The sound of Tang Wan's high-heeled shoes stepped on the ground smoothly and rhythmically, drifting away until it disappeared. But her "ultimatum" was always coiling around Luo Ye's ear, like a vulture that could not be driven away in the wilderness. Luo Ye must make himself cold like a towering ice wall in order not to be taken advantage of by vultures.
But how easy is that? He can pretend to be in front of another person, but he cannot deceive himself when he is alone.
As a killer, Luo Ye advised him to be cruel, Jiang Yunmeng's mother and son were not his own, and he had nothing to do with them. If Demon Wan wants to kill them, just kill them. Everyday, every moment, every moment in this world, people are dying—starvation, suffocation, strangulation, and countless ways of death. Why should he die? For those who will die sooner or later.
Do you really want to be so unfeeling? Do you really want Jiang Yunmeng's mother and son to die because of him? Can you really carry all the guilt and sorrow to ensure that a single tear will not fall
"Only by being cruel can we gain a foothold." This is the first sentence taught to him by the so-called "father" when Luo Ye was trained when he was a child, and it is also the one most often said. At that time, he had just been able to hold the wooden knife, and together with the other boys, they fought each other for three full meals a day.
Only cruel can one gain a foothold. Luo Ye said silently in his heart. He closed his eyes and searched hard for the cruel things in his memory, trying to harden his heart.
… The place where the orphans are trained is actually a deep well. The well is 100 meters deep, so even though the head of the well is the size of a football field, you can only see a tiny piece of sky from below. The orphans call this training ground a "frog well". The orphans at the bottom of the well are all frogs, and they all want to jump out of the frog well and live a different life.
There is no medical treatment in the frog well, and the food slides down through the pipe. Every orphan who is about to become a killer, from eight to ten years old, must live and train here. The monitor will record the behavior of each child, qualified children will be given the opportunity, and children who have not grown up by the age of ten. Will be sent to the deeper part of the frog well...
Deeper. Whenever he thought of this word, Luo Ye couldn't help but trembled. To the orphans, deeper means torture. People in white coats will use waste children to do human experiments, dismembering, stitching, dismembering, and stitching again, soaking them with various acid-base solutions, and irradiating them with all kinds of weird lights. Until the child's life withered completely.
The deeper part of the frog well means hell. When people talk about hell, they always use the word "sword mountain and fire sea" to describe it, but no one who is alive has really seen what is a sword mountain, what is a sea of fire, and what is a pan of death for refining human beings — in a deeper place. All legends have been concretized.
Every orphan in Frogi didn't want to be caught deeper on his tenth birthday, so they trained hard and treated each other cruelly in order to attract the attention of "parents". Of course, strictly speaking, orphans do not have birthdays. From the day they were adopted out of the orphanage, their birth certificates were burned at the same time. "Parents" don't bother to remember each child's birthday. They just used the time when the orphans entered the frogwell as their birthday.
Every batch of orphans has the same birthday. But the days of death are different. Luo Ye still remembers being sent down the frogwell in an iron cage among a group of crying orphans. The crying shocked some of the older children in the frogjing. They are already very strong and are about to be ten years old. They have not been selected. The addition of new orphans will be their last chance to prove themselves. They foolishly thought that "parents" would prefer cruel and unscrupulous children.
then. As soon as the iron cage door was opened, hundreds of children with wooden knives rushed up. In an instant, crying turned into yelling, and countless severed limbs flew in front of Luo Ye. The blood converged into a river, Luo Ye closed his mouth tightly and used his short stature to hide among the dead bodies.
He was terribly scared, but that was not the reason why he didn't fight. He was secretly observing everyone, remembering every swing of the knife and thinking about every response.
The battle lasted for a whole day. Although more than half of the orphans sent down from the same batch are still alive, most of them are already disabled. Two years later, their lives will end in a cruel way.
The whole frogwell was crying, and Luo Ye was surprised that the most ferocious cry was the group of brave children who were fighting against each other. Yes, they used all their power to attract attention. In a sense, they are already excellent, but they are still not favored by their parents. Soon, they will be with the group of disabled people who are despised by them. Together they were taken into the deeper part of the frog well. They cried hoarse, not reconciled.
Only cruel can one gain a foothold. This is also the last word the "father" said before throwing them into the frogwell. In the Frogwell, everyone will recite this sentence. There are no brothers here, only enemies. Everyone is a stepping stone, and the higher the stepping stone, the closer to the head of the frog well.
In the first years, Luo Ye has been free from the crowd. The life of Frogjing is actually very simple. Some people do all four of training, fighting, eating, and sleeping. Some people only do fighting, eating, and sleeping. Others lose their hope of survival and just eat and sleep.
Luo Ye chose the latter. He ate and slept, and turned a deaf ear to training and fighting. Occasionally, a child was selected to leave the frogwell, and he didn't care. No one paid attention to him. Everyone thought he was just a Chinese kid who was eating and waiting to die.
But in the evening, when all the lights were off, Luo Ye found a place where no one was there and trained himself assiduously. All children think that cruelty to others is truly cruel, but Luo Ye understands that only cruelty to himself is truly cruel.
He has not dared to imagine until now, this is the truth he had realized when he was eight years old. He understood the meaning in the eyes of "father" when he said that sentence: Only by being cruel to himself can he stand on top of others.
He constantly trains himself at night, and during the day pretends to sleep and secretly observes everyone's habits and moves. He only sleeps for two hours a day. In order not to attract attention, he does not eat with the children, but only waits to pick up the food left by others at night. When someone bullied him, he just walked away silently, hiding far away, sometimes it was unavoidable, he just clenched his teeth and insisted, letting others punch and kick, and even pee on him. He doesn't remember those people's faces, because they will be thrown into the cremator sooner or later. In this environment, grievances and hatred are not important, what matters is how he will leave the frogwell.
Six months later, another group of orphans were sent into the frogwell by iron cages. The melee began again. The shouting and blood were stirred together, and the entire frogwell seemed to sway in the sound of shouts. Luo Ye wrapped his hands under the blanket and watched the battle coldly.
Not what he expected. The new orphans were at a loss and suffered heavy casualties, while the older children were still not favored even though they had won. Despair spreads at the bottom of the frog well with the smell of blood. Severely suppressing the heart of every child.
Luo Ye walked silently to the frustrated victor, stepping on the river of blood flowing under his feet. The sturdy boy gave him a bewildered look. Before he could swear, Luo Ye's right hand suddenly pierced out, and the wooden knife was instantly inserted into the boy's eye socket. The boy fell to the ground and convulsed a few times, and died immediately.
The sudden change surprised everyone. A big boy next to him reached out to grab the blood-soaked wooden knife, but Luo Ye kicked it away, and then cut off his ribs with the wooden knife. Several big boys roared and rushed together, but Luo Ye had already researched their tricks and flaws clearly, a subtle flash, and his left hand pierced out from under the blanket. Two wooden knives are flying at the same time. Knocked down the enemy in front of him to the ground in an instant.
He didn't hesitate to kill two, the others wanted to escape, but it was too late, and they all died under his double wooden swords.
Frogwell was silent, and even the child who had a broken leg forgot to cry. Everyone was shocked, they didn't remember that there was such a person in the Frogwell. They thought he was a life-destructive ghost that had condensed from resentment.
Luo Ye lifted the left and right wooden knives flat, and the sharp tip of the knife drew an arc in front of everyone—everyone was pointed at. He wants to challenge everyone.
No one dares to challenge. After fighting for a whole day, the combative people are exhausted. Even if I still have strength, I don't want to die.
There was a sudden noise over the frog well, and another iron cage slowly descended. Luo Ye raised his blood-filled face and squinted to look up.
A team of guards with guns and live ammunition gushed out of the iron cage first, surrounded the orphans in groups, and ordered them to put down their weapons. Luo Ye refused to let go and was smashed to the ground by the butt of his rifle. The wooden knife in his hand was also kicked away by other guards.
He wanted to struggle to stand up, but he got another heavy butt on the back of his head.
After the guards controlled the situation, the "father" slowly walked out of the iron cage with his hands on his back. There was also a luxuriously dressed woman, the "mother".
Father walked up to Luo Ye and asked him a question: Do you want to go out
Frogwell, jumping out is another piece of sky, no one wants to soar into the sky. His father's questioning meant that he was being paid attention to. His forbearance, his intelligence, his calmness, and his determination are undoubtedly the conditions for becoming the top killer-of course, the most important thing is that he is cruel enough to himself.
But Luo Ye just stared at his father and said nothing. Not only did he want to escape the frogwell, he also wanted to destroy this place, he wanted to kill the guards, and he wanted to kill his father—
His father saw the danger signal in his eyes, but his mother was interested in his attitude. She leaned down, pressed to his ear and vomited softly: Let me teach you how to deceive your enemy.
Luo Ye immediately answered the answer his father was expecting. The father glanced at his mother and nodded slightly at the guard. The guards grabbed Luo Ye and threw him into the iron cage that drove upwards-only cruel can he stand on his feet. When his feet stood on the horizon again and watched the sun set slowly westward, he realized , I really succeeded.
Being cruel is never cruel to others, but cruel to yourself. Death is actually a very simple matter. Perhaps a rope, a bullet, a sharp knife, and a bit of poison can take away Jiang Yunmeng's mother and son in an instant. They will only suffer for a few seconds, and then they will rest forever-but Luo Ye will have to endure a lifetime of guilt and torture for this, this is the cruelest thing-
Should you choose to compromise with Tang Wan? Or do you want to be a real killer and let yourself bear the guilt and torture? Luo Ye couldn't help asking himself, after he died, was he still a real killer
Suddenly, there was a very slight scraping of clothing behind his ears, and he quickly turned his head back, and at the same time twisted the arm that stretched toward his shoulder—
"you?!". . )