Chapter 20: The Death Trap

The red laser dot pulsed slightly in front of my feet. As I watched, the red dot moved on the ground and drew an arrow pattern. I looked up, and the arrow was pointing in the direction of another building to the right of the building where the light source I had just seen.

Without waiting for me to think about it, the red dot moved quickly, and I subconsciously started to run with the red dot!

The red dot moved very fast at first, but when I couldn't keep up, it slowed down a bit, and in just a little time, it moved very fast! It happened to be stuck at the critical point where I needed to run with all my strength - I cursed in my heart: this is obviously not a chance to spare my strength, and I am afraid that I will be tired enough to be walked a few laps like this dog.

Thinking about it like this, I kept an eye on it in my heart and took care of it first.

Because, since I have fought with the other party, Lao Dao and I have been completely defeated time and time again, and it is self-deception to say that "falling behind". And according to the opponent's style, every time you see his shot, it must be a maze, and a powerful back hand is waiting for you.

I can allow this kind of thing again and again, but I must not allow it to be repeated, otherwise it will be tantamount to insulting my intelligence.

More than 200 meters was not a long distance, and soon I was close to the building.

The flashlight that shook up and down with my running movement swept away in an instant, and I was amazed!

On the second floor of this unfinished building, a red humanoid object floated in mid-air!

Eagerly, I used the flashlight to shine it again, and this time I saw it clearly: it was a long-haired woman, dressed in red, with a red and blue climbing rope hanging from her neck, hanging under a bare gray cement beam!

The light focused on the woman's face, and I was shocked at first, and then, a mixture of extreme anger and guilt, suddenly filled my heart, and taught me to scream!

Because, the face that has become extremely gray due to blood loss and suffocation clearly belongs to Liu Yao!

Her clothes were not red at all, but stained red with blood.

Presumably, the murderer hung Liu Yao first, and then cut her carotid artery, so that the blood dyed the white dress crimson!

There is no doubt that Liu Yao must have also cut off the veins in her hands and feet, and punctured her ten fingers on her hands and feet - the same way that Lin Sen and Fang Zhe died.

Originally, I thought that since the other party asked me to meet here, he must have used Liu Yao, who was held hostage, as a bargaining chip and shield, although I also thought about the possibility of Liu Yao being torn up in advance, but when it really happened in front of my eyes, I was still furious!

This murderer not only treated other people's lives as if they were nothing, but also played tricks on me again and again—mocking and teasing me with the bodies of the victims!!

How does this keep me from getting angry!

Just when I was so angry that I couldn't get any more angry, all of a sudden, I felt like my feet were empty, and my whole body fell sharply!

In my eagerness, I only had time to change the center of gravity of my body slightly, and I fell backwards violently, but despite this, I couldn't stop the fall, and my lower body took the brunt and slid down first.

The flashlight in his right hand also took off at this time and was thrown high in the air.

For a while, the flashlight that was shaking all over the sky and the falling body made me feel like the world was spinning in a trance, and the next moment, a piercing pain came from my left thigh, so that I couldn't help but scream!

"Mr. Ji, what's going on over there?!" Xiao Wu's eager voice immediately came from the earphones.

The flashlight also fell into this deep pit, which was planted upside down on the ground, but a glimmer of light leaked out made me roughly see the situation where I was, and I couldn't help but gasp-

I saw that this trap was more than two meters deep, and there were more than a dozen sharp bamboo thorns more than ten centimeters long at the bottom, one of which was inserted in my left thigh!

The most vicious thing about this trap is that it is designed to have a large mouth and a small bottom, that is, a conical shape, which is like an hourglass, as long as someone is hit, there is a great chance that the body will roll, so that the bamboo thorns at the bottom have a greater chance of piercing the fatal parts.

Moreover, the other party's trap is not just this fatal trap, but a delicate chain of settings.

First use laser rays as a guide, let me be exhausted, and then deliberately show me the scene of killing Liu Yao, when I was occupied by other things step by step, the last step of the trap is to see the dagger.

I can only count my fate, and when I stepped into the pit, I adjusted the center of gravity of my body, which kept me in the state of "slipping into" the pit. If I had "fallen" directly, I would have died by now.

I slowly groped with one hand to check the injury, and reported the situation to Xiao Wu at a very fast pace: "The hostage is dead, and the murderer is on the third floor of the building on the left side of the building in front of me!" I fell into a trap dug by the killer and injured my left leg. ”

"Hold on! Snipers will cover you! We'll be there soon! Xiao Wu's answer was very competent, and as soon as I turned off the intercom, I could already hear his voice starting to command.

Blood was pouring from my left leg, and my hand touched it, and the warm, slightly viscous blood soaked my hand.

The thought of it all on my own was indescribable, as if my heart was exposed while a cat was playing with my heart with its paws.

My biggest fear right now is a punctured thigh artery.

Although I had at least dozens of well-equipped and well-trained police officers behind me, my life would certainly not be in danger, but I would have lost my ability to move and miss the opportunity to face the murderer - this case started from a strange dream, and so far at least four people have died, which can be described as extremely treacherous, and these upheavals almost all happened within the day I took over the case.

In addition, the murderer is always like a shadow, letting me touch the traces again and again, but he happens to leave me behind again and again, and this "just happening" seems to be "deliberate", playing me between the palms.

This is a formidable opponent I haven't met in a long time, and I have tasted a sense of frustration that I have never tasted before!

How could I miss the opportunity to bring him to justice with such a good tightrope walker?!

One of the reasons why I had to fight to meet each other was two words-

"Nightmare".

As mentioned before, this case is a "dead circle" involving the reincarnation of the world and endless retribution. And the way this "dead loop" manifests is "dreams".

I speculate that these evil spirits, who have been trapped in nightmares for generations, have already been entangled together and become "nightmares".

In this life, if you still can't break the "dead loop", you won't be able to get rid of this nightmare.

In the next life, it will continue to do iniquity.

And I and Lao Dao are afraid that we will also be involved in it and become part of the "dead cycle", and we will not be at peace from now on.

For the sake of others and for my own sake, I must participate in this last battle.

I pressed my hand tightly on the wound on my leg, and although there was a lot of blood gushing out of the wound, it gradually began to converge. I leaned my neck and wiped the sweat from my shoulder, and breathed a sigh of relief—luckily,

No major arteries were injured.

As soon as I gritted my teeth, I used both hands hard and lifted my injured leg all at once!

My thigh pulled out of the wooden thorn on the ground, and the blood that had just stopped suddenly gushed out, and a sharp pain hit, and I gasped, and instantly felt almost dizzy.

I lay on the ground gasping for air, my whole body was almost out of control from the intense pain, my limbs trembled, and the tips of my fingers and the toes of my feet were numb.

I would love to just lie on the ground and not move. But there was a voice in my heart that roared - get up! Get up!

I know it's a race against time.

Not only do I have to fight against the murderers, but also with the police, and there is no extra time for me to waste, even if it is half a second!

There was a spare elastic band on the body armor, and I fumbled around and ripped one off and tied it to the wound in my leg, and the bleeding suddenly improved.

I slowly tried to sit up.

My body hurt from the fall, and the wound on my leg made me grin in pain, but fortunately, these were not fatal injuries, and they didn't make me lose my mobility.

Taking advantage of the fact that the assailant probably didn't know where he was hiding, I bypassed the light source from the flashlight that had fallen not far ahead, crawled out of the pit, and then slipped through the dark grass to approach the building where the assailant was.

And at this time, the gunshots rang out, and it was supposed that the sniper had discovered the murderer hiding on the third floor and started shooting.

Without hesitation, I entered the staircase in the dark, but as soon as I took a few steps up the stairs, I felt as if I had touched something, and I heard a ping-pong sound, which I could tell was the sound of beer bottles rolling on the ground - this guy had set a warning trap on the ground!

Almost at the same time, a flash of light suddenly lit up at the entrance of the second floor, shooting directly at me, dazzling me for a while.

I knew something was wrong, I was lucky to get home: I was in a fight with the murderer!

I wanted to sneak up on people in the dark, and they were about to go downstairs in the dark, but I stepped on the trap first and exposed myself.

Under the bright light, I only saw the other party lifting something towards me—

I subconsciously dodged against the wall on the side, and at the same time blocked it with my hand, and suddenly I only heard a "boom-" sound, and my left forearm was already painful!

I endured the pain and kept moving, then exited the stairs, and when I turned around, my back against the wall, hiding in the corner of the hallway.

That's when I had time to see what had hit me.

I saw that a composite arrow had pierced through the muscles of my arm, revealing only a trembling tail, and the arrow that pierced my arm pointed straight at my heart, and had already penetrated into the flesh of my chest!

It's a shock!

I never thought that the other party would carry a crossbow!

If it weren't for the fact that I happened to raise my arm and block most of the arrow's potential energy, I'm afraid I would have been pierced through the heart by an arrow by now.

I don't know whether to say that I have a great fate or a bad luck, but in a moment, I passed by death twice.

And the things that made my soul fly were still to come—the other party's flashlight and footsteps showed that he was rushing upstairs quickly!

At this time, I was in the corridor on the first floor of this unfinished building, and there was definitely not enough time to run out of this building, but there was nowhere to hide!

The other man has a crossbow in his hand, and my weapon is only a dagger strapped to my calf. What's more, I am currently suffering from two serious injuries in my body, leaving only my right hand and right leg available.

"Fuck, fight!" I was ruthless, and I didn't plan to run, I pulled out the dagger tied to my calf with my right hand, my eyes were fixed on the entrance of the building, and as long as the other party dared to come out, I would fight with him.

"Click."

Just as I was concentrating and my nerves were tense beyond measure, a small sound came, and as far as the eye could see, it was dark in an instant - the other party turned off the flashlight!

I lost my goal all of a sudden!

A huge sense of crisis came to my face-

No, that's not a "sense of crisis", that's a mortal threat!

Time seemed to stand still...... I could clearly hear my heart beating wildly, and the blood vessels all over my body were beating with the fierce heart!

One time!

Again!

"Click."

Suddenly, the flashlight came on again.

This time, the flashlight lit up from the direction that shone directly on my face!

Bright light hits.

My pupils suddenly contracted dramatically, and this intense flashlight, like a flashbang, instantly made me fall into a situation where I completely lost my ability to see.

With a sharp swing of my right hand, the dagger in my palm shot out in the direction of the light!

It is undeniable that I am gambling, and it is a gamble with a worrying winning rate, and the bet is my own life.

However, if I don't make a move, I'm afraid I won't have a chance.

"Smack!" "Ding!"

Two rings in a row came, and my heart sank, knowing that I had lost.

Now I can already guess that the other party threw the flashlight first, and this hand, I was so nervous that I hurriedly made a move.

Footsteps stopped in front of me.

I slowly opened my eyes, and my vision had been restored.

A bowed crossbow was pointed at me, and the arrow, glowing with metallic light, was less than three meters away from me, a distance long enough to pierce my skull.

I wanted to see each other's faces, but unfortunately, the other party was wearing a mask - the kind of half-faced fox mask that is common at parties, with blood-red patterns, and it was extremely strange.

Because it was a half-face mask, I could clearly see a mocking smile on the corner of my opponent's mouth.

At the same time, his index finger, which he placed on the trigger, seemed to be about to move.