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The nomenclature of night

39.All the shortcut, the furthest road

By Daniel LindseyPublished 3 years ago 10 min read

Lin Xiao Xiao is a clever person, but there is no deep scheming.

When the other party back to the restaurant but the results of the trial just shut up, qing dust heart will have the answer.

Because there's nothing unspeakable about that information, and sooner or later the world will all know about the hikers.

Unless... As a result of the interrogation, there was a secret involving someone present.

Qingchen is wondering, how will people in the world view the world?

Apart from others, Li Shutong is a master with very strong control power. How could such a person let things go out of control?

No matter how much goodwill you've accumulated before, it doesn't matter to the person in charge.

Qing Chen is not sure li Shutong will kill him, but prepared for the worst.

However, Li Shutong is also a very smart person, Lin Xiaoxiao did not have to say anything, he understood.

"Xiao Xiao, take our friends of spades somewhere else," Uncle Li ordered.

"I don't go anywhere," Guo Huchan suddenly realized that there may be a big secret.

However, Leaves suddenly open transparent force field, li Shutong and Qing dust enveloped among them.

One side want to eavesdrop guo Huchan caught off guard, was field bomb staggered out.

Stay to baldheaded want to rush back, but found late leaf and Lin xiaoxiao have blocked in front of him.

Lin xiaoxiao smiled and said: "still want to stay here to find taboo ace-005 don't go forward."

"If I don't listen, I won't! Guo Huchan angry way.

At this point, Li Shutong calmly looked at Qingchen and asked: "So, you let lu Guangyi interrogate the new prisoners these days, is looking for them?"

Qing Chen thought for a while and said: "Yes."

"It's calmer than I thought," Said Li Shutong. "WHEN I was your age, I wasn't as good as you."

"Not calm, but panic is useless," Qingchen said.

"Xiao Xiao hasn't told me the results of the trial yet, but I know it must be a big secret," Li said. "I'm always merciless in the face of things I can't control. Have you ever thought that you might not survive tomorrow?"

"Yes," Qing Chen looked up at everything around.

A strange steel dome, a storm of shiny black metal, and mechanical guards scattered around the prison stand motionless and armed.

And the grinning prisoners, and the limping and grinning newcomers.

Qing Chen is not sure if he can still see all this, so he wants to see more.

He suddenly bowed his head to Li Shutong and said with a smile, "We are actually quite happy to get along these days. If possible, I hope we can get to know each other again."

"You beat me at chess on the first day, so I actually owe you one request. You can make any request now," Li said.

Qing Chen thought: "can you blow a farewell again?"

"Not your own life?" Li Shutong smiled.

"I don't have to change my life, and I can't change it," Qingchen said.

"Well, I have always liked your courage. This piece of music is my gift to you, and you can ask for it at any time." Li Shutong asked Ye Wan to bring the harmonica.

Farewell music is like qing dust point to their own melodious music so that the atmosphere of the prison are quiet some.

"Thank you," Qingchen said.

Then he went back to his cell alone and lay on the cold bed to wait.

Time is ticking away.

From day to night.

Qing Chen heard the prison radio to remind all prisoners to line up to return to their cells, and then a alloy gate closed, the sound of hydraulic transmission to end 18 prison a day of noise.

To keep everything sealed off.

The next moment, the prison was plunged into utter darkness.

Then, the alloy gates of Qingchen's cell were reopened.

In the dark, someone put a black hood on his head and carried him to nowhere.

A few minutes later, the two men who were carrying him dropped him off somewhere and then left.

The hydraulic sound sounded again, like shutting something off and isolating something.

Qingchen lay silently in the dark, he did not even get up to see where he was.

There was only his breathing, and only the countdown, which he could see, could not light up anywhere.

Time is slow and heavy.

Qing Chen knows how a person will react when he is in a closed and dark environment.

You don't know where you are, you can't talk to anyone, and loneliness and fear can completely engulf a person.

And lose the concept of time.

No time, that's the worst part.

A lot of people don't even survive 24 hours, and there was an experiment that offered $1 million for someone to stay in there for five days, and no one got that $1 million.

Money is tempting, but 99% of people fall before the 72 hours.

However.

I'm afraid Li Shutong and others can not think of qingchen has never been afraid of loneliness.

He began to live with loneliness after his parents divorced.

Qingchen is clearly aware that water shortage will be his biggest enemy.

Countdown to return 146:09:02.

The countdown on this arm will help him count the time.

The first day.

Qingchen's breathing slowed as he began to reel off movies in his head, first "Shawshank redemption" and then "Babilon," all about prison escape and faith.

They were movies he had in his head, but he didn't need equipment to replay them.

With no water to drink, his neurons confuse the need for food and water, and he begins to feel tired.

Countdown to return: 122:09:02.

The next day.

Qingchen slept and rewatched eight movies in his head.

He lay on the floor with his eyes closed, enjoying the darkness.

Hunger and thirst began to set in, but he did not move, as if he had abandoned his external senses.

Return countdown 98:09:02.

On the third day

Hunger began to sear his will and eat away at his spirit.

He watched 12 movies and didn't sleep a minute.

He suffered from the loss of water in his body, causing his body to become cold and hot and his skin to dry out.

His memory began to fail, and the movies in his head turned into broken slides.

Memories of the old days began to mingle.

Qing Chen couldn't sleep.

Countdown to return: 74:09:02.

The fourth day.

Qingchen's hunger began to subside. He opened his eyes and looked at the emptiness and darkness, wondering what he was thinking.

He hadn't looked at the time for a long time, and it seemed pointless.

However, from beginning to end qingchen has never said a word, not a cry.

The world was still in the darkness.

He didn't count how long he hadn't slept, but it didn't seem to matter.

Qing Chen with their own silence, against the silence and darkness of the world.

...

It was already dark night in number 18, and the light within the fort had changed to a faint light.

Even the drone on the hive seems to be asleep.

As Li Shutong sat at the end of a long table in the dark reading area and rested his eyes, Lin xiaoxiao looked at the time. "Boss, four days."

"HMM," Li Shutong nodded.

At this time, the distant spread of weak patting door sound, Lu Guangyi in a door scolding, intermittent said: "Li Shutong, you closed my boss where, I Lu Guangyi will not let you, Qing shi will not let you."

From qing dust disappeared the first day, Road broad sense found something wrong, in 18 prison make a big, almost attracted the second metal storm.

So, qing dust disappeared for four days, Lu Guangyi was also in the cell for four days.

Until this fourth day, road broad sense finally quiet some.

"Boss, Qing Chen has been there for four days without saying a word, and there is no sign of collapse," Lin said.

"He is an extremely intelligent person, and it is not unusual for him to slow down his breathing rate from the first day to avoid rapid water loss and make it through the fourth day," Li said.

"Even so, very few people can survive four days in silence. It's more like waiting than torture. But he hasn't drunk water for four days. If he doesn't drink water, he will die. "Lin xiaoxiao said anxiously," Boss, you are so precious.

Originally not used to qing dust that proud Lin Xiaoxiao, was in turn to the young intercede.

Because he also knows what Kyungjin is going through.

Ye Wan suddenly said, "Boss, the black house may have nothing to do with him. Let him out."

Only, After Li Shutong thought about it, he said: "Change water torture."

"The boss, he is now extremely short of water, a see water will subconsciously to drink, so he will die," Lin Xiaoxiao worried.

Waterboarding involves putting a towel over the victim's face and pouring water on it.

Waterboarding is like a one-way valve. The water is rushing in, and the towel prevents you from spitting it out, so you can only breathe once. Even when you hold your breath, you feel the air being sucked out, like a vacuum cleaner.

Lin Xiaoxiao is very clear, normal people can not carry water torture, let alone qing dust this thirst for four days?

When waterboarding begins, a person who is extremely dehydrated will be hungry for water.

However, the water through the towel will not only flow into the belly of qing Chen to quench his thirst, but also into the lungs, destroy the last vitality of the other party.

However, Li Shutong seems to have made a cruel decision.

"Life or death depends on his own choice. How can he go my way if he has not seen real death?" Li Shutong calmly asked.

...

The countdown is 50:09.02.

The fifth day.

The black house was opened, qing dust without fluctuation was put out.

Someone put him on a chair and covered his face with a thick towel.

Cold water poured over the towels, blocking all oxygen and life.

Qing Chen sat quietly on the chair motionless, pursed his mouth.

He tried to resist his urge to drink, not to let the temptation destroy him.

Next to, Lin Xiaoxiao and Ye Night look at each other, they did not expect, to this time qing Dust actually can maintain a clear will, know what they are facing, know to use the last will to fight for a chance to live.

Qing Chen felt the water flowing from his nasal cavity, filling the body.

He felt as if he had dreamed a dream.

He was young in the dream was held in the palm, the palm warm and soft.

In the park.

As if under the sun warm sea water wrapped up the body, the golden sun slowly turned over.

Holding his woman suddenly head also do not return of ask a way: "small dust, your father outside someone, do not want us."

"Mom, I want a ice-sugar gourd," the young man whispered to the woman in front of him.

The woman looked back at him daze for a long time: "Good, mother to buy you sugar gourd."

The woman eye orbit red of, went to buy sugar gourd to him: "small dust you eat sugar gourd here, mother go to a toilet."

But the woman did not return.

Dust from noon till sunset.

He began to cry, but crying was of no use.

Someone helped him find the police, but qing dust is not willing to follow the police, he believes his mother will come back.

When it was dark, the woman came back, held him in her arms and cried aloud.

Young qing dust only when the other party is lost, now to find him.

Water torture, qing dust's brain was gradually awake, the original is not the first time to be abandoned ah.

It seems that his odd memory ability also started at that time.

However, it is not good to have a good memory. He remembers every kind of pain.

Clear as day.

Qing Chen felt the lack of oxygen in his brain and his twitching limbs as water began to pour into his lungs, but he still sat there like a statue.

There was no struggle, no begging.

Someone in the darkness said, "Go with Your mother."

Qingchen softly replied, "No, mom."

The voice in the darkness said again, "Go with Mother."

Qing Chen's voice firmed up: "No, I said no, mom."

In an instant the wet towel was removed from his face.

Dim light also appears some dazzling at the moment, his fuzzy see, Lin Xiaoxiao is anxiously flapping his back.

Li Shutong stood quietly in front of him and asked, "Why didn't YOU beg? I still owe you a request."

Qing dust facing the harsh light, stubborn look at each other, he will be in the trachea of the water all choke out, and then said firmly: "because you do not need a weak person."

At a certain moment, Li Shutong suddenly remembered his opponent's appearance when he played chess for the first time. He was brave and stubborn, like a lone Wolf in the wilderness.

He knows. This is the guy he's looking for.

Li Shutong asked: "Can you forget what I did to you today?"

"I can't forget," He said. "But I don't mind."

"Very honest, very good," Li Shutong turned and walked outside the interrogation room: "from tomorrow I will teach you personally, I will take you to this world of all shortcuts, the furthest road."

...

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