Chapter 52: A Rainy Night
Zixuan appeared late one night, more than half a month after the wish disappeared.
Late that night, I sat alone in the living room of my aunt's house watching TV, the TV was staging a dream show, several dream chasers either had cancer or they had been half-paralyzed when they were children, all the way to survive, tears flowed, looking at this pile of real and false blind mutilations poked by their own tears, I stared numbly at the TV screen in a daze.
Meng Xing went to Beijing to see Grandma Liu again, and there was news that Grandma Liu's physical condition was worrying, and she could pass away at any time, and Meng Xing would stay in Beijing for a few more days.
When a mobile phone calls, Zixuan's number jumps on the screen.
On the phone, Zixuan panicked and explained that he had gone to other places for a few days, and when he came back, he saw a wanted notice posted in the whole city, what happened.
After briefly describing the matter to him, there was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time.
Until he finished the call, he didn't explain the quarrel with Chu Qing, and I didn't take the initiative to ask.
Early the next morning, Zixuan came to pick me up and went to the Shizhong District Public Security Bureau to inquire about the case.
The police have not made progress in solving the case for the time being, and are holding a meeting to study the case, and the seriously injured firefighter also died in the hospital. After making a wish, he suddenly became a terrifying bloody demon.
The city is full of wind and rain. Rumors spread in the streets.
There are overwhelming human flesh searches on the Internet, portraying the wish as a violent, bloodthirsty, and uneducated rich second generation, spelling daddy theory, conspiracy theory, strange theory, and the thirteen major doubts about wishing to kill are blown up by boring dick silk peeping screens.
A man in Beijing claimed to be a classmate of Wishing Elementary School, and posted on the Internet that as early as when he was in elementary school, he was cut by Wishing Knife and had an appendix, and for many years he had been inflamed, in pain, and lost his masculine characteristics, which seriously affected his marriage and love.
There are also N girlfriends before making a wish to stand up and complain, saying that the wish is unruly and unruly, and if the three views do not agree, let the woman crawl away, and poke out other people's eyes without saying a word, she is still frightened and still has endocrine disorders, and her face is soybeans.
There is also a vendor who identifies as Da Liu's egg cake in Beijing's Qianmen who broke the news, and Xu Yuan once pushed him on the street, yelling that he was the young master of the Xu Group, and whoever dared to move would be killed.
When Zixuan saw this news, he said angrily: "Can you make a wish to talk to your poor merchant about a piece of egg cake!"
I don't care about these crazy words - there is no hope for anyone in the age of falling into the ground! People want to peep into other people's private secrets to fill the void and selfish desires, and nowadays, there are no victims, and everyone is a tragedy maker.
A piece of news from the police station on the outskirts of Nancheng District caught the attention of Zixuan and me. Police officers at the police station said that one night while they were on patrol, they received a report that a group was chasing a young man with a girl hiding behind him.
When the police arrived at the scene, the fight was over, and several injured people claimed to be security guards of the Ocean Group, volunteering to make a wish for the police to arrest them, but the "murderous" mad demon made a wish to leave the police with a back and escaped from the hunt.
Much later, the news was fully confirmed by the police.
It was the middle of the night when the moon was like blood, and Promise took Miyu to hide in the suburbs, and was discovered by the people of the Ocean Group when he went to a restaurant to buy food for Miyu.
The Ocean Group did not notify the police immediately, but quickly gathered dozens of people to round up and make a wish. Wishing to be stuck in a dilapidated alleyway like a trapped beast, he immediately drew a knife when he confirmed that the murderous person in front of him was not a policeman.
The battle of the trapped beasts shook the heavens and the earth.
After a desperate struggle, the guard's brother and several horses splashed blood on the white wall, fell at the feet of Wish, and Wishful escaped again with Miyu after suffering several injuries.
When the police arrived at the scene, the fight had just ended, they saw the figure of Wishing swaying and running, after learning that the other party was a dangerous wanted criminal, a police officer shot at Wish's back, no one knew whether Wishing was shot, he jumped and ran agilely, and disappeared into the intricate suburban village alleys.
That night, the police took police dogs and mobilized a large number of police forces and the masses to search and make wishes, but found nothing.
I hate the Ocean Group even more, Ran Jing once said that in this city, the Ocean Group is full of social eyeliner, and all kinds of hooligans and ruffians are inextricably linked to it. Among the various forces, the only one that can stand up to the Ocean Group is the Junnan Group.
After the conflict with the people who made the wish and the story of Halbing, the Ocean Group offered a reward of hundreds of thousands to mobilize all social forces to find him.
At the juncture when the police wanted to make a wish, the behavior of the Ocean Group turned into a righteous act, even if it was killed and injured in the process of searching, public opinion would acquiesce.
This is to push the wish down a darker and desperate road.
A few days later, in the reception room of the Shizhong District Public Security Bureau, we met the father who made a wish, the old man he called "lustful father", and the stepmother who made a wish. Old man Xu came to Lucheng accompanied by provincial police officers.
The old man does not have the image of a local tyrant with a fat head and a fat belly as I imagined. He was a thin old man with gray hair, and the only thing that could prove his worth was that there was a noble and majestic temperament on his face, a trait that had been polished over the years, symbolizing power and status.
He briefly asked us about our relationship with the wish, and did not interject in the process, just nodded slightly. I wanted to tell him about the grievances and grievances of the whole incident, he waved his hand to stop my narration halfway through it, and then stood up and shook hands with me and Zixuan respectively, he shook it very hard, not that kind of polite perfunctory, after that, he didn't say anything, and walked away silently.
For him, he has gone through countless trials and tribulations in his life to achieve what he is today, and no matter what the process is, the result is more important. But now, everything is irreversible, and no one can change the tragic outcome of the wish, and we all know that.
However, the stepmother was shocked when she heard that she was on the run, her mouth opened slightly, and she covered her face with her hands and sobbed.
Maybe these two people at the top of the Xu family pyramid are not as mean as Xu Yuan thinks, but his own wishful thinking, and he has created a lot of pressure on himself because of this.
When I came out of the sub-bureau, I shouted to my father, "Uncle Xu, you must help make a wish, he was forced, and he didn't want to do this." ”
Old Man Xu's eyes slowly closed, and I saw the corners of his eyes shaking violently.
Zixuan pulled me away, and he whispered, "Will he not care about the old man's own son?" Who would have the means to do this? Don't let the old man be stimulated, heart disease will happen again. ”
I followed Zixuan out of the sub-bureau silently, and the entourage of the Xu Group outside the door was talking about something, maybe for them, wishing that this wealthy family would be small and brawling, and it would be a matter of time before such a tragedy happened.
In the next few days, Zixuan and I kept speculating about where he could go, thinking that he would definitely not show up in a big place, and it would be impossible for him to escape. He could only hide in some hidden and easily forgotten corner.
We bought an up-to-date map of the city, showing the urban villages, old streets and alleys, as well as the humble hostels. Take turns driving to those places to look for them.
A few times, when I saw the back and the person dressed like a wish on the street, I couldn't help but run over to check it. After many disappointments, I thought sadly that I was a wanted criminal, so how could I dress up and wander around the street at will.
At the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, the weather begins to deteriorate, with lightning and thunder and rain continuously.
This kind of rainy day, like to extinguish the fire of summer, is cool and dull, and it is particularly crazy. During the day, the sun lazily hangs in the sky and slowly slants westward, after a gust of wind, it rolls up the dust, the sky is instantly covered with dark clouds, lightning hides in the clouds and jumps unscrupulously, in the rumbling thunder, the whole city is overwhelmed by black clouds, becomes gloomy, and then the heavy rain pours, the streets and alleys are submerged in mist, and the people who walk leisurely on the street have no time to dodge, and the lively street market is in a mess.
The rain was quick and slow, making the sound of objects tearing on the leaves, raging from day to night, waking people from their sleep.
After my leg got a little better, I insisted on moving back home, I couldn't make myself think in my aunt's house, and I would collapse without a quiet environment.
In the wee hours of the morning, I was woken up by a screeching phone ringing, a strange call.
The wind outside was rushing the raindrops to beat wildly on the window panes, and the air currents made the door that had not been closed tightly make a brief collision, like someone knocking on the door.
A faint but familiar voice came from the phone.
Wish!
I sat up from the bed like an electric shock. Although his breath was muffled by the pouring rain, I could hear it clearly, it was him.
The signal was intermittent, the wish was constantly whispering my name, and the phone was "booming".
I said aloud, "Make a wish, is that you?" I can hear you, where are you? ”
Wishing said with extreme exhaustion in his voice: "I'm listening, can you come out for a while, I want to see you." ”
I immediately said, "Where are you, I'll go find you!" ”
The wish said: "I'm in the old town of Tojo Alley, by the way, when you come, can you bring a few clothes for Miyu, she has a fever." ”
I trembled and said incoherently as I dressed, "Good! I'll be there right away, wait for me there, be sure to wait...... Wait for me! Now that it's raining heavily, find a place to shelter from the rain, don't get drenched! ”
Before I could finish speaking, there was a busy tone on the phone, and he hung up. I hurriedly went to find clothes, opened the wardrobe, my hands kept trembling, tears suddenly welled up, down my cheeks, I didn't care about wiping, first found a few men's clothes, Meng Xing had some summer clothes here, picked up a few things that felt suitable for Mei Yu and stuffed them into the bag, and brought a few boxes of medicine for fever and cold.
Before going out, I suddenly wanted to make a wish to be displaced these days, and I would definitely not be able to eat well in Tibet, so I opened the refrigerator and put all the milk, bread and fruits in it into a bag, and ran downstairs with clothes and food on my back.
That night, because of the rain, there were few vehicles and pedestrians on the road, so I limped into the car and drove quickly towards the old town.
Halfway through, I remembered that I forgot to bring my mobile phone, and I was afraid that it would be too late to return to pick it up, and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find me when I dialed it a second time, so I drove the car to the fastest, just wanting to see him quickly.
The bone wound on the leg was wet by the rain, and it hurt raw.
In order not to attract attention, after arriving at the place, I parked the car dozens of meters away from Tojo Hutong, got out of the car and carried a bag on my back and climbed against the wall and ran to the alley.
The rain was so heavy that there was no one at the mouth of the alley, and the sparse street lamps in the deep alleys emitted a faint light.
Occasionally, a secret prostitute stood in the cold corridor and whispered to me as I passed by, "Are you coming?" ”
Ahead, the deep alleys and lanes greedily devoured all hope in the heavy rain.