Chapter 1: Vivisection

Her left hand gently lifted the man's chin, and with a horizontal slash, she cut across his jaw. The man did not utter a sound; he merely trembled slightly, and then blood gushed out.

The woman placed the bag in her hand on the table. She turned her head to look at the neatly arranged instruments beside her, donned surgical gloves, and then picked up a scalpel

The night is already very deep

However, on this tranquil night, the sound of high heels tapping against the floor echoed through the laboratory building, approaching the dissection room from a distance.

As the footsteps drew nearer, a dim light illuminated the corridor, just enough to light the path beneath the woman's feet

In fact, it is not only the students who are unwilling to come to this dreadful place; the school's faculty and staff also do not come here when they have nothing to do. Even the security personnel, while patrolling the campus, automatically filter this area out.

Before long, the woman skillfully extracted the man's internal organs from his chest and abdomen, gently placing them onto a plate. Next, she astonishingly peeled off the man's entire face, followed by the skin from his body, leaving only the skin on the man's hands intact. At that moment, the man appeared quite bizarre, resembling a blood-soaked figure wearing a pair of gloves.

The woman followed the sides of the wound with a knife, extending the cut all the way to her ear. Then she made a vertical incision down the center of the wound, starting from the jaw, passing through the throat, along the midline of the chest, and cutting straight through the abdominal cavity, stopping only at the perineum.

Apart from the boiler room located more than 100 meters away, the laboratory building is the only structure in the southeast corner.

The sound of high heels gently echoed in the corridor, until it faded away

You have always cherished your hands, and I will keep them for you. However, I believe they will no longer be able to hold a scalpel, will they?

The woman's gaze was wooden and hollow from beginning to end. She set down the scalpel and then took out an item from the bag she had brought, which was a blender, the kind commonly used in ordinary households to mix fruits and food.

After completing all of this, the woman spent approximately forty minutes cleaning the scene. As she carefully wiped everything, she recalled the events in detail, and only when she and *Tu* *Shu* were convinced that no traces of her would remain at the scene did she let out a soft sigh, turn off the lights, and leave the dissection room

A completely naked man lies on the dissection table, quietly resting there, with his chest faintly rising and falling, as if he were asleep

Medical students generally prefer not to come to the southeast corner when they have free time. Even during the day, apart from laboratory classes, no students are willing to come here. They all say this place is filled with the uncanny, and they do not understand why being near this cypress grove evokes such a chilling and eerie feeling. It is like this even during the day, and at night, even fewer people would come to this haunted place.

The experimental building of Leizhou Medical College is shrouded in darkness

In summary, Old Man Qu is such a peculiar individual; he has no relatives and no friends. He lives alone in his boiler room, and if it weren't for the fact that he goes to the school finance office once a month to collect his salary, even the school leaders and colleagues would almost forget that there is such a person in the school

It is said that when Old Man Qu was a child, he experienced a great fire. This fire not only distorted his face but also severely affected his hearing. When speaking to him, you have to shout loudly, and even then, most of the time, his responses are completely off-topic. Occasionally, he would utter something that sends chills down your spine, as if he were not speaking to you at all, yet you can be certain that there is no one else around you.

Old man Qu is the only worker in the boiler room. He stays in that small boiler room all year round, always wearing the same blue khaki work uniform.

You once said that a scalpel can save lives, but it can also take them. You also mentioned that dissection is an art, and every body that is dissected should be regarded as a precious work of art. I remember you saying that your greatest regret was not being able to dissect a living person piece by piece to the fullest extent. Perhaps after tonight, you will have no regrets, for I will help you fulfill your wish and make you the most perfect work of art in this world. The woman not only had a vacant expression, but her voice also carried no emotion.

At the entrance of the dissection room, the woman paused, her footsteps coming to an abrupt halt

He gently slapped the man's face: "It's time to wake up!" After a while, the man really opened his eyes. When he saw the scene before him, fear appeared in his eyes. He wanted to struggle, but he had no strength in his body.

The door to the dissection room was not locked, and the woman gently pushed it open

What terrifies the students are this cypress forest, the laboratory building filled with the smell of formalin, and the old school worker, Old Qu, in the boiler room

The woman walked in, and the lights in the dissection room turned on

She plugged it in, threw the organs placed on the plate into the blender, pressed the switch, and with the sound of the blender working, those organs were all turned into a pulp. She poured the pulp into the adjacent sink and turned on the tap to wash it away, repeating this three times before she had cleaned up the man's organs

In this school, there are many legends about the haunting of the southeast corner, yet no one has ever truly seen the so-called "ghost" from the tales. Nevertheless, this place has been shrouded in a layer of terrifying mystery, and gradually, it has become a "forbidden zone" within the school. Whether teachers or students, unless there is a lab class, no one is willing to step into the southeast corner.

The woman is dressed in a white lab coat, black high heels, and black stockings, with her face covered by a mask. Her long black hair is disheveled over her shoulders, and she is holding a small bag in her hand, staring blankly at the dissection table in the center of the anatomy room

The laboratory building faces a lotus pond, surrounded by towering pines and cypresses

Her left hand continuously picked up the cotton swabs, dipping them into the overflowing blood, yet not a single drop of blood splattered onto her.

The laboratory building is located at the southeast corner of the campus, and it is quite a distance from both the teaching buildings and the dormitory area, requiring approximately half an hour to walk there.

She began her intense work again, deftly carving the flesh from the man, a task significantly more challenging than skinning. At this point, the ground beneath her was already piled high with blood-soaked cotton. After approximately three hours, she finally reduced the man's corpse to nothing but a skeleton, though she preserved his hands intact. The chunks of flesh she had removed were simply discarded into the sink, and she paid them no further attention.

During the day, this place is a tranquil spot, and at night, it becomes even quieter

Her movements were very light and slow, truly resembling the completion of a craft, as if she were afraid of ruining it with a careless mistake. She murmured to herself, "Originally, I wanted you to witness all of this with your own eyes, but that would be too cruel, wouldn't it?"