Chapter 214: The Mountain Behind the Prison
No one has ever seen a ghost in the dark, but it is very common to see people in the sun. With a cute smile, you can exchange for the most basic trust, and over time, many conspiracies are built from the most basic trust. Of course, the world is not dark, and there are naturally many more places where the eye can shine than the darkness can erode them, but most people first see the dark corners, and then become the nourishment of the darkness without knowing anything.
After Fang Fan said that, Hu Lai kept hiding behind him. I don't know if I am afraid that my whereabouts will be exposed, or if I am afraid that what Fang Fan just said is not simple. Fang Fan dragged him from behind and asked.
"What are you doing hiding in the back?"
Hu Lai smiled embarrassedly and said.
"I... I was a little scared. ”
"Didn't you already dress up in disguise?"
"I'm not afraid of this, I'm mainly afraid of the things in it."
Fang Fan smiled and said.
"We haven't gone in yet, what are you afraid of. From now on, stand by my side with your head held high and above board, or I will tell the prison guards here about you. ”
"Brother, don't do this, or I'll really die."
"Then you do as I say."
Hu Lai still nodded with palpitations. The two walked towards the door, and two guards who were standing guard stopped them and said.
"What for?"
Fang Fan looked the other party up and down and said.
"I have something to see the warden."
"The warden is what you want, and you are not allowed to enter unless you visit mortals."
Fang Fan took out a document from his jacket pocket and handed it to the other party, saying.
"Can't you go in if you have this?"
The other party suspiciously took the document in Fang Fan's hand, and after a while, he said.
"If you show this kind of forged documents again, I have the right to arrest you in accordance with the law."
After that, he threw the certificate back to Fang Fan. Fang Fan smiled, then called Lu Yuanjie and said.
"Yuanjie, the documents you gave don't seem to be good, and you can't even enter the prison gate."
As soon as the words fell, Lu Yuanjie said on the other end of the phone.
"It must be that they don't know this document yet, you wait a while."
Fang Fan looked at the guard and smiled faintly, and the guard said.
"Please retreat behind the yellow line and wait."
At this time, Hu Lai whispered behind Fang Fan.
"This man seems to have been one of the prison guards at the time."
"Are you sure?"
Hu Lai looked at the guard's appearance again and said.
"Sure, but not like it. In short, it looks very familiar. ”
Fang Fan suddenly looked helpless, and then said.
"I'm sorry for you, step aside."
Hu Lai stepped aside in an orderly manner, Fang Fan took out a cigarette and stepped forward, and said.
"Brother has worked hard, smoke a cigarette and take a break."
The guard stretched out his hand to block it and said.
"It's shift time and smoking is not allowed."
Fang Fan put away the cigarette, and then asked politely.
"Have you been standing guard here all this time?"
The other party didn't speak, Fang Fan continued.
"You work hard enough, every day in the wind and sun, but your skin is quite good. Standing guard for the first time? ”
Fang Fan didn't say a word, but the last half of the sentence was only said after he looked at the guard's skin. The guard's skin did not look like that of someone who worked outside the home all year round, his skin was not only fair but also delicate, which was only the skin of someone who sat in the office all year round. Unexpectedly, the other party suddenly said excitedly.
"Please don't chat casually with the staff on duty."
At this time, Fang Fan's phone rang, it was Lu Yuanjie calling.
"Fang Fan, you show the other party the documents again."
"Understood."
After hanging up the phone, Fang Fan handed the document to the other party and said.
"It may be that there is something wrong with my documents just now, please check it again."
The guard was impatient with the certificate, and then returned to the duty room to enter the certificate number on the computer, and after a while, Fang Fan's information was displayed on the computer, and the position column said the country's top security adviser. The guard was dumbfounded, and hurriedly ran out and said respectfully to Fang Fan.
"The documents are returned to you, there was indeed some misunderstanding just now, so I will take you to see the prison warden."
Fang Fan nodded with a smile and said.
"I'm tired."
The guards led the way in front, and Hu Lai asked questions in a whisper in the back.
"Brother, you just changed your ID?"
"Nope."
"Then why did his attitude change so much?"
"Maybe he knows who I am, right?"
Hu Lai said with a blank face.
"It's hard to see you have any other identity than the bar owner."
Hu Lai made a mistake in the past in the rivers and lakes, and he had to ask about everything, and he said. Fang Fan knew in his heart what he wanted to ask, but he didn't want to sue him. So Fang Fan made a shushing gesture, and Hu Lai immediately closed his mouth obediently.
Led by the guards, they came to the prison office, and when the office door opened, a tall man walked out, Hu Lai subconsciously took a step back, his eyes slightly wide. After the guard stepped forward and whispered a few words in the prison warden's ear, the prison warden enthusiastically came over to shake Fang Fan's hand.
"Song has missed the distance, please forgive me."
Fang Fan looked at the prison warden who was dressed plainly and cleanly, and there were a few feelings of reverence in his heart. The warden doesn't seem to be the kind of person who pretends to be, and his simplicity radiates from the inside out. The prison warden asked Fang Fan and Hu Lai to sit down, and the moment they sat down, the prison warden noticed the tattoo on Hu Lai's wrist. There was a churn in my heart, but there was no change in my face.
"Let me introduce myself first, my name is Song Jun, and I am the warden of the prison in the suburbs. I wonder what is important for the two of you to come from the original way? ”
Hearing this, Fang Fan sat up straight and said.
"My name is Fang Fan, and this is my assistant. This time, we came to disturb the case of the mysterious death of the fourth child in the prison. ”
Song Jun was taken aback, the case was absolutely confidential, and for some reason it was spread, he smiled and said.
"Don't be impatient, after all, it's an old case, and it's not too early now, let's have a light meal and talk about it slowly."
Fang Fan nodded and said.
"It's up to you."
After that, Song Jun arranged for the prison guards to go to the cafeteria to prepare food. A moment later, Song Jun took Fang Fan and Hu Lai to the cafeteria. After the three of them sat down, Song Jun asked.
"I don't know how you know about the fourth child's case?"
Fang Fan knew that Song Jun would definitely suspect that he knew about the case, but he didn't expect him to ask such a direct question. Fang Fan pondered for a moment and said.
"To tell you the truth, the red handprint is already a strange thing in Zhonghai City, and many people are rumoring about it. Not long ago, another person was killed because of the red handprint, but by chance I heard from someone else that the red handprint had happened in this prison, so I wanted to look for some clues. ”
Song Jun said slowly.
"No, did you hear about it from a guy named Hu Lai?"
After Song Jun finished speaking, he squinted at Hu Lai, who was sitting next to Fang Fan at this time, Hu Lai was a little flustered, and Fang Fan immediately pressed his shaking leg hard. Then Fang Fan said.
"It's all rumors, how do I know the man's name?"
Song Jun said with a smile.
"It's not in the way, it's not in the way. I'm just asking, don't be surprised. There was indeed a case of red handprints here, but it was later confirmed that it was a lie made up by the criminals for the purpose of committing murder. ”
Hu Lai suddenly said excitedly when he heard this.
"No, that's not a lie, it's a fact."
Song Jun was not too shocked when he saw Hu Lai's reaction, as if he had expected Hu Lai's reaction. Fang Fan hurriedly said.
"I'm sorry, I'm offended. To tell you the truth, the victim of the red handprint was a friend of my assistant, so he was a little emotional. ”
"It's okay, it's okay, it's human nature."
There was silence at the dinner table, and after a moment, Fang Fan said.
"I want to go to the fourth child's cell with my assistant to have a look, is it convenient for you to see?"
Song Jun put down the chopsticks in his hand and said without the slightest hesitation.
"Convenient, of course. Do I need to be accompanied? ”
"Please also arrange for someone to be our guide."
"No problem."
After lunch, Song Jun said.
"Let's go to the cell now."
"Where's the person you arranged?"
"It's lunch break, so I'll take you there."
"I'm tired."
Song Jun took Fang Fan and them to the cell area, where all the mortals rested after lunch. Everything here is all too familiar, the corridors where the three of them pass side by side, the cells with iron bars on both sides, and the unique smell of cells. After a while, the three of them came to the door of an empty cell, and Song Jun said.
"This is the cell where the fourth man lived before, but it has been empty since his death."
Hu Lai walked in first, Fang Fan followed, Hu Lai pointed to the claw marks on the wall and whispered.
"At that time, he just cut the white from the wall and painted it on his face."
Fang Fan looked at the scratches, then stroked them with his hand and said.
"He must have been in pain, wasn't he?"
"What do you mean?"
"Judging from the depth of the scratches, the fourth child must have been struggling at that time, maybe it was his consciousness, or maybe it was his heart."
"I don't know, I was struggling anyway."
After that, Hu Lai secretly glanced at Song Jun and found that Song Jun didn't pay attention to himself before he put his mind at ease.
"You two wait outside for me for a while."
With that, Song Jun and Hu Lai walked out of the cell. Song Jun suddenly patted Hu Lai on the shoulder and asked.
"Where do you usually work?"
Hu Lai suddenly became agitated and said in a slur manner.
"I work as a security guard at a bar."
"Aren't you his assistant?"
"It's an assistant, but I also work part-time as a security guard."
Song Jun said with a smile.
"The assistant of the country's top security adviser is a bit too down-to-earth, right?"
Hu Lai smiled awkwardly and stopped talking. They focused their attention on Fang Fan in the cell, who was lying flat on the lower bunk, as if feeling something. After a while he suddenly sat up, then reached out to pick at Dabai on the wall, and then applied Dabai to his face, and when he was about to bite his finger, Hu Lai rushed over and shouted.
"Fang Fan, Fang Fan."
Fang Fan was suddenly awakened, he looked at his white hand and looked at Hu Lai in surprise, and asked.
"What's wrong with me?"
"How do I know, you suddenly lie down, and then you still use your hands to pick the white and wipe it on your face."
Fang Fan walked out of the cell and said to Song Jun.
"Let's be honest, isn't this prison haunted?"
Song Jun showed a surprised expression for the first time, although it was not very obvious, but his suddenly constricted pupils still betrayed his heart. But after all, Song Jun was also a person who had seen strong winds and waves, so he calmed down at that time and said.
"We are the prison of the state, and we don't believe in gods and ghosts. Do you, as the country's top security adviser, still believe this? ”
Fang Fan smiled and said.
"Gods and ghosts are mysterious realms that people don't know, but the unknown doesn't mean they don't exist. There are many cases that are committed by gods and ghosts at the level that you are not involved in, but I have experienced a lot. ”
"You..."
Song Jun was speechless, and Fang Fan continued.
"You are so disgusted by this, and you don't want to admit it, do you know why you don't want to say it? I'll tell you the truth, just when I was lying in bed, I felt something pressing on me, and then someone whispered in my ear that he had died unjustly, and told me that his name was the fourth. ”
Hearing this, Song Jun's expression did not change at all, but Hu Lai was a little frightened and moved away from the cell. Song Jun pondered for a moment and said.
"Do you doubt me?"
"I didn't mean that."
Song Jun snorted coldly and said.
"You can watch it as long as you want, but I can't accompany Song Mou, so I will leave."
With that, Song Jun turned around and left. At this time, Hu Lai came over and asked.
"Brother, did the fourth really talk to you just now?"
Looking at the back of Song Jun walking away, Fang Fan said.
"I made it all up."
"Made-up? Could it be that you just got up in bed and got up again? ”
Fang Fan nodded and said.
"The reason why I did this was to see Song Jun's reaction, and I was worried that if you didn't stop me when I was about to bite my finger just now, then I would have to really bite my finger."
Hearing this, Hu Lai let out a sigh of relief and said.
"I'm scared to death by you. I thought the soul of the fourth child was really here. ”
Fang Fan said with a smile.
"That's right, the soul of the fourth child is indeed still here, but it seems to be controlled by something."
Hu Lai was taken aback and said.
"Brother, don't scare me. Don't look at me like this, but I'm too timid. Why don't we check it out and go back. ”
Fang Fan glanced at Hu Lai with disdain and said.
"It's okay to go back, don't you want to save the stones?"
Hu Lai lowered his head and whispered.
"Of course not."
Then Hu Lai took another deep breath and said.
"Okay, it's all up to you."
As soon as the words fell, a few red gases burst out from behind Fang Fan, Hu Lai screamed, and then pointed to those red gases and asked.
"What is this?"
"Why are you all making a fuss, these are the aura in my body. They can feel a soul wandering in space, and I just asked them to find the soul of the fourth. ”
"Did you find that?"
Fang Fan shook his head and said.
"Not yet, but they found that it wasn't just the fourth person trapped in this prison, and the location of those souls couldn't be determined."
"More than the fourth? Could it be that there are thousands of unjustly killed ghosts here? ”
"It's a prison, inevitably. Those who were executed were all unnatural deaths, and it was normal for them to stay in one place for a long time after death, and they must have unfulfilled wishes. ”
"Even if you have a wish, you should only be able to fulfill it outside, right? What can you do in there? ”
Fang Fan patted Hu Lai on the shoulder and said.
"Finally got to the point. The reason why these ghosts can't get out is because they are controlled by something, so they stay here for a long time. ”
Hu Lai was already so frightened that he couldn't speak, Fang Fan smiled and said.
"Don't worry, as long as you follow me every step of the way, you'll be fine."
Hu Lai nodded again and again and said.
"I will follow you every step of the way, and I will not go anywhere. So what are we going to do now? ”
And so on. In the dead of night, we go to the bathroom to see what clues are there. ”
There is nothing lost faster than time, and no one can perceive the sensation of it slipping through their fingers, and only when time reveals its last expression on its own will it be noticed by those who never cherish it.
Late at night, Fang Fan and Hu Lai came to the bathroom after all the prisoners had taken a bath, Fang Fan asked after checking it.
"At that time, you said that the fourth child was killed by the red handprint in the bathroom, right?"
Hu Lai nodded and said.
"That's right, right here."
"And do you remember where he was when he died?"
Hu Lai pointed to the penultimate cubicle without the slightest memory and said.
"I remember he came out of here, and then came to me, and when he was shocked by the golden light, he hit the wall, and then the two red hands killed him."
Hu Lai said as he pointed to the wall behind Fang Fan. At this time, those red auras appeared beside Fang Fan again. Suddenly, those auras gathered by the wall, and the original dark red auras turned bright red little by little, and they continued to flicker with light.
"Brother, what do you think is going on?"
"Shhhh Whisper. The aura is sensing the soul of the fourth child, this is the place where he was killed, so the soul body remains the most, and the location of the fourth soul can be found the fastest from here. ”
The aura flickered like a flame in the dark night, and suddenly the entire bathroom was illuminated in bright red. Suddenly, a blue flame appeared on the flat ground, and then those auras burst intently. Fang Fan stood up abruptly and took a few steps back. The ground, where he had just been squatting, suddenly turned black after burning.
"Brother, are you alright?"
"It's fine. There's something here that doesn't want us to find the soul of the fourth. Hulai, do you remember where the body of the fourth child was placed at that time? ”
Hu Lai thought for a while and said.
"At that time, the fourth child died in a terrible way, so he was buried in the back mountain of the prison that night."
"Wasn't there a cremation?"
"Nope."
"Do you remember where you buried it?"
"It's easy to find there, it's a graveyard. Some prisoners will be taken away by their families after death, but some prisoners who have no family will be buried in the back mountain after death. There are no tombs there, and the only way to identify them is to look at the code cloth buried next to it. And the new grave will be separated from a piece of red cloth pressed with mahogany. ”
"Ward off evil spirits?"
"Hmm."
Fang Fan pondered for a moment and said.
"You take me to the back mountain to find the body of the fourth child."
"Huh? What are you doing? ”
"I'm going to find something in him."
Generally speaking, even people who are familiar with the terrain of mountains and forests will not choose to go up the mountain at night, because the situation in the mountains is complicated at night. It is even rumored that the terrain of the mountains and forests becomes different at night than during the day. But at this time, the two of them had no choice but to go up the mountain at this time, Fang Fan asked Hu Lai to walk in front, and he walked behind.
About a few dozen minutes later, the two came to a deserted grave, Hu Lai gasped for breath, and when he looked back, he suddenly screamed loudly.
"Ahh Hell. ”
"Shut up, it's me."
It turned out that Fang Fan had released the power of Liuyun Jue in advance just in case, at this time, his whole body was wrapped in red aura, and his eyes were even more red and terrifying, no wonder Hu Lai was frightened by his appearance. Fang Fan put away the power of Liuyun Jue, looked at Hu Lai, whose body was like a sifting chaff, and said.
"I now believe that what you said about your cowardice is the truth."
Hu Lai didn't speak for a long time, Fang Fan thought he was resting, but after a while, he said tremblingly.
"Brother, can you pull me?"
Fang Fan turned his head to look at Hu Lai and asked.
"What's wrong?"
"My legs are so weak that I can't move."
In desperation, Fang Fan pulled him up from the ground and said.
"Stop the ink, tell me where the fourth child is buried."
Hu came to inspect it, and then pointed to a new tomb in the northwest corner.
"That's it."
The two of them walked over, and Fang Fan clearly felt a cold aura coming from this tomb.
"Dig. You'll come out when you're digging a foot and a half, you know? ”
Hu Lai nodded, then rolled up his arms and sleeves, and after a while he shouted.
"Brother, it's okay."
Fang Fan walked over and took a look at it and said.
"Alright, you come up."
After Hu Lai came up, he asked.
"And then what am I going to do?"
Fang Fan looked at him, then asked in a low voice.
"Is it cold?"
Suddenly a gust of wind blew, Hu Lai shivered, and said.
"It's a little cold."
"Get around here. If I don't call you, don't come. ”
Hu Lai nodded, and went to the side to trot. At this time, Fang Fan unleashed the power of Liuyun Jue and used the red aura to protect his body. When he jumped into the pit, the dust and gravel around him were all suspended, and then the pit grew deeper and deeper. After a while, the corpse inside was revealed, and looking at the appearance of the fourth child when he died, Fang Fan was also shocked. The entire head had been embedded in the back, and the clothes on the body had been stained red with blood, and had turned dark red by this time. At this moment, Fang Fan suddenly realized something, and immediately gasped and muttered to himself.
"Why didn't it rot?"
Fang Fan shouted loudly.
"Hu, come over here."
After a while, Hu Lai ran over, he looked inside and saw the body of the fourth child, and then screamed, Fang Fan shouted loudly.
"Don't make noise. I ask you something. ”
"Brother, hurry up."
"How long has the fourth child been dead?"
"It's been about a month."
"Alright."
With that, Hu Lai ran away into the distance. Judging from the time of death, combined with the local weather and temperature, even if it is autumn, it will not be able to keep the corpse fresh. It stands to reason that the corpse at this time should have been highly decomposed, but now it is still so well preserved, as if it had just died, it is really strange. Fang Fan was thinking, but he forgot to put away the power of the Flowing Cloud Jue, at this time, the surrounding sand and gravel were still rising, and the pit was still getting deeper. Fang Fan suddenly stumbled under his feet, and just as he was struggling to stand firm under his feet, he suddenly saw that just under the corpse of the fourth child, there was a well-preserved female corpse.