My portable grandfather refreshes every week

Hey, he's only been gone a few days, and his fellow villagers have already found him another job, this time right at their own school.

However, he still needed to confirm it.

"Hey Old Li, you're not lying to me, are you? This is USTC, who would believe in this kind of stuff here? You didn't see this in some ghost story, did you?" Xue Dinglu used reverse psychology.

"Sigh, I also thought it was fake, but I spent the whole night with the people from the bureau looking at it, and we didn't see anything wrong with it..." Grandpa Li took a deep drag on his cigarette and stubbed it out in the ashtray.

"Kid, let me tell you, before I retired, I was training in that remote area behind the mountains. I heard it was really bad, everyone was terrified, you know what happened?" Old Li chuckled, lighting another cigarette.

"The next day, we applied for a batch of goods to be stored in the warehouse. It was said to have been made decades ago. That night, the entire back mountain was bombed, and five large truckloads of goods were blown up. When we went to inspect the back mountain after dawn, there was nothing there. I guess all the earthworms were dead. The ghost story was completely debunked."

He took another drag of his cigarette and said, "I have no reason to lie to you. That thing is really weird; anyone who looks at it will be confused."

"Is it possible that a segment of the surveillance footage was deleted?" Xue Dinglu asked, cracking sunflower seeds as he shared his thoughts.

According to the surveillance cameras, if you carry a body through a blind spot, you can get it to the washroom, close the door, and then avoid another blind spot in the washroom. If you're fast, it should take less than 10 seconds.

Under the pressure of reviewing surveillance footage for three consecutive months, would it be discovered if a 10-second deletion or edit was made in the video?
Old Li was displeased and seemed to laugh and scold, "If you don't believe me, you should at least believe the people in the bureau, right? That night, two young men bought a whole case of Red Bull and stayed with me all night. They finished all the Red Bull. One of them was a young man who graduated from our school with a degree in computer science. He was your senior. I'm blind, but it's impossible for three of us to be blind, right?"

Xue Law: "..."

It's confirmed that a paranormal event did occur at the school. This led to the school giving up the day off yesterday under some pretext. Today, they're probably checking with the authorities to find out what happened and why a corpse could inexplicably end up in the washroom.

It's impossible for someone to fall into the upstream water plant and then, by bad luck, end up in the water room, right? That doesn't make sense either, there are filters. If a body were stuck in the filter opening, it would be discovered very quickly.

This matter could even have extremely negative consequences if handled poorly. The school has two water facilities: one large water facility built on the mountain, which supplies about 80% of the canteen, dormitory, and teaching building areas; and another water facility built on the mountainside, which supplies a small number of dormitories, teaching buildings, and shops at the foot of the mountain.

A corpse has been soaking in the washroom for who knows how long; it's possible that everyone in the entire school has consumed a great deal of the corpse's fluids...

If this situation were reported, the principal, who was originally able to attend events at the United Nations, would probably suffer cardiac arrest. The impact would be no less than if all the teachers and students in the school were poisoned by lead.

"By the way, how did the autopsy go? They should be able to find out how long the person has been dead, right?" Xue Dinglu continued to press.

"I don't know. The bureau came to handle it immediately after the incident and took the school worker from the water room away for questioning. There's still no news. I watched the surveillance footage all night last night, until 7 a.m. when it ended." Old Li didn't know anything else and gave Xue a helpless look.

Although they had a good relationship, especially since Xue was a kid he had known since elementary school who often came to play at school, he only revealed some information to him, and he didn't really know much else.

Xue Lude was curious. What kind of corpse could make the bureau so vigilant? And this corpse should have appeared in the few days since Xue Lude left Earth. If it had been during the days Xue Lude was at school, he probably would have noticed something was wrong when he washed his hands, instead of waiting until now.

After all, cursed blood is extremely sensitive to such things.

Now, this corpse does seem to have some issues, and it might even be some kind of supernatural phenomenon.

However, on this Earth where magic is absolutely forbidden, only a very small number of people can use magic, and even then, they can only use it briefly with Xue's permission...

If it really is due to magical influence, then Xue's Law is definitely in charge of this matter.

"Alright, I've bought breakfast too, Lao Li, let's switch shifts!" Another old man's voice came from outside the door. Lao Li chuckled as he finished his last cigarette and said, "I'm off, I'm off. There's not even water at school today. Let the police handle this. I'm going home now."

After saying that, the old man hurriedly left work. The other old man, Xue Dinglu, was also very familiar with the matter, but Grandpa Sun was not familiar with the school and could not provide Xue Dinglu with much information.

"Then I'll go home first, consider it a walk." Xue Luding handed half a bag of Huangshan tea to Grandpa Sun and left the security room.

Xue immediately logged into his mother's account to see what was going on.

Narrowing the scope down to the water room at USTC was difficult for Xue, but not a big problem. He was like someone with a god-like perspective, dragging the progress bar until something appeared in the water room.

I quickly reviewed the previous records starting yesterday afternoon when the body was discovered by the school janitor.

The body remained in the washroom all day yesterday...

The day before yesterday, the body was in the washroom all day...

Until the day before yesterday, Xue discovered an anomaly.

There's a very strange record here; it just shows a question mark (?) appearing in the washroom, and then nothing else.

Even the Earth's backers don't know the details of this thing.

It was like suddenly appearing in the washroom and then disappearing...

Xue Law: "..."

Sure enough, it was a supernatural event. He followed this record and found another record, namely the portal record.

Did the body arrive at the water room through a portal and then drown there?

Or perhaps it was just a corpse that came?
Even Earth's backend had no record of this. Xue's Law understood that this wasn't a problem with Earth, but rather that the corpse was likely, perhaps, highly probable, a visitor from another world...

Just like the people of the Silver Kingdom, because they were visitors from another world, Earth has no records of them, only of their events on Earth.

There was nothing Xue could do about this, so he had no choice but to go and investigate himself.

Perhaps because this visitor from another world died immediately after arriving, Mom didn't pay attention to it and forgot about it, leaving the corpse of this other world to soak in the reservoir.

It wasn't until the unfortunate school janitor, during a routine inspection of the water tank, that he was horrified to discover the floating body. He was so frightened he even briefly fainted in the water room. It wasn't until another member of his team noticed the silence inside and went in to check that they called the police. Xue Dinglu: "..."

A dead person from another world. I just hope that no strange otherworldly virus will appear, or that the corpse of someone from another world will cause any strange effects.

But the fact that my mother didn't remind me proves that this corpse shouldn't cause too much trouble.

What might not be a big problem for my mom could be an unimaginable source of amusement for USTC, or for Jiangcheng as a whole.

Xue Dinglu lamented that after being a model citizen for eighteen years, he might have to commit the first illegal act of his life: stealing a corpse!
……

In the Jiangcheng forensic identification room, a comprehensive and detailed autopsy was previously performed on the corpse.

"Is the structure of that corpse really different from that of a human? Could it be that it was contaminated by a large number of bacteria and algae due to being submerged in water for a long time?"

“I am absolutely right. Although this corpse looks the same as us, it is completely different in essence.”

"Take me to see it."

After the captain had a smoke outside and made preparations, they returned to the cold storage area of ​​the testing room.

However, the captain looked around and didn't find anything wrong.
Although it was severely lesioned and decayed, it still had all the necessary features. How was it any different from a human? It couldn't possibly be a genetic issue, could it? But they could only perform forensic-level genetic analysis here; they couldn't do more detailed genetic analysis.

"Is there a problem? The internal organs are all there, it's perfectly normal," the captain said.

To his surprise, the forensic doctor was stunned for a moment. He rushed to the front of the table and saw the normal internal organs inside. For a moment, his mind went blank.

No, am I hallucinating? How could this be? It wasn't like this before. This person doesn't have a heart; instead, a stone-like gallstone occupies the original heart's place, and all the other organs are different, as if they were all born around this gallstone.

Cell phones are not allowed here; they must be placed in a safe outside the door. So he immediately went upstairs to call the captain who hadn't slept all night.

Could it be that I was hallucinating because I didn't sleep all night?
He spent the whole night examining the body externally and confirming the body information. He had only recently started preparing for the autopsy. He was the only forensic doctor here. He had help with simple tasks, but when it came to things like autopsies, he had to do it all by himself, which is why he had been so busy until now.

Was it really a hallucination after staying up all night?

Upon seeing the perfectly normal-looking corpse, the forensic doctor scratched his head.

……

At this point, Xue Dinglu was already exhausted and out of breath.

Forensic doctors only need to perform autopsies, but this world guardian has many more things to consider. In just a short time, he found the location of the body and immediately tried to create an identical replica.

This requires asking Mom for authority to create a complete, one-to-one replica of the corpse from the other world, except that everything has been replaced with things that already exist on Earth. And the hardest part isn't replacing the corpse, but replacing the samples that he's already taken...

Mom had actually forgotten about it; she was only focused on the water group right now. Besides, this was something that Earth wouldn't even notice, like a speck of dust on the body.

The corpse from another world was long dead, bringing no magical artifacts with it, and its body was badly damaged...

The assessment concluded that it had little impact, so we ignored it.

Xue Dinglu remained cautious. Although the corpse had no impact on the world, it could have many strange consequences for his small town and even his country.

Therefore, he chose the most cautious approach, not only stealing the corpse but also completely replacing it with an identical fake to minimize the impact.

As for the fact that this corpse appeared out of nowhere in the washroom... Xue Dinglu can't even think about it anymore. It will probably become an urban campus ghost story like Elisa Lam's.

This might be even more bizarre, since it's a corpse from another world that appeared out of nowhere, and the corpse has no identity or information whatsoever, which might cause a frenzy among paranormal enthusiasts.

As for whether the principal's reputation will suffer as a result of this undeserved misfortune...

Xue Dinglu could only say that there was nothing that could be done, and the principal would have to suffer. As long as it was kept well, this matter should not have appeared on the Internet. The school could even release a lot of false information to suppress the matter, since this matter really had nothing to do with the school itself.

At most, it's just that the unlucky kids these past few days drank some water laced with something from another world...

I just hope everyone drinks boiled water, instead of drinking it directly...

Okay, Xue should check if there are any problems.

For the past few days, students have been confined to their dormitories due to the lack of water. They have to buy their own water or fetch water from the foot of the mountain. Fortunately, the school has taken this into consideration, and the water pumping station at the foot of the mountain is pumping water as hard as it can for students slightly upstream, but it is still in short supply. They have to fetch water in buckets and store it in their dormitories until the water supply is restored.

Xue Luding checked it over roughly and found nothing seriously wrong. At most, some people with weaker constitutions might have diarrhea, so he was relieved and finally settled down to think about what the situation was with the corpse.

This is a female corpse, but it looks extremely ugly at this moment, appearing gigantic, with the whole person looking like a swollen balloon.

Xue Lude frowned as he touched the corpse, lamenting that there were so few forensic doctors. The forensic medicine program at the University of Science and Technology of China was always short of students, and even in a big city like Jiangcheng, there were fewer than five resident forensic doctors, who were scattered across different districts.

This thing is truly inhuman.

Although the woman's clothes were tattered and had been soaking in water for a long time, the presence of obvious chemical fibers on them proved that this should be an alternate world from the industrial age.

But there wasn't much other information. She seemed to be wearing only underwear, which had many scars on it, and there was no other information.

This made Xue Dinglu scratch his head even more. Did he really want to switch fields and continue his work in forensic autopsy?
His background in disaster medicine is completely unrelated to forensic medicine; the medical knowledge he's acquired primarily focuses on first aid and clinical practice… (End of Chapter)