Chapter 1 A tree that can't live, a hole that can't be filled
My name is Si'an, one-two-three-four, four, and peace. It is said that my father gave me the name Ban'an, which means that a person is half young. Later, he was rejected by his mother, and scolded his father, and forced him to change Ban'an to Si'an, which means that the four seasons are safe.
It's vulgar, but it may also be a blessing to the name, although I haven't been given some nicknames like senior happiness, but elementary school, middle school, and university have been quite smooth all the way. Four years ago, I graduated from a very ordinary university, then I took the prison police exam, and after two years, I got married, and I got paid neither high nor low salary, and lived a life of going to and from work. Although there is very little hope of promotion, I usually work very hard and always fantasize about having a chance to make meritorious contributions, not to mention anything else, at least let me have some thrilling experiences to tell my grandchildren about after retirement.
The unit is very remote, in the deep mountains to the west of a small seaside town, there are no people in a radius of twenty or thirty miles, and it is all the kind of stone mountains that are unique to the northern seaside, and the big stones on the mountains are scary. In the 70s, it used to be a well-known mine, but recently the veins have dried up and it is basically in a semi-standstill state. Coupled with the change of policy, these high-risk industries have been made a one-size-fits-all, many factories and equipment have been idle, and the popularity has been cut off for a long time, and the haunted houses are everywhere, like a piece of scabies surrounded by green mountains and green waters, which is particularly eye-catching.
However, the surrounding scenery is excellent, and the air has become exceptionally clear after the shutdown, if it were not for the prison unit to have its own restrictions, it would still be good to engage in tourism, but the traffic is not very convenient, and there is only a winding mountain road to the outside to transport ore, which has long been in disrepair and has been dilapidated.
In short, I was living an ordinary life in such an isolated place, and I had thought that such a life would go on forever, but what happened later tied me to the secrets and fate of this world.
All of this stems from the escape of that criminal......
It was Friday and I was on duty.
It should be the reason for drinking at noon, and I slept very deeply in the afternoon, and when I woke up, it was already dusk. Seeing that I was going to be late, I cursed, quickly got up, put on my clothes and walked out.
The gates of the prison open to the north. I swiped my card, brushed my face and fingerprints, tossed into the compound, walked into the duty room, and met Brother Wang who was going to go out, and when I saw me, I stuffed a large bunch of keys into my stomach, while scolding, "You thing, my wife is not at home and still stepping on it, rely on me!" ”
Some time ago, my wife took home leave to go back to her parents' house, and now she hasn't come back, and they make fun of me about this every day.
I didn't reply and grabbed his hand directly and grabbed a collar to get rid of it, who knew that this buddy's wrist was worse than a loach, and he broke free with a twist. Leaned sideways and hooked me to my knees and put me down on the couch.
"Good boy, will you be flexible, the crotch is the collar, huh?" Brother Wang put on a police hat and looked at me and smiled. I simply couldn't get up on the couch, "It's okay, I won't be flexible and I won't let you be killed?" ”
"Come on, you! Get up quickly, and let the prisoners see what it looks like."
"I can't get up, the leader is too ruthless"
"Then you lie on your stomach, I'll go first, you should be vigilant at night, the big hole in the yard hasn't been filled yet?"
There was a knock on the door, and Brother Wang left.
I rolled over and lay down. Brother Wang is our leader, and the appearance of the literary and artistic youth is purely disguised, and it is full of naked shamelessness and violence. Although he is the leader of our prison area, he is not too big or small, and we are happy to play with him, and we will sneak up on each other twice when we have nothing to do.
Turn on the TV and change the channel upside down. Inside the surveillance, the prisoners were studying, and there were rows of small benches sitting, and the study committee members were dangling there, and I tried my best to count the bald heads, and it was still that number.
Dropping the remote, I got up and walked to the window.
The yard was bright and there was no one in it. Every night the silence of the courtyard and the popularity of the building make me feel amazing, just across this wall, there are two worlds, and every morning when the door of the prison door is broken, what will these two worlds think?
The duty room was on the third floor, and the entire prison square was in my sight. The inmates of our prison are held in a centralized manner, more than 3,000 people, and they are concentrated in this compound of more than 200 acres at night. The six prison buildings are surrounded by walls, with squares in between, and the prison walls are six meters high, and in order to prevent prisoners from escaping, the prison buildings must be ten meters away from the walls, which are one level higher than the prison walls.
I put my hand on the iron railing of the window and looked out, the whole compound was illuminated by the white spotlights on the roof, and the yellow spotlights on the prison wall contrasted with the sculpture on the west side, and there was a sculpture on the east side of the sculpture, and the west side was the pit that Brother Wang said.
The pit must be about five meters in diameter, with a row of floor tiles neatly arranged on one side and a whole lump of soil on the other. I looked at the mound of soil and estimated that if this pit was kept at this caliber, it would be six or seven meters deep.
It's a long story to say why this pit was dug well. The place was originally a tree pit, with dirt underneath and a layer of fine sand on the surface, no different from other tree pits. But the problem is that the trees planted never lived! In the unit, I tried all kinds of tricks such as spraying, fertilizing, and hanging bottles, but it was useless, other trees grew taller, and the saplings in this pit dried on the ground as soon as they were stubble.
This time, I don't know which leader is in what situation, but I decided that there must be an ancient tomb underground, so I have to dig it up. It is said that this statement is also reliable, the ancient tombs generally have a large amount of mercury or something, and the soil is also rammed porcelain, which is indeed not suitable for plant growth, and many experienced tomb robbers will rely on this to find ancient tombs.
But this is only a theory after all, the ground in the mountains is shallow, and I saw that I had dug to the bottom of the stones, so I stopped working without any choice. After several days of shelf, they didn't fill it in, and the prison chiefs were nervous, as if the prisoners were pangolins, and they couldn't be caught if they jumped in.
When the time came to wash, the doors of the cells opened automatically, and the prisoners lined up in the corridor to go to the toilet to wash. The communal toilets and washrooms are at the end of the corridor, with the prisoners' cells to the south and the activity rooms and conference rooms to the north. These prison buildings are all buildings in the 80s of the last century, the structure is old-fashioned, when the modern prison was carried out, the unit also wanted to change the prison for convicts into independent toilets, but the economy was tight, and finally the access control of each prison area was equipped with an electronic control system. The advantage is that the captains no longer have to open the iron doors one by one, just watch on the surveillance, which is easy and safe.
I watched the surveillance, orderly, boringly turned my head and continued to look out the window, outside there was the shouting of the various prison quarters before going to bed, and the sculptures and trees in the courtyard were still standing under those artificial daylight, bowing their heads and being silent.