25. Mother
Wen Shan was not awakened by the deafening sound of gunshots, but by the footsteps of the crowd outside as they ran in panic.
She didn't quite remember when she fell asleep last night, only that she had been singing a lullaby to Sissi, singing and singing, and she herself fell asleep on the edge of the bed.
When she woke up, she found herself covered with a blanket that I don't know who put on her.
Immediately afterward, she looked over to the hospital bed in a daze, to see if Zhuo Qianqian was still asleep.
But the hospital bed was empty.
There were only messy sheets and quilts, Wen Shan was already a little cold when she touched them with her hands, which couldn't help but make her heart beat faster, she looked around nervously, opened her mouth to call Zhuo Qianqian's name, the ward was empty, only the echo when she shouted echoed.
"Sissi!?" Wen Shan opened her mouth and shouted again, she thought that Zhuo Qianqian might be in the toilet, the wards of this hospital have their own toilets, so Wen Shan walked over quickly and pushed open the toilet door, but it was still empty.
This time Wen Shan was really anxious, anxious she became sensitive to the surrounding environment, she found that the surroundings were very quiet, the noise that woke her up just now had completely disappeared, and there was no sound outside the ward, which made Wen Shan's heart hang strangely, she walked out of the room and looked left and right.
The corridor outside the ward was also empty.
Although it is now morning, and many people should still be asleep, in the past two days that Zhuo Qianqian has been hospitalized, Wen Shan can see every morning, and several hospitalized elderly people who get up early to do activities have not appeared now, and the corridor is so quiet that it can be heard falling pins, making Wen Shan suspect that the chaotic noise she heard just now is like her delusion.
Just when Wen Shan was stunned, Wen Shan heard the sound of gunfire coming from the stairs at the end of the corridor.
It was a loud, firecracker-like, continuous sound that was so loud in the silence that it scared people out of the woods.
Wen Shan didn't know what it was at first, in this country where guns are strictly banned, most ordinary people are not familiar with firearms at all, Wen Shan thought...... Maybe there really is some naughty child setting off firecrackers in the hospital.
Wen Shan didn't know what was going on, and she couldn't figure out the current situation, but her daughter was missing, she had to look for it, she was very worried, she couldn't rest assured.
She walked towards the stairwell, calling her daughter's name as she walked through it, and unconsciously looked at the rooms on the left and right, which were empty or locked.
This strange situation made Wen Shan's heart even colder.
She felt that Zhuo Mingyu might be by Sissi's side, and Zhuo Mingyu would not let her daughter leave the ward alone, so she also began to call her husband's name.
When she reached the top of the stairs, she saw a large patch of blood on the ground.
Stretching all the way down the stairs, the blood stains were still mixed with footprints, intricate footprints, but the keen Wen Shan saw that there were a few bloodstains that were obviously children's footprints, and the footprints left by the bare feet on the bloodstains.
Wen Shan looked at the blood-red foot prints and trembled.
"Sissi ......"
Wen Shan didn't know how she recognized it as her daughter's footprints, but she did, and since her daughter left the ward without shoes, Wen Shan noticed that Zhuo Qianqian's shoes were still under the hospital bed.
Sissi...... "Wen Shan was anxious, holding on to the wall of the stairs and following the blood mark, but she had just walked down a few flights of stairs when she saw a man standing at the corner of the stairs in front of her, a man dressed in black, with a black hat and black shoes, and even wearing black gloves.
He just stood there, also with his head down, as if he was observing the blood on the ground. When Wen Shan came downstairs, the man turned his head to look at Wen Shan.
His eyes were pitch black, and there was unfathomable darkness in them.
"You've come just in time. The man spoke very gently to Wen Shan, "I just need you." β
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From the situation at the scene, coupled with the non-dialogue phone call Zhuo Mingyu made to them just now, the two plainclothes policemen were able to roughly guess what happened in the hospital just now.
This damn murderer actually hid from the eyes of the police, sneaked into the hospital, and tried to kill Zhuo Qianqian and Zhuo Mingyu, and didn't know where to find a gun that caused panic among the masses.
"He was shot twice, in the shoulder and back, very strictly, he has fallen into a coma, and he must seek medical attention as much as possible!" The policeman who held Zhuo Mingyu tried to carry Zhuo Mingyu on his back, although this action made Zhuo Mingyu's blood flow like a spring, staining the clothes of the plainclothes policeman red, but the police couldn't let him lie on the ground like this.
The policeman who was blocking Zhuo Qianqian quickly turned his head and said to his companion: "You carry him out to find a doctor, and I will stay here ......"
As he spoke, he glanced at Zhuo Qianqian behind him, and said in a coaxing tone: "Good boy, follow that uncle, I will stop that villain!"
Ignoring the other party's coaxing, the shadow ghost raised his head to look at the police, and said in a muffled voice: "It's too late, look ahead of you!"
The shadow ghost's words were too decisive and resolute, and the policeman subconsciously obeyed the order and turned back, and sure enough, when he saw the figure at the top of the stairs, he subconsciously raised his gun, and for a short second he thought about whether he should immediately shoot the murderer, but in this short second, even if he wanted to shoot, he couldn't do it now.
Because that murderer actually took a hostage!
Walking down the stairs was a female hostage, with chestnut hair in a white dress, while the murderer stood behind the hostage, holding a gun to the back of the hostage's head, and the hostage raised her hands and was slowly forced to move forward.
Even the shadow ghost was startled, and when she saw the hostage coming down the stairs, she couldn't help but step forward and shout, "Mom!"
That turned out to be Wen Shan!
The shadow ghost secretly hated in his heart, the situation was urgent, she and Zhuo Mingyu could only run forward, and they didn't have time to care about Wen Shan, who was still asleep in the ward, but they actually let this dead perverted murderer seize the opportunity!
The policeman in front of him saw that the ghost was walking towards the mother, so he had to reach out and grab the little girl, take her behind him, try not to expose the child to the eyes of the murderer, and at the same time always aim the muzzle of the gun at the murderer over there.
"Sir, I have only one word. The police shouted at him: "Let go of the hostages, give up resistance, the police cars outside have surrounded the hospital, you have nowhere to run!"
"Don't talk about these clichΓ©s. The murderer lowered his voice and spoke, obviously his voice was very low, but he turned around in the empty hospital hall, "What's the situation now, do you think I'm a fool so I can't understand it?"
The murderer raised his hand and grabbed Wen Shan's hair, pulling her head back hard, Wen Shan, who was being pulled her scalp, screamed in pain, and the sound made the shadow ghost standing behind the police hear it, and her eyes turned red.
The murderer smiled arrogantly and proudly: "I didn't hear the sound of police cars surrounding the hospital, and the sirens still sound a little far away, indicating that I still have a chance to escape before your large army comes." β
"At the same time, I have hostages in my hands, I know...... You're definitely not going to shoot. The killer continued, "but I can get you to put down your guns. β
The policeman gritted his teeth and tried to calm himself without speaking, and he glared at the man hiding behind the hostage with sharp eyes, and said loudly, "I'm not a fool, sir. You told us to drop our guns, and then a few shots killed us all...... This kind of thing...... It's also possible. β
"I have two citizens here who need to be protected, and you only have one hostage, and the choice of which is more important at the critical moment is important, so I'd rather shoot you and the hostages to death with a few shots than choose to put down the gun. β
The murderer was surprised: "You have backbone, haven't you thought about the consequences of killing hostages?"
"It won't be more tragic than having you kill us all. "The police are calm and composed.
"You can't hurt her!" At this time, the shadow ghost grabbed the corner of the policeman's clothes, pulled hard, and said nervously, "That's my mother!"
The policeman didn't speak, he didn't even look at the shadow ghost next to him, he couldn't distract himself, he could only stare intently at the murderer in front of him.
The murderer listened to the ghost and laughed heartily: "I believe that the kind-hearted policeman would never kill her mother in front of a child, right?"
The policeman was speechless, he took a deep breath, lowered his voice, and said to the shadow ghost beside him: "Child, can you listen to your uncle? Follow the uncle behind you and take your father out of here, I can save your mother, you believe me." β
"Who allowed you to leave?" The murderer was dissatisfied when he heard this, pulling Wen Shan's hair and forcing her to take two steps forward, "If any of you dare to take a step, I will make her head bloom!"
At this time, Wen Shan actually interjected, she was pulled by the murderer's hair, and she could only tilt her head, revealing a white neck, but she said calmly and naturally: "Don't listen to him, Mr. Policeman...... Please take my daughter and husband away. β
As soon as Wen Shan's words fell, the murderer smashed a rifle butt directly on her head, and Wen Shan screamed in pain, her body was a little weak and fell to the ground, but the murderer pulled her hair tightly.
The murderer said fiercely: "Who allowed you to talk more?"
The shadow ghost next to her saw this scene, her eyes turned even redder, she had promised Wen Shan to let her daughter come back safely, there was no reason for her daughter to return but her mother was not there, she had silently made up her mind to save Wen Shan, but as soon as she saw the murderer's eyes, the shadow ghost stiffened, and her mind was full of memories of the noisy victims.
The shadow ghost has been tried, and in this state, the shadow ghost can only control part of the murderer's body movements at most, and the embarrassing situation that the hands cannot control the feet, or make the murderer's whole body unable to move to show that he is immobilized, but in this case, the shadow ghost must also stare at the murderer tightly and not move at all.
And the trick of fixing the murderer, the shadow ghost can't last long, maybe only more than ten seconds.
When I was upstairs before, the shadow ghost also fixed the murderer, Zhuo Mingyu may have seen that she couldn't support it for too long, and once she was unsettled, the murderer would definitely shoot at the first time, so he would directly block in front of the shadow ghost, pick her up and use his body to block the bullet for her.
I'm obviously an evil monster who does all kinds of evil, and I want humans to protect me!
Grabbing the clothes of the policeman next to her, the shadow ghost felt bitter in her heart, she was a monster, but now she was reluctant to let the couple get hurt, and she had the idea of protecting them. But the worst thing is that even with such thoughts, the shadow ghost finds that he is weak, and he can't even deal with a murderer who is an ordinary human!
"Do you need my help?"
A soft voice suddenly sounded in the shadow ghost's ears.