Well of Mystery

As the saying goes, "the sky is high and the emperor is far away", the matter of establishing oneself as a king has happened repeatedly in history throughout the ages.And 30 years ago, Rose Fire Island was in this delicate state of "the sky is high and the emperor is far away".

Those sent to live in such a remote place for a long time were not only those who had committed crimes and were sent to reeducation through labor, but also those who were in charge of guarding them.These people were forced to leave their homes and live on desolate and remote islands for a long time. Over time, they also developed some dissatisfaction.

It is from this bit of dissatisfaction that disasters are accumulated.

At that time, there were two people with the most power on Rose Fire Island. One was the director of the Laogai Mine and Lao Su, the head of the Rose Fire Island Sulfur Mine, and the other was the director of the Rose Fire Island Sulfur Processing Plant. Lao Liu has mastered other economic resources on the island besides the sulfur mine.

There is a saying that "one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers", and the rivalry between the two most powerful people on the island seems to be a reasonable thing.

Lao Su believes that the sulfur mine is the core value of Rose Fire Island, and the labor camp mine is the root cause of the prosperity of the island.In Lao Liu's eyes, without the establishment of a processing plant, Lao Su's sulfur would be a pile of stinky garbage, and it would be impossible to improve the living standards of the island.

The dissatisfaction between the two quickly came to the surface from the secret - whatever Lao Su approves of, Lao Liu opposes, and whatever Lao Liu opposes, Lao Su supports...Of course, this kind of mutual hindrance is only "" Pediatrics", the two developed their own party wings, and gradually formed two opposing forces.So the disagreement between the two eventually became the contradiction of the entire island.

Huang Xiangyuan was once a victim of contradictions - he complained to Xiao Zhang more than once, and he was once arrested and detained in a small dark room in the labor camp mine.On the surface, the reason was to sell food and daily necessities privately, but in fact, it was because the mine faction believed that he was an accomplice of the factory faction.

As the battle between the two factions became more and more intense, life on Rosefire Island became more and more unsustainable.After some entanglement, Huang Xiangyuan made a decision to resign from the job of running transportation on Rose Fire Island, and moved his family out of Rose Fire Island to land to find another way out.

And on the day he moved, something happened to Rose Fire Island.

At this moment, there was no sound around the gear.Although it is not the first time that the same story has been brought up on this night market street, the thrilling retrospect always makes people talk about it.Everyone's attention was focused on Xiao Zhang who told the story.This made Xiao Zhang feel very proud, so he added fuel and vinegar to make it more vivid.

On the day of moving, Huang Xiangyuan specially rented a small fishing boat.His possessions are not many.From the morning of the same day, we started to sort out, and by [-] o'clock in the afternoon, everything was packed and sent to the ship.

When the boat sailed, a few thick clouds floated over the sea, and the sea breeze became chilly, biting the bones on people.But Huang Xiangyuan didn't go into the cabin. He stood at the stern and looked at Rose Fire Island, which was gradually going away, recalling the bits and pieces of his life there.

Looking at it, he suddenly found thick white smoke rising from the middle of the island.

Of course, the chimneys of the sulfur processing plant also smoke, but it should not be in this position on the island.Huang Xiangyuan was taken aback for a moment, thinking that something might have happened to the sulfur mine again.

Because of poor facilities and irregular production processes and other reasons.Accidents in sulfur mines are nothing new.As for the number of casualties, that is a mine secret.Few people know.

The ship continued to drive towards the land at full speed, but Huang Xiangyuan's eyes did not move, and he was even more vigilant.He saw that the thick smoke was constantly spreading, and the place where the bottom was close to the ground became extremely bright...

That is the bluish-purple flame emitted by burning sulfur.

The number of smoking places on the island is rapidly increasing.The gurgling black smoke looks like a huge black-robed ghost, soaring high in the sky.Huang Xiangyuan realized that it was no longer just burning sulfur...

He rushed into the cockpit of the boat and asked the captain to adjust the direction of the boat to a position where he could see the side of Rosefire Island, and then he witnessed the terrifying scene with his own eyes.

The entire Rosefire Island was on fire, with golden-red or blue-purple flames everywhere, and even the living areas in the south of the island were not spared.Although it is too far away to hear the movements on the island, it is not difficult to imagine what kind of hell scene it should be...

Huang Xiangyuan's heart tightened instantly.

"Turn around. Go back and save people!"

While reporting the emergency situation on Rosefire Island to the land via the radio station, the fishing boat turned 180° on the sea surface and headed towards the starting point again.But as the distance shortened, Huang Xiangyuan's heart became colder little by little.

He had never seen such a terrible sight—the whole of Rosefire Island was almost on fire, and screams and shouts echoed on the sea.Finally when the fishing boat re-enters the dock.Only met the 22 adults and children mentioned earlier.

Huang Xiangyuan put the children on board, while the adults sat on an unpowered tugboat and hung behind the fishing boat.Due to the lack of power, the small fishing boat struggled in the sea for more than two hours in a near-floating state, and was finally discovered by the speedboat that came to the rescue.

This is the terrible story that happened on Rosefire Island that year.

After Xiao Zhang's story was finished, the surrounding area was still completely silent.Bai Xiuqi was the first to react: "The 22 adults and children have all arrived at the pier, why don't they escape by themselves? Can't sail?"

"It's not that I don't know how to drive, it's that there is no boat at all." An old man sitting at the next table shook his head.

Xiao Zhang’s story was told in a hurry, so a very crucial point was missed-the police investigated after the incident and found that on the evening of the accident, the ferry between Rose Fire Island and the mainland just ended its routine work, and the private people on the island The ship was either varnished, or disappeared mysteriously.

"Where did all the boats go? The police are also wondering." Xiao Zhang lowered his voice, as if afraid of being heard by the ghosts lingering on the island.

"They just searched, searched, and walked a long way along the coastline, but they really found it. Guess..."

"What's the point of guessing?" Everyone laughed: "Didn't they just hide in the Sea God's Cave? Is there anyone here who doesn't know?"

"Sea God Cave?" Jiang Chenglu asked, "What kind of place is that?"

Xiao Zhang replied, "It's a cave near the Sea God Temple."

Rosefire Island is basically a volcanic island with basalt rocks filled with voids large and small.After years of erosion and a series of complex weathering, a huge sea erosion cave appeared on the cliff near the current Sea God Temple.The cave is very deep. People on the island say that it is connected to the Dragon Palace of the Dragon King of the East China Sea, so it is also called Sea God Cave.

There is no road to reach the cave from Rosefire Island, and the cave is filled with seawater all year round.If you want to explore the cave, you can only rely on boats to enter from the sea.Because of this, the island has always had the habit of hiding boats in caves to avoid typhoons.

Could it be that when the fire broke out, a typhoon was about to strike?Xiao Zhang gave a negative answer.

He said that after the police inspected the bodies on the island, they found that apart from some women and elderly people who died of suffocation caused by the fire, many men on the island had suffered trauma to varying degrees before their deaths.

Moreover, the police also found some corpses in the labor reform mine that were neither staff members nor prisoners of labor reform. After careful identification, they found that they were island residents outside the mine.

"There was an uncontrollable fire in the mine, and it was too late for normal people to escape. How could someone jump over the obstacles and run inside to die?"

Xiao Zhang threw out a question, but asked and answered by himself: "So the police believe that all these signs indicate that there was a large-scale brawl on Rose Fire Island."

In the end, the tragedy on Rose Fire Island was determined to be caused by a collective riot of prisoners in the labor camp.In that era when communication was not yet well-developed, the news quickly disappeared, and Rose Fire Island fell into a long silence again.

Obviously, there were some things Xiao Zhang didn't say explicitly.But Bai Xiuqi had already heard that the real cause of the fire was not the riots of the prisoners in the labor camp, but probably the struggle between the two factions on the island.

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Jiang Chenglu suddenly ask: "Where are those children? After talking for a long time, you haven't explained how those children escaped?"

"Yeah, I almost forgot about this." Xiao Zhang slapped his thigh and nodded: "The children in the nursery school are only three or four years old, and they are not very sensible. It is said that they were sent by the nursery school. An aunt brought it down, but the woman herself did not survive."

"It's that simple?" Jiang Chenglu was stunned.

"Yes, are you disappointed? The truth is as simple as that."

"..." Jiang Chenglu was silent for a moment, and leaned closer to Bai Xiuqi's ear: "Do you believe it? Anyway, I don't believe it."

Bai Xiuqi smiled: "What if you don't believe me? What are we here for, you have to figure it out, don't worry about it."

"I know, I know, I won't cause trouble for you..."

Jiang Chenglu nodded, and took the initiative to peel an oyster for Bai Xiuqi, and then he heard the uncle at the next table start expressing different opinions again.

"In my opinion, that's not a nursery woman at all, but a sea monster in the Sea God Temple!"

These words seemed to have opened a Pandora's box, and the crowd watching the blowing water suddenly became excited.It seems that legends of strange powers and gods are always more popular than reality. Bai Xiuqi quietly listened to their chatter for a long time, and finally figured out what happened to the so-called "sea monster apparition" thing.