full, probably more than two hundred.
Is there that many people at this resort, including tourists and staff?
Li Jiuhe was a little puzzled. Judging from the number and size of the rooms, he thought that there were at most a little over a hundred people here before.
Furthermore, the number of people and the number of vehicles in the outdoor parking lot do not seem to match.
"Did you see the personnel roster at the reception desk just now?" Li Jiuhe asked.
Ma Li recalled briefly: "I saw it, it looked like a list of tourists."
"Come on, let's go get one."
Li Jiuhe got up and walked to the door. Just as he was about to open it, he suddenly froze and heard a muffled voice.
"Li Jiuhe, Li Jiuhe————"
At the same time, Ma Li's panicked voice rang out: "Brother Li, I heard someone calling my name!"
Li Jiuhe immediately pressed his hands down in the air, signaling her not to speak.
However, he did not turn around immediately, but faced the unopened door with his back to Ma Li.
Because if he turned around at this moment, even if the familiar Ma Li was right behind him, he would still violate the rules and taboos he had learned before.
"Brother Li, say something! Did you hear someone calling my name too?" Ma Li's anxious voice continued.
Li Jiuhe frowned, somewhat surprised, but he still did not answer.
"Brother Li, what are you doing?" Ma Li's voice came close to Li Jiuhe, as if her lips were touching his ear.
Li Jiuhe still didn't turn around, but instead quickly reached behind him, but found nothing.
At that moment, Ma Li behind him seemed to vanish instantly.
He took a few steps back, estimating that he was close to the small bed he had been sitting on, before reaching for it again.
This time, he immediately touched Ma Li's fair and tender arm, and at the same time, Ma Li's voice rang out, filled with surprise.
"Brother Li, why did you suddenly walk backwards and grab my hand?"
Li Jiuhe breathed a slight sigh of relief. Only now did he dare to confirm that the voice was indeed coming from Ma Li, and that what he had just heard was someone imitating her voice.
He didn't turn around, but took another half step back until he was parallel to the person he was holding the arm with, then turned his head slightly and saw Ma Li looking surprised.
At the same time, Li Jiuhe was horrified.
Although he knew the rules, he almost fell for it just now. He never expected that guy could mimic his partner's speech.
If this trick were used on Ma Li, he was certain she would fall for it.
"Remember this: even if you hear my voice calling you from behind, don't—"
Before he could finish speaking, there was a knock on the door, and Chen Song's voice came through: "You two, why don't I stick with you? I'm not confident going it alone."