Chapter 16 Chapter 16 I don’t want to die, I still want to protect him…
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silence.
Silence.
“Is this question difficult to answer?”
The long silence seemed to make the 'senpai' confused, so he asked.
“There’s only one thing you need to do.”
He looked at Zhufu Jingguang and said, "Come here, take down the blue balloon, and you can leave here immediately. After you leave, you can do whatever you want. Everything here has nothing to do with you anymore."
"If you're worried about being suspected, don't worry, because of this space." He pointed his thumb down at the floor.
"It will all be gone soon, and all the evidence will be buried here. By then, you'll just be a heroic cop who escaped death."
Zhu Fu Jingguang said nothing, as if he had become a mute.
But on the contrary, his eyes were bright and captivating, and he looked at the other person almost fiercely.
As if he thought he was too stubborn and felt a little uncomfortable, the 'senior' rubbed his right eye.
The checkered stripes on his right cheek turned bright red under his fingertips, then slowly faded, with an enchanting beauty.
He sighed.
"Mute officer," he muttered.
He seemed to remember something, "Actually, I asked your colleague the same question."
Zhu Fu Jingguang was slightly stunned.
The man who looked like a senior laughed. "He's different from you. He almost immediately—immediately chose the blue balloon. He probably only hesitated for a few seconds."
"Surprised? In those few seconds, your life weighed heavily on his mind." He tapped his fingers, his voice soft and slow, "But we like you more, so we decided to consider your opinion first."
"Officer, he's more decisive than you. Because he knows that morality, justice, and convictions are not as important as life. Being a police officer, after all, is just a job. Risking your life for a colleague... Think about your family and friends. Are you doing them justice?"
Judging from the expression of this guy disguised as a 'senior', he sincerely wanted to persuade Zhu Fujingguang, and was really observing the expression of the black-haired police officer with great interest.
It was as if 'he' was not killing people, but conducting a social survey.
Zhu Fu Jingguang said nothing.
From the moment he entered the abandoned factory, no, it should be from the moment he took over the case, opened the door of the old archive room, and flipped through the stacked, thick, dusty Fujiwara family crime records.
An unprecedented anger lingered in his heart, almost making his fingers tremble.
Zhu Fujingguang stared at the other party and finally said, "If I choose the blue balloon, will you be satisfied?"
Surprisingly, the 'senpai' shook his head and said, "Maybe. I don't know. We'll know after we try it."
He rubbed his eyes more and more frequently, but maintained a calm tone, as if he was unexpectedly a patient person.
Zhu Fujingguang closed his eyes. "You are still curious about human nature. You shouldn't be very old."
The other party remained noncommittal, "It's best to treat me as an adult."
"What if I don't choose?"
"Then consider it a forfeit, and let your colleague escape alive. It's a simple choice."
“…”
After hearing the answer, Zhu Fu Jingguang fell silent again.
After more than ten seconds, the 'senior' asked impatiently, "Officer, what are you thinking about?"
"I was thinking..." Zhu Fujingguang said softly, "a case I once encountered."
This change of topic was so abrupt that even the crooked neck of the hanging doll in the next room was not as abrupt as his. 'Senior' couldn't help but let out a sound, "Hmm?"
Zhu Fu Jingguang didn't care and continued talking to himself.
"One victim was kidnapped and held in a basement for nearly a month. The kidnappers beat her every day, leaving her in agony. But when the police finally caught the kidnappers and found the room where she was being held, the first thing she did was not to call for help, but to use a hidden razor blade to injure the first officer who approached her. Why?"
The 'senpai's' gaze gradually focused, and the doll hanging in the room behind him stopped swinging on its neck and turned to look at him.
The innocence that was inadvertently revealed in their expressions really made them look a bit like children listening to stories in the classroom.
Zhu Fu Jingguang pretended not to notice the reactions of the two people, took another step closer without leaving a trace, and then waited quietly for their answers.
"It's a self-defense mechanism, I guess."
The man who looked like a senior thought for a moment and said, "For the past month, anyone who approached her has beaten and tortured her. This has been going on for so long that she's become conditioned to believe anyone who approaches her will hurt her. This constant insecurity has made it difficult for her to maintain her composure. So, even though it was the police who approached her this time, she still chose to resist."
Zhu Fujingguang nodded. "That's correct. The victim had endured a very stressful month, and her attack was motivated by self-protection."
He looked at the person in front of him and said slowly, "I thought that your attack on us was also to protect yourself. But I was wrong."
"Oh?" 'Senior' uttered a syllable.
Zhu Fujingguang said, "You are not like the victim. You are very clear-headed and you are committing the crime in a clear-headed manner."
If you say that killing the people in the laboratory was for revenge.
There is no grudge between them, and they are simply curious about human nature, so they use such twisted means to kill people. This is a terrible criminal!
The person in front of me should not be very old. Maybe even not an adult.
Zhu Fujingguang could of course see the hatred in the other's eyes. He didn't trust the police or anyone else at all. He only believed in himself.
If we let such a person go, there will probably be terrible consequences.
However, the person that made Morifushi Kagemitsu most angry was not the person in front of him, but the instigator, the owner of the diary, the doctor in the laboratory, and the Fujiwara family.
They are the ones who deserve to be punished the most.
The man who looked like a 'senior' smiled. His voice was childish and his expression was innocent, but his eyes were full of malice, like a painting full of irony.
"Officer, what are you trying to say? Are you trying to say we deserve this?"
Zhu Fujingguang raised his gun and pointed it at his 'senpai', his tone extremely firm, "No, you are not perfect victims, but you are still victims. I will save you and take you away from here!"
The 'senpai' was stunned for a few seconds, then laughed, "And send us to jail?"
Zhu Fujingguang did not deny it. "You will go to a juvenile detention center. It's not that bad there. You can study and take the college entrance examination. There's a high probability that you will be able to get out before you reach adulthood."
"But leaving here and becoming a wanted criminal is just like going from one hell to another!"
Before he finished speaking, Zhu Fu Jingguang suddenly pounced forward, and a glowing object was thrown towards him along with his movement.
It's a flashlight!
The 'senior' had been rubbing his eyes, looking very uncomfortable. The bright light forced him to take a step back. He immediately covered his eyes in pain, and a muffled whimper came from his throat.
But he reacted immediately and ordered the doctor monster behind him to follow the sound to attack Zhu Fu Jingguang, but Zhu Fu Jingguang threw his cell phone away, the alarm buzzed, and the doctor monster pounced on the cell phone like a tiger pouncing on its prey, attacking it frantically.
The man who looked like a 'senior' covered his eyes and cursed loudly in pain, "You sneak attack! Despicable officer!"
Zhu Fujingguang did not respond to his curses, and the child seemed unable to utter any swear words.
The black-haired police officer moved silently, like a nimble big cat, and silently approached the 'senior' close to the ground. He was ready to attack the 'senior's' neck and make him temporarily unconscious.
In a flash, he saw the 'senior' slowly raise his head, and the hand covering his eyes moved slightly away, revealing a bleeding, cracked, bright red right eye, staring at him intently.
Zhu Fu Jingguang was stunned in confusion.
He hadn't expected that a single attack would cause such significant damage to the opponent. How could this happen? Just a single bright light strike caused such severe damage...?
But soon, he didn't have time to think about it.
Because the next second, his body was knocked backwards and slapped against the wall by an invisible palm like slapping a mosquito.
The huge impact made him unable to move and he spit out a mouthful of blood before falling to the ground along the wall.
Blood oozed from Zhu Fu Jingguang's mouth and nose, and his ears were buzzing, and he didn't recover for a long time.
Special abilities? Thoughts? Mental power?
Could this world not be so mysterious?
"That's enough." 'Senior' stood up unsteadily, blood trickling from his right eye. "I'm not playing this game anymore. I'm going to kill you."
Zhu Fujingguang coughed up a mouthful of blood, tried to stand up several times but failed, and backed away with his hands supporting himself on the ground.
His face was as pale as a sheet of paper, and his blurred vision kept groping around, trying to find a way to escape.
What is there? What can I use?
His mouth was full of the taste of blood and he gritted his teeth tightly.
What this kid, disguised as a senior, said at the beginning was actually true.
Zhu Fujingguang has many people he cares about, including a brother who loves him and close friends who trust each other. He doesn't want to die here. He wants to protect them and he wants to stay with them forever.
...He would feel sorry for them if he died here.
The black-haired police officer's nerves were stretched to the limit, and the scenes that happened here kept flashing through his mind. In his mind that was almost pushed to the limit, an inconspicuous detail suddenly caught his full attention.
Wait, could it be?
The air suddenly became scorching hot and the oxygen gradually became thin. Every time Zhu Fu Jingguang took a difficult breath, a stream of hot air would rush in. He let out a few painful and hoarse sounds, and felt as if he was sitting on a volcano and the magma in the volcano was about to erupt towards him.
No more hesitation!
He exerted all his strength, used all his strength to prop up his body, grabbed the door of the room behind him, and pulled his weak body into the room.
Inside the room, a hanged doll was hanging in mid-air, its feet slowly swinging along the rope.
In an instant, the tense atmosphere suddenly stagnated.
The air became eerily quiet.
Zhu Fu Jingguang panted and looked at the 'senior' outside the door. The other party's face looked very bad. He seemed to want to come in, but his footsteps stopped outside the room.
"It was a good bet."
A thought flashed through his mind.
When this fake 'senpai' first met him, he said to Zhu Fushi Jingguang, "Don't go into the room! It's dangerous inside!"
He said this more than once.
If this person is really a senior, it is understandable not to let him in. After all, there is indeed a strange doll hanging inside.
But if this person was just an imposter, it would be strange that he repeatedly stopped himself from entering the room.
Zhu Fujingguang guessed.
He didn't want to go into the room by himself, perhaps as a form of territorial division.
The owner of the diary was once forced into a room by a doctor monster. He thought he was safe, but in the end he uttered the last words "No, leave the room".
The doll kills people inside the room.
Similarly, thinking from another angle, perhaps this 'senior' in front of us can only kill people outside the room.
In this alien space, these two companions may have an agreement.
You kill people in your territory, and I kill people in my territory.
So after Zhu Fujingguang hid in the room, the "seniors" outside had to stop because of this agreement.
The black-haired police officer covered his mouth and coughed hoarsely.
He turned around and looked at the white-haired doll staring down at him.
Zhu Fujingguang knew that he had only escaped temporarily and delayed the fate of being killed.
Because he escaped from the dragon's den and entered the tiger's den.
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