16. New life
Jon might have been nicer to Catherine if regret had helped, but alas... The most useless emotion in the world is regret, regret can't change the past, and it will only drag down the future, provided that Jamie's gang, Fat Jon, still has a future.
Seber shook the water in his hand and walked out of the bathroom, and he saw Catherine standing there, her eyes already full of tears, not because of fear or fear, but because of the end of the bad dark life of the past, and in the tears, a light lit up in the darkness.
It was Cyber walking towards her, the 1.75-meter-tall, not-so-handsome, barboy with a public face and a smile like an old cat, the mysterious man she had saved from the brink of death.
She watched the fat man Jon struggle on the rope, she saw all the scenes in the past where he beat her, saw all the traces of abuse, but it was all over, her suffering, the dark time that lasted for 1 year, came to an end.
"Are you going to save him? Catherine?"
Seber looked at the little girl, he crouched down, grinned in front of her eyes, helped her wipe away her tears, and whispered, "You can let me let him go, after all, if he dies because of you, you may become a bad person like me." ”
"You're not a bad person!"
Catherine blurted out, but she also seemed a little hesitant, the 10-year-old brain melon obviously couldn't keep up with the rhythm of thinking after accepting everything about this mutation, she blindly believed everything Cyber said, and she felt that what Cyber said made sense, she began to think about whether to save Jon.
At this moment, Jon's face showed ecstasy, but Cyber looked back at him, a sneer on his lips, and he stretched out his fingers, curled up, and slammed the top of Catherine's head, snuffing out Jon's last hope.
"Catherine, remember! The only way to end hatred and start a new life is to get rid of old memories, you think that if you let him go, he will be reformed? Don't be stupid, look at what he has on his bedside, how can a guy who is addicted to drugs and gambles change his ways? If you let him go, it will only hurt another child, a child like you. ”
"From what you know about him, do you think he might change his mind and find a job that can support him and provide for him to take drugs? No, no, no, he's just going to find another kid or two like you, and make more frantic allegiance to his Boss Jamie in exchange for more black money. ”
Cyber's eyes moved over Jon like a viper, and he stood behind Catherine, his hands on her shoulders, whispering, seductively instilling his opinion in Catherine's ear, which had completely lost her ability to think for herself,
And after this experience, in order to prevent the recurrence of this incident, he will only torture the next child even more, even... Kill him, and he'll call the police, he'll catch me and you... Would happily watch the two of us being thrown into prison, so... Are you still willing to let him go?"
Catherine was frightened, and she shook her head violently, like a frightened cat,
"Don't let it go!"
"Good boy!"
Cyber licked his lips and stuffed the dagger into Catherine's hand with a malicious face, "I taught him a lesson just now, now it's your turn, don't be afraid, such a scum shouldn't live in the world, you are doing a good deed, in the ancient East, there is a saying, "To punish evil is to promote good", uh... It doesn't matter if you don't understand, in short, killing a bad person is equivalent to saving a good person. ”
He stood up and patted Catherine on the shoulder,
"Go ahead. ”
Seber walked out of the room and stood outside the door, he suddenly missed Daddy's cigar, especially in this terrible environment now, he stood there, looking at the dirty darkness, he was waiting for Catherine's decision, he wanted to see what kind of decision this kid would make next to the abyss.
He had experienced almost exactly the same thing, when he chose to end that dark life, pass away with his life, kill the child in his heart with his own hands, and let the soul of a new adult rise up in his body.
Only when the boy dies will the man appear.
But after a few minutes, a dejected Catherine came out of the room, her dagger in her hand clean, and a somewhat tattered bear doll in her other, apparently, she still couldn't make up her mind, she lowered her head,
"I'm sorry, Cyber... I... I..."
Seeing this scene, Cyber shook his head, reached out and took the dagger back from her hand, and stuck it in his waist, after all, this is only a 10-year-old child, and it is indeed a bit difficult for her to do all this.
"It's all right, child, let him suffer more. ”
"Let's go, let's get out of here. ”
Cyber touched her head, then saw the doll bear in her hand, "Is this your friend?"
Catherine nodded, this was the only toy she had with Jon, and she had carried it to sleep in those frightened nights when she was most helpless, and just as Seber was about to stand up, Catherine suddenly reached out, grabbed the sleeve of her new dress with her fingers, and wiped it on Seber's cheek, not gentle, such a child has not yet learned to be gentle, but much more intimate than before.
"Blood... Didn't wash it clean. ”
Cyber paused for a moment, then smiled contentedly.
Who says there's no gain? Who says there's no value?
He snorted, turned around, and walked down the stairs, Catherine followed, she breathed a sigh of relief, and finally looked back at the hell where she had lived for 1 year, and then reached out and took the initiative to take Cyber's hand, but the young man did not look back, but the smile on the corner of his mouth became gentle.
The two men, one big and one young, quickly walked out of the rotting staircase, and when Cyber saw the blood on Catherine's clothes, he took off his coat and draped it over the little girl, and they sat in the graffiti-covered train carriage as they had come, leaving the damned Narrow Island.
The view outside the window had not changed, it was still the cold sunlight reflected between the tall buildings, the kind of halo that made people a little drowsy at this point, but Catherine, who was leaning against Cyber, no longer trembled, and she hugged Seber's arm tightly, and when the young man turned around, he saw that the little girl had fallen asleep with her tattered doll bear in her arms.
He looked at the terrible emaciated girl who had just woken up from a nightmare that he shouldn't have had, and his eyes changed, and he looked out the window at the sunlight shining in the sun, and between the beating light and shadow of the speeding train, he felt like he had found the answer to the previous question.
In this life, people must leave something in this world.
Literati use pens, soldiers use glory, businessmen use money, what about a reborn guy who can only solve problems with violence?
It's better to leave a child who can find a happy life again, at least... At least he can be a child's hero.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Cyber took Catherine back to the Old Gun Bar, Catherine put on his coat, took Cyber's hand, timidly looked at the big shabby sign in front of him, and followed Cyber in.
The agreement has long been signed, and only Daddy is busy in the whole store, he doesn't know the thrilling things that Cyber has been working on in the past few hours, the old man seems to be in a good mood, he is humming an old song and is cleaning up the glass, and when he sees Cyber push open the door and walk in, Daddy shouted,
"Hey, damn slacker, where have you been? Come over here and help me pack these things, we'll go see Robin at night... Wait, who is this girl?"
Cyber shrugged,
"My..."
"I am... I'm his sister, and my name is Catherine Anne Hawke!"
Catherine, who had not spoken, took the initiative to speak, her voice was a little swaying, but it was much louder than the previous timidity, she held the hand in the palm of Cyber's hand, which was already nervously clenched into a fist at this moment, Cyber raised her eyebrows, and then reached out and patted the top of Catherine's head, but did not refute this statement full of loopholes.
But Daddy was an old man, and he glanced at Catherine's haemostatic arm and her emaciated face, and the small wound on her cheek, and guessed everything, and the old man sighed.
But he was a poisonous tongue, so he accentuated his tone, mockingly with his pipe in his mouth, and looked at Cyber,
"Tsk, you slacker have learned to do good... But bastard, do you have the money? You don't have a dime, how are you going to feed her? Do you want me, an old man, to make money to feed a little girl?"
"Hey, old man, don't forget, you still owe me $50,000!"
Cyber lazily stretched out his finger and shook it in front of his father, choking his father and immediately speechless, the old man snorted coldly, threw the rag in his hand on the bar, walked over, and stood in front of Catherine.
The little girl looked at the white-haired old man with some fear, but soon he saw a gentle smile on Daddy Christian's face like a sharp old knife, and he took Catherine's hand from Cyber's hand, and said to the young man,
"Go, clean up this place before the girl and I come back... Otherwise, I'll get you out of here, you slacker!
Then he said to Catherine,
"Come, little girl, grandpa, I'll take you to buy clothes, girls have to learn to be kind to themselves, it's not okay to wear these cheap things, well, just use your brother's money, I don't think he will refuse, right, Sebo?"
The young man who had already picked up the rag gestured his middle finger at Daddy, and then watched Daddy walk to the old pickup truck outside the door with a reluctant Catherine, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, but he quickly returned to normal, and he began to sort out the glasses that Daddy had not finished, and as he worked, he hummed some strange and untuned songs.
There are a lot of things going on today, he killed 4 people, and the hatred with Jamie is endless, and he also dropped a fat man who deserves to go to hell and waits for death, and finally he saved a little girl from the dark hell, well, that's a good thing.
"Gentlemen, I like to do good deeds!"
Cyber wiped the last glass, tossed the rag on the table, then spread his hands and shouted in the empty bar, "Doing good makes me happy!"
The voice echoed back and forth in the empty bar, almost like a psychopath, but anyway, he finally had a third friend in this strange world.
The dad who rescued him, Robin who he rescued and Catherine, who was also rescued by him.
He's not lonely anymore... This is a good start to a new life.