Chapter 12: The killer turned into fire

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Lanpei Jiang was pinned to the ground, eyes bloodshot, panting, but the corners of his mouth squeezed out a maniacal laugh: "Hahahahaha ...... police ...... police what use, the police are all garbage! All these years there is even a single police officer found me trapped in this hellhole? No! All are pussies!"

Her mind is muddled and she captures a keyword and goes inside for half a day.

Between curses, her loose hair was blown into her mouth by the wind, and she spat it out, her eyes more fierce -

"Now what, you're going to kill me aren't you? The police? You're going to kill me to cover up your dereliction of duty aren't you?"

She said, a bright indifferent smile surfaced on her face, subjected to the control, her eyes were actually still mocking.

"I knew it, you men are all like that, losers! Nothing works, you just vent your incompetence on women! I've been treated like an animal for twenty years ...... Do you know what I rely on to remember time? I rely on the pictures that dead thing hangs on the wall! I look at those disgusting things every day and the earliest one I was twenty-nine years old! Twenty-nine!!!"

"I'm fifty this year ...... Huh? Maybe fifty-two? Fifty-one? Or maybe less than fifty?" She was confused again, and the smile dipped on her Dan lips was slyly like a crane in wine, "Never mind, it doesn't matter ...... what matters is that I'm out."

"Do you know how I got out?"

"I spent so many years, I coaxed him, I coddled him, I was a crazy demented girl, he couldn't see me but wanted to screw me, strutting in front of me to get back those poor male egos of his ...... hahahahaha ...... I coddled him into a stupor head, over the years he has become more and more unsuspecting of me, once when he took off his pants actually left the keys to my room door in the dark room."

As if whispering, she couldn't hold back her gleeful laugh again, "But I didn't take it."

"I handed him that key that night and asked him what it was. He saw the key and turned pale, but then he saw that I was stupid and let it go. He was sure I was really too sick ...... to even recognize the key, ha!" The eyes suddenly became very sharp and the voice was, "What person can live like this for twenty years without going crazy!"

"He teased me with that key, like I was a dead dog who didn't know how to use it even if I had the escape hatch! He didn't know that I saw the smugness in his eyes, and I was sick to my stomach! But I can pretend ah - who said the psychopath can not disguise? I pretended too well, completely fooled him, and then he became more and more relaxed, more and more indifferent, as soon as he left the key, I sneaked out... I touched the whole brick of the madhouse! But I'm not leaving! I'm going to make all these men go to hell!"

"Finally I got everything planned out, and just yesterday ...... I took advantage of the fact that he had left the key behind again, and I took it and waited until nighttime, and I went out ...... and quietly stole a knife."

She was still clutching the knife in her hand, the blood already drying on the shiny silver blade, solidifying into an ugly, ripe brown color.

Qingcheng Xie knew that if he let up a little, the woman would reemerge and stab him in the chest.

The bestiality and aggression on her face was too much.

Look at the sky and look at the earth with abhorrence.

Twenty years have transformed her from a mere patient to a trapped beast that grinds its teeth and sucks blood.

"I hid the knife under the bed and he came again, rubbing his greasy mouth on me, and I catered to him, reaching under the mattress and ......"

Her pupils seemed to spurt with the blood and screams of Jicheng Liang's murder.

"Hahahaha ...... hahahahahaha ...... so hot blood ......"

"You say, how can such a cold-hearted person have such hot blood? It shouldn't be ......!"

"Later, I dragged him to the office...and tried to split him up, but I heard movement outside the door and saw through the crack that it was a strange girl who seemed to be looking for something. Of course I wasn't going to let her ruin my plans! I had waited so many years! So I hid the body in the closet, pinned on his name tag, and I walked out ...... to talk to your sister ......"

She twisted her face, as if she were talking to Qingcheng Xie, and as if she was talking to herself.

"This girl looks good, surprisingly also a bit like the one who was brought back at the time and died after hitting the wall 'little snack'. I guess ...... hehehe, is a small snack reincarnation of the la ...... even if not, it does not matter, in fact, I do not quite remember what that girl looks like, but it is about the same age as her, I think it is really destiny, I tricked her to the office, while she was not paying attention. Give her a drink of ecstasy ...... I certainly know which is ecstasy, look down on mental illness is the most ridiculous part of you normal people, I too recognize that special ecstasy, I do not obey when the surname Liang will give me the whole cup to pour down!"

"She passed out, I dragged her to the dark room, and I thought when I got my revenge and her relatives came looking for her...they'd...they'd turn this place upside down! Not like me ...... not like me ...... me ......"

She said here, her eyes dimmed again, the look actually seems a little lonely.

Qingcheng Xie's sharp gaze fixed on her, "So you were hoping that after it was over, someone would find that dark room when they were looking for her as well?"

"......" the woman didn't answer, smiling stiffly and twistedly, "None of that matters now."

"After I put your sister in the dark room, I dragged Jicheng Liang out of the closet - I'm going to die with him there, in that, the place where I first met him! Just me and him, like we did when we first met ...... no one else! I'm going to call on God, I'm going to personally, I'm going to cut him into pieces, little by little-"

She paused and stared at Qingcheng Xie with more bitter hatred in her eyes.

"But here you are."

"You have disturbed me so that I could not give him his final revenge in that place!"

"You guys are bothering me ...... You're a cop aren't you? You are the police. You cops are all toward the evil, so you kill me. If you kill me, sooner or later I will ask for your life too-!"

Hatred, determination, hideousness, and mad laughter.

It was almost as if it was going to come out of her face and turn into long fangs, piercing the man in front of her.

But Qingcheng Xie stared at her and said, word for word, "I'm not a cop, and I have no intention of killing you."

The woman shuddered, unexpectedly. She bared her teeth and protruded her eyes:

"So what do you want?"

"He wants to take you to the police." Yu He handed Xue Xie to a nurse girl next to him to settle down and walked next to Qingcheng Xie, whose expression was hard to see in the night.

"Let's get you to tell the police all about it."

"I'm not going!" Lanpei Jiang yelled hysterically, "I'm not going! No one will believe me! I'm not going! Liars ...... you are all liars!"

But Yu He slowly approached her.

Qingcheng Xie turned back and said sternly, "What are you doing over here?

Yu He said, " Qingcheng Xie, you don't understand her."

"You've been talking to her for so long, besides being scolded by her, did she pay attention to you?"

The boy went to their side, pulled Qingcheng Xie away, and picked Lanpei Jiang up, who at that moment burst out with amazing force and violently stabbed Yu He!

But Yu He spoke to her with nice eyes, and her hands froze instantly.

He said, " Lanpei Jiang , I'm also a psychopath."

The teenager was less than a fist's length away from her eyes, and the almond eyes reflected the crazy woman's.

His voice was so soft that no one could hear it except the nearest Qingcheng Xie, who slowly lifted his hand and stared into Lanpei Jiang's eyes while slowly, unmovingly, clutching the cold blade.

As soon as Lanpei Jiang returned to draw his knife, he would have been hurt, but Yu He looked too calm, he was tense but his face did not look rippled, as if he was talking to an ordinary woman, a mother, a normal person.

"You know what? I'm a psychopath too."

Knife, was quietly and silently replaced into his hands.

Lanpei Jiang did not realize the danger until she lost her blade, and she stared at Yu He with a pale face: "You-"

But he didn't have any intention of hurting her.

He flexed his knuckles and slowly swept the woman's loose forehead hair away and stroked it behind her ear as he stared into her eyes, "I'm an orphan case, you look into my eyes, you're a madman, do you see the same kind?"

Lanpei Jiang is still wary, but she does stare at Yu He carefully, even, sniffing.

Yu He without any expression, very calmly by her like an animal, in the most primitive way in his body to confirm, perhaps each type of people have their own way to confirm the safety, perhaps the madman's animal nature and sixth sense is to be stronger than ordinary people.

Lanpei Jiang finally whispered, "You are."

"I am."

"Who has harmed you?"

"Born to be."

Yu He faintly: "I don't even have a goal of revenge."

Lanpei Jiang : "......"

"But even though I'm a patient, they believe everything I say."

"Why?"

Yu He smiled, the clouds dispersed, under the white moon, his eyes seem to be ferried on a layer of frost and snow like bright silver, revealing the side teeth look very cold, very sharp.

He pressed over, as if sharing with a sick friend some wonderful way to overcome the disease, and whispered gently, "Because, like you, I can pretend."

"You pretend to be stupid, I pretend to be normal."

He filled the pool of icy frost at the bottom of his eyes and smiled: "After nineteen years of pretending, not many people have found out that I am sick. We all need a little protective color, don't we?"

Lanpei Jiang was in a trance for a moment, but she soon came to her senses again.

"No ...... I've killed people, my disguise is over-"

"You can't trust them, maybe you can trust me. Let me tell you a secret first."

Lanpei Jiang listened with eyes wide open.

Yu He lifted a finger and gently pressed it to his lips, "Soon, the police will come."

"!!!" Lanpei Jiang's pupils snapped shut, "What is this? They called the police? They still called the police! They are cunning-"

"I'm the one who reported it." Yu He looked calm.

"Why should you ...... we are the same ...... why should you take their side, you should ...... you should ......" the woman got up incoherently.

"I'm on your side."

Yu He said.

"But don't you want Jicheng Liang to remain in disrepute after his death? Twenty years, you just let him die for nothing, died and became a victim, perhaps even be memorialized as a good entrepreneur, tombstones filled with flowers, one by one unknown patient families come to mourn him, while you became a murderer, infamous, the front page of the newspaper printed your ugliest picture, everyone is saying that you are an ungrateful beast, you suffer no one knows, after death You have suffered and no one knows, and after you die, you will be scorned as inferior to him. --You do the math, are you worth it."

"......"

"By telling the police everything, you may not be dead. Jicheng Liang's name is all counted after his death, and you can let his person and his name die twice." Yu He tilted his head sideways and whispered in her ear as if it were a compulsion, "What a bargain. Why don't you go ahead and do it like that?"

Lanpei Jiang seemed to be moved by his words for a moment.

It was at this point that the sound of sirens, like a distant tide, raced toward the asylum, which loomed in the dark, from all directions.

"Get out of the car!"

"All get off!!!"

Lanpei Jiang's eyes moved and struggled to get up. The security guards saw this and showed their intention to restrain her, but Yu He gently helped her up.

"I'll walk you through it."

"You go take a look at that ...... in front of you and maybe there's a light way out."

As if compelled, Lanpei Jiang trembled and walked forward, reaching the railing of the rooftop, fiercely clutching the cold and rusty iron railing with his hand and stretching his neck to look down.

Her blurred vision reflected the flashing red/blue/lights of the police car, bright as a piece, at first glance, it was a sight she had never seen in years in the "prison".

As if all the grievances, shame and suffering she had endured could be illuminated, the dark room that had been dark and secluded for twenty years could also be exposed to the light under the clear sky.

As she watched, her emotions suddenly rose and tears came to her eyes.

She slowly turned back to the night breeze, her long red dress - the dress that Jicheng Liang bought for her to wear in the name of caring for the dispossessed patient to satisfy his own fetish, but often lewdly stripped off her body, blowing loudly in the night.

"...... It's so bright." She murmured softly, "It's like dawn."

"Thank you."

"But ......"

Overlapping with the last few syllables that escaped from her tannish lips were the PA calls of the police officers downstairs -

"All trapped persons please calm down! All trapped persons, please calm down! Do not take the elevator! Find water sources around you if possible! Moisten wet cloths! Cover your mouth and nose! Keep your body down! Comrade firefighters are on their way! If possible, please mark the rescue with any visible objects around you! You will be rescued immediately!!!"

Lanpei Jiang's eyes dimmed: "It's too late."

"-Twenty years is enough to make me hate everyone."

"My plan came to its final step when you broke into the office."

"Boy, I can't turn back."

As if to corroborate her words, suddenly-

"BOOM!!!"

An earth-shattering blast!!!

The staff trapped on the rooftop panicked and rushed to the edge to see - a closed door and window near the location of the asylum's fabric room was finally violently blown open by the raging fire and air waves from inside!

Lanpei Jiang slowly said in the light of the fire: " Chengkang Hospital has a lot of unseen things, Jicheng Liang set up many hidden rooms in the hospital, stocked with gasoline and incendiary devices... He dared not say it in front of anyone, but dared to show it to me, a fool. He dared not talk about it in front of anyone, but dared to show it to me, a fool, saying that he only had to press the hidden button in his office, and it would burn in ten minutes..."

"He was a thief, the smoke alarm system and surveillance system in this hellhole broke down long ago, and he was talking to someone on the phone about it when he was doing that in my bed. All for me to hear a clear. I'm more familiar with Sung Kang than anyone else over the years."

"...... I didn't intend to get to this point, but you guys had to come over when I was splitting up ...... I didn't want to get into the hands of the police, and I had already pushed that button while I was waiting for you guys to go to the dark room to save my life. "

Qingcheng Xie : "You-!"

"Yes, I brought you up, is trying to delay, the fire spread, who can not go, we all die together, die will not have so much pain ...... now and then to turn back." Lanpei Jiang a sad smile, two words fell to the ground can be heard, "late."

"Too Late ......"

"I'm late and so are you ......"

"It's not too late. !!!!"

Lanpei Jiang looked back and saw that it was a specially trained fireman who had climbed up from the unburned part of the wall in the shortest possible time by using the protective rope lock.

That fireman is a dog bear-like man in protective clothing, it is estimated that they did not hear what they were saying in front of them, climbing up to hear this trapped aunt on this side late late late.

Does this not doubt his business ability?

The fire bears quit and yelled, "It's not too late! I'm fast! Hurry up and get over here! Hurry up and get down now! The fire will soon reach the north side! Hurry up! Women and children go first!

"ME!!! Me first!!!"

Little nurse scared silly, see the firefighters and see the gods of heaven down like, crying and running over, one after another several firefighters are climbing up through the rope ladder, rushed to the fire spread out of control before they took away.

Xue Xie and other female staff were the first to be taken down, and the firefighters shouted at Lanpei Jiang: "Sister! You come here! Why are you standing so far away by yourself! We'll take you down! We will protect you don't be afraid! Take you home! Come on!!!"

Lanpei Jiang's body shuddered violently, as if struck by an electric current, as she stood beneath a tall water tower, the gale blowing her long, blood-colored dress.

But, where is home?

And who is she?

She was saved, where could she go? She had been crazy for so long, she had long since lost sight of the outside world, her world was a secluded room, thousands of photos, full of hatred and infinite desolation.

She's going to hell with all of this, together.

She is waiting for the fire to burn up, waiting for the fire to spread out and bring all the darkness to the sky, turning it into the first rays of morning after the end of the long night.

"Sis - come over here -!"

After the windows at the bottom were burst by air currents, the fire was no longer spreading silently, it became a dragon of fire, hissing in anger and spitting black smoke, the fire reflected the darkness of the sky.

Lanpei Jiang trembled and took a step forward.

Then, she stopped.

Looking up at the water tower behind me, that reserve water tower is rarely activated and there is not much water in it - no, it's not water.

The corners of her mouth swept open in a cold smile.

It was the gasoline she stole from the reserve by stealing the key and sneaking out without Jicheng Liang's knowledge on numerous occasions, and her dress bodice hid the last thing that would take her to "heaven".

......

" Yu He , come here!!!"

Qingcheng Xie reacted abruptly, dragged Yu He's arm and ran wildly in the opposite direction.

As they ran back, Lanpei Jiang smiled, took a steel lighter from his chest, lit it with a click, and threw it at the water tower, which was dripping gasoline...

"...... bam !!!!"

The fire swept up and wrapped Lanpei Jiang's entire figure in an instant!

Qingcheng Xie with Yu He fell to the ground, behind them was a rolling wave of heat, the firefighters watched dumbfounded, watching the woman open her arms, head held high, in a gesture of hope for the salvation of the gods, wanting to fly to the sky, caught in the flames.

Qingcheng Xie and Yu He back: "......"

Starbursts of fire! The fire spat out a horrible black smoke! A column of twisted black smoke formed, the smoke seems to be mixed with a woman's wailing, rotten life, the fire in a frenzy of dance, cracking the sky and earth, the fury of the fire and smoke together towards the hard fire torn open over the black night, heavy hitting ring, tearing the sky, overturning the sea, surging -

"After twenty years, I don't trust anyone anymore."

"There is no way back for me."

"The people in heaven will come for me, and I will go to heaven."

Never look back.

Published at: 10/07/2021 20:00