Chapter II: Prisoners

There were two people, one of whom had a haggard face, a tall and thin figure, a red hat and a white collar, a long black coat and long shoes, and a prison word engraved on his chest on a black dress and a white background.

Plus the heavy and muffled iron door that was closed just now.

So the person just now should be a jailer, and it looks like he is in a prison cell? But how did I end up here, and I didn't know anything?

The corpse sitting on the corpse rack is not called a corpse at this time, but it should be called a naked man's handsome face, and he looks at everything around him with his dark and deep eyes.

The darkness didn't interfere with his vision, and even if there was no light entering the dark cell, he could clearly see the pile of dead grass in the corner of the cell and a brown crockpot that he didn't know what was being used to store something.

But compared to the question that came to his mind just now, there was soon a more serious question haunting his mind.

Who am I?

This is the simplest but most complex difficult problem in the world, and it floats and sinks in his heart and mind, like a thick layer of haze that cannot be dissipated.

A moment later.

"His heart and pulse have stopped, how can he come back to life? You two don't kid me! ”

Even through the heavy iron door, the men in the cell could clearly hear the mixed footsteps in the hallway, and the rebuke with a hint of panic sounding outside the cell.

This means that his hearing is also good.

As the cell door slowly pushed open, the dim light of the fire squeezed in through the crack in the door, illuminating the dark cell and revealing the pale complexion and handsome face of the naked man sitting on the corpse frame.

"Look at you! I didn't lie to you, did I?! He's alive! A dead man has suddenly come back to life! ”

Tang Feihong didn't dare to enter this cell, he stood at the door, his voice was high and sharp and a little trembling and said to the old man in front of him.

The old man was wearing an old gray gown, and although his gray gown was worn out and had some traces of sewing, it could be seen that it was very clean and tidy.

And he is holding a talisman in his hand, the talisman is dark yellow, and there is a font engraved with cinnabar like clouds and mist and haze, and the strokes are complex and difficult to interpret.

When the old man saw the naked man sitting on the corpse rack, his demeanor and movements were not flustered, but he just exhaled a breath of turbidity.

"Lingbao Talisman....... Slay demons and restrain evil spirits, and kill thousands of ghosts....... The ferocity dissipates, and the Dao spirit lasts forever! ”

I saw that the old man's face sank, he held this talisman in his left hand, pinched it with his right hand, and scolded the naked man with words in his mouth.

It's a pity that people move.

When the old man muttered, the man on the corpse rack had already stood up, walked in front of the old man, and 'took' the talisman in the old man's hand to his hand with a puzzled expression, and kneaded it slightly.

He didn't understand why the old man was holding this piece of yellow paper and babbling to himself.

Quiescence.

Then there was silence in the cell.

Tang Feihong, who hurriedly protected the old man with courage, swallowed nervously, and used a torch with his left hand to block the naked man kneading the talisman in front of him to continue to move forward, while his right hand was already on the handle of the knife on his waist, ready to move at any time.

"Lao He, did you say you drank alcohol during the autopsy? The prisoner is clearly alive. ”

Qu Hancheng on the side was not too afraid, he had never believed in Lao He's ghostly drawing of those ghost talismans, and he didn't believe that there would be any strange events of the resurrection of the dead.

So there's only one answer.

That is when Lao He was called to come over for an autopsy, he must have been greedy for a while last night, drank too much wine, and was rarely confused.

"No way, I have examined it clearly, although his body does not have any external injuries or bone injuries, I also probed his throat with a silver needle, and it was not poisoned to death.

But he did lose his pulse and heartbeat. ”

The old man's left hand rubbed his fingers with a little embarrassment, and the palm of his right hand pinched the hand was also put down, and he shook his head and said as he looked at the man kneading the talisman in front of him with some nervousness.

"Did you drink that day?"

Qu Hancheng looked sideways at the old man and asked.

“...... I had a few drinks. ”

The old man coughed lightly a few times and said slowly.

"It's a good thing that this prisoner didn't die, otherwise I wouldn't know how to explain this matter to this adult when the warden comes back."

Qu Hancheng sighed and said.

"It's impossible, he's clearly dead......"

The old man did not agree with Qu Hancheng's statement, since he joined the line, there has never been any mistake in the autopsy.

He could tell the time of death by looking at the corpse's spots, and he could also use green onions, water droplets, and vinegar to detect invisible wounds and bone wounds on the corpse whether they had been broken or broken after death.

As for judging whether the body was burned after being killed or burned, it was a piece of cake for the old man.

As long as the throat of the body is cut open, the absence of soot in the trachea indicates that the body was burned after killing, while the presence of soot and burns in the trachea indicates that the body was burned to death.

It was precisely because of the old man's excellent autopsy skills that he was transferred to this prison as the coroner for these prisoners.

Therefore, it is a simple matter to distinguish whether a person is dead or alive, even if the old man drinks too much, it is absolutely impossible to make a mistake.

"I'm Prisoner One?"

Just when Qu Hancheng wanted to have a good fight with Lao He, the man who had been silently kneading the talisman suddenly opened his mouth and asked with some doubts.

"Or else? I can still get people wrong! There are three people in this underground cell, a you, an old man, and a woman who has recently been sent over. ”

Qu Hancheng subconsciously said angrily.

"Qu Hancheng, don't forget that they are dangerous."

Tang Feihong couldn't help but panic when he heard Han Cheng's scolding tone, and took advantage of the firelight to glance at the naked man's calm face, and hurriedly spoke.

"Feihong is right, since he is still alive, let's not stay here for a long time."

The old man also said with a serious expression.

"He's not as dangerous as you think, much better than the prisoners up there."

Qu Hancheng pursed his lips and retorted slightly unconvinced.

"There are some things that can't be just taken at the surface, and there are many jailers who have examined the corpses here."

The old man seriously reminded Qu Hancheng that he had examined a lot of corpses in his life, and he didn't want to find the corpse of the young man in front of him one day.

"Lao He is right, do you think about which of those guys who are imprisoned above is a good person? And those who are locked up here are probably even more vicious.

We've been here for three years, and in two years we'll be out for a hundred taels of silver, and maybe there's something else to give. ”

Tang Feihong also whispered and persuaded that the palm of his right hand had never left the hilt.

"For the sake of the face of this hundred taels of silver, I will listen to you."

When Qu Hancheng heard a hundred taels of silver, his eyes flashed, and he sighed again and said.

However, when Qu Hancheng raised his eyes, he just glanced at the man who was still looking at him, and the man's black eyes did not contain any impurities, revealing that he was looking at himself sincerely.

It's weird.

Qu Hancheng had been guarding here for three years, and he had never seen this prisoner look at him with such eyes.

"I'm number one?"

The man asked again.

Qu Hancheng raised his forehead slightly, and when he saw that Lao He and Tang Feihong had already walked out of the cell, he picked up the torch in his hand and looked at this prisoner who rarely talked to him.

"I don't know who you are, all the prisoner files are in the warden's study. You never talk to me, and Number One is just a code name for what I call you.

For example, I often call the old man sixty-one, and the woman one hundred and seventy-seven. ”

Qu Hancheng whispered.

All the prisoners in this prison have no names, only code names, so Qu Hancheng doesn't know what the name of this No. 1 prisoner is.

Besides, Prisoner No. 1 had never spoken to him, let alone told him his name.

However, Qu Hancheng only knew one thing, the prisoner number was sorted from the time of entering the prison, that is to say, this No. 1 prisoner was the first prisoner after the establishment of this prison.

Or maybe the prison was built to hold this prisoner.

But it can't be.

Every time this thought came to Qu Hancheng's mind, Qu Hancheng would always laugh at himself and throw this wild idea out of his mind.

It has been 892 years since the Hellsterium was founded, and it was built on an isolated island overhanging the sea. And it takes at least half a month to take a boat from the nearest port to this Sangyu Island.

One can imagine the hardships of the establishment of this prison, which consumed time and energy in both manpower and material.

So the original intention of the establishment of the Shock Prison was to imprison this No. 1 prisoner who seemed harmless to humans and animals? Even if Qu Hancheng's head was forcibly pressed into the water, he couldn't believe it.