Chapter 87: The Encounter of Two Demons
After dealing with the tiger and the bobcat, I was finally free, but I felt very confused about the future of my life. When I became alone and my heart gradually calmed down, I couldn't help but think of my family who lived in R City.
Many years passed, and I didn't know where to find them. From the spring of 2011 to the end of 2013, I visited almost all the pet stores and pet clinics in R City, but I didn't get anything.
I don't know how my family has changed in the ten years I've been away. Maybe they've stopped selling their pets a long time ago, or maybe they've long since left this sad city. I was disappointed, even a little hopeless, at the thought that I might never see them again.
On December 28, 2013, I ran to the last pet store in R City. At this point, all hope was lost. I thought it was time for me to leave the city and start a new life.
At that time, I was not yet 17 years old, and I used my stolen ID card to rent an old house with a small yard in an urban village in R City. That day, I was in a terrible mood and wandered around alone for a long time before I came home.
I still remember that night, there were a lot of police cars patrolling the streets of R City with flashing lights, and the atmosphere was so tense that I had to avoid them. I watched the news and knew that the policemen were looking for a serial killer named Yu Chiliang. The man was a pervert who brutally murdered six beautiful girls who had nothing to do with him, and buried their bodies in the courtyard of his villa.
Fortunately, the place where I live is as clean as ever, and no one bothers me. I opened the wooden door and walked into the small courtyard, and as soon as I opened the light bulb in the courtyard, I saw a sneaky figure hiding next to the pile of debris on the right-hand side. The man seemed to see me at the same time, and after a few seconds of stalemate, he took the initiative to pounce on me.
I was startled and turned to run out the door. The man was very fast, and he jumped behind me in a few steps. I was grabbed by his clothes and jerked backwards. In order to protect myself, I took out the fruit knife I carried in my pocket, twisted my arm and stabbed at the person behind me.
Because of the twisted movements, I stabbed four or five times in a row, but the man dodged me. Just as I was about to continue stabbing him with the knife, he suddenly grabbed my wrist and pulled my arm back and twisted it, and the knife was somehow snatched away by him. Then, the sharp blade pressed against my throat, and I realized that I was far from that man, and that I couldn't beat him.
"What do you want?" I asked him with some trepidation. Growing up, I have always been in control of other people's lives, and I have never been forced into such a situation by others.
"Your life." He replied coldly.
"Why? What do I have to do with you? ”
"Because you're unlucky, you'll have to die if you bump into me." As he spoke, he was about to cut my throat, and I suddenly realized something. Thinking of the news I saw on TV and the police cars on the street, I guessed that the man behind me was probably the serial murderer wanted by the police - Wei Chiliang.
"Wait." I tried to talk to him and let him go around my life.
He hesitated for a moment and asked me, "Do you have any last words before you die?" ”
"I'm not going to call the police, you can let me go."
"You know who I am, right?"
"I guessed, but I'm not going to say anything, trust me."
He sneered, disbelieving. "Now that you've guessed it, I can't keep you alive. I don't believe you'll give up that $100,000 bounty for nothing. ”
I sighed silently, "Even if the bounty is a million, ten million, I won't go to the police." ”
"Why?" He asked, curious.
"Because ......," I replied with determination, biting my lip, "because I've killed people too, and I'm a fugitive." ”
"What did you say?" He looked surprised, but he didn't believe what I was saying.
So I told him about what I had done. I thought that was probably the only way I could think of at the time to convince him not to kill me.
Unexpectedly, after listening to my story, he thought for a moment and actually put the knife down. I turned to look at him with trepidation. Through the dim light, I could see his face clearly, yes, it was the man on the wanted list, who was a perverted murderer who was more ferocious and terrible than a tiger and a lynx - Wei Chiliang.
To be honest, when I confirmed his identity 100 percent, I was a little scared. I stood there, looking at him at a loss, as if I were a child who had made a mistake, waiting to be punished by my own brother. He also looked at me, his eyes cold and sharp, as if he wanted to see through my whole being.
He wasn't really old, only seven years older than me, but in front of him, I felt a more powerful aura than a tiger or a bobcat.
After silently staring at each other for a moment, the expression on his face suddenly relaxed. "Boy, go get me something to eat, I haven't eaten in two days."
"Huh?" I was stunned for a moment, I didn't expect him to say such a sentence.
He smiled at me, just like the two of them. "I'll bother you tonight. I see you're safe here for the time being, so I'll rest here for the night and think about what to do next. ”
"You mean, you believe me?"
He shrugged his shoulders and said, "Sort of, because I smell something similar to mine in you, and that's the smell of demons." ”
That night, Wei Chiliang spent the night at my house. He was a cautious man, and although he believed me on the surface, he was actually wary of me. He stared at me incessantly, as if fearing that I would go back on his word, and secretly called the police. He locked me in a small room with him, confiscated my cell phone and self-defense knives, in other words, I should have been his hostage.
At night, the two of us guarded against each other, and neither of us dared to sleep. For the first time, the atmosphere in the room was very tense, like the calm before the great war. Every now and then, he opened his eyes and glanced at me to make sure I wasn't making any small moves in the shadows.
It was the first time I was in a room with such a perverted guy, and I almost didn't dare to close my eyes and rest. But I'm not a person who hasn't seen the world, and even if I'm afraid, I'm not so scared that way.
Seeing that he was only sleeping there and not asleep, I asked him curiously, "Why did you kill those people?" Are there any benefits you can get from it? ”
"Benefits?" He opened his eyes, looked at me, and said leisurely, "Is psychological satisfaction a benefit?" ”
"Would you be satisfied with killing them?" I didn't understand what he was thinking. So he asked me, "If you kill your master, don't you feel satisfied?" ”
I smiled wryly and shook my head, "I killed him because I hated him." He made me the way I am, and I was innocent of death. ”
"Then I killed them because I hated them." Wei Chiliang replied. Then he told me about his childhood, about his parents, about his family, about how he got to where he is today.
I found that I did have some similarities with him. We should have a happy and beautiful life like everyone else, but some unfair things have disrupted our lives and led us down a dark path. Although he was much luckier than me in terms of material life, in terms of spirituality, he was like me, and no one really cared about his growth and inner feelings.
Influenced by him, I also told my own upbringing. When he learned that I had been abducted and trafficked by traffickers since I was a child, and that I was still looking for the whereabouts of my family, there was a hint of sympathy and even a sad expression on his face.
At that moment, I was surprised to find that this demon who killed people without blinking in the eyes of others was not a completely cold-blooded and emotionless person. At that moment, I was sure that he wouldn't hurt me, because we were the ones who really got along with each other.
Before you know it, the sky outside the window glows with a faint light. After a long night of knee-talking, we finally let go of our guard against each other. He asked me what my future plans were, whether I would continue to stay in R City and find my family. Or do you want to change cities and continue to wander?
I shook my head and said I didn't know, confused.
"Do you want to come with me?" He asked me with a serious face, like a big brother, and it seemed like an urge to trust and rely on.
"Let's go together, we'll get into trouble with each other, right?" I'm not so sure. He's a wanted criminal, and I'll always have to live in places where I can't see the sun, and with him, I have to be careful, and life may be a lot less free. And the fact that he is with me also increases the risk of his identity being exposed.
"But you can also help each other by doing so, right?" He smiled meaningfully at me. I understood what he meant by "help", thought about it, and agreed to his offer.
In this way, we quietly left R City early that morning and settled in Chongqing City, the economic center of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
In order to meet our monetary needs, we use cyber scams to maintain the most basic living expenses. Wei Chiliang is a very smart person, he reads more than me, and he is very good at some advanced network technology. Usually, he hides in the shadows to perform deception, while I do some errands outside. Although I still beat others in the criminal gang, this time, I volunteered, and I didn't have any dissatisfaction in my heart.
During that time, our lives were peaceful, and neither of us ever killed anyone again.
Occasionally, I would lose control of my hands and have some petty theft. Wei Chiliang was worried that I would be caught by the police for these thefts and would hurt him, so he would scold me every time he found out.
I feel like our relationship is like a pair of brothers in distress. Help each other and support each other. I helped him run errands and help him make money, and he taught me a lot of things I didn't know before.
I wanted to call him Master, but he said that the word didn't sound very auspicious, because I had already killed a Master a few years ago, and he was afraid that fate would repeat it.
I knew he was just joking. I have no reason to kill him, because he is different from the tiger and I don't hate him.
That's why I've always called him "Brother Aliang." ”