"In short, during the Spring Festival, from the first day to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, a total of seven prisoners were missing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Takagi looked at Shi Zhiran in surprise, but did not open his mouth to interrupt his memories.

"There is a Chinese folk legend that after a person dies, on the seventh day, the soul will return to his home, or the place where he died, that is, the 'first seven'. The two prisoners who died on Chinese New Year's Eve were both felons and had a very average reputation in prison.

However, from the third year of junior high school, the prisoners suddenly sympathized with these two guys. The rumors grew more and more outrageous, and later, rumors that the two men were innocent and unjustly imprisoned became loud.

"By the day of the 'first seven', there were already seven people gone. At that time, people were panicked, and many people were frightened. ”

When Takagi Gongwang heard this, he finally couldn't help but ask, "What does the so-called disappearance mean?"

Shi Zhiran glanced at him, "That's the literal meaning." ”

"Is it suddenly gone?"

Shi Zhiran subconsciously covered his hand on the teacup, as if to warm up, but also as if to ask for peace of mind, "Yes, it disappeared suddenly." Some people were still bragging in the prison cell, but in a blink of an eye, they disappeared; some people who had been walking in the square suddenly disappeared; and the most outrageous thing was that there was a prisoner named Gao Zhi. ”

When Shi Zhiran said this name, he was startled, and he put the teacup on the table with a bit of a gaffe, "I'm sorry." ”

Takagi Gongwang's eyes widened, and his silver eyelids rose slightly, "It must be very special to make you remember your name." ”

"When someone else is missing, the whole person is gone, and when he is missing, his clothes, pants, and shoes are all well placed on the ground, and only the person is gone, as if ......"

"It's like you've been grabbed all of a sudden?"

Shi Zhiran nodded, "This makes the prisoners even more convinced that the prison is haunted. ”

"Please continue. Takagi leaned forward, obviously extremely curious.

Shi Zhiran gritted his teeth, and as soon as his masticatory muscles moved, his mandible immediately stretched forward somewhat unnaturally. "Speaking of which, this is a disgraceful thing for Yin and Yang......"

Takagi Gongwang immediately understood and said, "I understand your concerns, please rest assured, I will not relay them to others." Besides, you weren't here at the time, and these things have nothing to do with you. ”

Perhaps it was Takagi Gongwang's comforting words that played a role, Shi Zhiran finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said as if he had made up his mind: "Some people believe that the two prisoners who escaped from prison died at the hands of Gao Zhi. ”

He took a sip of his tea. At this time, the temperature of the tea was finally more suitable for drinking, and he took two sips in a row before slowly saying: "It was Chinese New Year's Eve, and almost everyone gathered in the cafeteria to watch the Spring Festival Gala. ”

Xiao Chen translated, and then he said a little crampedly: "Mr. Takagi, I don't know how to express the Chinese New Year Gala better in Japanese." ”

Takagi thought for a moment, "Isn't it similar to our Japanese Red and White Song Battle?"

Xiao Chen nodded with relief, he looked at Shi Zhiran and translated this sentence. Shi Zhiran didn't seem to understand the meaning of the battle of the Red and White Song, but he immediately said: "It's not an exaggeration to say that it's a battle. ”

"These two prisoners are also smart, they chose to escape on the day of the most important festival for the Chinese, and that night, not many people really paid attention to them.

"I don't know how they got the keys, how they avoided the searchlights and the patrols, but anyway, they ran to the generator room and caused the whole Yinyang Pass to go without power.

Then, they took advantage of the chaos to run to the edge of the wall, trying to cut through the power grid and escape. One managed to escape, and when the other was stuck in the net, a call came, and it didn't work. ”

Hearing this, Takagi Gongwang couldn't wait to ask, "This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the person named Gao Zhi you said?"

Shi Zhiran smiled bitterly: "When the power went out, Yin Yang Guan didn't find that there were no prisoners, it was Gao Zhi who was the first to rush out and say by name that two people had escaped." Moreover, he also volunteered to take a few prisoners who knew electrician skills to help repair the generator.

"To be honest, if that Gao Zhi didn't intervene that night, Yin Yang Guan should have been sent down from the mountain to backup power, and it might have to wait until the next morning.

Gao Zhi made a contribution in this matter, because he repaired it in time, and the power of Yinyang Pass was quickly restored, which electrocuted a guy who escaped;

"The Yin and Yang Pass are all male prisoners, thousands of people, and according to Feng Shui, this place was originally a place with extremely strong yang energy. ”

Shi Zhiran said this and glanced at Xiao Chen. Xiao Chen thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure out how to translate the word "yang qi", so he had to say to Takagi Gongwang in embarrassment: "Mr. Takagi, I only know that 'qi' is a concept in feng shui. The latter smiled disappreciatively, as if he had understood what he meant. Xiao Chen was relieved at this time, he turned his head and prepared to continue translating Shi Zhiran's words, so he didn't see the killing intent flashing in Takagi Gongwang's eyes.

However, in a place where the yang energy is so heavy, it can't suppress the two unjust souls, and even arouses the fear of the entire Yin and Yang Pass.

"During that time, Yin and Yang Guan didn't dare to let the prisoners out to let off steam, or go to work in the factory. It wasn't until the end of the first month, when it was certain that no one would go missing, that everyone's mood stabilized a little. ”

Hearing this, Takagi seemed a little disappointed: "If this is the case, are you afraid of this?"

Shi Zhiran shook his head: "I haven't finished yet. He paused for a moment, and waited for Xiao Chen to finish translating before he said slowly: "Although it is surprising that the disappearance of the prisoner is amazing, but what really endangers everyone in Yin and Yang Guan is that the people who disappeared later have appeared again. He grimaced a look of fear, as if he didn't want to remember it anymore.

"In February 2011, I was transferred to Yinyangguan. On my first day in office, I received a call from the hospital next door saying that there had been a sudden fire in the morgue, and after the fire was extinguished, seven bodies were found. ”

Takagi was taken aback: "It's those ......" he touched his smooth chin, "I guess, that scene must be very bad." ”

Shi Zhiran didn't answer, just sighed. He used to be in charge of personnel in the Bureau of Justice, and he sat in the office all year round. If it weren't for Sun Danqiu, who was strictly investigated for dereliction of duty, it would not be his turn to sit in the position of the director of the Yinyang Pass. But he never expected that as soon as he came to Yinyang Pass, he would have to face a pile of corpses in the prison hospital.

It's too miserable, Shi Zhiran thought.

In the morgue, the blackened metal carts were littered with corpses that could not be seen in their original faces. The temperature in the morgue was already very low, and seeing this miserable image made Shi Zhiran's heart tremble even more and he felt chills all over his body. But after all, he was on his first day in office, and he couldn't let his subordinates look down on him. He forced himself to compose himself and then asked his subordinates to identify the bodies.

Although the fire concealed the basic characteristics of the corpses, in the end, after forensic identification, it was proved that the seven bodies were the seven missing people in Yinyang Pass.

"I'm not going to describe that scene to you, anyway, it's not pretty. Shi Zhiran drank the tea in the cup in one gulp and said.

"Among the corpses you found, are you sure there is a high deacon?"

Shi Zhiran smiled bitterly, "Of course there is." Mr. Takagi, I'm curious, why are you asking?"

Takagi Gongwang said lightly, "Because, I think, this is not a supernatural event, but a trick set up by Gao Zhi to escape from prison." ”

Shi Zhiran looked at the Japanese dumbfounded, and didn't know what to say for a while. After a moment, he pondered the words and said cautiously, "Unfortunately, you guessed wrong. ”

Takagi touched his chin and didn't say a word.

Shi Zhiran looked at the other party's unfathomable appearance, and couldn't help but be a little curious: "Why do you think Gao Zhi is not dead?"

"If I'm not mistaken, there must have been another prisoner in your land shortly after this incident, and it was a special prisoner. He was able to go in and out of prison frequently, but he was not an administrator. He spoke slowly, then picked up the cup in front of him and put it down again. If anyone had paid close attention, they would have found that he had not drunk a sip of water since he entered the warden's office.

"There is indeed such a person. Shi Zhiran wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"May I ask this person's name?"

Shi Zhiran hesitated, but still answered his question honestly: "Shao Sui." ”

"When did the accident happen?"

"At the beginning of March, probably a month after the bodies were found. ”

"How did you die?"

"Car accident, the perpetrator escaped. ”

Shi Zhiran took out the cigarette case, he was addicted to smoking. He handed the cigarette case to Takagi Kotobo, who shook his head: "I don't smoke. ”

Shi Zhiran was so embarrassed that he had to take back the cigarette case again. He couldn't help but ask, "How did you guess that Shao Yu was dead?"

Takagi Gongwang blinked: "It's not difficult to come to these conclusions. He stood up, walked slowly to the window, looked at the drizzly woods not far from the window, and was stunned for a few seconds, then turned around: "Do you know what the relationship between this high deacon and the two escaped prisoners is?"

Shi Zhiran was confused: "Relationship? It's not a very good relationship." ”

"It's not that simple, to be exact, the relationship between them should be very poor. Maybe the two escaped prisoners offended Gao Zhi too much, or maybe they blocked Gao Zhi's way to make a fortune, or maybe they did something in the name of Gao Zhi. In short, Gao Zhi wouldn't kill those two people just because he didn't like it, right?" Takagi Gongwang stared at the furnishings on Shi Zhiran's table, which was a bronze paperweight, and his head was very powerful.

"I don't quite understand what you mean......" Shi Zhiran stammered.

"To put it simply, the whole thing is that Gao Zhi used those two people to set up a game. After Gao Zhi confirmed that the two had really escaped from prison, he planned to make a plan and first arranged for rumors to be made. ”

"Rumors?" Shi Zhiran became more and more confused the more he listened.

It was he who first asked the prisoners to start spreading the news everywhere, saying that those two people had been wronged, and that they were naturally wronged when they died, and they were angry. Then he arranged for someone to pick him up and transport the prisoner out secretly through the ......"

"Shao Sui?"

"Yes, this Shao lawsuit should have a car. Takagi narrowed his eyes.

Shi Zhiran nodded, "Yes, he has always been in charge of the prison supermarket." ”

"That's right. One person was transported out at a time, and so on, for a total of seven days. I guess Gao Zhi was the last one to disappear. Takagi looked back against the window, and his attitude was very peaceful.

Shi Zhiran nodded in surprise.

"Then why was he the last to go, wasn't it safest to flee on the first day?"

Gao Mu Gongwang sneered, "Gao Zhi took great pains to lay out this game, just because I don't want you to think that he wants to escape from prison. The last time he disappeared happened to be on the day of the 'First Seven', and he made it seem as if only his body had been captured by a ghost, which made it look more terrifying, which was exactly what he wanted. ”

"Are you saying that during those seven days, Gao Zhi secretly transported the prisoners to the hospital next door and hid them in the morgue through Shao Sui?" Shi Zhiran's mouth was wide open, looking extremely stupid.

Gao Mu Gong looked at his head, "This should be Gao Zhi's idea, I guess this Shao Zhi is usually more free and can drive to the hospital, maybe he has some illness?"

Xiao Chen showed a look of admiration: "He's a cripple, whether he has a disease, Meniere's, or Meernier's, I can't remember." Moreover, he is a relative of the former prison director. ”

"Sure enough. Shao Su is sick, and he has the privilege of being able to drive in and out of the Yin and Yang Pass, so it is not difficult to hide a few people. ”

Shi Zhiran picked up the cup and wanted to drink tea, but found that there was no water, he secretly glanced at Takagi Gongwang's teacup, and resisted the urge to refill the water. "But there's one place that doesn't make sense. ”

"Where doesn't it make sense?"

"Gao Zhi and Shao Zhi don't seem to be friends. I've seen the case file, and they don't seem to have anything to do with each other, and I heard others say that the two have no relationship. ”

Gao Mu Gongwang showed that reserved smile again: "What if Shao Zhi helped those two prisoners escape from prison? It makes perfect sense. ”

Shi Zhiran was dumbfounded.

"Anyway, this matter is in the past, and it seems that there are no ghosts in your land. Takagi said jokingly.

Shi Zhiran's mind still hadn't turned a corner: "However, Gao Zhi has been burned to death in the morgue, and there is his body." Who set the fire? Could it be Shao Sue? ”

Takagi shrugged.

However, Shao Sui also died in a car accident a month later. ”

Takagi Gongwang said calmly: "It's all self-inflicted." ”

Shi Zhiran woke up like a dream: "Do you mean that after Shao Zhi killed someone, he also died in a car accident? It seems that there is some deep hatred between this Shao Sui and Gao Zhi." After he figured it out, he felt much lighter and in a good mood.

At this time, Takagi Gongwang regained that arrogant and indifferent expression: "I'm a little strange, why hasn't this matter been reported by any media?"

Shi Zhiran was a little embarrassed, and laughed dryly: "It's pressed down from above, this thing, haha, it's not easy to spread out." ”

Takagi nodded: "Understood." He glanced at his watch, "Thank you for the story, it's interesting." He yawned suddenly, but it was the kind of yawn that he covered his mouth with his hand. "It's not too early, show me the information of the Prison Charity Foundation, if there is no problem, I am ready to sign a check for you. ”

After Xiao Chen finished translating, Shi Zhiran was overjoyed and immediately called the office director to ask for information.

Takagi turned around and looked out the window at the high wall, which was covered with grids that could not be seen at a glance.