The Last Killer

Leo threw himself into the sofa chair in the hotel room.He stared at the glass on the table in front of him. A face was vaguely reflected on the glass wall. Falling cold sweat.

His heart was beating violently, every mouthful of air he was breathing was filled with toxins of tension, worry and fear, they were poured into the lungs, and accompanied by the blood fully invaded his body.Feeling flustered, short of breath and parched, he held an upside-down glass and turned it over, while his other hand reached for a large carafe filled with water.His fingers trembled so badly that he couldn't even hold the handle of the glass water bottle, and the clear water trembled and spilled all over the table.

Li Biqing immediately took the water bottle, filled a glass of water and handed it to him, watched him pour the water down his throat, and said worriedly: "I think you need to go to the hospital, Leo, you look bad..."

"No, I know what's going on with me." The federal agent refused unquestionably, pinching the glass tightly with his fingers, trying to strangle it.

"Maybe you don't like going to the hospital, it doesn't matter, many people don't like it, why don't I ask a doctor to come over?" the boy persuaded worriedly.

Leo raised his voice and shouted unusually sharply: "I said no need!"

"But--"

Leo slammed the glass in his hand!Immediately afterwards, with a sweep of his arm, he threw the table full of cups and bottles on the floor, and the debris flew into a mess.He got up and kicked the round wooden table flying, hitting the bedside table right in front of him, roaring furiously with a loud bang: "I said 'No'! Can't you hear? No, No, No! Fuck me Don't want to see any fucking doctor and take a bunch of inexplicable pills! This body is mine and I'm the goddamn master, I don't need anyone to teach me how to control it!"

His emotions are completely out of control!At this moment, he was no longer the calm, self-disciplined, light-weight FBI. Li Biqing couldn't imagine how much psychological pressure it would take to bend this man's tough and tough spirit like a steel bar into this appearance!

If this continues, he will become hysterical, and he must find a way to appease and relieve his spirit as soon as possible, but before that, he must first turn off the switch of violent emotions.Li Biqing tried to get closer, put his hand on the federal agent's shoulder, and slid it gently along his upper arm, "Leo, relax, breathe, deeply..."

His voice and movements are very gentle, with a hypnotic inducing effect. This effect should be very good, but he forgot the most taboo point for a while-for a strictly trained agent like Leo, he is not It's time to approach him from behind in a state of being on the verge of firing!

When his hand came down from Leo's shoulder, the latter reflexively twisted his wrist and turned around, bent his knee and slammed into his fragile belly!

Li Biqing felt that he could avoid this blow, even though it was lightning fast and menacing.However, at that moment he hesitated, and then let this heavy knee hit the lower abdomen.The severe pain was centered on this point, radiating to his whole body like a grid, and he felt the pain of his internal organs being smashed into pieces by a heavy hammer.With a groan, he threw himself back on the floor, curled up in a ball and moaned.

Leo froze there, watching him, seemingly completely unresponsive to what had happened.He hit him?Use all your strength against Li Biqing who has no ability to resist?This is his boy, he has always tried to protect him, he was reluctant to let him get hurt a little bit, even when his safety conflicted with his favorite job, he chose the former without hesitation... He is so... pity looking at him... oh my god!Is he crazy? !

The black-haired detective's lips trembled. He slowly knelt down and stretched out his hand to the boy on the floor, but flinched when he was about to touch it. The person who attacked Bi Qing was himself, which made him doubt his ability to control himself, and he was never such an unconfident person.Calmness, self-confidence, sharpness, and a strong desire to control the surrounding things are his characteristics. Everyone always has a bit of a quality that goes deep into the bone marrow—but at this moment, it began to crack.

"Bi Qing..." He murmured and called out in pain, trying to say something to apologize, but in the end he couldn't say anything.

The Chinese boy survived the initial pain and began to recover.He rolled over, staggered and tried to stand up, and the federal agent couldn't help but hold him.

"It's okay, it doesn't hurt so much now," Li Biqing squeezed a comforting smile at him, "I shouldn't touch you without saying hello, forgetting your professional self-defense reaction..."

Until now, he still didn’t get angry with him, he just blamed himself.

He was never angry with him, on the contrary, every time he was angry with him, blamed him, restrained him, threatened him.

He always cared about him silently, cooked for him, stayed in the hospital to take care of him, and helped him a lot at work, but he was so busy that he only went to the hospital once or twice when he was injured.

He is soft, clean, cute, tolerant, wise, talented...deserving of all the beautiful words in this world, but I am just a paranoid with nothing but a superficiality, a drug addict, a neurotic or mental illness with problems!

"Don't show the pain and guilt on your face, it's really not your fault... Hey, detective, you look like a high-spirited person in my impression, you know I like your face very much, but this expression It will make me feel guilty." The boy said half-jokingly.

He said that he likes him - even though he is such an unbearable self, he still smiles and says he likes it.

Leo felt that the things in his body—it didn't matter whether they were called feelings, spirits, or souls—could dominate his brain, collapsed in the boy's smile, and then died in another completely strange way. way to recombine.

He was still Leo, but a slightly different Leo from before.

——Leo who fell in love with Li Biqing.

He hugged the boy in front of him desperately, wishing to burn himself into a pile of flames, just to provide him with warmth in the freezing night—if he needed him to do so!

Unaware that he had accomplished a feat, the boy lightly vanquished another mighty man, a fierce and fierce lion, even when his anxiety and depression were at his weakest.

He only felt the heat and determination from the hug, which was what he had planned to get, but when he got it, he began to feel uneasy—he had gained the unreserved trust of the black-haired detective.

I'm the ostentatious cheater... The boy silently spurned him in his heart, but since he chose this path at the beginning, he cut off his chance of turning back.

He must go on according to the established goal, cannot turn back, cannot turn, and warn himself not to be obsessed with the scenery along the way, and go step by step.

He put his hands around the thick and strong back of the black-haired detective, hugged him too, and breathed with the other's heartbeat. After a long time, he said softly: "Go to bed and lie down, maybe it will be more comfortable."

The detective still let him take him to the large double bed in the back of the room, his tingling and numb hands and feet touched the soft quilt, and he was slightly drunk.Li Biqing stroked his sweaty forehead with his palm, "Do you want to drink some more water, or something else?"

Leo was silent, struggling, weighing whether to pay attention to his body's craving for the drug. If it was satisfied, he would quickly regain his composure and sanity, and maintain it for a while.If he didn't, God knew it would turn his brain into something else, and he couldn't wake up and see the boy he loved lying on the floor moaning, absolutely not!

He closed his eyes resignedly, "...in my travel bag, in the innermost hidden pocket, there are three medicine bottles, bring them here for me."

"Right away!" Li Biqing ran out, the travel bag was still in the car.He came back a few minutes later with their luggage and rummaged through it to find three small unlabeled white pill bottles.He held it up to Leo and asked, "Is this it?"

Leo nodded.The other party immediately poured a glass of water, watched him open the medicine bottle, and swallowed half a palm full of pills.

"What kind of medicine are these? You have to take such a large amount?" Li Biqing couldn't help asking.

Leo frowned habitually, looking unwilling to answer and disdain to lie.

The Chinese boy felt that the matter was a bit serious, so he asked persistently: "It's useless if you don't say it, I'll find out when I go to the hospital with a medicine bottle and ask."

"...sertraline hydrochloride, buspirone hydrochloride, and alprazolam." The agent replied in a very low voice.

Li Biqing thought for a while, and felt that the names of these medicines sounded familiar.After all, this is not his professional field, but as long as it is related to life and death, he will dabble in every aspect... The last word activated his memory, and he exclaimed in surprise and suddenly: "These are the treatments for nerves." Drugs for neurosis, anxiety, depression, or other mental disorders..."

"—or all of them." The dark-haired detective said desperately, his fists clenched at his side.

He looked so sad that he wanted to wipe himself out of the world. What happened to him?Li Biqing felt that he had to do something, not only to appease Leo, but also to extinguish an unbearable past. It spread like a black mist from the secret door in the bottom of his heart, burning around like a flame, and the two of them People are trapped on an isolated island with nowhere to escape.

He tightly grasped Leo's hand, and pressed his fists against his heart, as if it was a ritual to convey his emotions to the other party - so many complicated emotions, it was difficult even for him to separate them all. The explanation is clear, but the most central and strongest one, he used actions to further explain——

He bent his head and kissed him.

He easily pried open the cold and wet lips, stuck his tongue in, and kissed him deeply under the astonished eyes of the other party.

He's off track again... damn it, but what can be done?The scenery he passed was so beautiful, so beautiful that it was tempting to fall, and it was worth breaking the contract with the devil like Faust, saying the sentence that cost his life: "How beautiful, please stop!"

Leo's hand easily broke free from the other's weak restraint, slowly climbed up the soft chestnut hair on the back of the boy's neck, and deepened the kiss with the back of his head.He seemed to have reacted, and seemed to be sleepwalking, with a kind of focus that didn't care about the whole world.

He just wanted to drown in this kiss—he had been looking forward to it for so long, and he had also avoided it for so long, struggling to maintain a balance on the tightrope of loss of control and self-control, and finally he could no longer force himself and suppress himself.

As for what this kiss meant, whether it was over-the-top soothing therapy, or just the beginning of an attempt to wake up, he didn't want to think about it at this moment.

—What does it matter, they are kissing.At least for this moment, they have each other.

The power of the medicine began to surge up, and Leo tried hard to grasp his gradually blurred mind and enjoy the paradise for a while longer, but his tired nerves couldn't bear his toss anymore, and he couldn't resist sinking into the darkness—but until the last moment , he still clutched his boy's wrist tightly.

Unless the opponent is determined to break free, he will never let go.

When Leo awoke, it felt like his brain had just been pulled out of the water, still groggy and still drained.He raised his right arm and rested it on his forehead, only to realize that he was still holding another person's wrist.After being stunned for a few seconds, he realized what had happened before—it seemed like a fantasy dream.He turned over at once, and saw Li Biqing lying beside him, his eyelashes tightly locked under his disheveled bangs, and he was sound asleep.

The boy was lying on his side, with his right hand extended as much as possible, as if he wanted to hold him more comfortably. Judging from the flat fabric on his back, he kept this position all the time during sleep, in order not to wake up the other who was sleeping lightly. people.

Leo stared at him for a long time, then lowered his head, and touched the other's soft chestnut hair with his cheek, a sense of satisfaction he had never felt before filled him, overflowing from every pore, causing him to feel even this The absurd idea that it doesn't matter if the world is destroyed for a moment.

The Chinese boy woke up, and after seeing the face close at hand, he was a little dazed, "You're awake..." He got up and sat on the quilt, brushing his messy hair in embarrassment, "Sorry, I also fell asleep in a daze ..."

Leo looked at the circle of red marks on his wrist, and for a moment didn't know what to say as a prelude—about that...kiss before, what does that mean?Should he bring it up, or wait for the other person to explain it first... Maybe it's just an illusion that exists in imagination and not in reality?His brain was in a miswired state at the time, and he obviously couldn't be a reliable and strong witness...but it was a kiss, right?He thought about it absently, and his desire to get an affirmative answer from the other party became stronger and stronger.

"It was a kiss, wasn't it?" Leo asked in a husky voice, ashamed of his terrible way of speaking—why couldn't he be more tactful and tactful, so as not to embarrass both parties even more?

Li Biqing lowered his head, unconsciously picked the small patterns on the surface of the quilt with his fingers, and replied eagerly: "I don't know... Maybe it is... I didn't think about it so much at the time, but I just thought you looked... you looked very good." Sad, I wanted to do something to make you feel better...I know it's ridiculous, to make you feel—" He choked, as if being forced to swallow a bitter pill, "to make you feel Disgusting, isn't it..."

"Do you always use this method to comfort patients, I mean, no matter who they are?" Leo's face darkened.

The boy shook his head blankly: "Actually, I've never done this before. You can feel that my head was flooded...God, I don't know what I did!" He said at a loss: "I'm sorry I'm so, so sorry! Just forget about that, okay? Just act like nothing happened, please!"

forget?Just act like nothing happened?This is the answer Li Biqing gave him, a sympathetic comfort...

Well, he will forget, for Jasmine, and for the two of them to get along normally in the future - what else can he do?Forcing the other party to admit feelings that even you can't believe?Or is it completely ignoring the other party's wishes, expressing wishful thinking, and then messing up the originally harmonious relationship?He couldn't imagine what kind of expression he would have to face Jasmine if she found out about this and rushed back from the other side of the ocean to ask him for an explanation!

Forget it... Or, just treat it as an over-the-top joke and let everything go back to the original point. This is the most rational way to deal with it... Pressing the turbulent emotions deep into the rock formation, Leo put a prank on his face "Are you trying to bribe a policeman to cover up a crime for you? It's going to cost you something, boy."

After the other party heard these words, his nervous expression relaxed obviously, "This...isn't it a crime?"

"Really, then you shouldn't mind me mentioning to Jasmine that her brother and her fiancé gave each other artificial respiration?"

"—No!" the boy wailed. "You can't tell her! Think about it, what would happen if she knew that I almost drowned in the lake and you were knocked out of your mind?"

Leo imagined Jasmine's face at that time, and couldn't help shivering: "Well, as you said, we are completely rotten about this matter-but starting today, the next two weeks You do the laundry."

Li Biqing immediately agreed: "Deal! That's it!"

Leo lifted the quilt and looked at his crumpled coat, "How long have I been asleep?"

"Five, maybe six hours, and it's starting to get dark outside."

"No wonder I feel that my stomach is full of hunger. Should I go out to eat something? It seems that I only ate a meal today."

"It's half a meal," Li Biqing corrected, "I only ate half of the hamburger I bought at the fast food restaurant on the road, and it was really unpalatable."

"Maybe we can find a decent restaurant in town."

"Go for a walk at the county police station after dinner? I always feel that there is something suspicious about that mother. Renee probably wasn't killed by her."

"why?"

"She is a schizophrenic. A lunatic like this would kill with a kitchen knife instead of tying a strong cross knot to the victim's hands and carefully scratching off the trademark on the lead bag around the waist."

The federal agent recalled the corpse, and suddenly said: "Based on this, you guess that the murderer committed more than this case?"

"The girl's mouth and nasal cavity didn't have mud and algae. She was thrown into the middle of the lake after her death. At least he is an old hand at discarding corpses."

The two changed their coats while discussing the case, and then walked out of the room together.

The heavily made-up woman behind the counter eyed them oddly as they passed the lobby. "He looks much better than at noon," she pouted at Leo, and asked Li Biqing tentatively, "I thought he was seriously ill."

"No, he just needs a good night's sleep." The Chinese boy replied.

The woman felt that he was so gentle at this moment that he was completely different from when he was roaring at the counter.But understandably, dissatisfied young people are always more emotional, it seems that she gave the right room key. "The kingsizebed in our hotel is quite nice, isn't it?" she said complacently, "You can stay longer."

Leo and Li Biqing looked at each other, looked away in unison, their faces were a little hot: I forgot that there was only one double bed in the room-how should I spend tonight?Would it appear pretentious to ask for another room now?

Li Biqing hesitated for a moment, and said to the woman behind the counter: "Uh, it's better to change to two single rooms."

The other party twitched the corners of their lips jokingly at them, and said, "Do you think this is still necessary?" Then she continued to concentrate on sorting out her accounts.