The community is dilapidated and complex due to demolition, with intricate lanes and ruins everywhere.
Lu Zhinian walked through the deserted alleys, looking for the van everywhere.
The afternoon sun was dazzling and scorching. Lu Zhinian was panting heavily, sweat sliding from his forehead to his cheeks and dripping down his jawline into his neck like water. The clothes were wet with sweat, and the hair on his forehead was dripping with sweat.
He felt like he was traveling through the end of the world, surrounded by despair and desolation.
Finally, Lu Zhinian found the van in front of a building at the far end of the community. He did not dare to step forward rashly. Lu Zhinian hid behind the iron fence enclosed by the demolition and observed the surrounding situation.
There was no one around and the van was parked in front of the building. There were drag marks from the van to the ground in front of the building. Jiang Suchu must be in this building.
He looked up and his pupils suddenly shrank.
On the top floor without any protection, Jiang Suichu's hands and feet were tied up, and he was pushed to the edge by a man.
It seems that there is no need to push, it will fall off when the wind blows.
For a moment, Lu Zhinian's heart seemed to be lifted to his throat, and he clenched his teeth. The pair of black eyes that had always been calm and indifferent suddenly turned red with bloodlust, and the veins on his forehead bulged and beat.
He tried his best to control himself and calm down, took out his mobile phone and sent the location to Pei Tian. After sending it, he turned off the mute and put the phone in his pocket regardless of what Pei Tian replied to him.
After Lu Zhinian made sure there were no spies around him, he leaned against the iron fence to avoid the man's sight, and cautiously headed toward the building.
upstairs.
The man listened to the sirens not far away and slowly recovered from the pleasure of drugs. He looked vaguely at the building opposite, and walked towards Jiang Suichu and Zhou Ran with a smile.
When Zhou Ran saw the man coming over, he pulled Jiang Suichu's arm tightly in fear: "Uuuuuu...sister...sister..."
With tape on his mouth, he could only yell vaguely.
"Don't scream, I'll be with you in a moment." The man pulled Zhou Ran away from Jiang Suchu and threw him aside, then pulled Jiang Suchu up from the ground.
"What do you want to do?" Jiang Suchu struggled to back away, but the man was too strong and she couldn't resist.
The man dragged Jiang Suchu to the edge of the building and looked at her with a sinister smile: "Little girl, the game is about to start."
The man had been taking drugs for many years, and his eyes were sunken, with a pair of cloudy eyes embedded in them. The cheeks are also sunken, and there are large and small scars and dark spots on the face, which looks particularly scary.
His face was so close that Jiang Suchu felt the hairs all over his body stand up when he looked at his face so close.
The man grabbed Jiang Suchu's arm and turned her over. Jiang Suichu staggered as she was pushed. When she turned around, her toes had already stepped out of the building. She held her breath and stared straight downstairs.
Although the floors in the old community are low, the floor heights are generally high. Although there is only the fifth floor, it is almost 30 meters high.
Jiang Suchu looked downstairs and felt dizzy, and his legs couldn't stop shaking.
The man was right behind her, very close to her. While untying the hemp rope on Jiang Suichu's hand, he teased in her ear: "Little girl, stand firm. If you don't stand firm, it won't be fun if you accidentally fall."
Jiang Suichu didn't dare to look down anymore. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes and tried to calm down her emotions.
The man looked at her trembling wrists, curled his lips with a sinister smile, and then turned her around again. Jiang Suchu was like a puppet on strings, letting him turn around.
After she was turned around by him, the man put the hemp rope into her hand and reminded her with a kind face: "If you catch it, it can save your life at the critical moment."
Jiang Suchu grabbed the hemp rope with trembling hands and watched in confusion as the man tied the other end to a pillar opposite.
Then the man lifted Zhou Ran over again and tied a hemp rope to the pillar in the same way for him to hold.
"Um... can you tie the rope to him?" Jiang Suichu glanced at Zhou Ran, swallowed and said to the man.
The man tilted his head and looked at her with a smile: "Oh? Why?"
Because of fear, Jiang Suchu breathed so quickly that his throat became dry and hoarse: "He...he is still young and can't be caught."
Behind the two of them was a floor dozens of meters high, with no railings or protection. Both of their feet were tied with ropes, and she could barely stand still, let alone Zhou Ran. She was afraid that Zhou Ran would get excited later and fall down without holding on.
Hearing this, the man sneered and kissed her: "Little girl, sometimes you can't be too kind. Maybe he will be fine for a while, but you will fall."
Jiang Suichu didn't understand what he meant. She just pursed her pale lips and looked at him: "Please."
She couldn't help but watch Zhou Ran fall in front of her.
The man glanced at Jiang Suchu. The girl's eyes were full of fear but also filled with stubbornness and perseverance. He couldn't help but think of the fallen policeman more than ten years ago, who also had such a pair of resolute eyebrows.
He laughed, nodded and said, "Okay."
After saying that, he pulled the hemp rope from Zhou Ran's hand, bent down and tied it to his waist. After tying them up, he straightened up and looked at Jiang Suchu again.
"Little girl, I'm looking forward to the next game more and more."
He smiled a little horribly, with deep wrinkles on his thin face: "I hope you won't regret your current choice later."
As soon as the man finished speaking, several police cars parked directly downstairs.
Jiang Suichu carefully glanced down, then looked at the man: "The police are here, you can't run away."
The man didn't seem to be afraid of the police at all. He spread his hands and said with a smile: "Run? It's such a fun game, why should I run?"
Then he threw his head back and laughed like a madman.
Jiang Suchu frowned and looked at him, frightened by his madness.
Lu Zhinian heard the man's crazy laughter in the stairwell on the fourth floor. He carefully stuck his head out against the wall. When he saw the blood on Jiang Suichu's face, he couldn't help but grit his teeth, and the dimples on his cheeks stood straight.
He tried his best to control his emotions and calm down. He looked around and saw that there was no one else except this man.
He frowned, sensing something was wrong.
If it's a drug dealer, he can't be the only one. Moreover, he had not taken action since he arrested Jiang Suichu, as if he was deliberately waiting for the police to come.
Lu Zhinian looked into several abandoned buildings opposite. He was not sure whether his accomplices would be ambushing elsewhere.
He pursed his thin lips tightly, took out his mobile phone and made sure to turn off the mute again, then took a photo of the situation on the floor and sent it to Pei Tian.
[Uncle Pei, I only see one person here so far. You'd better have someone investigate the surrounding buildings to see if there are any of his accomplices. 】&picture.
The police immediately surrounded the entire building, and Pei Tian and Li Liyun got out of the police car.
When Li Liyun saw Jiang Suichu and Zhou Ran upstairs, her pupils suddenly dilated, and her legs went weak and she fell to the ground: "Xiao Ran! Sui Sui!"
Fortunately, Pei Tian had quick eyes and quick hands and grabbed her arm and pulled her up. As soon as he pulled Li Liyun up, he received a text message from Lu Zhinian.
He frowned and pressed the receiver in his ear: "Sniper, sniper, can you hear me?"
Sniper: "Copy that, Bureau Pei."
Pei Tian looked around, then looked at the picture Lu Zhinian had just sent, and said to the other end: "Go to the one on the sixth floor of Building 1 in the west, and the one on the fifth floor of Building 4."
The man was very cunning. He was in a blind spot and was not easy to be sniped.
After arranging the snipers, Pei Tian reached out and summoned one of his subordinates: "Take a group of people and check the area to see if there are any ambush by your accomplices."
"Yes! Bureau Pei."
Then he ordered another subordinate: "Hurry up and take the second group of people to put up the life-saving air mattress."
After arranging everything, Pei Tian took his mobile phone and sent a message to Lu Zhinian: [A Nian, come down! 】
After sending the text message for several minutes, there was no reply. Pei Tian looked up at Jiang Suchu's back upstairs, and his heart was tugged.
A policeman took a loudspeaker and handed it to Pei Tian. Pei Tian took the loudspeaker and shouted upstairs: "Zhang Yi."
Hearing his name, the man slowly stopped smiling. He stood behind a pillar and stuck his head out to look at the police cars and people below.
He looked at Pei Tian, smiled and shouted to him: "Pei Bureau, you came very quickly."
"You tell your people not to come close to this building. If anyone dares to come close, I will throw him down first." He joked, as if he was joking.
There was only one entrance to this building. Pei Tian glanced at him and agreed: "Okay, I'll ask them to step back."
"Everyone, step back." Pei Tian turned around and winked at his men. The men glanced at the back of the building and nodded clearly.
Pei Tian took the loudspeaker and shouted upstairs: "Zhang Yi, don't do stupid things, think about your family."
Hearing the word family, Zhang Yi paused. Soon he sneered: "Family? Director Pei, have you forgotten? Because of you, my wife and I have been separated a long time ago, so there is no family left."
He said, smiling a little sadly.
Pei Tian frowned and held a loudspeaker: "Zhang Yi, it was drugs that separated your wife and children, not us. We are saving you!"
Zhang Yi frowned, as if he heard some funny joke: "Save me?"
Pei Tian: "Yes! Don't be impulsive and let them go. Come back with us and detoxify well. It's still not too late."
Zhang Yi was a middle school teacher more than ten years ago and had a happy family. However, by chance, he went to a massage parlor for the blind in the community for a massage. In order to develop his own informant, the drug dealer directly injected him with drugs.
He resisted at first, but drugs eroded his bones and burned his heart. Drug addiction attacks again and again, gradually destroying his will.
Later, he became an informant for drug dealers, and more and more people were forced to become addicted to drugs through his hands, becoming a cash cow for drug dealers. He made a lot of money as a result, and gradually lost himself in the pleasure of drugs and the temptation of money.
He had been hiding his family members until Lu Shenghua and Jiang Zhiwei destroyed their hideout more than ten years ago, and the matter was exposed. From then on, he lived a life of a fugitive with no home to return to.
family?
It's not like he hasn't contacted them quietly, but they would only advise him to surrender.
He had long since been given up by his family.
Zhang Yi glanced at Jiang Suichu and said with a smile: "Little girl, do you want to know whether your mother loves you more or..." He paused and looked at Zhou Ran who kept sobbing, "...or... Do you love your brother more?"
Jiang Suchu frowned and glanced at Zhou Ran: "What are you going to do?"
Zhang Yi took out a dagger from his pocket with a smile and said hypocritically: "I'm helping you. Didn't your mother cry and say she loves you? Then let's see how much she loves you."
As he spoke, an expression of ecstasy appeared on his face, as if he had discovered something interesting.
Jiang Suichu swallowed as he looked at the gleaming dagger in his hand, feeling his throat was dry and painful.
Zhang Yi walked around the pillar to ensure that he was in the sniper's blind spot. He shouted down: "Li Liyun, I'll give you a chance to save your child."
Li Liyun burst into tears, clasping her hands together and rubbing her hands, crying and begging: "Please... I beg you, let them go. I can exchange my life for theirs..."
Zhang Yi smiled when he heard her words. He looked at Jiang Suchu and twitched his lips: "It seems that your mother still cares about you, and she is actually willing to trade her life for yours."
Jiang Suichu turned his head slightly and looked down. Li Liyun had been crying and begging. She choked and held the rope tightly in her hand.
"But how can one life be exchanged for two lives? You think so, little girl." Zhang Yi looked at Jiang Suchu and sneered.
As he spoke, he gestured with Zhou Ran's rope with his dagger, and shouted to Li Liyun: "Choose one of the two. Do you want to save your son, or... your daughter?"
"Wha...what!?" Li Liyun couldn't believe it, staring at the two figures on the top of the building with red eyes.
He tore off the tape on Zhou Ran's mouth and suddenly stretched out his hand to push Zhou Ran. Zhou Ran was pushed outside by him, and then pulled back by him.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
"No!" Jiang Suchu was startled, and his legs went weak and he almost stopped standing. She pulled the hemp rope tightly and begged him with red eyes, "Don't... don't..."
Li Liyun below was also frightened and almost fainted, but it was Pei Tian who grabbed her arm and stabilized her from falling to the ground.
She cried and begged: "No, I beg you, don't hurt him!"
Zhang Yi looked at Li Liyun and smiled crazily: "Hahaha... I also want to let you taste the feeling of life being worse than death."
Death is nothing at all, only the living will have endless pain.
"Hurry up and choose! Otherwise, you can wait to collect the bodies of the two of them below." As he said this, Zhang Yi stood between Jiang Suchu and Zhou Ran. He grabbed Jiang Suichu's collar with one hand and put a dagger on Zhou Ran with the other. But on the hemp rope around his waist.
Zhang Yi happened to have his back to the stairs at this time, and Lu Zhinian seized the opportunity to bend against the wall and run behind an abandoned cabinet.
Jiang Suchu was facing that way, and when she saw Lu Zhinian, she opened her eyes silently in disbelief.
Lu Zhinian hid behind the cabinet and saw Jiang Suchu seeing him. He opened his mouth and said silently to her: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
On this day, Jiang Suchu didn't cry no matter how scared he was. But when he saw Lu Zhinian now, tears rolled out of his eyes. She was afraid that Zhang Yi would find him and didn't dare to make any move. He just bit his lip hard, shook his head slowly, and signaled him to leave quickly.
But Lu Zhinian smiled at her and comforted her silently.
"Don't! Don't! I...I..." Li Liyun was incoherent for a moment and knelt directly on the ground. She covered her face and cried bitterly, unable to make a choice at all.
At this moment, two more cars drove in one after the other. When Shu Yuan got off the car, she saw Jiang Suichu on the roof of the building, which was crumbling. She wanted to call her but found that she couldn't scream at all.
Zhou Yuansheng slammed the car door, and his eyes widened when he saw Zhou Ran on the roof: "Son!"
Zhou Ran heard Zhou Yuansheng's voice and cried out to him: "Dad! Dad, save me!"
Li Liyun heard Zhou Yuansheng's voice and turned to look at him. Zhou Yuansheng stumbled over and slapped Li Liyun on the face: "It's all you! Why did your ex-husband's debts involve my son!"
Zhou Yuansheng almost shouted.
Jiang Suchu glanced down and saw Li Liyun being slapped so hard that she fell to the ground.
Pei Tian pulled Zhou Yuansheng away and said angrily: "What are you doing?"
Shu Yuan stepped forward to help Li Liyun up and looked at Zhou Yuansheng angrily.
Zhou Yuansheng shook off Pei Tian, pointed at Li Liyun and said, "If there is anything wrong with my son today, I will never end it with you."
Li Liyun covered her cheek where she was slapped and sobbed in a low voice without speaking.
Zhang Yi looked at the good show below and clicked his tongue several times: "It's getting more and more interesting."
Zhang Yicheng shouted down: "Hurry up, my patience is limited. I can only choose one, son or daughter."
Before Li Liyun could speak, Zhou Yuansheng said directly: "Son, choose my son!"
Zhang Yi smiled and said, "I let her choose, not you."
Li Liyun cried and shook her head, "I...I can't choose, I..."
Seeing her hesitation, Zhou Yuansheng roared: "Choose my son! This is your ex-husband's revenge, and it should be repaid by your daughter. What does it have to do with my son!"
"I...I..." Li Liyun covered her face and cried. She looked at the two figures, one large and one small, on the top of the building, feeling heartbreaking pain in her heart.
Zhang Yi curled his lower lip and said cruelly: "Don't choose? Then don't save either of them."
As he said that he was going to push Jiang Suchu and Zhou Ran away, Li Liyun was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and shouted: "I choose! I... choose..."
"Haha~" Zhang Yi chuckled and pulled Jiang Suichu and Zhou Ran back a little, "Then count to tens. When you count to ten, you must choose one. One second later, neither of them will know. Want to live.”
After saying that, Zhang Yi began to count down quietly: "Ten, nine, eight, seven..."
Zhang Yi's countdown voice suddenly overlapped with the voice in Jiang Suichu's memory. She once hid in a dark cabinet and counted down dozens of times, waiting for her mother to come to her.
But at that time she knew that her mother was gone and would not come to find her. So she didn't count to the end, so that she could deceive herself that her mother didn't come to find her because she didn't finish counting.
She bit her lip and looked downstairs with her chin trembling, and couldn't help but count along with Zhang Yi in her heart.
"five four three two one."
"Zhou Ran! I choose Zhou Ran!"
At the moment when the countdown was over, Li Liyun cried out Zhou Ran's name.
The moment he heard Zhou Ran's name, Jiang Suchu suddenly smiled. She looked calm, as if she had already known this would be the outcome.
really.
People who have abandoned you once will still abandon you a second time when faced with a second choice.
"Li Liyun!!" Shu Yuan looked at Li Liyun in disbelief, unable to believe what she heard.
Li Liyun knelt on the ground, covered her face and cried so hard that she couldn't stand up: "Ah... I'm sorry Suisui, mother... I'm sorry for you... ah..."
Jiang Suchu listened to Li Liyun's confession and smiled sadly, with a tear falling from the end of his eye. She looked at Zhang Yi and said with a wry smile: "The game is over, let him go."
Zhou Ran sobbed and looked at her: "Sister...sister..."
Jiang Suchu slowly moved his eyes towards him and said calmly: "I'm not your sister, we... have nothing to do with each other."
As Zhou Yuansheng said, today's incident had nothing to do with Zhou Ran in the first place. He was just innocently implicated.
She and Zhou Ran were destined not to be siblings.
Zhang Yi sneered, sealed Zhou Ran's mouth with tape again, carried him and threw him inside.
Then he walked towards Jiang Suichu with a ferocious face: "Little girl, do you regret the choice you just made?"
He now looks like he was a drug addict just now, his eyes are red and bloodshot, and his facial muscles are twitching a bit ferociously.
When he turned his back again, Lu Zhinian once again seized the opportunity and ran behind the pillar tied with hemp rope.
He pointed at the hemp rope to Jiang Suichu, who glanced at Zhang Yi and quietly wrapped the hemp rope around his wrist.
Jiang Suchu frowned and stared at him closely: "There is nothing to regret. Your target from the beginning was actually me, wasn't it?"
She could see that Zhang Yi was actually being instigated by others. The target of those behind the scenes was her, and Zhou Ran was just a tool they used to torture Li Liyun.
Zhang Yi twisted his neck and said with a smile: "The little girl is indeed a descendant of the anti-narcotics police. She is smart."
He glanced down: "You said they watched you fall from here, would they feel sorry for your father?"
"After all, your father died because of them."
Jiang Suchu looked at him with a frown and shook his head: "No. My father died not because of Uncle Pei and Uncle Lu, but because of you crazy cancers. You are the scum of society!"
At the end of the sentence, she gritted her teeth and stared at Zhang Yi.
Zhang Yi was not annoyed at all when he heard her scolding him. Instead, he smiled and nodded: "Yes, we are the scum of society."
Zhang Yi glanced at the building opposite and twitched the corner of his mouth: "Hiss~ Do you think it's their guns that are faster, or my pushing you down faster?"
Jiang Suchu opened his eyes wide, thinking that Zhang Yi would push him down. But without thinking, he suddenly raised the dagger in his hand and stabbed it.
Before she could react, Lu Zhinian suddenly rushed over and grabbed Zhang Yi's throat from behind, dragging him backwards and falling to the ground.
Lu Zhinian originally wanted to pull Jiang Suchu away from the building while Zhang Yi was not paying attention. Unexpectedly, Zhang Yi suddenly became fierce and took out the knife.
The moment he saw him stabbing Jiang Suichu with a knife, he couldn't care less and rushed out directly.
Shu Yuan was downstairs. When she saw Lu Zhinian, she exclaimed: "A-Nian!"
Pei Tian rushed upstairs with a pistol, shouting into the receiver in his ear as he ran: "Sniper, prepare."
"Don't hurt other people. Kill them if necessary."
"receive!"
Snipers are always looking for the right time to shoot, but Zhang Yi should be prepared in advance and find a very hidden place. Except for Jiang Suichu who was in the open, he was always in the blind spot and couldn't shoot at all.
Zhang Yi was pushed back by Lu Zhinian, and both of them fell to the ground suddenly. The back of Lu Zhinian's head suddenly hit the pillar, and suddenly his vision went dark.
Zhang Yi fell on top of Lu Zhinian. He pulled Lu Zhinian's hand away, picked up the dagger and got up from the ground, turned around and stabbed Lu Zhinian in the chest.
"Lu Zhinian!" Jiang Suichu's feet were tied with ropes and he couldn't move. She watched helplessly as Zhang Yi stabbed Lu Zhinian with a dagger and screamed in despair.
Lu Zhinian shook his head hard and saw a cold light in the blur. He reflexively reached out and grabbed Zhang Yi's hand.
But Zhang Yi was now completely addicted to drugs. His eyes were scarlet and he used all his strength. The sharp dagger instantly pierced Lu Zhinian's chest.
Jiang Suchu seemed to feel that the world was silent at that moment. She could not hear anything, and there was only dazzling white in front of her eyes.
Then, bright red blood poured in.
For a moment, the air was filled with the smell of blood.
"Lu Zhinian! Ah Nian!!" Jiang Suichu saw Lu Zhinian's chest stained red, his pupils trembled, he cried and screamed and fell to his knees on the ground, grabbing the hemp rope with all his strength and crawling toward Lu Zhinian.
Zhang Yi was already crazy. He pulled out the dagger from Lu Zhinian's chest, then walked towards Jiang Suchu with red eyes, and kept shouting: "If you kill you, Brother Long will give me something, kill you...kill" Kill...Kill!! Kill them all!!"
The moment the dagger was drawn out, Lu Zhinian spat out a mouthful of blood. He reached out to hold Zhang Yi, but as soon as he raised his hand, it dropped heavily.
"Jiang Suichu, run!" He shouted hoarsely to Jiang Suichu.
But where could she run? Zhang Yi dragged her towards the building: "Little girl, your mother won't choose you. What's the point of living?"
"Let me help you get rid of it. This world is so boring." As he spoke, he laughed sinisterly, with dark and unclear emotions in his eyes.
I don't know if these words were meant for Jiang Suchu or for himself.
"Suibao!" Shu Yuan saw Jiang Suichu being pushed to the edge of the building and covered her mouth in fright.
"Sui Sui!" Li Liyun also knelt on the ground and kept crying, "No! No!"
Jiang Suchu was already hanging in the air, and she looked down. She did not look at Li Liyun, but at Shu Yuan.
She shed tears and kept mumbling an apology: "Aunt Yuan, I'm sorry."
boom!
Suddenly, a gunshot rang out, and the bullet hit Zhang Yi between the eyebrows.
Jiang Suchu watched Zhang Yi's pupils suddenly widen in front of him, and blood flowed all over his thin cheeks. It was as horrifying as what he saw in zombie movies.
Then as he fell, Jiang Suchu lost his strength to hold him and fell backwards.
"Jiang Suichu!!"
Lu Zhinian screamed and crawled towards the edge of the building with all his strength, the blood on his chest leaving long marks on the ground.
But it was still too late. He watched Jiang Suichu fall like a fallen leaf.
Then there was a dull sound as the heavy object fell.
Before he completely lost consciousness, he vaguely heard Shu Yuan crying Jiang Suchu's name desperately and sadly.
Jiang Suichu….Jiang Suichu…
