11 - Between Crimson(1/2)
Xing Guoyi turned his head when he heard the sound and saw me. He was very happy at first and then smiled helplessly, and asked with concern, "You are awake, how about you? You are not seriously injured."
"You care about it, nothing, just skin trauma."
"That's good." After saying that, nodded and turned to everyone. "Please don't worry. No matter what tricks the prisoner has, as police, we will definitely protect everyone. As long as we are united and calm, we will definitely get out of here. Please believe me." After saying this, there was silence and no one responded.
The man in glasses suddenly sneered twice and said, "Hmph, the police must do their duty as a policeman. But since we have arrived, it means you have dereliction of duty." He raised his chin aggressively and said, "Don't talk nonsense, have you found where to go out? All the big and small matters in my company are waiting for me to decide. The jobs of the people in the company are all based on me. You should be more efficient and take us out of this ghost place as soon as possible. I don't want to stay here for a minute."
The man with glasses stared at the two policemen with sharp eyes as he spoke, with a strong aura of no concern about the other party's identity. Yuncai also looked directly at the other party unhappy, looking at each other and refused to give in to each other. I glanced at him sideways and suddenly found a young man in a leather jacket looking at the man with disgust.
Xing Guoyi lowered his head, and took the pity as a reply. He seemed to be replying, but his voice was louder and louder than that, "We have just investigated this place as much as possible and found no one outside of us. The prisoners are not here. We are safe." Looking around, everyone could hear some excited whispers, but Xing Guoyi's tone gradually became serious and continued, "The place we are in is an abandoned factory. As everyone investigated for the first time, the doors and windows of the factory were indeed sealed, and we did not find an exit. But we must have a way to get out here."
The thoughtful sentences are all in an official voice. To be honest, I am very disgusted with this kind of dry and dry way of talking about life that seems to have been practiced in advance.
"As expected." Lin Fuyi heard in his ears, saying in a low voice, "If you don't seal this place, it will be meaningless to arrest us in."
"We will definitely find a way to go out. We will protect everyone, okay? In short, don't panic. I don't know what tricks the criminal has. He may come back. We must remain calm and united."
"Don't just talk nonsense. Is there any practical solution?" The man in glasses was still pressing step by step.
Yuncai: "Since we have said it, we will definitely be able to do it. As long as everyone can cooperate well, there will always be a solution."
The man with glasses snorted through his nose, "Hmph, it's better."
The man in the leather jacket suddenly inserted it in, "Tsk, he is risking his life to find a way out in this dark place. If you can't do anything, you're still fanning the flames here, right?"
At this time, the man in leather clothes said, putting his right hand into his pocket. The movement was light and slow, and the movement was extremely small. No one even noticed the movement of the man in leather clothes. After a closer look, he actually put a folding knife. The man in leather clothes held the folding knife in his hand, and the hand holding the knife was facing the man in glasses. Although he intended to cover the knife, his aura that was ready to move and wait for the momentum could not be hidden.
I don't know if the man in glasses noticed this dangerous signal, but he didn't say anything anymore, and just looked at the man in leather with contempt without showing weakness. The atmosphere was tense, and something in the air seemed to be about to fail to support the collapse and rupture, which seemed to be tense and suffocating.
"Okay, OK, stop arguing, why bother?"
Suddenly someone broke the silence, talking about a third person who was exploring with the two policemen, who looked like a scholar, who was in his early twenties. The bangs on his forehead were long and regular, and at first glance they were ordinary young people who could be compared with the media and fashion trends. They had not been tempered by society and reality, and their every move was full of tenderness.
The man trotted between the two, raised his arms and palms to the two, intending to stop the escalation of the two, but his face kept smiling, as if he looked good.
Yuncai on the side couldn't stand it anymore and said seriously: "There is no time left to fight now. The prisoner will come back when he will come back. Hurry up and find the countermeasures to go out. Stop me and don't make arguing!"
Although the female policewoman's voice was not harsh, it had a kind of power that was hard to refuse. When the man in leather heard her words, he sucked his teeth and put away the knife, and his eyes were still cut toward the man in glasses. The man in glasses held his arms, looked unhappy, and stood with his lumbar spine straight. I have to say that he is really a brave person.
"Okay, everyone is quiet." In the end, Xing Guoyi comforted everyone. "Everyone is like returning home early, so are we. Since there is no point in quarreling like this, we should hurry up and find a way."
"Please come around, get closer, I will briefly explain what has been investigated."
After a moment of silence, although he was reluctant, the man in leather clothes and glasses still approached, and the others also approached one after another. Only the uncle in the treacherous clothes shrank for a long time. Xing Guoyi urged twice, and then Zhan Zhan walked over, like a critically ill old man. He could vaguely see in the darkness. He was stammering in a trembling voice, not knowing what he was saying. As he walked over, he looked at me vigilantly, as if I would rush up to steal the ragged clothes on him at any time.
"There are many rooms in this abandoned factory." Xing Guoyi was able to continue. "I'm very unhappy to tell you that we found that the doors of the entire factory are all made of iron and were welded to death in the wall, and the welded cannot even find any gap."
Everyone already knew this, but when someone heard such confident words from the mouths of others, there was still a little uneasy and sad commotion.
“The windows are…”
"As we said at the beginning, there was no way out, and the windows were sealed, and they were fixed with steel plates, and most of the windows were very high and could not be reached at all."
Lin Fuyi whistled, "Oh, it's such a big deal. It turns out that we were put in a large cement coffin."
"But everyone doesn't have to be afraid." Xing Guoyi had to raise his voice and suppress the complex ones, especially Lin Fuyi's voice. It was not how high Lin Fuyi's voice was, but that his long-term work in a public institution had made him develop the habit of conditioned reflex to suppress "bad words".
“We found some useful tools and floor plans of the factory, and this flashlight was found from the factory. I believe we had the opportunity to leave here.”
Yuncai always twisted a piece of yellow and hard paper in her hand, which was worn out and seemed to be broken as soon as she touched it. At first, she was far away, and she didn't notice it at all in the factory with a field of view, and she didn't see it until now that she was opposite each other. It turned out that the yellow paper was a map. Yuncai was handed over to take turns to check it. I took it first, Lin Fuyi turned on his phone to illuminate me. He could tell at a glance that it was just an ordinary A4 printing paper, which was still stained with soil, but it was completely dry and it was difficult to remove. He was afraid that it would damage the paper itself with force.
The floor plan is marked with the names of each area, semi-finished products, air compressor stations, water treatment, injection molding, etc. It seems that this factory used to be a water plant. The location of our location should be a semi-finished product library. The area with assembly lines I just saw when I opened the door was the main workshop.
I saw it and felt aroused. I suddenly remembered the content of the factory I saw during the investigation. It was wrong. If it was a water plant, would there be such a kind of switch knife on the assembly line? What's going on with this factory...? Could it be that it was renovated?
I passed the map to the next person in confusion. The man in glasses seemed to be most eager to take a look. He had already walked to me, so I handed it over to him, but before he could reach out, he snatched it over.
"According to the picture above, I found that there was a pipe that should lead to the boiler room outside the factory. With the tools found in the office area, I think we can break the pipe and escape from there." After everyone was almost ready to see it, Xing Guoyi said.
Glasses man: "What kind of pipe?"
"The very thick pipe should be used for heating and water, and can accommodate adult men climbing through it. The pipes are close to the ground and will not be difficult to get."
Me: "Do we use tools to remove the tube?"
"Before we came back, we tried to twist the screws with a wrench, but it didn't work. We were already rusted and we could only use more violent methods. For example, we used a saw saw or a hammer to smash it."
Leather jacket: "How thick the water pipe is, how much time it takes to smash it, I don't think it will be broken."
"There is no other way, I only think of such a way at the moment."
Lin Fuyi: "Although the door has been welded to death, the door itself is still very thin, at least it is easier to break than the water supply pipe."
Xing Guoyi suddenly fell silent: "... Actually, about this..." There was something wrong with him. Xing Guoyi looked at us and continued, "These doors are very strange... they are all very new and have excellent texture, not like they have been abandoned for a long time." Lin Fuyi and I exchanged glances and said nothing. Xing Guoyi paused after he finished speaking, as if waiting for these two sentences to settle in our hearts, and finally concluded, "So I think the aging pipeline is more promising."
Silence suddenly came, and after a moment Yuncai said, "There is no better idea, let's take action as soon as possible."
At this time, when he suddenly encountered such a bizarre kidnapping, everyone was somewhat indifferent. Although Xing Guoyi proposed to discuss before, who had expressed any valuable opinions? After hearing what the two policemen said, they all nodded. When Xing Guoyi saw everyone's appearance, he was not talking nonsense: "Since everyone agreed, it's not time to go, let's start taking action now."
The group no longer hesitated, followed Xing Guoyi, who was leading the way, and more than a dozen people walked in front of him, thinking about walking in the depths of the darkness. Lin Fuyi opened his phone first, and the rest of them also turned on their phones to illuminate their feet when they saw it.
"Only two or three is enough to save power."
Xing Guoyi still did not forget to remind everyone that he was quite like a leader. After this, no one spoke again and set out on the road silently. He had nothing to say all the way until after a long distance, everyone was already trapped in the depths of the factory.
The factory was not much better, and there were messy equipment and debris everywhere, so we had to take a detour often. As we walked, we would be tripped by strange and indescribable objects on our ankles. From time to time, we could see dark red liquid traces sprinkled everywhere, but maybe we didn't want to make the heavy mood heavier. Everyone saw it, but no one spoke.
I walked behind the uncle with a treasure. Although the light was as dim as I was sitting underground, I could only see the outline of my back when I shifted the spotlight of my phone. He noticed that the uncle was still trembling, and was still as nervous as before. While trembling, he was still muttering like before, and he didn't know what he was mumbling, and gradually became a little cunning.
After walking for a while in a suffocating silence, the stickiness under my feet suddenly increased. I turned the light of my phone down and saw a long strip of winding black and dark red.
Blood?
Although I have seen many of them just now, it is the first time that such a thick and large area is such a first time.
I raised my feet and stuck to the sound of the object being torn apart. After a glance, more blood appeared in front of me. These bloodstains were not pools, they were all long strips. It was like... it was like something bloody was dragged away.
The people around noticed that I stopped, and all looked at me curiously, and then saw the blood at my feet. After seeing it, Lin Fuyi also shone at his feet - Lin Fuyi also saw the same long blood stains. Everyone followed suit when they saw this situation. Similar dried blood stains appeared one after another before everyone's eyes, in number, not just a few, but maybe a dozen, or even twenty. Many blood stains gathered from all directions, like a huge blooming red flower. They were concentrated in front of a double-open door beside us, and the blood gathered in front of the door and passed through the crack below, radiating, like a half-open flower.
Such a huge blood picture not only makes people curious about the appearance behind the door.
I widened my eyes and couldn't believe what I saw. This scene made people feel like standing in front of the gate of hell. I couldn't help but look at Xing Guoyi. Not only me, but almost everyone looked at Xing Guoyi and the other three, all of whom were full of doubts and silently questioning.
Xing Guoyi apologized and said, "...We originally hoped you wouldn't discover it... After all..." Xing Guoyi couldn't continue to say it halfway through his words. He always felt that something was hiding, and something was hiding something we didn't know better.
I calmed down, walked to the door, and tried to push the door open.
——I am very scared, to be honest, I am really scared. There must be something behind the door, something unknown. My heart was held tightly, as if at any moment, the door would suddenly open wide, and a man-eating monster rushed out and I swallowed me. I swallowed my saliva, slowly reached out and put it on the door. I took a deep breath and pushed it out-
The door didn't move.
Huh? I turned around and looked at the person behind me blankly. The person behind me also looked at me with concern. The door was not moving, and no one even realized that I had used my strength to push it. In everyone's eyes, I seemed to be unable to hold it up after putting my hand on it for a while. I was even more surprised and pushed it again. Then the metal sound of the door rubbing against some object sounded. Finally, I saw a piece of wood chip horizontally on the door handle behind the door. The wooden chip used as the latch looked not very strong and should be broken into it at will, but the door was not opened.
"Huh? Officer Xing, this door has not been opened?"
"Ah? Well..."
I frowned and said that this is the only way to the pipeline that leads to Xing Guoyi. Xing Guoyi and the other two who had just investigated the factory should have no reason to miss it, but no matter how you look at Xing Guoyi and the others have never been in, what's going on?
When I said this, Yuncai immediately blushed and hurriedly dodged away. Everyone was shocked and realized that something was wrong.
First, Liu Jun asked with great vigilance: "Didn't you say you have searched all over here?"
"this……"
Why are they so hesitant? Haven’t Xing Guoyi and the other two entered here? But why didn’t they say it at the beginning, what’s there to hide?
Then Liu Jun was suddenly stepped on his tail and shouted sharply: "What if the prisoner hides here!!"
The man with glasses was naturally unhappy: "Didn't you think about how we were sent in? No matter how the place is sealed, there must be a way to enter and exit. Not to mention the prisoners, maybe the entrance and exit are here."
Facing the harsh criticism that the three of them could not resist, Xing Guoyi said: "Actually... this door was closed by us..."
Xing Guoyi said as he looked at the two people who were also searching with him. The three of them looked at each other, avoiding everyone's sight and not speaking.
I feel more and more strange. They locked it? Why?
"Anyway... I'm going to tell you that you'd better not go in. Listen to me..." the scholar muttered.
Lin Fuyi: "Why do you say that?"
"Uh... that...oh, just don't open the door anyway."
The man in glasses asked sternly, "Hey, what are you hiding? What the hell is going on?"
Liu Jun walked forward gritted his teeth, pushed the scholar rudely, and said angrily: "I have long seen that vulgar uncle over there seems to be the one who kidnapped me! How could the prisoner be tied up and we left by ourselves! I have long been doubting that you are hidden among us because of some evil taste. Are you three prisoners? Are you accomplices of the four uncles? Tell me!"
"What! That uncle is the one who kidnapped you!?" The aunt also screamed in surprise, with a look of fear.
"Hey, don't talk nonsense!"
The leather jacket almost jumped up and grabbed the beggar-like uncle's collar: "Is she true??"
The crowd was in an uproar and became chaotic in an instant
"Please be quiet, please be quiet!"
Leather grabbed the uncle with one hand, shook his hand at Xing Guoyi with the other hand, and said angrily: "Shut up! Who knows if you are a real policeman? People who have never known each other, we can't judge what you say when you first meet!"
Xing Guoyi was a little stunned, and after hesitating, the noise became louder.
The three of them could not bear the pressure exerted by everyone. In the chaos, the scholar pouted: "This is what you asked for. A moment... don't rely on others..."
After saying that, Xing Guoyi walked to the door, took a deep breath, kicked open the double door with a loud bang like thunder, and everyone calmed down in an instant. The wood chip that was about to rot was already rotten, and two short pieces were clattered. The door opened in response, and the scene inside the door was undisclosed before us-
To be continued...