Night’s Nomenclature

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 mind.

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

Unless... the results of the interrogation reveal a secret involving someone present.

Qingchen was thinking, how would 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 sure that Li Shutong would kill him, but was prepared for the worst.

However, Li Shutong was 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 the bald man 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 Lu 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, "I was not as good as you when I was your age."

"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 not survive 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 getting along with me these days. If possible, I hope we can get to know each other again."

"You beat me when we played chess on the first day, 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've always liked your courage. This song 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 Qingchen'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 closed one after another, and the sound of hydraulic transmission ended the day's hustle and 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.

After a few minutes, 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.

There was only his breathing, and the only thing that was lit was the countdown that he could see, and it couldn't light up anywhere.

Time is slow and heavy.

Qingchen knew how a person would react when he was 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.

Not having time is the scariest thing.

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'm afraid Li Shutong and others didn't expect 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.

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 were all videos he had memorized in his mind, but he didn't need a device to replay them.

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

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the next day.

Qingchen took a nap 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.

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The third day

Hunger began to burn into his will and erode his spirit.

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

He suffered from 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 out.

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.

Countdown to return: 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 even shouted.

In the darkness, the world is always silent.

He hadn't calculated how long he hadn't slept, but it didn't seem to matter.

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, while Lin Xiaoxiao glanced at the time: "Boss, it's been four days."

"Yeah," 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. Qing Guangyi I won’t let you go either.”

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

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

It was not until the fourth day that 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 die. ," Lin Xiaoxiao said anxiously: "Boss, you cherish your talent, let him go."

Lin Xiaoxiao, who originally couldn't stand Qingchen's arrogance, 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?

The moment waterboarding 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 been 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 50:09:02.

Day five.

The dark 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 without moving, 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.

Next to them, Lin Xiaoxiao and Ye Wan looked at each other. They didn't expect that at this time, Qingchen could still maintain a clear will, knew what he was facing, and knew how to use his last will to fight for a chance to survive.

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

He felt like he was having a dream.

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

in the park.

It's as if 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: "Xiaochen, your father has someone outside and doesn't want us anymore."

"Mom, I want to eat candied haws," 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 went to buy candied haws for him: "Xiao Chen, you eat the candied haws here, while mom goes to the toilet."

However, the woman never came back.

Qingchen waited from noon until sunset.

He began to cry, but it 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 it got 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 brain was deprived of oxygen and his limbs were twitching. 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, and 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."

Qingchen faced the dazzling light and looked at the other party stubbornly. He choked out the water in his trachea and 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 that 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 around and walked out of the interrogation room: "Starting from tomorrow, I will personally teach you. I will take you to the furthest path among all the shortcuts in this world."

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Thanks to classmate Shang Tianfeng for becoming a new ally of this book. The boss is generous and blessed as much as the East China Sea and longevity!

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