Chapter Twenty-Four: Into Hell
Somewhere in the dungeon, a young Russian man was impaled in the abdomen by a spear flying out of the darkness and then nailed to a nearby wall, he grabbed the spear that pierced into the abdomen, looked up at the others who had already run away, and reached out weakly to grasp in that direction.
But in his eyes, the flashlights in the darkness were getting farther and farther away.
"Save ...... I. After saying the last word, he tried to pull out the spear, but his strength was not enough, and the instinct to survive led him to try to come straight out of the crucified spear, like a piece of roast meat from a corpse off a barbecue stick.
As soon as the young man who endured the severe pain took a step, before the pain could penetrate every cell in his body, the floor touched under his feet drove the mechanism, causing a long stone to fall from the sky and fall directly.
The "poof" youth was smashed to pieces in an instant.
Just five minutes earlier, the young man and three others had been selected to be the so-called spearheads to clear the way ahead, and these brainless youths who were scavenging the "trophies" from the dried corpses in their cells as they walked were unaware of the danger lurking around them.
They thought that they would be safe and sound if they got the so-called map in the tunnel, and they thought that the Japanese army had explored the dungeon in the past and left a detailed map, but they didn't think about what was hidden behind this map, nor did they think about why the Japanese army here still left so many antique treasures here.
It wasn't until after wandering underground for nearly two hours that they finally found the dozen or so dried corpses of the Japanese soldiers, as well as all kinds of indescribable insects crawling among the dried corpses.
Fear and fear were like a gust of wind blowing at them, but like a gust of wind, it only stayed in their faces for a moment before leaving, and they didn't think much about it at all, but continued to move on until the first person fell into the trap next to them and broke his leg, and the rest felt what real fear was.
But fortunately, they are all men, and no one screams, only constant scolding and prevarication, all trying to convince the people around them to rescue the poor creature who fell into the trap.
As they thought, the poor creature was overwhelmed by the fine sand that had poured into it, and his screams disappeared in an instant.
"What should I do?" Someone finally asked.
The others looked at each other, and no one dared to express their opinions, because most people's opinions were whether we should go back, right?
The self-esteem of being a man, coupled with the boasting at the beginning, makes these rich second generations, who have lived in praise and vanity since childhood, dare not express their true thoughts.
"Keep going!" Someone stood up and said, "People always have to die, that kid died because he was stupid, we just need to be careful, his death, let us know that this place is not so simple, the more interesting it is." ”
After this man finished speaking, he grabbed the two people next to him and encouraged them to move on, although he also followed, but deliberately kept a distance.
After advancing for more than ten meters, the fat man on his left side was directly penetrated from the left side by the feather arrows that suddenly appeared on the wall, and fell to the ground in response, instigating the young man who was urging them to move forward subconsciously lying down, and the man on the right saw that the fat man was killed, and his tense spirit finally collapsed, howling and rushing forward, and then he was directly cut in half by the flying blade.
The man lying on the ground laughed, he laughed at himself for being too smart and not walking in the forefront, but when he looked back, he found that the remaining 6 people were still there, with no intention of moving forward, let alone coming forward to save him.
"These idiots." The young man got up and looked at the floor carefully, and found that the lines on the floor were different, and he recalled carefully, and found that the people who touched the mechanism before had died because of stepping on those textured floor tiles, so he would not repeat the mistakes of the past.
Unexpectedly, when his legs stepped out and stepped on the smooth floor tiles, his feet slipped and his heels directly touched the patterned floor tiles next to him.
Oh no, he thought, and then he saw the spear flying out of the darkness.
The six people who survived ran back wildly, and after running for a while, someone finally calmed down, and he suddenly stopped and stopped, looked at the cells on both sides, and realized something.
"We're on the wrong track! This is not the way back! The man shouted to the others.
"Are you scared? This is obviously the way back! Another shouted, "I remember it well." ”
The man used a flashlight to shine a flashlight on the cells on both sides: "When we came here before, we basically searched all the cells we passed by, but if you look closely, the ornaments on the dried corpses in the cells are all hanging there, so this is definitely not the road we have walked!" ”
The others immediately shone their flashlights on the surrounding prisons, and found that as he said, the contents of the dried corpses that had been in various poses before death were still there.
"yes, I remember, we all took all those trinkets earlier." Someone took a step back, their face full of fear, "This is indeed not the path we have walked. ”
"We're lost?" They finally began to doubt and gradually confirmed it.
"! There's a problem with the map! "They are finally aware of this serious problem.
"It's not that there is a problem with the map, it's that we were played by that Chinese! Damn it! "Their minds are gradually starting to clear.
"I'm going to kill that old Chinese man!" Once again, their anger triumphed over reason, just as the previous excitement had deceived reason.
They threw away the plank map and began to walk in the direction they thought they should go, but for the next hour, the six men were still walking back the same way.
Finally, the conflict erupted, and the six people accused each other of being stupid pigs, all because of one person's statement that caused them to get lost, and maybe the road they missed earlier was the real exit.
"Enough!" Someone raised the gun, "Stop arguing, I can't stand it, we didn't know each other in the first place, right?" So, we didn't trust each other in the first place, so it's simple, there is a crossroads ahead, and the 6 of us are divided into three groups and go our own way, so that we don't affect each other anymore! ”
The others nodded silently in agreement, and just as they were about to leave, a small man stopped him and said, "Even if that's the case, we should keep in touch, shouldn't we?" We also have walkie-talkies. ”
"Of course." The proposer nodded, calming down a little, indeed, if one of the groups found the exit, the other two groups could go back the way they had been.
The little man looked at the man beside him: "My name is Mikhail, and his name is Vladimir!" I propose that the three of us have their own code names, which are distinguished by the three colors on the flag, white, blue and red, and Vladimir and I are the red group! ”
The previous proposer put down the gun and swallowed: "My name is Gnady. ”
The classmates next to Gnardi, who were also his entourage, raised their hands and said, "I'm Wadjit!" ”
Mikhail said: "Then you are the blue group, okay?" ”
Gnady and Waji nodded in agreement, then looked at the remaining two with the Red team.
The remaining two looked the youngest, and their faces were loaded with the most fear.
"What's your name?" Mikhail asked softly, worried that it would scare the guy too much.
"My name is Sergey." Sergei, who was an attendant, approached his companion, "This is my friend Zaraka!" ”
Zaraka nodded slightly, and subconsciously raised his hand again.
Gnardi frowned: "Zaraka? Your father is the real estate emperor? And the one called the Emperor of Belarus? ”
Zaraka didn't speak, and it was a tacit acquiescence.
Mikhail said: "Then you are the white group, okay, now everyone remembers the names of their respective groups, and the names, let's go separately." ”
After Mikhail finished speaking, he turned around and left with Vladimir, and Gnardi and Vadjit also nodded to the two of the white group, turned around and walked in the other direction, next to the intersection, only the two children of the white group were less than 20 years old.
Zaraka sighed, looked up at the two directions they were leaving, and said to Sergei, who was full of anticipation: "Let's not move forward. ”
Sergey nodded: "Okay." ”
Zaraka looked at Sergey: "I'm curious, why when I came to you, you didn't ask me any other questions, you were willing to come with me, and along the way, you didn't say anything. ”
"You're smart." Sergei sat down and said, "From childhood to adulthood, you have been the smartest one around us, and I am stupid, very stupid, although you did not speak well at that time, but I know very well that I can only become smarter if I follow the smart people, if a stupid person is always willing to give orders to people who are stupider than himself, it will only make him more stupid, at best, in a blind kingdom, as a one-eyed dragon king." ”
Zaraka smiled: "Sergey, you are the smartest one. ”
Sergei scratched his head embarrassedly, and Zaraka pointed at him and said: "Very good, that's it, deliberately shy, pretending to be modest, and scratching your head, at this time, people will praise you for being modest, but in the eyes of others, you are an idiot, do you want people to really think you are modest, or do you want people to treat you as an idiot?" ”
Sergei thought for a moment and said, "I want people to treat me as an idiot, Zaraka, this is what you taught me before. ”
"Yes." Zaraka patted Sergei's face, "That's right, you must let the family treat you as an idiot, a mature person, and not hurt an idiot, because the idiot is no threat to him, do you think those things that stood here before, they are mature?" ”
Sergei shook his head: "Maybe." ”
"Yes, maybe, maybe they are mature, maybe they are immature, but they are not children anymore, it's just that, in their eyes, we are children, change places, for example, in a bar, they won't take us, they will bully us, but not here, here they will stay away from us, because they are afraid that we will be a liability." Zaraka looked in the direction of the two groups of people leaving, "I just expected this, treat us as a burden, will give up on us, give up on us before the danger comes, we will win a third, you remember, the way to survive is that when you have to become food in other people's mouths, you must make yourself difficult to digest, so that even if people swallow you, swallow you, and stuff you into the stomach, they will be pulled out because of stomach discomfort, and some people will be eaten, they will be digested, and eventually become a piece of in the large intestine." , and we won't, we're still done, to be eaten, just a way to protect ourselves. ”
Sergei smiled: "Zaraka, this is what your father taught you, right?" He does the same in business? ”
Zaraka put away his smile: "No, his business skills are much more cruel than this, if he is standing here now, he will definitely treat everyone else as a victim, including you, but I won't, because the world is changing all the time, you have to leave one or two people you must trust, otherwise, who will help you at a critical moment." ”
Sergei nodded: "Yes, it should be so, so, we will sit here and wait now." ”
"Wait, and analyze." Zaraka nodded, "I spent a lot of money investigating them before I joined this club, it was necessary, I found that in the past few years, there have been a lot of people who have disappeared, all of them have something to do with this club, at first just some hunters, then some middle class, and then this year, they have become rich people." ”
Sergey shook his head: "I don't quite understand, how did you find out the relevance?" ”
"The police will look for connections between missing people, for example, four missing people, maybe they are all in the same position, that's their connection, and also, their occupations and incomes are similar, that's their connection, but this kind of criminal modus operandi is very low, it's easy to be discovered, but this club is different." "They choose people of different professions, but there will be a certain difference in income levels, but these people are usually gunmen, or people with combat experience, and in addition, the difference in the time of their disappearance is about a week, that is, a week after the first disappeared person appears, and the second missing person will appear, and most importantly, the location of their final disappearance is not fixed, and it is because of this instability that I have linked these groups of people." ”
Sergei nodded: "Oh, that is, you analyzed several batches of missing people at the same time, and then found that their complex background, coupled with the intersecting disappearance times, and the irregular disappearance location, this is their similarity and connection?" ”
"Yes, that's it. ”
Sergei asked suspiciously: "Then what is your purpose?" ”
"My purpose is that if I can solve these missing cases, it will be of great help to me in the future, in everyone's mind, I am a hero, you think, a hero's business, whether it is the government or the people, will support it." Zaraka pulled out a mouthful of gum and stuffed it into his mouth, "Plus, we can do whatever we want we didn't dare to do before." ”
Sergei whispered: "Murder?" ”
Zaraka nodded: "If necessary." ”
"What do you mean by necessity?" Sergey did not understand.
Zaraka said: "Sergei, we are not demons, we are people, we must have **, everyone has subconsciously thought about killing, but killing is illegal in civilized society, but, under the premise of self-preservation, under the premise of stopping other people from committing crimes, you kill people, on the contrary, it will become justice, do you know what I mean?" ”
Sergei finally came to his senses: "I understand, Zaraka, after we go back this time, I will follow you." ”
Zaraka shook his head: "No, Sergey, you should finish college, be proficient in a technology, have a hobby, have a certain foundation, you come to me again, I will definitely not refuse when the time comes, do you know why?" ”
Sergei grinned: "Because we killed people together, no, we killed bad people together because of self-preservation." ”
In the other part of the labyrinth, Mikhail and Vladimir of the Red Group were walking slowly with guns, and after walking for a long time, they found that they were safe, because there were no other corpses along the way, no of their own companions, no former Japanese soldiers, only some abandoned cargo trucks, which showed that the route they chose was safe.
However, Mikhail noticed that there were many dry paint-like lines on the ground.
"What the hell is this?" Mikhail crouched down and touched it with his hands, "Dried paint?" ”
Vladimir shined a flashlight on the railing next to him, and found something like that on the railing: "Black paint? But it feels like glue, dried glue, what the is this? ”
Mikhail got up and said: "Whatever it is, it is not a good sign, I think we should turn around and go back, we should not go any further." ”
Vladimir frowned: "No, it's safe here, I don't want to go back, let's move on, if we find something wrong, it's not too late for us to go back." ”
Mikhail shook his head: "No, I don't want to, I want to go back, if you want to move on, that's your choice, I definitely won't move forward, don't forget, how those 4 people died before, just because they found out that something was wrong, and they continued to move forward." ”
Vladimir looked at Mikhail: "Brother, what you said is true?" Are you going to leave me behind? ”
Mikhail shook his head: "Choice, this is a choice, it's not that I want to leave you, I didn't stop you from going back with me." ”
Vladimir thought for a long time: "I choose to move on, if I find something wrong, I will notify you by walkie-talkie, and you will too, right?" ”
"Yes, I will." After Mikhail finished speaking, he slowly retreated, "Good luck, brother, if you can get out alive, I will definitely take you to my father's Hawaiian villa, you can do whatever you want." ”
Vladimir stood there, watching Mikhail's flashlight gradually disappear into the distance, then he turned around and walked slowly forward with a gun, but after walking for less than five minutes, he suddenly stopped when he passed by a cell, and then slowly stopped, shining his flashlight into the cell, and then took several steps back in fright, because he saw that in that cell, there was a bloody corpse of Blue Group Gnardi lying flat and covered in holes......