Chapter 18: It's Good to Be Alive

Luo Feng didn't understand why Melinda asked him to print photos of the exterior of the church.

That's the front of all the churches in the city, and there are about 300 of them.

If it weren't for the investigation of Hong Ye's case and searching for those churches, Luo Feng really didn't know that there would be so many churches in the city.

It seems that there are a large number of Christians in this city.

Merely...... What does this have to do with Hongye's case?

If anything, it's just one of the churches.

Why do you have to print so many of the front and exterior photos of that church?

What does Melinda think?

When giving Luo Feng this task, Melinda didn't tell him the answer.

When Luo Feng handed the printed photo to Melinda, the latter said:

"Don't give me these photos, just give them to Hong Ye."

Luo Feng didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in her gourd, and asked, "What are you giving him these pictures of churches for?" ”

"Useful?"

"Can you tell me first?"

"There's nothing to tell you now."

"Then you can say it."

"I want to stimulate him."

"It's as simple as that?"

"Is it easy?"

Luo Feng didn't know how to answer.

Melinda continued: "If the evil in his heart cannot be fully released, then prison imprisons his body, death takes away his soul, but neither prison nor death can give him true salvation." ”

“…… I don't understand. ”

"He is Satan the Devil, and he carries too much evil in him."

“……”

"Only by letting him release those evils can he change from a devil to a normal person."

"Do you want him to continue to do evil?"

"Of course."

"You are acting for the tiger, and it is not advisable...... What's more, now that he has been thrown into prison, it is probably impossible for him to do evil. ”

"Possibly."

"Oh?"

"In a dream."

Luo Feng stopped talking.

"If we can't redeem his soul, then he will always be a prisoner."

Melinda said.

……

……

A few days later, Luo Feng called Melinda and said, "Hong Ye wants to see you once before the execution. ”

This is to be expected.

Melinda wasn't surprised.

She just asked, "What kind of punishment did he receive?" ”

"The death penalty. There was an opportunity to appeal, but he gave up. ”

"He accepted such a sentence?"

"Yes. After the verdict, I met with him again and he seemed ......"

"What's wrong?"

"He seems to be very tired of life and just wants to die quickly."

"When a man knows his death, he only wants to live a little longer, but he hopes to let the death date come soon......"

"It's hard to understand, isn't it?"

"No, as I thought."

"Did you think he would beg for death?"

"Yes, especially after he had a lot of pictures of the church in front of him."

Luo Feng suddenly had a conjecture and asked, "Could it be that you asked me to hand him those photos in the hope that he would be tired of life and watch him beg for death?" ”

"No, I wish he had thought further about life."

"What do you want him to think?"

"In this world, he is not a prisoner, and there is no need for him to make such a big prison for himself."

"What does this have to do with those church photos?"

"In his heart, he has always lived in hell, not heaven. He had a dream in which he looked at the church and said, "You are Lord Heaven, I Lord Hell." ”

"He thinks of himself as Satan."

"Even if it's not, it's a demon like Satan."

“…… It's really psychopathic. ”

"So, he lives in purgatory, unable to extricate himself."

……

……

When she saw Hong Ye again, Melinda clearly realized that Hong Ye was no longer so energetic.

Decadent, his eyes are blank, his beard is unkempt, and his complexion has lost its raw luster.

Very shady one.

Seeing such a person, Melinda no longer felt that he was terrible, only that he was pitiful.

It's even more pathetic.

Sitting oppositely, Hong Ye lowered his head and didn't even say a word.

Didn't even glance at Melinda.

And Melinda kept looking at him.

She was the first to speak-

"You want to see me?"

“……”

"I know why you want to see me, and I can think of what you're going to say to me, even though you don't look like you're going to say anything to me."

“……”

"Those photos were given to you by Luo Feng."

“……”

"You must have found a familiar scene in those pictures, and then you pulled it out and put it in a place where you could see it at a glance."

“……”

"You must have thought a lot of about the past because of this."

“……”

"It was a place where you could have redeemed you, but you continued to sink there, without allowing yourself to be truly liberated."

“……”

"Perhaps, it is after that that you are no longer a free man. You are a prisoner who has imprisoned yourself in hell. ”

“……”

"To live, for you, is how to get out of hell."

“……”

Hong Ye suddenly raised his head and looked at Melinda.

Although his eyes were still blank, his expression had changed somewhat.

Melinda didn't care, and continued: "What you don't know is that that hell was built by your own hands, and every wall, door, and lock was arranged by you, and you want to escape, but you can't escape from it. ”

“……”

"You've built yourself a near-perfect hell, how can you make it out of prison? You think of yourself as a prisoner, how can you possibly get the freedom you want? ”

“……”

"Perhaps, because you don't know, you can't imagine how close the escape is to you."

“……”

"It's right in front of your eyes, and you just close your eyes and open them again, and you might be able to see it."

“……”

"Just as you had the church and the twelve dark rooms appear in the same scene in that dream, you can make them never connect with each other."

Hong Ye frowned, and suddenly stared at Melinda.

Those godless eyes became bright.

"What do you want to say to me?"

Such a change, if it were someone else, would have been shocked by him.

Melinda, still sitting there calmly, looked at him faintly.

"What I want to say to you is that there is only one thought between good and evil, and there is only one thought between heaven and hell. Humanity will never be extinct, but there is still one person who is still preserving. ”

“……”

"Also, it's nice to be free to live."

Hong Ye sat there dejectedly, his heart deeply shocked.

Melinda didn't say anything more.

She waited for Hong Ye to speak.

She believed that the beast would explode in silence.

Of course, his outburst was not hysterical.

He's a normal person, and he's going to face Melinda in a normal way.

After a long time, he said: "Perhaps, my life is a mistake, from birth to death, I first walked on a fork in the road, and I will always walk on a fork in the road." ”

“……”