While we were talking, Lao Diao could no longer find a cigarette butt to bite open.
I squinted my eyes and said, "Whether it's time to deliver food or not, it's up to Ren Tianqing."
Not long after Ren Tianqing nodded and left, the prison guard in charge of delivering meals walked into the solitary room. Lao Diao said with a playful smile: "Sir, sir, can you give me a few cigarettes? Now that I have the energy, I can think of how to explain, right?" "
The prison guard took out half a box of cigarettes, lit one himself and threw the rest to the other party: "Think about your own problems carefully and don't deal with useless ones."
"Definitely, definitely..." Lao Diao nodded and bowed to see the prison guard off. The first thing he did was not to eat but to smoke quickly. After a while, Lao Diao stood up and pinched his throat with one hand, trying hard to cough up phlegm.
I sneered: "Xiao Qingtian, how much did you add to that cigarette?"
Ren Tianqing said: "He only needs to suck out half of his throat to bleed. Don't worry, the effect will be seen soon."
Ren Tianqing doesn't know how to use poison, but he has a lot of things in his hands to hurt people. She can't kill people, but she can definitely make people feel uncomfortable for a few days.
After a while, Lao Diao knelt on the ground, coughing up bloody phlegm, unable to say a word.
The warden worriedly said: "Team Leader Wang, is this possible? Otherwise... "
"Don't worry, we are worried." I waved my hand and said, "Lao Diao has been smoking hard just now, not because he was panicking, but because he was using cigarettes to suppress the discomfort in his throat."
I don’t know if there is any scientific basis for saying that chewing tobacco leaves can reduce inflammation and kill bacteria. However, I can see that Lao Diao must be suppressing his laryngitis.
Just a moment later, I saw Lao Diao crawling towards the door of the solitary room, banging the door as hard as he could twice, and he fell to the ground after him.
"Not good!" My face suddenly changed: "Hurry up and save people."
When I rushed over, Lao Diao was already unconscious in the solitary room, with blood dripping from the corners of his mouth.
Ren Tianqing turned pale with fright: "I didn't do anything serious, this isn't..."
"Rescue him first!" I directly pulled Lao Diao out of the solitary room and put him in the prison ambulance.
Ren Tianqing kept explaining from the moment she got in the car: "I really didn't mean it. I didn't have poison in my hand. I..."
I finally comforted Ren Tianqing, and the ambulance had already driven deep into the Gobi Desert. While the car was still speeding across the Gobi Desert, I kicked Lao Diao, who was lying in the car: "Stop pretending to be dead, get up!"
Ren Tianqing, who was nervous just now, immediately calmed down. He took out the dagger from his body and pressed it to Lao Diao's feet. He pointed the blade at Lao Diao's hamstring: "Get up."
Lao Diao is still motionless, but I said coldly: "This is the Gobi Desert. I can kill you or let you go. If you dare to pretend to be dead with me again, I will make you die immediately."
As soon as I finished speaking, Lao Diao, who had a sallow complexion, opened his eyes and made a gesture to me, meaning: Who are you
I said coldly: "Don't use that nonsense from the Wugui Sect. We are not from the Wugui Sect. You have already seen my ID. I can tell you that we are official detectives."
Lao Diao hesitated and said: "Are you a double sword of gods and ghosts?"
Lao Diao has always been in prison, but he is extremely well-informed. It seems that his son is not just here to deliver food and drinks.
I looked at Lao Diao with murderous eyes: "Since you know who I am, you don't need to introduce me. Whether I recruit or not depends on your words."
As I spoke, I reached out and pushed Magnum away. Lao Diao thought for a long time before saying, "If you tell me one thing clearly, I will tell you!"
I suppressed my anger and said, "Speak out and listen!"
Lao Diao asked: "Has Fan Chongyi really become neither a man nor a ghost?"
"Yes!" I nodded: "I saw it with my own eyes!"
Lao Diao closed his eyes and nodded: "As expected, after I finish speaking, can you send me back to prison? Any prison, as long as it's not on the Gobi Desert. The further away from the Gobi Desert, the better." I have no other request but to spend the rest of my life in prison."
"Okay!" I nodded and said, "As long as you answer my questions truthfully, I will definitely meet your requirements."
Lao Diao nodded slightly and said: "This matter has to start more than forty years ago. At that time, I was still a child. I was adopted by my adoptive father and joined the Wugui Sect... "
Lao Diao's story at the beginning was very simple, that is, the Wugui Sect prepared a dual identity for him. On the one hand, he went to school, took exams, and worked like an ordinary child. At the same time, he was secretly learning the tomb robbing skills of Wugui Sect.
After graduation, he was admitted to the Cultural Relics Bureau with the highest score in the city. No one expected that this energetic and honest young man would turn out to be a veteran tomb robber who had been in and out of the cemetery for four years.
When Lao Diao was hiding in the Cultural Bureau, he actually lived a peaceful life for a few years, got married and had children. Until he was ordered to join the Dunhuang scientific expedition team, everything changed.
The Wugui Sect has long had the idea of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, but because Dunhuang has always been under strict official protection, it has never been successful. The purpose of training Lao Diao was just to prepare for Dunhuang treasure theft.
The purpose of Lao Diao following the scientific expedition team deep into Dunhuang was to find the missing Le Zun's secret chamber. However, the purpose of the archaeological team was completely different from Lao Diao's. Lao Diao's actions were naturally subject to considerable restrictions. Just when Lao Diao was racking his brains to find an opportunity to leave the archaeological team, he met Fan Chongyi, a man who firmly believed that Dunhuang hid a shocking mystery.
Lao Diao kept telling Fan Chongyi about the news he got from Wugui Sect as a legend. Fan Chongyi followed the clues he mentioned and visited every corner of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. Finally, the secret room hidden under Dunhuang was discovered.
Lao Diao himself said: To this day, he cannot escape that nightmare.
At that time, Lao Diao was led by Fan Chongyi into a secret tunnel with a height of only one meter. Based on his experience, it was a tunnel dug by a master of tomb robbers. However, he did not remind Fan Chongyi of this and kept following Fan Chongyi. After entering the underground palace under the thief's cave, they realized that the underground palace that they were not allowed to enter was not a conventional square building, but three huge stepped slopes.
The floor where Lao Diao and the others were on was empty, with only a bluestone avenue extending continuously to both sides.
The slope above the avenue is full of gods and Buddhas. Each of them has its palms clasped together and its eyes lowered towards the middle of the avenue. The faint flowing light in the eyes is like substance. Even if you turn around deliberately and don't look at the sky. Gods and Buddhas will also feel like they are being watched from a distance by thousands of pairs of eyes, which makes people want to tremble uncontrollably.
When Lao Diao turned around subconsciously, he saw endless demons hiding under the avenue. Countless ghosts and undead are lurking under the slope, climbing up desperately, trying their best to break through the obstacles of the bluestone avenue, rush into the sky, and fight against the gods and Buddhas. Although the ghost statues under the avenue are dead objects, they make people feel murderous. They seem to be able to jump up at any time and rush to the top of the avenue.
Lao Diao just felt that no matter where he looked, he was wrong: "I said, Dr. Fan, where should we go?"
Fan Chongyi looked extremely excited: "Go forward, go forward... the end is ahead."
Lao Diao swallowed and said, "Dr. Fan, how do you know you should go forward?"
The burglary cave that Lao Diao and the others came in was just hanging above the avenue. They could go forward or backward.
Dr. Fan said excitedly: "According to the Buddhist theory of past, present and future. Our location is now. If we don't go to the future, can we still go to the past? Listen to me, it's definitely right."
"Oh... oh!" Lao Diao agreed vaguely twice, and quietly tightened his pistol.
At that time, a total of eight people came down. Except for Fan Chongyi and an assistant, the rest were all Wugui Sect disciples secretly recruited by Lao Diao. He was not afraid of any tricks that Fan Chongyi would play. What he was afraid of was this unknown underground palace.
As Fan Chongyi walked forward quickly with a flashlight, Lao Diao couldn't help but look back, but his glance almost scared him out of his wits: "Dr. Fan, we... Why are there nothing behind us?" Already?"
Fan Chongyi turned around and said: "The past means disappearance and forgetfulness. We have stepped out of the past, and the things behind will definitely disappear."
Lao Diao finally couldn't stand it any longer: "Fan Chongyi, aren't I discussing the past and future with you now? I'm asking, why are the things behind us gone? Where have all the gods, Buddhas, monsters and monsters gone? Also, what are the avenues on earth? What? Why it’s gone!”
Fan Chongyi said with a smile: "I said, the past means disappearance. They stand behind us, they are our past. If I walk over, they will disappear. Let's go quickly! If someone walks past us, we will become His past will definitely be erased."
Lao Diao's face suddenly turned pale, and he walked up to Fan Chongyi in a few steps: "Are you really farting? I'm coming over now, behind..."
Before Lao Diao finished his words, he almost knelt on the ground with his legs weak. The Wugui Sect disciple in charge of the rear was gone, and where he was originally, only a dark shadow remained. But there seemed to be a pair of eyes in the endless darkness, looking at Lao Diao through the thick shadows.
Intuition told Lao Diao that the disappeared disciple must have been standing there, standing in the darkness. But he didn't dare to see whether the man was dead or alive.
Lao Diao's legs trembled and he took two steps away from Fan Chongyi: "Don't go now, don't go now... let's go forward together... together!"
Lao Diao wanted everyone to move forward in a row, but how could that bluestone avenue be that wide? If you move forward side by side, someone will have to step on and jump off the road, step on the monsters all over the ground and follow them; if you move separately, someone will always be left behind and become the "past" that is erased.