Chapter 74 Aren’t You Already Dead?
I glanced suspiciously at the man behind me, turned around and continued walking for a few minutes, then pretended to make a phone call and casually glanced behind me. Sure enough, the man was still following me, which made me inexplicably nervous.
I was wondering who was following me. Could it be Karen's people? Maybe she saw that I was suspicious of her, so she hired someone to follow me.
I walked forward quickly, and my cell phone rang again. It was the same stranger who sent the message.
"Go to the mall across the street."
I looked up and saw that there were many people in the shopping mall opposite, so it was indeed easy to get rid of the person following me. I glanced at the person following me from behind and quickly walked to the shopping mall opposite.
When I was going up the stairs, I noticed that the person behind me was ten meters away from me. After a while, my cell phone rang again. The person asked me to go into the women's restroom. In this way, the person who was following me could not get in. Then I could change clothes with someone else and get rid of the person who was following me.
I sent a text message to the stranger and asked who he was.
"Someone who helps you."
A trace of suspicion flashed across my eyes. I didn't know whether the other person was a good person or a bad person, but for the moment, I should get rid of the person who was following me first. As for this stranger, I still needed to be vigilant, so after reading the text message, I sent a text message to Yang Ru.
Xiaoyu betrayed me, and now there is really no one I trust. I just hope Yang Ru doesn’t end up like Xiaoyu. I really can’t bear the blow.
I went into the bathroom and looked outside. Sure enough, the man was standing not far away, holding his cell phone and talking to someone on the phone, reporting something.
I turned around and happened to meet a woman in her forties wearing a blue cotton jacket and a hat. I hurried over.
"Sister, I seem to be followed. Can you help me?"
I exchanged clothes with the older woman, let my hair down, put on her hat, gave her two hundred yuan, and told her to wait ten minutes before leaving.
"Sister, if anything happens, please shout for help while there are many people around."
The elder sister put the money into her bag and told me not to worry. She said humorously that when she went out, the people who were following me would see her true face and would definitely not make things difficult for her.
I walked out feeling a bit nervous. I was extremely nervous and scared when I walked past the man. He was still staring at the exit of the women's restroom and didn't notice me.
I quickly walked down the stairs, out of the mall, and took a deep breath. I finally got rid of him. It seemed that I had to get out of the sight of this person who was following me and go home quickly.
I walked to the side of the road and suddenly a taxi came. The driver was wearing a mask and asked in a low voice if I wanted to get in. I told him my address, opened the door and got in.
I was sitting in the back seat, looking at my phone with lingering fear. I looked up at the driver and saw that he was driving with only his right hand, with his left hand on the window.
"Brother, please drive with one hand and be careful."
The man shuddered and hummed softly.
I looked down at my phone, wondering why the stranger stopped replying to my messages after helping me get rid of the person who was following me.
No matter who he was, I should at least thank him, so I sent a text message to the stranger and said thank you.
I heard a beeping sound from inside the taxi. I was stunned for a moment and looked up at the driver. The phone in his pocket vibrated twice, but he didn't look at it.
I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking what a coincidence, and then I looked out the window and found that the way home was a little different from my usual route.
"Master, are you taking the wrong road?"
"No, the road was a bit congested, so we took a detour. Don't worry, we won't charge you more." He said in a low voice.
I said "oh", but I felt a little suspicious. It was ten o'clock in the morning and the rush hour had passed. I felt a little uneasy. Suddenly I thought of something, hurriedly took out my mobile phone, and sent another text message to the stranger.
The driver's pocket beeped again. I looked up at him in astonishment, but he didn't turn around. The car was filled with an eerie atmosphere.
"Who are you?" I asked tremblingly, my heart suddenly panicking. Through the rearview mirror, I saw the driver look up. He was wearing a mask, and a sneer flashed in his eyes. This cold look was strangely familiar.
I hurriedly reached out to open the car door, but found it was locked. I looked up at him in panic and asked him to stop the car.
"Yu Xiaowan, don't waste your time."
Hearing this voice, I looked at the man in shock.
"Liu Xu, aren't you dead?"
He suddenly slammed on the brakes, and before I could react, he took out a bottle and sprayed something on my face. A strange fragrance came over me, and I fainted.
When I woke up, I found myself weak all over and in darkness. I felt like my body was curled up in a small space and I couldn't move at all.
I listened quietly outside and heard a sound like wheels rolling. I was startled. Could it be that I was trapped in a small suitcase? My fingers seemed to touch a small round hole on the wall of the suitcase, and wind blew in. It seemed that they were afraid that I would suffocate in the suitcase, so they deliberately drilled the small hole.
The wheels were still sliding forward, and there were the sounds of hurried footsteps and horns from passing cars. It seemed that they were walking on the main road.
I was wondering if there would be any passersby who would save me if I called out now. I didn't care about anything else and hurriedly shouted for help twice, but all that came out of my throat was a hoarse "ah ah" sound.
How could this happen? What's wrong with my throat? Why can't I speak? I was panicking and anxious. At this moment, the sound of the wheels and the footsteps stopped.
The man patted the suitcase.
"I'm telling you, Yu Xiaowan, be obedient. Once we get to a safe place, I'll naturally find a way to let you talk. I've left your cell phone in Nancheng. We're no longer in Nancheng now." Liu Xu laughed.
Not in South City anymore? Hearing him say that, I became even more panicked, wondering what on earth he wanted to do and where he was taking me.
The wheels started rolling again. I curled up in the suitcase, feeling stuffy and uncomfortable. The road was very bumpy. When I felt like the car was about to stall, I finally heard his voice again.
"Boss, I need to stay at the hotel. I left in a hurry and didn't bring my ID card. Can you make some allowance?"
"Of course, the young man doesn't look like a bad guy. He's alone, right? Come with me. The room fee is 80 yuan, and the deposit is 100 yuan."
"Boss, is it quiet here?" Liu Xu asked.
"Of course it's quiet. You're the only guest tonight."
I don’t know how much Liu Xu gave, and he said no need for change. The boss thanked him several times and took him upstairs.
When he was going upstairs, the boss said that his left hand was not convenient and it was a bit difficult for him to carry the suitcase with his right hand, so he offered to help him carry it.
"No, no, I can do it alone."
You can imagine how uncomfortable I felt in the suitcase, so when he opened the suitcase in the room, I immediately stuck my head out and vomited.
It was already evening, and almost a day had passed since I'd had breakfast. All I could vomit was acid. My eyes were red, and I slumped a bit inside the box. I looked up at Liu Xu and wondered, why didn't he just kill me with a single blow instead of going to all this trouble to take me away? This was pure torture. Just now, when I was feeling so miserable in the box, I really wanted to ask him to kill me.
He looked at the filth on the ground, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, and he ignored me and went out alone. I wanted to take this opportunity to get up and run away, but I really didn't have any strength at all. I felt like I was paralyzed, and I couldn't move my whole body. I could only stay there and gasp for breath.
After a while, Liu Xu returned to the room, holding a broom and coal ash. He cleaned up the filth and mopped the floor. When he was done, he remembered me and took me out of the suitcase, put me on the bed, and then ate instant noodles by himself.
I was really hungry and tired at this moment. Looking at him eating instant noodles, I swallowed my saliva. He stopped eating the instant noodles and looked up at me.
"Hungry?"
I nodded hurriedly.
"If you eat this instant noodles, I'm afraid you won't be able to speak in the future."
After saying that, he continued to eat his own food. I looked at him resentfully, but I was really hungry at the moment and I couldn't move my body. This uncomfortable feeling was really unpleasant.
When Liu Xu finished eating, he looked up at me. Perhaps because he didn't want me to starve, he pulled a bottle of eight-treasure porridge from his backpack and stood in front of me. I usually don't like canned food, but right now, everything looks delicious. I want to reach out for it, but I don't have the strength. I feel like this guy must have done something to me while I was unconscious. Otherwise, I wouldn't be so weak.
"Do you want to eat? Do you want me to feed you?"
I nodded hurriedly. He who knows the current situation is a hero. I am really hungry now.
A sneer flashed in his eyes. He put the eight-treasure porridge on the table, opened the lid with his right hand, and looked at his inconvenient left hand. It must have been the time when he kidnapped me and was interrupted by Xiao Shi.
I kept staring at him. I was very scared at first, but I slowly calmed down my fear. I thought there was no point in being afraid, so I could only deal with it carefully.
He took the opened eight-treasure porridge, turned around and looked at me, a sneer flashed in his eyes. He reached out and poured the eight-treasure porridge all over my face.
"Aren't you hungry? Why don't you eat?"
I glared at him intently and knew he had no good intentions. The sticky eight-treasure porridge on my face made me feel uncomfortable all over, and I was so hungry that I could only roll my eyes and close them.
Liu Xu reached out and pulled me off the bed, dragged me into the bathroom, made me lie on the cold floor, and sprayed the shower head on my face. The cold water soaked my sweater, making me feel cold all over.
At this moment, Liu Xu was like a pervert, trying every way to torture me and make me suffer.
After washing the porridge off my face, he dragged me out again, threw me on the ground, and sat on the chair. After being hit by the cold water, my fingers seemed to be able to move, but I didn't let Liu Xu notice, just looked at him coldly.
"Are you wondering why I didn't die?" Liu Xu looked at me coldly.
I didn't say anything, but he started talking to himself.
When Liu Xu had one of his hands broken by Xiao Shi's men and was told to get out of Nancheng, he fled to Qingcheng.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Ruohe learned about the affair between Liu Xu and Huang Minwei from Huang Minwei, so he asked Yin Jian to come to Qingcheng to find Liu Xu, and then a group of people came to hunt him down.
Liu Xu said that he almost died at the beginning. After being seriously injured, he knew that Yin Jian was Jiang Ruohe's man, and he also knew that if he was taken back to see Jiang Ruohe by Yin Jian, he would not end well. After all, he slept with his woman and made him cuckolded. Given Jiang Ruohe's temper, he would definitely skin him alive.
So Liu Xu simply pretended to be dead, and after Yin Jian and Jiang Ruohe left, he found another place to hide.
"If you're not dead, why don't you hide and live well? Then why did you kidnap me?" I could suddenly speak and slowly regain consciousness, but I knew that even if I regained consciousness, I would have no strength left. I couldn't fight Liu Xu at all.
Liu Xu's face turned cold. He glanced at his left hand and then glared at me.
"It was because of you that Xiao Shi had my hand broken."
I snorted coldly.
"So I kidnapped me first, and you stabbed me. Don't you think you deserve it?"
A trace of anger flashed across Liu Xu's eyes, and he stepped on my face.
"Yu Xiaowan, you were the one who got rid of Huang Minwei and my child first. Otherwise, I wouldn't have treated you like this."
I sneered a few times and looked at Liu Xu. He was really a brainless person.
"Liu Xu, Huang Minwei deliberately got rid of that child in order to frame me. And the person who was chasing you, wasn't he hired by Huang Minwei? He was afraid that you would reveal your relationship with him in front of Jiang Ruohe."
"You are lying. Minwei is not that kind of person. She loves me. It is impossible that she is looking for someone like that." Liu Xu stepped harder and it hurt me.
After a while, Liu Xu finally loosened his feet. He squatted down and looked at me.
"I finally returned to South City to look for Minwei, but she was missing. I searched for several days but couldn't find her. Tian Rong said she had been missing for a long time."
Liu Xu reached out and grabbed my neck, his whole face twisted into a ball.
"Yu Xiaowan, I checked the surveillance footage. The day before Minwei disappeared, you went to look for her. Tell me, where did you take Minwei? Did you kill her?"
I knew that this brainless Liu Xu must have someone behind the scenes instigating him, and it seems to be Tian Rong. She really is restless for a moment.
"I didn't kill Minwei. I just talked to her. We reconciled and I sent her away."
"Who would believe you? Since you hate Minwei so much, how could you possibly reconcile with Minwei? Tell me quickly, where is Minwei? Otherwise, I will strangle you to death." Liu Xu increased his strength.
"If you don't believe me, then go ahead. I'll still say the same thing even if you strangle me to death."
I'll die if he tortures me anyway. I don't have the mood to waste time talking to him now. He can kill me or chop me up, whatever he wants.
Seeing this, Liu Xu let go of my neck, snorted coldly, and stood up.
"How could I let you die alone? Don't worry, someone will be there to accompany you soon."
It seemed that Liu Xu wanted to deal with Xiao Shi who broke one of his hands. I opened my eyes and looked at Liu Xu.
"You think you can kill Xiao Shi? Stop daydreaming."
"In South City. I can't touch him, but now, we are no longer in South City. What's more, you are in my hands. You are his biggest weakness. He will definitely not bring anyone here. Speaking of which, I should go and make preparations. Stay here."
Liu Xu glanced at me, walked out of the room and locked the door.
After Liu Xu left, I hurriedly stretched out my hands to prop myself up. Such a simple action took me several minutes. After I propped myself up, I dragged my weak legs and crawled to the table. I pulled off Liu Xu's backpack, took out a piece of bread from the bag and began to gobble it up.
Right now, the only way to escape is to build up strength first.
After eating a piece of bread, I found a folding knife in Liu Xu's bag, looked at my weak legs, then looked at the open window, and ruthlessly stabbed my leg with the knife.
My legs began to hurt slowly and I began to regain consciousness. I tore off a corner of the bed sheet, wrapped it around my injured leg, and struggled to stand up from the ground.
I walked to the window and looked out. I didn't know which mountain village Liu Xu brought me to. There were only mountains and farmlands nearby. Looking around, there were only a few houses. It was extremely far from the hotel. Even if I shouted for help, I was afraid no one would hear me.
Right now, I can only crawl down from under this window and go find the boss. He should have a phone number and I can just call the police and tell him where I am.
I turned around, pulled the sheets off the bed, tied them to the window, and climbed down from the window. I walked to the door of the hotel. I didn't see Liu Xu coming back, nor did I see the boss. But I noticed the public phone on the counter. I immediately walked in, took the pay phone, and dialed 110.
"Yu Xiaowan, I cut the thread." Liu Xu lifted the curtain and walked out from inside. There was a lot of blood on his body. I looked at him in panic and took two steps back.
"Did you kill the boss?" I asked him tremblingly.
"I can't help it. When I came down, I saw him watching TV. There was a wanted notice for me on TV. It seems that Xiao Shi and Jiang Ruohe have already found out that I kidnapped you. I can only..."
I was very scared by Liu Xu's current madness, so I turned around and wanted to run, but was quickly caught by Liu Xu.
He tied me to a chair and poured a lot of gasoline on me and the room. Then he took out his cell phone, took a photo and sent it to Xiao Shi. Xiao Shi called me immediately, and Liu Xu even turned on the speakerphone in front of me.
"Liu Xu, every wrong has its perpetrator, come to me if you have anything to say. Let Xiaowan go."
Liu Xu snorted coldly, gave me an address, and told him to arrive within two hours. He couldn't call the police; if he saw them, he'd immediately light a lighter and die with me.
"Liu Xu, you're a lunatic. Huang Minwei isn't missing, she just left South City. Don't believe Tian Rong anymore. If it weren't for Tian Rong, I wouldn't have gotten into this mess with Huang Minwei."
But it's no use trying to reason with a lunatic. Tian Rong must have said a lot of bad things about me in front of him. Even if he knew Huang Minwei's whereabouts, he would still want to kill Xiao Shi and me. At this moment, I really hope Xiao Shi will leave me alone and never come here.
Time passed by little by little, and I was so cold that I couldn't stand it. Liu Xu was sitting leisurely on the stool next to me eating. He was still wearing a cotton coat stained with the boss's blood. He looked like a devil.
Liu Xu glanced at the alarm clock hanging on the wall, turned around and gave me an evil smile.
"He's coming soon."
After a while, Liu Xu's cell phone rang. He turned around and looked at the surveillance camera outside the hotel door. After confirming that Xiao Shi was the only one outside the room, he sneered.
The rolling shutter door opened.
Xiao Shi hurried in and the rolling shutter was soon closed again.
"Xiao Wan." Xiao Shi looked at me with pity and wanted to walk towards me.
"It's best not to move while you're standing there."
Liu Xu held the lighter in his right hand and stared at Xiao Shi with bloodthirsty eyes.
"Kneel down."
"Liu Xu, don't go too far. It's already a good thing that I didn't take your life back then." Xiao Shi looked at Liu Xu coldly.
Liu Xu snorted coldly, stood up, and walked towards me with a lighter in hand.
"Kneel or not?"
"No." I looked at Xiao Shi and shook my head.
I know very well that if Liu Xu lights the lighter at this moment, I will immediately turn into a fireball. At this moment, I really feel that I am not afraid of death, and I don’t want to owe Xiao Shi any more favors.
With a "thump", Xiao Shi really knelt down in front of Liu Xu.
"As long as you are willing to let Xiaowan go, I will do anything."
Liu Xu burst into laughter.
"Xiao Shi, if you hadn't broken my arm, I wouldn't be living in such a miserable state. I never intended to let you go. I led you here just to make you two die with me."
Liu Xu was about to light the lighter. Seeing this, Xiao Shi hurriedly picked up a small stool beside him and smashed it towards Liu Xu's right hand. Liu Xu staggered back two steps and the lighter fell to the ground. Fortunately, it did not catch fire.
Xiao Shi quickly stood up, grabbed the lighter that fell on the ground, stretched out his hand and punched Liu Xu, knocking him to the ground.
Seeing that I was already unconscious from the cold, Xiao Shi ran to my side, untied the ropes that bound me, and helped me up.
"The police will be here soon, let's go."
Xiao Shi helped me walk to the door and opened the rolling shutter.
"Yu Xiaowan. I said I would make sure you guys are buried with me."
Liu Xu took out a gun from somewhere, pointed it at me and Xiao Shi, and quickly pulled the trigger at me. Seeing this, Xiao Shi lay down in front of me. The bullet seemed to hit his heart, and he fell on me.
I opened my eyes wide in shock and shouted "Xiao Shi".
Liu Xu continued to point the gun at me and pulled the trigger again. At this moment, I heard a bang and Liu Xu's gun fell to the ground. His right hand was injured.
I looked up at Jiang Ruohe at the stairs. Jiang Ruohe was covered in sweat, panting and pointing a gun at Liu Xu. It seemed that he had just climbed up from the second-floor window.
Jiang Ruohe looked at Liu Xu with his back to him and wanted to shoot again, but he heard the sound of police sirens and ambulances. He glanced at me and quickly went upstairs.
Yan Yun and his men quickly surrounded the shop and arrested Liu Xu. They also dragged the owner's body out from behind the curtain. Liu Xu had stabbed him countless times.
Xiao Shi was pushed into the ambulance. I looked at Xiao Shi with red eyes. Xiao Shi opened his eyes weakly and held my hand tightly.
"You'll be okay," I prayed.
Xiao Shi smiled.
"Xiao Wan, if I can still live, will you agree to be my girlfriend?"
I looked at Xiao Shi, who was dying at this moment, and didn't know how to answer for a moment. I knew my heart very well, but at this moment, Xiao Shi was shot to save me, and if Xiao Shi had not hit Liu Xu's right hand with a stool before, I'm afraid the bullet would have hit his heart. Although it missed now, the doctor said his life is still in danger.
"The patient is almost dying, just give him some hope." Seeing that I didn't say anything, the rescue nurse next to me became anxious, raised her head and gave me a blank look.
"Okay, I promise you." I held Xiao Shi's hand tightly and looked at him.
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