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"Zhou Min, you are not allowed to die..."
The familiar voice awakened his senses, and the pain in his side abdomen instantly filled his whole body, forcibly gathering Zhou Min's scattered consciousness.
The eyeballs under her eyelids moved slightly, and Zhou Min's brows were wrinkled because of the piercing pain. She woke up, but didn't want to open her eyes at all.
Tsk, why is Chen Shu nagging beside her? What's going on now? A memorial service?
Her body was numb with pain, and the pain of the wound reminded her that she was probably still alive. The place she was lying on looked like a bed.
She felt that she had to stop and take a breath from time to time when scolding people, let alone beating them, so she decided to pretend to sleep and wait and see what would happen.
I don't know if Chen Shu noticed that she was awake, or if he was planning to wake her up in a different way. He started telling her about the past that she didn't want to hear.
Chen Shu is not an orphan. She once had a home, but she can no longer remember, or does not want to recall more details about, her "home". The only thing she remembers is the last words her "family" said to her.
"You're losing money, if you want something, go get it yourself, don't expect us to give it to you!"
So Chen Shu went to "take". She left the so-called "home" and made a living from other people's pockets.
Finally, while holding it, he accidentally got the things of that organization member.
Chen Shu was severely beaten and was taken back half-dead and locked up in a small dark room.
That's where she and Zhou Min met.
She couldn't understand at the time how someone could be so stupid. There was no one watching in the room, and he was just sitting quietly in the chair.
"Hey, why don't you come down and lie down for a while."
"Mom won't let me."
Okay, Chen Shu can’t do anything about this “mama’s girl”.
After joining the organization, she discovered that this person was extremely stupid. When being punished by the leader, he not only did not dodge, but sometimes even when he was knocked to the ground, he would not take the opportunity to lie down for a while, but would rush to stand up and take the next beating.
She decided to bully the golden-eyed fool as well.
Then she was knocked down.
Of course, one or two times could not convince Chen Shu. She just thought that she had not learned the skills well enough or had not found the right timing. So whenever she felt that she had made progress, or when Zhou Minggang came out of the small dark room covered in bruises, she would go and provoke him.
Day after day, Chen Shu faced the reality and passively let go of his previous grudges.
Later, she learned from others that the reason the fool did not fight back was because she was adopted by the chief from the welfare home and had always been grateful for the chief's kindness.
Hasn't that little bit of kindness been used up yet? Besides, what's wrong with being adopted? Can't I run away? I'm my biological child, and I ran away. Chen Shu was very disdainful after hearing this, and turned around and kindly told Zhou Min his advice.
Who would have thought that this person was not only stupid but also very stubborn. She said that her mother beat her because she loved her and she wanted to stay with her mother forever.
"You're sick." Chen Shu rolled his eyes after hearing this. Feeling that this wasn't enough to express his frustration, he added forcefully, "You're all sick."
Zhou Min got a little angry after hearing this and corrected her: "You can only say that I'm sick."
“Okay, as long as you know it.” Chen Shu was completely driven out of temper by this seriously ill fool and stopped saying bad things about her dear “mother”.
On one occasion, Chen Shu overheard the leader's conversation with someone else. She said that she had adopted Zhou Min because he had caused her to lose a large amount of income through his own efforts, and she had taken him back from the orphanage to vent her anger. Whenever she was upset, she would beat Zhou Min up, and after comforting him, he would come back as if nothing had happened. It was quite amusing.
Chen Shu told her this as a joke to mock Zhou Min.
"Oh." After listening to Chen Shu's retelling, Zhou Min responded softly, with no further expression on his face.
Until one day when everything should have been peaceful, at a party organized by the organization, Zhou Min pushed Chen Shu out of the party venue without saying a word and slammed the door shut.
Then, gunshots rang out from inside the door. Wow, it was like setting off firecrackers. After the wailing gradually died down, Chen Shu carefully pushed the door open, only to see a scene she would never forget.
Corpses lay scattered across the white marble floor, a vibrant red hue filled the air with the scent of death.
In the center of the sea of blood and corpses, Zhou Min was standing beside the limp leader, watching her quietly as she struggled to get up from the ground.
Finally, Zhou Min slowly knelt beside her, holding the dagger tightly in his right hand and raising it high.
"You said love is pain."
"Mom, I love you too—"
Blood spurted out from his chest and splashed onto Zhou Min's face, flowing down the corners of his eyes like tears of blood, leaving strange red marks on his pale skin.
Perhaps a long time passed, or perhaps only a moment passed. She turned her head slightly and looked at Chen Shu with her golden eyes that were still filled with murderous intent.
At that moment, Chen Shu's whole body felt numb, time seemed to have stopped, and only his heart was beating wildly in his chest.
"This is you, this is your true self."
"Your hands are meant to kill."
"ill."
Hearing Chen Shu's evaluation of himself, Zhou Min couldn't help it. He opened his eyes and spoke out to interrupt her memories.
Unexpectedly, after hearing her scolding him, Chen Shu's excitement spread to the corners of his mouth, and his face was full of uncontrollable smiles.
"Yes, yes, I am indeed sick."
"Later, I tried killing people myself and also watched others do it, but my illness couldn't be cured. I think what I was obsessed with at the time was the feeling of watching you take life."
"To see you raise the knife again, I even..."
Having said this, Chen Shu seemed to be thinking about something. He paused slightly and then continued.
"I even paid you to film the video, and as I expected, the footage was absolutely amazing."
At this point, Chen Shu looked at Zhou Min with sparkling eyes and asked, "Do you still remember the drink I mixed for you?"
Zhou Min remembered, but she didn't want to respond to a pervert, so she turned her face away and remained silent.
Seeing that she didn't answer, Chen Shu said directly: "That glass of wine is called 'Perfect Mask', named after a poem by Baudelaire. I think it suits you very well. Don't you usually live your life wearing a mask? But when you kill people, that's the real you. You are a true artist. Only I know this best."
After that, he recited the poem to himself:
"I know everything that's hidden behind your perfect mask, what makes you who you are."
Oh, so there were already clues at that time, how come I only discovered it now? Zhou Min was annoyed for a moment.
"But why didn't you kill those people from the Investigation Bureau the night before last? I know you deliberately avoided the vital points." After Chen Shu finished speaking, he looked at Zhou Min quietly.
Chen Shu knew that if he revealed the true identity of the person who appeared the night before was Zhou Min when he reported it, Zhou Min alone would definitely not be able to withstand the full-scale investigation of the agency.
In the face of power, even a serial killer like himself has to be put at the back of the priority list, so the investigation agency is unlikely to allocate many people to investigate this case this time.
He didn't really want to kill Zhou Min or get her caught, so he only provided clues about himself to the Investigation Bureau, with the purpose of watching her go on a killing spree again from afar.
After hearing what Chen Shu said, Zhou Min was extremely disgusted with Chen Shu. He was afraid that he would scold her again, so he didn't curse at her. He didn't even bother to roll his eyes. He propped himself up and sat up on the bed.
The movement of getting up inevitably pulled the bandaged wound, and Zhou Min's face turned even paler.
She suddenly remembered the intense pain she felt when Zhou Qiting pressed her wound in revenge, and the words "You... wait for me" she heard before she passed out. It seemed that Zhou Qiting did not want to let her go easily.
But now she was taken away smoothly by Chen Shu. Does it mean that Zhou Qiting encountered some accident on the way to escape and was unable to bring people back to catch her?
A deep worry suddenly filled her heart, but before Zhou Min could speak, Chen Shu guessed what she wanted to ask from her expression.
"She was taken away by the Investigation Bureau. If I hadn't been following you, I might not have been able to rescue you in time before the Investigation Bureau arrived."
That's good. Zhou Min said no more and looked around, trying to find a weapon to fight Chen Shu to the death.
"Your stuff is here."
Chen Shu certainly knew what she was looking for. He opened the drawer of the bedside table and showed her the gun and cell phone inside. Then he picked up another thing inside.
A tin candy box.
Chen Shu opened the lid in front of her, took out a cigarette from inside, put it in his mouth, and lit it with a metal lighter.
She couldn't be sure from the appearance, but when she saw the cigarette Chen Shu took out of it, Zhou Min confirmed that this was the candy box she had thrown away before.
"You've been following me?" Zhou Min felt a chill in her heart, and her eyes darkened a little. Suddenly, she remembered something and was a little bit unbelievable. "After the second order was over, you were following me too?"
Chen Shu exhaled a long puff of smoke, said nothing, and nodded slightly.
No wonder. When the Investigation Bureau came to the orphanage to investigate her again after so many years, she had a vague feeling that something was amiss.
If the investigation agency found him because he left some traces when he beat someone up on the day he followed Huang Peiyi, then it would be difficult to explain why Zhou Yiting knew that the man in the alley was shot to death but didn't know that he was Zhou Min.
At first, she thought Zhou Yiting was innocent and did not delve into the doubts about her identity. However, she did not expect that it was because her real identity information was not leaked at that time.
After completing the second order, she originally wanted to smoke a cigarette to suppress her irritability, but when she thought of her decision to quit smoking, she put out the cigarette and threw it into a nearby trash can. The cigarette holder was likely stained with her oral cells.
She usually pays attention to erasing any biological information she might leave behind, but that time she was injured and a little dazed, so she was careless for a moment.
But when she threw away the cigarette, she was almost ten kilometers away from the mission location.
This means that Chen Shu had been following her that night, so he saw where she threw the cigarette butt and picked it up just like the iron candy box filled with cigarettes.
With her biological information, it would be much easier for the Inducement Investigation Bureau to find her, and it would be a natural thing to seize the welfare home's funds of unknown origin.
Therefore, Chen Shu's ultimate goal was to get Zhou Min, who was in urgent need of money, to take over the order she had carefully planned in order to satisfy her own perverted psychology.
Zhou Min didn't expect Chen Shu would plot against her to this extent. She was extremely upset. Without saying a word, she took out a gun from the drawer, checked the ammunition, unlocked the safety, and pointed it at Chen Shu's head.
Chen Shu watched her every move, and now he looked directly into her eyes, took the last puff of his cigarette calmly, and leaned closer.
"Zhou Min, your eyes tell me that you don't want to kill me yet, right?"
"But it doesn't matter." Chen Shu leaned closer and said with a smile, "I'm waiting for the day when you will personally stab the dagger into my heart."
After that, she kissed the muzzle of the gun and chanted:
"For those who believe, death is the door to eternal life"
Zhou Min's face visibly darkened when Chen Shu brought up that incident again. She knew Chen Shu was trying to provoke her, but she didn't want to stain her hands with Chen Shu's blood. After a long silence, she picked up her phone again.
"Alright, 'Gate of Eternal Life', right? You're not afraid of death, right?" Zhou Min unlocked his phone and sent his current location to the other party. "Then let me play a game with you."
Zhou Min raised his phone to Chen Shu, making sure she saw that he had sent his location, and said with a wry smile, "The game is, whoever escapes before the investigation agency arrives loses."
"Are you trying to kill yourself?" Chen Shu was anxious to grab the phone to further confirm whether what Zhou Min said was true.
It's true that she wanted to die, but she wanted to die at the hands of Zhou Min, so that he could complete the last grand art performance with her, rather than die at the hands of those good-for-nothings in the Investigation Bureau!
Although Zhou Min had been shot and lost blood and had not yet recovered his strength, he was still able to protect his cell phone with clever maneuvering, and naturally would not let Chen Shu succeed.
"You--" She couldn't help but feel flustered when she thought that she would really be caught if she didn't leave. "Come with me." As she said that, she grabbed Zhou Min's hand and tried to pull her up from the bed.
"Hiss... You can't take me away." The gauze on Zhou Min's wound seeped red during the pulling.
"I can't run. I'm going to wait here to be caught and shot. I was planning to die anyway." Zhou Min sat back on the bed, playing with the gun in his hand, waiting calmly.
At this moment, the sound of tires rubbing against the ground came from outside the window, as if a vehicle was slowly approaching.
There was no time to worry about so many things. Both of them could not be caught. At worst, Zhou Min could be rescued during the transfer to another prison. Chen Shu thought for a moment, turned around and walked quickly towards the stairs behind the temporary base, taking a shortcut and escaping in a hurry.
Three minutes later, Zhou Min received a call on his cell phone.
"Hello, this is the 'Di Dang' cleaning company. We're already nearby. What floor is your detailed address?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. Something happened here. I made you come here for nothing. I'll transfer the lost wages to you later."
After Zhou Min transferred the money, he sighed and picked up a towel to stop bleeding and wiped the muzzle of the gun.
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