The Last Killer

Luo Yi glanced at the blue light screen of the car radio, it is now 12:45 in the middle of the night.

Illuminated by high beams, the Interstate stretched on silently and endlessly, with black wilderness on both sides, and the occasional shadow of a bush or two floated by.If it weren't for the white line on the road flying back from the corner of his eyes, he would almost have the illusion that the car was standing still.

It was so quiet, uncomfortably quiet.He reached out and turned the button of the radio - there was no sound, and he didn't know when it broke.

Just when he was about to hum a song by himself, a figure suddenly appeared in front of the windshield.

The slammed brake pads hissed sharply, and Luo Yi's body bounced hard on the driver's seat.The steering wheel was turned too sharply, and the centrifugal force made him feel like he was going to turn the world upside down, but fortunately, the car finally stopped.

The guy who almost caused a disaster can be seen in the headlights, a tall black dude, wearing a hooded long-sleeve T-shirt with a messy pattern, which at first glance looks like an abstract oil painting After a closer look, I found that it was a group of skeletons with missing arms and legs.But Luo Yi felt that the T-shirt was quite normal compared to the jeans with the metal chain on his lower body that were horribly matched.

The man jumped over in two or three steps, bent down and pressed his face against the car window, bent his knuckles and tapped.

Luo Yi cautiously rolled the glass down to the width of a palm, and accused him in shock: "Do you know that this is dangerous? If you want to commit suicide, please change to another car. My car has been overhauled three times, and it will cost me a second time." Straight into the junkyard!"

The man grinned his bright teeth under the shadow of the hood: "If I hadn't stood in the middle of the road, your Chevrolet would have whimpered past, just like the cars in front."

That's because you stand by the night road without lights, like a dark chocolate bean dropped into a Coke bottle.Luo Yi complained in his stomach, but his good self-cultivation still made him ask with a pleasant face: "Do you need help?"

"Of course there's no one in the whole world who needs help more than me - I got kicked out of my car by a bunch of drunk bastards whose alcoholic brains thought it was a joke and hell they took my car away Got it! I'll probably have to find it in some pond or between two trees tomorrow! That's how my last car was scrapped! These sons of bitches..."

Luo Yi frowned, wishing that the window could add a foul-speaking shielding function.Apparently, the guy who started swearing and greeting other women's relatives wasn't much nobler than his jerk friends.

He was tempted to step on the accelerator and walk away, but unfortunately his intention was detected before he could carry it out.

"Hey man, come on! This place is only two cars an hour, I don't want to walk all night in the middle of nowhere... How about a ride? Just see a gas station or a motel I'll get out of the car." The man begged.

Through the car window, Luo Yi saw his burly figure and the bulging muscles under the cotton T-shirt, hesitated for a moment, and finally unlocked the car.

"Thank you Satan!" The man opened the car door, jumped up, onto the passenger seat, and stretched out his right hand, "Quinn."

Luo Yi reached out and touched his ring in the shape of a skull and a poisonous snake, "Li."

"Chinese? Korean?" Quinn looked at him sideways: 23, four years old, or a little bit up and down, with good facial features, black hair cut neatly, wearing well-regulated casual clothes, looking clean and soft like a young man A high school student leaving school.

"Chinese." Luo Yi nodded and smiled slightly, with a hint of gentleness and restraint unique to oriental nations.

Oh, mother and father's good baby, good law-abiding citizen!Quinn bared his teeth mockingly.

The car restarted, and the speed gradually increased to 80 mph, exceeding the maximum speed limit on the interstate.

He wished he could rush to a place where there were people, and then drive me down.Quinn thought smugly, he's nervous because there's only the two of us here... Hey, he's afraid of me!

A gloomy excitement welled up in his heart, and after a brief silence, Quinn said, "It's boring to drive all night alone, isn't it?"

"No way, work comes first." Luo Yi replied.

"There are not many people who think like you. There have been fewer and fewer vehicles on this road recently, because of what happened—" Quinn made an exaggerated gesture of cutting his throat, and stuck out his tongue at him, "Ka ! Do you know about it?"

Luo Yi bit his lip, looking a little uneasy, "There are reports in the media," he whispered as if he was afraid of disturbing something, "They call him 'Night Road Killer'."

"'Night Street Killer', that nickname is so stupid, my friends and I call him 'Night Devil'. He is a cool guy - disguised as a pedestrian in need, stopping cars at the side of the road in the middle of the night ...and the next day, people will find a well-meaning unlucky guy hanged upside down from a tree beside the road, with two cuts on his wrists, his stomach disembowelled, and his internal organs hanging all over his body..." Quinn's voice He became more and more depressed, and his body leaned over, as if he wanted to better observe the reaction of the young man next to him—he was looking straight at the road ahead, and there was no obvious expression fluctuation on his face, but he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and his Adam's apple slid up and down. A sign of nervousness, anxiety, or fear.

Quinn smiled with satisfaction, and continued this interesting topic: "Four people have been sacrificed, and the police haven't even touched a single hair of his—he's an elusive genius!"

"Sacrifice...what do you mean?" Luo Yi asked reluctantly, and at the same time glanced at the big black man beside him: under his T-shirt were lumps of bulging muscles, his arms were almost twice as thick as his own, and his neck There is a tattoo, most of which is hidden in the collar, and the exposed part looks like some kind of evil creature.

Quinn could tell that his temporary traveling companion didn't like this topic very much, but he still spoke up, perhaps because of his usual politeness, or perhaps because of the atmosphere and psychological pressure.

The latter made him explain with more gusto: "He bound the ankles of the man, hung him upside down from a tree branch, then bled and dug out the water like a lamb, and finally drew a pentagram on the ground directly under the corpse. , write the name of the victim in the middle - this is a ritual sacrifice to the devil in the black mass."

Luo Yi forced himself to focus on driving, but couldn't help but retort: ​​"It's not necessary to write such details in the newspaper, it sounds like the content of a clumsy religious novel."

Quinn laughed: "Oh, of course the newspaper didn't publish the details, and they're not the parties involved."

Luo Yi slammed on the brakes, and the tires groaned like dying on the concrete floor.Quinn wasn't wearing a seat belt. His head hit the roof of the car in front of him, and he yelled, "Damn! What are you doing?!"

"A car in front broke down," Luo Yi turned around and said, "Didn't you see the man and woman waving?"

What broke down on the side of the road was a new black Volvo. The driver was a blond man in his 30s. He was wearing a dark gray suit that looked very valuable and carried a briefcase in his hand. A personable white-collar elite.

"My name is Alden." He extended his hand gratefully to Luo Yi who got out of the car, and then introduced the young girl beside him, "This is Jessica, we met three hours ago. She wanted to take my car Going to Lamar Town, and ended up being delayed here together."

"What's the problem?" Luo Yi gestured to his car, "Can it be fixed?"

Alden shook his head, "I suspect something is wrong with the fuel gauge. It always showed enough fuel along the way, which caused me to miss two gas stations."

"It's still, uh... about half an hour away from the next gas station, maybe I can try to tow it there?"

Obviously, Alden didn't want to leave his new car on the side of the road and wait for dawn to deal with it. He accepted the suggestion and asked his girlfriend's opinion in a very gentlemanly manner.

Jessica bit her gum and shrugged: "I don't care, it doesn't matter whoever takes the car anyway." She was a pretty girl with attractive brown curly hair, her skin was a little dry, and her eyes were covered with foundation. Living in a blue-black shadow, it seems that he is always exhausted from lack of sleep.

Luo Yi found a wire tow rope from the trunk, buckled the two cars, and started on the road again.

There were two more people in the back seat, the original feeling of loneliness faded away, at least Quinn didn't continue that creepy topic, Luo Yi drove slowly, and his mood improved a lot.

Along the way, the three of them chatted about irrelevant things without saying a word. The girl kept rubbing her eyes and yawning in the back seat, leaning crookedly on the man next to her.

Luo Yi noticed that Alden moved towards the car door.He seemed a little repulsed by physical contact with the girl, even though her breasts were as plump and round as a pair of peaches.

The half-asleep girl seemed dissatisfied with his dodging, and moved a little closer, almost lying on his lap.

Luo Yi saw Alden's expression: embarrassment, helplessness, and a faint trace of physical disgust.

He couldn't help but want to laugh, but suddenly met the other party's gaze in the rearview mirror, those blue eyes were as beautiful as a clear sky without shade.

He saw me looking at him, and he knew what I was suspicious of.Luo Yi quickly looked away, and a faint, ambiguous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Four and ten minutes later, they arrived at a small gas station.

The young man in overalls was woken up from his sleep, and he came over to help them fill up the gas tank with an uneasy face, muttering, "Are you going to drive all night..."

"Of course not. I'm so tired that I can fall asleep when I fall down." Luo Yi rubbed his sore shoulders, "Is there a motel here? I want to rest for a few hours."

The young man collected the money, and pointed listlessly not far ahead, "Just across the road, there is a Rainbow Hotel." He left them and went back to the room.

Luo Yi turned around and asked, "What about you?"

"I don't walk at night." Quinn said first.

Alden hesitated for a moment, and looked back at his car, which was filled with gas. Jessica had already moved to the back seat of the Volvo, and fell asleep logically.He sighed softly, "Forget it, I'll go too, and I'll start again at dawn. I have to settle this girl down."

As a result, there were four more midnight visitors in front of the counter in the lobby of the Rainbow Hotel. The proprietress came out in her pajamas to check in, and muttered, "A group? Two rooms are enough, all with double beds."

"No, we need four rooms." Luo Yi said, "We...we're not very familiar with each other, we just met."

"There are only two rooms left, and the rest have not been renovated yet!" The proprietress stopped writing and stared at him sleepily. "This girl," she tapped the dangling Jessica with the tip of her pen, and asked suspiciously, "Could it be that you abducted her?"

"Oh no, of course not! She's just sleepy." Alden hastily pulled off Jessica's arm hanging on him, trying to shake her awake.

"I think she seems to be on drugs." The proprietress said coldly.

Jessica flicked her curly long hair a few times, seemed to be a little sober, and screamed irritably: "I didn't take drugs! I just drank some alcohol... just a little bit! Which law stipulates that adults over the age of 21 People are not allowed to drink alcohol?" She patted the counter with her slender palms painted with black nail polish, and suddenly giggled: "Do you sell alcohol here—" She leaned forward and blinked the color deliberately Thick eyelashes, "The kind with added stuff?"

Alden groaned softly between his brows, and stretched out his hand to pull the girl back with sloppy steps, "Two rooms, just two rooms, she has one room, and the three of us squeeze together."

Jessica took his arm and yelled like singing: "We live together, they live together, oh oh, we make love, they fuck..."

Luo Yi just bought a can of juice from the vending machine next to him, sprayed it on the floor with a puff, and coughed hard.

Alden awkwardly grabbed the key on the counter, pulled the girl who was laughing and singing, and went straight to the room, "Okay be quiet Jessica, good girl, shhh, be quiet... shut up... I said shut up Mouth!"

Quinn looked at their backs and made a very regretful expression: "I want to share a room with her, she must be so hot that she can suck your soul out..."

Luo Yi pretended not to hear, and took the key to open the door.

The room is very small, barely fit into two single beds, a wardrobe, a small round table, and a pair of sofa chairs. The walls are pasted with dull wallpaper, but fortunately, the bedding is neat and clean.

Quinn followed behind and entered the door. His huge body made the already narrow space even more tight, creating a feeling of oppressiveness.

Luo Yi sat on the outer bed, physically exhausted, wishing to dismantle every muscle and bone and spread it flat on the sheet, and sleep unconsciously for several hours.But another presence in the room made his nerves hard to relax.

Quinn seemed to enjoy making people uncomfortable, and the more anxious the other person seemed, the happier he was.He walked back and forth in the room, humming a strange and piercing tune, while taking off himself to only a pair of underwear, revealing his dark and bulging muscular body.

God, this guy is tattooed from head to toe, it looks like a steel tower that was ruined by a graffiti club.Luo Yi thought gloomily, maybe I should go back to the car and go to sleep...

Just as he was about to get up, there were several knocks on the door.He walked over to unscrew the handle, saw Alden standing outside the door, and smiled at him calmly, "Can you come in."

Quinn had a look of disbelief on his face: "You left that girl in the room? You idiot, freak... Fuck, are you glass?" He slammed into the mattress with a bang, and angrily pulled the sheet, " Damn, I really want to kill you!"

"Don't pay attention to him, he's just jealous." Luo Yi tilted her head to signal the man at the door to come in, "The bed is not too big, let's make do with it."