Night’s Nomenclature - Chapter 39
[39. Of all the shortcuts, the farthest road]
Lin Xiaoxiao is a smart person, but he doesn’t have a deep sense of shrewdness.
When the other party returned to the restaurant but kept silent about the results of the interrogation just now, Qingchen already had the answer in his heart.
Because there is nothing that cannot be said about the information, sooner or later all the world will know about the transmigrator.
Unless… in the interrogation results, there is a secret involving someone present.
Qingchen was thinking, how would the people in the inner world view the outer world?
Not to mention others, Li Shutong is a high-ranking person with very strong control. How can such a person let things go out of control?
No matter how much goodwill you have accumulated before, it is not worth mentioning in front of the superior.
Qingchen didn’t believe Li Shutong would kill him, but planned for the worst.
However, Li Shutong is also a very smart person, Lin Xiaoxiao doesn’t need to say anything, he understands.
“Xiaoxiao, take our spades friends to other places,” Li Shutong instructed.
“I’m not going anywhere,” Guo Huchan suddenly realized that there might be a big secret here.
However, Ye Wan suddenly opened the transparent force field and enveloped Li Shutong and Qingchen.
Guo Huchan, who wanted to eavesdrop on the side, was caught off guard and was staggered out by the force field bullet.
When the bald head wanted to rush back, he found that Ye Wan and Lin Xiaoxiao were already in front of him.
Lin Xiao smiled and said, “If you still want to stay here and look for the taboo ACE-005, don’t go forward.”
“If you don’t listen, don’t listen!” Guo Huchan said angrily.
At this moment, Li Shutong calmly looked at Qingchen and asked, “So, you are looking for them by letting Lu Guangyi interrogate the new prisoners these days?”
Qing Chen thought for a while and said, “That’s right.”
“It’s more calm than I thought,” Li Shutong said with emotion: “I was not as good as you when you were so old.”
“It’s not calm, it’s useless panic,” Qing Chen said.
“Although Xiao Xiao hasn’t told me the results of the interrogation, I know it must be a big secret,” Li Shutong said, “I have always been ruthless in the face of uncontrollable things. Have you ever thought that you might not survive tomorrow? ”
“I thought about it,” Qing Chen looked up at everything around him.
The novel steel dome reflects the shiny black metal storm, and the mechanical prison guards scattered around the prison stand dumbfounded with guns.
There are also prisoners with smiley faces, and newcomers who limp and grin.
Qing Chen wasn’t sure if he could still see all this, so he wanted to take a look.
He suddenly lowered his head and smiled at Li Shutong: “It’s actually quite pleasant to get along these days. If possible, I hope to get to know each other again.”
“You beat me in the first chess game, so I still owe you a request. You can ask for anything now,” Li Shutong said.
Qing Chen thought for a while: “Can you say goodbye again?”
“Don’t you change your life?” Uncle Li smiled.
“My life, I don’t need to change it, and I can’t change it,” Qingchen said.
“Okay, I’ve always liked your courage. This piece is considered a gift from me. You can mention that request at any time.” Li Shutong asked Ye Wan to fetch the harmonica.
The farewell song seemed to be given to him by Qingchen, and the melodious song made the atmosphere of the prison a little quieter.
“Thank you,” Qing Chen said.
After speaking, he returned to the cell alone, lying on the cold bed and waiting quietly.
Time passed little by little.
From day to night.
Qingchen heard the announcement in the prison reminding all prisoners to return to their cells in a line, and then the alloy gates closed one by one, and the sound of hydraulic transmission ended the hustle and bustle of Prison No. 18 for a day.
Isolate everything.
The next moment, the entire prison suddenly fell into complete darkness.
Then,
The alloy gate of Qingchen’s cell was reopened.
In the darkness, someone put a black hood on him and held him to nowhere.
After a few minutes, the two people who were supporting him put him somewhere, and then left one after another.
The sound of hydraulic pressure sounded again, as if something was closed and something was cut off.
Qingchen lay silently in the dark, he didn’t even get up to see where he was.
There was only his gasp, and only the countdown that he could see was lit, not illuminating anywhere.
Time is slow and heavy.
Qingchen knew how a person would react when he was 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 lost the concept of time.
No time is the most terrifying thing.
Many people can’t even resist for 24 hours. There was an experiment that offered a reward of 1 million people to stay in it for five days, but no one could get the million.
Money is tempting, but 99% of people fall before the 72 hours.
However.
I am afraid that Li Shutong and others can’t imagine that Qingchen has never been afraid of loneliness.
Since his parents divorced, he has been alone with loneliness.
Qing Chen clearly realized that lack of water would be his biggest enemy.
Return countdown 146:09:02.
The countdown on this arm helps him count the time.
first day.
Qingchen slowed down his breathing rate, and he began to recall movies in his mind. He first watched “The Shawshank Redemption” and then another “Babylon”, all of which were about escape and faith.
Those were films he had kept in his head and didn’t need equipment to replay.
With no water to drink, neurons confuse food and water needs, and he begins to feel tired.
Return countdown 122:09:02.
the next day.
Qingchen slept and rewatched eight movies in his mind.
He lay silently on the floor with his eyes closed, enjoying the darkness.
Hunger and thirst began to invade, but he seemed unmoved as if he had abandoned his external senses.
Return countdown 98:09:02.
day three
Hunger began to scorch his will, eroding his spirit.
Qingchen watched 12 movies this time and didn’t sleep for a minute.
The loss of water in his body made him suffer. Because of the loss of water, his body began to suddenly become cold and hot, and his skin began to dry up.
His memory began to fade, and the movies in his head turned into stuttering slideshows.
Memories from the old days began to shine together.
Qing Chen couldn’t sleep.
Countdown to return: 74:09:02.
Fourth day.
Qingchen’s hunger began to subside, he opened his eyes and looked at the endless nothingness and darkness, not knowing what he was thinking.
He hasn’t looked at the time for a long time, and it seems that looking at the time has become meaningless.
However, from the beginning to the end, Qing Chen never said a word or made a cry.
In the dark, the world is always silent.
He didn’t count how long he hadn’t slept, but it didn’t seem to matter.
Qing Chen used his own silence to fight against the silence and darkness of the world.
…
It was already a dark night in Prison 18, and the lights inside the fort had turned into dim shimmers.
Even the drones on the hive seem to have fallen asleep.
Li Shutong sat at the end of the dark reading area long table and closed his eyes, while Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the time: “Boss, it’s been four days.”
“Well,” Uncle Li nodded.
At this time, there was a weak slap on the door in the distance, and Lu Guangyi scolded and said intermittently in a certain door: “Li Shutong, where did you lock my boss, I Lu Guangyi will not let you go, Qing Shi will not let you go.”
From the first day Qingchen disappeared, Lu Guangyi found out that something was wrong and made a big fuss in Prison No. 18, almost causing a second metal storm.
As a result, Qingchen disappeared for four days, and Lu Guangyi was also detained in the cell for four days.
It was not until the fourth day that Lu Guangyi finally calmed down.
Lin Xiaoxiao didn’t want to scold in a broad sense, but continued: “Boss, Qingchen didn’t say a word in four days, and there was no sign of collapse.”
“He is an extremely smart person. From the first day, he slowed down his breathing rate to avoid rapid loss of water, and it is not unusual to survive the fourth day,” Li Shutong said.
“Even so, it’s rare to be able to survive four days without a sound. It’s not like he’s being tortured, but more like waiting. But he hasn’t had water for four days, and if he doesn’t drink water, he’ll die. ,” Lin Xiaoxiao said anxiously, “Boss, you are cherishing your talents, let him go.”
Lin Xiaoxiao, who was not used to Qingchen’s arrogance, turned to plead for the young man.
Because he also knew what Qing Chen was going through.
Ye Wan suddenly said, “Boss, the black house may have nothing to do with him, let him out.”
However, Li Shutong thought about it and said, “Change the waterboarding.”
“Boss, he is extremely short of water right now, and he will drink it subconsciously when he sees it, so he will die,” Lin Xiaoxiao became anxious.
Waterboarding involves placing a towel over the victim’s face and then drenching the towel with water.
Waterboarding is like a one-way valve.
The water keeps pouring in, and the towel prevents you from spitting it out, so you can only exhale once.
Even if you hold your breath, it feels like the air is being sucked out, like a vacuum cleaner.
Lin Xiaoxiao knew very well that normal people couldn’t stand waterboarding, let alone someone like Qingchen who had been thirsty for four days?
When waterboarding begins, a person who is extremely dehydrated will go to drink thirsty.
However, the water that passed through the towel would not only flow into Qingchen’s stomach to quench his thirst, but also pour into his lungs, destroying his last vitality.
However, Li Shutong seems to have been cruel.
“Life and death depend on his own choice. He has never seen real death. How can he go my way?” Li Shutong asked calmly.
…
Countdown to 50:09:02.
Day 5.
The black room was opened, and Qing Chen was taken out without any fluctuations.
Someone put him on a chair and covered his face with a thick towel.
Cold water poured on the towel, blocking all oxygen and vitality.
Qing Chen sat quietly on the chair, motionless, and pursed his lips.
He struggled to resist his urge to drink water and not let himself be destroyed by the temptation in front of him.
Beside him, Lin Xiaoxiao and Ye Wan looked at each other. They didn’t expect that at this time, Qing Chen could still maintain a clear will, know what he was facing, and use his last will to fight for a chance to survive.
Qingchen felt the water flowing in from his nose, filling his body.
He felt as if he had a dream.
When he was young, he was held in the palm of his hand in a dream, and the palm was warm and soft.
in the park.
As if there was warm sea water wrapping the body under the sun, the golden sunlight was slowly surging.
The woman who was holding him suddenly asked without looking back: “Xiaochen, there is someone outside your father, don’t let us.”
“Mom, I want to eat candied haws,” he whispered to the woman in front of him when he was young.
The woman looked back at him and stood there for a long time: “Okay, my mother will buy you candied haws.”
The woman’s eyes were red, and she went to buy a candied haws for him: “Xiaochen, you eat candied haws here, and my mother goes to the toilet.”
However, the woman never came back.
Qing Chen waited from noon to sunset.
He started to cry, but it was no use crying.
Someone helped him find the police, but Qingchen was unwilling to follow the police, he believed that his mother would come back.
Until it was dark, the woman came back, hugged him and cried.
The young Qingchen only thought that the other party was lost and found him now.
During the waterboarding, Qing Chen’s brain gradually came to his senses. It turned out that it was not the first time that he had been abandoned.
It seems that his strange memory ability was also activated from that time.
However, it is not a good thing to have a good memory. He remembers every kind of pain.
Clearly.
Qingchen felt the oxygen-deprived brain, the twitching limbs, and the water began to pour into the lung lobes, but he still sat there like a sculpture.
No struggle, no begging.
Someone in the dark said, “Let’s go with mom.”
Qing Chen replied softly, “No need, Mom.”
The voice in the dark said again: “Let’s go with mom.”
Qingchen’s voice firmed up: “No, I said no, Mom.”
In an instant, the wet towel on his face was removed.
The dim light was also a bit dazzling at the moment, and he vaguely saw that Lin Xiaoxiao was slapping his back anxiously.
Li Shutong stood quietly in front of him and asked, “Why didn’t I beg, I still owe you a request.”
Facing the dazzling light, Qing Chen stubbornly looked at each other. He choked out the water in his trachea, and then said firmly, “Because you don’t need a weak person.”
At a certain moment, Li Shutong suddenly remembered how the opponent looked when he played chess for the first time. He was also brave and stubborn with no way out, like a wolf walking alone in the wilderness.
He knew, this was the man he was looking for.
Li Shutong asked again, “Can you forget everything I did to you today?”
“I can’t forget,” Qing Chen said, “but I don’t mind.”
“Very frank, very good,” Li Shutong turned and walked outside the interrogation room: “I will teach you personally from tomorrow, and I will take you down the farthest path among all the shortcuts in this world.”
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