Chapter 61 Alice Hell (32) - Never Say Never Gamble
The dark alleyway gave Zeng Lai an uneasy feeling. Sure enough, sometimes it would be better for his intuition not to be so accurate.
Just after sending the message, before running a few steps, a figure suddenly jumped out from the shadows of the alley. When he realized it and was about to turn around, a white silk handkerchief stretched out from behind and covered it with a very skillful gesture.
His mouth and nose!
There was a strange fragrance on the silk handkerchief. Because it was covered so suddenly, he took a deep breath and immediately felt something bad.
The person behind didn't say a word. After covering his face with the drugged silk handkerchief, he also restrained him with his body to prevent him from struggling. This was really unexpected. Zeng Lai didn't grasp the best opportunity.
If there is a chance to break free, it can make a struggling sound of "woo woo".
Waves of dizziness came to his head quickly, his heart stopped for a moment, and a confusing word appeared in his mind: It's over!
Facts have proved that the drug is not only effective for children and women, but also for him, a vigorous young man of sixteen or seventeen years old. The effect is rapid and the effect is immediate.
His whole body felt weak and his consciousness was groggy. Zeng Lai quickly fell into a coma with annoyance and a hint of panic.
He never expected that when he woke up again, he would see such a scene that shattered his cognition.
In the gray room that was tightly covered by curtains, a humming with a changed tune spread.
To a certain extent, Zeng Lai was awakened by the hoarse humming sound as if he had swallowed glass shards.
The old air conditioner made an overwhelmed roar, and the warm air blew up the thick dust in the room, ruthlessly uncovering the musty smell and spreading it into the air.
Zeng Lai felt like he was sitting on the hard and cold ground. In addition to the musty smell at the tip of his nose, there was also a sticky smell of blood that had been covered up and evaporated everywhere. He did not dare to open his eyes or move, so he quietly moved.
With his fingers, he found that his limbs were bound by something. He identified the source of the humming and could hear that the person was very close to him.
Where am I……
Damn it, did you really meet a kidnapper?
Zeng Lai's mind was in confusion. During this period, many people were spreading rumors about the disappearance of students, but the person who happened was not from their school, and the source of the information was uncertain, so Zeng Lai didn't take it seriously at all.
Five or six minutes have passed, and the person who made the sound has not stopped yet.
Zeng Lai thought that he couldn't sit still and wait for death, so he quietly and carefully opened his eyes a little.
However, the scene in front of him was still beyond his expectation and exceeded the endurance limit of an ordinary high school student.
The thick smell of blood smeared thickly on the tip of his nose like oil paint, making him feel nauseated and at the same time realize his situation.
There were corpses all around, more than one, and each one was scattered around the room in a mess. If the forensic doctor didn't spend some effort, he probably wouldn't be able to piece them together.
Judging from the cloth covering the corpses, these corpses were all girls. There was also a piece of cloth that looked like a long skirt in the corner.
His face was pale, with panic and fear in his eyes, and his uncontrollable trembling made another person in the room notice him.
On the wooden rocking chair, the man in construction clothes stopped his meaningless out-of-tune tune. The young man's expression seemed to please him, making a smile appear on his face that was full of vicissitudes of life, exhaustion, depression and madness.
He got down from the rocking chair and walked step by step to Zeng Lai, whose limbs were tied and lying on the ground. Zeng Lai was trembling and did not dare to look up.
What's happening here!?
Zeng Lai, who originally thought it was just a kidnapping case, roared in his heart. When he woke up, he was actually next to a murderer?
I fucked like this, wasn’t it really a dream?
"Unexpected bonus. It's a pity that he is a man." At first glance, the man in construction clothes looks like any construction site worker who has just finished work. He is in his forties and has a fairly handsome face. At least if you don't look at his expression, he looks very handsome.
It's hard for anyone to connect him with the perverted murderer who killed a whole room of people.
He stretched out his hand and pinched Zeng Lai's chin, forcing him to raise his head and looked back and forth. The rough calluses on his fingertips made the young man's skin tingle. Zeng Lai didn't understand the man's sudden intention of saying this.
The next second, Zeng Lai's mind suddenly flashed back to the scene before he lost consciousness.
That's right, he was chasing the school girl he didn't know. In other words, the person in front of him was originally targeting the school girl.
No, in fact, none of this is important. What is important is, where is the school girl? Is she still alive? How can he himself... escape?
Zeng Lai had no idea how long he had been in a coma. This room was very old, a bit like a private house from many years ago. There were no such houses in the city center, and only a few places in the suburbs still had such scenes.
At least, it should not be far from the school...
Zeng Lai kept thinking in his mind. He had never realized that his thinking speed could be so extreme before.
I left a location for my deskmate, he should have called the police...
At this time, he couldn't help but feel lucky that although his deskmate disliked listening to lectures and playing games just like him, he was very loyal and a very reliable person.
The man in construction clothes looked at him for a few times, then sat back on the wooden rocking chair with a lack of interest. He seemed to have no intention of immediately cutting him into pieces. This made Zeng Lai break into a cold sweat and heaved a sigh of relief.
This man didn’t know that he called the police, so he could delay as long as he wanted. As long as the police came, he would be saved!
While thinking, he continued to look around.
The place he was in was a living room, and the door symbolizing freedom was on one side. Next to the living room were the kitchen and the toilet. There was also a room with the door closed that was visually believed to be a bedroom.
The place is not big and everything is old. It can be seen that the living standards of the men working on the construction site are not very good.
There were about three corpses put together. For the time being, Zeng Lai did not see the clothes the school girl was wearing at the time.
I hope the school girl is not among these people.
Hand on...it seems that there are not only female corpses.
In front of the bedroom door, there was a relatively complete male corpse. Zeng Lai didn't see it because he was lying down just now. Now that he saw that the man didn't do anything to him, he boldly sat up and saw this scene.
The man in construction clothes rocked the rocking chair, making a creaking sound: "I didn't intend to kill him, he wanted to save others."
Zeng Lai knew that the man was talking to him, but he did not know and did not want to know the meaning of this sentence.
Save people? Who should you save?
Even those who didn’t intend to kill were killed?
"Ha..." The man yawned, exhausted and excited at the same time. He took out his mobile phone, took a look at it, and muttered, "Why is it eleven o'clock again... Let's get something to eat."
After he finished speaking, he didn’t even look at Zeng Lai’s reaction and staggered into the kitchen.
His figure disappeared into the living room, and Zeng Lai breathed out again.
Delay time...
At this moment, there were several sounds from the bedroom door.
Zeng Lai was startled and looked over there with wide eyes.
The girl's muffled voice appeared in the room: "Is anyone there?"
Even if he suppressed his voice, Zeng Lai was still very familiar with it. After all, the owner of the voice had just confessed his true feelings to him.
It’s the school girl whose name I can’t name!
The sound of cooking came from the kitchen, which temporarily drowned out the low voices of conversation. Zeng Lai said: "How are you?"
The person inside the door paused, as if he didn't expect anyone to respond, and it wasn't the killer's old voice. She became obviously excited: "You were arrested too?"
“Yes.” Zeng Lai told himself to try to be calm.
“He left, right? I heard him go to the kitchen.”
"yes."
Zeng Lai now doesn’t know what to do except answer as much as possible.
The school girl didn’t know if she recognized Zeng Lai’s voice. Her next sentence was: “Help me quickly and open the door while he’s not there. He locked it from the outside!”
Because she found the "opportunity", the girl's voice was trembling, and she urged the people outside with weakness.
Zeng Lai also wanted to save people, but if he could save people, he wouldn't have lost everything in vain: "I don't have the key, and I'm tied up."
“…” The school girl fell into silence.
A few seconds later, her voice lowered, as if she was desperate: "You know what? He stabbed me several times, and my hands and legs were broken. If I don't move faster, I will definitely be killed by him."
“I don’t want to die.”
Zeng Lai's breathing stopped, and he realized that he had been unconscious for longer than he thought.
While he was unconscious, the school girl on the other side of the door had already experienced something he could not imagine.
He gritted his teeth and searched for the key with his eyes.
Two minutes later, Zeng Lai gave up. There was really no other way. Even if he found the bedroom key, he still didn’t have the door key.
What's more, it's hard to stand up even if he's like this. If he moves again, the probability of being discovered by a man in construction uniforms is 100%.
There is also the male body at the bedroom door...
Zeng Lai didn’t dare to gamble.
…
The fire on the yellow talisman in front of me continues to burn, bringing waves of warmth.
What happened later was a little blurry. It may be that his brain was consciously avoiding this experience and deliberately forgetting the details.
Zeng Lai only remembered that much later, the man in construction uniforms had prepared food, and instead of giving him a little bit of food, he opened the bedroom door.
He followed and looked inside. There was no body in the bedroom, only a girl with broken hand and leg muscles.
The girl was in a panic, with fear in her eyes.
The man in the construction site uniform did not commit any crime such as insult. Instead, he took a hammer and broke many bones in the girl's body and cracked her skull. During the whole process, the door was left open, and the minor Zeng
Lai witnessed the whole process.
The school girl screamed in pain while shouting for help at him, blood splattered, and her voice was shrill and shrill, just like the [cryer] behind the door of the Rose Tunnel now.
It’s not like he didn’t stop it.
He persuaded, yelled, and diverted the murderer's attention. He also tried to break the rope, but failed miserably. When the police came, the girl's pupils were dilated and she was lying on the ground with her last breath.
The man in construction clothes was about to "cut his body into pieces" when he was pushed aside by the police who rushed in.
Just a little bit.
The school girl is obviously hopeless. It is almost impossible. If the police can come earlier, she might not have her skull crushed by the murderer.
And he was rescued.
The school girl’s last glance before she died was when she looked at him through the gap in the crowd after being surrounded by the police.
In those eyes full of pain, there was no admiration for him, only hatred remained.
It's like saying, OK, you survived.
But what about me? I’m dead.
You can't even help me, it's not that you can't, it's that you don't dare.
The person I like is such trash.
Since then, this incident has always been a shadow for Zeng Lai. He no longer dares to show any gentleness to girls, because subconsciously, he always feels that girls will not encounter these things if they don't get close to him.
If he accepts the confession.
No, if he doesn't behave in a way that the school girl likes him.
If he had been braver and found another way while the murderer was in the kitchen...
Even though none of these things were really his fault, even though he knew it in his heart.
But he still couldn't let it go for a long, long time.
Zeng Lai will never say the words "dare not gamble" again.
If he could do it all over again, he would bet that he could find the key, and that he could hold on with his schoolgirl until rescue arrived.
Everything can be gambled, especially life.
…
Zeng Lai let out a slight wry smile as his thoughts came back to him.
It’s amazing that the distraction brought about by [Corpse Gambling] can actually allow him to recall things so long ago so clearly, as if they are right in front of him.
At that time, I was young and really couldn’t do anything.
After becoming a deducer, he has actually looked past it, and the negative emotions such as regret have slowly dissipated as he has Ren Yi as a friend and works with him to make strategies.
The only thing that remains is the title of "gambler", which is somewhat different from the actual meaning of the persona.
When I think about that incident now, I feel a little sad.
I heard that the daughter of the man in construction uniforms was bullied by some girls and committed suicide. Therefore, after the man was decadent for a period of time, he developed mental problems and began a murderous journey.
Those who were killed were all innocent.
"Cough cough cough..." Zeng Lai coughed suddenly, and the cryer behind him heard his voice and started banging on the door again.
“Help me... open the door! Open the door! I don’t want to die!!!!”
Zeng Lai discovered in a trance that there were not many yellow talismans left.
In a scene of memories that can be called a scene replay, almost half an hour has passed.
There is almost no time.
Zeng Lai pursed his lips and looked through the remaining sacrifices.
He wore five sacrifices, not all of them, in order to leave a chance to get the sacrifices. Some of them he thought were not needed for the time being, so he put them in the system.
The five items I have on my body now are [Destiny Bet] in the form of a dice, [Corpse Control Gamble] in the form of a yellow talisman, a ring that can dispel the curse of ghosts, a pair of scissors with weird functions, and one that increases concealment ability.
and speed necklace.
To solve the current situation, none of them can be used intuitively.
While hesitating, half an hour was up.
The yellow talisman was extinguished and turned into a handful of ashes, scattered in the air.
The cryer suddenly became excited, and now she was twice as angry. The door shook violently, making Zeng Lai feel that even if he didn't open the door, the door wouldn't be able to hold on for long.
"Today is just like that time, very unlucky... It would be better if the rescue came earlier..." Zeng Lai murmured, took out the dice, closed his eyes, and rolled it again.
This is his biggest hope now. If he can throw a good number, maybe everything will turn around.
However, just as the dice was thrown by him and spinning on the dirt floor, Zeng Lai suddenly felt a strange palpitation in his heart.
He felt that there was a line of sight looking at him, and what made his hair stand on end was that this line of sight had actually always been there, but he suddenly noticed it now for some unknown reason.
Before he thought he had provoked another ghost, there was suddenly a crisp breaking sound all around him, and air rushed into him. His thoughts suddenly became clear, and he felt as if the restraints on his body were completely released.
The dice stopped.
On the side facing up, the red dot is clearly "6"!
The next moment, in the broken air, a small circular formation flashed away, like a miniature version of the [Abyss Blood Formation], and a hysterical voice came from inside.
But it was not the friendly and weak tone that Yi always used, but a tone that seemed to be extremely weak and full of unwillingness, but had to say something: "Fortunately, let me tell you, when you open that door,
Can survive."
At the end of the sentence, the circular array quickly turned into blood, seeped into the soil, and became silent again.
Zeng Lai was stunned for a moment. He had not yet recovered from all the changes that occurred in an instant. Only the dice stopped quietly on the ground.