Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 55 Regeneration Furnace
Time passed by minute by minute.

The bell for the end of get out of class began to ring in the classroom.

After class, many students usually go to the cafeteria to eat or stay on the playground for a while.

But today, most of the students rushed to the dormitory as soon as the get out of class was over, apparently they had received some notice. They entered the dormitory without hesitation and immediately closed the door. Then they heard the sound of a chain from behind the door, obviously they were going to lock the door.

Yang Kai stood on the steps with a bitter face, and several of his younger brothers came over with distressed expressions: "Captain, we didn't find it."

"Didn't find it?" Yang Kai looked around anxiously, glanced at the time, and waved his hand: "We can't wait any longer, hurry back to the dormitory."

"Then...Where is Wang Meng?"

The Xie Xinrong brothers looked at Yang Kai, and they both knew that Yang Kai seemed to value Wang Meng very much.

"No more waiting! This kid has his own dormitory. You can't blame me if you can't find him now."

Yang Kai looked at the time and he didn't dare to wait any longer. He had said in the morning that there would be a big mess, and this kid knew it. But now he was nowhere to be seen. It couldn't be that his brother was not loyal enough.

"go!"

Yang Kai waved his hand and took Xie Xinrong and his brother to the dormitory.

After returning to the dormitory, Thirteenth Sister had already returned. Xu Pan, who was standing by, didn't see Xiao Ran and couldn't help but ask, "Where's that boy?"

"Never mind him, never mind him. I hope this kid has a good life."

Yang Kai didn't want to explain, so he gestured to close the door quickly, then he suddenly remembered something: "Oh, this is for you."

He took out a small box and handed it to Xu Pan.

Xu Pan was stunned for a moment and looked at Yang Kai. Thirteenth Sister had already picked up a baton and stood beside Yang Kai without saying a word.

"Here, the captain asked me to give it to you. He even specifically told me to say thank you on his behalf."

Yang Kai's words made Xu Pan even more confused.

Thirteenth Sister's expression eased a little, she walked sideways to Xu Pan's side, and nudged Xu Pan with her shoulder: "Sure, when did you hook up with the captain?"

"Screw you!"

Xu Pan rolled his eyes at Thirteenth Sister, took the box, and after taking a look at the contents, his expression suddenly became even more strange. He muttered in his heart, "What does this mean? A warning? To win over? Both?"

Xu Pan probably would not have thought even if he racked his brains that Xiao Ran sold her out directly after a phone call.

Xiao Ran doesn't like to play his cards openly, and he doesn't like others to play their cards secretly.

He was not sure about Xu Pan's origins, but you can't hide under my nose. I must find a way to force you out so that I can hide behind and pass myself off as the real one.

At this moment, Xu Pan was completely confused by this inexplicable gift.

However, Xiao Ran, the instigator, was lying quietly in the fighting cart.

After a person dies, the blood in the corpse will slowly settle under the body due to the influence of gravity, so purple-brown corpse spots will appear on the back and thighs.

If there is a wound on the back, blood will continue to drip along the wound. The blood will drip onto Xiao Ran's body, giving him a sticky and greasy feeling.

Xiao Ran placed the corpse in front of him to block it, with a [Strange Cloak] on his body. He was wrapped in the corpse and motionless, gradually becoming completely invisible.

"Click! Buzz~~"

The iron door trembled, followed by a harsh friction sound from inside.

Xiao Ran was hiding under the corpse. When he heard the noise, he immediately held his breath and looked through the gap between the corpses.

A shadowy figure wearing a black apron walked up to the body, looked at the body in the truck bed, and shook his head: "Children nowadays really don't like studying anymore."

The sound sounded like a man's voice, and soon the truck started to move.

The wheels of the bucket cart might be a bit crooked, and the cart was wobbly and unstable when pushed.

As the door closed, the light around me began to blur.

"Boom!"

At this time, the bucket cart stopped, and then was pushed hard, and the bodies on the cart fell to the ground one after another.

The man hunched his waist, took off his black apron, sat on a chair, picked up the pipe on the table and put it in his mouth. From time to time, a flame came out of the huge iron stove next to him.

That was the only light in the room.

But this light reflected on the man's face looked so hideous.

Xiao Ran lay among the corpses, looking around carefully.

It was a very narrow and small room, or rather it was not a room at all, but a gap left by the huge stove at the back.

There was a hill of corpses piled up nearby, and some of the corpses had begun to breed maggots because they had been piled for too long.

“Sizzle!! Whoosh…”

A puff of green smoke came out of the man's mouth, and he stared at the stove in front of him with empty eyes. After a while, he raised his head and said, "How long will it take you to speak?"

"Discovered!"

Xiao Ran's heart tightened, and the [Funeral Ring] on his finger began to flash red.

At this time, the man suddenly stood up and said angrily: "You are still not talking, are you blaming me?"

As he spoke, he grabbed a still burning arm from the stove next to him and held it high up. When the firelight shone it, Xiao Ran's pupils tightened and he saw a figure standing in the shadow.

The man walked up to it and raised the torch. It was a dried corpse, wearing a skirt and standing upright. Xiao Ran took a look and breathed a sigh of relief.

Glancing at the woman's body, he wondered if it had been baked by the fire for too long, and the body had been dried up.

The man looked at the corpse, curled his lips, threw his burning arm into the fire, and pushed the cart out angrily.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran hurriedly took this opportunity to climb out from the pile of corpses.

I walked to the fireplace and saw many photos hanging on the wall by the light of the fire.

The photos are all group photos of the man and his students. At that time, the man had a smile on his face, his hair was a little bald, and he was wearing a neat suit. Several students were surrounding him and laughing happily.

The photo also features a banner that reads the Class of 2002.

Xiao Ran continued to look back and saw many similar photos, including Teacher Tang and others.

"what!"

At this time, Xiao Ran noticed the figure of the old lady who was in charge of the dormitory next to him. She was also surrounded by several students and took a photo standing at the door of the dormitory. In the photo, the old lady had a bright smile on her face.

“This is a great time…”

Xiao Ran looked at the bright smile in the photo and was deeply moved.

Then he turned his eyes to the next photo frame, and a special yellowed paper stamp appeared in the frame.

Xiao Ran didn't recognize any of the words on the paper, but it was covered with blood-red handprints. Below the content, there was a passage written in simplified Chinese.

[After the construction of the regeneration furnace is completed, its use rights and production ownership will belong to the Changchun Association. The school has no right to interfere, and the regeneration furnace must be maintained and not extinguished. ]

Changchun Club Signatory: Duan Jiuye
School signatory: Dong Jinxue

"Eternal Spring Club??"

Seeing the above content, Xiao Ran couldn't help but be a little surprised, why is it Changchun Association again? ?

"Was this furnace built by the Changchun Association?"

Just when Xiao Ran was confused, the sound of an iron door closing was heard outside the door. Seeing this, Xiao Ran turned sideways and hid behind the mummy beside the stove.

Soon the man walked in and started cursing as soon as he entered the room: "Did those damn dirty things take the wrong medicine today? How come so many of them came out all of a sudden? It seems that many poor students will be eliminated tonight. Damn it, I have to start working overtime again."

As he spoke, he started picking up the corpses nearby and walked to the stove, throwing them into the fire.

As the corpse was touched by the flames from the furnace, the whole body was immediately ignited in an instant.

“Ah!! It hurts!!”

A shrill scream came from the stove.

"Principal, please let us go, please let us go..."

In the sea of fire, the faces of men and women stretched out from the flames, and pairs of hands grabbed the men's arms.

But the man seemed to have no feeling at all. Following a swirling fire snake, the figures of the young men and women were immediately drawn back into the iron furnace.

“So… all these souls are here!”

Xiao Ran hid behind the corpse, and his scalp tingled as he watched the densely packed souls of students suffering in the sea of fire in the furnace in front of him.

And then an even more shocking scene appeared.

After throwing down several bodies, the man pulled the lever next to the fire.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Ran heard the sound of machine gears turning in the furnace.

After a while, the huge gears on the stove began to turn.

"Crack!"

The metal door on the side opened, and as a wisp of green smoke came out, a boy in a neat school uniform walked out of the door and stood there with a dazed look on his face.

The man walked over to the student and examined him.

Pinch the student's mouth open, lift up his eyelids, and after making sure there is no problem, gently clap your hands in front of the student.

"Snapped!"

The boy's dilated pupils gradually tightened, he raised his head woodenly, and a feminine voice came out of his mouth: "Principal, can I go back to class?"

As he said this, his fingers instinctively lifted the long hair that was not on his forehead.

The man was stunned for a moment, then grabbed the boy's hair with disgust and punched him in the face, making his face dented. Then he dragged the boy towards the stove: "Idiot, you can't even tell whether you are a man or a woman. How could I teach you such rubbish!!"

Having said that, he threw the boy directly into the furnace. Seeing the boy struggling and screaming in the flames, his skinny face revealed a little satisfaction and relief.

“So, this is how they were created?”

Xiao Ran looked at the scene in front of him and suddenly understood why he could not obtain any memories or abilities from the bodies of these students after he had stitched them together. Although he did not know what the function of this furnace was, these bodies recreated by the furnace were obviously no longer real flesh and blood.

He turned off the stove, looked up at the dried female corpse beside the stove, and couldn't help complaining: "Are the brains of today's students full of tofu dregs?"

As he said this, he was ready to continue working.

But just as the man turned around, he suddenly paused, turned back in confusion, and lifted his nose: "Why... there is a smell of a stranger!"

(End of this chapter)