The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 56 Partridge (10)

Shocked, I hurriedly jumped up from the bed, ran to the prison gate and looked towards Wu You's room, wondering if the ghost would appear within my sight.The cell was silent, and I guessed that it was almost midnight, so I looked there without blinking.Unexpectedly, the time passed bit by bit, but there was neither a ghost in white clothes nor any movement in the cell.

I thought to myself that it was not time yet, so I just stood there without moving. At this time, someone in the opposite cell suddenly got up at night and walked to the corner, which shocked me.The man didn't forget to turn his head and grin at me in his busy schedule. As soon as I was distracted, I immediately became alert, suspecting that he was deliberately distracting my attention, so I turned my head to look at Wu You's cell.

Still nothing.The person who got up at night finished his work in a hurry, and suddenly persuaded me: "It's already past midnight. Go to sleep."

I was startled, midnight has passed, Wu You has been taken away?Impossible, I have been standing here without hearing any sound, and I heard slight footsteps the night Lao Yao was taken away.I was a little wary of that person in my heart. He had never spoken to me these days, but suddenly he kept trying to divert my attention. There must be some conspiracy behind him.Maybe he just wanted me to believe that midnight was past so I could go back to bed, lest I see anything when the real midnight came.

Thinking of this, I stood there without moving. The man shook his head when he saw this, and murmured: "Listen to people's persuasion, eat enough."

I laughed dryly and didn't answer him.The man stopped talking to me after he finished speaking, and went straight to bed and fell asleep.I didn't listen to his persuasion, but I was full and stood till the end. It wasn't until Tian Di opened his eyes, revealing a trace of whites, that I suddenly realized that the whole night had passed.

At dawn, the guard opened the door and came in. I haven’t closed my eyes much for the past few nights. At this time, I was extremely tired, but my thoughts were too active, and I couldn’t sleep all the time. He had already sat down on the ground, when he heard the sound of the door opening, he got up from the ground and knocked hard on the cell door.

A guard noticed the noise I was making and came up to me and asked what I was doing.I asked him hoarsely, "Is Wu You still there?"

Another guard over there heard my questioning, walked to Wu You's cell, looked at him, called him a few times, but no one answered, but we were not sure whether he was gone or didn't want to answer.The guard untied the key from his waist and opened the cell door, and rushed out after a short time, shouting in a panic: "Wu You is gone!"

The guard standing in front of my cell also hurried over to check it out, and came out after a while, and hurriedly reported the news to Qin Jian.I stood in front of the cell door and watched him leave, smiling wryly in my heart, Qin Jian still did not show up immediately, this is not the first time, as the prison director, this is too unreasonable.

I have been holding back my energy to find out the truth about ghosts taking people away, so I have never paid attention to this matter.Thinking about it now, although Qin Jian seemed to have been investigating this matter, he acted carelessly.Three male prisoners and one female prisoner have been taken away one after another, but he didn't take any measures. Even asking me to help investigate this matter seems to be perfunctory.

He was not there when the cell door was opened every morning, and he was still not there when the number of people was counted at night.If he really wanted to prevent this from happening, he could have banned Gu Yue and the others from cheating, and he could have arranged for someone to be on duty in the cell at night, but he did nothing.Could it be that he didn't care that someone would be taken away by ghosts?

Although these people were imprisoned here by him, he was also responsible for the daily necessities of so many people, which was a cumbersome task. Perhaps he thought it would be easier with fewer people.Just as I was thinking, Qin Jian had already arrived in the cell, I hurriedly signaled to him, and he ordered the guards to go over and release me, and then entered Wu You's cell with me.There was a pile of quilts on Wu You's bed, which had been lifted at this time, but there was no one inside.

"I kept looking at this side last night and didn't hear any sound." I said to Qin Jian, "Unlike Lao Yao, Wu You was taken away quietly."

Qin Jian was silent for a while, then nodded to show that she knew, and without saying anything, she asked the guard to open the door and released all the prisoners who were still there.Seeing this, I became more and more sure that he didn't really care who disappeared.Thinking of the disappearance of a living human being, in his eyes, it only lightened the burden, and a burst of sadness throbbed in my heart. It's ridiculous that I still wanted to help him find out the truth of the matter.

Everyone went out, and I was exhausted, so I told Qin Jian that I wanted to sleep here, so I didn't go out.Seeing my tired face, Qin Jian didn't say anything.I staggered back to my bed. As soon as I lay down, I felt like my skin was sticking to the bed, and my head was dizzy. I thought of Lao Yao for a while, and he said, "You don't think you have stayed in such a place for ten years. , If you are conscious all the time, is it a very boring thing?" Thinking of Wu You's innocent face for a while, he said: "It's right, I really deserve to die."

Maybe it's time for me to leave here. Since I can't get any information about that mysterious woman, and I don't have Gu Yin's whereabouts, then what am I going to do in this place?Not only is this place full of strange smells, I even feel that what is locked here is not a group of people, but a mass of resentment and despair.

Not only the prisoners have become the embodiment of resentment and despair, even the guards here.Like the prisoners, they waited for Guyin for ten years. They imprisoned this group of prisoners, and Guyin imprisoned them.I just don't know if there will be other people and other places imprisoning Gu Yin.

I tossed and turned on the bed, Wu You and Lao Yao seemed to have settled in my mind, they still refused to leave, no matter how much I ordered to evict them, it was useless.After a while, I finally fell asleep, but unexpectedly, I didn't dream of anyone or anything here, but dreamed that I went back to Wen's house.

In the dream, Mrs. Wen said: "Remember, you are a child growing from a tree." Then he held a blank letter and said to me, "Although this is a blank letter, it is better than this Most of the letters in the world are important..."

As he spoke, he was about to hand over the letter to me, but I took it all at once, screamed in anxiety, and woke up from the dream, sweating profusely.I opened my eyes, thought of the scene in my dream, and hurriedly got up to check my luggage.In the baggage, the blank letter lay there quietly, like fragments of a dream.

I wiped the sweat from my forehead, tied up my bundle and walked out of the cell, ready to bid farewell to Qin Jian.When walking out of the cell, Gu Yue saw me, smiled at me, and said, "Going?"

Originally, I was a prisoner who couldn't leave as soon as I said, but now I came out with a burden on my back. Naturally, everyone knew that I was arranged by Qin Jian in the cell.But I didn't care anymore, so I nodded and replied, "I'm leaving."

"It's not easy to have guests here." Gu Yue seemed to be reluctant to leave, "But I won't keep you here any longer. If you see Gu Yin, tell him... Forget it, you can go."

Everyone here must have some anger to pass on to Gu Yin.However, patrolling the city to pass letters and letters will not hand over fists for others.I nodded to him and walked towards Qin Jian's room, but the guard didn't stop me.I knocked on the door and went in. Qin Jian embedded herself in the darkness and didn't make a sound for a long time.

I stood in front of his desk for a long time, seeing that he still didn't speak, I had to take the initiative to say: "Why don't you take the initiative to speak every time you talk to someone?"

Qin Jian was silent for a long time, then suddenly said: "There is a game called whoever speaks first is the dog, do you know?"

I almost fell over when I heard this.Naturally, I have played this game. I used to play it when I was a child in Wen's house. It is better to compare who has better patience. Qin Jian puts on a dead face every day, and actually catches someone to play games with whom.Thinking of this, I couldn't laugh or cry, and then I sighed again.

After staying in such a place for ten years, not only the prisoners were a little hysterical, but the guards were also on the verge of collapse.Maybe one day, if no one comes to rescue these prisoners, these guards will go crazy by themselves, I thought to myself.

"I'm going to leave, don't you really want to tell me where Gu Yin went ten years ago?" I said to him.

Qin Jian didn't answer my question, but raised her hand suddenly, and I said in my heart that if you have something to say, you don't need to raise your hand.At this moment, Qin Jian said: "I got the shortest bamboo branch."

"What?" I didn't understand for a while.

"I got the shortest bamboo branch." Qin Jian repeated.The light in the room was dim, and it was only then that I could clearly see what he was holding in his hand, only the length of an embroidery needle, and it turned out to be the bamboo branch that I broke off.

"You...you participated in their draw?" I said in shock, I couldn't believe my eyes.

Qin Jian put down his raised hand and asked me: "Do you think that although I asked you to help me investigate this matter, I actually don't care about it?"

When I saw him explain what I was thinking, I was even more surprised, so I couldn't help but nodded and waited for the next article.

"Before this, I always thought that people would disappear out of the cell. The truth is that they escaped from prison. I thought they found a special way to let one person escape from here at a time." Qin Jian said slowly, his eyes on The dark room seemed a bit blurred, "I promised that Gu Yin would take care of them, but for ten years, he has not heard from him. These people are tired, and I am also tired. After learning that someone disappeared from the cell, my heart I thought, if they really find a way to leave, and I can't see this way, then it doesn't mean that I'm not optimistic about them."

When he suddenly said these words, I suddenly realized that Qin Jian had never believed in ghosts, but thought that Gu Yue and the others had found a way to leave, so they let it go.

"In that case, why don't you just let them go," I couldn't help persuading him, "Why make both of you so miserable?"

"I can't stop them from escaping from prison. But to the extent I can stop them, I will never let them go." Qin Jian flatly refused, "This is what I promised Gu Yin."

Seeing that he was so stubborn, I had nothing to say, so I changed the subject and said, "Are you also a member of Gu Yin's organization?"

"What organization?" Qin Jian was at a loss, as if he couldn't understand what I was talking about.

I was also a little surprised. I originally thought that he and Gu Yin were both in that organization, so I was determined to abide by the agreement with Gu Yin, but he was not, so there was no need to ask him about this organization.

"Why did you get involved in the gossip?" I stopped talking about the organization, but asked him, "Do you want to investigate this matter thoroughly?"

"I didn't participate, it was the ghost who chose me." Qin Jian also seemed a little curious, with sparkling eyes, "That's why I realized that this matter is not what I thought."

He originally thought that the whole thing was that the prisoners used the name of "ghost" to cover up the reality of their escape.But now that the "ghost" has chosen him, then this idea is naturally untenable, because for Qin Jian, there is no such thing as escape from prison.

What just puzzles me is how did the "ghost" choose him?
(End of this chapter)