Chapter 37: Life and Death
Out of the community, Wang Quan found that the streets were much quieter than the previous days.
Pedestrians are also in a hurry.
Many remote shops are not open in broad daylight.
Wang Quan pouted, found a bus stop where no one was around, and sat down by the public trash can to light a cigarette.
Today is a weekday, but there are usually a lot of elderly people hanging around with idle people on weekdays.
After all, Luoyang is only a third-tier city, and the pace of life is relatively fast.
Today is indeed somewhat unusual.
Probably because the vicious incident was in the news, and then it finally began to ferment.
Wang Quan stood up and pressed out his cigarette in the ashtray on top of the trash can.
Early autumn is still hot, sunny and breezy.
Wang Quan unbuttoned the top of his light-colored shirt, rolled up the sleeves to his elbows, closed his eyes for a moment, and then took out his mobile phone and opened the taxi app to take a taxi.
Three minutes later, he got into the car.
............
Fifteen minutes later, the car stopped at the entrance of the Zhoushan Bangu villa area.
After getting out of the car and paying the five-star praise, the car drove away.
Wang Quan put his mobile phone back in his trouser pocket and looked up at the community in front of him.
This is an old-fashioned neighborhood built in the middle of the mountain, and it should be more than twenty years old.
The community consists of four buildings, one with seven units, each with seven floors.
Wang Quan sensed it, there were actually five hellwalkers in this community?
"Oh, and the windfall?"
Wang Quan's scarlet eyes flashed, and the next moment, he disappeared in place.
............
In front of a six-door 402 security door, Wang Quan stopped.
He raised his hand and knocked lightly on the door.
The room was silent, and no one answered.
Wang Quan stood quietly for a moment, raising his hand and pressing it on the keyhole.
A faint black and red mist permeated the keyhole from his index finger, and a second later, the security door opened.
Wang Quan stepped into the house.
The living room was empty.
He walked into the bathroom, the kitchen, and the master bedroom, and there was no one.
Coming to the second bedroom, there was no one here either.
Wang Quan glanced at the wardrobe in the corner of the wall and said to himself, "It doesn't seem to be here." ”
The footsteps faded away.
With the sound of the security door opening and closing and the footsteps going downstairs, the bedroom was calm again.
One minute.
Five minutes.
Ten minutes.
There was no sound in the bedroom anymore.
It wasn't until half an hour had passed that a small crack opened in the wardrobe in the corner of the bedroom.
One eye carefully observes the outside from the inside.
Then that eye was suddenly filled with fear.
Because the smiling man in the shirt was still sitting at the computer desk in the bedroom, looking at the closet where she was.
The crack in the closet door suddenly closed.
"Do you want me to ask you out?"
Wang Quan crossed Erlang's legs, "If I ask you to come out, it won't be so easy to speak." ”
The cabinet remained motionless.
"I'm only going to count to three, and this is the last chance."
Wang Quan began to count.
"Three."
"Don't kill me!"
The cabinet door opened, and a woman walked out with a cower.
If you say it's a woman, maybe it's more appropriate to use a girl.
With a thin body, a delicate face but full of fear, and a ponytail on the back of his head, he looks like he is in his early twenties.
She was wearing a white T-shirt, but it was covered in stains, dust, mud, and blood.
Her abdomen was leaking, but it was torn open by a beast that didn't know what it was, and she had several bandages around her stomach, and the blood had seeped out from under the bandages.
Wang Quan smiled kindly, "Why are you so afraid of me?" ”
"Don't kill me......"
The girl's face was so frightened that she could not say anything else.
"If you continue to talk nonsense, then I will really kill you." Wang Quan pointed to the bed, "Sit down, talk well." ”
He took out his phone and clicked on the timer, "Give you a minute, and if I'm not satisfied, you'll die." ”
"Please......"
The girl's voice was faintly crying, her hands were tightly clasped around her arms, her knuckles were white when she pinched hard, and her nails pierced a small hole in her long-sleeved T-shirt.
"Fifty-seven seconds left."
The girl panicked and explained everything intermittently.
She hid on the edge of the city for the first night.
It was dark outside the city, and she didn't dare to go out.
But at that time, a small number of monsters did not dare to approach.
It was there that she survived the first night.
The next day, she wandered around the city, found a fast-food restaurant, and sat there until the evening.
Perhaps seeing that she had something unspeakable, the clerks gave her two burgers that were not sold out and ready to be thrown away after work.
That night, she was lucky enough to survive the night.
During the daylight on the third day, she met the group of seven and was imprisoned here.
During the day on the fourth day, that is, today, she was arranged by the other party in this room.
She's a bait and a wake-up call.
Wang Quan thought thoughtfully, "So they told you what I looked like?" ”
The girl nodded busily, "Please don't kill me...... You are the one who fell off, and there is no conflict between us......"
"It's really embarrassing."
Wang Quan shook his feet, "How did they know that you would meet me?" ”
"I don't know, I'm bait. It's the same for whoever comes, even if it's just ordinary people. The more the girl spoke, the paler her face became.
She suddenly knelt down and pulled Wang Quan's trouser legs, pleading, "Please save me!" I really don't want to die! ”
"It's funny." Wang Quan was unmoved, and even laughed, "Those who were killed by you also begged you to do the same." If you and I swapped identities, would you let me go? ”
"But I haven't killed anyone! I haven't killed anyone! ”
The more the girl spoke, the more she broke down, tears welling up in her eyes, "It feels disgusting...... I'm going to kill someone or something when I hear an inexplicable order...... Why am I doing this? I haven't graduated from college yet! I'm the only kid in my family...... I want to go home! ”
She's starting to be incoherent.
"I really haven't killed anyone."
A touch of scarlet appeared in the depths of Wang Quan's eyes.
He looked the girl up and down.
Although it is bloody, it does not seem to have killed anyone.
Sighing, Wang Quan said, "Give me your watch, I can not kill you." I can even promise you to survive this 'Midnight Echo'. Also, hand over all the things you get from Hell. ”
After that, erase this girl's memories and abilities, and let her live as an ordinary person in this world.
And it's a good opportunity.
Wang Quan had never had a way to know more about "hell" before.
If it can take away her "Hellwalker" qualification......
The girl was stunned, as if she had grasped a life-saving straw, "Is what you said true?!" ”
"Of course, I promise you'll survive these days. But it's probably impossible for you to go back to the original world. Wang Quan smiled lightly, "I will erase all your memories of 'hell', and I will also deprive you of all your extraordinary abilities, and then you will live in this world." ”
After that, just leave it to the authorities.
There has long been a solution in the law to such a thing as registering a black account.
The girl wiped away her tears and hurriedly took all her belongings from the space and piled them on the ground.
A fruit knife, a shell gun, and a piece of gold the size of half a fist, "That's all, I haven't completed three missions in a row, that's why I'm going to enter this battle royale team fight......"
"Yes." Wang Quan picked up the knife and the shell gun, and a black and red mist entangled, and then the two murder weapons turned into ashes.
He picked up the gold and put it in his arms, "After the 'Midnight Echo' is over, I will give you a house and 100,000 deposits, and then it will be up to you to do your own thing."
"Now, put your arms out."
The girl raised her left arm, revealing the smartwatch.
"Close your eyes and grit your teeth."
The girl closed her eyes tightly.
Wang Quan raised his hand knife and slashed down in an instant.
The girl's left hand was cut off in an instant.
She snorted, her face pale.
Wang Quan pulled down his watch, and the black and red mist covered the watch.
A black-red electric current swept through it, and the watch did not move.
Wang Quan put the watch on his left wrist.
Then he pressed the hand on the girl's wound, "Bear with me." ”
His fingers were filled with black and red mist, and he brushed it along his wrist.
"Alright."
The girl opened her eyes and moved her fingers.
She looked up, tears streaming from the corners of her eyes.
"It's okay, you won't be in 'Midnight Echoes' at night. When this is over, I'll look for you to erase your memories and abilities. ”
Wang Quan stood up and was about to leave.
Walking to the bedroom door, he turned around and asked, "By the way, where are they?" ”
"They're ......"
Halfway through her words, the girl was stunned, and her waist was instantly cut in half, and a bead flew out of the ruptured abdominal cavity.
The bead flew in front of Wang Quan, and suddenly emitted a dazzling bright light.
Then, it exploded.
When the smoke cleared, Wang Quan looked down at the girl who had fallen to the ground and was cut in half, and her eyes had lost their luster.
He suddenly laughed, laughing at himself.
"Fuck ......"