Chapter 12: Watching in the Dark
September 24, Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street, half past two in the afternoon.
The crowd is surging, and the open space 100 meters away has been arranged with exquisite booths, and many staff members are busy inside and out, preparing for the closing ceremony in half an hour. All sorts of TV reporters are ready to go with long guns and short guns on their backs.
Mr. Demon stood in the shadow of the arcade, leaning against the wall, with one hand in his pocket and the other in his phone:
"Question: If you know that someone with bad intentions will kidnap you tomorrow, what would be the ideal course of action?"
Liu Yanshi's voice came from the other end of the phone:
"Hmm...... Alarm...... Probably not, right? ”
Mr. Demon smiled:
"Calling the police is the most useless thing to do. Because you lack sufficient evidence to prove that you are indeed under threat, it is impossible for the police to use their force to protect your personal safety. ”
Liu Yanshi thought for a while and said, "Then why don't you just hide at home all day and lock the door...... Or go to another place and find a place to hide for a while. ”
Mr. Demon shook his head:
"If you can run, the monk can't run the temple, since you already owe money, unless you never go home, otherwise you will continue to suffer from all kinds of threats in the future."
"I finally understand why you insist on refusing to tell Xiao An about it......" Liu Yanshi muttered: "Although it's useless to run, but when Xiao An passes by here after work, how should we protect her, speaking of which, there are also a lot of security guards near the booth, do those debt collectors really dare to take action?" ”
Mr. Demon smiled and said slowly:
"Have you ever heard of a similar case?"
"A little girl, on her way home from school, passed by a street with a lot of traffic. At this time, suddenly a man put his arm on her shoulder and said to her, 'Xiaoli, why did you run away from home in such a good manner, so that Dad could find her easily.' My family is waiting for you, come home with me. ’”
The girl panicked. Because her name is not Xiaoli, and she doesn't know that man at all. But the man's hand was clenched tightly, and there was even a posture of forcibly dragging her away, and she also noticed that there was a van parked not far away, and the door was open. She became more and more frightened, struggling, screaming, crying and shouting to escape from the man's restraints, desperately begging for help from passers-by around her, shouting 'he is not my father', 'I am not called Xiaoli'...... Many passers-by stopped to watch, but none of them made a move. Because, in people's general social concept, this is a single ordinary, a girl runs away from home, loses her temper, and does not want to recognize her relatives ......"
There was silence on the other end of the line for a long time. Liu Yanshi finally said:
"That's true......"
After a pause, she asked again:
"What if...... Those debt collectors will use the same method today, don't we have no way at all? ”
"Who said that?" Mr. Demon chuckled faintly:
"If bad people intend to take advantage of human weakness to do bad things, we can do the opposite—to exploit human weakness and create even more disturbances."
"What the hell is that?"
Mr. Demon narrowed his eyes slightly, and a cold smile appeared in his eyes:
"The steps are simple. First of all, I will play the role of a passerby and forcibly kidnap Xiao An after she appears. The debt collectors who have been watching must be nearby, all you need to do is identify them, and then, when it counts, point at me and yell 'He's a kidnapper, those over there are accomplices'......"
"What a way to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred......" Liu Yanshi stuck out his tongue and said with a smile: "However, it is indeed very similar to your style Mr. Demon." ”
"The masses are easily instigated by public opinion, when you shout that sentence, the situation has been completely settled, even if we don't make a move, the enthusiastic onlookers will volunteer to escort me and those debt collectors to the police station, when the time comes, I only need you and Xiao An to come forward and explain the ins and outs to the police, and I can get out."
Mr. Demon stretched:
"That's why I told you to step on it an hour early...... Well, did you spot any suspicious characters? ”
Liu Yanshi's distressed voice came from the other end of the phone:
"Hmm...... Anyway, since I knew that there were kidnappers hidden in the pile, it didn't feel like a good thing for anyone......"
"Then I can only ask you to keep up the good work." Mr. Demon's smile was as warm as a spring breeze, and Liu Yanshi said dissatisfiedly:
"Don't leave me alone, how are you on the other side? Is it passive and slacking off again? ”
"How is that possible?" Mr. Demon answered with confidence, but his eyes glanced at an ice cream shop on the side of the road, swaggered over, and took out his wallet from his pocket:
"I'm a responsible man."
As soon as he finished speaking, he put the phone away from his mouth, and said to the beautiful part-time girl with a smile:
"Beauty, a double ball of ice cream, thank you."
The clerk takes the money and goes to dig up ice cream balls for Mr. Devil. The waiting time was quite boring, and Shi Zuo only whistled and looked around, and the hooligan temperament was simply natural. He looked at the passers-by on the street unscrupulously, men and women should choose women to see, women and women should choose to look at the ones with good faces, and those with good faces and those with good faces should choose to look at those who wear less. After looking at it for a while, his face suddenly froze.
"Sir, your ice cream—"
As soon as the clerk's hand was handed to Shi Zuocai, the latter rushed out like an arrow and plunged into the crowd, causing a commotion.
"You're sick!"
"Run, run!"
"I don't have eyes!"
Tourists on the street scolded one after another. But Shi Zuocai didn't pay any attention to it, his expression was extremely solemn, even the speed of his heart beating had increased several times, and he frantically pushed away the crowd and rushed towards the alley in front of him.
Just...... The figure that flashed in the alley was clearly the mute beggar he had been following for several days......
That is, the father of Anhe City!
Shi Zuocai tried his best to urge every tendon in his thighs to run desperately, and at the same time, his brain was also running wildly.
Why?
Why is An Yiwen here?
It stands to reason that by selling his family's information to a loan shark group, there is no need for him to follow Anhe City anymore...... So what does it mean for him to be here now, right now?
Whatever it is, it is definitely not a good thing for the current situation...... The plan laid out by Mr. Demon does not allow for the emergence of a little variable, and An Yiwen, who is Xiao An's father, is the biggest variable in itself.
Stop him...... In any case, he must be stopped this time!
As soon as he rushed to the corner of the alley, the beggar who was cowering and hiding behind the wall recognized Shi Zuocai, they had already fought before, and it was obvious that An Yiwen also had an impression of Shi Zuocai, so that the moment he saw him suddenly appear, his eyes burst out with endless horror. The whole person staggered around, turned around and turned around to run into the alley.
Shi Zuocai naturally wouldn't give up so easily, he opened his legs like crazy, crashed into the crowd, stared at An Yiwen deadly, and didn't plan to let him go at all, but this beggar wandered around the Tenth Fu Road all day long, and knew the terrain of the nearby alleys well, even if he was physically disabled, he almost got rid of Shi Zuocai several times.
Finally, after turning another corner of the alley, Shi Zuocai gritted his teeth, and burst out with an astonishing speed, and the whole person flew forward and knocked down An Yiwen, and the next moment, he swung his fist and hit An Yiwen in the face unreasonably.
An Yiwen let out a cry of pain, but his tongue had been cut off, and he could only shout out words of unknown meaning, and he did not choose to fight back against Shi Zuocai's beating, but tried his best to protect his head and face with his arms, at this time, Mr. Demon had been completely invaded by the anger hidden in his heart, and at this time, the new hatred and old hatred were counted together, and he only wanted to beat him up first, so that he could not move, so as not to delay his plan.
After a few punches, An Yiwen howled sadly and angrily, and Shi Zuocai's fist was about to fall again, but at that moment, he saw tears flowing from An Yiwen's face, and he couldn't help but be stunned. In that short moment of stunnedness, An Yiwen suddenly burst out with huge power, pushed Shi Zuocai away, and ran the same way like crazy.
Shi Zuocai rolled on the ground twice, stood up in embarrassment, scolded the country fiercely, and ran up again to chase An Yiwen.
He must be caught...... He must be caught...... He must be caught......
Turn left, turn left, turn right......
This road has just been walked, and it is back to the main road, and there is a finishing ceremony not far away...... What's the time now......
A little faster...... A little faster......
An Yiwen, whose face was covered in blood, rushed into the Tenth Fu Road and knocked down a passerby.
"Stinky beggar, you don't have eyes! Fuck you! What a bad luck! ”
An Yiwen staggered to his feet, squeezed through the crowd like a rat crossing the street, and ran towards the scene of the finalization ceremony.
"Get out of the way! My wife is giving birth! Get out of here! ”
Mr. Demon irritably pushed away another passerby, seeing that he was about to get closer and closer to An Yiwen, thinking that he must not be allowed to get close to the scene of the finale, and was about to shout "There is a thief" to cause a riot, he took the opportunity to stop him, took a deep breath, and was about to speak, but the voice was stuck in his throat.
The sound of commotion could be heard from a distance in front of the crowd, and Anhe, who was wearing convenience store overalls, avoided the crowd cautiously and carefully, and was so frightened that he didn't even dare to stop and watch the upcoming closing ceremony next to him, and walked along the side of the road with his head down, but the noise was approaching.
So, when she looked up, she suddenly saw a beggar who had fallen in front of her in a panic.
……
After being stunned for a while, An Heshi came to his senses and subconsciously squatted down, trying to help him up.
The beggar suddenly screamed in horror and crawled back a few steps, avoiding Anhe City far away.
Anhe City looked at the beggar in front of him in surprise.
His face was covered in scars, as if he had been completely disfigured by sulfuric acid, and he didn't recognize his original appearance at all.
The left hand is also useless, and there is no palm, and only the bare section of the wrist remains.
The hair was long, ungroomed, greasy, ragged, and the exposed skin was mixed with blood.
The strangest thing, the strangest thing is...... Just for the moment of staring at her, the beggar's face seemed to have aged dozens of years in an instant.
Anhe didn't know how to react, and he couldn't speak, so he was stunned on the spot.
The beggar slowly stood up. It's an arm's length away from Anhe City.
On his ugly face, there was no trace of brilliance in his cloudy eyes, and it was impossible to guess what was going on in his heart.
Anhe City grew more and more frightened, and a feeling that was both strange and familiar rolled up in the depths of his mind.
The beggar slowly reached out his hand, as if to gently touch the girl's head.
The hand was stretched forward little by little, and An Heshi was so scared in her heart, but for some reason, the strange feeling overflowing in her heart stopped her willingness to retreat.
Just touching her head, as usual for more than ten years, when her daughter was unhappy, tell her,
Any hurdle will be crossed.
That's all.
The hand is getting closer.
Shi Zuocai, who was in the crowd, narrowed his eyes slightly, clenched his fists, and guarded against any accidents. Out of his eye, he caught a glimpse of several restless figures in the crowd.
But that hand still didn't touch Anhe's hair after all.
His hand hung in the air—at the moment when he was about to touch Anhe City, countless emotions flowed through the beggar's eyes, and he suddenly roared mournfully in his mute voice, which had long since lost his tongue, and his expression was so painful that he seemed to vomit out his soul.
The next moment, the beggar swooped forward, knocking Anhe to the ground.
The crowd of onlookers poured water into boiling oil, which exploded in an instant, and many people rushed forward to grab the beggars, and there was a commotion everywhere. People shouted "Catch that madman" and "Shoot him", and policemen squeezed out of the crowd and unhandcuffed them from their belts. Shi Zuocai froze in place and was silent.
The beggar struggled frantically in the crowd, and some good Samaritan dragged out of the frightened and weeping city of Anhe, separating her from the beggar, the beggar curled up, suffering punches and kicks from all sides, and his body was getting more and more blood stains and dirt, and he yelled mournfully, he had no tongue, and no one could hear his cry. Until a certain moment, someone shouted that the police were coming, someone shouted to get out of the way, and the beggar got up from the ground like crazy, crashed through the crowd, staggered and ran wildly, knocking down one passerby after another, he turned the corner like a moth to the monstrous fire, he turned the corner and rushed to the busy lane outside the tenth road.
The sound of horns, sudden braking, and collisions sounded.
The beggar flew upside down, a long shadow in the air.
Collapsed in a pool of blood.
- Use bigger riots to stop the upcoming riots.
Shi Zuo realized that in order to save his daughter, the man made the same decision as him.