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The rain stopped.

"Pa-ta, pa-ta—"

Depressed, bored, angry, anxious...

All kinds of negative emotions mixed together were expanding infinitely, driving him to walk bigger and faster, and his clenched hands were getting tighter and tighter.

But he dared not run away.Because running will attract too much attention from others, because running may jolt the knife out of your pocket.

Thinking of this, he slowed down, and reached into his pocket with his other free hand to touch the small fruit knife inside, feeling joy from the depths of his soul for what he was about to do.

The white sneakers stepped into the dirty water, and the muddy water splashed turned into firmly attached mud spots on his trouser legs.

Finally, he turned into a deserted alley in the old town.

According to the urban planning at the beginning of the year, all the houses in the old city area were included in the scope of demolition. In the past two months, all the people living in the old city area have been moved away, leaving behind some disabled elderly and widowed people. People who are forced by life and have not yet found a place to go.

In the small alleys of the old city, there are the most wild cats.

Almost nervously, he stared wide-eyed and looked around. His eyes exposed to the sky were bloodshot, and every turn was filled with madness.

A black shadow suddenly flashed in the depths of the dark alley, and then, a bony wild cat appeared on the lid of the trash can beside him, staring at him curiously.

As he looked at it, nervousness and fear were gradually replaced by pleasure, and the sudden emotional change made the expression on his face weird and distorted, turning pale.

He'll be normal again in no time.

Immediately he no longer suffers from insomnia and anxiety.

He will be happy.

He stretched out his hand to it, and in his hand was a packet of minced meat mixed with a small amount of sleeping pills.

He bent his eyes and smiled brightly and dazzlingly—

"Come and eat."

Because of the demolition, there was yellow mud everywhere in the old town, and the roads were winding and winding, without a general direction. After Fang Zhi and Xu Xie chased here, they didn't see anyone again.

Rainy days, teenagers with knives, deserted old towns.

Everything seemed to suggest that something bad was about to happen.

Fang Zhi's face was so indifferent that it was almost stiff, and he dug his slightly long nails deeply into his palm.

He was flustered.

"Don't worry, you can always find it."

The bad premonition gradually enveloped Xu Xie after every corner in the process of chasing people, and the superficial calm gradually turned into a forceful appearance.

"You can always find it..." Fang Zhi repeated Xu Xie's words unconsciously, his mental state was almost on the verge of collapse, and various bloody images flashed in his mind alternately, terrifying and horrifying.

At this moment, the shrill cat meow rang out, awakening Fang Zhi's sinking thoughts.

The two looked at each other and ran towards the source of the sound at the same time.

"damn it!"

He let out a low cry, and the knife in his hand naturally turned around, stabbing at a dirty little wild cat that was clinging to his trouser leg.

In order to avoid the blade, the little wild cat let go and jumped aside, arched its back and frowned, and let out a threatening purr from the depths of its throat.

"Fuck..." He hurriedly squatted down to check the place where he was bitten, and after seeing a row of shallow tooth marks, his expression suddenly became ferocious.

He had just burnt a few smoke scars on the wild cat that had just fainted, and the dirty little thing in front of him jumped out of nowhere and opened its mouth aggressively to bite him.

Probably because he had been hungry for a long time, he had no strength, and the biting of the fangs only gave him a slight tingling sensation, and he didn't even bite the skin.

But this move by the wild cat angered him.

The moral cage that restrained him was already crumbling, but the anger soared at this moment, burning the cage to pieces in an instant.

The so-called venting grew into revenge.

"You forced me...you are all pushing me...why are you pushing me..." He muttered to himself, holding up the knife with a crazy look on his face, "I have done well enough, but you still want to How about me? Isn't it enough? Isn't it enough?! I don't want this... I don't want this..."

His eyes were red, and at one point he looked like he was about to cry.

The wild cat was frightened, but before it could escape, it was hit on its hind leg by a fist-sized stone and screamed.

"You are all forcing me..."

"Go to hell! All to die!"

He squatted down, the end of his eyes twisted and twitched.

It will be over, all the troubles, all the anxiety, all the stress, all the constraints, all those taunts that keep ringing in your ears forever.

He slowly raised his hand, raising the knife in his hand.

if only--

"Snapped!"

His movements froze instantly as the knife in his hand fell to the ground.

The sudden numbness in his wrist caused his pupils to constrict suddenly, and he subconsciously stepped forward and started running.

"Fuck..." Fang Zhi cursed, and was about to catch up, but was stopped by Xu Xie.

"I'll go after it, you save the cat." Xu Xie said, her eyes suddenly looked straight at Fang Zhi.

The boy's forehead quietly fluttered with the wind, slightly covering the emotion in his eyes: "Trust me, Fang Zhi."

After sending the cat to the hospital, Fang Zhi hurried to the police station to meet Xu Xie.

There was no one in the lobby of the police station, Fang Zhi had just climbed two steps when he saw Xu Xie sitting in a row of chairs in the lobby.

"How is it?" He sat next to Xu Xie, only to realize that Xu Xie's expression was a little dignified.

"Contacted his parents and said that we will talk about it when he arrives." Xu Xie raised his chin, motioning Fang Zhi to look over.

Fang Zhi turned his gaze and saw the captured man through the half transparent half frosted glass partition.

The weather was dark before, and the brim of the man's hat was pressed tightly, so Fang Zhi couldn't see the man's face clearly.At this moment, the lights were turned on, and Fang Zhi unexpectedly saw a handsome young man's face.

He sat there with his head bowed, his face pale, and he let the policeman sitting across from him open and close his mouth to say something, but he didn't respond at all. He looked stiff and numb.

"I've been here for so long, I didn't say a word, just sat there, asked him nothing, and an old policeman said he knew him, so he got in touch with his parents." Xu Xie sighed softly, and went Zhi moved around until he felt that the body temperature of the two could pass each other through the clothes, and then he stopped approaching, "The old policeman said that since last year, he felt that his mental state was not right, and he didn't expect something to happen."

Faced with this natural approach, Fang Zhi's body stiffened instinctively, and then slowly relaxed.

Xu Xie leaned back on the chair, and said in a soft voice, "He said he didn't know the specific situation, but said that it was probably because the parents pushed the child too hard, and he was very rebellious at this age, so he made the move. This kind of thing."

Because everything happened too fast and too chaotic, Fang Zhi was always in a state of confusion. It wasn't until he relaxed at this moment, listening to Xu Xie's leisurely tone, that he was not in the same state as usual, that he slowly noticed Xu Xie's behavior. Tired and down.

He didn't know why Xu Xie had such emotions, but he had an intuition that he should say something.

Unfamiliar words rolled a few times at the bottom of the throat before they came out——

"Are you hurt?"

"Ok?"

Xu Xie didn't hear clearly, or couldn't believe it.He turned his head sideways and looked at Fang Zhi with wide eyes.

The two were already close, but Xu Xie's action further shortened the distance between them, so their warm breaths were naturally intertwined.

Fang Zhi felt itchy.

Not only the itching on the face from being sprayed with hot air, but also the itching that trembled from the bottom of my heart.

He was slightly uncomfortable with this strange feeling, moved his head back to widen the distance between the two, and answered uncomfortably: "Didn't he bring a knife?"

Xu Xie coughed lightly, concealing the palpitations brought to him by the ambiguous atmosphere just now: "I wasn't injured, and he didn't use the knife. It feels like he recognized it, and he didn't resist much after I caught up with him."

The rain didn't know when it started to fall again. The torrential rain made the sky and the earth moist and connected together.

The two chatted nonchalantly until half an hour later, the gate of the police station was pushed open by a middle-aged man and woman.

Fang Zhi heard the sound and looked over: the men wore suits and leather shoes, and the women wore exquisite makeup. They all looked like social elites.

The two walked in a hurry. When they passed by Xu Xie and Fang Zhi, they only glanced at them, and hurried in.

Through the glass, Fang Zhi and Xu Xie couldn't hear what was going on inside. They could only see the excited expression of the couple. Once they entered, they opened and closed their mouths to the boy sitting inside, and their arms moved in coordination. Waving gestures in mid-air.

After a few minutes like this, the couple seemed to be dissatisfied with the boy and there was no response. The man looked angry and stretched out his hand to push the boy's shoulder.

The boy tilted his body according to the force of being pushed, and then he suddenly jumped up, and before everyone could react, he got up suddenly and grabbed the man's neck!

The warm skin under his hands was trembling, and his pulse was beating violently.

He saw the man's pupils trembling, and the expression on his face was terrified.

It was the first time he had seen a man show such an expression.

This expression pleased him, and the sudden pleasure spread from his fingertips to every nerve, every blood vessel, and soon swept his whole body.This made his soul, which has been immersed in depression for many years, feel happy and satisfied for the first time.

So naturally, every cell in his body began to want more wantonly.

He tightened his grip and tightened his palms, and the man's more painful expression stimulated him even more excitement.

This feeling is really cool!In the past, the person who was arrogant and pointed at him turned out to have such a side!It turns out that feeling the fear of others is such an exciting thing!No wonder...

Bloodshot eyes crawled all over his eyes, and he recalled some fragmentary memories in the flush.

Sticks, slippers, slaps, sharp nails, small dark room.

Roaring, snarling, taunting, insulting.

Pain, darkness, insomnia, blood.

"I've gone through a lot of hardships to pay for your education, and you only got such a good score in the exam?! You don't live up to it!"

"We are here for your own good!"

"I think you are used to it! Lock him in and let him think about it for himself!"

"Bang!" "Crack!"

Then, darkness struck.

He finally dug himself out of these noisy memories: Facing the failed test paper, torn pieces of paper fell on his body, he was at a loss, even trembling with fear; he was knocked down to the ground, suffering from violence and anger The self; curled up in the corner of the storage room, numbly clutching the bleeding wound on the forehead...

One by one, similar figures passed by, sometimes looking like children, sometimes looking like teenagers.

It turned out that such a long time had passed.

Terrible.

The incident happened suddenly, and when Fang Zhi realized it, he was pulling the crazy boy's hand and pulling it out.

Xu Xie also rushed in one step after him, holding the crazy boy's shoulders with both hands and pushing them back hard.

More and more policemen noticed the sudden situation here and ran here, but the middle-aged woman was already frightened and stood aside, and walked out of the scene of the incident in a daze under the guidance of the policeman who had questioned her before.

The demented boy is quickly peeled off from the middle-aged man.

"Cough cough..."

The face of the middle-aged man turned into a liver-colored face. With the help of the police, he stood up tremblingly and took a few breaths. His eyes flashed fiercely. He pointed viciously at the opposite side and was still struggling under the control of the police. The young man who was about to rush forward threatened: "When I slow down, I will kill you!"

The man's suit was wrinkled and dirty in the chaos of life and death just now, and coupled with his ferocious appearance at the moment, he completely lacked the appearance of a social elite at the beginning, but a bit like a street hooligan, clamoring for protection fee.

Ugly, obscene, and disgusting.

After hearing this sentence, the crazy boy miraculously calmed down slowly.He stopped struggling, and the redness in his eyes gradually faded away, until finally there was only a little bit at the end of his eyes, as if he was so sad that he couldn't cry, he could only suffocate the redness.

He slumped back on the chair, stared at the man without focus, spat on the ground, swayed down the hall with the help of the policeman, and then very slowly raised the corners of his mouth.

Half an hour later, everyone's emotions gradually calmed down, and the police began to question them.

The mental state of the crazy boy was obviously not right. In order to prevent the injury from happening again, he was arranged in another room alone to communicate with the old policeman who knew him.

And here, Fang Zhi and Xu Xie sat on one side of the table, facing the middle-aged man and woman, the four of them looked at each other, and finally looked at the policeman who was in charge of their record.

The policeman put on a blank face, and under the gaze of the four pairs of eyes, he raised his chin to Fang Zhi and the two: "Talk about it, what happened?"

Xu Xie briefly described how the two met the boy at the canteen, found the boy was carrying a knife, chased after him and saw the boy abuse the cat.

"Impossible!" As soon as Xu Xie's voice fell, the woman immediately retorted sharply, "My son only cares about studies, and his grades are among the best in school. How could he do such a thing?! You must be jealous of my son. Make up such a thing to slander him!"

Fang Zhi snorted: "I don't even know him, what a slander."

The police stopped the woman who stood up excitedly for questioning. Hearing this, she frowned slightly and looked at Fang Zhi: "Little classmate, pay attention to your attitude."

From the moment the middle-aged man was brought in for questioning, he seemed very anxious. He rubbed his hands on the table uneasily, and his eyes kept looking out.Hearing Fang Zhi's words, he calmed down and looked at the two teenagers opposite him.After recognizing the school uniforms on the two of them, he snorted coldly: "Third Middle School? No wonder...the quality is low."

Fang Zhi replied with cool eyes: "Spitting on the ground, you have quality."

The serious and serious look of the young boy was a bit cute, and Xu Xie chuckled untimely.

Fang Zhi immediately glanced over with warning eyes, and the elbow under the table bumped Xu Xie's arm simultaneously.

Xu Xie hid her smile, sat upright for a second, and looked at the man and woman opposite with a serious face.

"You...!" The man was very angry, pointed at Fang Zhi's lips and muttered a few times, but he still didn't say anything.

"What about the evidence? Do you have evidence? If there is no evidence, why do you say my son abused cats?! Do you know that you will go to jail for spreading rumors and slander?!" The woman widened her eyes and pointed at Fang Zhi, her voice sharp and sharp Loudly, "Do you have evidence? If you don't have evidence, you are slandering him and destroying his reputation! My son is the number one in the key high school! If your rumors are harmful to his future..."

"There is evidence." Xu Xie lightly interrupted the woman's almost crazy shout, "I have a video of him stabbing a cat with a knife in my phone, do you want to watch it?"

The video is not long, and because of the long distance, it is blurry even when zoomed in.

But the distortion and madness of the teenager's facial features are not affected by the picture quality, and they are clearly presented in front of everyone.

"Impossible! This is not Qiansui! Not my son!" The woman pulled the progress bar of the video to the front with an incredulous expression, watched the video again without blinking, and heard the hoarse "Go to hell!" "After that, he finally pushed the phone aside as if he couldn't bear it, and yelled in disbelief.

After the man finished reading, he cursed a few ugly words.

The policeman glanced thoughtfully at the red marks on the man's neck, then at the mobile phone where the picture of the boy screaming and raising the knife was paused, and after a long silence, he said, "I want to know about his living environment."