Chapter Ninety-Nine: Gunshots in the Middle of the Night
"Hmph, young man, you're not bold enough." Instructor Zhang smiled and put away his cigarette.
"Just be cautious. Instructor, can you tell me what the hell you encountered and why you were able to kill three companies? "Regardless of who is leading a group of ghosts, it is an established fact that Commander Liu and Instructor Zhang are haunted before their troops are stationed, and maybe figuring out what the ghosts here are can solve some of the mysteries.
"Cautious? If you're cautious, I actually think you should think more about your cousin's problem, you have a cousin, can you leave her alone over there? I've also been educated in materialism for decades, but now, I've seen a lot of things, and I can't deny the existence of ghosts. Not only do I have to deny it, but I have to fight them. He shrugged a little helplessly, "Since you can come from that side, there is naturally a way to go back from this side, go back to see your cousin first, and make sure she is safe." It's really not good, you don't care about the affairs here, take your sister home, since you came to our place where life and death are unknown from the world of the living, then, leave here, everything should be restored. ”
Leave? I suddenly became alert, is this Instructor Zhang really for the good of our brothers and sisters? Or is he just trying to trick me into leaving with a set of rhetoric and continue to make waves here? No, or is there something wrong, even if he is a ghost, he is a big ghost, why is he afraid of me? Just by my three-legged cat ability?
I'm dizzy, this is too much of a test of brainpower, I'm just a half-coward, not Edogawa Conan, not Sherlock Holmes! Forget it, I don't want to have those who don't have it, and now it's the most important thing to return to Jing'er. "Then, Instructor Zhang, please tell your brother, I'll go back, you're right, no matter what you're right, for me, finding my cousin is the most important thing."
"Yes, no problem. You wait for me for a while. Instructor Zhang asked me to wait, took out the letterhead, wrote a letter, sealed it and handed it to me, "This is my reply to Lao Liu, no matter who is a human or a ghost between the two of us, we are both good brothers, to be honest, I am very happy to have you as a messenger to help us deliver the news, I will tell them that no matter when you come back, you can come to see me." Well, so be it. Qi Zhiyong, send this Mr. Shen Hao to your No. 44 barracks, Mr. Shen is going back. ”
"Yes, Instructor!" Qi Zhiyong came in, saluted Instructor Zhang, and then made a "please" gesture to me.
After putting away the envelope, I returned to the door of the No. 44 barracks with Qi Zhiyong, and walked into the barracks with my backpack on my back, I thought that I could return to the space where I was before, but when I looked around for a long time, I only saw Qi Zhiyong standing outside the door.
"I said buddy, didn't you say you could cross through here? Why are you still there. "Before I opened my mouth, Qi Zhiyong spoke to me first.
"I, I, how do I know, why don't you sleep for a while and see if I can go to your dreams?" For his complaints, I really can't fight back. I found a lower yin talisman and pinched it in my hand and tried again, but it still didn't work.
"I said, buddy, are you sure you want this time? When I read other people's novels, doesn't it say that they pay attention to the time or something, you don't need to wait? For Qi Zhiyong, it may be an unintentional ridicule, but for me, it is like an initiation.
The blind man said before that he had to enter the ghost gate when he was ugly, and then come back before the end of the time, but now the time in this space is obviously different from that side, and maybe, when this space is ugly, I can go back.
Since it has been decided, let's wait, I simply slept in the barracks, used the glutinous rice I brought to cook glutinous rice porridge in the pot of the canteen, and after I was full, I talked to Qi Zhiyong about the time.
"Ha~~ Why does time pass so slowly, Qi Zhiyong, what time is it?" When I woke up from sleep again, Qi Zhiyong sat on the bed next to me and read a book.
"I don't know, I didn't bring a watch, it's twelve o'clock when the gun goes off later, just listen to the gunshot." Qi Zhiyong dealt with it casually, obviously, his energy was all focused on the game in hand.
"Guns? What do you mean? Do you have to shoot here every night at 12 o'clock? "It seems that no matter what time and space, this military camp is weird enough, and I heard the assembly number in the middle of the night over there, but is it a gun?
Before Qi Zhiyong could answer, there was a burst of gunfire outside, and I sat up from the bed and walked out of Barracks No. 44. Listening to the sounds, the gunshots were coming from the east, not far from where we were. "Qi Zhiyong, what the hell is going on, why do you have to shoot in the middle of the night?"
"You're curious, I'm curious." Qi Zhiyong sat up from the bed and shrugged at me. "I don't know why, since we came here, we can hear the gunfire outside from one to twelve o'clock every night, the army is strictly controlled, we used to want to go out to see, but every night, the recruits will be blocked from this area, no one can get out, we asked the veterans, the veterans said that as long as we survive three months and get out of the company, we will know what is going on."
"I'm going to go out and have a look." As he spoke, I didn't care what happened to Qi Zhiyong, and walked straight in the direction of the camp gate, but as soon as I reached the edge of the barracks of the recruit company, I saw two veterans with guns standing in front of the roadcard that I didn't know when, monitoring this side.
"Stop! What people!? Don't you know that the recruit company can't move around at will at night? Go back to your barracks! One of the veterans shook a flashlight in my face, "New faces? Where are you from, how come I haven't seen you! "When the veteran saw that he didn't know me, he immediately raised his gun.
"Okay, okay, brother, don't be nervous, this thing claims to have traveled through time, and he will travel back to his time and space from Barracks 44 tonight." Another soldier should have seen me during the day, said a word to the nervous soldier, and then said to me, "I said brother, since you are crossing, you should go back and wait for your point crossing, don't come here to join in the fun, there are some things, you don't know better than know." ”
"But I want to know, my coming here this time is probably related to your shooting, let me go, your instructor Zhang said, the next time I come back, I can walk around your barracks freely. Or, maybe you can help me call your instructor and help me get a message. ”
The more mysterious they were, the more I wondered what was going on, but I had to take two steps back after two guns were pointed at me. "The instructor is not free to see you now, brother, don't embarrass us, the regiment has given us a death order for a curfew, anyone who wants to leave the range of the recruit company, we will be shot on the spot, we have no grievances in the distance, no enemies in the near future, you obediently cross yours, don't get along with the brothers." Military orders are not a joke. ”
With all that said, what more can I say? Obediently retreated to Barracks No. 44, listening to the gunfire outside, and thinking about it. The time on my phone is not the same as the time here, and the gunshot just now can be regarded as a chance for me to be on time. I realized that the time here was exactly 12 hours off from the time of the plane before I came in. When the clock on my phone showed that it was one o'clock in the afternoon, I walked out of Barracks 44 with my backpack on my back. In his hand, he pinched the lower yin talisman, silently recited the blessing of the gods and Buddhas in his heart, and walked to the door of the barracks step by step.
In the barracks, Qi Zhiyong smiled at me freely, I swear, if I walked in the door and saw him, I would have to explode the chrysanthemum!
When my left foot stepped on the door frame, the door of the barracks seemed to be covered with a film made of water waves, and I smiled and stepped into the barracks.
The sudden light stabbed me and I quickly closed my eyes, and a crying "cousin" sounded in my ears, and then a soft body threw itself into my arms. Two small fists kept pounding on me, and I couldn't stop falling back against the wall behind me after being beaten by her.