CH 171

Chapter 171 – 1992-2020

On the way to the back mountain, Xu RenDong happened to meet the Monk who was wandering around aimlessly.

Seeing that he was in a hurry and he was alone again, the Monk asked in surprise: “Where’s Lian Qiao?”

RenDong hurried to the back mountain, walking non-stop: “Something may have happened to him! Are you going to the back mountain with me? “

When the Monk heard “back mountain”, he also felt that something was wrong, so he followed RenDong’s footsteps and asked, “What is he doing at the back mountain?”

“I don’t know, it seems that Auntie Long-Hair came to him.”

“They found some clues and asked him to go and see?”

RenDong immediately vetoed: “Impossible! Are there any clues that we must rush to see immediately? Lian Qiao promised to wait for me outside! But he left me alone. Let’s go, there must be a problem!”

The Monk felt that what he said made sense but he still comforted him: “Don’t worry. Maybe there is something urgent that requires him to go right away?”

“Before, he wanted nothing to do with Aunt Long-Hair. So, how could he be persuaded by Aunt Long-Hair so easily?” RenDong bit his lip, “I suspect…that woman threatened him in some way…that’s why he left me…”

After finishing the sentence, this time the Monk felt that comfort was useless, so he stepped forward and said, “Okay! Let’s run quickly!”

The two hurried to the back mountain, only to find that the entrance of the back mountain had been cordoned off . It turned out that after the Little Apple case, the police were unable to solve the case for a long time. Considering the safety of the students, the school surrounded all the entrances and exits of the back mountain with iron fences and the students were not allowed to enter.

The fence was as high as two people and showed no signs of damage. RenDong just glanced at it and started to climb up with his hands and feet.

“Hey, wait! Don’t be impulsive!” The Monk saw that the fence was full of spikes and couldn’t help but exclaim, “Since this side is locked, they may not necessarily have gone in! Don’t rush to climb!”

At this time, RenDong had climbed to the top of the fence and was carefully climbing over the spikes. When he opened his mouth, he was calm and composed: “I’ll go in alone, you help me look in other places!”

The Monk was stunned: “Other places? Where can I look?”

RenDong simply jumped down from a height of more than two meters. He fell to the ground with a loud bang but got up immediately regardless of the pain and ran up the mountain while shouting back: “Go to the hotel and ask other people! See if they know what Auntie Long-hair is doing!”

“OK!” the Monk replied and couldn’t help but glance at the fence that was as tall as two people. Xu RenDong jumped from such a high place and didn’t even make a sound. Could it be that he really didn’t feel pain?

Without any time to think about it, the Monk turned his head and ran towards the hotel.

Xu RenDong ran desperately, heading towards the crime scene in his memory. Along the way, he looked around vigilantly and nervously, for fear of seeing blood, traces of fighting or injury.

Aunt Long-Hair obviously has no good intentions when inviting Lian Qiao to come to the back mountain at this time! How could Lian Qiao agree? Why is he so stupid!

And didn’t he agree to wait for him? Can’t we go together when he comes out?

The soles of his feet hurt as if they were being torn, because he had injured his nerves when he  jumped off the fence just now. Xu RenDong couldn’t care less. When he jumped down just now, he discovered that there were footprints behind the fence and there were more than one pair. This shows that someone really did pass by the fence not long ago!

When he came last time, he clearly felt that the crime scene was very close to the entrance of the back mountain but this time it was as far away as the sky. RenDong ran towards the scene of the crime with all his strength, but there was no trace of fighting and killing along the way.

But his heart was always hanging in the air, beating wildly in his chest. Finally, he came to a clearing. The yellow cordon pulled by the police fell to the ground, dirty and covered with mud. He ran over but, after seeing the scene in front of him clearly, his pupils shrank suddenly.

There were several people lying in disorder on the ground, all with messy knife wounds on their bodies. Some had half their heads chopped off and some were cut from the throat to the navel, and their internal organs flowed out. Aunt Long-Hair was also among them. She had the most and the deepest wounds on her body, almost cut into several sections.

RenDong’s scalp exploded all of a sudden and he had no time to look at these teammates, but just stumbled inside.

Lian Qiao, where is Lian Qiao? Where is Lian Qiao…

The air was filled with the smell of blood, mixed with a strange smell. The smell was very familiar but Xu RenDong couldn’t remember what it was.

He walked in a trance deep into the woods. Soon, a figure leaning against a big tree came into view.

“Lian Qiao!” RenDong was overjoyed and threw himself in front of Lian Qiao, “How are you? What happened?”

Lian Qiao was covered in blood, his face was pale and his eyes were closed. He opened his eyes.

“RenDong…” His lips moved, and he replied in a low voice.

RenDong quickly looked at him up and down. He found that although his face was covered with blood, it was all other people’s blood splashed on it. He reached out to hug him. However, just as he stretched out his hand to his back, he heard a “hiss” and Lian Qiao trembled in pain. RenDong quickly retracted his hands, only to realize that his hands were covered with blood. Lian Qiao’s back was already soaked in blood.

It turned out that he was still injured! No wonder he looks so pale!

“Hold on! I’ll take you to the hospital!” RenDong passed through his knees with one hand, hooked his neck with the other and carefully hugged him horizontally.

Lian Qiao bit his lip and leaned against his chest like a doll, so obedient that it made people feel distressed.

Only then did RenDong realize that there was an extremely long knife wound on his back, from his shoulder to his lower back. Fortunately, the wound was not deep and did not hurt the muscles and bones. However, the flesh was turned out and the blood was flowing, which looked shocking.

RenDong’s heart was in a mess. He hugged Lian Qiao and, when he walked past the corpses, he accidentally caught a glimpse of a glass bottle. At that glance, he couldn’t help being shocked.

It turned out to be a chemical reagent bottle with “concentrated sulfuric acid” written on it!

The bottle fell from Auntie Long-hair’s hand and the bottle was already empty. The transparent viscous liquid flowed all over the ground, corroding the fallen leaves and soil into a black paste. It turns out that the strange smell in the air was a burnt smell, which is the special smell emitted after concentrated sulfuric acid burns and corrodes objects!

RenDong hurriedly asked: “Did you touch the sulfuric acid?”

Lian Qiao turned pale and shook his head with a smile: “No. They wanted to throw sulfuric acid on me but fortunately I dodged quickly.”

Hearing what he said, RenDong already understood something in his heart. .

It’s likely that Aunt Long-Hair and the others used some kind of lie to trick him into coming to the back mountain so that they could work together to kill him. Fortunately, Lian Qiao’s combat effectiveness is superb. Even though it was one against five, he managed to survive.

However, he didn’t expect that woman to be so vicious- she actually prepared concentrated sulfuric acid!

RenDong couldn’t imagine Lian Qiao being splashed with concentrated sulfuric acid. He was terribly frightened and couldn’t help tightening his arms around him. He wanted to go back and chop those corpses with hatred in his heart.

“Wu… Take it easy…” The person in his arms struggled slightly.

RenDong was surprised, and quickly apologized: “I’m sorry.”

Lian Qiao said: “Let me down so I can walk. I just hurt my back but my leg is fine. I can walk by myself.”

RenDong refused at first, but the way down the mountain was too long. Lian Qiao’s body was heavy and he soon became unable to support him. He had no choice but to put the man down carefully and repeatedly check whether there were other injuries on his body.

Lian Qiao obediently let him check. After some confirmation, RenDong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Indeed, Lian Qiao only had the wound on his back. The concentrated sulfuric acid did not touch him at all. And the blood from the injury on his back has gradually stopped but the flesh was turned outward, which looks terrible.

RenDong’s heart seemed to be clenched tightly, throbbing with pain. He helped Lian Qiao to walk down the mountain and said with pity and resentment: “Why didn’t you wait for me? If I was with you, they wouldn’t dare to do anything.”

“There will be a day.” Lian Qiao sighed, “Actually, I pretended to be fooled on purpose and came to the appointment. They would have attacked me sooner or later. Since that’s the case, why not take this opportunity to get rid of them and save trouble in the future.”

RenDong bit his lips: “What if you were the one who died?”

Lian Qiao raised the corner of his mouth and said with a little pride: “You still don’t know my strength?”

RenDong suppressed his anger and said: “What strength do you have? If you’re so awesome, why are you still being hacked? If I came late, would you have died there?”

The two happened to walk to the railing at the exit of the back mountain and RenDong pointed at the fence that was as high as the two of them. He gritted his teeth and said, “Even if you can insist on going down the mountain alone, can you still climb over this railing? Are you not afraid of being pierced on the spikes?!”

Lian Qiao glanced at the spikes on the top of the railing. He then whispered: “This thorn can’t kill anyone…”

RenDong laughed back angrily, let go of his hands simply and spread his own hands, saying: “Okay! You are amazing, so then you can climb by yourself!”

Lian Qiao only then realized he was really angry and quickly tugged on his sleeve, begging pitifully: “I was wrong, I should have discussed it with you first. I won’t take risks alone in the future, don’t be angry, okay?”

RenDong originally intended to teach him a lesson but when he saw him leaning forward, clinging to him and acting softly, and thinking that his back was still injured, he couldn’t bear it for a while.

Xu RenDong sighed, raised his hand to wipe the blood on Lian Qiao’s face and found a big rock for him to sit on.

Lian Qiao raised his head and asked curiously: “What do you want to do?”

RenDong: “Open the door.”

After speaking, he grabbed the iron railing and pulled it out hard.

There was a big iron chain hanging on the iron gate, which rattled when he pulled it. Lian Qiao thought it looked funny and was about to speak out to dissuade him, but he heard a bang.

The big iron gate actually fell down in response!

Lian Qiao was stunned. RenDong clapped his hands and turned around, helped him up again and walked out.

Lian Qiao looked at the fallen iron gate and was shocked: “Is it a miracle!?”

When did RenDong have such great strength? Was this his set-up?

“No.” RenDong stepped on the iron gate and walked over without looking back, “The iron gate is rusty and not strong. I guessed it could be knocked open with a strong impact.”

“…Oh.” Lian Qiao listened to his tone and felt that his anger had not subsided, so he dared not say naughty words and obediently let him go.

Lian Qiao’s injury looked like he was hacked in a fight. He was afraid that the incident would become a big issue and attract the police, so he suggested not going to the hospital, but to go directly to the hotel to bandage himself. Anyway, gauze, alcohol, and antibiotics are all in their backpacks.

Back at the hotel, everyone saw the injured Lian Qiao with a very strange expression.

The Monk rushed out to greet Lian Qiao and confirmed Lian Qiao’s injury. Then he also showed that strange expression and asked: “Where are the others?”

RenDong: “They are all dead.”

The Monk: “Where are the bodies? Are they still in the back mountain?”

RenDong said coldly: “Why are you asking? You plan to recite sutras for them?”

The Monk sighed: “How could I? This poor monk is not the Holy Mother. This kind of bad guy who entraps his teammates will go to hell even if I give him salvation. I want to collect the corpses, that’s all. The five corpses are spread out there, it doesn’t look good. We can’t escape if the police find out.”

RenDong: “Okay, you go.”

After that, regardless of other people’s subtle eyes, he just led Lian Qiao and went upstairs.