Chapter 14: Memories of Cannibalism
The next day, Geng Daquan got up early and waited at the docks, suppressing great excitement and anxiety in his heart, excited that he was finally going to finish Hurd's regret, and uneasy that all this was his hallucination. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info It's incredible. If he told all this to Mr. Hurd, who was still unconscious, I don't know how he would feel!
Waiting in this tangled mood is undoubtedly the best way to survive, and every minute and every second is so long.
However, Miss Hutton did not wait, but waited for the news that Mr. Hurd had decided to return to China early, and Evan had sent a telegram to England, and he would only wait for tomorrow night to depart for Shanghai by train, where would there be a freighter to England, although it was a little slower, but it could arrive in England earlier.
This sudden news disrupted Geng's plans, and he had to decide whether to go to Mr. Hurd first and tell him that Miss Hutton was still alive, or to wait here for Miss Hutton, who was uncertain.
At noon, there was a sudden rainstorm, the calm lake was broken by the rapid raindrops, and it was instantly filled with a thick layer of mist, Geng Daquan had to return to the island to avoid the rain, but before the person got off the boat, he suddenly saw a figure appear on the opposite side of the lake, from her clothes it was by no means a servant, although he could not see it very clearly, but he could tell at a glance that it was a women's aristocratic dress.
"Is it Miss Hutton?" Geng Daquan stood on the boat and shouted, but the rain was already falling heavily, let alone whether the people on the other side could hear it, he couldn't hear it clearly.
Geng Daquan was not very good at rowing, but at this time, he was even more confused, and when he docked, he could still see a figure. He wondered in his heart, he had been waiting at the dock before, and had not noticed the shadow of a boat on the lake, and how did she get to the island?
Geng Daquan braved the rain and searched for other places on the shore, but he didn't even see a boat. When he returned to his house with nothing, he didn't have time to change the clothes on his body, so he quickly took out his diary and wrote; "I just saw you on the shore."
It didn't take long for the diary to appear: "Really? Looks like you've been waiting for a long time. ”
Geng Daquan thought in his heart that there must be a reason why Miss Hutton was willing to come out suddenly, so he asked, "Are you in any trouble?" ”
"I do have one thing to do, and I'll come out to see you when I'm done."
In the small building where Hurd lived, all the servants were gathered in the hall, Bao La stood in the middle, as if preparing for their dismissal, and most of the servants had already packed their belongings. Seeing Geng Daquan walking in, he said: "Mr. Daquan, I was about to look for you, the master has decided to return to the UK in advance, and the auction will be conducted by the "Lichun Bank" here in a few days, so everyone must leave before tomorrow." ”
This is not surprising, although Hurd is still in a coma, Evan must have been prepared early, otherwise he would have just decided to return to China, and there would already be a bank to help with the auction.
"Mr. Baola, I want to ask you for something." Geng Daquan thought for a while before saying
"What do you say, although the master is not here now, but he said, I will try to meet whatever you need." Bao La asked Geng Daquan to sit down, and said with a businesslike look.
Geng Daquan understood that he thought he wanted to ask him for compensation, and said: "I haven't been able to find Miss Hutton's whereabouts so far, and the things that Mr. Hutton promised are not counted, and besides, I didn't come to you today for this matter, I have other things that I need your help with." ”
"Really?" Bao La asked again suspiciously, "Did you find anything suspicious from Xiufang's mouth?" ”
Geng Daquan shook his head, and then said, "I want to ask you to block all the roads out of the island. ”
Bao La stared at Geng Daquan, as if trying to figure out his true intentions, and only said after a while: "A few days? ”
"Just one day." Geng Daquan replied affirmatively.
Bao La called Fusheng and instructed, "You take a few people to seal the intersection completely." ”
After about a quarter of an hour, Fusheng came back and said that it had been done, and not only was the exit guarded, but there were also several boats patrolling the lake.
Everything is developing in the direction that Geng Daquan envisioned, he is not relieved, if Bao La refuses to agree, he can only take out the diary, which will be done only when it is absolutely necessary, after all, the things in the diary are too unbelievable.
"Is Miss Hutton done?"
"Don't say anything, you go to the bamboo forest and wait for me."
When Geng Daquan heard this, it was still raining outside and felt like he was going to the bamboo forest, but he didn't see any reaction after shouting for a long time, and wrote angrily: "My eldest lady, aren't you playing with me?" I shouted for a long time and there was no response. ”
"Hehe, you're really interesting, open your eyes and talk nonsense, obviously I'm behind the rocky pit in the bamboo forest, why didn't I see anyone coming."
Geng Daquan did not believe in evil, and personally went to the pile of stones, a huge piece of yellow granite was abandoned in a vacant land, thinking that it should be more stone used in the construction of the garden, and there were discarded tools for polishing the stone on the side.
"I don't care who you are, and I don't care why you can communicate with me, I'm in a hurry to leave and can't wait for you any longer, my name is left on the stone, I'm not discredited."
Geng Daquan sensed that something was wrong, and under her instructions, he found Jane's words on a stone. Look at a vague abbreviation in English, leaving traces of erosion over time in the cracked rock trenches. Geng Daquan, who was still in high spirits, Geng Daquan, who was still in high spirits, could no longer mention finding someone, so he asked Bao La to disperse the people, and returned to the house in a trance.
"Are you still there?"
"I'm on my way, and I'm about to leave by boat."
"How old are you?"
"Eighteen, well, sixteen, actually."
"I know Miss Hutton is only fourteen years old."
"I can't fool you, but you have to admit that I don't look like I'm fourteen."
Geng Daquan got Hutton's reply, and the last doubt has been shattered, even if he still doesn't want to believe it, but the facts are in front of him, just like the strange things in the Arabian Nights in the diary have appeared, what else can not make him numb! "If I tell you something, I hope you won't think I'm deliberately cheating on your youth."
"You're not going to tell me you're God, are you? Oh my! You can leave words in my diary all the time, is it sent by God! ”
Geng Daquan suddenly felt that Miss Hutton was also very interesting, and wrote in a playful tone: "I don't know if I'm God, but I know that you will disappear after today?" ”
"Disappear? Of course, if nothing else, I don't think I'll have to stay here again after today. ”
"Oh, this accident is about to happen, if you can see that the boats at the dock are going to collide, the boats are going to leak, and somebody is going to close the docks, maybe it's already happening."
After about a quarter of an hour this time, Miss Hutton replied, "You are a deliberate ghost, damn it, and you have not been assigned by anyone to prevent me from leaving." ”
"I don't have the skills, but your father would be happy to do it."
"My father didn't know I was leaving."
"Indeed, when you first said that you were going to see your father."
"You know a lot."
"What did you mean to say when you saw your father?"
"You don't have to."
"You want to ask your father if he knows about the kidnapping that happened in Tiande Cathedral."
Geng Daquan seemed to be able to think of Miss Hutton's expression after he said this, and then asked, "Isn't it too cruel for you to leave like this without even giving Mr. Hurd a chance?" ”
"Is it necessary? It doesn't matter if it's his instructions or not, everything has already happened, and he is responsible. ”
The confusion of time and space made these two people who were not together talk, Geng Daquan initially held the idea of chatting a few words since he met him, but suddenly there was a new attention, the tragedy of the Holy See in Shanghai has reached the point of inevitable, but Miss Hutton has not disappeared at this time, people are still on the island because of him, can the final ending be artificially changed?
"Alright! You can go if you want to, but now that the ship is no longer usable, how do you leave? As soon as your father finds out that you are not there, he will send someone to the island to look for you, and you will not be able to hide it when the time comes. ”
"As long as you don't make trouble, I'll have a way out!"
Geng Daquan had no choice if he wanted to make trouble, but he wouldn't tell her at this time, he just said: "If I were you, I would go back first, and wait until tomorrow to figure out a way." "Actually, I'm afraid that she will really come up with something, so I plan to stabilize her first, maybe I don't want to leave after today.
"You can't fool me about what you want, and you won't be able to come out again when you go back."
Geng Daquan knew that Miss Hutton thought he would tell her father about her leaving, and that she would be watched by Hurd when she returned.
"It's going to be dark soon, even if you leave the island, it's not safe, and since you can save Xiufang's sister, can't you save all the people alive?"
"Save them? Do I need this? ”
Of course, Geng Daquan knew that the people trapped in the iron cage would eventually eat their companions for their lives, but after all, they were forced, if they could live, who would do cannibalism?
"They are forced, they don't have any choice, it's the instinct of people to live!" Geng Daquan tried every reason to justify cannibalism.
"Forced? Don't have a choice? Instinct? ………… I would like to tell you a story, there used to be a farmer who owned a large number of slaves, locked some of them in a cave, and would give them a small amount of food every other day, and warned them not to fight here, at first it was okay, although the food was not enough, everyone could get a little, after a while, some people began to be dissatisfied with this bit of food, forgot the warning, they fought in order to get more food, and the weak people were all starved to death. When the farmer found out, there was no more food to bring in, so he appeared to have to stretch out his hand to his companions in order to survive, and at first a group of people ate one person, and then they fought each other, and within half a year everyone died. ”
"Do you think the story is over? In another cave, there lived the remaining slaves, who had plenty of food every day, but the farmer told them that they did not have to follow any rules here, and that they would not be punished for doing anything. There was a woman in this group of slaves who did not know anyone, and when she first came in, someone bullied her, and she did not dare to resist a woman, and at night a bold man saw that she would not resist and raped her, and this matter was soon known to everyone, and more and more people bullied him, and finally even children and old people joined in, and this woman was killed alive by this group of people in less than a month. The woman's death made them understand that there would be no punishment for really doing anything, so every once in a while there would be a dead person, and even if they resisted, they could not prevent the death from happening, until finally the group of people all turned into murderous demons. ”
"And you want me to save these demons?"