Chapter 26: Classmates Reunion (V)
Zong Yi had a tough life since he was young, and he always thought it was because Marx's spirit in heaven was protecting him. But today, he was just going to meet an old classmate, and he was in a hurry when he left, and he even forgot to bring his Marxist philosophy book. Unexpectedly, just like this , a disaster came all of a sudden.
It seems that we must still hold high the banner of Marxism-Leninism and not relax for even a moment.
The back garden of the villa was not actually very big, and one could see the end at a glance. But Soichi had been running in the rain for about a quarter of an hour, and still couldn't see the garden wall.
He was worried. Lu Ren, who was running in front of him, had disappeared. The muscles in his legs started to become uncontrollable. His cell phone only had 40% battery left. A feeling of despair suddenly surged into Zong Yi's heart.
Just as Soichi was struggling whether to stop and wait for death, he heard a voice. The voice seemed to have been ringing for a long time, and was initially covered by the heavy rain and his hurried footsteps, so Soichi did not notice it.
But now the rain was easing and he slowed down his pace, and the sound gradually became clearer.
"Mr. Zong, save me!"
It was the maid's voice, coming from the flowers by the roadside.
The Qi family's garden was nothing special. The path was paved with Chinese cobblestones. The different colored cobblestones formed a traditional picture, implying that five bats were announcing good news. It was just a good omen. Beside the path was a common dwarf rose bush. Tonight the roses were in full bloom, bright red, but because of the sudden rain, the rose petals were all knocked to the ground, like a field of blood.
Although the roses were in full bloom, the flower beds further inside the rose bushes had been unattended for a long time, and were filled with long-unknown wild flowers and trees, making it difficult to see what was going on inside for a moment.
Zongyi swallowed, poked his head towards the bushes, and responded to the cry for help: "Xiaoye, is that you?"
Xiaoye's voice came from the rose bushes: "It's me! Mr. Zong! Come and save me, I'm trapped in the swamp."
Swamp? In the garden?
Zong Yi was a little unconvinced: "Why is there a swamp in the Qi family's garden?"
Xiao Ye said, "Although it's ridiculous, please believe me. Mr. Zong, I doubt this is a garden. I have been running in the garden for half an hour and haven't reached the boundary of the garden yet. Then I turned around and fell into the swamp. Did we... run into a ghost?"
Zong Yi was still hesitating, and then he heard Xiao Ye continue: "Mr. Zong, the swamp has already reached my neck, I can't hold on any longer."
Hearing that Xiaoye was in danger , he didn't care about anything else. Saving people was the most important thing. Zongyi quickly pushed aside the rose bushes and prepared to rescue her. As expected, he saw Xiaoye. Xiaoye was completely buried in the mud, with only her head exposed. When she saw Zongyi, she was excitedly shouting for help.
Zong Yi saw that the situation was urgent and he could not afford to hesitate. He quickly found a long branch nearby and handed it to him, saying, "Hurry up and grab the branch. I'll pull you up."
But Xiaoye didn't reach out her hand, and Zongyi was very anxious. He thought Xiaoye must have been stuck in there for too long and couldn't get her hand out. So Zongyi lay on the ground and slowly moved towards Xiaoye.
Night, heavy rain, mud. Everything made it impossible to control one's aim accurately. Zong Yiyi accidentally pushed the branch forward a little too far, and one end directly poked Xiaoye's nose bridge, but it felt light and fluttery, as if it had poked something.
Zong Ding looked closely and saw that Xiao Ye's head had been poked and rolled away, just like a ball that was kicked and rolled away.
The head rolled 360 degrees and finally stopped. It looked at Zong Yi and said in a small voice, "Mr. Zong, you hurt me."
Soichi was no longer in a state of panic. He felt like his brain was about to leave home. His hands and feet seemed to have their own ideas. He stood up immediately, threw down the branch, and started running towards the garden path at the speed of a 100-meter sprint. But he couldn't run away. A thick vine wrapped around his waist and wrapped him up. Then he smelled a strong floral scent and lost consciousness.
Zong Yi dreamed of the distant past, when he was a student, he secretly handed a love letter to the class beauty, but the class beauty didn't appreciate it, so he used a new trick he had just learned: wall-dong. Then the class beauty who was wall-donged slapped him hard.
Zong Yi was awakened by a slap in the face. He opened his eyes and saw Lu Ren struggling to pull him out of the vines.
After Lu Ren and Zong Yi separated, he met the "rabbit" brought by Sheng Min, or rather, E. He was lying on the road ahead of Lu Ren, emitting a fishy smell. The plastic bag that wrapped E was gone. Lu Ren finally saw its appearance clearly.
The fur had been removed, leaving only a pile of flesh and blood, the "rabbit" crawling and struggling in the mud. It looked like it was about to die and posed no threat at all.
The smell of blood made Lu Ren take two steps back. He was just about to take a detour without alerting He. At this moment, He spoke, saying, "Lu Ren! Save me."
It was Sheng Min’s voice.
Lu Ren stopped, but he didn't move closer. He just stood there, quietly waiting for the next words from "Rabbit".
"I... I am Sheng Min. That blackmailer stole my skin and turned into my appearance!" As he spoke, big tears flowed from his eyelids, which no longer had eyelids.
As the rabbit cried, it gradually became hysterical: "No one recognizes me anymore! It stole my life! Everything I had!"
Then the "rabbit" began to beg: "Can you help me? Kill it! Give me back my life!"
Lu Ren remembered that when he was in high school, Sheng Min was very thin. He was like a thin bamboo pole and could never gain weight. He was also very greedy and would always go to the canteen to buy snacks during breaks. His classmates often joked that he looked like a starving ghost, but he had a good temper and never cared.
There was another very thin child in the class, Lu Ren. But Lu Ren didn’t gain weight because he couldn’t eat. He just couldn’t get enough nutrition when he was growing.
Sheng Min knew that Lu Ren was taken care of by his uncles and uncles in turn, and his life was not very good. Every time he came back from the canteen, he would give Lu Ren a candy. Afraid that Lu Ren would not accept it, he would smile and say, "I don't want to grow fat alone."
Although they haven't been in touch for many years, Lu Ren is still looking forward to meeting these old classmates . After all, they used to be really good to each other.
But this time the reunion was ruined, and even his old classmates were in a state of uncertainty as to whether they were alive or dead.
Why?
An emotion called anger filled Lu Ren's heart.
After taking a deep breath , Lu Ren finally spoke. He asked, "Who is Sheng Min, you or him?"
The rabbit said: "I am!"
Lu Ren picked up a sharp branch from the side of the road, and walked towards the "rabbit" with the branch, saying as he walked: "It's a lie, saying east but saying west, saying evil but saying good."
Every word he said was like reading out the verdict of a death row inmate. He stood in front of the "rabbit" and raised the branch in his hand high: "Whether it is a fraud or Sheng Min who has eaten the fraud, it is impossible for them to tell the truth. So if you were Sheng Min, you would say that he is Sheng Min."
Before E could react, Lu Ren thrust the branch into E's eye socket. Blood splashed onto Lu Ren's cheek, so hot and yet so cold, making him look like a Shura from hell.
She was blackmailed to death, but this night was just the beginning.
