Played by the devil in the palm of his hand

Xu Chi waited at the gate of the bus station for an hour, smoking three or four cigarettes intermittently, but didn't see Anna come out.

Although the wind in autumn is not as harsh as in winter, it is also slightly biting, and very cunning, burrowing in along the cuffs and necklines.

Xu Chi finally got impatient, put the cigarette butt in the trash can, took out his mobile phone and called Anna, wanting to ask her if she was stuck in traffic.

In the end, he made several calls but no one answered, so Xu Chi had no choice but to turn off his phone and walk into the bus station to find someone.He searched around in the lobby, then went to the information desk to ask, and knew that the car Anna was riding in had already arrived.He even stood guard at the door of the women's toilet for a while against the strange eyes of the women around him. There were more than a dozen people coming and going, but he didn't see Anna.

Suspicious, Xu Chi took out his cell phone again, and while calling, he hailed a taxi and walked back.

He didn't think much about it at this time, he just thought that Anna's phone was out of battery, and he happened to miss it with him, so he took a taxi directly to the apartment.

More than half an hour later, when Xu Chi returned to the apartment and took the elevator to the sixth floor, he felt something was wrong.It's not what I heard or saw, but the instinct of the body felt a residual malice.

Xu Chi didn't have a weapon on him, so he could only put up all his energy and approached the door cautiously.

He first lay on the door and listened to the movement inside, and then took out the key to open the door.As soon as the key was inserted into the keyhole, he felt that the lock had been picked, and his body tensed up immediately, entering a state of readiness for battle.

He took a deep breath, kicked the door open, and at the same time turned back, leaning his body against the wall.

The imaginary hail of bullets did not strike from inside, but it was unusually quiet. Xu Chi looked suspiciously, and found that the room was empty, and the boy had disappeared.

Xu Chi was in a hurry, and didn't care if there was an ambush in the room, so he rushed in hastily, first went to the kitchen to have a look, then went to the bedroom and bathroom, but there was no sign of the boy.

Xu Chi's heart was about to jump out, he was even more panicked than when he was in prison.He forcibly suppressed the panic in his heart, and slowly sat down on the sofa, thinking about who would kidnap the boy—maybe even Anna was in his hands.

He has made many enemies over the years, and any one of them may spend dozens of days to find his hiding place, follow him, stare at him, and find his weakness.

Xu Chi scratched his hair irritably, wiped his face vigorously, and took a long breath.He regretted it to death. He really shouldn't have left the boy at home alone, at least he should have taken him to the station.

Every one of his enemies wanted to cut him into pieces, and during this time the boy lived and ate with him, and he must be regarded as his own weakness by the other party. He couldn't imagine how the boy would be treated.

By the way, have to tell Edward.

Xu Chi quickly took out his mobile phone and wanted to ask Edward for help, but just before he pressed the dial button, the TV in front of him suddenly beeped, and then the screen turned on.

Xu Chi stood up in shock.I saw that the screen was dim at first, and then gradually brightened. It could be seen that it was a closed room. The screen flickered for a while, and a western man who was nearly 40 years old appeared.

There was a hideous scar on this man's face, like a crack in the ground, running from the corner of his left forehead to the bridge of his nose, which looked quite terrifying.

Xu Chi gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Poisonous scorpion!"

"I'm glad you still remember me...although it's only been more than a year since the last match."

"You don't want the other arm anymore, do you?!" Xu Chi threatened angrily, "Give them back to me if you don't want to die!"

The poisonous scorpion tidied his hair indifferently. His left arm was made of alloy mechanical arms from elbow to fingertips. Judging from their conversation, it was obvious that Xu Chi did a good job.

At the age of 19, Xu Chi overcame obstacles in the melee, cut off his arm, and destroyed his smuggling factory in Myanmar along the way.

The poisonous scorpion hated him to the bone, saying that it wanted to eat his flesh raw and drink his blood.

Xu Chi forced himself to calm down. Since the poisonous scorpion could hear him, and seemed to be able to see him, he must have installed a camera or bug in the apartment.He scanned the room from the corner of his eye, trying to find the surveillance location.

The poisonous scorpion looked at him who was obviously panicked to the extreme, but pretended to be calm, suddenly laughed nervously, and said while laughing: "Hey, there is an old saying in your China that the palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh. I personally Understanding is that the left hand is as important as the right hand, and if you took my left hand, I will take one of yours."

He lowered his voice and asked coldly and viciously: "Do you think the left hand is more important or the right hand?"

As soon as the voice fell, the picture on the screen suddenly split into two, the left side was still the poisonous scorpion, and the right side turned into another room. Anna was tied to the electric chair with her arms behind her back, with her head hanging down, unconscious.

The poisonous scorpion shook a small remote control in his hand, "This is the switch of the electric chair, as long as I press it, the woman will be instantly shocked into a charred corpse."

Xu Chi clenched his fists tightly, took a step forward, and stared at the poisonous scorpion with gritted teeth, "You dare to touch her! I'll make you pay for it!!"

"Don't worry, there's one more."

The poisonous scorpion dragged a child in from outside the screen, put him in front of him, and said with a sinister smile, "Your child is really obedient. Since he was caught, he has never cried or run away. Such an obedient child , you should like it very much, right?"

Xu Chi's breathing became short due to anger, and he stared at the poisonous scorpion, "You'd better let them go!"

The boy looked at him softly through the screen, the expression on his face was no different from usual, calm and indulgent, as if he was completely unaware of his dangerous situation.

Xu Chi was angry and anxious: You idiot, don't you hide when the bad guys come?Usually Bai is so clever!

The poisonous scorpion picked up a sharp steel knife in his hand, and pressed it against the boy's cheek, "Choose one, do you prefer women or children? Don't worry, I'm very trustworthy, I'll let you choose whichever you choose, no The rest are dead."

Xu Chi stared at him, put his right hand by his side, and quietly dialed Edward's number.

He looked at the poisonous scorpion, and said slowly: "The poisonous scorpion, if you want to get revenge, you can come at me, and I will stand here and never fight back, but don't involve innocent people in this way. It's too immoral, and it doesn't sound good to spread the word, so how about your business, don't do such things that harm others and benefit yourself."

The poisonous scorpion laughed, and even waved the steel knife in his hand casually when he was excited. Xu Chi was terrified when he saw it, for fear that the knife and gun had no eyes and would accidentally injure the boy.

The poisonous scorpion laughed enough, then looked at the camera again, and taunted: "You think I don't want to kill you? No, no, no, I know you too well. You are not afraid of death. Killing you is not enough to make you feel uncomfortable. I want to make you Watching the people around you being tortured and killed, you should feel my pain a little bit."

The poisonous scorpion put the knife close to the boy's slender and fair neck, the blue veins throbbing slightly, he lowered his voice, and pretended to be mysterious, "Choose quickly, I'll give you three seconds, or I'll kill you." They both killed."

"You put down the knife first..."

"three."

"I can be a hostage! I promise not to resist!"

"two."

"Poisonous scorpion!"

"One." The poisonous scorpion gave him a regretful look, picked up the remote control, and said lightly, "Ladies first, let's kill women first."

"Wait!" Xu Chi growled, lowered his head in extreme pain, his right hand tightly grasped his left arm, his nails sank deep into the skin, almost oozing blood.

He spoke with difficulty, as if out of breath, with a hoarse voice, "Anna...I choose Anna..."

The boy opened his eyes slightly, as if he was a little surprised by Xu Chi's choice. Perhaps in his perception, he believed that Xu Chi would choose him. After all, during this period of time, they were very close to each other and lived very happily.

He probably suddenly understood from this moment that he was actually just a passerby to Xu Chi, just like this Chang'an Town.Xu Chi only came here to rest occasionally, but he really lived elsewhere, and there were many more important people than here.

And these have nothing to do with him.

Xu Chi trembled violently. He watched the poisonous scorpion pin the boy to the ground. With a crazy expression, he pierced his chest with a sharp steel knife and cut open his abdomen, just like a medieval disembowelment. Like a jack-in-the-hand, he disemboweled himself extremely cruelly, and blood even splattered on the screen.

The boy's slender body was surrounded by dripping blood, but he didn't cry or shout, he just turned his head, his pale and beautiful face was facing the camera, staring stubbornly at the person behind the camera with an indescribable gaze.

Xu Chi should have remembered that look for the rest of his life, but he just forgot.

This cruel massacre bought them a little precious time. Edward on the phone found the location of the poisonous scorpion through an informant. Back to Anna, also killed the poisonous scorpion.

But he fell from the fourth floor and fell into a coma for three days and three nights.

During this period of coma, he kept having nightmares, dreaming of the boy's appearance when he was dying, dreaming of blood and that pale face.

Perhaps because of too much fear and pain, he suffered from psychogenic amnesia in a coma. The self-protection mechanism of the brain erased this memory, and even made up vague pictures of several boys leaving to deceive himself. He left by himself.

The boy's name became a big lock in his mind, sealing all painful memories into a secret room, never to see the light of day again.

Anna didn't know the existence of the other hostage from the beginning to the end, and the poisonous scorpion also died. Xu Chi, the only one who remembered the boy, forgot about it, so he just left the boy's body behind and buried the boy's name. At the bottom of the sea, despicable and selfish, he walked into the future alone.