[Comprehensive] How to kill a rabid dog gently

Cheng held the phone tightly in his hand so that he could receive messages from the other side at any time.As she ran towards the location in the photo at the fastest speed, she guessed the other party's purpose and how to deal with it.

To be honest, judging from the current situation, even Cheng is at a loss. The amount of information conveyed in that text message is very limited. Among them, there are two main points of real value. Second, he used this to threaten Cheng to go somewhere alone.

... So, why is this?

Judging from that message, he seems to be a rather impatient and arrogant person. His attitude is very vague, but the maliciousness is very clear. He doesn't seem to want to ask for a follow-up transaction. go somewhere.

However, if it was aimed at Shigaoki, why did he choose himself who was not close to him? Similarly, if the ultimate goal was himself, why was Shigaoki the hostage?

Thinking of the severed hand, Cheng couldn't help closing his eyes, then opening them again.

In any case, no matter how many doubts there are, it is impossible for Cheng to calmly consider and deliberate at this time, and she cannot gamble on that little possibility.

Cheng put her hand into her pocket, where the sedative and portable syringe were well placed. She also considered calling the police or asking Aizawa for help directly, but she was not sure whether the other party was monitoring her actions in some way... In short, for the future, we have to think about countermeasures later.

The most important thing now is to confirm the safety of dead handle wood with your own eyes.

Riding the sightseeing elevator of the shopping building, Shikuraki arrived at a terrace on the middle floor. Looking down from here, he was able to have a panoramic view of the street view, but not so far away that he could not distinguish the faces of pedestrians.

After receiving Cheng's reply, his mood became ups and downs.Niugaragi felt that he was dissatisfied, but what made him dissatisfied... Niigaragi, who refused to think about it, simply and rudely attributed it to Kawasaki Summi.

It's all her fault that she refused to lose so easily, so as to prove that she is just a person who speaks meaningless beautiful words, and there is no need for him to be troubled by the "happiness" in her mouth...

No, maybe she won't come.

Shizuoki thought.

She must have called the police, or simply turned to a so-called hero for help, and then of course hid in...

Just when his thoughts were getting dark, Cheng's figure appeared from the crowd.

The moment he saw her, Niugaragi's heart beat harder than usual.

She looked a little nervous, and after looking around, she pulled out her phone.

There was only a few seconds between them, and the mobile terminal of Dead Handwood also rang.

"I have followed your instructions."

she says.

"Now, let me meet the kid."

...ahhh.

It's tough.

Shigangmu pressed his hand to his chest, there was nothing unusual there, the momentary stall just now was probably just his illusion.

After several minutes of anxious waiting, Cheng finally received the other party's second text message.

"Are you really here alone?"

She replied without hesitation.

"Yes, I didn't tell anyone."

After a long time, there was an echo from the other side.

"I do not believe."

he said briefly.

Then, within two seconds of each other, a new text message came again, this time also attaching a photo.

As before, this photo also doesn't have a direct shot of the dead wood, and some are just a game console...or to be more precise, the wreckage of the game console.

Cheng had only touched it not long ago, and there is no reason why he could not recognize that it was a dead wood object. In the photo, it probably experienced terrible violence. The cracks scattered from the most thoroughly broken part, interlacing like spider webs. Although it was just a dead thing, it gave people a shocking feeling like five horses dismembering corpses for no reason.

It was hard for Cheng not to think about the boy's situation.

She went on to read the text message given by the other party.

"He's alive, for now."

Cheng could almost imagine the moody kidnapper opposite her talking to her in a gloomy tone.

"But until you get to the next location. You can't see him yet."

"Don't tell anyone, otherwise, it's game over."

Seeing this, Cheng's heart tightened, and the idea that the game was over gave her an ominous feeling.She quickly read the new address given by the other party. It wasn't too far from here...but it was almost right on the edge of the downtown area. It was a disturbing, sparsely populated location.

The second site designated by Dead Hand Wood was originally an industrial area under construction, which was in a semi-abandoned state due to the subsequent rupture of the capital chain and other reasons. He walked into the empty dilapidated building, walked up the stairs, and found the same A location with a good view.

Without making him wait too long, Cheng arrived soon.

She walked to an open space where she was sure she could be seen, then stopped and texted him.

"I am coming."

"Did you really not turn to heroes or the police?"

The other party replied several times in a row, nervously confirming repeatedly.

"They won't just lie in ambush not far away and use surveillance equipment to monitor every move here?"

"No, please trust me."

Cheng told him.

Then the unknown criminal fell silent again for a moment.

Cheng waited patiently for the next message, but this time the reply was a call reminder.

The incoming call and the text message just now belonged to the same address, so Cheng quickly connected it.

"it's me."

The other party's communication equipment is probably equipped with a voice-changing device, and the transmitted voice has an obvious sense of distortion.

"Next, follow my instructions."

He said in a processed husky voice.

"If you make any rash moves, I'll kill Shikuragi, understand?"

Cheng replied calmly.

"Ok."

"In order to prevent you from carrying a small monitoring device on your body, remove all accessories on your body."

"no problem."

Cheng untied the necklace first, and then the watch. She didn't wear a ring or earrings. After thinking about it for a while, she took off the hairpin and hair tie.

She threw these objects as far away as possible without any hesitation, and then told the other party:

"finished."

"Is there anything in your coat pocket, and the inside of your cuff?"

"no matter what……"

The other party gave instructions coldly.

"Take off your coat."

Cheng did not bargain with him, but took off his coat silently and neatly, and threw it aside.

The setting sun had already set, and the coolness of the night gradually rose. Her long hair was spread out, and she was only wearing a thin white shirt. Her fingertips and cheeks were cold, and she just stood quietly in the dark.

For no reason, the other party seemed to be irritated by this scene, and his tone suddenly became harsh.

"I'm not interested in going around in circles anymore!"

The strong mood swings made his voice either unusually low or harshly shrill after passing through the voice changer.

"Listen, I will count down tens of seconds, and then the bullet will shoot through your head. If you don't want to die, let the hero get out before I finish counting down! Got it!!"

"It's just me here."

she says.

"However, if you really don't believe me, there's nothing I can do... Please start."

That person still didn't believe her rebuttal, and started counting down on his own.

"ten."

……

Cheng listened quietly, contrary to her attitude, during these ten seconds, the other party became more and more anxious, and the speed of saying the numbers continued to increase. The moment he counted to two, Cheng closed his eyes.

When counting down to the last number, Shikuragi almost panicked.

He kept looking around, but there was nothing in this area except for a few dead buildings, so quiet that Karagi had the illusion that he could hear her heartbeat.

But across such a long distance, it was impossible for her heartbeat to reach here, and the chaotic heartbeat could only come from himself.

"one."

After the last number was also counted down, no one came.

Only Kawasaki Summi stood there alone from beginning to end.

Her voice reached Dead Armwood softly.

"Do you believe it now?"

impossible.

Shizuoki's hands trembled, and he hung up the phone.

"Is it because she doesn't believe me... Hahahaha, it must be so, I'm not enough to scare her—"

At this time, Cheng's message was sent over on his own initiative.

"Even if it's a photo, I want to confirm that the dead tree is indeed in your hands."

"..."

Nikuraki took out a gun from his pocket and popped the blade.

"I'll scare you."

He popped the blade, held it high, and stabbed it into his gloved left palm.

At the moment when the flesh and blood were torn apart, Siganmu could hardly help crying out. He pulled out the pistol tremblingly. Even though he avoided the obvious blood vessels, the splashed blood was still terrifying, and the pure black gloves were soaked in blood. Afterwards the color becomes cloudy.

He just doesn't know how he endured the pain, took the photo and sent it.

It was no longer possible to edit the text message with such a hand, so Ikuragi tore off the fabric of his clothes to barely stop the bleeding, and dialed Cheng's number again.

He was obviously in so much pain, but when the phone was connected and he heard the panicked voice of the other party, the thought in his mind instantly turned into the pleasure of revenge.

"Don't hurt..."

"Then what price can you pay?!"

Niigaragi heard his own voice trembling, and didn't know whether it was because of more pain or more joy.

"How about this, just exchange your life for him... Let me think about it, how to do it."

Excitement took over at the moment, he said.

"By the way, the old-fashioned rails are still used to carry industrial raw materials around here. I heard that they will pass on time at nine o'clock every night-about half an hour."

Shigaraki said to Cheng.

"Just go there, if you kill yourself there, I'll let him go."

He paused for a moment to let himself cool down a bit, then continued.

"If you can't do it..."

She interrupted him with what appeared to be a slight sigh.

"Please watch."

Then the phone was hung up.

Shikuraki stared blankly at the mobile terminal for a while, and when he realized it, he was furious.

He has no doubt that he has won a big victory, and the loser is still dying.

"You're the one who has to watch..." Shigangmu held his left wrist and stumbled out, "I'll go and expose your lies right away—!"

Originally, it only took 10 minutes to get to the nearest platform, but the pain was probably unbearable. It took longer than usual for Niigaragi to arrive, but the phone vibrated when there were 10 minutes before nine o'clock.

"What's wrong?!" He pressed the connect button and laughed loudly at the other end, "Are you here to beg for mercy..."

"No."

she says.

"I've already arrived."

"……you are lying!"

"Why should I lie." The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be smiling, "I should be the one to question you, can you guarantee that as long as I do what you say, I will let him go?"

"……Are you crazy?"

"I don't think so," she responded. "It's just that now, only I can save him, and only I can do it."

"Shut up! Don't lie to me again! I knew it a long time ago! There is no way such a thing can happen in this world!!!"

For a while, she did not speak any more.

Nikumagi took a little luck out of the silence.

"Hahahahahaha, look, you are lying..."

"It's not like that, I just found out that you got one thing wrong."

She suddenly spoke again.

"That train didn't pass by at nine o'clock, but at eight fifty-five."

Shigaraki looked at the time on the screen, and at that moment, the number jumped from 8:54 to 8:55.

Dead Handwood heard the siren from the other end.

Great fear rose from his heart, an unstoppable torrent that swallowed his self-righteous annoyance, doubt, and everything else in an instant—

His brain was blank, unknown flames swept him, and Niigaragi forgot the wound on his hand, because his whole body had hallucinations of severe pain than that, he couldn't think, even his own voice Like far away in the clouds.

"No... don't do this, get out of there—"

Shikaragi wasn't sure if his prayers had been reached, because she didn't respond, and there was only the louder and louder siren, the sound of mechanical collisions quickly became clear, and then the whistling wind...

After a huge crash, everything came to an abrupt end.

"don't want……"

Shigaraki uttered the last two words with difficulty, and he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his throat, as if the charcoal fire had burned his vocal cords, and then the still burning charcoal fire emptied that place and continued to fall into his body deep.

His heart and stomach didn't seem to exist either, leaving only his chest and abdomen empty.

In this way, his weight should have been reduced, but his knees were overwhelmed, and Shigaraki shook and fell to his knees.

"Ah, it's not broken..."

When her voice sounded again, Shikuraki's whole body shook violently. He almost thought it was his hallucination, but he still looked for the mobile phone that he didn't know where he had thrown it like crazy, and just grabbed it In her hand, she spoke again.

"I heard it. At the last moment, you asked me to leave, but you accidentally lost your phone while avoiding..."

"It's not an illusion, that's great..."

Shigaraki muttered to himself, his internal organs came back, and everything became so heavy, until he heard Cheng's next words...

He stopped suddenly.

"Now tell me where you are"

she says.

"Dead handle wood."

Sigang Muhang didn't know when he hung up the call, he seemed to be there for a long time.

"no……"

He stumbled to his feet, still talking to himself.

"I can't be found by her... I have to escape."

Cheng Cheng was not very surprised to hear the busy tone from the other end of the phone.

Children are like this. When they find that things are beyond expectations and become unmanageable, they start to hide themselves.

And it's the adults' job to find them.

She opened the electronic map and checked the surrounding situation. In fact, this area is not too small, and it really takes some luck to find Shikangmu... Cheng's eyes fell on a spot, and in the blink of an eye, she A strange premonition arose.

"Just go here."

The night had completely fallen, Cheng raised his head to look at the signboard, and could vaguely recognize the three words "Aquarium", but the prefix was so mottled that he couldn't see it clearly.

Cheng still remembers this place. Many years ago, when this area was relatively lively, many families would come here with their children.

Later, as the world changed, this place declined, and the business of the aquarium became more and more deserted, until now...it has been transformed into a self-service viewing mode, and there are no staff most of the time. Customers, after redeeming the key card at the vending machine at the door, can enter and watch for themselves.

It has been standing here quietly.

Cheng felt that Shikaragi might be here, but there was actually no evidence to follow, but for a moment she felt... Since he still remembers the time when the nearby train passed the platform, probably, he also remembers this place.

Cheng exchanged coins for the door card, but the old sensor door was not very responsive, so she waited for a while before being let through.

She walked all the way in.

Most of the aquarium has been demolished, leaving only the main hall and the entrance to the hall still intact.

Naturally, there were no more precious fish species inside, and occasionally one or two thin shadows could be seen passing by...Cheng continued to walk in until she found the boy hugging his knees and curled up in a corner.

He stared motionless at a place where there were only blue glass walls, and the dim light reflected the flickering waves of the water on him.

For a moment, this tomb-like aquarium seems to be a huge fish tank that has not been used for a long time, and the dead wood is the only creature trapped in it, and it is gradually dying in people's abandonment and oblivion.

"Why are you here?"

He said.

"Why come near me, why tell me..."

Cheng stretched out his hand towards him, trying to hold his blood-stained left hand, but he swung it away.

"Let's go!!"

Cheng looked at him gently.

"Didn't you ask me to come?" she said. "You, every text and every phone call says..."

——"Come and find me."

"So here I am."

She took his left hand gently but firmly.

"Is it okay now? Mr. Kidnapper, please release the hostages."

"What exactly do you want..."

Like a dying little beast, Dead Handwood whimpered from his throat, and the broken emotional experience function brought him a profound and strange feeling of despair after repeated failures in reading.

Tears rushed from his long-dried eyes.

"Don't force it on me... your happiness."