Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve

Step by step, he fell into the maze designed by Jiang Lan, unable to extricate himself, and unable to extricate himself, he fell into her arms resignedly and willingly, becoming her bloodthirsty and murderous tool.Jiang Lan asked her to remember: "Your body must always obey the command of my heart." The evening paper of that day published the events that happened that night.The general content is: Last night in a certain residential area, a middle-aged woman committed suicide and died.The news also added some background information, saying that the woman's husband died 10 years ago, and she raised two children alone, one son and one daughter. She was originally financially struggling and her life was difficult, but she was notified of her layoff two days ago and lost her job. The reason for her suicide.

It's the newspaper that Dad brought back.Wu Bingbing even stuffed the newspaper under the sofa after reading it—although she only read ten lines at a glance, every word and sentence was engraved in her mind. She didn't want to read it again, as if she was afraid that others would see it.For three days in a row, she didn't go out and locked herself in the room, her heart was torn by self-blame and regret.She couldn't tell anyone about the ins and outs. That morning, Wu Bingbing's cell phone rang—no one had called her for a long time, and the sound startled her.A hoarse voice, as if suppressing his throat, said that he wanted to see her.

Wu Bingbing asked: "Who are you? Why?" The man didn't answer and coughed twice on the phone. "Speaking?" Wu Bingbing asked anxiously. "You'll know when we meet." The man said, "Dongfeng Qiaotou." Then there was the busy tone of the phone hanging up and beeping.Wu Bingbing was a little flustered, she had an ominous premonition, but she still calmed herself down and mustered up the courage to go. When she came to Dongfeng Bridge, she stood there and looked around. There were passers-by in front of her, and no one came up on her own initiative.She didn't expect that at this time, under the electric pole not far away, there was a thin man in black squatting, staring at her like an eagle.When she finally saw him, she couldn't help but froze: that was Xu Miaomiao's brother.

He stood up and swayed towards this side.As his head swayed from side to side, his ass also swayed like a fish's tail, completely like a punk. When Wu Bingbing looked at him, he was a little timid at first, but he immediately bit his cheek and said fiercely: "My name is Xu Xiaoquan, and I'm here to tell you that the old lady has already melted." Wu Bingbing thought, he is here to make trouble. "What? What happened?" "If you don't understand it, it's cremated and buried." "Oh, what a pity—" "You seem to know that my mother is dead?"

"No, I do not know." "Don't know? Are you not surprised?" "Oh, yes, I read it in the newspaper..." "The newspaper didn't even list the name? How do you know who it is?" "Yes—I think, when you say it, I reckon it's her—" "Stop pretending! You should know who killed my mother. What, I am talking nonsense? That night, I saw you go to my house with my own eyes. It was very late, my sister went to bed early, maybe my mother gave you a prescription You entered the room without saying a word. I don’t know why you came to my house so late, but I thought it was to let my sister learn dancing or something... Anyway, I went to bed very late, and you still haven’t left in the middle of the night.”

"You misread the wrong person. The person who went to your house was not me." "I'm not mistaken. When you entered my mother's room, I stared at you from the window." "It's just that I have been to your house, and I went there for business. Can you prove that I killed someone?" "But my mother died at night, and you were the only one who visited my house at night." "Your mother committed suicide. Why do you doubt a good person? Why should I kill her?" "I also think that you have no reason to kill her. But if you commit suicide, it must be because you said something you shouldn't say to her, which made her sad and desperate."

"Why me? I didn't say anything!" "You didn't say anything, so why did you come to my house? You said you were a dance teacher—in fact, after you went to my house for the first time, you haven't come for a long time... I don't know why, I went to you, no I found it. I looked for you again these two days, only to find out that you are not a teacher at all, and the juvenile officer does not have you..." "Oh, dear! What do you want? Tell me?" "I think... Anyway, the old lady is dead, maybe I will be freer in the future. You must know that when she is not dead, she often scolds me for being incompetent, not following the right path, and scolding me for fooling around with the little hooligans in society... Now she is dead , I don’t want to pursue so much, as long as I can live well in the future. Besides, I also want to raise my sister, don’t you like her very much? Give me some money, and I won’t talk about anything. "

This is blackmail, Wu Bingbing thought bitterly.How did he know my phone number?By the way, I wrote to his sister.Thinking of the situation she was facing, she was both nervous and frightened, her head went numb, and she couldn't think of any way to deal with this naughty Xu Xiaoquan.The most direct worry is the possible danger, fearing that I will cause trouble to the whole family because of myself.Besides, murder is a capital offense. If she can't explain herself clearly, she will have to go to jail and die.After much deliberation, she finally decided to compromise and not make a big deal out of it.She asked the other party bluntly, how much do you want?Xu Xiaoquan said 50,000.Wu Bingbing asked loudly, is this a little money?Xu Xiaoquan said that it is a little bit for you.Wu Bingbing asked when?Xu Xiaoquan said that he would do it tomorrow.Wu Bingbing said okay, I'll give it to you.If someone died in your family, you have the right to condolences.

In this way, Wu Bingbing gave Xu Xiaoquan 50,000 yuan the next day. I didn't expect the trouble to come next.After Xu Xiaoquan received the money, he called Wu Bingbing, saying that he now fully understands that she really killed someone. Wu Bingbing also understood, he just saw her go to his house that night, he just doubted her, he just tested her and frightened her, he didn't expect that she was really guilty, and she really used money to block his mouth, so that he was convinced She literally kills.Thinking of this, she cursed herself as a fool and a pig. She took out 350,000 yuan from the tuition her father had saved for her in four installments, and after giving all of them to Xu Xiaoquan, the other party asked for a fifth sum of money, which was 300,000 yuan, saying that this was the last time.

Wu Bingbing was about to collapse.She really wanted to stop here and let Xu Xiaoquan report to any public security bureau, so let him go!It's a big deal!But when I think about it carefully, this matter has become a big one, not hers alone, but involving her parents and the whole family.Just bear it, fortunately this is the last time. There was still 50,000 yuan in her account, and she withdrew it all—the money was originally intended to be used when she was going to study abroad. Now that her affairs are in a mess, she will never go abroad again.Xu Xiaoquan didn't want to find enough money, so she ransacked the box at home and found a sum of money hidden by her mother, 150,000 yuan.But it's not even close.She dared not ask her parents for it, and was so distressed that she couldn't think of a way.

What happened before and after made her angrier and angrier the more she thought about it.She felt that she blamed Jiang Lan for causing her to be like this.Full of resentment, she ran to the museum that afternoon and stood in front of the painting, gnashing her teeth to vent her anger. "It's all about you, it's all about you... I was blackmailed, blackmailed over and over again, saying that I was a murderer. But you did all of this! Didn't you let me listen to you? Just listen to you Is this the result? Now, only you can make it clear that I am not a murderer; only you can prove my innocence and know that I did not do it. I beg you to come out! Whatever it takes, just tell the truth, Otherwise I will be tortured day and night." She raised her head and looked at the painting.The woman was very indifferent and did not move. "Come out quickly!—why don't you come out when I need to talk to you? Why do you keep following me when I don't want to see you? Are you scared too? Or why don't you come out? I said, If you come out, you will come out immediately. I have no patience to wait for you. Now it is extremely urgent, and someone else’s knife is about to reach my neck. Do you know? If you don’t come out, you’d better never come out. You will die inside, Rotten in it!——You are dead, you dare to do something, you don’t dare to do it, and you are a coward if you are a ghost! Damn bitch! Die!—” After yelling at her, she saw that there was no response, so she had to leave in discouragement. When she got home, she just received another call from Xu Xiaoquan, so she stuffed the money she could find into the box and went to the meeting again without hesitation.This time Xu Xiaoquan didn't meet outside, he took a room in a private hotel next to the gas station in the northern suburbs.Although she was a little suspicious, she bravely went upstairs and entered the room, threw the money at him, and said, "That's all, stop here!" Xu Xiaoquan dangled a bunch of money in his hand: "That's all, it's fine, no money... Is it not enough... Let's just say it, you have to sacrifice yourself to play with your buddies once." When Wu Bingbing was about to leave, Xu Xiaoquan rushed to block the door.He pushed her to the corner and squeezed her with his body.He took her by the shoulders with both hands, and gazed obscenely at her.Desire made his face flush, and the pimples on his face seemed to burst, making Wu Bingbing disgusted. When Wu Bingbing was pushed down on the bed and that face was shaking above her, she felt the humiliation and anger she had never experienced before.Her eyes shot fire, she raised her head and bit his shoulder hard.Xu Xiaoquan yelled, but she didn't let go.When he finally pushed her away and stood up, there was a hole in the shoulder with the clothes and flesh, and the blood flowed out like a fountain.This angered Xu Xiaoquan.His face was distorted out of shape, he attacked from left to right, kicked and beat Wu Bingbing with both hands and feet, and kept swearing. Wu Bingbing's head hit the ground continuously, her face was soon covered with scars, and blood came out of her mouth; before she could get up, she was kicked to the ground again, and after rolling back and forth on the ground a few times, her body flew up again and hit the ground. On the chair, ribs cracked.Then her mouth was also gagged, and her clothes were almost stripped off. Her whole body was in unbearable pain, and her chest was so tight that she was about to suffocate.She stopped moving, but was pulled into the bathroom again.Xu Xiaoquan tore off the tarpaulin and spread it on the ground, dragged her feet and threw her on the cloth, panting heavily and viciously said: "I'm going to kill you! Kill you!—" "Ding dong! Ding dong!—" Suddenly, the doorbell of the room rang.Xu Xiaoquan was taken aback for a moment, then stopped. "Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong!—" The doorbell kept ringing, Xu Xiaoquan was a little nervous, squatting there.But the doorbell rang endlessly, as if it would keep ringing if the door was not opened.He hurriedly tidied up, closed the bathroom door, took a deep breath, walked over, and opened the door amidst continuous noises—only thinking that whoever it was, as long as it wasn’t a policeman, would scold him—but the door opened, The bell stopped ringing, and there was no one to be seen except for a gust of wind blowing head-on.He cursed and kicked the door hard. When Xu Xiaoquan went to the bathroom, he twisted the lock but couldn't open the door; when he turned around, he found a woman with disheveled hair standing behind him; thinking that Wu Bingbing had run out, he rushed to grab her.The woman turned her face away, her eyes were yellow, her complexion was purple, her mouth was full of blood, and her fangs were thick... Xu Xiaoquan immediately fainted from fright, limp on the ground like a rice bag.The female ghost rode on him, bent her waist and lowered her head, bit off his neck with one bite, stretched out her sharp fingers to open his chest, tore out his heart, pulled up the hem of her skirt, and put it inside. into the cloth bag inside. The moment Wu Bingbing woke up, there was a burst of yelling.Someone helped her up from behind and gave her a few sips of water to calm her down.At first, she thought it was a hotel waiter, but when she looked carefully, she realized it was Jiang Lan.For some reason, Wu Bingbing cried. Jiang Lan no longer looks like a female ghost, but has completely become the elegant and quiet woman in that painting.She put down Wu Bingbing, walked to the window with an indifferent expression, looked at the gradually dimming sky outside, and seemed to be waiting for others to speak.When Wu Bingbing saw the bloody Xu Xiaoquan on the ground, he cried out again. "Do you want to call someone over?" Jiang Lan said, "Then I'm not afraid, it's you who are being arrested." Wu Bingbing quickly fell silent, and asked in a low voice, "He—is he dead?" "Dead. What? You don't want him to die, do you?" "No. Damn him, damn him. He tried to kill me just now—" "Hmph, I didn't come, you are already dead. But, you are still protecting his family. I told you to kill that girl, but you didn't listen to me. You don't kill others, but others want to kill you!" At this time, she heard a siren sound from far and near.Standing by the window, Jiang Lan stopped talking, looked out from behind the curtain, and saw a police car coming downstairs of the hotel.Jiang Lan said: "It's broken, the people in the hotel called the police, you have to leave quickly." Wu Bingbing panicked, quickly wiped the blood off her face, picked up the box and opened the door.But it was too late, she heard someone coming from the other side of the corridor, and hurried back.There were chaotic footsteps outside the door.Someone said as they walked: "There is a woman who screamed loudly. It was half an hour ago, but now she has no sound..." Wu Bingbing whispered as if hurt: "It's over, it's over! I will be arrested—" Suddenly, there was a compact knock on the door, which was very heavy. Someone shouted: "Open the door! Open the door! Police!" Wu Bingbing looked at Jiang Lan nervously: "What should I do?" Jiang Lan said: "Promise me, you will listen to me from now on?" "As long as you don't let me kill." "Hmph, go talk to the police!" As she said that, Jiang Lan jumped out of the window and disappeared. Wu Bingbing yelled: "Don't go! Help me! I listen to you!" Jiang Lan appeared again, standing outside the window hanging in the air: "From now on, obey me? Don't talk to me about conditions? Don't go against my will again?" "Okay, whatever you want!" Wu Bingbing shouted, holding her head, "Hurry up and find a way!" As soon as the words were finished, Jiang Lan jumped into the room, and with a flick of her skirt, she flew out of the window, leaving behind the loud sound of the door being kicked open. Wu Bingbing felt plunged into the belly of the wind, and the clothes all over her body were inflated by the wind, making a "beep, beep, swish" sound.When she opened her eyes, she was still startled.They were flying over the roofs of one building, crossed a street diagonally, and flew towards another building.She saw Jiang Lan stretching out her arms, flying like a big bird, and her body was wrapped by Jiang Lan with a belt, her hands clasped on her chest, her teeth chattered in fright.Jiang Lan asked her to let go of her arms, and she tried to stretch them out carefully, as if she had spread her wings, her body became much more relaxed, and she no longer felt nervous. At this time, it was getting dark, the street lights on the street were on, there were many cars and pedestrians, and people who had been busy all day were rushing home.Jiang Lan didn't look at this, she yelled, laughed, flew freely, and occasionally rolled over.Wu Bingbing looked at her enviously.Following Jiang Lan's example, she raised her head and raced up to a higher place. After a while, she said another word, and immediately dived down.At this time, she screamed with excitement, and looked at Jiang Lan with admiration and gratitude. They flew over one street after another, over one piece after another of houses, and when they flew to the intersection in the city center, they deliberately circled twice around the giant light stand in the middle, and then chased the tram coming from the other direction. for a while.Then I flew to a new urban area and saw the brightly lit shops and restaurants below. Crowds of people went inside, and groups of people came out bulgingly.All the people in the street were busy walking, as if no one had noticed them, and no one, except a child or two, looked up at the sky.When they were flying, a cloud of black mist blew up from nowhere, it was the stench from the chemical plant, so they cursed and flew high like arrows. Looking down from a height, the crowded city made Wu Bingbing feel a sense of strangeness.Those streets are like tiny ditches, all the vehicles have turned into big and small beetles, and pedestrians are wriggling like bees and ants, and they have burrowed into the beehive-like buildings and ant-hill-like bungalows one after another. . How wonderful it would be if people could fly!I really want to fly like this and never go down. "Only angels and devils can fly, if you can't be an angel, just be a devil!" Wu Bingbing was taken aback.Jiang Lan said don't be afraid, of course I know what you are thinking! Jiang Lan said loudly: "Let me take you on a long-distance trip!" Afterwards, they flew out of the city, across ponds, over forests one after another, over large and small hills, and shuttled among the white clouds.They looked up at the moon in the sky above, it was so big, orange and transparent, they really wanted to fly up there in one breath.There are countless stars all around, so bright and clean, I really want to reach out and pick one.When they looked down, the ground was covered with darkness, and the cities and villages were huddled in pitiful clumps, like grasses breeding with fireflies.Flying endlessly, a group of wild geese suddenly came towards them. They intercepted them mischievously and broke up their formation. Jiang Lan even grabbed a feather of the wild goose, which made the wild goose that fell behind screamed mournfully . Bingbing knew that they were flying north.I have already flown over the green fields in the south, and all I see when I fly forward are the bare fields after autumn.She felt that the wind in the sky was getting stronger and stronger, the air was getting colder and colder, and something like ice had formed on her face.They flew over the vast plains and to the rolling mountains.After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Lan took her down.She saw a big river, and flying forward, it was a mountain peak filled with clouds and mist.They stopped in front of the outermost mountain, and then circled around the top of the mountain, seeing the villages and houses below the mountain.Bingbing felt very familiar, as if it had appeared in a dream.Bingbing asked where is this?I have been here.Jiang Lan didn't answer, saying that it is impossible for you to have been here, it is 3,000 kilometers away from your home!Bingbing opened her mouth wide in shock. When they were about to return, they passed a small city when they suddenly heard shouts.Look closely at a street corner where three gangsters are chasing a girl.They grabbed the girl and kept picking at her clothes.Two people flew down.Jiang Lan strangled a man by the neck and flew into the air, hanging him upside down on the billboard on the top of the fifth floor.While he was crying and screaming, the other two men ran away with their butts dripping.When Wu Bingbing went to help the girl, the girl was so frightened that she pushed her away, didn't even pick up the shoes on the ground, turned around and ran away in the other direction, turning her head back in fear as she ran. When they flew up again, Wu Bingbing couldn't help laughing when she remembered the scene just now.Jiang Lan's laughter was even louder, and they soared into the sky amidst their laughter. When they returned to the city where they started, it was already dawn, which meant that they flew all night, and Wu Bingbing didn't feel tired or tired at all, she had never been so excited.They stopped for a while at the house in the western suburbs of Jianglan.Jiang Lan remembered something, took out a beautifully packaged gift box from it, and then the two flew away again.When flying to a brand new apartment building, Jiang Lan handed her the things, saying that there is a friend living in room 601 upstairs, today is her birthday, and she has died, so giving her a gift Let her be afraid; ask Bingbing to take this gift box to her, not to mention that it was given by Jiang Lan, but by another female classmate of theirs. Jiang Lan stood there waiting, Wu Bingbing quickly ran to the building, went upstairs and knocked on the door of room 601, a beautiful woman in pajamas opened the door for her after a long time, she was very surprised when she saw her , After listening to her explain the reason, I accepted the gift box, and closed the door without even saying thank you. When seeing Jiang Lan, Wu Bingbing was still wondering.However, before she could ask, Jiang Lan said that she was surprised to see you because she knew you.Wu Bingbing was confused and said that I had never seen this woman.Jiang Lan said, just because you haven't seen her doesn't mean she hasn't seen you.Speaking of which, she pulled Wu Bingbing into the air, and they flew around the building, and finally stopped outside the window on the 6th floor. Because the curtains were drawn, they couldn't see anything inside. Jiang Lan told her that it was just now. That woman, let's admire her and look at the gifts. Jiang Lan breathed lightly, and the curtain cracked from the inside, and she pushed Wu Bingbing's head to let her look in.Wu Bingbing saw the woman sitting on the sofa, talking to someone in the back room while unpacking the gift box. When the gift box was opened, the woman fell out, and it turned out to be a pair of bloody internal organs, which made her scream loudly; The people in the back room hurried out.Wu Bingbing was stunned, it turned out to be his father.She saw that her father was also wearing pajamas, and the frightened woman threw herself into his arms. Jiang Lan whispered in her ear, "Your father's colleague, someday you will kill her!" Afterwards, Jiang Lan took her and flew away again.When she was placed downstairs in their house, she still didn't realize it.It wasn't until I walked into the house and opened the door that I took a breath. As soon as the door rang, my mother rushed over and said anxiously, "Where have you been? I haven't slept all night. I called your classmate's house, but I didn't see you. I wonder if you are staying at Guo Kai's house." , but his home phone is broken and has been unable to get through. Your father was away on a business trip yesterday, and the phone that called him was turned off, which made me panic to death. I remember Guo Kai went for an internship, has he come back?" Bingbing said weakly: "I don't know. I live at a girlfriend's house. It's okay, mom, I'm okay. You can sleep for a while!" Then she went into the house. She closed the door, stood in front of the window, and said to herself: "How could this be?" After all, she covered her face with her hands and cried.