"I see," I heard Qiu Shaohu talk about the situation of the cliff outside, and the people inside said with some distress: "My original plan was to dig a tunnel from the edict prison to the lake in the south, but I got the wrong direction and dug it to this cliff on the north side of the mountain. Hey, it seems that this prison break failed again, so I'd better give up this matter first and go back to rest. ”

The man's tone was very lazy, as if he couldn't escape, and he didn't care.

"Wait a minute," Qiu Shaohu said, "Now I can hear your voice, proving that you are only one step away from the outside, since you have been digging the tunnel for so long, why don't you dig it out in one go?" ”

"Hehe, don't you think I want to?" The opposite side said hesitantly: "Listen to what you said, on the cliff at the top, the government has smeared oil on it in order to prevent anyone from climbing up. They all thought about it, couldn't they have imagined that someone in the edict would dig a tunnel to escape from here? I guess they've been prepared for that. For example, now between you and me, it seems that there is only one layer of rock wall, but in this mountain, I am afraid that there are also steel plates, so how can I dig through it? ”

Hearing him say this, Qiu Shaohu was secretly surprised in his heart, he didn't tell him about the possible steel plate in the mountain, but he guessed eight or nine.

"Besides, this method is something I have come up with painstakingly and solitarily. But since I got the direction wrong from the beginning, it proves that I was wrong, and is there any point in sticking to something that was wrong from the beginning? That's not my style. If I hadn't happened to meet you, even if I dug it out, I would have no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground on the edge of the cliff, so it would be better to stop the loss as soon as possible, and I could save a little cost. ”

"Interesting, so you're a businessman." Qiu Shaohu said, and at the same time, he felt new about his idea.

"I'm a businessman, so I naturally have to calculate the pros and cons, of course I can't be as pure as you are to avenge yourself." He said behind the rock wall.

"How do you know I'm going for revenge?" Qiu Shaohu was suddenly a little vigilant, he obviously didn't mention this matter.

"It's simple, you know that there is oil on the cliff, which proves that you have gone up to the top of the cliff, but at the moment you are halfway up the mountain, which proves that you have fallen from it again. That's enough to do, but depending on what you want, you're going to keep going. If you don't even want your own life, what will make you fight so hard? It must be someone else's life. So guess you're in it for revenge, what's weird? ”

The other party continued reasonably: "This is what I can guess, and of course there are some things I can't guess, for example, you speak elegantly, like a bachelor; However, he believed in the things of gods and ghosts, and not only did he not scoff at me when he asked me if you were a god or a ghost, but he also thought it was true, which was like a monk; However, you can climb this cliff as if you were walking on the ground, and you are more like a samurai. Hey, I've lived my whole life, and I've never met anyone like you. ”

"Your life? You look like you're in your seventies and eighties. As he spoke more and more and spoke more clearly, Qiu Shaohu could hear that the other party was just a young man in his twenties.

"Although I am young, I have seen a lot, and I have seen everyone who is a businessman, and I have seen everyone, and I have also dealt with people who are swords, exhausted and vicious."

The other party seems to have been locked up for too long, and it is rare to have a person to talk at this time, so he doesn't care when he chats, and begins to talk and communicate with Qiu Shaohu, "Having said that, you are really strange, knowing that I am a prisoner who is locked up in the edict and trying to escape, but you are not afraid of me?" ”

"Afraid of what?" Qiu Shaohu said.

"Aren't you afraid that I'm actually a Jiangyang thief who kills people and oversells goods? Didn't you think I might have a lot of blood debts? Dare to talk to me so unscrupulously. The other side laughed.

"Ordinary Jiangyang thieves, even if they are handed over to the Criminal Department for three sessions and five trials, they are not qualified to go to prison." Qiu Shaohu said: "The people arrested by Xuanzhen Si and imprisoned are either relatives of the emperor or pillars of the court, and these people often only have faults, but they may not be guilty. The DPRK and China are vying for power and profit, and they are deceitful to deceive, just because they are on the wrong side for a while, and after the catastrophe will never be recovered, what kind of mistake can be said to have been made? Nursery rhymes also have clouds: The edict is as deep as the palace of Hades, and there are 100,000 lonely souls and 100,000 injustices. ”

"According to what you say, it seems that I am still honored to be caught," the other side sighed, and then said lightly without care: "But you are right, if you say that I am wronged, I am indeed wronged." Originally, I was a businessman, and I didn't have much contact with the DPRK and China, so why did the Xuanzhen Division suddenly confiscate my family property, and then forced me to draw a prison without asking about 3721, and threw me into the deepest Jiuyou dungeon in this prison. The only thing I know for sure is that someone must have betrayed me, but I don't know why. This Xuanzhen Division is also the power of today's Taifu, I can't remember when I offended this 'Wuluo Zhongcheng' who even had to retreat from the Prince's East Palace. ”

"And then?" Qiu Shaohu was also curious, "Since you were imprisoned in this edict for no reason, no one wants to rescue you?" ”

"This edict is so strict, birds can't fly, water can't splash in, what's going on inside, how can outsiders know? There's no way I can get the word out about my being locked up here. Besides, I often go from south to north, and I go for half a year, and roughly calculated, the time I have been locked up in it is less than three months, and outsiders are afraid that they only think that I have gone to sea again, where do I think that I am already in prison. The other party said.

"You're in prison, how do you know how long it's been?" Qiu Shaohu asked.

"Are you tempting me?" The other side said "hey" and said, "What you said is not wrong, logically speaking, I shouldn't know." It is said that the most terrible thing about the edict is that the people who are locked in it can guarantee that they can come out with all their beards and tails - but only for the physical body, whether the spirit has been tortured and collapsed, that is two words. ”

"These nine dungeons are the most terrifying of them all. Hidden deep in the mountains, you can't see the light during the day, you can't hear the sound at night, it's dark and empty, even if you yell, no one can respond to you. The only intersection with the outside world every day is that once a day, when the food is delivered, a small window is opened from the top of the dungeon, and the food rope is brought down for you, but the people who deliver the food have their ears cut off and their tongues pulled out, so that they will not say a word to you. ”

"The food you are fed is neither good nor bad, so that you are neither full nor hungry. Xuanzhen Si deliberately did this, letting you live, but it was worse than death; Let you know that they will neither torture you nor intend to let you go, and always make you feel like you will be locked up here for the rest of your life, and in the end you will be tortured and drive yourself crazy. ”

"But I don't want to go crazy, so I've got to find something to do for myself. The thing I found for myself was to check my heartbeat. It's strange to say that the heartbeat that needs to be felt with your hand outside can be heard so clearly in such a quiet dungeon. From the time they finished delivering today's meal, every time I found almost 100,000 heartbeats, they would come and deliver the next one, proving that the day was over. So every 100,000 heartbeats I passed, I carved a mark on the ground with my fingers, and counted it as a day after myself. In this way, I knew that I had been locked up for more than two months until now. ”

What the other party said was an understatement, but in the conversation, Qiu Shaohu could still feel the hidden unforgettable hatred.

This made him a little awe-inspired.

Many people who have been humiliated and survived after this have chosen to give up and forgive, not because they don't hate, but because they dare not hate, they don't want to hate, as long as they still hate, they will remember the memories that they once couldn't look back on, and they can't bear the pain.

Hatred, in fact, is also a kind of courage, a kind of courage that is willing to face pathos, even if it is unbearable, but also to seek justice for yourself.

"So what?" Qiu Shaohu's tone softened a little, "How did you want to escape?" ”

"Escaping is indeed the hardest thing for me, after all, I was locked in front of the Nine Shadows Dungeon, and I already had nothing to lose, and they were afraid that I would escape, so they took everything from me, and they wouldn't leave me even a single thing."

"Huh?" Qiu Shaohu was surprised to hear this, according to what he meant, didn't he even have a piece of clothing now?

The other party didn't seem to pay attention, and said to himself: "So my first thing is to at least get some tools that can help." But the only time I can communicate with the outside world is when I deliver food. So every time I finished eating, I would smash the bowl that was being delivered. ”

"So, you came here with those holes?" Qiu Shaohu was surprised?

"How is it possible, those are just ceramics, and they can be used as tools for digging holes." The other party continued: "The point is that after that, I smashed the bowl every day, and they couldn't stand it either." But they are angry again, and the food still has to be brought to me, after all, they don't plan to really starve me to death. So when they brought me food, they did it with an iron fist, but it was welded to the basket where the food was delivered, so that they were not afraid of smashing it, and they could still take it back after I had eaten, after all, they also knew that if there was an iron tool left, I might use it to escape. ”

"But I've already achieved my goal, I use the ceramic pieces that I smashed before, and every time they come to deliver food, I scrape a little bit of broken iron from it. Every time you scrape a little bit, over time, there will be a lot of iron filings accumulated. That's how I traded the iron filings for a tool......"

"Wait a minute," Qiu Shaohu suddenly interrupted the other party and said, "I didn't understand here, you just took those iron filings, how did you get them in exchange for tools?" From where? ”

"Should I say that it is my ability? I don't really understand the specifics, but I did meet a wandering immortal in the middle of traveling north and south, and he told me that I was a merchant and had already entered the Dao, so how could I also have the cultivation of the 'Sevenfold Realm', and I had an ability that ordinary people could not match. He said that he seemed to be practicing the Tao, which I didn't quite understand, but I did have some abilities that ordinary people couldn't reach, as he said. ”