Jose-Martin deftly pulled the curtains, turned on the radio, and the music streamed, and then he took the broom and started cleaning, starting the day with ease.
As a funeral company, the daily work of the store is not busy. After sending off their family members and friends at the hospital, the customers will call according to the business card provided by the hospital, and then they will personally come to the door to complete the contact and follow-up work. Although there are cases where customers appear alone in stores as private individuals, looking for business, it is relatively rare.
Jose is about to enter university in September this year, and now he is just helping out at the store at home. Anyway, there is not much business. He only needs to be responsible for watching the store and supporting the facade.
At this moment, Jose hugged the broom and followed the melody in a sudden circle, as if dancing on the dance floor, and then a figure appeared in his sight, which made Jose stunned. Then he turned around and turned to the door for the second time, and saw the figure again, and this time it turned into two. Jose suddenly panicked and stopped quickly, but his body still turned two due to inertia. In the circle, one of the center of gravity was unstable, staggered two steps, and almost fell directly.
"Be careful, do you need help?" A concerned voice came from the door, and Jose shook his head again and again. He didn't expect this action to make him more dizzy, and he ended up sitting on the ground with a butt.
Jose couldn't wait to dig a hole and get in, "Sorry." He stood up as soon as he grunted, bowed his head and apologized, his cheeks flushing red.
After a short pause, Jose found that there was no sound at all, so he glanced up secretly, and found two people standing in front of him.
The one on the left looked at him politely with a smile on his face, and didn't say much. He didn't look at him without pretending to be okay, and he didn't pretend to be concerned and asked too much, which made Jose calm down a little and adjusted his voice, "Good morning, welcome to Martin Funeral Services, may I ask you Is there anything I can do to help you?"
"I need to find a coffin." The man on the left put his right hand in his pocket, still with a faint smile on his face.
Jose finally calmed down and took a serious look at the people who came. Both of them looked very young, but in their early twenties, they were of the same generation as him. If nothing else, it should have been the death of grandparents. Jose considered his tone, "I'm very sorry for your loss. I don't know who this coffin was used for?"
"Oh, no, the coffin is for me." The man on the left's smile rose slightly, like the early morning sun shining through the leaves of the sycamore.
"It's for you, so..." Jose kept his tone calm, with an expression of sudden realization, but then his throat was caught, his eyes were rounded, and he looked at the man in front of him with a strange expression. Time didn't know how to deal with it.
Jose was so shocked that it was too funny to stay where he was. Renly chuckled lightly, "Don't worry, I'm not an unyielding soul crawling out of the grave." Then Renly explained himself The purpose of his visit, "I need to rent a coffin so that I can lie in it and spend... um, about eight to ten hours. I don't know, how is the cost calculated?"
In Europe, Gothic style is not uncommon. A small number of Gothic enthusiasts, or loyal admirers of vampires, will buy a coffin as their bed and sleep in the coffin every night. While the mainstream public won't do it, there's nothing shocking about it either.
So, like Renly, it's a little weird to want to lie in the coffin for a while, but Jose is relieved and doesn't make a fuss, "I don't know what you mean, you just want to be in the coffin. Sleep in?"
"No, it's not." Renly shook his head, "I hope you can nail the coffin to death..." Seeing that Jose's eyes were about to fall out, Renly laughed dumbly, "But there must be a gap. Keep the air moving so I can breathe. I don't want any surprises." Renly also made a joke along the way, but apparently Jose couldn't.
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In fact, in "Buried Alive", Paul stayed for less than three hours, and then the heavy sand pressed against the weak plank, burying him directly. At the same time, the air in the coffin was also reduced little by little, so that many of Paul's emotions were suppressed to the extreme, to avoid the ups and downs being too intense and causing the oxygen consumption to be too fast.
It is difficult in real life to completely simulate the state of being buried alive, but the risk factor is also relatively high, and it must be accompanied and supervised by professionals. However, the cost is bound to be high, and the "Buried Alive" crew is not the rich type; neither is Renly. So, in the end, Renly had a compromise.
"..." Jose waited for his eyes to be at a loss, "What exactly do you want to do?"
"If I said, I just wanted to experience the thrill, would you believe it?" Renly said half-jokingly, but Jose's forehead was already sweating, and he was completely helpless. Do a survey about claustrophobia. The coffin is one of the most cramped. I need to experience what it's like to be in it and collect more data."
Renly didn't mention the "buried alive" thing. If it is an actor's experience of the role, even if the media is not interested, ordinary people will come and join in the fun. May threaten personal safety. That's why Renly found such an excuse.
Although he got a reasonable explanation, Jose still couldn't respond, "But, but..." He felt that his brain was not enough, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say why, which was really annoying in a hurry.
"But what about my personal safety?" Renly thought about it very carefully, and he knew that for such a dangerous activity, once the consequences of a disaster occurred, the accountability would be very cumbersome.
Even companies that specialize in challenging sports are reluctant to take huge risks.
Take skydiving as an example. Before the official skydiving, everyone will sign a lot of waiver of rights. If there is any kind of accident, all relevant personnel of the skydiving company will not be held accountable. Even insurance companies are reluctant to provide insurance. Only truly professional extreme sports insurance companies provide relevant insurance terms, and they are basically only provided to professionals.
This is even true of extreme sports with professional training qualifications, not to mention the current situation of Renly - he just randomly finds a funeral company, and then makes a request to challenge the extreme excitement, if there is any potential deviation, they will He couldn't even speak his mouth.
Matthew, who had been standing beside him in silence, stepped forward, "I am a lawyer with a registered license. I will draft a waiver of the appeal, he will sign it, and then everything will be fine."
After he finished speaking, Matthew glanced at Renly speechlessly. He couldn't believe that Renly was going to put himself in the coffin today. Even for Renly, such a thing would be outrageous. The two hadn't seen each other for a year, and when they met again, he was about to draft a statement for Renly to voluntarily give up his personal rights, and the urge to roll his eyes was almost irresistible.
Ren Li spread out his hands with a calm expression on his face. Matthew said that he was powerless to complain.
Jose had already given up thinking, and when he heard the words of the man on the left, he nodded in agreement; but then he heard the words of the man on the right, and he didn't know how to react - give up his rights? What does this mean, and is it possible or not? Wait, what was the man on the left trying to do just now
"Uh... I need... uh... make a phone call and ask." This was Jose's only reaction now. He was only 18 years old and couldn't handle such a thing, so he had to call his elders.
Renly spread his hands and looked at Matthew speechlessly, "Okay, simple things have become complicated, and now it's a toss up." After drafting the statement, if the other party is careful, he will definitely ask his lawyer to read it too. , and then arguing again, you come and I go, it's almost endless. "If I knew I would have locked myself in the bathroom, it would be more convenient."
Matthew decided to ignore Renly's complaints, and watched the young guy report the situation on the phone with a panic-stricken face. The scene was inexplicably joyful, and then Matthew suddenly remembered something, "You originally planned to do it yourself. Who did this?"
"Why not?" Renly shrugged his shoulders with a natural look. "There's no danger here. As long as you make sure the air circulates, you'll be fine." Although experiencing the limit of airtightness in the coffin, this is a bit of a sword move. Off the beaten track, but in fact, there isn't much danger, provided, of course, that the coffin doesn't really seal.
Renly was bold, not lunatic.
"Tell you, I'll be in there for at least eight hours, and the scene will be boring and ugly. If you have other things to do, I don't mind if you leave first." Renly said with a look of advice. said thoughtfully.
Matthew squinted at Renly for three seconds, then turned his eyes silently, and continued to stand in place without saying a word, but it seemed that he had no intention of leaving.
Renly spread his hands and said, "I've already announced it."
Two hours later, after repeated confirmations and repeated inspections, Renly's insanely bold and risky plan could finally be put into practice, and all the tension and anticipation seemed to have worn off. Now Renly just wanted to hurry up and get into the coffin, or else if he missed lunch, he would miss dinner.
Jose watched Renly climb into the coffin without any hesitation, and made a final confirmation, "Ready?" After getting a positive answer from Renly nodded, he closed the heavy coffin board.
Renly's world has entered absolute darkness.