Brother Chapter 19: Fear in the Basement
In the forty-three years since the building of the Fifth Directorate of Imperial Police was built, there has never been a day when it has been so chaotic as it is today.
The officers in the police building were stunned by a deafening loud noise, which only appeared once, but the aftermath kept echoing in their ears, and the earth trembled, almost knocking everyone's soul out of their shells.
Lao Chen, the oldest in the General Bureau, was the first to react, and he stepped out of the office in three or two steps.
Some colleagues ran out of their houses one after another, and Lao Chen shouted as he ran: "Police! Leave one person to inform those who are not in the bureau, and the rest will follow me below!"
The loud noises and tremors all came from the basement floor below, where the interrogation room was the except for the temporary reception room.
Before Lao Chen could walk down the steps, he heard a scalp-numbing scream, dozens of voices of men, women, and children gathered together, entangled with each other, and Lao Chen could only hear the most repeated sentence in it.
"Help!!"
I don't know if it was affected by the explosion just now, the fluorescent lamp on the negative floor was like a candle flame about to burn out at this time, miserable, flickering bright and dark, and it looked like it was about to breathe at any time, reflecting the ghost of the corridor.
Coupled with the miserable crying in the depths of the corridor, it was like an infernal hell, and even an old police officer like Lao Chen for more than 30 years looked a little hairy.
Lao Chen didn't smell anything special, which was good, it wasn't some damn gas pipe leak, and it didn't look like gunpowder. Whatever the loud noise was, it didn't look like there was an open flame.
Lao Chen calmed down, and while walking cautiously inward, he pulled out the gun at his waist.
There was a sound of footsteps behind Lao Chen, and people had already arrived one after another, and the police officers who came behind saw the scene in front of them, and everyone was shocked and speechless.
"Old Chen, have you found anything?" someone couldn't help but ask.
"Quiet, gun drawn, follow me, it's not a combustible explosion. "Lao Chen didn't come back, the director didn't arrive, he was the oldest among the people present, and he had the power and responsibility to become a leader.
"It's quite oozing to look at. Lao Chen heard a young voice behind him mutter, he was not familiar with it, it should be the new young man.
"Watch your step. Lao Chen instructed.
Although he didn't know what the source of the loud noise was, and the scene in front of him seemed to be not dangerous with the naked eye alone, as a veteran who had participated in the Suppression Campaign thirty years ago, he felt an inexplicable uneasiness in his heart, and the corridor in front of him seemed to have turned into a huge mouth waiting for work, waiting for them to throw themselves into the net.
Someone walked a few steps and came to Lao Chen's side.
"Isn't it a gas explosion?" asked the comer, a little uneasy.
"You also found out that there is no taste. Lao Chen leaned against the wall and moved forward cautiously.
The light above his head flickered and went out, and under this flickering light, Lao Chen's eyes were not very comfortable, and the string in his brain was getting tighter and tighter. Lao Chen even had a hallucination that at a certain moment when the lights were bright again, some kind of monster would suddenly stand quietly in front of him with a hideous smile.
I really shouldn't accompany that stinky boy to watch so many horror movies, Lao Chen smiled bitterly in his heart and complained about his son. When you are such an adult, you will still have this kind of thought, and when you get home at night, you will throw away the drawer of videotapes at home.
Just when Lao Chen was thinking wildly, his neckline tightened suddenly, and a hand suddenly appeared, grabbing Lao Chen's collar tightly, and pulled towards the wall without saying anything.
Lao Chen was instantly shocked into a cold sweat, and his conditioned reflex seemed to open his hand, jumped back, and raised his gun and shouted: "Who!"
The other police officers were startled by Lao Chen, and hurriedly pointed their guns at Lao Chen, and after seeing Lao Chen's movements clearly, they pointed their guns at him one after another, it turned out that they had come to the first temporary detention room, and I don't know which of the suspects put their hands out of the iron bar.
“...... Help me......" The hand paused in the air for a moment, and slid limply down the iron railing.
Lao Chen's gaze moved down the hand, and the light above his head suddenly turned on, and he could see the situation in the detention room clearly through the light.
I don't know when the iron bars of this detention room have been broken in half, and only three or five stubborn pestles are left in their posts.
Most of the broken iron railings pierced the bodies of the three suspects in the holding cell in an eerie form, pinning them to the ground, which was the only reason they didn't escape from the chaos.
Of the three suspects, only one of whom was still half alive, was leaning against the wall, nailed to his body by three iron bars. He covered his wounds, but he didn't dare to exert himself, so he could only let the blood gush out.
The suspect looked at the police in front of him in despair, Lao Chen's throat squirmed, but the new young man behind him was already retching.
"What's going on?" Lao Chen squatted down and asked him, "What's going on?"
"There was a loud ......," the suspect shook his head blankly, "...... All of a sudden, it was dark...... And then it became like this......"
"What's going on? Did you see anyone?"
“...... I don't know ......."
"Where did the noise happen?"
“...... Not far ahead......" The suspect suddenly became excited, as soon as he grasped the railing on his body, as if he wanted to pull it out, his eyes almost fell out of his sockets, "Help me! I don't want to die!"
"The doctor is already here," Lao Chen looked at him pityingly, the injury was too serious, he couldn't survive for long, "You hold on, we have to go in and have a look." ”
"Don't go in!" Hearing this, the suspect poked his hand out, Lao Chen reacted quickly, dodged, and escaped by the collar, but he grabbed the cuffs.
"There's ...... inside," the suspect had a strange look in his eyes, "there's a ghost." ”
After the suspect said this, he was silent.
Lao Chen looked over carefully, the other party's eyes widened, and the anger in his pupils had dissipated.
He ...... It's dead......" Old Chen said blankly.
Everyone present only felt a cold wind blowing in the back of their heads, and there seemed to be a slight giggle in a trance, but if you listened carefully, it was just the hum of a fluorescent lamp.
Lao Chen broke the suspect's hand that grabbed the cuff, although the person was dead, the strength of the hand was still there, Lao Chen took a lot of effort to break free, got up and looked, the colleagues around him all had strange faces, and they all stared at themselves.
Lao Chen understood after thinking about it slightly, he exhaled and scolded in a low voice: "Why, everyone is so adult, they are all urine bags?
There was a moment of whispering in the crowd, everyone looked at each other, and of course no one wanted to admit that they were so-called urine bags.
But today's thing is really weird, something can cause an explosion without any smell, but it can cause such a force, and the strangest thing is that the wrist-thick iron fence of the holding room has been broken from it, and the surrounding walls seem unscathed.
"Old ...... Old Chen," someone craned his neck and proposed, "why don't we go up first, guard the door, and then come down when all the brothers are together, this place is gloomy and not normal." What's more, we don't have any technicians here, and no one knows if there is any danger inside. Besides, there are all suspects here, although it is not appropriate to say so, but why should we take this risk for the sake of some scum. ”
Lao Chen pondered for a moment, his heart was a little loose, and he had to say that these words were indeed to the point. The outermost room is in this kind of miserable situation, and it is self-evident what it looks like to go inside, not to mention that no one dares to guarantee that there will be a second explosion, and it is really not worth gambling with this salary to gamble with one's own life.
Lao Chen turned his head to look inside, and the further he went, the dimmer the lights became, and he couldn't see the end at all. He looked at it for a moment, made up his mind, and said as he withdrew his gun, "Go back, wait for someone." ”
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the voice was uniform.
The people who were originally standing at the end began to return one after another, Lao Chen looked at the darkness in the depths of the corridor, only felt creepy, and instantly lost the courage to explore in his heart. He smiled bitterly and was about to turn around when his eyes suddenly lit up.
All the lights seemed to be controlled at the same time, first there was a collective bright bang, Lao Chen was in a trance for a while, his eyes were like being pricked by needles, and he burst into tears.
The light was only on for a moment, and then it dimmed again.
Hehe...... Hehe......
There was a burst of laughter, like a wind blowing from the depths of the hallway, swirling in everyone's ears, and they refused to leave for a long time.
The sudden laughter was not loud, but in this environment, it was enough to scare everyone.
Lao Chen only felt that his heartbeat had stopped for half a beat, his body froze on the spot, but his brain exploded one after another like someone setting off fireworks inside.
There really are ghosts...... Lao Chen's heart was pounding, and his eardrums were buzzing.
The lights came on slowly.
Lao Chen's eyes gradually adapted to the light. Then, like everyone else behind him, he couldn't take his eyes off it anymore.
In the depths of the corridor, under the illumination of the lights, a figure was quietly suspended in mid-air.
There was a black mass of color beneath his feet, and even if there was a cold light directly above him, it could not illuminate the black form, as if the light had been cut off when it reached there.
This sense of weirdness is like cutting a hole in a painting, and although the hole and the painting seem to be one, they are completely two worlds.
The figure hung his head deeply, Lao Chen couldn't see the other party's appearance clearly, but in this situation in front of him, fools knew that all this just now must be related to this person.
No one moved, whether it was Lao Chen's group of policemen, or I didn't know if it was a human or a ghost. Both sides seemed to be frozen into ice, not to mention action, even the sound of breathing was inaudible.
I don't know how long it took, Lao Chen couldn't be sure, it seemed like a moment, and it seemed like a lifetime, his brain told him that the most rational thing to do now was to keep quiet and retreat slowly, but his body had only one reaction and couldn't move.
Just when Lao Chen wondered if all this was going to be stalemate until the sea was dry, the figure on the opposite side trembled and finally took action.
He looked up slowly, and as he moved, the fluorescent lamps above the hallway flickered again like candles blown by the wind. In this alternation of light and darkness, Lao Chen saw the other party's eyes.
It was a pair of eyes that were completely different from ordinary people, black eyes and white eyes. The owner of the eyes had a young face, looking to be only in his early twenties, about the same size as Lao Chen's own boy.
Lao Chen suddenly thought that if he could survive this time, he would never waste any more time with that little bastard.
The black-eyed and white-eyed young man saw the stunned policemen in front of him, the corners of his mouth twitched a few times, and suddenly a weird smile appeared.
This smile was like a basin of cold water, drenching Lao Chen from head to toe. He snorted, and found that his hands and feet seemed to return to the command of his brain.
Lao Chen didn't dare to slack off, he yelled in a voice that had changed his voice: "Pull out the gun, draw the gun, shoot!"
Gunfire erupted.