I made myself the protagonist

Chapter 253 Area D

During working hours in the afternoon, Ling Yun and his party came to the vicinity of the East District at the agreed time, and they found the prison guards on duty under the leadership of two old prisoners.

Just as Heizi said, the prison guards let them enter the East District directly after counting the number of people.Even though it was discovered that the personnel on duty had changed, and six of them were new prisoners yesterday, the prison guards did not say anything.After all, here, it is very common for old prisoners to bully newcomers.

After going to the utility room to get mops and rags, the prison guards arranged for the prisoners to clean up in different areas.The first two old prisoners nodded and bowed a few compliments, and whispered something in the early warning's ear.

Ling Yun noticed that after listening to the other party, the prison guard raised his eyebrows, and the way he looked at them changed.After all, the old prisoners were familiar faces, and they were quickly assigned to the prison guard's duty room and rest room; but the newcomers like Ling Yun were different.

"Within an hour, hurry up and clean up here. Especially the confinement room, don't fool me casually. Aren't you brave?" The prison guard on duty at the door pointed to the end of the corridor, his tone full of jokes and contempt.

On the way here, Ling Yun and his group "spread nonsense", talking and laughing about the clean-up as a game of courage, completely ignoring the taboos in the prison.But now that the old prisoners are suing, the prison guards want to teach them a lesson, which is exactly in their own hands.

For the past hundred years, the East End itself has been a solitary cell dedicated to holding prisoners of war.Countless people died here due to torture. After the war, those prisoners of war were secretly executed in large numbers.

Because of the heavy killing spirit, 50 years ago, it was specially used to detain the heinous death row inmates; until later, because of a prisoner riot and a major incident of mass murder and escape, the East District was completely abolished and transformed into the current prison guard duty room. and confinement rooms.

The East District has a large area and is divided into four places, ABCD.Among them, area A is the office area, which is in charge of two old prisoners; after being separated from them, Ling Yun and his party went to the vicinity of the confinement room.

Areas B and C are the remodeled confinement room and the electromechanical room, which are in charge of Zhao Sicheng, Wei Chongming, Kong Xiang, and Wang Tianxing.

As for Shen Tinglan and Ling Yun, they were placed in the most remote and gloomy area D, which had long been deserted.There were only the abandoned cells left over from the past, and not only that, the body of Zhou Chenggang, the newcomer who died last night, was also parked there.

Due to the allocation of prison guards, everyone needs to go to the designated place to clean.Now, their every move is under surveillance, so everyone must act honestly and separately.

"Brother Ling, Brother Shen, you two be careful. If something happens, call for help immediately." Wei Chongming whispered.

"It's the same for you, okay, go." Shen Tinglan glanced at the equipment above his head. Because of the desertedness, only the area around D was not equipped with surveillance.In other words, he and Ling Yun can rest assured to investigate for a while.

After everyone separated, Shen Tinglan and Ling Yun continued to move in with a mop and broom. There was a strange smell in the D area, like the dampness after the rain mixed with dried blood.

The entire area was very dim, with only a faint fluorescent wall lamp shining overhead.Ling Yun was secretly startled, no wonder the prison guards were unwilling to come to this place: he never thought that the environment here would be worse than the cell where he was imprisoned before.

Because the sun has not been seen all year round, even the air is turbid.

The dark and long corridor stretches endlessly in the darkness, seemingly without end.As they walked further in, the two of them clearly felt that the air was filled with a coldness that was different from dampness, as well as a strangeness that was unusual.

There are no cages or windows around, and the corridor is narrow and slender, turning one turn after another, like a maze that makes people confused.

Fortunately, all of this was not difficult for Shen Tinglan.He muttered about left and right silently in his mouth, and silently recorded the terrain of D area as he advanced.

The two cleaned up the neighborhood casually. Anyway, they knew that even the prison guards would not come here to check the hygiene carefully.

Ling Yun continued to walk forward, and soon noticed a few shallow footprints on the ground, which seemed to be traces left not long ago.Turning left along the footprints, he stopped in front of a cell with a closed iron door.

"Brother Shen, it's here." Ling Yun called Shen Tinglan, and according to his judgment, Zhou Chenggang's body should have been placed in this room.

I don't know if it's because the space intentionally created the conditions for the players, or the prison guards think that no one dares to come here.Although the door was closed, it was not locked.

Ling Yun and Shen Tinglan walked into the room and turned on the light by the wall.

Under the dim light, an iron bed was placed in the center of the empty room, and a corpse covered with a white cloth was lying quietly on the bed at this moment.This familiar scene reminded Ling Yun of the scene he encountered in his last mission.

But fortunately... this time, the corpse did not change, and there were no scary ghosts around.

Shen Tinglan quickly stepped forward to uncover the white cloth and confirmed the identity of the corpse.

The deceased was indeed the newcomer Zhou Chenggang.He clenched his fists tightly, his face was livid, his lips were purple, his eyes were wide open, and his expression looked particularly ferocious.Shen Tinglan checked the body and found that there was no trauma on the surface of the body, and the prison doctor's preliminary judgment was that he died of myocardial infarction.

"The doctor is right." Shen Tinglan pointed at the corpse and said:
"When a person is in a state of extreme panic, the adrenal glands will suddenly release a large amount of catecholamines, causing the heartbeat to suddenly increase, the blood pressure to increase, and the oxygen consumption of myocardial metabolism to increase sharply. Excessive blood circulation impacts the heart like a flood, making the myocardial fibers Ripped, heart bleeds, causes cardiac arrest and kills."

"So, he was scared to death?" Ling Yun quickly understood what the other party meant.

Thinking of the extremely terrifying atmosphere outside the prison door last night, Shen Tinglan nodded: "That's right, judging by his death, he must have broken the taboo and opened his eyes to trigger a dead end."

"En." Ling Yun agreed with Shen Tinglan's statement, at this moment, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something in the curled up hands of the corpse.

He took a lot of effort to break open Zhou Chenggang's palm, but saw two strange scars in his palm, crossed to form a symbol: X.

However, there was no blood in the crevices of Zhou Chenggang's nails, and it didn't look like a wound he made himself.

Shen Tinglan speculated: "X can be regarded as a letter, and it can also be understood as a cross, but what is certain is that such a mark must be left by the thing that killed Zhou Chenggang."

"Maybe the prisoners who died in the past also had the same marks on them," Ling Yun said.

The two checked Zhou Chenggang's body again. Apart from the marks on the palm, the other's palm was also dirty, as if something strange was glued on it.Not only that, but they also found the same stain on each other's heels.

"Like blood that has dried up for a long time, and... moss." Shen Tinglan frowned: "Strange, it is said that the other party did not have any trauma on his body. Although the conditions in the cell are poor, moss does not grow on the walls .Instead..."

Speaking of which, the two realized something almost at the same time.

"Oops! Hurry up!" The moment Ling Yun came to his senses, he and Shen Tinglan rushed out of the cell together.And at this moment, they suddenly discovered that all the lights that were originally on in the corridor suddenly went out at this moment.

Not only that, but in the darkness behind him, there was a sound of iron chains clanging without warning.

(End of this chapter)