Diamonds

Anything human is probably inseparable from animal nature. ——Akutagawa Ryunosuke "The Dwarf's Words"

Zheng Ke lurked beside the animal trainer.

The audience's attention was temporarily focused on Xie Qiuqi and the lion, and few people noticed Zheng Ke.Even the animal trainer didn't care about his surroundings, so that Zheng Ke had already touched behind him, but he still didn't notice it.

Zheng Ke hid patiently in the shadows for a minute. He hunched over and squatted in a corner ignored by the spotlight. His black eyes were hidden in the darkness—he only had one chance. There is a chance of fighting back and surviving.

Finally, the animal trainer took two steps back, his eyes still focused on the lion.Then he stopped and shouted excitedly to the lion, instructing the beast how to deal with the enemy.His face turned red, he kept waving his hands, imitating biting movements on his mouth, wishing he could fight for the lion and Xie Qiuqi, no one was more annoyed than him when he saw his beloved animal lose.

The next second, the surrounding air changed, and the animal trainer felt a gust of wind on the back of his neck. He instinctively wanted to shrink his neck, and a sharp dull pain fell from the sky, hitting his stamina.His eyes widened in surprise, the last movement he made.Until this moment, he didn't expect that there was a person behind him, and the display screen in his sight was turned off by pressing the power off button, and it went black with a bang.

Before closing his eyes, he seemed to see the attacker looking down indifferently.

Zheng Ke snatched the electrified collar from the animal trainer's hand.There wasn't much time left for him, he gasped for breath, proudly puffed up his chest, his fingers were hot, and ran towards Xie Qiuqi, throwing the collar over——

"Qiuqi! Next—"

The commentary's reaction didn't keep up—

"Wait a minute, what happened just now? Xie Qiuqi got the electric collar! It was Zheng Ke who snatched it from the animal trainer, which is simply too unexpected. I'm afraid Alpha will be at a disadvantage, but the electric collar is it The nemesis. It took less than 5 minutes, and our challenger has already taken the advantage. It is really too careless of the animal trainer, but does this count as a foul? What about the referee? Let's see Will the referee call a violation..."

Sure enough, the referee blew the whistle, signaling Xie Qiuqi and Zheng Ke to stop.Xie Qiuqi had no time to put the collar on the lion's head and had to get off the lion's back. The referee immediately took Alpha back from his hand.

"It's a foul to hurt the animal trainer, please accept the penalty for the two challengers," said the referee.

Xie Qiuqi snorted: "Didn't it mean that there are no rules and no time limit? Zheng Shihua was farting just now?"

The referee said bluntly: "It is absolutely not allowed to hurt the staff."

Xie Qiuqi understood that the so-called "no rules" actually means that the rules are determined by the organizer of the competition. As long as the situation is unfavorable, one or two rules can be added to change the competition at any time.

Fighting beasts was just an excuse, Zheng Shihua didn't really want to know if Xie Qiuqi could defeat a lion, he just wanted to use beasts to kill people.Of course, it would be great if you could enjoy a little bit of pleasure in the process.

Zheng Ke protested: "I'm just now adding an explanation. Are there any people like you? We have subdued this beast. We won. Zheng Shihua, a villain, has the ability to stand up and fight us!"

The referee didn't take him seriously: "Since we've arrived at the Colosseum, it's up to you to decide—ah!"

The rascal went on to say that he was knocked down to the ground by Zheng Ke's involuntary punch.Zheng Ke didn't give the other party a chance to resist, he pinched the other party's neck and pressed him directly to the barbed wire of the cage.The referee was so frightened that he didn't expect that he would even dare to hit himself. Zheng Ke lifted him from the ground by holding his neck, and punched him a few more times in the face——

"What the hell are you? How dare you talk to me like this? A cockroach who is used to living in the gutter, thinks he can ascend to the sky. Call me that old bastard Zheng Shihua, and I will settle the score with him myself!"

The referee shouted loudly: "Rebellion! Rebellion, beat the referee—"

The scene started to get out of control.The audience who had never seen a referee was ignited. I don’t know who yelled "Good job!", which caused more people to start cheering for Zheng Ke and Xie Qiuqi. The excited crowd tried to rush to the edge of the stage, thinking See clearly the beating situation.These monkey-like people climbed up the barbed wire with hands and feet, moved their limbs agilely and quickly, stretched their necks, widened their eyes, and looked into the cage.

On the other end of the microphone, the commentator panickedly calmed down the emotions of the audience——

"Please maintain the order in the venue! Please maintain the order in the venue!"

Soon, a team of ten armed bodyguards approached the cage, and it was time to arrest someone.

Xie Qiuqi hurriedly led the lion over, turned over and rode up again: "Zheng Ke, come up! Capture Zheng Shihua!"

Zheng Ke put down the dizzy referee, followed him up the lion's back, and the two ran towards the door of the cage.Even with the traction of the collar, the lion was still not very obedient. Two big living people were pressing on its back, which made it very impatient. It kept shaking and stood up, trying to throw Xie Qiuqi and Zheng Ke off.Zheng Ke almost couldn't hold the leash, and his stomach was overwhelmed by the jolt.

Seeing the bodyguards getting closer and closer, Xie Qiuqi scooped up a piece of No. 45 offal from the ground and threw it towards the cage door in desperation!

As expected, Alpha was calm and jumped towards the food. His thick and strong lion claws slammed on the wire door, scaring the bodyguard who had just arrived and backed away.Xie Qiuqi was worried that the bodyguard would shoot him, so he yelled at the lion and knocked the door open: "Alpha, let's go!"

The lion slapped the half-open door lock again, and the door opened.

The king of all beasts finally got his freedom, and rushed towards the human beings who regarded him as a plaything.In its eyes, everyone present is rich and fresh food, and tonight will start a hunting feast and have a delicious meal.It opened its scarlet and brutal eyes, and roared to the sky.

The scene was completely out of control.Shouts and screams exploded in the auditorium, and the crowd dispersed like wild animals, fleeing desperately towards the gate.The slow runner was squeezed on the ground by the fast runner, and countless footsteps stepped on his head; the man abandoned his woman and fled with her head in her arms, and the woman cried bitterly when she couldn't find her man.

The lion knocked away the bodyguard without any scruples, opened its mouth to bite the nearest staff member, and chased the next one.An ordinary spectator was slapped by it, and his neck was broken. His companion fell less than ten centimeters away from him, and passed out on the spot after rolling his eyes.A woman pushes another woman whom she has never met before into the lion's mouth to buy herself time to escape.

The Colosseum turned into hell in an instant, and the bloody mouth of the beast descended with the breath of death.

Xie Qiuqi rode on the lion, looking for Zheng Shihua across the crowd.

The staff members were persuading Zheng Shihua to leave the venue, but the lunatic seemed to have no sense of danger, and he cheered for the lion with bright eyes. The bodyguard tried to force him away, but he broke free. He stepped on the commentary platform, raised his arms, and Shouting words like "kill them to death".The commentator was frightened by the maniacal smile on his face, and crawled away on the ground with hands and feet.

"Qiu Qi, over there!" Zheng Ke pointed at Zheng Shihua.

Xie Qiuqi pulled the leash and was about to change direction: "Alpha, let's go—"

A lane was quickly diverted from the crowd, and the lion ran forward in two steps, heading towards the commentary stand where Zheng Shihua was standing.

Yet change came faster than the pace of the beast.Suddenly there was a gunshot behind him, and the lion trembled all over, and suddenly stood up straight and let out a cry of pain.Xie Qiuqi secretly thought it was bad, the lion had already fallen - the bodyguard's bullet hit its brain from the side, and it had no time to struggle, and immediately lost all its mobility.

Xie Qiuqi and Zheng Ke fell off his back, and a dense rain of bullets hit his feet.The two rolled over on the ground at the same time, hid behind the seats in the auditorium, and avoided the bullets through the row of seats.The bullets fired by the submachine gun smashed the back of the soft chair, and the padded cotton wadding splashed and flew, and snow fell on the two of them all at once.

Zheng Ke yelled as he prostrated: "Why haven't the shepherds come here yet? Are you fucking making guns?"

At this time, he was still in the mood to joke, Xie Qiuqi said: "I can't care about that much, let's take down Zheng Shihua first."

Mountain.and Sanxi.

However, this situation does not allow them to decide at all.The bodyguards had already rushed up, Xie Qiuqi regretted not taking that bulky vest at this time, maybe it could block bullets.The opponent had at least one rifle in their hands, and seeing that a pincer attack quickly formed, blocking them in the middle of the aisle.The two guns moved one behind the other, blocking all exits.

Xie Qiuqi secretly thought it was bad, and instinctively rushed forward to protect Zheng Ke, and the gunshots happened almost at the same time.Zheng Ke's three souls lost seven souls, only thinking that Xie Qiuqi blocked the gun for him and died, so he turned over without hesitation, only to see two bodyguards fell to the ground.

"It's late! I'm sorry—" The two killers at the end of the aisle shook their hands at them.

It's time to die.Zheng Ke gritted his teeth: "Why did you go?"

Andrew walked in front and quickly cleaned up the bodyguards. Del pulled Xie Qiuqi up and helped them go out, while explaining: "Someone followed the carjacking on the way, maybe it was to hold us back, and it took a while to deal with these rats. Don't worry, He Lianzhu Duan Li and her went to take another exit to prevent Zheng Shihua from cunning. My God, what the hell is this place, is that a lion? Why is there a lion in this place—”

Zheng Ke stubbornly wanted to settle accounts with Zheng Shihua: "I'm going to kill that old bastard myself!"

Del couldn't stop him, so he had to protect him with Xie Qiuqi to find someone.

With just a few words, Zheng Shihua was no longer on the commentary stage, and the four of them walked around the stage several times without finding anyone.

Andrew grabbed a staff member: "Where is the person?" It was just an ordinary bookkeeper, and Zheng Shihua hadn't even spoken to him.

At this time, He Lianzhu's subordinates rushed in: "Mr. Zheng! It's not good——"

He led Zheng Ke and the others hurriedly away from the backstage. This was another exit from the Colosseum. In the narrow space, only the howling ghosts and howling wolves could be heard. They passed through the underground sewer and could vaguely hear the sound of riots.

The guide had a serious expression on his face: "It leads to the warehouse of the Diamond Bank. Someone deliberately guided the panic-stricken spectators there. When Sister He found it, the door of the warehouse was wide open, and the fleeing spectators were scrambling for diamonds! All of them There are too many, they are all ordinary people, Sister He dare not shoot casually, and can only watch them run with diamonds..."

Zheng Ke almost couldn't catch his breath, and even Xie Qiuqi choked.

It's no wonder that when they came here, they felt that the location was close to the Diamond Bank. Xie Qiuqi also found it strange that it was too risky for Zheng Shihua to open the underground Colosseum here in such a bustling location as the racetrack.After all, it's a bad thing, wouldn't it be better to choose a remote and desolate place?Staying away from Zheng Shihua has long been thought about, what he can't get, Zheng Ke can't get it either!

They chased to the warehouse and were shocked by the mess everywhere.All the safes were opened and almost ransacked. There were a lot of leaked diamonds scattered on the ground, as if someone had just smashed a mirror here.Someone also smashed a display case made of reinforced glass and took the jewelry inside.Even though Zheng Ke was mentally prepared, his blood pressure was still high.

——It was simply banditry, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as locusts crossing the border.

Zheng Shihua and the bodyguards escorting him were running to the main entrance of the warehouse, but He Lianzhu and his men had already blocked there, making it impossible for the new Chairman Zheng to get out of his company's warehouse.Four bodyguards surrounded him, blocking him airtightly.

"Zheng Shihua——" Zheng Ke was furious, and the roar echoed continuously.

The bodyguard turned around and shot at them, and the scattered diamonds splashed and scratched Zheng Ke's ankle.Zheng Ke didn't even evade, he raised his gun and confronted the bodyguards.The angry bullet immediately hit the bodyguard's forehead. The bodyguard was stunned and fell down with his eyes open.

Zheng Shihua finally appeared, knowing that he had no escape, he sighed——

"Ake, are you really so unwilling to let me go?"

"It's you who refuse to let me go. You don't want to let our family go. What right do you have to ask me to let you go?" Zheng Ke replied.

"Are you really going to kill me?" Zheng Shihua smiled: "I am your uncle, your father's younger brother, you killed me, you are also a blood relative murderer, there is no difference between you and me, Do you want to too?"

"You threw me into a lion cage and drove me to a dead end. Just now your bodyguard pointed a gun at me. Even if I killed you, it was self-defense. Even if the police come later, I can say You died in a riot. There was an accident in the illegal beast fight you organized. There is still a big dead lion under it as evidence for the police. At that time, you will be dead anyway, and I will still be alive. Only the living will be alive. A chance to speak for yourself. And you..."

Zheng Ke deliberately delayed his tone: "You can only confess in front of my parents and brother, and see if they will forgive you."

Zheng Shihua took a deep breath: "Why do you still not understand? I don't need anyone to forgive or understand. I never regret what I have done, because I know what I am doing. Don't take me as a lunatic, I am not a lunatic , I know exactly what I'm doing. Do you think Alpha didn't know what he was doing when he killed number 45?"

"Drop your weapons and raise your hands to surrender." Zheng Ke was too lazy to listen to his theory.

Zheng Shihua looked at him deeply: "One day, you will experience this feeling. Ake, when you are strong enough, when you become that lion, the way you look at things will be different Yes. You will feel the joy when you bite through the neck of your prey, tear their belly open, pull out the intestines... At that time, you will become a jungle wherever you are."

"I say it one last time, surrender!"

"Unfortunately, Alpha is still dead. I like it very much. Do you know? Alpha has a naughty side. It likes to tease its opponents first, then slowly exhaust the opponent's physical strength, and finally bites the prey to death. .I like this very much, probably all cats have this preference. Can you say that Alpha is guilty? Do you understand how he feels when he is playing with his opponent?"

"It's an animal, that's just its natural instinct."

"We are animals too. People always forget that people are animals too."

From behind, He Lianzhu hinted at Zheng Ke with his eyes that the policeman is coming soon, and the battle will be resolved quickly.

Zheng Ke took a last look at Zheng Shihua: "Maybe what you said is right, Second Uncle. But in this hunt now, I am the lion and you are the prey."

He pulled the trigger and the gunshots rang out.The moment the bullet was ejected, Zheng Ke's mouth went numb from the recoil of the gun.

Zheng Shihua groaned and was shot in the thigh. He couldn't hold himself up and knelt on the ground.The bodyguard wanted to rush up to help him, but was subdued by He Lianzhu's men who had been prepared in the back.Zheng Shihua hugged his thigh, thinking that Zheng Ke missed the shot, and smiled triumphantly: "Ake, your marksmanship is too poor..." Zheng Ke pulled the trigger again, and the second bullet hit Zheng Shihua's shoulder.

"I told you, I will return every bullet hole in my parents' body to you." Zheng Ke said flatly.

The third shot hit the waist, and the fourth shot landed in the lower abdomen.Two bullets shot into the left hand, and two bullets pierced the right hand.The ninth shot hit the face.Zheng Shihua covered his face and twitched in fear, but he opened his mouth but made no sound.

There was only one bullet left in Zheng Ke's gun, and he aimed at Zheng Shihua's forehead.

The quick shots made his hands tremble a little, and his fingers trembled slightly.Originally, this little fatigue was not worth mentioning at all, so he gritted his teeth and pressed it down. A hand stretched out to cover the back of his hand, and his index finger passed through the trigger port to press against his index finger, lending him a little strength.

Xie Qiuqi smiled, and Zheng Ke felt his warm palm, and his heart brightened.

"boom--"

The author says:

Ake finally got his revenge, but the Zheng family suffered heavy losses.