When I woke up again, I really went back to the moment when the aunt walked to the seat with the pressure cooker in her arms.
The next moment Li Shiqing saw the aunt, she reflexively covered her neck, and there was a violent panting sound in her throat, as if a broken bellows was being pulled, and she couldn't breathe normally at all.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's all over."
Xiao Heyun also experienced this kind of near-death pain, and he could tell at a glance that the pain from last time was still on her body, so he took the little girl into his arms distressedly, and comforted her warmly while stroking her back.
"And I'm still here, we're all here."
Poor Li Shiqing is just an ordinary female college student. The education she has received since she was a child is to "be kind to others and improve together". The most violent disputes I have encountered before are just a few quarrels between classmates. Where have I met such a cruel person
She thought that being bombed non-stop was the limit she could meet, but she didn't think there was anything more terrifying.
"Too, so brutal..."
I was so scared that I couldn't shed tears.
Recalling the numb eyes of the aunt who killed people like killing chickens, Li Shiqing covered her neck, and she can still feel the biting coolness in her throat. Even the air that has been difficult to inhale has a bloody smell.
The cold and bloody coolness seemed to pass through the slit in her throat, and desperately drilled into her limbs and bones, freezing every inch of her soul to pieces.
This is a kind of icy cold that goes deep into the bone marrow.
"Don't think about what happened before, think of them as nightmares one after another, some dreams are over, the important thing is that we are still alive now."
When Li Shiqing's accident happened, Xiao Heyun had lost too much blood and fell into a coma, so he didn't see what happened to her afterwards, and he didn't know why she was so scared.
He also tried to press Li Shiqing's hand covering her neck to cheer her up, but when he felt the terrible coolness in her hand, Xiao Heyun couldn't help being startled.
The little girl doesn't die too much, dies of PTSD, does she
The little brother was worried and sad in his heart, but he was not very good at comforting others, so he could only clumsily hold Li Shiqing's hand, hug her in his arms, and repeat over and over again:
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid..."
Maybe it was the temperature on my brother's body that dispelled the cold that penetrated into the bone marrow, or maybe it was the encouragement from her companions that supported her emotions that were on the verge of collapse. In the comfort of my brother over and over again, the warmth in Li Shiqing's heart finally disappeared. Little by little, the trembling stopped.
"Do you feel better?"
The little brother looked down at her, and asked worriedly, "If you really feel unbearable, we will get off at the next stop, don't worry about it so much, go and adjust your mood."
Hearing the little brother's suggestion, Li Shiqing hesitated for a while, but finally shook her head, and slowly straightened up in the little brother's arms.
"No, no more cycles can be wasted, no one knows what will happen next time."
She said, "I'm fine, I can still hold on."
"are you sure?"
The little brother literally wrote his worries on his face, and he could only confirm repeatedly.
"I mean, if it's really uncomfortable, we'll get out of the car and get some air."
"real."
Li Shiqing nodded again.
Seeing Li Shiqing clearly terrified and insisting on continuing, the little brother felt even more sad.
This kind of growth is really too cruel.
"That's fine."
But at the insistence of his companion, he could only sigh and respect her insistence.
"The last time I confronted my aunt, I was sure of one thing."
When Li Shiqing spoke, she always stroked her neck unconsciously, "That aunt probably has mental problems."
"ah?"
The little brother was taken aback.
"Isn't that obvious? What sane person would do such a thing?"
"It's not that kind of mental problem."
As she spoke, she shivered.
"I can't feel any human emotion at all from her eyes and expressions."
She will be afraid when being hurt, hesitate when hurting others, and struggle when trying to kill. These should belong to normal "human" emotions, but she can't feel them all.
When the aunt wanted to kill her, she felt like a stone.
It is still the kind of stone that has been standing in the waterfall, even if it has been impacted by the rushing water for decades or hundreds of years, it is still too hard to wear.
It seems that even if there is a worn part, it is willing to let the water take it away.
"It's impossible to communicate with such a person, let alone try to influence her."
Li Shiqing held the little brother's hand instead, and said, "Even if she appears calm now, it's to hide her true face that can put people between teeth."
How can you shake a person who has no emotions at all
Does the rushing torrent rushing across the river bed care what the stones that originally existed in the river bed think
"One thing we've been ignoring all this time is..."
She was pale and could barely speak.
Feeling her fear, the little brother held her hand even harder.
"What we're fighting against is a madman who wants to blow up a carload of people with a bomb."
She finally faced this fact head-on, and the process was extremely painful.
If everything they encountered before was like a disaster movie, the process of confronting this aunt at close quarters was like a thriller.
In every previous "explosion", they faced a predicament that seemed to be a routine-finding the murderer, finding the explosives, and finding a solution. Inadvertently show their hideousness to them.
Especially in the previous few "investigations", there were almost no dangers, like a farce, which paralyzed the little sense of vigilance they had cultivated with great difficulty in the previous few times, and at the same time brought them a sense of anxiety. Some kind of fluke.
They didn't wake up until they were slapped in the face by reality.
As for the little brother's set of "Auntie looks easier to subdue" and so on, I even cried when I said it.
"What have you been through... Hey, forget it."
The little brother looked at Li Shiqing as if he had suddenly matured, and hesitated to speak several times.
But he still chose not to ask, after all, his lower back is still aching, so why bother to stimulate others.
"Then what do you want to do? Do you think my plan is not perfect enough?"
He had no aversion to his companions questioning his plans.
"There is nothing wrong with our plan, it's just a few omissions."
Li Shiqing died once, and finally cleaned up all the dependence, and began to seriously learn to make up for the omissions in the younger brother's plan.
"First, in our plan, we underestimated Auntie's 'force' and overestimated our own strength."
The most fundamental reason why they choose the aunt and avoid the uncle is because they feel that "the aunt is easier to bully than the uncle". Whether it is the younger brother or she, they are all shocked by the strong muscles of the strong uncle, because there is a contrast Characters, subconsciously feel that thin housewives are easier to "handle", and subconsciously relax their vigilance.
"Second, we misjudged the psychological state of the passengers in the car."
Thinking back to those crowds who hurriedly dispersed after hearing the shout of "there is a bomb", and the despair when no one dared to step forward when the aunt brandished a blood-stained knife, and no one responded to her own desperate calls for help, Li Shiqing was not without resentment of.
After all, they are not only working hard for themselves, but also for the people in this car.
But she also clearly understood that this kind of thing cannot be blamed on others for being afraid.
She herself is just an ordinary person. Could it be that the other passengers are the kind of terminators who have received special training and can face bombs and gangsters as if they were dead
The little brother obviously thought of this too, sighed, and patted her on the shoulder understandingly.
"Emotions are contagious, and when one person shows intense fear, everyone fears; in that dangerous situation, no one wants to be the 'first man' who might get stabbed."
"It would be fine if we were cops in uniform, but the two of us..."
She looked at her little brother, and then at herself.
One is a young man who looks bookish with glasses, and the other is a slender girl with a petite figure and a green face...
People like them yelling "there's a bomb", how many people will come to help? They themselves look unreliable, so how can they give others a sense of security that "I'll be fine if you help me"
"It's too risky to help us if we don't know anything."
Subduing a gangster with a knife or even a bomb is different from subduing a brother who "does bad things".
The little brother has a harmless aura of "I am a gentleman", but the aunt with a knife is not a normal person at first glance. In the airtight environment of the carriage, the first reaction of most people when encountering this situation is to leave the unsafe "danger zone".
Not only doing bad things is "picking up the soft persimmons", but also doing good things.
Li Shiqing recalled the farce that the little brother was stabbed, and the passengers panicked and interfered with the driver's driving, and then said: "The third is the most important thing we should do..."
She looked up to the front.
“… is to be helped by the driver.”
"Ask the driver for help?"
The little brother was taken aback, subconsciously worried, "But many times before, the car accident was caused by the driver's emotional instability. The driver's reaction ability and emotional control ability may not be so strong, right?"
"Besides, if the driver knows that there is danger in the car, can the driver still drive with peace of mind? What if the driver, when he hears that there is a bomb in the car, stops and leaves us in the car and runs away?"
He voiced his biggest concerns.
"But you can't deny that without the driver's help, we probably wouldn't be able to reach our destination due to various accidents, let alone drop the bomb."
Li Shiqing is not ready to hand over her life to the passengers in the car, "We already took down the pressure cooker last time, and we almost succeeded. It doesn't mean that we can be so smooth every time. If there are a few old men and women in the car What should I do if I panic and grab the driver's steering wheel? What if I attack the driver and ask him to stop, but what if something happens instead?"
"What if our pressure cooker is all snatched and the people are under control, and the driver is disturbed by panicked passengers and has a car accident, wouldn't it be even worse? Who knows the explosion mechanism of this bomb, and will it cause an explosion when it collides? What if the first few collisions with the tanker were all accidental explosions caused by the collision?"
She kept raising doubts and arguing with reason.
"You have to admit it's a possibility, don't you?"
The little brother was a little dazed by the questions Li Shiqing threw like balls, but he was not a person who would raise an argument or become angry from embarrassment. Instead, he calmed down and thought for a while.
"You're right."
After thinking about it, he had to admit that her idea was indeed very likely to happen.
His doubts about the driver are subconscious distrust of people he doesn't know, so he simply attributes it to "risk factors" and adds him to his "plan" as little as possible.
But as the current situation changes step by step, this "risk factor" has become the best choice for them to avoid risks.
"We have to control the auntie and keep her separated from the pressure cooker. At the same time, if we get the help of the driver, make sure he can drive to a safe position on the bridge, stop and open the door when the pressure cooker is snatched. We can get out of the car immediately, and we can 'safely' throw the pressure cooker under the bridge as quickly as possible."
Li Shiqing is different from her younger brother. She often takes this line, and occasionally chats together when sitting in the front row, so she knows the driver better.
"Besides, I don't think the driver uncle will be the kind of person you said who left a car of passengers and escaped."
The little brother looked at the companion who analyzed the situation clearly and said that he seemed to be "upgraded", and was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.
"Okay, then do as you say!"
The little brother checked the time, and a familiar sense of urgency followed.
"What should we do first? Find the driver?"
"No… "
Hearing the notification that the station was about to arrive ahead, Li Shiqing shook her head and looked at her brother.
"We should find a reliable helper first."
The author has something to say: Seeing so many readers questioning why none of the passengers in the car snatched knives or threw bombs, I can only feel relieved that they are worthy of my readers, and everyone has such a high moral standard. I appreciate it very much. Your doubts.
But you have forgotten that I wrote this bus with a "premise", which is the keynote of the whole book, that is, there are almost no young people who get on the bus at one o'clock, either old men and old ladies or idle middle-aged and elderly people, using crutches to stop
A middle-aged person is going to have an accident, what should I do with the old and the younger and the whole family, probably because I am old, and I may not be able to think about the problem with enthusiasm... ...
Every book in the "Kai" series tells the story of how "ordinary people" like us can break the shackles of fate.