Standing in front of the freezer where the dead man was lying. I wanted to leave, but he grabbed me. "Since you've come here and become a prison guard, you're afraid of such a trivial matter? Coward!" He sternly shouted. "Who's scared! I'm not afraid!" I walked forward slowly, stood in front of the freezer, and lowered my head. He lied. There was not one corpse in the freezer at all, but two... That was a scene that I will never forget in my life. Perhaps from that day on, my life changed completely... On February 4, 2008, I was 28 years old and was assigned to work in the sick prison area.

Even though I applied for the examination as a propaganda officer in the Political Department, I still had to go to the prison area and become a prison guard. What's more, I didn't expect that I would meet her, and I would be deeply involved in it, unable to extricate myself. On this day, it was more than twenty degrees below zero, and it was so cold that dripping water turned into ice. The instructor of the prison area took me from the office building to the prison area hundreds of meters away on foot. He is a moderately built, gentle young policeman in his thirties. He lowered his head and walked slowly in front. I followed closely behind, rushing to the unknown future.

I saw the white prison walls and the prison building with dense bars getting closer and closer to me. He lowered his head and asked me, "How is your health?" "You are in good health, there is no problem." I was taken aback for a moment, why did he suddenly ask about my health. "From now on, you have to use your spare time to exercise. Our cell is the only cell for sick prisoners in the whole prison. All the prisoners in it are sick, and nearly half of them are disabled, hepatitis, and tuberculosis..." "Is it contagious?" I asked him. "All the inmates during the infectious period have been transferred to the prison for inmates. The inmates in our prison area are all in mild condition, and the risk of infection is not great, but the virus still exists."

I have a feeling of falling into the abyss—— I am not a graduate of the police academy, and I am as unfamiliar with the prison as a new prisoner. I raised my head and walked to the gate of the prison. Before entering the prison, I locked my mobile phone in the mobile phone box outside the door-the prison regulations strictly prohibit bringing mobile phones into the prison area. After the guarding brigade police verified my identity, the trainer signed it and left a photo of me. As the iron gate closed, I stepped into the prison yard. It was the first time I stood in a courtyard surrounded by high walls and electric grids, and I couldn't breathe because of the inexplicable sense of oppression.

After the instructor walked a few steps, he turned around and said to me: "There is a dead person in the freezer in the back building. At night, the police on duty will take you to check it. You have to be mentally prepared." "Huh? Dead?" I said. "It's just a routine inspection, to see if the power supply of the freezer is on." "Yeah." I nodded in agreement. Prison guards in police uniforms and prisoners in gray and white striped "zebra shirts" walked past me in the courtyard. The prison is like a community. There are lanterns and festoons everywhere in the prison building, which are covered with couplets and colorful lights.

"The Chinese New Year will be one day away, and the prisoners in the prison will also celebrate the New Year." The instructor explained, "Because there are sick prisoners in our prison area, they are arranged on the top and fourth floors. We have two sub-areas. Severely ill prisoners basically do not leave the prison area, and prisoners with milder conditions will go to work." When I went upstairs, a group of prisoners from other prison areas ran past me and rushed into the cell. The prisoners stared blankly at me in plain clothes with wolf-like eyes. After passing the word "isolation area", I arrived at the sick prison area.

The instructor sent me to the duty room, and then, after admonishing the police on duty, he left. The policeman on duty was a tall, thin man in his thirties with a square face and big eyes. He said, "My name is Liu Da." "My name is Qi Feng." "Okay, Xiao Qi, you can rest in the duty room first!" He put me on duty, then went over and locked the prison door. The door on duty is an iron gate, and a sign is hung on the railing of the iron gate, which says the name of the policeman on duty and the number of prisoners. Through the bar of the iron gate, one can see a long corridor inside.

On the right side of the corridor are the dormitories of criminals, and on the left side of the corridor are storage rooms, toilets, etc. The hallway is brightly lit, and there are blackboards on the walls, on which are some small poems and reform slogans written by criminals. Next to the blackboard is a big list with the name and monthly assessment score of each criminal written on it. Criminals with bald heads and sweaters and trousers walked back and forth in the corridor. They were doing laundry, shaving, smoking, gossiping, cleaning. Like a lively college student dormitory, the sound of the TV is heard from time to time.

I was still thinking about the prisoner in the freezer, and at the same time, fell into endless depression. I am completely unfamiliar with prisons. My parents are ordinary teachers. I have loved martial arts since I was a child, and I have developed a strong pen and an athlete-like body. After graduating from junior college, I became a temporary worker of the town government, and worked as a census taker and government secretary. After working for eight years, I decided to change my life, because I was not a civil servant, and my blind dates were repeatedly frustrated. So, for a while, I was sleepless, forgetful, and almost depressed.

After we had dinner, Xiao Liu still didn't mention the freezer. I couldn't help asking him, "When are we going to see that freezer?" He smiled slightly, "Don't worry, I'll call you after dark." At 7 o'clock in the evening, the police guarding the patrol team of the brigade began to "mark" each floor, that is, count the number of criminals. The prisoners squatted in two neat rows in the corridor inside the prison door. Xiao Liu opened the prison door and walked in. He stood in the middle of the corridor and stopped. Then, he started walking down the corridor, and the prisoners shouted: "One, two, three, four..."

Every prisoner who calls the count will stand up, like dominoes played back in slow motion. The speed at which they stood up coincided with Xiao Liu's pace. When Xiao Liu reached the end of the corridor, the prisoner just yelled "Ninety-nine." After counting, the guard brigade locked the prison door with their special lock. After locking the prison door, Xiao Liu began to write the duty record, and wrote carefully for ten minutes. At seven twenty in the evening, it was dark. Xiao Liu took out the flashlight from the drawer and said to me seriously: "Let's go now!" "where to?" "Look at that person in the freezer?" He put on his police uniform coat, closed the door of the duty room, and walked down the stairs. I followed, very curious, "How is he in the freezer?" "He committed suicide by jumping off a building!" Xiao Liu said. "When did this happen?" "The afternoon before yesterday, he smashed open the window guardrail of the production workshop, jumped off the building and fell to his death. He was a little out of order." He said, and smiled at me strangely: "Are you scared?" "How come? I have been working for eight years!" "Working for eight years? You don't necessarily have the guts!" Xiao Liu turned around and helped me zip up the down jacket, "Tomorrow, I'll get you a police uniform coat. You can't walk around in casual clothes like this. of." The two of us walked for five minutes in the cold wind, and finally arrived at the building where the freezers were kept. The building is dark, and it is usually the prisoner's classroom, and there is no one at night. The room for the freezer is in a separate area with a large lock on the door. Xiao Liu took out the key, inserted it into the keyhole, and turned it gently to open the door. The door was very close to the ground, and when I pushed it open, I heard the harsh sound of metal rubbing against the ground. Xiao Liu turned on the light, and I saw that the corridor was very clean and warm, with a rush of hot air blowing towards my face. The freezer is in a room on the left. Xiao Liu turned on the light in the small room, walked in, and opened the lid of the freezer. I stood behind him, staring at the freezer of a well-known brand, feeling a little apprehensive, and deliberately shifted my gaze. At this time, Xiao Liu suddenly grabbed my arm, pulled it forward suddenly, and said, "Just check it when you come!" I was pulled to the refrigerator by him, my heart beating palpitatingly. The refrigerator is empty. He smirked: "He's not in this freezer." I turned around and saw that there was actually a freezer in the room, which was bigger and more eerie. "His face was smashed, you better not look at it." He said, walking towards the big freezer. I saw him slowly pushing open the transparent cover of the freezer, I held my breath, the air in the room seemed to freeze. He stared at the inside of the freezer with a serious face... The freezer was powered on and made a humming sound. He suddenly became excited, and patted the freezer with both hands indiscriminately, "Who unplugged the power?" "How is that possible? The light is on!" I said. "But, why is there still water in the freezer?" He stretched out his hand towards me, and I took two steps back. His hands were not water at all, but blood. I have an ominous premonition, what exactly is in that freezer? I was bold enough to say to Xiao Liu, "You have blood in your hand!" "How is it possible, this is obviously water!" He sneered, "If you don't believe me, come and see!" I was a little scared, and he stared at me intently. I wanted to leave, but he grabbed me. "Since you're here, since you've become a policeman, are you afraid of such a trivial matter? You coward," he snapped. "Who's scared! I'm not afraid." I stood still. I walked up, stood in front of the freezer, and bowed my head. He lied. There was not one corpse in the freezer at all, but two...