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[Text] Chapter 49, Eighteen Coffins

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Chixiang Prison was originally a place where serious criminals were exiled, a hell on earth, but the prisoners who really entered it knew that there was a more terrifying place in this hell, the death row!The place where the most dangerous people live in Chixiang Prison is the place where the natural law of "survival of the fittest" can be best implemented.

The head of each department of the iron prison is called Patriarch, the head of each department of the women's prison is named Dutou, and the death prison...is the grave guard!

A name that sounds heart-shattering, an evil term washed out with a rain of blood!

Gravekeeper!As the name suggests, it shows the fear of outsiders towards them and the fear of the entire death row.

But today, Di Cheng and others have entered the death row because of their own mission, entering the nightmare place in the hearts of everyone in Chixiang.

But this should have been a desperate thing, but it took on another meaning for Di Cheng and the others.

Amidst the anticipation and tension, the iron gate of the death cell creaked open. Di Cheng, with a fixed gaze, stepped forward first, followed by the others.

Passing through the thick wall, there is a high wall in front of you that is exactly the same as that behind you, and a five-meter-wide lane in the middle.

There are two layers of iron gates, with double layers of guards inside and outside!

In the lane, the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time buckled the chains and hinges on them one by one. This is a rule, and it is a rule that everyone must abide by.Whether it was Di Cheng or Gao Sen, they all cooperated surprisingly, staring straight ahead and staring at the red iron gate.

The crunch is ready, and the iron door opens!A stench that could be said to be light or not heavy hits the face, mixed with the smell of blood, feces, and a unique smell of rotting corpses.

Di Cheng and the others frowned, especially Ye Wantong who loved cleanliness. The environment inside might be worse than imagined.

The little hamster that had been hiding for a long time also panicked, crawling restlessly in Di Cheng's hair.

Passing through the heavy iron gates one by one, the long-awaited death row was finally revealed to everyone.There is no compound, no earthen house, and the structure of the iron prison is completely different.

Presented in front of everyone is... a cemetery!

One after another, soil bags without tombstones were piled up in the vast courtyard, some big and small, some new and some old, and some with a few pale bones exposed, which added a sense of eerie to the already smelly air.

A large number of prisoners with chains on their hands and feet were "piled" together in groups, or fell asleep with their heads down, or were stunned in a daze, and no one made a sound.

However, after careful identification, it can be seen that these cemeteries and the living areas of the prisoners are roughly divided into seven areas. The prisoners in the outermost areas of each area are concentrated, looking at the adjacent area vigilantly, as if they are on guard for something. It seemed as if he was about to pounce on him immediately.

For the arrival of Di Cheng and the others, almost no one paid attention to them, and they still "followed their duty", either sleeping or being vigilant, doing what they should do.

Di Cheng and the others didn't have time to "greeting" to these prisoners, and their attention was quickly attracted by the objects standing in various areas.

coffin? ? ! !

There are a lot of tall coffins standing in the already chilling vast cemetery!

There are eighteen coffins in total, scattered in different areas, and placed in different postures, some lying down and some standing.Each coffin is three meters long and half a meter wide. Perhaps because of the age, the coffins have begun to crack, and there are holes in some places. The red paint has long since peeled off, leaving only mottled red patches.

In addition to these coffins, there are more than 30* wooden crosses erected on the edge of the cemetery, dripping with blood and covered with broken bones, and some of them were hung with half-dead people, which fell on them like dried fish.

The scene in front of me is like a doomsday picture scroll, desolate, desolate, gloomy, and terrifying.

"This is Death Row?" Yang Jing's eyes slowly swept across the audience. He was not frightened by the scene in front of him, but excited. At this moment, he was even more eager to find the so-called "Gravekeeper" figure.But although he felt a dozen or so prisoners in the crowd whose aura was not much weaker than that of Zhang Xiaoyan and other Patriarchs, they did not find any particularly dreadful aura.

"Where's Diao Zun? Why didn't I find him." Di Cheng also noticed this phenomenon. Aren't there many scary grave guards?Why is there no one?Even the Diao Zun whom he saw that day disappeared without a trace.

Is it...

His heart skipped a beat, and his eyes quickly turned to those scattered coffins. Could it be that the gravekeepers lived in them?

They live in coffins? !

A chill can't help but emerge from the bottom of my heart. Ordinary people can scream when they see a coffin, but they...

Isn't it seven?Why are there eighteen here, and with the strength of the few of them, it is natural to feel that there are some of them, living people.

"You guessed it right, the gravekeeper does live in the coffin." Ye Wantong walked up, her charming face full of vigilance, even though she was the head of the female prison, she was very powerful, but in such a terrifying situation, she still had a lot of trouble. The powerless territory still made her dare not relax in the slightest. "There is no house, no bed here, except the land is the tomb, only the coffin is a relatively comfortable place. And living in the coffin is also treating oneself as a dead person, and no longer cares about other things. The name of the gravekeeper comes from here. "

"Why are there eighteen coffins?" Yang Jing asked.

"Not all the seven grave guards in the death row are strong fighters, just like the nine-headed monk Xue Ying. In terms of combat power alone, he can barely reach the level of the guard of the head of the iron prison. It is he who has truly achieved his supreme reputation. The three super thugs under his command. In addition, there are still in the death row who are slightly weaker than the grave guards, but they are still extremely powerful. Therefore, the prison provides [-] coffins for the death row, and chooses [-] of the strongest ones to live in them. .”

"Monk with nine heads, Xue Ying!" Di Cheng, Yang Jing, Gao Sen and You Ling narrowed their eyes at the same time.

This guy is indeed on death row, and he is also one of the gravekeepers!Hey, interesting.

"What do these crosses mean?" Gao Sen pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose, looking at the lifeless people above with interest.

"This is a punishment frame, a torture tool used by the grave guards to enforce family law. People who offend them or commit crimes are often gagged and tied to it, and die little by little in the sun and wind and rain."

"To die in the sun?? These grave guards are very creative." Gao Sen chuckled softly, as if his friends were talking about family affairs, not cruel criminal laws!

"Actually, the most cruel ones are the senior management of Chixiang. Without them, how could there be so many crosses erected?" Ye Wantong sneered, her eyes full of resentment.After living in Chixiang Prison for so many years, she clearly saw the cruel and even cruel management of the prison.

Are these prisoners bloody and vicious by nature?Maybe some people are like this, but not the vast majority.But it is the management method of Chixiang Prison that has created this terrifying beast full of prisons.

"What are you doing hiding in the coffin in broad daylight? Do you really think of yourself as a dead person?" Yang Jing rubbed his hands, and his smile gradually showed fanaticism. "Brother Cheng, do you want me to wake them up? We came all the way here, how could no one greet us!"

Dahan scratched his head, and said a little embarrassedly: "Is there food in the coffin? I'm hungry again."

Di Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly. To be honest, he also had the urge to fight the gravekeeper, but after all, he had a mission and couldn't cause trouble casually.Moreover, this large cemetery and the prisoners in it are obviously divided into their own spheres of influence, just like packs of wolves, if they easily step into it, they may not be caught in a tight siege.Although Gao Sen and You Ling agreed to cooperate temporarily, Di Cheng would not naively regard each other as real comrades-in-arms.

Ye Wantong also said just now that the Nine-Headed Monk has three super thugs. Di Cheng has no concept of "super thugs", but since he can put his master on the throne of the grave guard, his strength is definitely not bad.

Shaking his head lightly, Di Cheng said: "Observe and observe first, wait for the grave guard to appear and Xue Ying also leaves the coffin, then we will discuss and determine the countermeasures. What's my proposal, you two?"

"Reasonable." You Ling replied simply, her narrow eyes still scanning the coffins through her hair.

But when Di Cheng looked at Gao Sen, wanting to hear his opinion, Gao Sen suddenly let out a small sigh, and fixed his eyes on the corner next to him.There was a child with a plush doll in his arms looking at them with a smile, but... his normally rosy face was sickly pale, with streaks of blood drying up on his clothes, and resentment was evident in his empty eyes And Sen Leng.

"Yaya? You're hurt!" Di Cheng lost his voice in surprise, and a serious look flashed in his eyes.