The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 52 Partridge (6)

When the white ghost appeared, it was in the third room from the right on the opposite side.From here I can no longer see the whole picture of this cell, only a place close to the corridor can be seen obliquely.The ghost image came out of a place I couldn't see, and when it passed through the wall, it also went to a place I couldn't see, and then appeared in the cell next door.

In other words, I didn't see the moment when I passed through the wall or the moment when I came out through the wall.Why?Within the range of my eyesight, I can see a small wall. Why doesn't the ghost pass through this small wall, but go to a place where I can't see.

Is there something strange about this?
At this time, I calmed down from the extreme horror and couldn't help thinking about this question.But the problem is that even though the ghost image didn't pass through the wall in front of my eyes, it still came and went freely to several cells.Most importantly, Lao Yao was indeed taken away by him.A living person disappeared without a trace in the prison like this, which cannot be explained by common sense.

The walls of the cell are built of masonry, which is impossible for normal people to penetrate. The only thing that can be dug up is the ground inside the cell.But Qin Jian once told me that when the first person disappeared, he dug the cell three feet into the ground, but found nothing, so it is impossible for there to be a tunnel in the cell.

Judging from this, Lao Yao could only be taken away by ghosts.However, after the fright just now, when I think of this incident again at this time, I always have a feeling that something is wrong, but I can't tell what is wrong.This feeling is like sometimes feeling itchy on the body, but when you scratch it with your hands, you don't know where it is itching.

I didn't close my eyes all night, but I was concentrating on looking for the "itch" spot, but I couldn't find it.When the first ray of sunlight shone through the small window in the morning, I woke up from my contemplation.The door of the cell opened and the guards came in and let us all out.

I went out to the open space with them, and Lao Yao was gone, and the hen that was so sympathetic to him also got into his stomach.For a moment, I felt a little lonely in the field, but fortunately, there was another person standing in the middle of the field, greeting the birds passing by his head loudly.

After finishing my porridge, I sat beside Gu Yue.Gu Yue looked at me with a smile, meaningful, I didn't speak, just stayed quietly.It wasn't until the brocade flute on the other side of the fence appeared that he trotted over to talk to her for a while, and then returned to the corner, gathering everyone around to have a chat.

Everyone started to take bamboo branches from his hand one by one. At this moment, I suddenly pushed forward and quickly took a bamboo branch from his hand.Everyone was taken aback, I glanced at Gu Yue, and said slowly: "Since that ghost might take us all out, then this matter has something to do with me, so I naturally want to participate in the draw."

Everyone looked at Gu Yue when they heard the words. Gu Yue's face turned pale, as if she was extremely reluctant, but she had nothing to say, she hesitated for a while before she nodded, and then raised her hand for everyone to smoke.Everyone finished pulling out the bamboo branches, and showed the one in their hands, and the short one was in the hand of a pale-faced man.

I asked Gu Yue: "Whoever has the shortest bamboo branch is the chosen one?"

Gu Yue nodded expressionlessly, and just when everyone was about to identify the person who was drawn, I suddenly said, "Wait."

Everyone looked at me again.I slowly raised the bamboo branch in my hand and said, "The shortest one is here."

The bamboo branch in my hand is obviously only one-third the length of others.Seeing this, Gu Yue suddenly stood up from the ground and said angrily, "You... you cheated!"

I broke the bamboo branch myself, but—"You didn't say you couldn't break the bamboo branch yourself, so I'm the chosen one, right?"

I stared at Gu Yue, the expression on his face was unpredictable, he gritted his teeth for a while, and felt helpless for a while, in the end he just nodded and left straight away, finding a place to stay by himself.

Everyone looked at me with strange eyes, as if they couldn't figure out why I wanted to fight for the chance to be taken away by the ghost.I threw the bamboo branch on the ground, ignored everyone's eyes, and walked over to Gu Yue, feeling anticipation and fear in my heart.

Tonight, the ghost will appear and take me away.

This is the result of my thinking all night.It’s fine if I didn’t see it, but it just happened right under my nose. I’ve been traveling around for a while, I can’t say I’ve seen everything, but at least I’m not ignorant, but I’ve never seen it ghost.

If I don't understand this matter right now, I'm afraid I don't have to be a city patrol horse anymore, and I will definitely live in the shadow of this matter in the days to come.What's more, Qin Jian will tell me Gu Yin's whereabouts ten years ago only when he understands the truth of this matter, and this matter is too important to me.

Although I vaguely feel in my heart that this matter may not be what I saw, but no one can say for sure what the truth is. If everything that happened last night is true, then I can only really follow that The ghost is gone.At the thought of dealing with ghosts at night, my heart pounded in my chest, and I protested violently.

I put my hands on my chest, took a few deep breaths, forced myself to calm down, and calmly thought about what happened last night.However, after thinking for a long time, when the whole morning passed, he still couldn't think of any flaws.During this period, no one came to "compensate" me.When it was time for lunch, no one gave me the meat and vegetables on their plate.I know that these people don't approve of my performance in this draw.

But so what?
I sat alone and ate my lunch, which tasted like wax.Everyone finished eating and left, and I was the only one still sitting in the dining hall.Qin Jian came in from the outside and sat down in front of me. I looked up at him, then lowered my head to grab the rice.Qin Jian sat for a while, then suddenly said, "Thank you sir."

He obviously already knew what I did this morning, so I said angrily, "Aren't you just waiting for me to do this?"

This man looks taciturn, but in fact he is extremely cunning. He left silently last night, but in fact he left everything to me. If I was eager to know where Gu Yin was, I had no choice but to find a way to help him Get to the bottom of this matter.

Qin Jian didn't make any excuses, but said, "I'm outside the cell tonight, and if there's anything wrong inside, I'll rush in."

I thought to myself, if the one inside is really a ghost, are you going in to go with me?Besides, when Lao Yao and the previous person were taken away without saying a word, who knows if I will still have the ability to speak.But this is the end of the matter, and I have nothing to say.

I sat down and finished the food on the plate, then Qin Jian silently walked towards the kitchen stove and gave me all the remaining vegetables in the pot.When I saw this, I almost put the plate on his head, and said to myself that you are afraid that I am not full, and if I become a starving ghost, will I come back to you?Thinking of this, he immediately pushed the plate away, angrily got up and left the dining room.

Qin Jian was confused by me. When I left the dining hall, I looked back at him, and saw him staring at the food on the plate in a daze, as if he was asking why they failed to comfort me. A lot of cheerful.When they returned to the open space, Gu Yue was sitting on the edge of the fence talking to Jindi. The two sat opposite each other across the fence. One of them occasionally opened his mouth and the other echoed. It also has the meaning of quiet time.

I am a little bit embarrassed, these two people are only about forty years old, but they have been imprisoned for ten years due to indiscriminate disasters. If there is no hardship for these ten years, maybe they are already around their knees outside at this moment.The fate of a person's life is roughly like a letter from God. No one knows the content of the letter until it is opened.Some people received carefully written letters full of flowers, while others received graffiti and devastated.

So, the situation in life is really impossible to talk about.If I really meet Gu Yin one day, in addition to asking him the truth about the tragedy of the Wei family, I must also ask him why he imprisoned all these people here.How many decades can there be in a person's life, and this is the most vigorous decade, and the ancient sounds have done a lot of crimes.Thinking this way, I silently sat back in the corner in the morning. If everything that happened last night is true, then today will be the last time I will be exposed to the sun.

In this prison, time also seems to be lazy and unwilling to move forward.However, no matter how slow time passed, night would eventually come. After the guards called the people in the open space to the dining hall for dinner, they urged them into the cell. Qin Jian stood at the door to count the number of people.After everyone went in, he watched the guards lock each cell door one by one, and finally stood in front of my cell door and looked at me before leaving.

The cell was so quiet that there were no ghosts—the ghosts hadn’t come yet, and no one paid any attention to me.It seems that everyone has forgotten that there will be ghosts coming to take people away. First, I sat on the bed for a while and asked Gu Yue: "Did it come at midnight?"

Gu Yue looked far away, and replied: "Yes."

It's still a long time before midnight.I was silent for a while, and then asked again: "How many people will it take away before it will save you from here?"

"Who knows? Maybe when it thinks it's enough."

I laughed back angrily: "Is that what it said? You don't even know how many people you have to sacrifice, so you let it take people away voluntarily and automatically. If it takes you all away in the end, but doesn't save a single person What about leaving?"

"Will that be worse than staying here?" Gu Yue asked rhetorically, "Even if we all fall into its hands, it's better than staying here - at least we can change places, can't we?"

I was speechless by what he said, it turned out that these people hated this place to such an extent.We had nothing more to say, so I lay back in bed and waited for midnight.The torch in the aisle made a fuss and crackle from time to time, which made me jump up and look outside the prison from time to time.

Time passed by little by little, but fear was like a slow knife cutting flesh, the blade bit by bit sneaked into the depths of the flesh and blood, doing whatever it wanted.The closer it was to midnight, the more nervous I became, and I couldn't help but regret my rash actions today. My whole body was like a tight string, and my eyes looked outside for a moment, waiting for the appearance of that white ghost.

But the ghost has never appeared.

I didn't know that the night had passed until it was dark, but the ghost never appeared, and naturally it was impossible to take me away.Because of the excessive tension, I felt like all the bones in my body were falling apart, and I had to try my best to get myself out of bed.Gu Yue, who was in the same cell, had a good time, Shi Shiran got up from the bed, walked to the cell door and waited for it to open.

(End of this chapter)