The dead man further explained, “Today could be longer than yesterday, and yesterday could be longer than the day before yesterday. Over time, even if I knew the exact time when I left the mission, and after going back for a period of time, the record would have deviated.”

Charlie asked him “How did you calculate the time deviation?”

The man said, “I hit the bottom of the bowl. A very thin hole, filled with very fine sand, it started from the time the bell rang on the first day, leaked until the bell rung on the second day, and then leaked the fine sand again, and when the bell rang on the third day, the fine sand sometimes leaked out early, and sometimes it’s too late, so I guessed the time inside was different from the time outside. So after a long time, we don’t know what year and month it is outside.”

Charlie was curious. He asked “You do so many things quietly, were you looking for a chance to escape?”

“No way.” The man smiled bitterly and said, “Even if there is a chance to escape, it will inevitably be a death, I just wanted to know more about it. The mechanism of the dead man’s operation, if there is a chance to escape, everything in the dead man’s camp will be exposed. If it can destroy the dead man’s camp so that no one will repeat my mistakes in the future, it will be even better.”

Charlie nodded and said lightly “It seems that you have not been completely brainwashed by the organization.”

“Brainwashing?” The man shook his head and said, “The organization disdains to brainwash us. Our own lives and the lives of our families are in the hands of the organization. It doesn’t matter whether we are brainwashed or not. We are slaves. From this point of view, we can be regarded as the people who hate them the most in the world. But they don’t care, because they know that we have no guts and no ability to betray the organization.”