dead dog

When Facia and Ye Chuyang turned around after talking on the phone, Jiang Ying had already woken up and was sitting on the hospital bed looking at her, as if she had completely listened to the call between her and Ye Chuyang.She froze for a moment, and ran to him happily: "Brother-in-law, are you awake? When did you wake up? I'll call my cousin right away."

As she spoke, she was about to dial Ye Chuyang's mobile phone number, but Jiang Ying raised her hand and took her mobile phone away, asking, "Where is Dr. Ye?"

Just now when he was holding Facia's mobile phone, he accidentally touched Facia's finger. His hand was like a piece of melting ice, wet and cold.

Facia couldn't help shivering, and unconsciously said cautiously: "He seems to have gone to the Public Security Bureau."

Jiang Ying felt that his arm was uncomfortable, so he rolled up the cuff of his shirt, and saw a blue blood bruise on his forearm, but he couldn't remember when he was injured.

Facia explained: "Maybe my cousin accidentally bumped into you when he was carrying you down the mountain."

Jiang Ying's memory only lasted until he lost consciousness and fell forward on Ye Chuyang's body. He had no memory of how Ye Chuyang took him down the mountain later, but he vaguely remembered that he was lying on a thin back. The feeling, and the person who carried him on his back kept talking to him, telling him to wake up, and lying to him that the hospital was just ahead...

Jiang Ying clenched his fists. Clenching his fists so hard caused his arms to swell and hurt, so he spread them out again. After repeating this a few times, his arms regained some strength.

Facia watched him clenched his fists non-stop, and said, "I'll call the doctor to come and take a look."

She was about to leave after speaking, but Jiang Ying asked coldly, "What is Dr. Ye doing at the Public Security Bureau?"

Facia: "I don't know either, it seems to be looking for Brother Haiyang."

He was still in the hospital, but Ye Chuyang went to the Public Security Bureau, and they had just witnessed Xue Lin's body on the mountain, so he had to suspect that Ye Chuyang went to the Public Security Bureau to report the case... He pulled out the needle on the back of his hand, turned his head Looking out of the window, the image of Ye Chuyang's face before he fainted in the woods still remained in his eyes, but the afterimage of the bone lying in the black hole was superimposed, and Ye Chuyang's face was enveloped in a cloud. A layer of shadows floats in the blood and bones.

Facia felt that he was very abnormal, so she asked, "Brother-in-law, what's the matter with you? I'll call my cousin now and ask him to come and see you."

She wanted to pick up the mobile phone that Jiang Ying threw on the bed just now, but Jiang Ying stopped her again with a faint smile on his face: "Dr. Ye has something important to do, don't disturb him."

Facia nodded ignorantly: "Oh."

The door was pushed open, and Bian Xiaocheng came in. Seeing Jiang Ying wake up, he was relieved: "Boss Jiang, why did you suddenly pass out? You scared me to death."

Jiang Ying picked up the suit jacket on the coat rack, left the two of them and walked out.Bian Xiaocheng followed him step by step, worried that he would faint again.Jiang Ying arrived outside Zhan Xingyu's ward, opened the door and looked in. Zhan Xingyu was lying on the bed as usual, and the young male nurse was dozing off on the sofa beside the bed with arms crossed.He just stood at the door and looked at Zhan Xingyu, but didn't go in. After a while, he gently closed the door of the ward.

He sat on the bench by the corridor by the door, lowered his head, closed his eyes, the darkness in front of him swallowed him instantly, his mind was extremely chaotic yet extremely calm, there were too many doubts in his heart, but he did everything no.He is now like a prisoner trapped in the night, all the struggles are of no avail, which makes him feel unprecedentedly tired and helpless.He's tired, and when he tries to accept his powerlessness, his inability to die, he's relieved.

For a moment, Jiang Ying's heart was ashamed, and he was no longer confused or confused.

Bian Xiaocheng observed his face, and saw that his spirit was very poor, so poor that he looked like a stiff body that had lost its soul.He didn't know the reason, but he could guess how much it had to do with Zhan Xingyu.

Bian Xiaocheng said, "Boss Jiang, there is something... I think I need to tell you."

Jiang Ying hummed without emotion.

Bian Xiaocheng brought out the question about the cat hair on Bai Sinian's body. He thought that Jiang Ying would be as surprised as he was when he heard about it, but Jiang Ying was very calm. Jiang Ying just looked down lazily with his eyelids down Knocking, there was lifeless indifference on his face.

Bian Xiaocheng tried to give him some advice: "Boss Jiang, let's call the police."

Jiang Ying reacted to the word 'call the police'. He raised his eyes, which were surrounded by boundless shadows: "Why do you believe the police will help me?"

Bian Xiaocheng didn't understand, so he said, "Police, of course the police will help you."

Jiang Ying raised the corners of his lips, as if mocking someone: "If I am guilty, will the police help me?"

Bian Xiaocheng was dumbfounded, not daring to answer.

Jiang Ying's cell phone rang, it was Bai Sinian calling, Jiang Ying was not surprised that Bai Sinian would call, he answered the call as usual: "Hello?"

Bai Sinian smiled and said, "Are you looking for me?"

Jiang Ying: "Well, where are you?"

Bai Sinian: "I'll wait for you at the back door of the hospital."

Jiang Ying hung up the phone and walked towards the elevator without saying a word.Bian Xiaocheng asked him where he was going, but he couldn't hear him anymore.

On the way to the back door of the hospital, he was in a trance and lost his mind, just like the ignorant scholar who broke into the ghost mountain forest described by Pu Songling, his soul was taken away by the monster, and he became a dull and numb walking corpse. , His name was called, and he walked into the depths of the mist just like a puppet being pulled at this moment.

A silver off-road vehicle was parked by the side of the road. Bai Sinian was sitting in the car, the driver's window was half down, revealing his face. He looked at Jiang Ying and smiled, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

Jiang Ying first threw his suit jacket into the back seat, then sat in the co-pilot, slammed the car door hard with a thud, closed his eyes and let out a long breath, and said, "Drive."

Bai Sinian drove past the intersection and said, "Did Bian Xiaocheng tell you?"

Sitting in Bai Sinian's car, Jiang Ying was actually very relaxed, because when he was with Bai Sinian, he had the illusion of surrendering his life, as if Bai Sinian was in control of his life and death, and he didn't need to worry about it anymore. When he came down, he wandered and worried, let alone thinking about the troubles that entangled him. He only needed to choose to 'give up' himself, and he could get unprecedented peace.

There is soft and soothing piano music playing in the car, and those gently bouncing notes seem to extend into an invisible barrier, isolating the busy traffic outside, and enclosing a small, pure white, quiet space in the car.

Jiang Ying closed his eyes, drowsy: "Tell me what? Is there a cat hair on your clothes?"

Bai Si said with a young smile, "It seems that your secretary is really sharp, and I'm worried that he won't find out what to do."

Jiang Ying curled up one corner of his lips: "He doesn't know you, he doesn't know that you don't even fall off a piece of dandruff on your shoulders."

Bai Sinian: "But I did leave a cat hair on my clothes, don't you want to know why?"

The smile on the corner of Jiang Ying's mouth disappeared, and his face was emotionless: "Did you set that fire?"

Bai Sinian glanced at him, and said: "I didn't expect that your first question was about Xing Yu, it seems that you have more feelings than I imagined."

Jiang Ying: "Is that you?"

Bai Sinian: "No, Xing Yu set the fire on himself."

Jiang Ying closed his eyes, the white universe gradually immersed in his mind, and his consciousness spread towards the endless sky with the vast whiteness, as if being wrapped in sunlight, or sinking into the sky. the bottom of the sea.

"why?"

Bai Sinian said: "He wants to leave me, but I don't allow it. After all, it's all because of you."

Jiang Ying: "Me?"

Bai Sinian: "I want to be friends with you, but he disagrees, he thinks I will hurt you."

Jiang Ying had a half-knowledge: "Will you hurt me?"

Bai Sinian smiled and said: "How could I hurt you, you are so similar to me. It's not easy to find someone similar to myself, I cherish you very much."

Jiang Ying: "Are we alike?"

Bai Sinian: "Of course, otherwise why would I help you again and again? I gave you many opportunities to approach me, but you gave up."

Until this moment, the mist that shrouded Jiang Ying's side finally dissipated. He thought that what was lurking in the mist was a terrifying monster, but when the thick fog cleared, a gentle, handsome and gentle face was revealed. It's Beth Nian.He wasn't frightened, he was just weak, similar to the powerlessness of punching the air.

He laughed at himself and said, "You are Anton."

Bai Sinian frowned, as if he didn't like the title, but he accepted it with a smile: "You can call me that, but it's better not to, I prefer you to call me Teacher Bai."

Jiang Ying smiled while sighing: "Okay, Teacher Bai, can you tell me the truth?"

Bai Sinian said: "If you want to listen, I can tell you, the premise is that you are already my friend."

Jiang Ying opened his eyelids and looked at the street scene passing by outside the window: "Why do you think that I and you are friends?"

Bai Sinian: "You got into my car instead of waiting for Ye Chuyang in the hospital."

Jiang Ying's eyes drifted away, his expression was tired and indifferent.

Bai Sinian glanced at him, with a thin blade-like smile on his lips: "You know that Ye Chuyang went to the police station to report the crime, and you are worried that the police will find Xue Lin's body and find out that you are the one who killed Xue Lin."

Jiang Ying returned to the black hole full of rancid smell. Looking at the bone hidden in the shadows, he asked again: "Am I the murderer?"

This time, someone finally answered him, and the person who answered him was not Ye Chuyang, but Bai Sinian.

Bai Sinian said kindly and gently, "Of course it's you."

Bai Sinian took him to a neighborhood in the suburbs, parked the car in the garage below, and took the elevator upstairs in the garage. Once the elevator door opened, it was the entrance.

Bai Sinian walked into the living room first: "You don't need to change your shoes, just come in."

Although he said he didn't need to change his shoes, Jiang Ying took a pair of slippers from the shoe cabinet and changed them on, walked into the living room and looked around.

Bai Sinian stood in front of the refrigerator, took out a bottle of Ballantine's whiskey from the refrigerator, and asked, "Drink some?"

Jiang Ying tore open the collar of his shirt and glanced at the wine bottle in his hand: "Add ice, thank you."

Bai Sinian took out two square wine glasses, poured half a glass of wine in each, added a few ice cubes to one of them, then walked to Jiang Ying with the two glasses in hand, and handed him the glass with ice: "Actually, this one tastes better without ice."

Jiang Ying drank the wine from the bottom of the glass, threw the glass on the ground with a thud, turned around and punched Bai Sinian in the face.

Bai Sinian was overturned by his punch, and lay on the ground in a state of embarrassment, redness and swelling appeared on his right cheekbone instantly.He was neither surprised nor annoyed, instead he sat up on the floor, looked at Jiang Ying and asked with a smile, "Are you angry?"

Jiang Ying took out a golf club from the barrel standing in the corner of the living room, he returned to Bai Sinian with the club in his hand, twisted his neck left and right, like a thug about to commit a murder: "You've been playing tricks on me for so long , of course I'm angry."

Bai Sinian: "So if you want to settle the score with me first, you should listen to me first—"

Before he could finish speaking, the cue in Jiang Ying's hand fell down like a pendulum, heading straight for Bai Sinian's temple.If Bai Sinian hadn't reacted quickly and leaned back to avoid the club, his head would be ripped apart and bloody.

Seeing Jiang Ying's aggressive attack, Bai Sinian's expression changed slightly: "It's fine, Jiang Ying."

Jiang Ying swung the cue back and put it on his shoulders, with a ferocious and happy sneer on his face: "Don't you want me to kill people? First Song Youhai and then Jiang Ziyan, you have tried everything to let me kill them. But I have failed, don't you think it's a pity?"

Bai Sinian said: "It's not a pity at all, because you have long been a murderer."

Jiang Ying's face froze: "What?"

Bai Sinian stood up, brushed off the dust from his clothes, and looked at Jiang Ying with a sneer of contempt: "You killed Leng Jinghua's mother and daughter, and you killed Xue Lin, don't you know very well?"

Jiang Ying threw the cue off his shoulders and propped the cue on the ground like a cane: "How do you know that Xue Lin was killed by me?"

Bai Sinian picked up the two wine glasses that fell on the floor, and walked towards the kitchen with the wine glasses: "You first ask yourself, what did you do on May 18 and 5, 23."

Jiang Ying sat on the sofa in the living room, raised his legs on the edge of the coffee table, and looked at him leisurely as if he was a guest: "I don't remember, do you know?"

Bai Sinian rinsed the wine glass, took out a piece of kitchen paper, wiped his hands and walked back: "Of course I know. On the 23rd, Xue Lin returned to Fenghai, contacted you on the same day, and asked you to meet at Longquan Mountain the next day , but the next day, you killed Xue Lin and hid Xue Lin's body in a cave on the mountain." He sat across from Jiang Ying, looked at Jiang Ying and smiled, "The corpse you saw on the mountain today is two You killed Xue Lin years ago."

Jiang Ying looked at Bai Sinian, and confronted Bai Sinian very patiently: "Why do you know?"

Bai Sinian: "Know what? You and Ye Chuyang went up the mountain today? Or do you know that you killed Xue Lin?"

Jiang Ying: "It started with Xue Lin. I forgot everything about those two days. Why do you remember it so clearly?"

Bai Sinian said with a smile: "You choose to forget, if you want to remember, it's easy."

Jiang Ying remained silent.

Bai Sinian went on to say: "Your old man, Xingyu, and I all know that Xue Lin died in a cave on the mountain. We helped you clean up the mess and seal up the cave. Your grandfather is worried that you will be involved in another life lawsuit. And let me do the aftermath for you and find out all the legal provisions that can get you out of crime when Xue Lin's body is found. And you fell ill after killing Xue Lin, and when you recovered, you forgot what you did Because, this is actually a good thing for you."

Jiang Ying had no memory of what Bai Sinian said, but he didn't want to deny it for himself. He was just confused because he forgot the reason for killing Xue Lin.He looked up at the roof and said to himself, "Why did I kill him?"

Bai Sinian stared at him closely, and said, "There's no reason, you're just very angry."

Jiang Ying asked himself again: "Am I angry?"

Bai Sinian: "Just like you want to kill Song Youhai and Jiang Ziyan, there is no reason, you just want to kill them."

Jiang Ying closed his eyes, as if convincing himself: "Yes, I want to kill them, there is no reason."

Bai Sinian stood up, walked behind him quietly, put his hands on his shoulders, bent down and whispered in his ear: "Come with me."

Jiang Ying: "Where are you going?"

Bai Sinian: "You can't stay here anymore, the police will soon find Xue Lin's body, they will put you in a madhouse, do you remember the madhouse? They will tie you tightly to a chair and feed you Eat unpalatable porridge and beat you with an electric baton, remember?"

Jiang Ying was clammy and cold, as if he was walking by the sea, and was dragged by the sea monster's ankles to the bottom of the sea, where he was submerged in the icy sea.He talked to Bai Sinian as if in a dream: "I remember."

Bai Sinian: "Do you want to go?"

Jiang Ying: "I don't want to."

Bai Sinian: "Then follow me, and I will take you to a free place, where there are no police and no laws. There, you are God."

Jiang Ying: "Okay... no, no, Ye Chuyang... Ye Chuyang is waiting for me."

Bai Sinian: "You are a murderer, Ye Chuyang won't wait for you, he has already given up on you, otherwise why would he go to the police?"

You are a murderer...

Ye Chuyang won't wait for you...

He has given up on you...

I have given up on you...

Jiang Ying opened his eyes in the water, lowered his head, and saw that the sea monster holding his ankle had a human face; her long black hair was floating in the sea like seaweed, and her pale face exuded the breath of the dead , looking at him with resentful and cold eyes, she is Leng Jinghua - he wanted to struggle, but she grabbed him very tightly, as if she was going to drag him all the way into hell, and when he bowed his head again, Leng Jinghua disappeared, the sea monster His face turned into Bai Sinian again, and Bai Sinian smiled gently at him, as gentle as Ye Chuyang...

Jiang Ying opened his eyes suddenly and found that he was not dragged into the bottom of the sea by the sea monster, but the feeling of suffocation from the cold water in his chest was very real, as if he hadn't escaped from the bottom of the sea yet.He struggled to stand up and looked back at Bai Sinian. Bai Sinian's face became blurred, like a crudely made human skin mask.

Jiang Ying supported his crumbling body and asked him, "What did you eat for me?"

Bai Sinian said: "It's nothing, I put some narcotics in your wine."

Jiang Ying wanted to pick up the club on the coffee table to defend himself, but his eyes were spinning. He found the club but missed it, so he gave up the club and walked towards the door with weak legs... He walked to the door with difficulty. He wanted to open the door, but the door was locked. He finally lost all his strength, and slowly sat on the ground with his back against the door panel. That golf club.

When Bai Sinian walked up to him and raised the cue in his hand high, Jiang Ying closed his eyes, and there was only peace in his heart, embracing the peace of death.

He was finally free.