The Last Killer

Amid the whistling of the helicopter's propellers, the incandescent beams of the onboard searchlights shot down from a high altitude and swept back and forth.Then came seven or eight police cars with flashing dome lights and long sirens, galloping on the highway in the middle of the night.

"There it is," said the helicopter pilot, as the searchlight beams bit a speeding black Land Rover.It drove recklessly and aggressively on the road east out of the urban area, and seemed to completely ignore the joint pursuit of the city police and the FBI.

Leo squinted his eyes for a few seconds, making sure it was the car they had spotted on surveillance video.But he couldn't be sure who was in the car, because in the two hours before and after, the car disappeared from the sight of traffic surveillance three times, the longest time was 12 minutes It was this car that he was in when he left the scene, and he had plenty of time to escape.

Apparently Rob had similar thoughts. "I guess that kid slipped away a long time ago, maybe he's having a candlelight supper with the 'insidious jackal' in a secret villa right now, and we're still hungry chasing an autonomous car." He said with a look on his face. He complained gloomily.

The scene he described unfolded out of thin air in Leo's mind, and details such as "together" and "candlelight" flashed by, which made the black-haired detective very upset, as if he kicked his partner from the cabin door. The urge to go down.

"Shoot it, stop it!" he said into the micro walkie-talkie.

Under the double attack of helicopters and police cars, the Land Rover crazily rushed for a few kilometers, and was finally forced out of the roadbed and stalled at the riverside.Heavily armed commandos surrounded the car door with dozens of guns aimed at it.

The car door opened slowly, a pair of raised hands stretched out first, and then a young man stepped down from the driver's seat.

Asian, black hair, delicate features, strange face.

Rob looked up and down a little suspiciously, and felt that the figure was quite similar, so he made a questioning look at Leo, "Do you think he is wearing a new mask again?"

Leo ignored him, he knew that this person was not killed.He couldn't tell the specific reason, but he was confident that if the other party was really killed, he would be able to recognize it immediately even with a hundred new masks—now his sense of kill had far surpassed the limitations of the visual organs, and entered a kind of You can only understand the unspeakable realm.

There was no second person in the Land Rover. Surrounded by gunpoint, the young Asian man showed nervousness and panic that he tried his best to conceal. Before he could say a word, two special police officers rushed forward and pinned him down. On the hood, the handcuffs were locked with hands cut backwards.

"This guy is just cannon fodder." Rob patted his forehead with his palm regretfully.

The cell phone rang suddenly, and the old melody was so familiar that it was thunderous: "There is a jailbreaker on the other side of the mountain and the sea. He is lively and smart, and he is mischievous and clever. Hey, detective who is on the hunt, Come and answer the phone!"

"—and the microphone." Leo said blankly, stepped forward and took out a mobile phone from the captive's jacket pocket, quickly pressed the call button, and ended the triumphant singing.

"Honey, haven't you had dinner yet? I haven't eaten supper either." Sha Qing said in a brisk tone.

Leo ignored the other party's provocation and said bluntly: "Enjoyer is dead, and you will be avenged, but no matter whether you plan to wash your hands or continue to make trouble, you don't need to put on such a posture. What do you want to do?"

"What to do?" Sha Qing laughed, "Needless to say, a 'crazy, stubborn, arrogant, perverted psycho killer' like me is of course going to do everything possible to take revenge on the society." Before Leo could answer , He then said: "Now, get on the plane, fly high, look north, I'm going to set off fireworks."

Leo frowned and hesitated, then turned and walked towards the helicopter.Rob followed in bewilderment.

The helicopter flew to an altitude of [-] meters, and Leo stared at the city lit up in the night with sharp eyes, feeling an ominous premonition in his heart.Sure enough, after a short period of calm, a huge group of bright lights burst out suddenly on the edge of the city, and the roar was long overdue. Rob opened his mouth wide in astonishment: "It was... an explosion! Fuck, where did it explode?"

His cry came into the microphone, and Sha Qing giggled: "An ugly prison, a rotten tomb. Don't worry, seven out of ten in it are scum, and three are perverts. Living is a waste of social resources." .Look, I've saved the federal government another big--big buck."

Leo's face was covered with a terrifying haze: "Rex Island! You blew up the Rex Island Prison!"

"To be precise, the sinful fifth district." Thanks to Gan's parting gift.He originally thought that the gifts of the killers in jail would be daggers and pistols at most. Who would have thought that under the floor tiles of the laundry room in District 4, there was actually a lump of dough-like C10 plastic explosives and a disassembled detonating device hidden?Before escaping from the prison, he installed the wiring; [-] minutes ago, Chanier's miniature submarine arrived at the bottom of the water near Rekers Island, holding a remote-controlled detonator, only waiting for his order.

"...You are really crazy." Leo took a deep breath as if lacking oxygen, closed his eyes tightly, and when he opened them again, his eyes were cold.It's expected, isn't it, I have predicted it a long time ago——

"He's no different from any other psycho: kills, and enjoys it. One day when he finds that he can't find his intended prey, he can't control the desire to kill, and he starts on innocent people, I can be 100% sure! Kill! This kind of thing, as long as you start, there will be a pair of invisible hands pushing you, forcing you step by step to the day when your life ends!"

And this day finally arrived irreversibly.

"I thought you've been chasing and investigating my past for so long, you should have known. Do perverted killers always have a dark childhood? Isn't it always shown on TV? You see, our grievances and hatred should also be settled. Yes. This firework is the letter of war I sent you, you and I must decide the winner, and the loser will pay the price of his life."

"Finish!" Leo yelled, like a cry of pain, but also like an angry warning.

The other party just responded with a few vague chuckles: "Come on, Leo, let's fight! In order to make this battle more interesting, I will give you a little hint so that you can find me faster.

The hint is - 'Christmas alone'.Come on, baby, or I'll be bored waiting and start setting off fireworks again. "

There was a beeping hang-up tone from the phone, and Leo's face turned pale.

Rob stared at him dumbfounded, not knowing what to say: "He...what is he going to do...what should we do now?"

"He wants to finish with me." Leo said indifferently, "I will arrest him, or... shoot him dead."

Rob froze.

"The call he made with his mobile phone. Our people found the broken mobile phone by the bridge, and it was there." Rob pointed to the bridge across the river not far away, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "No wonder Knowing everything we do, all he needs is an ordinary telescope."

Looking at the jagged steel bracket above the bridge, Leo muttered to himself: "Christmas alone..."

Rob was a little confused, but still continued, "No, tomorrow night is Christmas Eve. This Christmas will be spent with crime and police cars again."

Dawn gradually appeared in the sky, but the clouds became more and more cold and drooping. After a while, Leo felt a little bit of cold wetness on his face.He looked up and it was starting to snow.

There seemed to be a flash of light in his mind, and he quickly grasped it. It was an inadvertent conversation——

At that time, it was still "Li Biqing", and his parents' empty apartment had just gained some popularity. They were lying on the back of the same sofa, drinking beer and aimlessly flipping through TV programs...

Does it snow in New York in winter?Looking at the snow scene in the soap opera, Li Biqing asked casually.

Down, every year around Christmas, sometimes earlier.Leo said.

Molly should be back by then, and we can spend the holidays together.Li Biqing said.

Leo was silent for two seconds, then smiled faintly: I can't tell, I am on call 24 hours a day, and I have to leave with just one phone call.You know how I spent Christmas last year when some idiot students got drunk and planned to have a festive killing contest and called the FBI office for my professional advice on the rules of the contest.At that time, my team members and I braved the heavy snow and searched for most of the night in an abandoned playground on the outskirts of the city, and finally found those idiots one by one.You see, my job is sometimes a lot more tedious than you think, right?

Li Biqing tilted his body and rested his head on his lap.If there are any more idiots like this this Christmas, I'll help you clean them up, and we'll come back together for the holidays when it's over.The boy drank beer and said with a smile, your Christmas is just like our Spring Festival, and you have to spend it with your family after all.

"...Christmas alone." Leo let out a long breath, with a trace of indescribable exhaustion.He rubbed his dry eyelids with his fingertips, turned to Rob and said, "I know where he is."

"where?"

"I can't tell you for now, he asked me to go alone."

"Just you? Are you kidding me? Are we going to eat roast turkey by the fireplace while waiting for the good news of the lone hero!" The green-eyed detective raised his voice to express his strong disapproval.

"If he finds out that the police are trying to round them up, he will definitely run away before most of them arrive, and then make a few fireworks like the one just now. You know how stubborn he is." Leo said lightly.

Rob lost his temper, and muttered in a low voice: "Just fight with what someone has."

"So it's settled. I will wear a satellite positioning device. You will monitor the whole process. Be careful to keep a distance of more than two kilometers before I send out a signal."

The light snow fell sparsely, and most of it melted before it hit the ground, and the air became more humid and cold.

Leo drove alone to a large amusement park on the outskirts of the city that was closed due to poor management.He parked the car outside the rusty iron gate and walked in empty-handed.The blue bricks on the ground of the playground were broken and overgrown with weeds. The faded carousel and the decapitated clown sculpture glared at him viciously under the gloomy sky. A little farther away was the skeleton-like Ferris wheel.

He stood in the dead square for a while, then walked around a few times.There was a few faint movements from somewhere, but it was like the sound of wind. He looked around vigilantly, but found no other people.

Could it be that I misunderstood the reminder of killing?Leo stopped, thinking carefully, suddenly his pupils shrank, and his fingers subconsciously reached for the holster inside the suit.

"Merry Christmas, dear." A man's voice sounded behind him, young, sharp, and elegant, like a sharp knife painted with exquisite patterns.

Leo clenched the handle of the gun, turned slowly, and looked at the person coming: "Finish."

Sha Qing didn't wear a mask, and used his original voice. With his hands in his loose trouser pockets and a light gray hoodie, he looked like a leisurely college student. "I'm glad you didn't have all the cops come along," he said, "so there's only one light bulb left."

Bulb?Who is he talking about?Leo was startled, followed Sha Qing's line of sight, and cast his gaze to the side and rear.

In mid-air at a height of seven or eight meters, the door bolt of a dilapidated pirate ship suddenly fell off, and a figure rolled down from it, and was hoisted by the rope tied to his body, hanging in the air.His arms were tied behind his back with hemp rope, his mouth was sealed with tape, and he struggled desperately while screaming and kicking his legs.

—Rob!Leo almost cried out.Didn't you tell him to stay behind and wait for the signal? Why did you disobey the order and follow him secretly!Clearly, doing this has offended Shaqing, and the slight movement he heard just now should be the sound of Rob being tied up after being subdued by Shaqing.

"Put him down!" Leo said in a deep voice, "The matter between us has nothing to do with him, let him go."

"And then wait for him to bring a large group of people over? I don't like asking for trouble so much."

"Finishing! He's Rob! I thought that if you weren't friends, you should at least have some friendship. Are you really good at him?"

Sha Qing sneered: "I not only have friendship with you, but also have sex. When have you ever shown mercy to me!"

Leo seemed to be choked, and paused: "Those between us...those——was a mistake from the beginning."

"I think so too." Sha Qing nodded slightly, with an unpredictable expression on his face, like the surface of absolutely calm water, making it impossible to guess the emotions in it. "Pastime can only be pastime. Once you play too much and take it seriously, bad things will happen one after another. I have known you for more than a year, and I have been injured for half of my life. I was hurt by you Tossed in jail—"

"That's what you want to get in! You made the entire public opinion and law enforcement departments go crazy, and I almost lost my job. Didn't you just use the insiders in Rex Island Prison to find Enjoyer's whereabouts? right?" Leo gritted his teeth.

Sha Qing shrugged: "The problem is, I just want to go in for a few days of vacation, but you want me to be a permanent resident. You see, we are natural enemies from ideology to behavioral habits. Since the contradictions can never be reconciled, then Just get rid of it. Seriously, Leo, apart from other factors, I am still quite sexually interested in you purely in terms of physicality, but unfortunately... I have a bigger interest in other things besides you interest."

"Like killing people?" Leo asked sharply.

Sha Qing pursed his lips and tilted his head, looking handsome and harmless: "That's right, you are very smart, Leo, but you are not the only smart person in this world. I think I can find other capable, skilled, Smart and brilliant people as replacements to brighten my spare time."

Seeing the black-haired detective's gaze dimming inch by inch until finally turning into cold and desperate ashes, Sha Qing laughed happily like a child whose desire to destroy was completely satisfied: "I thought you would pounce on me and beat you up!" Me, just like before."

Leo was silent for a long time like an ice sculpture, and finally said: "I don't want to touch you again, even with fists."

Sha Qing snorted indifferently, "Then use other weapons to decide the outcome! But first, I have to get rid of the light bulb."

The moment Sha Qing's fingers moved slightly in his trouser pocket, a warning of extreme danger pierced into Leo's nerves like a blade.He pulled out the pistol as fast as he could in his life, and at the same time he found that the opponent's muzzle was raised one step earlier than his own.

——Even if it is only a few tenths of a second earlier, it is a fatal advantage!

He intuitively judged the direction of the muzzle of the gun, as if he saw the trajectory of the bullet cut a crack in the air, and found that the end point of the bullet was not himself, but Rob who was hanging in the air behind him!

It wasn't until the gunshots sounded that he realized that what happened just now was not just an imagination in his head, it just happened without hesitation and with extreme ruthlessness!

When out of the corner of his eye he saw the blood spraying from Rob's left chest, Leo's mind went blank.His index finger was like a soldier thinking independently, and he pulled the trigger before his brain gave instructions.

Sha Qing staggered back two steps, looked down at the front chest, the light gray cloth was quickly soaked by the gushing blood, showing an unusually dark and hopeless dark brown.He blinked his eyes, with a pained blankness on his face, and looked up at Leo again——Leo's gaze was not on him, but rushed towards Rob, raised his hand and shot to break the rope, Catch the falling partner's body.

He pulled out a very faint smile at the corner of his mouth, and the gun fell from his hand.

"Rob!" Leo pressed the bloody wound of his partner tightly with his palm, while tearing off the tape on his face, "Cheer up, man, I've signaled for backup, you can't die!"

Rob broke free from the rope with both hands, panting heavily, and shouted out of breath: "Don't, don't shoot! Leo, he's not..." He tore at the front of the front until the buttons popped off, and took the clothes hidden under his clothes. The secret was exposed before Leo's eyes, "He used blank bombs, and he even stuck a bag of plasma on my chest!"

Leo froze.He retracted his hands in confusion, looking at the dark red blood stains on his hands, his ears were filled with the roar of a collapse.

"He's playing tricks on you again! I don't know what this bastard is trying to do, but you..." Rob breathed a sigh of relief and helped Leo stand up, "You just shot?"

Leo replied without thinking: "I didn't—" Then his expression froze instantly.

He fired a shot!

Perhaps for his well-trained right hand, which turned fighting into instinct, the object of the counterattack was an extremely dangerous criminal who was killing people.

Perhaps at that time, concern for Rob's life and safety occupied all his thoughts.

Maybe after witnessing what the other party did before and after the conversation just now, he has completely despaired of the conclusion of playing with people's hearts and treating people's lives like nothing.

Perhaps at the moment of complete despair, he once had the idea of ​​killing the other party.

But... when this idea became reality like a nightmare, he felt a huge emptiness and fear, as if his body and spirit began to disintegrate, as if the whole world collapsed and ceased to exist...

He fired... toward kill?Finished? !

As if dominated by an indescribable force, Leo turned around abruptly, almost crawling towards the gray figure on the ground with hands and feet.He knelt on the ground, held up Sha Qing's upper body, blocked the blood hole in his chest with one hand, and stretched out the other tremblingly towards the carotid artery——

Faint pulsation, breath as thin as a gossamer, it's still alive!

Leo looked at Sha Qing who was in shock and lost all blood.There was still a slight afterimage of a smile on the corner of the other party's mouth, like the relief and relief of getting what he wanted, but also like the self-deprecating and helpless of failing to succeed.

This ray of laughter was like the sharpest weapon in the world. Leo was hit by the pain of shattering his bones, and buried his face deeply in the opponent's neck.He wanted to cry, to roar, to destroy everything - including himself, including this malicious world - countless boiling, churning, painful thoughts, and finally condensed into a tight hug.

The sound of helicopter propeller whistling came from above, and the support troops on standby two kilometers away arrived soon.Rob came over and patted Leo on the shoulder reassuringly.

Leo raised his head, his expression was sharp and serious that Rob had never seen before.He picked up the unconscious Sha Qing, rushed towards the helicopter in three steps at a time, and shouted at the pilot: "Go to the nearest hospital, quick! Quick!"

The helicopter took off quickly, and Rob's hind feet were almost thrown off, and he quickly grabbed the hatch and sat firmly.His gaze shifted from the unconscious Shaqing to the distraught Leo, and finally he sighed and said, "Don't blame yourself. If it were other gangsters, you wouldn't even be able to hit the heart at such a close distance. I don’t know how many times I’ve died hundreds of times. You can’t kill him at all, but he kills you again and again, you’ve done your best.”

Leo seemed to have never heard of it, but just stared at the person in his arms, gently stroking the corner of his lips with his bloodstained fingers, smoothing away the strange smile.

What do you want to say to me, kill?I know that behind those fake masks, in your truest will, there are many things you want to tell me, there are many things you want to say to me... Speak, I will hold your hand and listen carefully, and I will always remember it in my heart , Let them become the common secrets that belong to you and me, so... Please, survive and kill!