When I woke up from the dream as expected, I felt sore all over, as if I was falling apart. Especially his hands, they hurt so much, from the burning skin to the bones that seemed to be torn apart, it seemed to be explaining something.
The people sitting by the bed looked ugly, as if they were visiting someone who had been issued a critical illness notice by the hospital.
I unexpectedly saw Chen Xiaoqiu among them.
"Why are you here?" I asked.
"Let's take refuge together." Chen Xiaoqiu said something like a joke, but judging from her face, it was not a joke.
I sat up from my bed and took a breath in pain, but I didn't bother to check my own situation, so I quickly asked: "What's wrong? Have you been attacked too?"
"Xiaoqiu almost died." Guo Yujie's eyes were red, she grabbed Chen Xiaoqiu's hand and shouted uncontrollably.
Chen Xiaoqiu, the client, was much calmer than Guo Yujie, and said calmly: "I think what happened to me has nothing to do with Xiao Tianci, but my brother-in-law doesn't think so."
"What happened to you?"
"He is a veteran in home invasions and robberies. His equipment is very high-end. He has no problem robbing bank vaults." Chen Xiaoqiu explained the situation straightforwardly.
"I think it was a home invasion and murder, or it was for you. That Xiao Tianci..." The thin man was half finished, grinding his teeth and looking at me helplessly, "Brother Qi, what did you dream about this time? What happened to your hand? thing?"
Only then did I remember to look at my body. There were no external injuries, only some blood on my hands.
"It was from Xiao Tianci. I met him in my dream, but unfortunately..." I shook my head regretfully. Tearing off Xiao Tianci's skin hurt the blood vessels in his neck, but I'm not sure if he's dead.
"By the way, the man who pretended to be a waiter and attacked us is dead." I remembered this and said quickly.
Everyone was startled and ran outside to take a look.
The man was still tied to the chair. As I said, his heartbeat and breathing were gone, and his body was stiff.
The thin man asked Gu Mo angrily: "Didn't you notice anything unusual?"
Gu Mo yawned and browsed the web page, "What is an abnormality if a person dies? Even if he was sent for autopsy, this person died of natural causes. Sudden death, heart failure, myocardial infarction... that's pretty much it."
"Is it because of Xiao Tianci?" I recalled my dream, and there was nothing in that site message about suicide after completion or suicide after failure.
"Probably so." Gu Mo's attitude was a bit casual.
"What on earth are you thinking about?" I asked with a frown, "Do you really think you can just let nature take its course and deal with Xiao Tianci while I sleep?"
Gu Mo finally looked away from the phone, his eyes were deep, and he glanced at the rest of us, "I don't think so. It's just that I have no choice but to let nature take its course. If I die, it will be me." I’ve told you a long time ago that if people like us don’t seek death, we will die when it’s time to die.”
I cannot agree with Gu Mo's concept of being passive and sabotaging work.
Chen Xiaoqiu called Chen Yihan. This body must be disposed of eventually. If Chen Yihan hadn't been in a hurry when he sent her here, still thinking about her being attacked, he should have discovered the body long ago.
"What are we going to do now? Lin Qi has failed. Do you still want to go to bed?" Guo Yujie asked.
"I don't know who I will dream about if I sleep again this time." I smiled bitterly.
It's also a troublesome thing to keep missing the rightful owner.
Moreover, I tried my best to kill Xiao Tianci but failed, and it’s not like I didn’t pay the price. I am very tired now and my body hurts, especially my hands. The palms of my hands seem to have been burned and I cannot move a single finger.
"Let's take a rest first." Chen Xiaoqiu said.
"By the way, when did you come? What's going on downstairs?" I asked Chen Xiaoqiu.
Chen Xiaoqiu met the criminal gang who broke into and robbed the house when I just fell asleep. She cleverly escaped from the window, called the police, and notified Chen Yihan. Chen Yihan personally sent Chen Xiaoqiu to the hotel.
"Speaking of which, it's a good thing you didn't go downstairs. There was a car accident downstairs. Several guests who went downstairs to seek refuge were hit by cars. It seems that some of them died." Chen Xiaoqiu said.
"Black sports car?" My eyelids twitched.
"Yes." Chen Xiaoqiu asked, "Did you dream about that scene?"
I shook my head and told everyone that the car belonged to the attacker and that it should have been driven away by the waiter. In the middle of the journey, the waiter may have received the message, or he may have returned from a tour and discovered that something had happened to the hotel, resulting in a car accident.
Xue Jingyue's sprain probably caused us to avoid the car accident.
Others let out a sigh of relief.
"Thank you for saving my life." The thin man said, and he quietly poked the fat man.
The fat man blushed, "Thank you. Are your feet okay?"
Xue Jingyue seemed to have not received the signal from the fat man and looked embarrassed, just because we thanked him. She shook her head, not even looking up at the fat man who was blushing for another reason. Fatty didn't know whether he was disappointed or relieved, his expression became complicated.
"We can't hide for a lifetime. Have you figured out how to use this thing?" Chen Xiaoqiu looked at the glass jar containing the placenta. Compared to my dream, she seems to have more confidence in the key props given by Ye Qing.
I sighed, "I don't know. I have no idea at all. What about you? Besides burning it, do you have anything else in mind?"
Everyone shook their heads in denial.
I stared at the glass jar in a daze, hoping for a flash of inspiration, and suddenly I saw a figure in the reflection on the glass jar. This is normal, except for those of us who sit around glass jars and meditate. But a flash of inspiration occurred in my mind, and I thought this might be an omen. Isn’t that what happens in those horror movies
In hindsight, I have to thank all the horror movies I watched for that eureka moment.
I subconsciously turned my head back to see who this figure belonged to, and saw Zheng Xinxin approaching Xue Jingyue with an expressionless face.
Zheng Xinxin, who has been ignoring me and saying nothing since I woke up.
Zheng Xinxin's posture looked very familiar to me. This was the third person I had seen this action from.
"Xue Jingyue, get down!" I jumped up from the chair, staggering from the pain in my body.
The fat man who has a crush on Xue Jingyue and often comes to Xue Jingyue shows that he is completely different from usual. As soon as I finished speaking, he threw Xue Jingyue down without hesitation, and was careful to support the ground with his limbs so as not to press Xue Jingyue, and completely enveloped her petite body.
Zheng Xinxin stabbed the fat man's body with the folding knife that still had traces of my blood on it.
Guo Yujie was dumbfounded.
The thin man stood in the distance.
Chen Xiaoqiu stretched out his hand and grabbed Zheng Xinxin, but there was a look of pain on his face.
Tears streamed down Zheng Xinxin's face as she screamed and struggled, "Let me go! Let me go!"
"Xinxin, why..." Guo Yujie was dumbfounded and asked, and she suddenly stepped forward to help Chen Xiaoqiu, "Let go! Let go of the knife!"
"I can't bear it anymore... She is so lucky, she must be fine, I'm just an ordinary person. I can't bear it a second time..." Zheng Xinxin cried and screamed, "Ah!"
Chen Xiaoqiu was not prepared for Zheng Xinxin's brute force. Zheng Xinxin herself worked in the public security system and had received certain training to throw Chen Xiaoqiu away. Zheng Xinxin pulled out the knife because of such force.
The fat man groaned, and blood flowed from the wound.
Bang!
Snap!
Zheng Xinxin fell and hit the table, and the glass jar fell to the ground. Watching the thick, solid glass shatter, formalin stained the carpet. The folding knife Zheng Xinxin pulled out was inserted into the placenta.