Chapter 56
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Time seemed to freeze in the ward. The pale walls, the hospital bed, and the glass windows all became distorted reflectors, refracting a strange and dizzying white light.
Clatter —
The sound of the metal handcuffs clashing against each other broke the dead silence. Li Yuxin's hands kept shaking, as if her whole body was about to fall apart. After a few minutes, she spat out a sentence intermittently amid the chattering of her teeth, "… How … did you … know …"
"You think that as long as you hide the truth of He Liang's death and finish the few months of prison for theft, you'll be fine when you get out, right?"
"…"
Jiang Stops leaned down and whispered in her ear, "Midsummer, the end of July. This sentence means that in the evening of the middle of July, the gorgeous sunset will fall somewhere at 8: 09 p.m., announcing the end of youth and the beginning of the punishment. The long night that follows will be the entire execution process. — You think that killing He Liang's punishment is over? No, far from it. Why don't you think about why you were chosen from the very beginning? "
"…"
Li Yuxin's beautiful face was pale and frightening. As soon as she spoke, she couldn't help but gasp, but then Jiang Stops grabbed her hand tightly.
Three of Jiang Stops' fingers were still wrapped in gauze. Li Yuxin's hand was also injured in the struggle. The two equally white, slender, and scarred hands grasped each other tightly. In a trance, it gave the illusion that the left hand was clenching the right hand.
"Tell me," he said, "I'll get you out of this nightmare. Otherwise, you won't be able to escape from those people for the rest of your life."
"No …" Li Yuxin whispered hurriedly, "It's not just me …"
"I'm not the first … Before me, there's, there's …"
Jiang Stops's eyes flashed.
The metal chains clanged. That was Li Yuxin holding Jiang Stops' fingers harder, as if she had gained unspeakable courage from this action.
"But the two people before me, they're … both dead."
Dead.
Both of them were killed.
It was as if day and night were reversed and the scene changed. Everything around the ward receded from the girl's eyes. The scene that had been repeated countless times in her nightmares gradually invaded her vision, swallowing all of her senses.
That was when the golden-red sunset sank below the horizon, and the curtain of night rose from the end of the wilderness. He Liang, who was tied up, trembled as he knelt on the ground.
Flickering ghostly shadows surrounded the empty space. The girl holding the saber was so weak that she could not stand straight. She was forcibly lifted up.
"Go and kill him," a voice said with a hint of laughter in her ear.
"No … no …"
"This coward betrayed you to save his own life. He must be punished."
"Please, let us go, I beg you …"
"Go and kill him. Otherwise, you will also be holding his hand and lying in the ground."
"I can't do it. Please, I beg you! … "
The crying girl was forced to turn her head around. Not far away in the pit, two rotting corpses were holding each other's hands. Their empty eye sockets were facing the sky. Blackened organs and maggots could be vaguely seen in the white bones.
"Look, this is the consequence of not being able to do it." That voice was still laughing, as if it was always very cheerful as it said, "You will be punished together."
You will be punished together —
The girl burst into tears. Her heart-wrenching wails rose from the wilderness into the sky. They gradually merged into the same voice as the desperate sobs in the ward.
"I don't want to kill anyone. I don't want to kill He Liang. Why does it have to be me?"
"What did we do wrong to be punished? I don't know. I really don't know …"
"You didn't do anything wrong." Jiang Stops wiped the tears from the girl's face and said in a low voice, "Listen, when I call the police in later, you know what to say about how He Liang was killed."
"I, I don't dare." Li Yuxin sobbed. "I really don't dare, I —"
Jiang Stops said, "You dare. He Liang was indeed killed by you, but he is dead and cannot testify. Without catching the kidnapper, no one can prove that you were coerced. Do you want to go to jail for the rest of your life because of someone else's crime? "
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