Water lanterns and dreams in 1 nights

Kill me, the next one to be cleaned up is him.After clarifying this point, there is nothing to be afraid of, he is tied up, and I have no worries. "

That was the end of the conversation for the day, and we stopped midway until he put the black veil back on me, and the van jolted away to the next place, where my real prison was.

55. Pierrot 14

When I opened my eyes, I was here.In a dark closed room, the doors and windows are tightly closed, making it difficult to distinguish between night and day. Here I am, either tied to a chair, or given medicine by Elo to make my limbs weak. He is so cautious, Simplify the interior layout to the extreme, without any non-essential items, not even lights, most of the utensils are fixed on the wall and cannot be taken down, there are no knives and glass products, and there are no towels, only toilet paper. It's as if Ello put me in a special cell and then came in with me.

The head of the cell, that is, Elo himself, slept in the same bed as me, and of course there was no second bed in the room.I was drowsy for a while, and it was difficult to tell the date clearly after waking up, repeating mechanical behaviors every day, waking up, simple meals, and falling asleep again, what he gave me was just enough to fill my stomach Water and food, without too much conversation, it was even difficult for me to tell whether he was really by my side in those few days or whether he was a phantom under my fuzzy consciousness.Occasionally when I woke up and lay on the bed, I heard him walking across the room. Often I just woke up a little, and he immediately came to my side to check my condition. Except for the most basic conversations, no matter how much I asked him, there was no need. a word ofI guess that's exactly one of his purposes - to mess with my head.After the initial chaos of getting used to it, and he also figured out just the right dose to invigorate me but wake me up enough, that's when we started having real conversations.

—The first step in rebirth is death.

Elo moved me to a chair in the living room and sat down cross-legged on the ground in front of me. He nimbly pinched my calf with his fingers to check my physical condition. Maybe I would have some vitality Will kick him, but I think I'm a little tired, so I give up, "Muscles don't atrophy so easily."

Without looking up, Elo said, "I know, I'm just checking." He fiddled with me, found nothing unusual, and stopped.

—You have to die once before you can come back to life.

Elo took the remote control out of his pocket and turned on the projector. A faint blue light from the machine shone on the white screen. "Look," he said to me, and I closed my eyes.

"Look." He said again, emphatically, sounding more threatening.

Wu Ji's huge face full of fear and pain filled the screen, and seemed to be trying to get out of the screen.I don't like watching this.I do not want to look.

"This man calls you around day and night, as if you were his humble little pet. He wastes time and scolds you. He ignores your value and robs you of your dignity. Before we met, he entered the newspaper office for more than a year. , have you ever done even one important thing?"

"I am temporarily inexperienced."

"You have to accumulate experience to come out, but he suppresses you and refuses to give you the slightest chance to get ahead. He hates you very much, unless you are an idiot so you can't see it."

"To be fair, Wu Ji's bad temper does not distinguish between humans and animals. Except for his superiors, he is unfriendly to everyone, not just me."

"Keep lying to yourself," Elo posted a few more photos, all of which were bloody death scenes. "He doesn't treat Jin Dongshu like that. They still go to drink beer together after get off work."

My fingers twitched nervously, and I managed not to let Elo see, but he still said: "Yes, I know Jin Dongshu. The powerful, young, and heroic female reporter Jin Dongshu. I was the first to kill her , However, the big meal is only valuable if you put it in the back."

"You can't find her." I don't even know where she is.

"Then let's try it." Elo was noncommittal, "Speaking of which, for a reason or not, Woody messed up your life."

"You, messed up my life." I said word by word.

"It depends on which angle you look at it, my dear. I see it as a rescue, which is a bit of a hassle, but since it's a way to get you, it makes sense."

"Save me from what? From a normal life? Woo Ji and I are superiors, he orders me to do things, I get paid, there is nothing to complain about."

"Don't complain, it's your fault."

"Usually we call this a virtue."

Elo grunted and rolled his eyes, "It's all bullshit. Do you know who cares about so-called virtues? Stupid. Can't change their situation, and dare not say it to others, pretending to be Honest and honest, he works hard and bears no complaints, and when he is full of complaints and no one dares to speak, he comforts himself, at least his morals are higher than others." Elo grabbed my collar and pulled me down to him, and gently pressed his cheek against mine , Said kindly: "You can't be the same as them, you are much better."

I sneered in my heart, but it was just what he thought.

"The news of Wu Ji's death is the second message for you. Have you unlocked the box that was sent to you the first time?"

I shook my head, and I saw Wu Ji's distorted and purple face again from the corner of my eye, I frowned, I really didn't want to watch it any more, so I sat up straight again. "I got something, I just don't know what it means."

Elo rolled up my sleeves with a smile and gave me a hand massage, "Don't worry."

I asked him to tell me the answer with a deadpan face. He just pretended to be mysterious, "There is no rush, we still have a lot of time together anyway."

"The police will come."

"They do." Elo sneered, and I stared at his fingers pressing on my wrist. "Where's my watch?"

"You don't need that."

"I want to check the time."

Elo shrugged and didn't make any particular rebuttal. He went into the bedroom and took out a watch with a white dial and silver hands ticking forward. Elo put it on for me and looked at it for a while. "It suits you very well. I haven't seen you wearing it very much. Whose gift is it?"

"It's not a good watch if you buy it in a mall and wear it for playing." I lowered my head and adjusted the angle of the strap.Elo stared at me for a while, then said abruptly, "I guess you've always wanted to know about Liu Zhiyuan's situation."

"what happened?"

Elo wrinkled his lips in dissatisfaction, "You need to be more urgent."

I tilted my head, "Okay. Please tell me what's going on outside."

Elo wasn't too pleased with my performance, but now he was too eager to share the news with me to find fault with me. "Jerry Liu is dead," he said briskly, "the only possible witness, or suspect. ——My dear little reporter, you disappeared, and the whole city is in chaos."

I can guess that the situation must be bad.The last visitor interviewed alone, the newspaper office where he works has just had a murder case; the added drink, the traces of fighting in the bathroom, I guess Elo must have been careful not to leave any evidence when he went in, others don’t know there is a third person at the scene Personally, I disappeared at the right time—Elo made a gesture of pulling something out of the air, and said with a smile: "Headline: Lihua Daily reporter escapes after suspected murder of the mayor. How exciting it is."

"Why do you want him to die?"

"I came here for you..."

"I have nothing against him. The real reason."

Elo said slowly, "To vent your anger...and to give you a reason why you can't escape. Look, now you go out and clarify and no one will believe it. The public will only think, if you are Innocent, why are you running away?"

He was right, even if I lived, after he managed to destroy all my social networks, I would have nowhere to go.I haven't reached that step yet, but for the time being, I don't know which step he wants and can achieve.

"Are you going to destroy me completely?"

"No," Elo said, "I want you to live."

So, he was so arrogant that he wanted to reshape me.

"What about other reasons? Killing the mayor is not a trivial matter. It should be a side benefit to prevent me from running away. I guess you have a personal grudge with him."

"That's true. It's the old sesame seeds and rotten millet... You can't just open the farm randomly, someone needs to issue a license."

So that's it. Based on the information I already have at hand, I can piece together the approximate truth.That is to say, Jinmeng back then was a bloody human farm. After many years of operation, outsiders noticed that something was wrong. Maybe it was a reporter who wrote a report after going back but was suppressed. , leaving only a few unimportant small characters.Elo escaped by chance and exacted revenge on those involved.

But it's that simple.

"Perhaps Liu Zhiyuan is the one who issued the license, but given his position, he may not dare to do such a big thing."

"Then I don't care about it. I only kill here, and my personal grievances end here," Elo whistled out of boredom, "I don't want justice or something, I just want to get revenge and go back to have fun."

We'll stop here for a moment, as Elo dug out a pair of headphones out of nowhere to hang on his ears, and has rarely removed them since.

There's only one bed here, and of course Elo will sleep with me.The only good thing about this dilapidated room is that the door is unlocked with fingerprints. He knows that I can't escape.