Chapter 897: Closing and Opening the Door——
Chapter 897: Closing and Opening the Door——
A click——
The world suddenly went dark.
After a long silence, You Fan's hesitant and slightly worried voice came from the headset: "You're not afraid, are you?"
"..." Ye Kong, who was almost asleep, asked in a low voice, "What are you afraid of?"
“It’s so dark and narrow.”
Ye Kong: ...
"Ha," Qu Wu laughed softly from the other side, "She has never known how to write the word 'fear' in her life."
But Qu Wu still said, "Why don't you stay outside for a while and go in when you hear footsteps?"
"No, it will be too late."
"……what is that?"
Faintly, another voice came into my ears.
Then Qu Wu's voice came: "A car... Is it a resident nearby?"
"It shouldn't be." You Fan said, "I'm sure no one lives in this area, and there are surprisingly few cars. Not to mention it's still night time, even the managers have gone home after get off work."
“But there really is a car.”
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Far away, in a car hidden in the darkness and the jungle, Ye Tingchu looked out the window with a telescope and said calmly, "They didn't even turn on the lights. They were heading for the Wen family's house."
Qu Wu quickly put away the computer and leaned over to grab the telescope. While looking at it, he said nervously: "It seems to be true... Why is there a car here so late? Wait... It stopped!"
The road twisted like a gray snake in the night, extending to invisible slopes at both ends.
Qu Wu and the other man had been guarding this no-man's land for a long time, but suddenly they saw a living creature in such a pitch-dark moment.
The car did not turn on its lights and slowly stopped on the road in front of the villa in the dim light of the street lamp.
The two people hiding in the distance couldn't help but quicken their breathing and carefully observe the movements of the car.
After a while, the driver's door opened and a figure got out of the car.
Qu Wu immediately picked up his phone and zoomed in to take a photo.
A few silent clicks of the shutter captured every moment of the man getting off the car.
Qu Wu noticed that he was wearing a delivery man's uniform and was stunned for a moment: "Could it be that Wen Can is hungry?"
But no delivery man would wear all-black long clothes, long pants and long boots, or even a hat, mask and glasses, so late at night.
After getting out of the car, the man glanced at the villa in the distance, then turned around and looked at the car, took out his cell phone and seemed to start sending a message.
After sending it, Qu Wu watched him open the trunk and take out a folding electric car.
“…Not a food delivery man, but a designated driver?”
The original tension turned into a feeling of emptiness that was too intense to complain about.
The man dressed in black and wearing a yellow vest, who was suspected to be a delivery man, drove a car and stopped on the side of the road. He then rode his electric bike back the same way as if he was a designated driver.
Qu Wu: ...
Ye Tingchu: ...
You Fan: ...
It all seemed so inexplicable, like an absurd comedy.
Ye Kong, who heard the whole process, was lost in thought in the darkness.
Thoughtful.
She seemed to be lost in thought until she became so drowsy that people were worried that she was suffering from lack of oxygen. Just when Qu Wu was about to rush out of the car to save people, the footsteps were heard again.
Ye Kong suddenly opened his eyes.
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"Wait! Don't get out of the car yet!"
Ye Tingchu locked the car to stop Qu Wu from opening the door and rushing out.
She threw the binoculars into the back seat again: "Someone opened the door and came out."
Qu Wu's body stiffened, and he picked up the telescope and looked forward with bated breath.
Through the dense leaves and branches and the empty road, the house standing quietly in the night was indeed moving.
The wide door opened wide, and in the quiet night, a long, slow creaking sound spread far away.
Qu Wu shuddered as if he had been electrocuted. He pursed his lips, held the telescope tightly and continued to watch.
It's the roller.
It's a cart for carrying goods.
A very big, very old one.
Qu Wu had seen this kind of cart before. When she accompanied Ms. Qu to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, she saw that the vendors selling pork were using this kind of cart to carry goods.
In the vegetable market, such carts are often covered in pig blood or piled with strips of cut pork.
At this moment, the cart was being pushed out of the dark room little by little.
The rollers and blue iron cargo board slowly emerged into the dim light.
Then she saw a pair of feet.
—Bare, dirty, unresponsive feet spread out to the sides.
Qu Wu suddenly covered her mouth, she suppressed the urge to scream, but she couldn't control her trembling hands.
Behind the bare feet were two legs wrapped in hospital gowns and trousers, followed by the upper body - when the face was completely exposed under the light, Qu Wu could no longer hypnotize herself - although she didn't even know why she was still shouting "no, no, no, no" in her mind - but no matter what, that was Wen Rong's face.
Even though the light was dim and even though he was as thin as a skeleton, there was still no second possibility.
"It's over." She murmured two words through her fingers.
Everything Ye Shiyi had done so far was probably in vain. It was too late. Wen Rong had already been...
Before he could finish this thought, the telescope was snatched away by Ye Tingchu who was sitting in the front seat.
Qu Wu didn't have the strength to snatch it back. She began to rack her brains to think about how to talk to Ye Kong, how to comfort her, how to minimize the impact on her...
Before she could figure out a clue, she timidly called out "Ye Shiyi, listen to me" when she heard Ye Tingchu's calm voice.
"He's not dead. His chest is still rising and falling, and he's breathing."
"…………"
Ye Kong said curiously in the headset: "What are you talking about? Tell me, what's wrong? What happened again?"
Qu Wu took a deep breath and said, "Nothing yet. I'll tell you after I confirm it!"
She immediately moved forward, sticking close to Ye Tingchu, wanting to share the telescope's view with her: "Really? Is he really still alive? Let me see!"
Ye Tingchu generously handed the telescope back to her.
When Qu Wu could see the cart clearly again, the person pushing the cart was already exposed under the light.
He didn't pretend at all.
No hats, no masks.
Wearing a white shirt and a black suit, looking decadent as if he hadn't changed his clothes for several days, he slowly walked out of the dark and silent house, pushing a living but unconscious "skeleton".
—He even had a lit cigarette between his fingers pressing on the handle of the cart.
Qu Wu wanted to complain a few words, but when the telescope locked onto that person's face, she had no thoughts at all. Only her intuition remained - a dangerous intuition like seeing a strange-shaped monster on the verge of madness, curled up in a calm body.
He is really calm.
It was as if what he was pushing was not a person, but a pile of garbage.
He was out just to take out the trash.
In this way, he pushed the cart as if taking a stroll, walking across most of the path and up the small hill that Ye Kong had rolled down when he came.
Then, he threw Wen Rong out like taking out the trash.
He didn't even try to move the body that was twisted and looked very uncomfortable.
Wen Can just stood there and slowly finished smoking the cigarette, then put out the cigarette butt in his palm and turned back.
When the door slammed shut, Qu Wu put down the telescope in disbelief.
"He... let Wen Rong go?"
This is true for everyone.
He gave Wen Rong a breath of air and then threw him out. Although it was obvious that his torture during these days was quite effective, causing Wen Rong to become half-human, half-ghost in just a few days, but... he was still alive!
"But..." Qu Wu realized another problem. "If he really decided to spare his life, why not send him directly to the hospital, or transport him to another place? The former can allow the judge to show mercy, and the latter can pretend that he didn't do it himself. Whether he surrenders himself or wants to escape punishment, there are better options, right?"
"...No." You Fan, who had been silent for a long time, spoke.
In the dark night, his tone was particularly heavy: "He can't possibly let him live - from the moment Wen Rong disappeared, Wen Can's ultimate goal was only one."
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Don't wait for him to finish speaking.
Lights went out.
All the street lights on this road are gradually going out.
Until it became pitch dark, the figure thrown on the hillside naturally disappeared completely.
In the car, Qu Wu and Ye Tingchu determined each other's positions in the dark only by their eyes, and then looked at each other in surprise.
"It was Wen Can who did it. This should be done to prevent Wen Rong from being spotted by passing vehicles - although there is a 90% chance that there will be no passing vehicles here."
"How about," You Fan suggested, "get out of the car now, carry Wen Rong to the car, and then go directly to the hospital? This way we can prevent..."
"No."
——The one who spoke was Ye Kong.
"Why not?" You Fan was anxious. "Isn't your goal to stop him? Now that Wen Rong has appeared under our noses, isn't it the simplest and most direct way to take him away?"
"Can you prevent the second time if you can stop the first time? Based on your understanding of Wen Can, if we really do this, will he give up the intention to kill Wen Rong from now on?"
"...I thought this would depend on you to influence him telepathically."
"..." Ye Kong couldn't help but sneered, light and disdainful, "Who do you think I am? I can't even influence myself, and you want me to influence Wen Can?"
Her tone became noticeably lower: "Not even God can change him, not even Buddha."
"So what are you going to do?!"
"do not know."
The girl said in a cold tone: "Let's take it one step at a time, and then we'll talk about it when we meet."
“You are also…”
"It's noisy."
Ye Kong was a little impatient: "Mute him."
Qu Wu acted quickly and the channel immediately became quiet.
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As the sky began to brighten, the street lights came on again.
Ye Kong heard the door open.
Wen Can's footsteps got closer and closer in time with her heartbeat, then the car door opened and the car body sank.
Qu Wu's low, extremely nervous voice came from the headset: "Wake up... wake up... Wen Rong woke up, he... he ran to the side of the road and got into the car... So that's what it was for, that's what it was for! The key was not removed from the car, he started the car!"
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Ye Kong heard the sound of the sports car starting.
In this dusty old garage, the sports car's engine roared like a wild beast.
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"He...he turned around and drove away! Ye Kong!"
Qu Wu's voice was so sharp that it pierced Ye Kong's eardrums.
Amid the buzzing, hallucinatory vibrations, she heard a muffled sound.
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This fiery red sports car, as if it had been resurrected from the depths of time, finally slammed its door shut.
The car doors are locked.
The gears mesh.
Time began to flow backwards.
Ye Kong curled up in the darkness, but vaguely heard the sound of the door opening.
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