Night’s Nomenclature Chapter 39: Of all the shortcuts, the farthest one

Lin Xiaoxiao is a smart person, but he doesn't have much knowledge.

When the other party returned to the restaurant but kept silent about the results of the interrogation, Qingchen already had the answer in his heart.

Because there is nothing that cannot be said about that information, sooner or later everyone in the other world will know about the time traveler.

Unless...there is a secret involving someone present in the interrogation results.

Qingchen was thinking, how do people in the inner world view the outer world?

Not to mention others, Li Shutong is a powerful person with strong control. How could such a person let things go out of control?

No matter how much goodwill you have accumulated before, it is not worth mentioning in front of those in power.

Qingchen was not certain that Li Shutong would kill him, but was prepared for the worst.

However, Li Shutong is also a very smart person. Lin Xiaoxiao understood it without saying anything.

"Xiaoxiao, take our Spades friends to other places," Li Shutong ordered.

"I'm not going anywhere," Guo Huchan suddenly realized that there might be a big secret here.

However, Ye Wan suddenly opened a transparent force field, covering Li Shutong and Qingchen.

Guo Huchan, who was trying to eavesdrop, was caught off guard and was knocked out by the force field.

When Bald Tou wanted to rush back, he found that Ye Wan and Lin Xiaoxiao were already standing in front of him.

Lin Xiaoxiao said with a smile: "If you still want to stay here to find the forbidden object ACE-005, don't go any further."

"If you don't listen, don't listen!" Guo Huchan said angrily.

At this time, Li Shutong looked at Qingchen calmly and asked: "So, you are looking for them when you give way to Guangyi to interrogate the new prisoners these days, right?"

Qingchen thought for a moment and said, "That's right."

"You are calmer than I thought," Li Shutong said with emotion: "When I was your age, I was not as good as you."

"It's not calmness, but panic is useless," Qingchen said.

"Although Xiaoxiao hasn't told me the result of the interrogation, I know it must be a big secret," Li Shutong said: "I have always been ruthless when facing uncontrollable things. Have you ever thought that you might survive?" But tomorrow?"

"I've thought about it," Qingchen raised his head and looked at everything around him.

The novel steel dome, the shiny black metal storm that reflects the light, and the mechanical prison guards scattered around the prison stand blankly with guns in hand.

There are also prisoners with playful smiles and newcomers who are limping and grinning.

Qingchen wasn't sure if he could still see all this, so he wanted to take a few more looks.

He suddenly lowered his head and smiled at Li Shutong and said, "It's been quite pleasant to get along with each other these days. If possible, I hope we can get to know each other again."

"You beat me on the first day of playing chess, so actually I still owe you a request. If you have any requests, you can make them now," Li Shutong said.

Qingchen thought for a while: "Can you say goodbye again?"

"Why don't you trade your own life?" Li Shutong smiled.

"I don't need to change my life, and I can't change it," Qingchen said.

"Okay, I have always liked your courage. This piece of music is a gift from me. You can make that request at any time." Li Shutong asked Ye Wan to get the harmonica.

The farewell song was like Qing Chen’s song for himself. The melodious song made the atmosphere in the prison calmer.

"Thank you," Qingchen said.

After saying that, he returned to the cell alone, lying on the cold bed and waiting quietly.

Time passed little by little.

From day to night.

Qingchen heard the radio in the prison reminding all the prisoners to file back to their cells, and then the alloy gates were closed one by one, and the sound of hydraulic transmission ended the day's bustle in Prison No. 18.

Isolate everything.

The next moment, the entire prison suddenly fell into complete darkness.

Then, the alloy gate of Qingchen’s cell reopened.

In the darkness, someone put a black hood on him and carried him to an unknown location.

A few minutes later, the two men holding him placed him somewhere and then left one after another.

The sound of hydraulic pressure sounded again, as if something had been closed or blocked.

Qingchen lay silently in the darkness. He didn't even get up to see where he was.

The only sound here is his breathing, and the only thing that is lit is the countdown that he can see, which cannot illuminate anywhere.

Time is slow and heavy.

Qingchen knows how a person will react when he is in a closed and dark environment.

You don’t know where you are and you can’t talk to anyone. At this time, loneliness and fear will completely engulf a person.

And lose the concept of time.

The scariest thing is not having time.

Many people can't even resist 24 hours. There was an experiment that offered a reward of 1 million to people to stay inside for five days, but no one could get the one million.

Money is indeed tempting, but 99% of people fall before 72 hours.

However.

I am afraid that Li Shutong and others could not imagine that Qingchen has never been afraid of loneliness.

Since his parents divorced, he has been living with loneliness.

Qingchen clearly realized that lack of water would be his biggest enemy.

Return countdown 146:09:02.

The countdown on this arm can help him calculate time.

The first day.

Qingchen slowed down his breathing rate and began to recall movies in his mind. He first watched "The Shawshank Redemption" and then "Papillon", both of which were about prison escape and faith.

Those are the videos he has memorized in his mind, but he does not need equipment to replay them.

Without water, his neurons confuse the need for food and water, and he begins to feel exhausted.

Return countdown 122:09:02.

The next day.

Qingchen fell asleep and rewatched eight movies in his mind.

He lay silently on the floor with his eyes closed, enjoying the darkness.

Hunger and thirst began to attack him, but he remained unmoved as if he had abandoned his external senses.

Return countdown 98:09:02.

The third day

Hunger began to burn his will and erode his spirit.

Qingchen watched 12 movies this time and didn't sleep for a minute.

He was tortured by the loss of water in his body. Due to the loss of water, his body began to cool and heat suddenly, and his skin began to dry up.

His memory began to fail, and the movie in his mind became a staccato slideshow.

Memories from the old days begin to intersect.

Qingchen couldn’t sleep.

Return countdown: 74:09:02.

The fourth day.

Qingchen's hunger began to subside. He opened his eyes and looked at the endless nothingness and darkness, not knowing what he was thinking.

He hadn't looked at the time for a long time, and it seemed that looking at the time had become meaningless.

However, from beginning to end, Qingchen never said a word or shouted.

In the darkness, the world is always silent.

He didn't calculate how long he hadn't slept, but it didn't seem to be important.

Qingchen used his silence to fight against the silence and darkness of the world.

……

It was already dark night in Prison No. 18, and the lights inside the fortress turned into dim light.

Even the drones on the hive seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep.

Li Shutong sat at the end of the long table in the dark reading area with his eyes closed to relax. Lin Xiaoxiao glanced at the time: "Boss, it's been four days."

"Yes," Li Shutong nodded.

At this time, there was a weak knock on the door in the distance. Lu Guangyi was cursing and saying intermittently at a certain door: "Li Shutong, where did you put my boss in prison? I, Lu Guangyi, will not let you go. Yes, the Qing family will not let you go."

On the first day Qingchen disappeared, Lu Guangyi noticed something was wrong and made a big fuss in Prison No. 18, almost triggering the second metal storm.

As a result, Qingchen disappeared for four days, and Lu Guangyi was also held in a cell for four days.

On this fourth day, Lu Guangyi finally calmed down a bit.

Lin Xiaoxiao ignored Lu Guangyi’s curses and continued: "Boss, Qingchen has been in there for four days and has not said a word, and there is no sign of collapse."

"He is an extremely smart person. He slowed down his breathing rate from the first day to avoid rapid loss of water. It is not unusual for him to survive the fourth day," Li Shutong said.

"Even so, there are very few people who can survive four days without making a sound. He doesn't feel like he is being tortured, but more like waiting. But he has not drank water for four days. If he does not drink water, he will He will die," Lin Xiaoxiao said anxiously: "Boss, you cherish your talent, let him go."

Lin Xiaoxiao, who originally couldn't stand Qingchen's proud appearance, actually begged the young man for mercy.

Because he also knew what Qingchen was going through.

Ye Wan suddenly said: "Boss, the Black Room may not be able to do anything to him, let him out."

However, Li Shutong thought for a while and said: "Change the water torture."

"Boss, he is extremely short of water now. When he sees water, he will subconsciously drink it. He will die if he does so," Lin Xiaoxiao said anxiously.

Waterboarding involves placing a towel over the victim's face and then pouring water on the towel.

Waterboarding is like a one-way valve. The water keeps pouring in and the towel prevents you from spitting it out, so you can only exhale once. Even if I hold my breath, it still feels like the air is being sucked out, like a vacuum cleaner.

Lin Xiaoxiao knew very well that no normal person could withstand waterboarding, let alone someone like Qingchen who had been thirsty for four days?

When water torture begins, a person who is extremely dehydrated will thirst for water.

However, the water that passed through the towel not only flowed into Qingchen's stomach to quench his thirst, but also poured into his lungs, destroying the other person's last chance of life.

However, Li Shutong seemed to have become cruel.

"Life and death all depend on his own choice. How can he follow my path if he has never seen real death," Li Shutong asked calmly.

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Countdown to 50:09:02.

The fifth day.

The black room was opened, and Qingchen was carried out without any hesitation.

Someone put him on a chair and covered his face with a thick towel.

The cold water was poured on the towel, blocking out all oxygen and life.

Qingchen sat quietly on the chair motionless, pursed his lips.

He tried hard to resist the urge to drink water and not let himself be destroyed by the temptation in front of him.

Besides, Lin Xiaoxiao and Ye Wan looked at each other. They did not expect that at this time, Qingchen could still maintain a clear will, know what he was facing, and know how to use his last will to fight for a chance to live. .

Qingchen felt water flowing into his nose and filling his body.

He felt as if he had had a dream.

When he was young, someone held his hand in his dream. The hand was warm and soft.

In the park.

It is as if the warm sea water is wrapping your body under the sun, and the golden sunshine is slowly surging.

The woman holding him suddenly asked without looking back: "Xiao Chen, your father has someone outside and doesn't want us anymore."

"Mom, I want to eat candied haws on a stick," the young man whispered to the woman in front of him.

The woman looked back at him and stood there for a long time: "Okay, mom will buy you candied haws."

The woman's eyes were red, and she bought him candied haws on a stick: "Xiao Chen, you eat the candied haws here, while mom goes to the toilet."

However, the woman never came back.

Qingchen waited from noon to sunset.

He started to cry, but crying was of no use.

Someone helped him find the police, but Qingchen was unwilling to follow the police. He believed that his mother would come back.

Until dark, the woman came back, hugged him and cried bitterly.

The young Qingchen only thought that the other party was lost and only found him now.

During the water torture, Qingchen's brain gradually came to his senses. It turned out that this was not the first time that he had been abandoned.

It seems that my weird memory ability also started at that time.

However, having a good memory is not a good thing. He remembers every pain.

Clearly.

Qingchen felt his hypoxic brain~IndoMTL.com~ and his twitching limbs. The water began to pour into his lungs, but he still sat there like a sculpture.

No struggling, no begging.

Someone in the darkness said: "Follow mom."

Qingchen responded softly: "No, mom."

The voice in the darkness said again: "Follow mom."

Qingchen's voice became firm: "No, I said no, mom."

In an instant, the wet towel on his face was removed.

The dim light seemed a bit dazzling at the moment. He vaguely saw Lin Xiaoxiao patting his back anxiously.

Li Shutong stood in front of him quietly and asked: "Why didn't you beg? I still owe you a request."

Facing the dazzling light, Qingchen looked at the other party stubbornly. He choked out the water in his trachea, and then said firmly: "Because you don't need a weak person."

At a certain moment, Li Shutong suddenly remembered the appearance of his opponent when he played chess for the first time. He was also brave and stubborn with no retreat, like a lone wolf in the wilderness.

He knew, this was the person he was looking for.

Li Shutong asked again: "Can you forget everything I did to you today?"

"I can't forget it," Qingchen said, "but I don't mind."

"Very frank, very good," Li Shutong turned and walked out of the interrogation room: "Starting from tomorrow, I will teach you personally, and I will take you to take the farthest path among all the shortcuts in this world."

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