Chapter 23 The Death of Gao Jie

Time slipped by, minute after minute, and soon ten minutes had passed. Everyone silently counted the seconds together. As soon as the time was up, I stood up at once. They, too, moved in perfect unison, rising to form a group of four standing back to back, shining our phone lights into every corner around us. A single minute may seem fleeting, yet here, it stretched on endlessly. In my heart, I counted the sixty seconds, eyes fixed on the corner of the wall illuminated before me. Silence...