Chapter 164: The Eve of the Execution
How many people will die tomorrow?
Ringer couldn't answer Diana's question.
This is my fate, and I can't escape it.
Before going to bed, Diana curled up, as if she was sleeping with her words.
Ringer wanted to hug her, but Diana was adamant and sensitive, and she was alone with a quilt covering her head.
The next day, nine more bodies were placed under the bell tower, all nuns, plus yesterday's, a total of thirteen.
Diana's face grew paler and bloodless.
Ringer was on duty all night, and his face was also ugly, and they stood quietly on the bell tower.
Under the bell tower, the people of the abbey, led by Abbot Molly, lined up, quietly looking at the two people on the roof, and soon the abbot knelt down, and the people behind her, including the bankers, spice merchants, and all of them, knelt down, and the object of their worship: Diana.
The colonel was nowhere to be seen, and he did not know where he had gone.
Ringer was most concerned about him, and he was afraid that the colonel would hide in the shadows and let go of the cold gun.
Whether all the nuns came, Ringer didn't know, in the crowd, Reno was not there, and there was another person, Nalan Haiying, who was not there, and the remaining one was the big red robe-sauce bag psychic, and he was nowhere to be found.
Nalan Haiying turned into a dry corpse? No, there was no her in the corpse. It's normal for a child to be frightened by something like this.
The dean led the team, they knelt in the open space of the bell tower for half an hour, and Diana stood quietly and motionless on the bell tower, she and the kneeling people were face to face.
Diana didn't have any expression, her joy and sorrow had nothing to do with her, she looked down blankly. Under the bell tower, people's eyes are full of longing and supplication.
When it was almost noon, the dean left with the people.
In the afternoon, the sauce bag appeared, went up to the bell tower, and said: "I'm very sorry, damn Reno, there is a colonel guarding him, I can't kill him, don't think about going, the colonel has set a trap, just waiting for you to jump in, you can't kill him, that's the situation."
"Have you seen Nalan Haiying?"
"No, I didn't see her, she didn't become a dead body, she just didn't know where she went, she was a very likable child, she was the only child in the monastery, she talked to me the most, she wouldn't treat me as a prisoner and a bad person, I asked the abbot, and the abbot didn't know where she went."
Ringer sighed: "Poor child, she must be frightened, although the monastery is large, it will not find a person, this is very strange, where can she go, it will not be to run into the fog wall." ”
"It's hard to say, if you're scared, anything can happen, I'll look for it again, maybe I'm hiding somewhere to play, I can find her, yes, don't worry, do you have anything I need to convey to Reno?"
After standing all morning, the sculptural Diana spoke: "There is nothing to convey, you go, don't come up." ”
"Okay, I'm leaving, you guys, think for yourself."
The psychic clumsily went down the bell tower, and as he went, he kept looking back, hoping that Diana would say something, and he was disappointed.
It's another night.
Diana went to sleep first, and I don't know when, Ringer began to nap, and he didn't sleep much for two nights in a row, he was sleepy, and he couldn't hold on, Diana got up: "You take a rest, I'll take care of you." ”
Ringer thought about it for a moment: "Okay, I'll sleep for a while, you be careful, especially the colonel." ”
He quickly fell asleep
Diana leaned down and looked at his sleeping face, for a long time, and at last, she straightened up, straightened her dress, and walked to the top of the stairs.
She stood at the staircase for a moment and walked down the bell tower.
Ringer opened his eyes, and it was already dark.
He rubbed his eyes and looked around to see that Diana was not on the bell tower.
He scurried up like a cheetah, looking everywhere, cold sweat suddenly broke out from his back, and he felt that something was wrong.
Under the bell tower, someone shouted to him: "Monk, come down, Diana has turned herself in and is locked up in the White House." "Scholarly
It was the big red robe shouting.
Ringer's head buzzed, and he found that his blood rushed to the top of his head, and his eyes became blood-red.
He carried a gun and went downstairs with a menacing attitude.
When the big red robe saw him come out of the bell tower viciously, he said: "Calm down, man, it was Diana's willingness, she didn't want to see the dead again, you know, just last night, four more died, Diana asked me to bring you a message, don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive, and also, the person she designated for execution is you, and Rino also means this, it must be you, you are ready to prepare, tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, the execution." ”
Ringer's hand on the gun trembled.
Sauce Bao patted him on the shoulder: "Diana also said that she doesn't want to see you now, she doesn't want to see anyone, she wants to be alone, that's all, I hope you don't bother her." ”
Ringer pushed the psychic away: "Get out!" ”
He carried a gun and ran towards the white house!
On the way, the dean led someone to stop him.
"Monk, what do you want to do, if you want to save Diana, you kill me first."
Ringer raised his gun: "Get out of the way, whoever stands in the way will die!" ”
No one got out of the way, and dozens of people were in the middle of the road
"Monk, give up, Diana has surrendered, what reason do you have not to surrender?"
The colonel came out of the bushes behind Ringer like a ghost, and several men pounced on him and fired Ringer's gun.
He was tied up by the colonel and sent to the utility room.
The monk was tied to a large millstone and sat on the ground.
In the utility room, the smell was a little unpleasant, and the colonel also squatted in front of the monk, lit a cigarette, took a puff, and brought it to the monk's mouth: "Smoke?" ”
Ringer took a hard breath and choked on and coughed violently, he couldn't smoke.
The colonel put the cigarette in his mouth and said: "Monk, tomorrow you will cut off the head of your beloved woman, I know that you are in pain, I know, I can understand, I also deeply sympathize, exchange Diana for the lives of more than a hundred people in the monastery, I think it is worth it, don't tell me, Diana is not the initiator of this evil conspiracy, I just want to promise you again, if you kill Diana, the tragedy of the abbey has not been resolved, I will kill Reno and Dean Molly as soon as possible, this is the fairness of the referee." ”
"No, you listen to me!"
The colonel didn't listen to anything, took a cigarette in his mouth, and left slowly.
Ringer could only look up to the sky and sigh.
After dark, Sharapova brought him dinner, and outside the utility room, Corrie was on guard, and before the execution was over, Ring's rope could not be untied, and Sharapova had to feed Ringer.
"Eat a little, monk, if you don't eat, you'll starve."
"Did Diana eat it?"
"I just went, and she didn't eat."
"Can you find a way for me to meet her?"
"No, monk, the colonel will personally guard there with people, except for Father Reno, the dean, no one can see her, Diana made a request, before she died, she wanted to take a bath, the dean agreed, and someone has arranged to send a bathtub and hot water, in addition, Reno will help you prepare."
"Prepare what?"
"Machete, tomorrow the execution will not be at the guillotine, on the side of the altar, at the edge of the collapsed pit, the priest said, after Diana was cut down, her body should be pushed into the great hole, so that our convent could escape its doom."
Sharapova said this, and two lines of tears had already fallen.
"Diana is so pathetic, is she really the embodiment of a demon?"
"Help me untie it, please!"
Sharapova shook her head in fright: "No, no, if I let you go, Father Rino will definitely kill me, if he doesn't kill me, he will push me into the big hole..."