If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

The Beichuan's confinement room is in the northwest corner of the lower cabin. It is closed on all sides and has no portholes. There is no natural light source in the room. Since it is close to the bottom of the ship, no unnecessary sounds can be heard. It is considered a natural quiet room. The current first mate and former captain of the Beichuan would never lock the crew in this room easily. No one wants to stay in a place deprived of vision and hearing for more than half an hour.

Footsteps sounded in the corridor, getting clearer from far to near. This was one of the few sound sources that could be heard in the solitary room. If it were normal, the people in the room would impatiently approach the small window in front of the iron door. , because the footsteps often represent the end of confinement or the time for dinner. No matter which one it is, it is an opportunity to temporarily return to the light after staying in the darkness for a long time, which is enough to make people feel ecstatic.

The small window of the iron door was opened, just like any prison, and a pair of eyes peered in from the outside.

As the prying eyes entered the room, there was also the dim light of the incandescent lamp in the corridor, which illuminated Mandy's figure sitting beside the bed in the dark confinement room. She was lowering her head and playing with her fingers. , muttering something inaudible.

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Zhou Zhen at the door stared silently at the girl's silhouette in the faint white light. After a few seconds, he slammed the iron door hard, and the harsh sound echoed in the corridor.

Mandy, who heard the knock on the door, deftly turned her head and locked her eyes on the man's face outside the small window, and said, "What are you doing?"

Zhou Zhen was quiet for about ten seconds, and then he put down his hand and said, "It's not without reason that your companions think you can't be trusted for jumping out."

"It's not trustworthy to say hello in Cantonese. It's hard for me to imagine that if I use other languages, I would be labeled as crazy." Mandy rolled her eyes.

"You don't need to label you as a psychopath." Zhou Zhen said, "I heard that you have been in Chernobyl Prison for nearly a year, and a hybrid who can come out alive will have some problems with his head. "

"Do you know this is regional discrimination?" Mandy glanced at him sideways, "I didn't expect that a guy like you, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would also engage in discrimination."

"Are you really that loyal to the forces behind you?" Zhou Zhen stared into Mandy's eyes in the darkness, "I guess there is a capsule of cyanide solution hidden in your back molar. ?When there is no way to avoid it, you will choose to bite yourself to death to avoid guilt?"

"No one who knows me well can say such a thing." Mandy raised a finger to hook the corner of her mouth and pulled it outward to reveal her good teeth. She lowered her head and looked up at the man outside the small window. "I can only hide fennel fronds and leeks that have been left overnight in the gaps between my teeth. Are you looking down on me by hiding cyanide or something like that?"

"You don't have to worry about getting yourself into trouble to complete this kind of self-inflicted task for the people behind you. What's the difference between a person like you and a dead soldier? It's too dangerous and cannot be trusted."

"Come on, handsome guy, that's not how torture is done. Your interrogation methods are not even one-tenth as powerful as those of the execution department. You can't even understand the attack." Mandy loosened her fingers to regain her pretty face and sighed, " What happened underwater?”

Zhou Zhen lowered his head slightly, "There was a suspected underwater earthquake ten minutes ago. Half of Cassel College's submersible Groups C and D lost contact. It is suspected that the Corpse Guard riot caused the rock formation to collapse. Do you have any clues?"

"Just a correction, just relying on the corpse guard is far from causing the rock formation to collapse. In my opinion, there is only one person in Group C and Group D who can make such a big move, and that person's name is Chu Zihang." Mandy said , "They must have encountered trouble underwater and had no choice but to detonate Jun Yan. The subsequent collapse of the rock formation was a matter of course."

"Are you pretending to be confused or do you really not understand what I mean?" Zhou Zhen asked.

"Both." Mandy touched the fingers of both her hands. "If you want to ask about the bronze coffin, I advise you to give up. I have indeed never opened that coffin. After being entrusted with this one, I advise you to give up." When I took the coffin, I was only told that it contained a 'Dragon Bone Cross', and my mission was just to send him home."

"You knew that the Corpse Guard was rioting, and you wanted to kill your former classmates?"

"If I really want to do this, I will install C4 under your bed. You don't know, I am always sneaky. When did I light up the big explosion in your bottom cabin, you will probably be sent to the sky." Be able to react."

"What is the purpose of the person behind you sending the bronze coffin to Kuimen?"

"What else could it mean to send Dragon Bone Cross to see the Dragon King? I guess it's to lure the Dragon King out of his cage?"

"'you guess'?"

"I guess, because I don't know at all."

"Then what do you know?"

"I only know that my mission ends here, these are the exact words of the superior." Mandy rubbed her fingertips, "'Mandy Mandy, send this coffin to Kuimen, your mission is It’s over!’ Those are His exact words.”

"It sounds like someone who can say something like that is out of touch."

"He does escape sometimes, but most of the time he is still like an unscrupulous and black-hearted boss, which fits his name full of feudalism." Mandy complained viciously about her boss behind the scenes without any scruples.

"So you have been given up." Zhou Zhen paused and said.

"You can understand it this way! Anyway, in this incident, I am already a dandelion stalk that has blown its crest. Don't expect to get any useful information from me." Mandy looked at Zhou Zhen sincerely, and then He rolled his eyes again, "But if you really don't give up, I can pretend that I do have some terrible information, and then force you to go to the kitchen and serve me pork knuckles or something. If this can make you If you can feel more comfortable being interrogated on behalf of those above."

Before Mandy finished speaking, the small window was closed, cutting off the light source with a bang.

In the darkness, she stopped what she said, then curled her lips, and lay down on the hard bed, listening to the footsteps that were gradually receding.

"Everyone." She muttered softly.

The room fell into silence again, and after a while, her voice sounded again: "Tsk, I still want to be given up."

".Congratulations, your wish has come true."

The small window of the solitary room was opened again, but only sounds could be heard but no one could be seen.

Mandy suddenly sat up and looked at the window intently. She probably waited for dozens of seconds but did not see the familiar and beautiful baby face.

"When did Paco learn his mysterious ways? Do you want to wipe him out so you can usurp the throne?" Mandy asked curiously, looking at the empty window.

"I just treat you as an idiot, so I won't care." Mandy's familiar Paco's voice sounded outside the small window again, extremely cold.

Looking at the empty small window, Mandy had a slight doubt on her face, but after a moment she slapped her thigh as if she had suddenly come to her senses, and said happily, "Oh oh oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, the little one with the iron door The window is too high, you can’t even reach it with your feet!”

A faint sigh came from the small window, which contained too many emotions, but at least half of the emotions were the regret and pity that the frag grenade could not be stuffed into the small window.

"Okay, okay, I'm just kidding, I don't need you anymore, don't take it to heart." Mandy stood up from the bed with a laugh, "If you really show your face, I will have to ask you how many benches you are using. How did you get on this ship?"

"I am Chinese, a capable Chinese, it is not difficult to get an identity on board the ship beforehand."

"But I didn't mean to discredit you because of your height. There are height requirements for joining a warship and becoming a navy." Mandy said hesitantly.

"Every warship will have a psychiatrist on board."

"Oh oh oh, then don't get caught by the people from the academy. Your portrait has been posted by the executive department. You will die if exposed to light."

"I am the ship's doctor and have a special office." Paco said, "They will not have the chance to see me. Even if the ship sinks, no one will deliberately pay attention to the life and death of a ship's doctor, and it is also psychological. doctor."

"Just hide better. You are already on my junior brother's blacklist. If you are seen, you will lose your head." Mandy walked to the door and tried to see Paco in the corridor outside through the small window, but there was no trace of him. He didn't see it either. "What's the situation under the water now? Did the coffin fish out the Dragon King?"

"Guess." Paco said.

"I guess?" Mandy paused and asked cautiously, "Paco, your body was taken away from you?"

Paco did not answer Mandy's question.

"I guess. I'm just guessing. According to his personality, the bronze coffin is probably a carefully prepared bait. The dragon bone cross has long been treasured by the secret party as a family heirloom. There is no way it will appear here. I can almost guess it. I can imagine the Dragon King's expression when he angrily opened the lid of the coffin and saw nothing inside." Mandy leaned against the iron door with her back, "The most important thing is to attack the heart. As long as there is even a fraction of the bronze coffin that may be Constantine's dragon bone cross, There is a very high chance that Norton will not be able to sit still, and the murderous trap set for the 'Prince' will be ruined. This time the emperor counts both ends and eats both ends, which is in line with his style of doing things."

"You think you know Him very well." Paco's voice sounded again.

"If you play chess with a person for a lot of time, you will gradually get to know that person. You can hide anything, but the moves cannot be hidden." Mandy said with a low smile, "You don't have to be angry with me or anything. , but I have never wanted to compete with you for the position of being the famous person next to the emperor. Whoever sits in this position will be embarrassed, I guess only you can sit comfortably and calmly."

"I'm glad you think so, but it's very possible that you are also lying to me. After all, you are the most professional liar. But this has nothing to do with me." Paco's voice sounded faintly, "I have never regarded you as a liar. opponent."

"Why are you talking about such deep sisterly love all of a sudden? Open the door quickly. The guy from the Zhou family said before that there was an earthquake underwater. It's probably because the coffin has been delivered to the Dragon King's domain. That was all thirteen minutes ago. It's over, I'm squatting in this dark place counting the time on my fingers. It's probably too cold now for the Dragon King. If I wait for Lin Nian to come up, I'll be finished!" Mandy urged.

"Don't worry, let's have a chat." Paco said.

Mandy paused and raised her eyebrows, "Let me go, you won't really be taken away, right? Is it the 'Emperor' who is talking to me now? There is no such thing as fishing. If you blow yourself up now, you are 'Emperor', then the bad words I said before don't count!"

"What if, and I mean if. Mandy, this mission was over forever, what would you do?"

"What do you mean it's over forever? You didn't want to avenge yourself by setting me on fire along with the storm torpedoes in the bottom cabin, right?" Mandy suddenly felt frightened and couldn't help but recall whether her recent joke about Paco's height was a bit too much. .

"Storm torpedoes are not kicks. Beichuan's ship missile fire control system is very strict, and we have no intention of trying to crack it violently." Paco said, "You will not die in this plan, Mandy. Don’t worry about it.”

"What you said already sounded like an 'emperor'." Mandy paused and said, "What did you mean by what you just said? End that sentence forever."

"If you can fly away after this mission is over, where will you go?" Paco asked.

"Hmm." Mandy paused, her expression a little suspicious in the darkness, "Is this a normal sister chat?"

"What else?"

"I suspect you are taking this opportunity to trick me. When one day I really retire, you will arrange a group of mercenaries to go to the resort I told you about and kill me at home." Mandy said happily. "What kind of Bruce Willis revenge political thriller is this?"

"Do you still want to leave here? Mandy." Paco interrupted Mandy's self-entertainment, "The Dragon King is dead. The Seven Deadly Sins pierced his heart and then nailed his spine. The poison has already followed the blood. and the spinal cord has spread to the pituitary gland, the three key hearts are in a critical condition, and the dragon-slaying war is over."

"Oh, Lin Nian is coming up soon, right? Don't let him catch me, otherwise he won't be able to escape. Based on his character, he knows it was me who brought the bronze coffin. He will probably explode the hammer on the spot. It's possible for me to have a meal. After the hammering, I still have to be called the brother-in-law, which makes me unable to express my pain." Mandy pressed in a low voice. Paco outside the door did not speak, probably I am familiar with the way this girl talks endlessly all day long.

"Anyway, Mandy, you have done a great job all this time." Paco said, "Now you have to rely on yourself. Many people may come to you. Be careful not to die. If you die, A lot of people are going to be upset.”

"Paco, what do you mean by that?" Mandy's tone of voice gradually slowed down, and she gradually realized that something seemed to be wrong.

But no one answered her question outside the small window.

"Hey, where are you?" Mandy knocked on the door, but got no response, "Why don't you open the door before you disappear, pacopaco?"

She stepped barefoot on the ground, stood on tiptoes and held the small window to look out, but there was only an incandescent chandelier in the corridor that drew regular circular spots of light on the dim ground, and there was no one else.

In the blind spot of her invisible perspective, a key lay quietly in front of the door of the confinement room.

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On the deck, Zhou Zhen, who was staring out the side of the ship, suddenly heard footsteps coming from the cabin behind him. He looked back and was stunned for a moment when he saw the tall figure walking out, and hurriedly stepped forward.

"Doctor? Why did you come out? It's not very safe on the deck now. Please go back to your office."

"I'm a little bored, come out and take a look." Wearing a white coat, she looked at the stagnant bloody Yangtze River, and there seemed to be stars hidden in her eyes under the dark sky.

"There's nothing good to see here. Please go back to a safe place. No one knows what bad things will happen next." Zhou Zhen looked at the ship's psychiatrist directly assigned by the Zhou family with a slight headache. After all, A woman's curiosity can kill people, especially in this situation.

"Mr. Zhou, did the underwater mission go well? I think the crew members on the ship seem to be under great pressure." She turned to look at the mature man and asked with a smile.

"You don't need to worry about this." Zhou Zhen shook his head and said, "Please go back to the office, Doctor Lin Xian. Many people in the family don't want anything to happen to you."

"Okay." She took one last look at the surging blood-red river water and said softly.

After that, she turned around and walked into the cabin again. Zhou Zhen looked at her back in silence with an indescribable feeling, but in the end he gave up pursuing the illusory and unreal feeling.