Chapter 19: The Headless Man
Zhang Hui put the Ingisha knife on my neck, and it suddenly cooled my heart.
Zhang whispered in my ear, "This way it won't bother you." β
The door opened, and the waiter dodged as soon as he dodged, revealing several black muzzles - sure enough, a few SWAT officers with loaded guns.
One of them shouted: "Let go of the hostages!" Put down the knives! β
As soon as Zhang Hui threw the knife away, he raised his hands.
I didn't run away immediately, but I glanced back at Zhang Hui, who didn't look at me, just looked at the policemen blankly. I walked to the door, and then slowly walked down the hallway, tears streaming down my face.
I heard the SWAT officers rushing in, and they seemed to have pinned Zhang Hui to the bed and handcuffed him......
Another brother is gone.
He was right, he must have been a capital offense, and I would never see him again if I said goodbye today.
We have lived together for more than a month, experiencing life and death, ups and downs. To be honest, I like this brother a lot.
But he was gone.
Now, there are only 5 of us left......
I went downstairs and walked to a remote corner of the resort and sat on a rock in a daze.
It was still early, and the sun was shining quietly and warmly. There is a wind, blowing on the face and cool.
Several police cars drove away one after another.
Calm returned to the resort.
A black-brown bearded vulture hovered in the sky, not knowing if it was a good omen or a bad omen.
Xiao 5, Cong Zhen, and Bibi walked out, and Xiao 5's netizen followed her, carrying the two largest boxes. They put the boxes in the car, got into the car, and drove out of the resort one after the other.
I listened to the engine farther and farther away, and finally I couldn't hear it.
How silent this little city is.
Did the monsoon go to the tomb? Will she be able to adapt to that inhuman life?
Pulp juice, Bubu, Yi Wu, Xu Erge, Wei Zao, Haowai, Huang Xi, police Zhang Hui, Jiang Mengxi, Zhou Zhidan, Lu Sanguo, Ma Ran, Lao Ding...... How are they doing in that world?
My heart is filled with sorrow.
I wanted to make a phone call to tell me about my sorrow, but I couldn't find anyone.
Both of my parents are gone. My ex-wife broke up with me, and she and her daughter Meixi are far away in France. The only person close to me is Monsoon, who is now in the middle of nowhere, her whereabouts unknown. Who else?
In an interview, I said something like this: I know countless people. I don't know anyone.
There was only one sigh left.
The sun is getting hotter.
I stood up and walked out of the resort. I thought we were going to leave Kure tomorrow, and I wanted to go around the streets and take one last look at it.
Someone called me, I looked back, Meng Xiaoshuai ran over: "Boss Zhou!" β
I don't know why, I feel very cordial when I see Meng Xiaoshuai.
I stopped: "What's wrong?" β
Meng Xiaoshuai: "Zhang Hui was arrested?" β
I said, "That's where he goes." β
Meng Xiaoshuai's demeanor darkened suddenly, and after a long time, he said: "This fool, if he had turned himself in earlier, he would have been sentenced to a lighter sentence......"
I said, "Even if he turns himself in, it will be a capital offense." β
Meng Xiaoshuai: "It's different! If he had turned himself in, at least his soul would have calmed down when he was shot. β
I said, "Makes sense." β
Meng Xiaoshuai: "Are we really going to leave tomorrow?" β
I said, "Do you want to save him?" β
Meng Xiaoshuai: "If you lend me a gut, I don't dare." I mean, will we really be able to leave Lop Nur tomorrow? How can I not believe it! β
Meng Xiaoshuai's casual words made my heart darken: "Could it be that something else will happen to us?" β
Meng Xiaoshuai: "Anyway, I'm up and down in my heart." β
I said, "Let's go, I'll show you around." β
Meng Xiaoshuai said: "Then I'll go back and clean up." β
I said, "No, you're beautiful right now." β
Meng Xiaoshuai and I got into a taxi at the entrance of the resort and drove towards the city center.
I sat in the back seat, and Meng Xiaoshuai sat in the passenger seat.
I observed this driver, white and clean, wearing glasses, more like an intellectual. I looked at myself in the rearview mirror above his head, his face tanned, his beard unkempt, like a fruit grower. If I can return to Lancheng, I will post a photo on Weibo to show you as soon as possible.
After the car started, after walking a short distance, the seat belt alarm sounded "tick tick".
I said, "Meng Xiaoshuai, fasten your seatbelt." β
Only then did she remember that she was not wearing a seatbelt, so she quickly fastened it. Seat belt alarm disarmed.
After walking a little way, there was a short-haired girl in front of us who stopped the car, and she ran around us and ran towards the back. There was another taxi in the back.
I said, "This girl is very familiar, she seems to be staying at our resort as well." β
Meng Xiaoshuai said: "For girls, your men's eyes are like hunters. β
I said, "On behalf of all people of the same sex, agree ......"
After a while, Meng Xiaoshuai said, "Boss Zhou, will you come to this place again in the future?" β
I said, "What about you?" β
Meng Xiaoshuai's answer was beyond my expectations, she said, "I may come again." β
I said, "Do you want to come with Wu Min?" β
Meng Xiaoshuai snorted disdainfully: "He? β
I said, "Who do you like more of these men on our team?" β
With that, I looked at her expectantly.
Meng Xiaoshuai thought about it a little embarrassed, and said for a long time: "If there are only these few people, then I prefer Zhang Hui." β
I don't want to talk to her anymore.
I started looking at the taxi, and it was new.
I pulled out the magazine from behind the front seat and flipped through it, it was also new and smelled of paper.
I put the magazine in my back pocket and looked out the window.
Outside the window is the Qitian shopping mall. There are two Qitian shopping malls in the city......
I suddenly said to the driver, "Master, you take us to the city hall." β
The driver looked back at me: "City government? β
I said, "What's wrong?" β
Meng Xiaoshuai asked me: "Boss Zhou, what are we going to do in the city government?" β
I said, "I'm going to do something." β
Then, I continued to look at the driver.
The driver didn't seem to know where the city government was, he slowed down, blinked his eyes, and muttered: "City hall ......"
I said, "You don't know where the city government is?" β
The driver said, "I really don't know ......"
I was on fire all of a sudden, and I felt that the city was playing with me, and this driver was playing with me. I said, "You can't even find the city government, what kind of taxi do you drive!" β
Meng Xiaoshuai hurriedly played a round: "Maybe people who work in the city government don't take taxis, there are buses." Boss Zhou, don't worry, I have a navigator on my phone......"
Then, Meng Xiaoshuai turned on the navigator, located the "city government", and then said to the driver: "Master, please just follow the navigator." β
The driver was a little ashamed and said, "Okay......"
The navigator spoke, and it was an electronic female voice: "Go ahead to the destination, Wu City Government." The vehicle is located on Hongdong Street, 400 meters ahead, please make a U-turn......"
The driver has been following the instructions of the navigator, passing through many unfamiliar streets, and it is becoming more and more remote.
I said, "How can the city government be in such a place?" β
Meng Xiaoshuai said: "Don't worry, this is 3 kilometers." β
The taxi finally drove out of the city and into the suburbs, lined with endless deserts. The navigator spoke: "The front is approaching the destination, and this navigation is over." β
The driver stopped the car and looked back at me confused.
I looked out the window, and my heart was dark. There is no house here!
Meng Xiaoshuai looked around, and then said: "Maybe the city government has moved, and my navigator hasn't been updated for a long time......
I took out my mobile phone, surfed the Internet, and looked up the map of Wucheng, and the city government was where we were at the moment! Isn't the map updated either?
My gut tells me it's not that simple!
After entering Lop Nur, I realized that the earth looks like a head, it has eyes, a nose, ears, and a mouth...... I just don't know where its limbs are. If you think about it, it's going to drive me crazy.
Now, I see Wu Cheng as a human body, and the city government is its head, but the head is missing!
In any case, as long as the head is missing, the remaining body is a corpse. The horror is that its blood is still flowing - look at the endless stream of buses, logistics and pedestrians; Every cell is workingβall functions are functioning normally, and every business is operating normally; Its skeleton is also developing - the streets are clear, the buildings are straight......
Meng Xiaoshuai said: "Shall we continue to look for it?" β
I said, "Master, take us back to the city." β
The driver turned around and asked, "Where are you going back to the city?" β
I said, "Downtown." β
The driver said, "Where exactly?" β
I said, "Whichever intersection you want." β
The driver drove back.
Half an hour later, we came to the busy area, and the driver was still sorry and offered not to charge us for the fare. Meng Xiaoshuai took out a 50 yuan bill, stuffed it to him, and then got out of the car with me. I noticed that the fare was 39 yuan.
After the taxi drove away, Meng Xiaoshuai said, "Come with me to the mall." β
I said, "I'm going to the city hall." β
Meng Xiaoshuai said: "You want to petition? β
I pulled out my phone, dialed 114, found the city hall number, and dialed it. Thankfully, it's not an empty number, it's just that no one answers. I was not reconciled and continued to dial.
The phone was finally picked up, and the other party was a middle-aged woman, and her tone was very soft.
I said, "Excuse me, is it the city government?" β
The middle-aged woman said, "You made a mistake, it's a residential phone." β
I said, "I'm sorry, 114 gave me this number......"
The middle-aged woman said, "It's okay, there have been people who missed it before." This phone number used to belong to which department of the city government, it has long since changed, and 114 has not been corrected. β
I suddenly said, "How long have you been using this number at home?" β
The middle-aged woman said, "It's been five years." β
I said, "Oh, thanks, excuse me." β
Putting down the phone, I was confused again - when I first entered Wucheng, I heard that Wucheng had just been established for 5 years and was a new city. The middle-aged woman said that five years ago, this phone number used to be the ...... of a certain department of the city government
I can't think about this thing deeply, it's too terrifying.
It happened that a cadre-looking man came over, and I stopped him: "Sir, do you know how the city government is going?" β
He shook his head: "I don't know. β
I said, "Trouble ......"
After he walked over, I said to Meng Xiaoshuai, "Let's go, let's go back to lunch." β
Meng Xiaoshuai said: "I've been hungry for a long time!" β
In the taxi back to the resort, I took out my phone, opened the map of Kure, and looked at it repeatedly. Finally, I zoomed down, shrunk, shrunk, and zoomed out again, and looked down on the whole of the little cityβ
Factories, schools, communities, hospitals, hotels, parks......
The streets are horizontal and vertical......
Looking at it, I realized that those streets made up one word! It was so hot, but my cold hairs stood on end......