I made myself the protagonist

During the afternoon labor time, Ling Yun and his party arrived near the East District at the agreed time, and found the prison guard on duty under the leadership of two old prisoners.

Just as Heizi said, the prison guard allowed them to enter the East District directly after counting the number of people. Even though they found that there were changes in the personnel on duty, six of whom were new prisoners who arrived yesterday, the prison guard did not say anything. After all, here, the old

It is common for prisoners to bully newcomers.

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

Ling Yun noticed that after listening to what the other party said, the prison guard raised his eyebrows and his eyes changed when he looked at them. After all, the old prisoners were familiar faces, and they were quickly assigned to the guard duty room and rest room;

Things are different for newcomers like Ling Yun.

"Hurry up and clean this place within an hour. Especially the solitary room, don't let me fool you. Aren't you brave?" The prison guard on duty at the door pointed to the end of the corridor, his tone full of teasing and contempt.

On the way here, Ling Yun and his party "made a lot of nonsense". They all regarded the cleaning as a game of courage, talking and laughing, and did not take the taboos in the prison to heart. But now that the old prisoner has complained, the prison guard will punish them.

Give me a lesson and it will play exactly into your own mind.

In the past hundred years, the East District itself has been a separate prison cell specially used to hold prisoners of war. Countless people died here due to torture. After the war, those prisoners of war were secretly executed in large numbers.

Because the atmosphere of murder was too strong, fifty years ago, this place was specially used to detain death row prisoners for heinous crimes; until later, due to 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 station.

room and confinement room.

The East Area is very large and is divided into four areas ABCD. Area A is the office area and is in charge of two old prisoners; after being separated from them, Ling Yun and his party went to the confinement room.

Areas B and C are the renovated confinement rooms and mechanical and electrical rooms, and are in charge of Zhao Sicheng, Wei Chongming, Kong Xiang, and Wang Tianxing.

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

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

"Brother Ling, Brother Shen, you two, be careful. If something happens, call for help immediately." Wei Chongming warned in a low voice.

"The same goes for you. Okay, let's go." Shen Tinglan glanced at the equipment above his head. Because of the devastation, there was only no surveillance installed near Area D. In other words, he and Ling Yun could safely investigate in a while.

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

The entire area was very dark, with only the faint fluorescent wall lamp above the head shining. Ling Yun was secretly frightened. No wonder the prison guards were unwilling to come to this place: he did not expect that the environment here would be worse than the cell where he was previously imprisoned.

Because there is no sunlight all year round, even the air is turbid.

The long dark corridor stretched endlessly in the darkness and seemed to have no end. As they walked further in, the two of them clearly felt that the air was filled with a coldness that was different from moisture, as well as an unusual weirdness.

There are no cages or windows around, and the corridor is narrow and long, with twists and turns, like a maze that makes it difficult to tell the direction.

Fortunately, all this was not difficult for Shen Tinglan. He muttered left and right in a low voice and silently memorized the terrain of Area D as he moved forward.

The two of them casually cleaned up the area. 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 at a cell with a closed iron door. forward.

"Brother Shen, this is right here." Ling Yun called Shen Tinglan. According to his judgment, Zhou Chenggang's body should have been stored in this room.

I don’t know if the space intentionally creates conditions for players, or if the prison guards think that no one dares to come here. Although the door is closed, it is not locked.

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

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

But fortunately...this time, the body did not mutate, 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, his face was livid, his lips were purple, his eyes were wide open, and his expression looked particularly ferocious. Shen Tinglan checked and found that there were no external injuries on the body, and The prison doctor's initial 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 accelerate, blood pressure to rise, and the oxygen consumption of myocardial metabolism to increase sharply. The excessive blood circulation hits the heart like a flood, causing myocardial fibers to Tearing, heart bleeding, leading to cardiac arrest and death."

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

Thinking of the extremely terrifying aura outside the cell door last night, Shen Tinglan nodded: "Yes, judging from the way he died, he must have broken the taboo and triggered his death by opening his eyes."

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

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

However, there was no blood in the gaps between Zhou Chenggang's nails, and it did not look like a wound he had made himself.

Shen Tinglan speculated: "X can be seen as a letter, or it can 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 had the same marks on them," Ling Yun said.

The two checked Zhou Chenggang's body again. In addition to the marks on the palms, the other's palms were also dirty, as if something strange had been stuck on them. Not only that, they also found the same stain on the other's heels.

"It looks like blood that has dried for a long time, and... moss." Shen Tinglan frowned: "It's strange. Normally, there is no external injury on the other party's body. Although the conditions in the cell are poor, there is no moss growing on the walls. .On the contrary..."

At this point, the two of them realized something almost at the same time.

"Oops! Leave quickly!" The moment they reacted, Ling Yun and Shen Tinglan rushed out of the cell together. At this moment, they suddenly discovered that all the lights that were originally on in the corridor were suddenly extinguished at this moment. Already.

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