Chapter 20: The Swamp
As soon as I opened the back door and entered the alley behind the nightclub, I heard the sound of boiling people. Compared with the dance floor, there are at least several times more people in the pen "Fun" www.biquge.info Pavilion, and the three layers inside and the outer three layers form a huge pile of people. They cheered, roared, and cursed as noisily as the dance floor of a nightclub.
Suddenly, I don't know who pressed the silence button, all the sounds and inexplicable excitement disappeared without a trace, only the sound of two people talking.
"What do you mean by this? Bring someone to block me? I know you've been looking at me for a long time, but please use your brain, okay? Shade me in front of my field? When the time comes, in front of the big guy Zhao and so many uncles and brothers, do you think you can still live? Brothers in the community kill each other, at least cut off one hand, you shouldn't have forgotten this rule, right? β
Wei Xinhai heard it clearly, and the first person to speak was his father. But Wei Xinhai could only listen, he couldn't get closer, and the dense crowd only showed a little bit of human slits, so that he could just see his father's back.
"Tut-tut, why have you become so naΓ―ve now. Hey, I thought you were my biggest competitor. However, another person picked up Wei Jiaxiong's words, and his sly and cunning voice was also extremely arrogant. If I can cut you in front of your yard, I will naturally be able to kill you. You worry about yourself, and then worry about me. Look at the people behind you, they've all followed me a long time ago. β
"Achi? Are you going with this garbage? β
"I'm sorry, Brother Xiong. Who told you to put all the money in your pocket, and not a dime to our brothers, everyone has been unhappy with you for a long time. I'm cutting you now, and I think you have to thank us. β
"Hehe... Good... Good! You can. Either you will completely kill me today, or if the sun rises tomorrow, I will have a breath left, and I will see how Lao Zhao and those uncles and brothers will deal with you! β
"Save it, you jumped into the pit by yourself." The sinister voice sounded again. "The brother who beat me on the dance floor was recorded by the surveillance, the money that was deducted from the club, and the fans that stole from me to sell, all of which were recorded in the ledger. Speaking out, who do you think will help you in the club? β
"Your brother? Just a few pieces of garbage? And the money of the general association? It's your conspiracy all night tonight? β
"Yes, you've been waiting for a long time to come by yourself without any brothers. Ay... In the past, you were still a little brainy and cautious, and it is natural to climb to now. What now? Marrying a wife and having a son is like an idiot. How about it, I'll help you pick it out, and you can be blind when you die. Do you have any last wishes? Forgive you for being a tough guy, then I'll take this bottle of water and send you back to the West. It's fun to let you watch your face melt little by little, hahaha! β
The eerie voice laughed wildly, and after a few moments, there was a deathly silence. Only the occasional muffled cry wafted through the air. A few seconds later, like a fuse with a fuse with a flaming light finally reaching the explosives, Wei Jiaxiong and the gloomy voice shouted at the same time: "Ahhhhh β
"Brother Xiong, run! We've got you covered! β
"How many of you still help that shit?"
The crowd became even more chaotic, vicious curses mixed with cold weapons clashing, and dozens or even hundreds of people slowly squirmed towards the main road outside the alley. Wei Xinhai stood behind and didn't dare to move, as if he would be discovered if he moved slightly, and the glowing blade would slash at his head.
Sou... Bang... Without warning, a bloody dagger really fell in front of Wei Xinhai. It is more than a foot long, and the black hilt is carved with a familiar gold pattern.
"Isn't this the knife that Dad usually plays?" Wei Xinhai wanted to pick it up, but the blood on it was really disgusting, so he ruthlessly used the coat in his hand to pack the dagger and hold it in his hand.
The surging crowd gradually dispersed, and a few strong men walked slowly into the alley with a shorter man in their arms.
"Boss, are you alright?" One of the brawny men asked in a whisper.
"That fucking mad dog was going to stab me before he died. It's okay! Ask the mad dog if there's anything wrong! He was sprinkled with water, and he ran faster than a dog! Don't mess with me! It's just a dagger, and when I come out to mix, I'm embarrassed to see people without a few scars on my body. β
The dwarf uttered an eerie and high-pitched voice. He shook off a few younger brothers around him and leaned against the wall. There was a long cut in his collared shirt near his abdomen, oozing blood.
"Boss, are you really okay?"
"Fuck me fighting more than you guys eat, grinding around here like a bitch. Get out of here, and see me with the head of that mad dog!" Don't tell me that you can't even cut off a person who melts half of his face, I'll kill you, Lao Tzu! β
"Yes! Be! Being reprimanded like this, the remaining few people hurriedly rushed out with knives.
"Look at how Lao Tzu killed you when he caught you and came back! If you lie down in the coffin obediently, Lao Tzu won't torture you much, but you won't listen, right? Look at the present, I'm going to make your life worse than death! β
The dwarf limped to the back door of the nightclub, cursing in pieces. Until he saw Wei Xinhai, he was stunned at first, and then with a vicious face.
"You kid, what kind of kid. Oh?! I recognize it, the little cub born to Wei. What to see! I'll kick you to death! β
"Uncle, are you the bad guy my father wants to punish?"
"Bad guys? Where are the 'good guys' here? Isn't your dad a jerk too? He cut down enough people to put this street in his own hands. β
"Oh... Uncle, you seem to be bleeding, do you want me to help you? Wei Xinhai almost didn't react to what the dwarf said, instead, he slowly approached the dwarf, who was not much taller than himself, and stretched out his hands as if he wanted to cover the dwarf's wound with his coat.
"Get out! If you don't leave, I'm really going to beat you! The dwarf slapped Wei Xinhai's face with all his might, but his heart felt a tingling. He looked down at his chest, where a dagger was deep enough to see the blade.
The heart was pierced, and it was pierced by a small child. That feeling was a bit inexplicable, the dwarf looked at Wei Xinhai and then at his chest, and couldn't say a word. He slid slowly down the corner and sat down on the ground.
"Mom said that my dad was a hero who punished bad guys. What my dad can't do, I'm going to do for him. Now that I'm done, I'm just like my dad, I'm a superman! β
Wei Xinhai stood beside the dwarf, watching the dwarf languishes little by little, and loses his breath as a creature little by little. He remained absolutely calm, even a little excited. In his heart, killing bad guys is the most ordinary and most important thing to do.
"Hehe... Is that why you killed me? The corpse was silent for a long time, and suddenly began to tremble, and its hair grew wildly like a vine, and the short man who had short hair was now covered by his long hair.
"Huh? Is there something wrong? β
"I'm your mother! You actually killed me! Why?! Why did you kill me and your father? β
The corpse wailed in Zhou Lingxin's voice, and suddenly raised its head, its long hair scattered to the left and right sides, revealing the entire woman's face. That beauty and body are completely no different from the real Zhou Lingxin. It's just that his eyes are full of blood red and his expression is hideous, which is not an expression that a person can make at all.
"No... No! Wei Xinhai was shocked, he felt that the whole sky was about to fall, and the dagger in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter. Mother, you are obviously dead, you were killed by your father. Not me... I really didn't kill you... It's the father... It's the father... All I did that night was kill that bastard, really! β
"I don't care! I want you to pay for your life! "Zhou Lingxin" jumped up from the ground with an inhuman-like movement, and her hands tightly choked Wei Xinhai's throat.
Wei Xinhai couldn't make a sound, and he didn't try his best to resist, what else could he do in front of that beloved mother? He could only bear the grayer and darker things in front of him, and his body became heavy and difficult to move.
"I know it's my fault that I didn't save you, but I don't want to die, I still want to live!" He spoke weakly, tears falling from both cheeks. The sound somehow became smoother.
"Whew..." Wei Xinhai took a deep breath, sat up suddenly, and found that it was dark all around, and he was sitting on his own bed in his grandmother's house. His body was unharmed, only his forehead was covered in cold sweat to tell the nightmare he had just had.
It was the summer of 2001, and Wei Xinhai was sixteen years old and a high school student.
3.
Sleepless late at night, Wei Xinhai is not alone in this huge city. Fate is always a coincidence, Xu Yong, who has been promoted to the "Sergeant of the Criminal Police Section", also sleepless all night tonight, and a recent serial murder case has made him anxious and unable to sleep peacefully.
In his nearly 20-square-meter study room, all the materials and files are spread all over the ground, but he can't catch the murderer's tail.
After another glass of red wine, Xu Yong's consciousness became a little hazy. He gradually remembered the first murder case he encountered when he first became a criminal police officer three years ago, and he didn't think about reasoning day and night at that time, but he didn't expect that the case would be hastily closed in a few days for various reasons.
But this case has always been a knot in Xu Yong's heart, and all kinds of doubts lingered in his heart and could not be forgotten for a long time. Continuing to recall the various clues and suspicions of this murder incident became Xu Yong's interest. Until one day, a few months after the end of the case, he woke up as if in a dream, and all the clues finally joined together in his brain, and a terrifying thought rose in vain:
"Wei Xinhai is the real murderer."
Wei Xinhai, Xu Yong still remembers this name, and he has the impression of a young man who is always crying and seems to be weak. But the suspicions of the whole case are centered on him, and Xu Yong can even deduce the teenager's every move that night from the clues.
"Wei Xinhai... Wei Xinhai..."Xu Yongmo read this unforgettable name, put another glass of red wine into his stomach, and then closed his eyes. The familiar picture in the darkness gradually became clear, and at this moment Xu Yong was no longer Xu Yong, he was a junior high school student, a junior high school student named "Wei Xinhai".
Standing in a not very spacious apartment, two bedrooms and a living room were standard at that time. In this seemingly ordinary family, there were televisions, refrigerators, and water heaters that only wealthy families had at that time, and these were cleverly used as criminal tools by "me".
In the middle of the hall stood my "father" and "mother", perhaps because of the violent oppression of the underworld in the past, "father" sold most of the valuable items in the family. "I" was furious, and picked up the hammer that I had already prepared in my hand and hit "Father" in the back of the head. After a fight, both "father" and "mother" fell to the ground and did not move. For some reason, "I" was extremely calm, because this was something that had been budgeted for a long time.
"I" then dragged "father" and "mother" to the bathroom, hid the real murder weapon, and glued the small hammer purchased in advance to "mother". In this way, "I" complete the first part of the work. Shifting the place of death, creating the illusion of killing each other and the murder weapon not matching.
The second part, which runs through the night, is the focus of the cover-up. "I" first cleared all the food from the refrigerator and sprinkled it in the hall, providing the illusion of a "violent fight" for creating "ice cubes". Then I put the ice cubes that I had made, and the ice water was constantly applied to the "father" and "mother" to prolong the time for the corpse to change.
"I" fear that this alone may not be enough to transfer the suspicion to the "physics teacher". Although he had come to the house a few days ago and had touched a lot of objects, "I" was not at ease. As a result, "I" glued the fingerprints obtained from the "physics book" to various parts of the room. This is a gamble, and I hope that the domestic criminal police will still use the most primitive criminal investigation methods, and "I" will be able to completely get rid of suspicion.
This work continued until dawn, turning on the water heater before going out and sprinkling it on the "father" and "mother" to confuse the ambient temperature. Finally, turn on the TV and adjust the channel to 12 o'clock before there will be programs and sound in English, "Pearl Channel", which covers the door of the house. "I" stepped out of my home like an ordinary junior high school student, and the whole intentional homicide seemed to never exist.
Suddenly returning to reality, Xu Yongfa was cold and shivering all over. "Meditation", a common method used by criminal police, allows Xu Yong to completely substitute into the heart of the criminal for reasoning, which is also his trick to solve cases in recent years. It's just that every time that night that originally belonged to Wei Xinhai played smoothly in Xu Yong's mind, he couldn't help but tremble. The darkness and ruthlessness in Wei Xinhai's heart, and his powerlessness to solve the case were like a needle, piercing the depths of his heart. What kind of mood did that teenager use to devise such a complex method to kill his relatives? Is there such a problem in the world that is so difficult to solve?
"Even so, you can't sin!" Xu Yong was suddenly extremely excited, and his fatigue had already left. Whenever he was slack, tired, and weak, he always motivated himself like this. "I can't be as naΓ―ve as I was to let those cunning murderers go on the back burner. Everything is fate, not the fate of fate, it is the fate of cause. If only I had a little more experience! If only our detection technology were better! It is impossible for all the evil causes and effects in this city to escape the eyes of our criminal police! I must not allow the case in my hand to be distorted by sin again! (To be continued.) )