Cai Ji, as can be seen from his name, can only be said to be a little evil person who cannot stand on the stage. Although he had poor grades in high school and a fairly honest personality, he made some bad friends after graduation and working. Not only did he like to dye his hair, smoke, and go out at night, but his behavior also became bad.
However, at best, it is just stealing some goods from the supermarket and smashing a few glass windows. Such behavior will not be seriously pursued. To put it bluntly, he didn't dare to do anything "beyond the limit". Cigarettes are allowed, but drugs are not allowed; bad mouth is allowed, but fighting is not dared; theft is allowed, but killing is not dared. The situation among his friends was roughly the same. No matter how much they bluffed verbally, they only had this much courage.
Therefore, even Cai Ji himself could not explain what happened in October. He only felt that there was some kind of weird atmosphere permeating the city at night.
The moonlight was dim and they were slightly drunk. They wandered the streets like a pack of wolves wandering in the wild forest. Then they naturally thought: they were looking for hunting targets. No one said it out loud, but everyone had an indescribable tacit understanding.
At first, he just whistled and said some obscene words to the female white-collar workers passing by, such provocative actions. Because the other party appears very wary, they dare not actually implement anything.
The second target was a couple. The man looks gentle and cowardly, so he is easy to bully. But after all, there are two of them, and it would be troublesome if one of them escapes.
——Why is it troublesome to let people run away?
They themselves have never thought about this.
The third, fourth, fifth time, each time, their words and deeds were more outrageous, but the target was always inappropriate, so nothing was done. But every time it happens, inexplicably, I feel more and more excited, and my blood and brain are gradually boiling.
They continued to wander dreamily. The streets at night were as empty as a ghostland. Suddenly, a lonely girl appeared at the end of the street, looking around in panic like a young deer straying from the herd.
Ah, yes, yes, this is perfect.
Like fish attracted by bait, they swam there in unison, a sense of drunkenness filling their minds.
Get this girl and do it.
Although I had no idea what exactly should be implemented at that time.
But I can’t bear to put it off any longer, and I must do it tonight.
As a result, because of the inexplicable female rider, it was not completed in the end. Fortunately, the opponent didn't seem to hit him too hard. Cai Ji lay on the ground for about a few minutes and didn't feel any pain when he woke up. No external injuries could be found, and no red lotion was needed. He was obviously kicked five or six meters away, but he didn't even get a bruise. This was really lucky.
After that night, Cai Ji never participated in overnight tours again. Those companions stopped contacting him, and it seemed that everyone was escaping from the memory of that night.
Looking back on what happened at that time, he just felt that there was no sense of reality.
Those were indeed actions he chose to make, but he didn't think about the consequences at all at the time. It can only be said that he was obsessed with it. What on earth was he going to do to that girl? Looking back, he couldn't explain clearly, he just trembled subconsciously.
That is by no means an apology to the victims, but a fear of one's own fate.
In this way, Cai Ji hung around at home in fear for a few days, doing nothing and going nowhere. But the living expenses sent by his parents gradually ran out, and he had to contact a restaurant owner he knew well to work part-time to earn money.
After he spent a month of hard work washing dishes for a living without incident, his panic gradually dissipated.
Until that day.
The restaurant's closing time is nine o'clock in the evening. The entrance to the kitchen is not far or close to his residence, and there is not much difference between taking the bus and walking. Because he was afraid of walking at night, he used to take the bus every night. It wasn't until he completely calmed down that he began to feel that there was no need to waste the money.
The quickest way to walk home is through an old residential area. Cai Ji usually didn't take it seriously, but when he walked by that night, he realized that the area was so deserted that it was chilling. He searched around without finding any obvious surveillance cameras.
Even if someone kills himself here, I'm afraid there won't be any evidence left. This thought made Cai Ji shudder. He quickened his pace, trying to escape the area.
Just then, he heard a ticking sound coming from his right.
It was an illusory sound, and it could be confused with the sound of footsteps if you weren't paying attention. But since childhood, from the first time he heard the number of the dice while gambling, Cai Ji has been proud of his hearing.
If not, he would have ignored it and walked away as if nothing had happened.
He turned his head to the right.
Blink.
At first glance, I actually saw nothing. There is an alley between the two streets. It is as dark as ink, and the muted light of the street lamp cannot penetrate at all.
The sound of dripping, ticking, like water dripping from the outdoor unit of the air conditioner came from the depths.
The bottomless darkness caught his eye and drew him closer step by step. By the cold light of the full moon, he saw that the alley was filled with something.
It's a piece of meat.
Yes, pieces of meat, like fresh from the slaughterhouse. Most of them are cut into pieces, and it’s hard to tell which parts they are at first glance. However, the injured arm hanging on the window sill and the lower leg falling next to the sewer are undoubtedly certain parts of the human body.
He found eight or nine pieces of "meat" with such clear origins at a glance. The internal organs, large and small, were strewn all over the floor, like a bunch of funny, crudely made dyed rubber balls, half filled with water and soaked in red paint. Half of the man's head was resting on the ground, and his intact left eye was staring at him, still wandering around.
Miraculously, he felt no fear or nausea at all.
The first thought that comes to mind is: these "meats" have been freshly chopped.
Because deep in the alley, the gurgling red stream is flowing out.
When she traced the red stream to the end, she was standing there, holding her helmet under her left arm and holding a long blade in her right hand. Before outsiders arrived, she stood beside the blood stream, looking up at the sky as if she was resting.
Until she looked at Cai Ji, the woman's face retained a bored expression as if she was bored, and her slightly frowned eyebrows looked even more charming in the moonlight.
However, after looking at Cai Ji for a few seconds, her brows widened, and a smile more intoxicating than the moonlight appeared on her melancholy face.
At that moment, Cai Ji's frozen emotions suddenly burst out. He screamed desperately, turned and fled towards the main street. He seemed to have hit something like a telephone pole along the way, and his left leg was swollen for several days, but he didn't feel any pain when running.
Go where there are people. That was all he could think of at the time.
After stumbling a hundred meters away, with no chasing footsteps behind him, he finally had the courage to turn around and look back.
She stood under the streetlight outside the alley, looking at this side from a distance, with no intention of chasing him. The light was very weak and the distance was not close, but Cai Ji could clearly see every detail on her face.
Unlike her tight-fitting rider outfit, she has an exceptionally beautiful face. Even when he was witnessing a murder, there was no trace of panic on his face. The nonchalant expression and the posture of leaning on the sword and tilting her head all showed that she was calm.
Cai Ji stared blankly for a few seconds, then turned around and continued running away.
The last impression engraved in his mind was the bright and brilliant moonlight and the pure and beautiful smile on her face.
