Chapter 25: Attacked
Ling Li only felt a sharp turn in the sky, followed by a muffled sound of the back of his head hitting the ground, and the dull pain and drowsiness that followed.
It changed so quickly that she didn't even have time to scream, her body sank, and her throat was tightly clamped, and she couldn't call for help anymore.
Ling Li's mind went blank, and when her consciousness returned, she found that her situation seemed to be very bad.
Her eyes were blurry, and her glasses were nowhere to be found during the fall to the ground, and her myopia of more than 500 degrees made her only see a figure in front of her blocking the subtle light of the street lamp outside the window, and her hands went straight forward, tightly strangled at the position of her neck.
The man's body and the strength she felt around her neck were undoubtedly a man, and he was a man who could easily outdo her in strength.
His condescending posture and the action of pressing Ling Li's legs with the weight of his body completely suppressed Ling Li's resistance.
Ling Li grabbed the hand that was choking her breath fiercely, and her nails tried to dig deep into his skin, but to no avail. The perpetrator had been prepared, wearing thick gloves on her hands, and her little resistance had no other effect than to create some pain for him.
The strength in her neck tightened more and more, leaving less and less room for her to breathe, and her vision became more and more blurred. It's just that his hearing is unusually sharp.
She heard the sound of the dark man's heavy breathing, the ticking of the clock on the wall, the sound of her own heart beating wildly, and the sudden sound of her own hurried footsteps in the hallway.
The voice was so clear and thick from far and near that it finally stopped in front of her door, as if it were only a few meters away from her.
Then, a crisp knock echoed through the darkness.
Someone's coming!
Ling Li didn't have time to think about who it was, only hoping that someone would find the abnormality inside the door. If you can find out that something is wrong, then there is hope!
Ling Li wanted to shout, but couldn't spit out a single syllable in her mouth. She tried to turn her neck to break free, but the hands around her neck felt her struggle, and increased their strength tighter and tighter, as if to squeeze out her last hope.
After a few knocks on the door, there was silence outside the door, followed by the sound of someone walking away.
The hope that had just been ignited in her heart also fell silent as the footsteps became farther and farther away.
The distance is only a few meters, but inside and outside the door, it seems like two worlds of life and death.
I only felt like a dream, and she still had some strength to struggle, but it disappeared at this time. The strength in his hands gradually relaxed, and all his senses were concentrated in the pain of being locked in his throat inch by inch, and the overwhelming feeling of suffocation.
The cold air seemed to be no longer flowing, and the lack of oxygen in the body was getting more and more serious, Ling Li only felt that his head was dizzy and heavy, and the pain in the back of his head disappeared little by little, followed by the feeling of powerlessness that he couldn't control his body.
Patches of soft white light began to glow in front of her eyes, blending with the warm orange streetlamps that were projecting into the room from behind the man. The halo was blurry and beautiful, gradually occupying her entire line of sight, and then dimming little by little as her consciousness faded away.
It was as if everything had fallen silent, and she only felt that she was about to fall into a deep blackness, and that one more second would be doomed.
Is that the end of it? Did you just give up?
Struggling to maintain the last trace of clarity in his mind, Ling Li asked himself repeatedly in his heart.
In just a split second, she made a decision, and her strong desire to survive instantly dominated her body, squeezing all her strength into her hands.
However, she gave up trying to break the assailant's fingers, because it didn't work. The person in front of him had obviously already thought about how to deal with her, and her little resistance was completely expected by him, and it had no effect at all.
If you want to escape from such a desperate situation, there is only one way to take it by surprise.
Ling Li tried to stay conscious and not faint, her hands groped on the ground for a while, and finally touched what she was looking for on the floor not far from her.
The cold touch from her fingertips suddenly cleared her brain, which was about to stop, and she grabbed the rough and uneven object that was an inch square without hesitation, and slammed it into the figure in front of her with all the strength she could.
What she threw out was a brick that she usually used to block the bedroom door from being blown shut by the wind, gray and inconspicuous, and it was difficult to find in the dark.
Half a meter away, with a blow with all his might, the man's muffled snort of pain finally came, and the hand on her neck finally let go.
Ling Li hurriedly rolled to the side, having a chance to breathe. She opened her mouth and breathed heavily, her brain, which had been struck by the lack of oxygen, back in action, and she thought quickly about what to do next.
Do you hurry to the kitchen and get a knife to defend yourself, or do you move a stool and smash people on the spot? Or just find an opportunity to get out?
There were many preconceived plans in her mind, but before she could get up, she was knocked down by a violent cough.
Knowing that danger was imminent, the situation was far from the time when she could breathe, however, the strong will could not withstand the instinctive reaction of the body.
Ling Li curled up on the ground and twisted in pain, coughing so hard that her eyes were dark.
However, the expected shackles did not come again, and as the body recovered from the lack of oxygen, the eyes became much brighter.
She wiped away the tears choked by coughing, stood up against the wall, and through the dim street lights outside the window, she clearly saw two figures in the living room.
From the figure, it could be vaguely seen that it seemed that it was two men entangled and wrestling.
There was a messy footstep in her ears, and the sound of fists and fists whirring, and she could only see two blurred shadows flashing quickly with her empty eyes, but she couldn't tell who had the upper hand.
Her head was still in a daze, and suddenly one of the dark shadows pounced in her direction.
Before Ling Li could react, he saw that the shadow suddenly froze, and then there was a hissing sound, and someone immediately shouted urgently: "Stay away, he has a knife!" ”
As soon as the warning voice fell, the shadow seemed to have broken free from its restraints, and quickly approached Ling Li again, waving some reflective object in its hand.
The flash of sharp light pierced her eyes, and at last she smelled the danger approaching again. Her body finally had the instinct to dodge danger, but before she could make a move, someone pushed her vigorously and fell on the coffee table, pushing the water cup on it to the ground, and there was a loud noise.
However, he dodged the knife that was just swung down.
Then, not far from her, Nan Zhiyi's angry voice sounded again: "Fan Mei, are you stupid?" Don't turn on the lights yet! ”
These words finally stabbed Ling Li to wake up completely, and regardless of her numb and weak legs, she hurriedly rushed to the direction of the wall lamp, found the switch and pressed it vigorously, and was stabbed by the cold white light that lit up with it.
She raised her hand to cover her eyes, and through her slightly open fingers, she saw a silhouette-like back, swept by by the wind, and hurried through the living room to the balcony window.
When she finally got used to the strong light and put down her hand, she only saw Nan Zhiyi's thin back standing by the window, looked out for a while and then turned around, her face was slightly gloomy: "The movement is really fast enough, as soon as you jump down, you will disappear." ”
Ling Li turned a deaf ear to his words, looked at his palm, which was still dripping with blood, and then looked at the blood stains on the sofa and coffee table, and asked, "Are you injured?" ”
Nan Zhiyi raised his left hand and looked at his palm, and said indifferently: "I made a small cut, it's nothing." ”
With that, he picked up the tissue box from the ground and pulled out a few pieces of toilet paper to cover the wound to stop the bleeding.
Ling Li's eyes were stabbed by the crimson that gradually soaked in the snow-white paper, and suddenly remembered the anonymous letter written in blood, and came to her senses in an instant, raising her hands with trembling voices: "Now I have evidence, I can finally catch him." ”
She looked at Nan Zhiyi again, with a hint of a smile on her face: "I have his clothes fibers in my fingernails, and I attempted intentional homicide, so the police can file a case for investigation." ”
Nan Zhiyi pressed the wound, frowned and looked around her face, waiting to see clearly the bruised strangulation marks on her neck, and said in a solemn tone: "You almost died just now, what do you still have the mind to file a case?" ”
This sentence made Ling Li's sense of happiness disappear for the rest of her life in an instant, and she only felt that her spirit was getting more and more tired, and her eyelids were a little heavy.
Enduring the surging fatigue and the boredom in his chest that he wanted to vomit, Ling Li raised his eyes to look at Nan Zhiyi, and explained at a faster pace: "When the police come, tell them that the person who wants to strangle me is Qu Linjiang, the stepfather of a party to a case in my hands." He intimidated me and tried to cover up his rape of his stepdaughter. ”
Speaking the inference in his heart, before Nan Zhiyi could answer, the feeling of dizziness hit the sky.
Ling Li finally couldn't support it anymore, her eyes were dark, and she fell to the ground.