Jiang Lanpei was immobilized on the ground, with his eyes injected with blood and gasping, but a manic laugh came out of the corner of his mouth: "Hahahahaha ...... What is the purpose of the police...? The police are rubbish! Has there been at least one policeman in all these years who has found me trapped in this hell? NONE! They're all fucking."
His mind was so confused that he picked up a keyword and entrenched himself in it without being able to leave for quite some time.
In the midst of his curses, his loose hair got into his mouth and spit it out, with a more threatening look...
"Now what, you're going to kill me, aren't you? The police? You're going to kill me to cover up the breach of your duties, aren't you?"
He said, with a lustful and indifferent smile appearing on his face, the others contained it but his eyes were still mocking in reality.
"I knew, all men are like that, losers! They are useless, but to unleash their impotence on women! I have been used as an animal for twenty years ...... Do you know what I rely on to remember the weather? In the photos that dead thing hung on the wall! I see those disgusting things every day and in the oldest I was twenty-nine years old. Twenty-nine!!"
"I'm fifty years old... Huh? Maybe fifty-two? Fivety-one? Or maybe less than fifty?" She was confused again, her lips soaked in a smile that looked like a red crest crane soaking in wine., "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter ...... what matters is that I went out."
"Do you know how I came out?"
"I spent all these years, seduced him, pampered him, I am a lunatic and idiot, he couldn't even see me, but he wanted to fuck with me, strutting in front of me to recover those pathetic male egos of his ...... hahahaha ...... I pampered him until the stupor came to his head, and over the years he had become more and more unprepared, and once he really left the keys to the door of my room in the dark room when he took off his pants."
As if he were whispering, he couldn't contain his cheerful laughter again: "But don't take it."
"That night I gave him the key and asked him what it was. He turned pale when he saw the key, but then he saw that I was stupid and he was relieved. I was sure I was too sick to recognize a key, ha!" His eyes suddenly became sharp and he raised his voice: "What man can live like this for twenty years without going crazy!"
"He mocked me with that key, as if he thought I'm a dead dog that doesn't know how to use it, even when he got the door trick to escape! He didn't know that I saw the petulance in his eyes and my stomach was stirring. But I could pretend, who says that psychopaths can't pretend? I pretended so well that I deceived him completely, and then he relaxed, more and more indifferent, and as soon as he left the key, I slipped away... I touched all the bricks of the whole asylum! But I won't leave! I'm going to make all these men go to hell!"
"In the end I had everything planned and just yesterday ...... I took advantage of the fact that the key was left again, I took it and waited until the night. I went out ...... and silently stole a knife."
I still had the knife in my hand, the blood was already drying up on the shiny silver leaf, solidifying in an ugly old brown color.
Xie Qingcheng knew that he just had to loosen up a little and the woman would lash out again and stick the knife in her chest.
The animality and aggressiveness on his face were too strong.
Looking at heaven and earth, everything was hatred.
Twenty years had transformed her from a mere patient to a trapped beast that gnashed its teeth and sucked blood.
"I hid the knife under the bed, and he came again, rubbing his greasy mouth against me, and I took care of him, stretched out my hand under the mattress, and then..."
From his pupils seemed to flow the blood of revenge against Liang Jicheng at the time of the murder, and his cries of misery.
"Hahahaha ...... hahahahahaha ...... so hot the blood ah ......"
"Tell me how can such a cold-hearted person have such hot blood? I shouldn't......"
"Later, I dragged him to the office... and tried to tear him apart, but I heard movement outside the door and saw through the crack that she was a strange girl who seemed to be looking for something. Of course I wasn't going to let me ruin my plans! I've waited so many years! So I hid the body in the closet, put on the label with his name, and went out ...... to talk to your sister ......"
She twisted her face, as if she were describing Xie Qingcheng, as if she were talking to herself.
"The girl was cute and, surprisingly, she looked a bit like the 'sandwich' she brought at the time and who died after colliding with the wall. I guess ...... hehehe, it's the reincarnation of the little snack ...... even if it's not, it doesn't matter, in fact I don't remember very well what the girl was like, but she was more or less the same age as her, I thought it was the work of fate, I tricked her into going to the office, and I gave her a drug when I wasn't paying attention. ...... of course I know what the drug is, despising the mentally ill is the most ridiculous thing about you normal people, I recognize that drug very well, the one named Liang threw me in my throat whole cups when I disobeyed him!"
"She fainted and dragged her into the dark room, I thought that when she took revenge and her relatives came to look for her... they would turn the place upside down! I don't eat me ...... I don't eat me ...... I ......"
When he said this, his eyes darkened again and his expression seemed a little lonely.
Xie Qingcheng's sharp look looked at her, "So you originally expected that after this matter ended, someone would also find that dark room when they looked for it?"
"......" The woman did not answer, sketching a rigid and twisted smile, "None of that matters now."
"After putting your sister in the darkroom, I dragged Liang Jicheng out of the closet again. I'm going to die with him there, in that place where I first met him! Only he and I, like when we met ...... no one else! Crying out to heaven and earth, I'm going to do it personally, I'm going to cut it into pieces, little by little."
He paused, looking at Xie Qingcheng with more bitter hatred in his eyes.
"But you are here."
"You bothered me so that I couldn't give him the final revenge in that place!"
"You bother me...... You're a policeman, aren't you? You are a policeman. All the police are against the bad guys. Put me off! And if you kill me, sooner or later I will demand your life too!"
Hatred, determination, fierce and manic laughter.
Almost everything wanted to come out of his face and turn into long fangs, to pierce the man in front of him.
But Xie Qingcheng stared at her and said, word for word: "I am not a policeman and I have no intention of killing you."
The woman shuddered unexpectedly. It looked fierce and striking.
"So, what do you want?"
"He wants to take you to the police." He Yu handed Xie Xue over to a nurse who was next to him to accommodate her and approached Xie Qingcheng, with an expression difficult to distinguish at night.
"So you can tell everything to the police."
"I'm not going!" Jiang Lanpei shouted hysterically: "I'm not going! No one will believe me!!! I'm not going! Liars ...... they are all liars!"
But He Yu slowly approached her.
Xie Qingcheng turned around and said in a stern voice: "What are you doing here?
He Yu said, "Xie Qingcheng, you don't understand it."
"You've been talking to her for a long time, and apart from her scolding you, has she listened to you?"
The boy approached them, pushed Xie Qingcheng away and helped Jiang Lanpei get up, who at that moment broke in with amazing force and tried to violently stab He Yu with a knife.
But He Yu spoke to him without blinking an eye, and his hand froze instantly.
He said: "Jiang Lanpei, I am also a psychopath."
The teenager was less than a fist from his eyes, his apricot eyes were reflected in those of the crazy woman.
His voice was so soft that no one but Xie Qingcheng, the closest, could hear him, and he slowly raised his hand, staring into Jiang Lanpei's eyes as he slowly, silently, grabbed the cold leaf.
If Jiang Lanpei had looked down and moved the leaf, he would definitely have been injured, but He Yu seemed too calm, his body was tense but his face did not seem to be unchanged at all, as if he were talking to an ordinary woman, a mother, a normal person.
"You know what? I am also a psychopath."
The knife silently changed hands.
Jiang Lanpei did not realize the danger until he lost the knife, and stared at He Yu with a pale face: "You..."
But I had no intention of hurting her.
He flexioned his knuckles and slowly removed the loose hair from the woman's forehead and placed it behind her ears while staring in the eyes: "I am an isolated case, look me in the eye, you are a lunatic, can you see the same guy?"
Jiang Lanpei was still full of caution, but he looked at He Yu carefully, and even sniffed.
He Yu, without any expression, very calmly let her confirm the truth about him in the most primitive way, like an animal. Perhaps each type of person has its own way of confirming that they were safe, perhaps the beastly nature and sixth sense of a madman is simply stronger than that of an ordinary person.
Jiang Lampei finally whispered: "You are."
"I am."
"Who did this to you?"
"It's by nature."
He Yu said indifferently: "I don't even have a goal from which to take revenge."
Jiang Lanpei: "......"
"But even though I am a patient, believe every word I say."
"Why?"
He Yu smiled, the clouds dispersed and, under the miserable white light of the moon, the bottom of his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of silver as bright as frost and snow, and his exposed lateral teeth looked like disturbingly cold and sharp fangs.
He bowed, as if he were sharing with a sick friend some wonderful method to overcome the disease, and whispered softly: "Because, like you, I can pretend."
"You pretend to be stupid, I pretend to be normal."
He smiled, there was cold frost in the back of his eyes: "After nineteen years of pretending, not many people have learned that I am sick. We all need some protection, don't we?"
Jiang Lanpei seemed to be in a trance for a moment, but quickly regained consciousness.
"No...... I've killed people, my costume is over..."
"You can't trust them, maybe you can trust me. First I'll tell you a secret."
Jiang Lanpei listened with his eyes wide open.
He Yu lifted a finger and gently took it to his lips: "Soon, the police will come."
"!!!" Jiang Lanpei's pupils shruged suddenly: "What's this? Did they call the police?! They still called the police! They are cunning..."
"I am the one who did it." He looked calm.
"Why should you ...... we are the same ...... why should you be on his side, you should ...... you should ......" The woman said incoherently.
"I'm on your side."
He Yu said.
"But don't you want Liang Jicheng to remain in discredit even after his death? After twenty years, you let him die for nothing, and when he died, he became a victim. Perhaps he will even be commemorated as a good businessman, with flowers on his tombstone and families of unknown patients who came to cry, while you became a murderer, infamous, with the ugliest photo of you printed on the front page of the newspaper, and everyone saying that you were an ungrateful animal, without anyone knowing what you had suffered, and being despised even after your death -- do the math, is it worth it?"
"......"
"Tell the police everything, it's not necessarily a dead end. Let Liang Jicheng's name be ruined after his death, and you could cause him and his name to die twice." He Yu bowed his head to the side and whispered in his ear as if it were a compulsion: "What a bargain. Why don't you do it like that?"
Jiang Lanpei seemed a little moved by what he said for a moment.
It was at that moment when the sound of the police sirens reached at full speed towards the asylum, peeking into the darkness of the night, like a distant tide from all directions.
"Get out of the car!"
"Everyone out of the car!!!"
As Jiang Lanpei's eyes moved and she struggled to get up, the guards showed their intention to stop her, but He Yu helped her get up very gently.
"I'll go with you to see."
"Go and take a look, the one in front... maybe there's still a brilliant way out."
As if she were bewitched, Jiang Lanpei trembled and advanced until she reached the roof railing, holding the cold and rusty iron railing tightly with his hand and stretching his neck to look down.
His blurred vision reflected the red/blue/blowering lights of the police car, illuminated in a way that at first glance was a spectacle that he had not seen in all his years in the "prison."
It was as if all the injustice, shame and suffering he had endured could be illuminated, and that dark room, which had been dark for twenty years, could be exposed to daylight.
As he watched her, her emotions stirred up and tears flowed from her eyes.
He slowly turned his head back in the night breeze, his long red dress - the dress that Liang Jicheng had bought him to wear in the name of the satisfaction of his own fetish, pretending to take care of the dispossessed patient, but who was often lasciviously stripped of her body - blew with the whisper of the night.
"...... It's so brilliant." He murmured softly: "It's like dawn."
"Thank you."
"But..."
The last syllables that escaped from his delicate lips were superimposed on the call of the megaphone of the policemen below.
"All trapped people, please stay calm! All trapped people, please stay calm. Don't take the elevator! Try to find a water fountain and cloths to moisten. Cover your mouth and nose! Keep your body down! The firefighters are on their way! If possible, use any visible object around you to mark your rescue. We are on our way!!!"
Jiang Lampei's eyes darkened: "It's too late."
"Twenty years are enough for me to hate everyone."
"My plan came to an end when you broke into the office."
"Boy, I can't go back anymore."
As if to confirm his words, suddenly...
"BOOM!!!"
An explosion that made the earth tremble!!!
The staff trapped on the roof approached the railing in panic to see: a door and a window near the white linen room of the insane asylum had been violently opened by a furious wave of fire from the inside!
Jiang Lanpei said slowly in the light of the fire: "There are many hidden things in Chengkang Hospital, Liang Jicheng has installed many hidden rooms, supplied with gasoline and incendiary devices... He does not dare to talk about it in front of anyone, he just dares to show it to me like a fool, saying that with the push of a button hidden in his office everything will burn in ten minutes....."
"I had a guilty conscience, the smoke alarm system and the monitoring system of this ghost place has been damaged a long time ago, and I was talking to someone on the phone about it while I was doing that in my bed. I heard everything for myself. I have come to know ChenKang better than anyone else in these years."
"...... I had no intention of reaching this point, but they had to come just as I was dissecting the body ...... I didn't want to fall into the hands of the police and I had already pressed that button while waiting for them to go to the dark room to save people "
Xie Qingcheng: "You...!"
"Yes, I brought you up here because I wanted to buy time, the fire would spread, no one could go out, we would all die together and there would not be so much pain...... now to go back." Jiang Lanpei smiled sadly, two words were heard that fell to the ground: "it's too late."
"It's too late..."
"I'm too late, and so do you..."
"It's not too late !!!!"
Above the scorching wind, a hoarse and unknown voice was heard screaming, and Jiang Lanpei looked back to discover that it was the specially trained firefighter who had climbed from the unburned part of the wall in the shortest possible time climbing protective rope.
The firefighter, a bear-looking man and protective clothing, probably didn't know what they were talking about in front of him, and went up to hear this aunt trapped here say that it's too late.
Doesn't that question his ability?
The little fire bear announced himself and shouted: "It's not too late! I'm fast! Hurry up and come here! Get down! The fire will soon reach the north side! Hurry up! Women and children come first!"
"Me! Me first!!!"
The little nurse, scared to death, saw the firefighters as if they were gods coming down from the sky and ran towards them, and one by one several firefighters went up the rope ladder and took them away in a hurry before the fire spread out of control.
Xie Xue and the rest of the female staff were the first to be rescued, and the firefighters ran to Jiang Lanpei and shouted: "Sister! Come here!!! What are you doing alone? Stop so far away? We're going to take you down! We will protect you, don't be afraid. We'll take you home! Hurry up!!!"
Jiang Lanpei's body trembled violently, as if it were hit by an electric current, while he was under the high water tower, with the gale blowing against his long blood-colored dress.
But where was your home?
And who was she?
Where could he go if he were saved? She had been crazy for so long that she had lost sight of the outside world for a long time; her world was an isolated room, thousands of photographs, full of hatred and infinite desolation.
He was going to go to hell along with everything.
I was waiting for the fire to light up and spread, taking all the darkness to the sky and becoming the first rays of the morning sun at the end of a long night.
"Sister - come here -!"
After the window at the bottom burst by the current of boiling air, the fire no longer spread silently, but became a fire dragon, which hissed furiously and spit out black smoke, the flames illuminated the dark dome of the sky.
Jiang Lanpei trembled and stepped forward.
Then, he stopped.
She looked at the water tower behind her, a reserve that rarely opened and contained little water; but no, that was not water.
The corners of his mouth curved into a gloomy smile.
There were countless times that the key had been stolen and sneaked into the reserve without Liang Jicheng knowing it. That was gasoline, and the last thing she had hidden in her bodice was what would send her to the "heaven."
......
"Hey, come here!!!"
Xie Qingchen reacted abruptly, and pulled He Yu's arm running with him in the opposite direction.
While they were doing it, Jiang Lanpei smiled, pulled a steel lighter out of his chest, lit it and threw it at the water tower that was leaking gasoline...
"...... BOOM!!!!
The flames rolled up and enveloped the entire figure of Jiang Lanpei in an instant!
Xie Qingchen threw He Yu to the ground, the heat wave burning behind them.\nThe firefighters, stunned, saw how the woman opened her arms, with her head held high, and was dragged by the flames in a gesture of waiting for the salvation of the gods and wanting to fly to heaven.
Xie Qingcheng and He Yu turned their heads: "......"
Bursts of fire! The intense scorching fire spat out a terrifying black smoke. A column of twisted smoke was formed, which seemed to mix with the woman's painful cry, a whole rotten life, in the middle of a frenzy that danced wildly, cracking the sky and breaking the earth. The rabid fire and smoke tore the blackness of the night together, hitting hard, tearing the sky apart, overturning the mountains and emerging...
"Twenty years have passed and I don't trust anyone."
"I have no way back."
"The people of heaven will come for me, and I will go to heaven."
Never look back.
What the author has to say:
There are still some mysteries pinched, such as when HeYu informed the police of these ...... I know that the baobeis may have questions, don't hurry, I'll say it slowly later ~
Small theater.\nXie Qingcheng: Taking a rope to tie me up is the dumbest thing ...... not to mention the double police family, do you know how many surgical knots I tied and unties when I was studying medicine? I can even do it with one hand.
He Yu: I have written it down and I will be attentive to it in the future.