Chapter 80: The Silent Witness
More than a month passed imperceptibly. Dr. Li tirelessly spends his days in his laboratory, while Jiang Peiyao lives in fear and fear every day.
Wait, wait, that moment of horror and despair came. Dr. Li finally made up his mind to perform head replacement surgery on Jiang Peiyao and Ran Xi.
Jiang Peiyao was placed on a narrow operating table in the attic, and not far from her was Ran Xi's cold and stiff corpse. She used her last chance to beg Dr. Li to spare her life, and promised him that as long as she didn't kill her, she would stay here forever and make it her home from now on.
Jiang Peiyao cried very sadly, and even the operating table shook slightly with her trembling body. However, Dr. Lee was not moved. He wiped away Jiang Peiyao's tears and said in an extremely relaxed tone: "I never thought of killing you, I just wanted you to continue your life in a different way." I know you don't understand what I'm going to do next, so I'm scared, but I promise you that you won't have any pain. You close your eyes, relax, and wake up with nothing to do. β
"You're a liar!" Jiang Peiyao was completely desperate, and shouted hysterically, "That girl named Ji Lan has been killed by you, and I don't want to be your second victim." β
"That girl died because of ......" Dr. Li shrugged his shoulders helplessly, as if to say something innocuous "It was my first experiment, and there will inevitably be accidents." But this time it's different, I already know what to do with the surgery, and you don't have to worry about it at all. β
"I don't believe your nonsense, that kind of operation is not going to be successful. Besides, your fiancΓ©e is already dead, and you put my head on a corpse, how can the corpse be resurrected? There is no point in all this you do, you stop making a fool of yourself. β
"Shut up." Doctor Li glared at Jiang Peiyao viciously, "If you dare to say that she is dead, I will be unkind to you." I just need your head anyway, and I don't mind putting your body through some torture. β
"You, what do you want to do?" Jiang Peiyao saw Dr. Li slowly approaching her with a sharp scalpel, and suddenly began to struggle desperately. But her hands and feet were tied, and no matter how much she struggled, it was in vain. "Wake up, look at this woman next to you, if she's still alive, will she be able to accept what you're doing now?"
"All I did was for her, and of course she could take it." Dr. Li said and glanced at the operating table next to him, and a wicked smile appeared on the corner of his mouth......
Jiang Peiyao's memories before she fell into a coma ended here, and when she opened her eyes again, she was already lying in this ward.
Huo Yan listened carefully to Jiang Peiyao's account of this painful experience, and asked suspiciously, "Is there anyone else in the villa besides Dr. Li?" β
"No...... Jiang Peiyao pondered for a moment, frowned in disgust and said, "Except for the two of us, there is only the corpse of that woman in the villa." β
"Then when you and Dr. Li were talking in the attic, were there any strange things happening around you? Did you hear anything? β
"What do you mean by that?"
"Because the police found traces of a third person in the villa, I wonder if you just happened to see or hear something."
"I don't really know about that. I was so frightened that my attention was all on Dr. Lee, and I didn't have any energy to focus on anything else. Jiang Peiyao paused for a moment and asked with some confusion, "Teacher Huo, what happened?" Are you looking for someone? β
"Oh, it's nothing, you don't know." Huo Yan smiled slightly and decided not to reveal the news of Dr. Li's murder for the time being. She saw that Jiang Peiyao was tired, physically and mentally exhausted, and she couldn't bear to continue to disturb the other party's rest. She got up and glanced at Meng Yu of the criminal police team, and the two of them left the ward together.
After Huo Yan and Meng Yu left, Jiang Xinyue sat back next to the hospital bed. She held her sister's hand distressedly, wanting to say something comforting, but she didn't know how to speak. She couldn't imagine how her sister survived being imprisoned by the murderer for more than a month, just hearing those terrifying and perverted things, Jiang Xinyue felt her scalp tingle.
After staying quietly like this for a while, Jiang Peiyao suddenly raised her head, looked at Jiang Xinyue with serious eyes and said, "I lied to Teacher Huo just now......
"What lies?" Jiang Xinyue didn't understand what her sister meant for a while, "What did you lie about?" β
"Teacher Huo asked me just now if I saw anyone else, but in fact, ......" Jiang Peiyao bit her lip tightly, and then told the truth, "I saw a man." When the man came to the attic, I was still awake, so ......"
"Since that's the case, why don't you tell Teacher Huo the truth?"
"Because that person asked me not to tell him anything about him."
"Why?" The more Jiang Xinyue listened, the more confused she became, and she eagerly asked, "Sister, who is that person?" Why should you listen to him? β
Jiang Peiyao smiled bitterly and shook her head, "I don't know who he is, but I know that he saved my life." β
"Really?"
"When I saw him, Dr. Lee was holding a scalpel and trying to hurt me. If he hadn't shown up in time to stop Dr. Lee's actions, by the time the police found me, I would have been a corpse. β
"So, he's my sister's savior?" Jiang Xinyue said in disbelief. She was a little puzzled, since that person subdued the murderer and saved her sister's life, then he should be the person the police should be thanking her, but she felt that things were not so simple. "Did he do anything else besides save you? That's why the police are in a hurry to find him? β
"I don't know ...... either," Jiang Peiyao said as she closed her eyes tiredly and pressed her hand to her temples, "I'm not sure what he did to the murderer, because I had already passed out at that time." But before I fainted, the man told me that no matter what happened to me when I woke up, I must never mention him to anyone. β
"Even if he does something bad?"
Jiang Peiyao frowned slightly, and said with a firm attitude: "I only know that he saved my life, and other things have nothing to do with me." She grabbed Jiang Xinyue's hand and said in a pleading tone, "Xinyue, I told you this matter because I believed you, and you promised me that you would keep this secret for me." β
"Sister, don't worry." Jiang Xinyue gently patted Jiang Peiyao's shoulder and said half-jokingly, "Since I am my sister's life-saving benefactor, no matter what he does, even if he kills someone, I will not betray him." β
Homicide? Jiang Peiyao's heart trembled, and she couldn't help but recall the scene where the man pointed a gun at Dr. Li. Perhaps, is it really because of this that Mr. Huo asked her about that person?
"Sister, there's something I don't understand. Why did the person who saved you appear in the villa in time? Did he know the doctor who happened to go to the villa because of something and saved your life by the way? β
"I don't think so." Jiang Peiyao explained to Jiang Xinyue, "I heard the conversation between them and made sure that Dr. Li didn't know the man. And after that person subdued Dr. Lee, the first thing he did was to confirm my identity and reassure me not to be afraid. I didn't make a fool of myself, he did come to save me. β
"That's weird. It stands to reason that only the police will go to that place to save people, but he actually asks you to keep it secret, which shows that his identity is not a policeman. So who is he? β