Chapter Fifty-Seven: Ru Ling's Diary - Ru Ling is dead

Ru Ling died, died in a deliberate accident, at least that's what I think. And I was the only witness to this accident, in other words, I witnessed the whole process of Ru Ling's death. Such an experience was extremely cruel and frightening to me, or cruelty and horror are not enough to explain the impact on me at that time, as for the more precise feeling I can't describe, until now I can't explain how it happened, what Ru Ling said at the end, when he stopped breathing.

All I knew was that he was dead, and at the moment when his death was announced, I really felt something indescribable, detached from my body, from the bottom of my heart, from the depths of my soul, so that the color of my view of the world suddenly changed. And by the time I finally had the courage to put it down in writing, Ru Ling had turned into smoke and was buried deep in the dirt.

His way of being became a simple name, a square stone tablet. All traces of his existence have gradually disappeared and died out over time. A lot of people, many of the people we once knew, were reluctant to mention him again, or maybe just didn't want to mention it in front of me, because it was said that Ru Ling's death had caused some kind of darkness in my heart, it was just that.

It's been the last three months, and I'm not really going to tell you. I just want to do my best at the moment to restore the scene in my memory, although I have spoken to the police many times, including Nguyen Duong, but who knows how much they believe me. You may think that my worries are a little unnecessary, but this may be the darkness in my heart, and you will know that this darkness is much more than that......

That day, Ru Ling took me to see a midnight movie, the name of the movie was "Kill Bill", the reason why I suddenly wanted to watch the movie, no, no, to be precise, it was an apology for the fight, no, to be exact, it was an apology, in fact, I wanted to use my time to fill up Ru Ling's time, so that he would not have extra time to think about that woman. So obviously, watching a movie is my request, and what movie to watch is decided by Ru Ling, so it can be seen that this matter is relatively indifferent to the two of us, just to spend an ordinary night together like a long time ago.

I don't remember much about what the movie was about, it seemed like a bloody inspirational story about revenge. I stuffed popcorn in my mouth the whole time, wiped my mouth on Ru Ling's shoulder, and threw tissues into the hat of his hoodie. Ru Ling has become accustomed to my pranks, and allows me to ravage me in all kinds. He said a long time ago that there is a little bad in my bones, and I need to release it from time to time, lest I accumulate a lot of money......

Halfway through the movie, about halfway through, Ru Ling got up and went out. I thought maybe he was going to the bathroom or answering the phone, but as usual, he was always busy. I sat there and waited for him to come back, emptying the popcorn by the way. Thinking about the sentence that the movie of two people plus popcorn is equal to happiness, and I feel very satisfied in an instant.

Ru Ling never came back until the movie was nearing its end. I didn't care about the content of the movie, and it didn't matter if I left the scene earlier or later, so I got up and went to find Ru Ling. Out of the screening room, I followed the direction of the signage, in the direction of the bathroom, the long corridor outside the screening room was quiet, except for the faint sound of various movies buzzing out, you could only hear your own footsteps, and the occasional sound of opening the door from nowhere, the atmosphere itself was a little weird.

I didn't meet anyone else along the way, and it took me about two minutes to find the bathroom door in the depths of the theater, and I whispered two orders, but there was no reply. I pulled out my phone again and dialed his number, and there was a waiting tone coming from the receiver, but no one answered. I listened carefully to the sounds in the bathroom and made sure that not only was Ru Ling not inside, but no one was inside. Maybe I went out to smoke, I turned around and walked back along the corridor, looking for an exit while keeping calling Ru Ling's phone, but no one answered, and a feeling of uneasiness slowly rose from the bottom of my heart, inexplicably uneasy.

There was a creak of opening the door in the hollow mall, I thought it was a security door being opened, and then there was a creak, shorter than the previous sound, as if someone had deliberately slowed down or suppressed the awkward friction, and I walked over to see if Ru Ling had returned.

The lights went out in the huge mall, only the faint safety lights glowed green, I walked in, the footsteps tapped, and then I felt an echo, I continued walking, when suddenly a woman came out of a corner. Although the light was dim, I immediately recognized the woman, yes, it was Lin Jing, she would actually be here, but if she was here, then Ru Ling must be nearby, and it was for this woman.

I was upset, but I didn't say anything. Lin Jing looked up and saw me at this time, she was expressionless, she didn't look like she wanted to say hello, but completely ignored my existence, turned around and walked in the opposite direction. The mall reverberated with the sound of tapping and tapping. I watched Lin Jing walk away and melt into the crowd that had just come out of the movie. turned around and walked in the direction of Lin Jinglai, I think she must have met with Ru Ling just now, Ru Ling didn't follow, she must have been bruised again.

So I walked slowly towards the safety door, pushed it open, and there was a creaking sound, and I was tired of squeezing through the crack in the open door, and let go, and there was another creak. The lights in the hallway came on, and my eyes were uncomfortable for a moment, but they quickly recovered.

However, the scene in front of me made me tremble and speechless. Ru Ling lay on the opposite step, one leg stretched out, one leg bent and pressed underneath. The upper body was half leaning against the wall, one hand was resting under the head, and the other hand was covering the chest, and a knife was stuck in the chest, blood gushing from the edge of the blade, staining the entire placket red. His face was as pale as paper, his eyes were closed, and his lips were purple. A lifeless look.

There was a man squatting next to Ru Ling, he was squatting with one leg outstretched, the other leg squatting, his whole body pressed against the squatting leg, one hand on his leg, and the other hand hanging in the air, close to the dagger on Ru Ling's chest. My appearance made him stop moving, and instead withdrew his dangling hand, and quickly put it on his lower waist, I judged the position of his lower waist under his T-shirt by experience, from the experience of Ru Ling and Ruan Yang, there was a pistol, he could pull it out at any time and give me a bullet enough to shoot the head.

The person with this kind of equipment is usually a policeman, of course, it may also be a gangster, and from his alert reaction, the latter is more likely to be the case, because the police will not touch the gun just because someone appears. We looked at each other for no more than 2 seconds, and he had a handsome black face, with a well-defined outline, delicate features, a small head, and black hair, and he glared at me with an alert and menacing gaze, his brows furrowed, and his pursed lips like a white crescent.

I leaned against the security door and looked at Ru Ling and the stranger on the ground, motionless, frightened and overwhelmed, after 2 seconds, his gaze lost its luster, and suddenly he jumped up, rushed down the stairs and disappeared into the darkness, only the crackling footsteps echoed repeatedly in this whirlpool of corridors. I shivered in the same position for a long time, until the stairs were quiet again, and the lights in the hallway went out and turned on a few times.

I suddenly woke up and threw myself down beside Ru Ling. I tried to push him, his hand pressed on his chest slipped weakly, there was no response, I carefully stretched out my index and middle fingers under his nose, as if there was only a faint breath, and it didn't seem to be, I checked the position of the dagger, the middle of the chest, I was unwilling to touch his carotid artery with my hand, and there was a soft rhythm.

I sat down on the steps, hugged him from behind, put his head on my lap, pressed the wound in my chest with one hand, took out my mobile phone with the other, and quickly dialed Nguyen Duong's number, I knew that my hands were shaking, my voice was shaking, and I did my best to explain to Ruan Yang that Ru Ling had been stabbed and where we were in the time I could. Ruan Yang may have been a little flustered, he asked me to wait where I was, and he came to call the police, called an ambulance, and he asked me to find a way to wake up Ru Ling, and he said he would be there soon.

I hugged Ru Ling, in the flickering corridor, low sobs, with a trembling and hoarse voice called Ru Ling, he did not respond, only the blood flow in his chest slowly changed from warm to cold, I don't know how long it took, the mall sounded chaotic footsteps, and then came Ruan Yang's voice, he was calling my name, I heard, but I couldn't make a sound, I sat there and my arms had lost consciousness, Ru Ling's head was heavy like a lead, my whole body was stiff, like a dead man.

I gasped desperately, breathed hard, and then tried to make a sound. Finally a wave of heat came out of my throat, and with it, I screamed, and the smell of blood began to seem sticky between my lips and tongue. I continued to scream, hoping that the sound would penetrate the security door in front of me, through the hollow mall, and for Nguyen Duong to find me. Before my voice dissipated, Ruan Yang pushed open the heavy door, he seemed to be holding a flashlight, or a spotlight, in short, a strong light shining on my face, it felt very painful, like the sting of sweat running through a wound.

The moment he recognized me, he withdrew his flashlight and ran to me, he first held my face and looked at it carefully, wiping the blood from the corner of my mouth, and then I realized that the heat wave was blood gushing out of nowhere. He continued to check Ru Ling's wounds, breathing, pulse, and possibly temperature, but he did not speak.

At this time, someone rushed in from the door carrying a stretcher, Ruan Yang put my hand away, and helped the medical staff to carry Ru Ling to the stretcher, I staggered up, trying to catch up, but I didn't succeed, the next second I collapsed on the ground, and then I felt that Ruan Yang was holding me, through the security door, into the elevator, and into Ru Ling's ambulance, I was half lying in Ruan Yang's arms, and my eyes could vaguely see what the doctors and nurses were busy operating on Ru Ling's body.........