Chapter VI
Ye Xiao began to believe in the end of the world.
Still unable to move at all, the blood and dust slowly slid from his forehead to his eyes—he couldn't see anything anyway, and if there was any light, it must have been a blurry red.
Hell is red.
All the sounds were gone, and the cold was coming in from all sides, including the weight on the back. If it weren't for the perennial exercise, with good physical fitness and endurance, I am afraid that the chest cavity would have been crushed and bleeding. During the violent tremors, it was like taking an elevator to land quickly, perhaps sinking a few hundred meters. Where is this in the earth's crust? Perhaps no longer in the city, but was shaken to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean hundreds of kilometers away. Perhaps this is the real earthquake, leaving everything on the ground, including the survivors who have just been released. They thought that they were free from murder suspicion and could walk freely in the moonlight, but they were once again swallowed up by the catastrophe that destroyed the world - would they regret it, regret why they didn't die sooner? Believing that the end of the world is coming on April Fool's Day, they will perish one after another in seven days and seven nights of cannibalism - Ye Xiao knows that these people are suspected of murder, but everything is reasoning, and there is a lack of strong evidence, and they will not admit it if they are killed! Moreover, it is not their fault that all this is done, but ......
He couldn't feel the pain anymore, quietly waiting for death, in the ruins of the movie projection room - five days ago, Ye Xiao went deep into the ground for the first time, and with the rescue team members who broke through the dome of the ninth floor, he entered the Future Dream Building, which had been sealed for seven days and seven nights. He walked alone through the half-collapsed passage, led to the small room by the sound of a dog barking, and found a poor Labrador and a middle-aged man buried all over, with only his hands and head exposed.
The man was still alive, and Ye Xiao illuminated his face with a flashlight, a face covered in dust and dirt, and the neckline of an Armani suit stained with blood.
He recognizes this face!
Ye Xiao half-squatted down, a stone's throw away from this face, repeatedly identified, compared with those photos in his memory, although he looked embarrassed and blurred, but those cold and ruthless eyes were clearly not confused by anyone.
"Luo Haoran?" In the barking of the Labradoodle, Ye Xiao softly said his name.
"Yes." The middle-aged man was slightly distressed, "The outside world, does it still exist?" ”
"Yes."
"There is no end of the world?"
Ye Xiao replied categorically: "No." ”
He stared at Luo Haoran's face, but said fiercely in his heart-"Why don't you crush him to death?" Why let this man live until now? ”
More than a year ago, Ye Xiao returned from another world and returned to the Public Security Bureau to continue working as a policeman, and accidentally heard an unsolved murder case from Lao Wang's mouth - two years ago, a car was salvaged from the bottom of the lake in the suburbs, and there was a corpse in the black car without a license plate, which had long been highly decomposed and turned into white bones. After analysis by the laboratory and forensic doctors, it was confirmed that the deceased was a woman about 30 years old, and the time of death was one year ago, and the car was not driven into the lake by the deceased, but was lifted into the driver's seat of the car after death, and the person and the car were pushed to the bottom of the lake. The police investigated a large number of missing persons and finally confirmed the identity of the deceased, a woman named Chu Ruolan, who was 31 years old at the time of death, a clothing store salesman, and lived in an old residential area in the center of the city, which had been demolished to build the Future Dream Building.
As soon as Ye Xiao saw the words "Chu Ruolan", he immediately knocked over the teacup on the table.
He silently prayed in his heart that it was only the same name and surname, but there were too few people in the country who called it this name, and then he saw the photo on the file—although it was only a stereotyped ID photo, although sixteen years had passed, it was still the girl at the next table in the third (2) class of the 41 Middle School.
That night, Ye Xiao swore to the sky that he would personally bring the murderer to justice.
The deceased's son once reported to the police that it was Future Dream Group that kidnapped Chu Ruolan, just because his family was a "nail household" for demolition, desperately guarding the old house for all neighbors, and refused the developer's demolition compensation plan. In the name of negotiations, the Demolition and Relocation Office took Chu Ruolan away late at night, and there has been no news since then. The police investigated the person in charge of the demolition project, but the other party flatly denied it.
Due to the high level of decomposition of the body, much of the evidence has disappeared and remains an open case to this day.
Before Chu Ruolan's accident, her parents had died, and household registration information showed that she was still "unmarried". Ye Xiao went to look for her son, but found that the child had dropped out of school and disappeared since high school. Ye Xiao visited the demolition households of the year, many of them were his old neighbors, and everyone reported that in the process of demolition, the developer hired ruffians and hooligans to use many despicable means, and when Chu Ruolan mysteriously disappeared, everyone knew that the Future Dream Group was ruthless, and was forced to sign the demolition agreement, and was driven out of the home where they had lived for generations.
Ye Xiao further found out the details of the Future Dream Group, secretly followed up and investigated the chairman Luo Haoran, and used some means that could not be put in court to determine that he was the murderer behind the murder of Chu Ruolan, but these evidences were all illegal and invalid, and direct human evidence must be found.
The police re-investigated the car where the body was dumped and found that it had been stolen. Starting with the stolen car, Ye Xiao locked up a gang member with a bad track record, who participated in the violent coercion of the demolition households and broke the ribs of an old neighbor. Ye Xiao spent several months finally finding out the whereabouts of that guy.
He laid out a meticulous arrest plan, and surrounded the suspect's residence with a large number of police. I didn't want this person to be extremely vigilant, so I jumped out of the window and ran away. Ye Xiao chased three roads in the dark night, and finally forced him into a dead alley. The thug pulled out a switchblade and resisted. He could have been shot and killed, but Ye Xiao understood that he was just a pawn, and the real murderer was still hidden behind the scenes. Therefore, no matter what, he can't be allowed to die, and he must be caught alive as a witness in order to bite Luo Haoran out. However, the suspect took advantage of his weakness of being reluctant to shoot, and stabbed him desperately, Ye Xiao refused to let him escape, so he was stabbed hard!
At the moment of his life and death, when his blood was spurted, the police officer Lao Wang arrived panting, and without hesitation, he pulled out his pistol and shot the outlaw in the eyebrows.
"No!" Ye Xiao opened his throat and yelled. He still had a knife in his chest, watching the bastard in front of him get shot in the head.
He clung to the man's corpse to prevent him from falling like this, and shouted at the beaten face, "Tell me! Who asked you to kill Chu Ruolan? Is it Luo Haoran, the boss of Future Dream Group? ”
By the time several policemen rushed to his side, Ye Xiao had already fallen to the ground with the corpse, and he looked at the black sky stupidly, letting the blood flow from his chest. Lao Wang picked him up and sent him to the hospital for rescue, otherwise he would die immediately.
"Why shoot! Didn't you say that you are only allowed to shoot at the sky, and you must keep your mouth alive? Ye Xiao said these words weakly and repeatedly.
Lao Wang shook his head and said, "You are really crazy, if you don't shoot, you will be killed!" ”
Before he passed out, he secretly thought in his heart - as long as he could catch Luo Haoran, even if he died, it would be worth ......
Three months later, Ye Xiao was discharged from the hospital, and all the clues in Chu Ruolan's case were interrupted, and even the person who called her to negotiate committed suicide inexplicably.
To this day, Ye Xiao still has a terrible scar on his chest.
In recent months, every time he looked out the window from his home, he had stared at the Future Dream Building, staring at a window on the top floor. He also bought a high-powered telescope, which can clearly see movement thousands of kilometers away. He had identified the presidential suite where Luo Haoran lived, and he could occasionally see his face through the window—the face that was crushed in the rubble at the moment.
Luo Haoran is an extremely careful person, most of the time the curtains are tightened, only half of them are opened at night, and usually the lights are not turned on in the room. Ye Xiao knew that he was hiding in the window, but it was dark, and the man was like a hidden demon, looking down on the world through the window, sucking people's flesh and blood little by little......
You can't just let him go!
Ye Xiao secretly got a military sniper rifle, which could be aimed at Luo Haoran from his own window.
He had made a careful plan - in the middle of April Fool's Day, he would shoot the man silently with this ultra-long-range rifle.
When Luo Haoran was shot through the head by a long-distance bullet, Ye Xiao would come to investigate on behalf of the police, and naturally he would never find out the murderer, and finally closed the case with Luo Haoran making too many enemies and being killed by a professional killer invited by a competitor.
Unexpectedly, on the night of April Fool's Day, the Future Dream Building sank to a depth of more than 100 meters underground.
He waited for seven days and seven nights, hoping to know Luo Haoran's life and death, and silently cursed him to be crushed in the ground, and he would never be able to live forever.
This is also the reason why Ye Xiao took the initiative to follow the rescue team to the front line and venture below the dome.
If Luo Haoran hadn't died, Ye Xiao would definitely not let him live.
He was really alive, in the half-collapsed projector room, accompanied only by a half-buried dog.
Luo Haoran didn't know Ye Xiao, but his eyes widened in despair, staring at this man in a police uniform and a helmet.
"You killed Chu Ruolan?" Ye Xiao slowly took off his mask and asked without hesitation: "Answer!" Be? Or not? ”
"Yes."
He explained so honestly, which made Ye Xiao feel strange, he thought that this man would deny it in every possible way.
"You're still a man."
Ye Xiao decided to let Luo Haoran die in a man's way.
There were many pieces of broken glass scattered on the ground, and he picked up the sharpest one, and in the violent barking of dogs, it gradually approached Luo Haoran's neck......
He didn't resist in the slightest, let Ye Xiao go around his back, grabbed his hair, and cut his neck with a piece of glass.
Ye Xiao wore gloves throughout the killing process.
Luo Haoran's trachea was cut open by sharp pieces of broken glass, blood gushed out like a fountain, and he convulsed for half a minute before he completely lost his breath.
Ye Xiao returned to the dead man and sat in the dark projector room dejectedly, his ears still filled with dog barking - the Labrador stared at him with a vicious gaze, and if he rescued it now, he would definitely pounce on him and bite his throat.
April 8th. Sunday. Night, 22:19.
Luo Haoran's eyes were always open, and the gradually cloudy eyeballs in the flashlight seemed to reflect Ye Xiao's face.
Finally, avenge her! But Ye Xiao did not feel happy at all in his heart, but was filled with endless regret and sorrow......
He put his mask back on and walked out of the hut at the scene of the killing. There must be other survivors, and it can't be just Luo Haoran.
Sure enough, he rescued a Japanese mother and son, and the rescue team quickly rescued four other survivors.
What surprised him the most was that there was still a circumstance!
He became more and more puzzled, what happened to these people, including Luo Haoran and Zhou Xuan, in the seven days and seven nights underground?
Then came the carcasses of the animals, the imperceptible bullet holes, until he went to the fourth basement and faced hell.
Although, Ye Xiao was wearing a mask, he still fainted in the poisonous gas of the rotting corpse......
When he woke up in the hospital, he lost an important memory – the one in the projector room.
He wasn't sure who Luo Haoran was killed!
Maybe it's yourself? Maybe someone else, like Circumference? Or Mo Xing'er? She looks too much like Ruolan!
Ye Xiao's subsequent intense investigation and interrogation were just to retrieve this memory, so that he could believe that a certain survivor had killed Luo Haoran and that an extremely cruel incident had happened underground.
In fact, such intermittent amnesia has often occurred since returning more than a year ago. Ye Xiao also went to the hospital for a check-up, his brain had been mechanically damaged in another world, and he would have temporary amnesia when he encountered stimulation, and he didn't know when he would recall it.
It turns out that he killed Luo Haoran himself, and it can be regarded as fulfilling his oath with his own hands and successfully avenging Ruolan - Ye Xiao was buried deep underground, and he knew that he was going to die soon, turning into a dry skeleton buried in the ruins. Blood flowed from his eyes to his lips, and he tasted something special...... It was seventeen years ago, when he fantasized about kissing a girl.
No, not only blood, but also hot tears, flowing into his lips.
Ruolan, do you see me?
Seventeen years ago, on that spring night, I smiled and shouted to her—
"See you tomorrow!"
"See you at the end of the world!"
Chapter Churchill
See you in the end of the world!
Damn, five days ago, when I was rescued from the underground, I barked to express my madness - there was no end of the world, it turned out that the earth was fine, only the Future Dream Mansion sank to the ground!
I was treated as a VIP at the military's animal hospital, and I had a splint on my injured leg and was soon alive. I miss my master, who died pitifully in the ground. Every night, I would have a long wail, and the doctors would be moved by me. Perhaps, I can't be loyal to the second person in this life.
Unexpectedly, five days later, the end of the world really came!
I was buried in the ground floor of the animal hospital. All humans and animals are dead, right? Am I the last dog in the world? Maybe I'll only live for a few more minutes, because my ribs are broken and the blood in my body is gradually draining......
I'm already "Wang" immovable. Sad!
What are you reading ghosts thinking? Lamenting for the policeman? Thought he killed my master?
Wrong! The truth has not yet been revealed!
Only I know the answer! I was the only eyewitness at the scene! I know who killed my master! You can not believe everything that people say, but you have to believe me.
Remember one thing – people lie, but dogs don't!
All in all, you have been deceived again, and the murderer is definitely not the policeman named Ye Xiao.
But can you hear me?
There is always only one truth......