Chapter 313, Amphitheater
What Kang Xingjian saw seemed to be a depression on the ground out of thin air.
The depression is very large, and from a distance, it looks like a sinkhole. Kang Xingjian was surprised that there was such a place on the edge of the provincial capital, and what surprised him even more was that there were many buildings in this depression. There are clusters of factories and red-brick dormitories. What surprised Kang Xingjian even more was that in this deserted and dilapidated house, there was also an amphitheater-like building.
The deserted buildings were silent in the dark night, except for the amphitheater-like building, which was still lit and there were faint sounds, and the lights and voices were a little suspicious.
Kang Xingjian shook the beating stick in his hand, looked back, and the surroundings were quiet, as if he had accidentally stepped into another time and space. But, no matter what, since he had already come, he didn't plan to go back like that. His intuition told him that Li Chun was in danger, and this feeling was very strong, so he walked towards the strange building in the light and shadow without hesitation.
However, Kang Xingjian did not directly chase the wheels of the Santana in front of him along the potholed road, he walked on the bushes on the side of the road, although it took a little effort, but when he saw two figures squatting on the side of the road from a distance, he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
Looking at the time, it is now ten o'clock in the evening, in the bustling city center, people who are spending Christmas Eve are still frantically spraying the filled snow, right?
The phone call to Li He was connected, he must have been on his way here, but he didn't know where he was now, when he would arrive, and whether he would miss the hidden intersection out of the tunnel? Kang Xingjian had no answers to these questions, but no matter what, he couldn't delay here.
Far away, avoiding the two people guarding the road, Kang Xingjian approached the lighted circular building one foot deep and one foot shallow in the dark. He had now reached the bottom of the depression, and when he was on it, he thought that the circular building was very large, and now that he was nearer, he looked at the past and the circular building seemed taller and taller. And this piece of abandoned houses, vertical and horizontal, also shows the appearance of the street.
If you look closely, there are still some production slogans painted on the walls here, but there are few advertisements such as mobile telecommunications or feed cement. This should be a factory area in the era of preparing for war and preparing for famine, Kang Xingjian doesn't care much about these, but I heard Li He say that many of these old factories around the provincial capital have basically been abandoned or relocated after the country's reform and opening up, and what is left behind, just like here, is just a deserted silence.
Whether it is the traces of history or the changes of the times, Kang Xingjian can't care about these now, he just carefully groped his way along the aisle between the houses, which is not a street, and leaned against the corner of the wall. Occasionally, he would see someone walking by, wearing ordinary clothes, but occasionally someone was different, and the clothes were covered with something like a robe, the robe was black, and there was a white pattern on the chest.
"Damn," Kang Xingjian scolded in his heart, this is a den of thieves, and it is not an ordinary thief, wearing this kind of robe and pretending to be a ghost, it is some magic stick. Compared to ordinary thieves, the magic sticks seem to be more terrifying, because their brains are caught in the door, and they can easily go crazy. This also made him more worried about Li Chun, if it was an ordinary kidnapper, or a pervert, or a pervert, maybe she would suffer more physical injuries, but when she encountered such a magic stick, she was afraid that even her life would be threatened.
Can he save her? He knew that he hadn't learned anything from that martial arts instructor, he was just there to flirt with his sister, and in terms of fighting skills, he was far worse than Li He. It's definitely not okay to fight hard or something, so let's observe the situation first.
Kang Xingjian was very worried in his heart, but he did not hesitate, he walked carefully in the dark, and finally approached the round building. According to Kang Xingjian's observation, there were not many of them, and what he saw before and after was about a dozen people, and it seemed that these people were all older, Kang Xingjian saw an old man who was even lying on his back, as if he would fall down at any time.
They don't have weapons yet.
This is all good news, but Kang Xingjian was not careless, he still carefully found the entrance to the round building. It's like a stadium and a theater, with a lot of columns outside, and when you look up, it's quite majestic. Of course, the dilapidation is also obvious, and many cracks can be seen in the wall, and in some places the wall has collapsed.
Kang Xingjian climbed in from a collapsed corner, and there was a mess of grass inside the wall, and when you pushed back the grass, you could see that there were two basketball courts inside the circular building, as well as a running track, which was a sports field. It is estimated that it is the place where the factory held the workers' sports meeting in the past, and it is not a problem to move the basketball hoop in the middle and engage in some theatrical performances.
However, what appeared in front of Kang Xingjian's eyes was a very strange scene, a small group of people gathered in the middle of the two basketball courts, and three fires were burned in the middle, and the three fires surrounded a wooden stake in the middle. As soon as Kang Xingjian saw the wooden stake, he remembered the burning racks in medieval Europe, but there was no firewood and grass under the wooden stake, and the dull wooden stake was very uncomfortable to look at.
The men were gathered around the perimeter of the fire, but in a semicircle facing the stakes, and the people who were gathered around them were all dressed in robes, and on their cloaks, and they could not see their faces clearly, nor could they see men, women, or children, but they were sitting on the ground, and their mouths were muttering. But there was nothing on that stake.
Kang Xingjian had a very bad imagination, he felt that the wooden stake was used to tie people, these people were like doing some mysterious ritual, maybe at any time, they would tie a person there. Maybe, they will kill that person, no wonder Kang Xingjian has a big brain, in the movie, there have been such plots. Although it is difficult to imagine such a thing in such a modern society, there is nothing impossible for these people to appear here mysteriously. He was worried that Li Chun was the object they wanted to tie to the stake, but he didn't see her now, and he didn't know where she was.
No, Li Chun must be found immediately, the actions of these people made Kang Xingjian feel very bad, he hoped that Li He would come over quickly, but before Li He arrived, he had to find Li Chun quickly.
In addition to the firelight, this amphitheater is lit, and there are two lampposts at the top of the theater stands, and if the lampposts are lit, this amphitheater can also be used for sports games at night, but now the spotlights of those two lampposts are all broken, and only one of the lampposts has an electric lamp hanging on it, and the electric light line is very long, which is drawn from the room behind the rostrum, and there is also a lamp in that room.
I don't know if Li Chun will be in that room, but Kang Xingjian didn't dare to rush over, there was a bright place that was more likely to be exposed, so he could only withdraw from the crack in the wall and continue to walk along the perimeter of the amphitheater. When he approached the rostrum, there was a voice from the lighted room, a young woman was saying something, Kang Xingjian couldn't hear it clearly, but there was a whining sound mixed with it, it sounded like someone was gagged and calling for help.
For a while, Kang Xingjian's heart beat violently, he had never thought of being a hero, but in front of him, he couldn't sit idly by, not to mention that the person inside might be Li Chun, even if it was someone else, just standing by and watching, he would have a disturbed conscience. It is definitely not possible to break in directly, and I don't know what the situation is inside, even if there are old, weak, sick and disabled people around here, but there are always dozens of people he sees, even if Li He takes Zhao Jinzhu, a girl who can fight, I am afraid that he will be outnumbered, let alone him.
The whining sound became more and more anxious, full of fear and struggle, as if it was facing something terrible. Kang Xingjian's heart was beating wildly, his urine was surging, and his whole person was very anxious, and in his urgency, he saw the exposed wires outside the house, as well as the old-fashioned fuse box.
This was an opportunity, Kang Xingjian walked over quickly, pulled out the ceramic safety cover on the fuse box, and in an instant, the lamp on the lamppost in the amphitheater and the lamp in the room were extinguished.
Kang Xingjian glanced at the safety cover that was a little hot in his hand, raised his hand, and threw the thing far away. I quickly found a dark corner next to me and hid.
Immediately, someone ran out.
Kang Xingjian was also prepared, he was holding half a brick in his hand, and when he saw someone coming out, he threw it into the corner of the wall in the distance, making a "bang" sound.
A woman inside asked aloud, "What's going on?"
"! someone pulled the fuse!" replied angrily to the man who had come outside, and when he heard the noise, he said, "The man has run to the northwest corner." ”
"Leave him alone!" said the woman in the house, "Find a new fuse, I want a lamp!
"You're crazy!" the man said, "We must have been seen, and if we run out, we will be doomed!" After saying that, he didn't care about the woman, and chased straight in the direction where Kang Xingjian threw the brick.
"Come back!" cried out to the woman in the house, and when she saw that the man was chasing after her, she said to the other man, "Let him chase him, and you go and fix the fuse! The time is coming, and we cannot afford to delay! If we miss the incarnation of the Holy Spirit, the world will be doomed." ”
"Come on, I'm just in love with your person, Lao Tzu doesn't care about any holy spirits, this little girl is so beautiful, you can do it......!
"Go quickly, you want a woman, I'll find it for you, you can't touch this little girl!"
"Where the hell am I going to find the fuse...... Okay, okay, I'll go find it, you're such a crazy woman!"
Another man walked out, scolding, and walking in the other direction, faintly, Kang Xingjian saw a car parked in the distance. That's where the man walked towards the car. He estimated that the two men and the woman inside were the three people who kidnapped Li Chun on the street, and now the two men have come out, and the house is ...... Maybe there is more than one woman, but Kang Xingjian knows that such an opportunity cannot be missed, even if there are other people, he has to gamble, otherwise those two men come back, and he will never have a chance again.
Taking a deep breath, Kang Xingjian felt out of the corner and walked into the room in a flash. Inside the room, there was a woman who happened to light a candle, this woman was wearing a white coat and a mask, like a doctor, she had just fixed the candle on a table, and when she saw Kang Xingjian, her eyes widened and she looked very shocked.
And Kang Xingjian crossed the woman and saw a girl tied to the table next to the woman, the girl's clothes were stripped clean, her hands and feet were tied, and a cloth ball was stuffed in her mouth.
At the moment when the woman in the white coat was stunned, Kang Xingjian took a breath and slapped the stick on the woman's head. Of course, Kang Xingjian, who flirted with his sister in the martial arts club, did not learn any decent kung fu, but as a young man with strong blood, the strength in his hands was not small, and in this very tense situation, his strength exploded further, and the stick hit the woman's head, and immediately bleed, and the woman snorted, covered her head and squatted on the ground. At the same time, a scalpel in her hand also fell.
Kang Xingjian only felt that his heart was about to jump out of his mouth, he took a step forward, picked up the scalpel that the woman fell to the ground, and quickly cut the rope that tied Li Chun, as if he also cut the back of her left hand, but it didn't matter so much, Li Chun sat up at once, reached out and tore off the cloth in her mouth, her naked body was shivering from the cold, and she subconsciously covered her chest.
Kang Xingjian also cut the ropes on her feet, the woman slowly stood up again, Li Chun was so frightened that she was about to scream, but she covered her mouth in time, Kang Xingjian didn't even have time to put clothes on her, and ran outside as soon as he hugged her.
The woman's head was seriously injured, the blood was still flowing down, staining her white coat red, she wanted to chase Kang Xingjian, walked two steps, but squatted down again, the wound on her head almost made her faint.
Kang Xingjian ran out not far away with Li Chun in his arms, but he saw from a distance that the man who was chasing him in the direction of throwing stones fell back, he didn't dare to run in that direction, turned around and ran to the other side. Soon there was a voice behind him, and apparently more people found that the woman was injured, and the tied Li Chun was rescued.
Of course, Kang Xingjian wanted to run back to his car, as long as he got into the car, at the speed of his wild horse, Santana's magic horse was all floating clouds. Unfortunately, however, his way back was in the direction of the most people, and those people were clearly not stupid. Kang Xingjian could only run in the opposite direction, but in this way, he couldn't run more than one piece with Li Chun in his arms, and he would be caught up sooner or later.
Perhaps, the only thing that can be relied on is this abandoned, disorganized building.
Seeing a black hole in the factory, Kang Xingjian hid in his arms with Li Chun.