Chapter Ninety-Nine: Where the Vitality Is
"Who are you!"
Lu Qingyu carefully observed the surroundings, very alert.
If things are abnormal, there must be demons!
There are dangerous people everywhere in this death camp, and Lu Qingyu will naturally not be blinded by this old man's appearance.
"I'm naturally the owner of this house, do I need to ask?"
The old man still looked trembling, as if a gust of wind could blow him down, but after saying two words, he seemed to be a little out of breath, and after a few breaths, he continued,
"It's you, I've never seen you in a dead camp! Why did you suddenly show up at my bad old man's house? ”
Lu Qingyu looked at it coldly, but he couldn't see the flaws of this old man at all, the old man's words and deeds, his eyes and movements, everything seemed normal, and he was completely an old man who was about to die.
But the more normal it is, the heavier Lu Qingyu's vigilance becomes.
"I'm new today, but I inadvertently broke into my father-in-law's house, and I haven't asked my husband how to call him!"
Squinting his eyes, Lu Qingyu asked coldly.
When the old man heard this, he showed his two white eyebrows, and seemed to be a little surprised:
"New here? How I haven't heard of it! Little doll, don't lie to my old man! ”
Lu Qingyu snorted coldly: "Hmph, what's the matter, is it possible to report to you, the 'old man', who has entered and exited the death camp?" ”
Lu Qingyu specially accentuated the tone of the three words "old man", and the irony was clearly revealed.
The old man smiled lightly, but he didn't care about Lu Qingyu's hostile attitude, he seemed to be a little accustomed to it:
"It's not a report, little doll, I know you have doubts in your heart, so it's inevitable that you won't be at ease with my old man. But speaking of which, it seems that every newcomer who comes here is like this to me, which is really a headache. Let me introduce myself first, my surname is Hu, and I am a pawn in this dead camp, and I am in charge of registering the register, and I have been in this dead camp for more than 50 years. ”
"Battalion pawn?" Lu Qingyu frowned, a little puzzled.
When Old Man Hu saw Lu Qingyu's appearance, he couldn't help but smile, but he accidentally choked on himself, and suddenly coughed.
Lu Qingyu raised his eyebrows and stood still without moving.
After a full two or three minutes, Old Man Hu finally stopped coughing, there was already faint sweat on his forehead, and there was a trace of sickly red on his cheeks.
"Alas, after so many years, I'm really old!" Old man Hu beat his waist and sighed, "When I first entered this death camp and took office, I could still drink and fight with the guys in the camp, after all these years, they are all dead, and I am also old, but I still can't get out of this square inch!" ”
Lu Qingyu's heart moved, and he said tentatively:
"So, your old man must know everything about this dead camp?"
"That's nature!" Old man Hu raised his head a little angrily, and said with a smile, "I've been here for most of my life, even if it's the chief guard, I won't know this dead camp better than me!" ”
Old man Hu's words were full of confidence, as if this was already the only capital he could show off in his life.
No matter how suspicious Lu Qingyu was, he couldn't help but believe a little bit of this old man's words at this time.
Words and deeds, demeanor and appearance, these can be faked, but this kind of heartfelt emotional outpouring is difficult to pretend, is this old man Hu really a pawn?
Although Lu Qingyu's heart was already a little shaken, he did not relax his vigilance, but his tone was a little calmer.
"Then Uncle Hu may explain to me, why is this dead camp so deserted?"
Old man Hu seemed to see the change in Lu Qingyu's mentality, and his expression was a little happy: "Haha, little doll, since you are willing to ask me, you must have already believed my old man." I am happy to hear your old man, I haven't met such a polite doll as you enter the place of the death camp for a long time. ”
"Why, are all the reckless fierce men who have come in all these years, so how can your old man survive until now?"
Lu Qingyu's eyes blinked, and the temptation between words came out as he wished.
Old man Hu is old and refined, so he naturally heard the greasy in it, and immediately became happy:
"You doll, you're really clever, you want to make things difficult for my old man everywhere! Yes, most of the people who come here are murderous thugs, and it's easy to crush my old bones. It's a pity that in addition to being a camp guard, I am the only one in this death camp who knows how to heal, which everyone in the death camp knows. In the death camp, no one dares to guarantee that they will never be injured, and once they are injured, they will face death, so my old man still has some status in the eyes of the vast majority of people, and if the newcomers want to hurt me, they really have to ask them first! ”
"Sounds reasonable!" Lu Qingyu groaned slightly, but didn't find anything wrong with this answer, and suddenly couldn't help but believe this old man Hu a little more, "Then today, why is this dead camp empty?" ”
"Because today is the day of the reshuffle of the Death List!"
Faced with Lu Qingyu's question, Old Man Hu blurted out.
"Fateful?"
Lu Qingyu's heart moved, he had heard Shen Tianhua mention this word several times, but he never figured out what it meant.
"That's right, the Death List!" Old man Hu seemed to be a little excited, and for a while his face was full of red light and gushing.
It turns out that this fateful list is a magical list in the death camp, and there are nine characters on it, which are the nine strongest people in the death camp.
The cards are shuffled every other month, and anyone in the Death Camp can challenge anyone on the list. At the same time, the person with the lower ranking on the list can also challenge the person with the higher ranking to take that person's place.
The people in the death camp will take people's lives at every turn, so every time the shuffle of the death list will set off a bloody storm in the death camp, and the death rate of seventy or eighty percent in the death camp is produced on this day, which shows the cruelty of the battle for the death list.
As for why everyone is desperately competing for the place on the final list, this will involve another term that Lu Qingyu is familiar with.
This term is called, Choice Day!
In the dark prisons, in the death camps, there are prisoners who are bound to die, they face the threat of death every day, they live in fear every day, all this is enough to slowly drive any man with a heart like a stone crazy.
But fortunately, they are not completely without a glimmer of vitality, this choice day, the decision list, is where their vitality lies!
Every other month, the Destiny List is shuffled, and every six months, on the Choice Day, it is opened!
Climb the fateful list and survive the day of choice,
This is the only one in the camp of death,
A hint of life!