Chapter 288: Deathbed
"Mr. Qi."
A faint call woke Qi Su from his sleep.
Several consecutive meetings took up all his rest time, but fortunately everything was finalized and his work was recognized by everyone. The ridicule, abuse and misunderstanding seemed to have become a red carpet paved for him at this moment.
"Would you like to go back and rest for a while?"
The secretary asked with some concern.
Qi Su shook his head. He had just finished a meeting, but an hour later he had a cooperation meeting with the president of a foreign technology company. They were now in the car heading to the conference center.
"But you look very unhappy."
"It's okay, I just had a dream, I dreamed that I..."
I dreamed that my body was taken away by a terrible demon, and I dreamed that I was fighting with Li Muhan...
If the secretary said something like that, he would definitely think he was crazy.
"What did you dream about?"
Qi Su smiled slightly, a barely perceptible weariness flickering in his eyes: "A story of a dream come true."
Upon hearing this, the secretary's face lit up with a gratified smile, his eyes sparkling with excitement. "That's fantastic! This means our new project will be as brilliant as a dream. After three years of hard work, you've created a true miracle. Mr. Qi, you're like a modern legend..."
Qi Su felt a little helpless when he heard the secretary's praise. He raised his hand and gently motioned her to stop. Then he turned to the driver and said, "Stop here. I want to walk the rest of the way."
The driver and secretary both looked puzzled. The driver asked worriedly, "Mr. Qi, this place is still some distance from the company, and..."
Qi Su had already gotten out of the car. He looked at the two of them and smiled gently, "It's okay. I want to take a walk and feel the night breeze."
It was late at night and the time had reached ten o'clock in the evening. Despite being tired, Qi Su still had countless unfinished meetings on his shoulders.
He needed a moment of peace to breathe, think, and organize his thoughts.
He needed to catch his breath.
Walking alone by the river, Qi Su's steps seemed a little dazed, his thoughts immersed in the strange dream just now - the demon in the dream made him uneasy, he didn't understand why such an illusion appeared in his dream.
He leaned against the railing, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and lit one skillfully.
This habit developed without his awareness. He knew that if his father were still alive, he would definitely be heartbroken to see him smoking.
Thinking of his father, a bitter smile appeared on Qi Su's lips.
But everything has become the past. When a person dies, it is like a light going out. The dead should rest in peace in the ground and no longer interfere with the world of the living.
Just as he was lost in thought, a female scream broke the silence of the night.
This place is close to the park. It is winter now and it is already ten o'clock in the evening, so almost no one is active here.
Qi Su immediately became alert, he knew that the sound meant someone was in danger.
He quickly turned around, his eyes locked in the direction of the sound. He saw two figures violently dragging a struggling girl from the bushes at the edge of the park, attempting to pull her deeper into the dark woods.
“Help!! Help!!”
The girl had just shouted twice when she was slapped hard by the tall man. The man snatched her bag, took her cell phone, and then started to touch the girl.
"Fuck it! Don't scream! I won't kill you after I'm done! But if you scream again, I'll make you live a life worse than death!"
The girl's eyes were filled with fear and her tears overflowed from her eyes, but this only made the two gangsters more excited. They were also sure that no one would disturb their "fun" at this time, so they became bolder and pressed the girl into the bushes, preparing to assault her.
"......Wait a moment."
At this moment, a weak voice sounded from behind.
The two gangsters were suddenly stunned. After all, they were doing a bad thing and were a little afraid of being discovered. But when they turned around and saw a thin man with glasses wearing a neat suit, they suddenly felt relieved.
"Boy, do you want to die? Get out of here!"
“Please!! Save me!!”
The girl clung to this only hope tightly, her eyes meeting Qi Su's, her eyes filled with fear and pleading, like a drowning person looking at a lighthouse on the shore.
Qi Su's heart was deeply hurt by this look. He seemed to see his past self, the helpless boy who suffered from bullying in high school.
His knees were shaking. At that moment, he felt like he was back in those days that he couldn't bear to recall. The feeling of powerlessness in the face of evil forces once again surged in his heart.
He took a deep breath and tried to speak in a firm tone: "What you did is wrong. She may just be a high school student, and the law punishes such behavior very severely. Moreover, your behavior will leave her with lifelong trauma, which is a pain she cannot bear..."
However, his rational persuasion was only met with ridicule from the two gangsters.
"Haha, where did you get this idiot? If you don't get out of here, I'll leave you in some trouble!!"
They roared, and their arrogant laughter echoed in the cold air, causing Qi Su to shrink back and instinctively want to escape from this dangerous scene.
But the girl's fearful and desperate eyes were like a mirror, reflecting his former self.
At that time, without that help and that courage, he might have sunk completely.
The self in that memory made him realize that he couldn't retreat again.
"Are you going to get the hell out of here or not?! Do you want to die?!"
Seeing that the person behind him had not left yet, the gangster suddenly stood up and turned to walk towards Qi Su.
But the moment he turned around.
Qi Su suddenly picked up a stone from the ground, shouted, and smashed the stone hard on the man's head.
"Ouch!! My head! This idiot is looking for death!!"
"Beat him! Damn it!"
The two gangsters easily kicked Qi Su to the ground, and then launched a violent attack. Qi Su imitated Li Muhan's previous actions and protected his head, but his stomach was soon kicked to a point where he could no longer bear it. While protecting his stomach, his head was exposed again.
In this despair, he simply couldn't imagine how Li Muhan found the opportunity to fight back.
He only looked at the girl in the gap and shouted, "Run!!!"
Upon hearing this, the girl immediately got up from the ground and started to run away desperately.
"Damn it! Don't run!!"
A gangster saw the girl trying to escape and turned around to chase her.
“Ahhhhh!!!”
Qi Su suddenly stopped protecting his body like a madman. He hugged the man's legs and punched the man's body hard, but this resistance was quickly suppressed by the two gangsters, and in return he was beaten even more brutally.
Suddenly, he felt it was ridiculous.
What problems can be solved without violence?
What should I do when I encounter this situation? I have tried my best and tried my best, but there is nothing I can do. It’s all because I don’t have the strength.
If I could be like Li Muhan... If I could be like him...
When Qi Su felt that he was about to lose consciousness, he suddenly heard a familiar voice calling.
"Qi Su, you are still here, right?"
......
This voice made his heart tremble again, and the faint tremor seemed to be responding to the call.
His soul seemed to have found a traction and began to struggle to respond, to break free from the shackles of darkness.
He realized that even in his darkest moments, he was willing to reach out and try to pull him back from the abyss, and he had always been like this...
Then he slowly opened his eyes...
"...Li Muhan."
Qi Su, whose body was shattered and only his body and head were left, seemed to have regained his consciousness at this moment.
"Is there any hope for me..."
His blurred vision could only see a hint of Li Muhan's shadow.
“…There is hope.”
Li Muhan's tone softened a little, but he knew that what he said now was just a little comfort to a soul that was about to dissipate.
"......You won't lie, ever. That's just the way you are."
Qi Su coughed twice, and it was this cough that turned part of his body into dust.
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