Chapter 43 Fury
When he reached the edge of the attic, a sudden heavy rain began to fall outside the window. Amid the sound of the rain, Ji Minghuan looked at the locked wooden door, reached the tie belt into the hole, and removed the lock on the opposite side of the door.
Then he took back the tape, pushed open the wooden door, and, being careful not to wake the girl behind him, he walked down the stairs.
Coming to this library after many days, Ji Minghuan looked around, slightly curled his nose, and breathed in the smell of the piles of old books. He didn't know how many days and evenings he had spent smelling this smell.
At this time, the rain outside the window was getting heavier, and the strong wind made every window of the library bang.
But at this moment, Ji Minghuan's attention was not on the library, but on the stairs leading down at the edge of the library.
He looked around alertly, slowed down his pace and walked towards the basement entrance, going deeper into the darkness step by step, until he came to the iron door that he was not allowed to touch in his memory.
He pressed the restraints against the iron door, and his senses seeped forward like rain, bringing with them the scene behind the door.
Cramped, stuffy, and damp, perhaps it was just an ordinary basement.
Ji Minghuan raised his right hand, lowered his eyes to look at the door lock, and used the black restraints to perform a series of delicate operations, quietly prying open the locks of the iron door.
Then, with a clang, the iron door was gently pushed open. Behind the door was a corridor leading to a place where one could not see one's hand in front of one's face.
Keeping the "restraint belt changing color" state, he slowly walked towards the depths of the basement. Everything was not as Ji Minghuan thought. The research institute was under the library. The more he looked at it, the more it looked like an ordinary basement.
At this moment, the keen sense of the restraints allowed him to hear a faint gasp.
Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows under the mask, then moved closer to the source of the sound, went down another staircase, and finally came to the corner.
Raise your right hand and extend the restraint strap.
The sense of restraints was particularly sharp in the dark. In a cramped corner deep in the basement, he saw a ragged black-haired girl with iron chains on her right hand and foot, which were tied to a stone pillar nearby. The girl had many wounds on her body, but most of them were bruises.
Through his senses, Ji Minghuan saw her face clearly.
He was stunned for a second, then opened his eyes slightly in the darkness.
When he was first admitted to the hospital, Ji Minghuan had met this girl, whose name was Xu Keyin. Both of them were weak and sickly, so they often read books together in a corner of the playground. Over time, they became friends. Although they didn't talk much, she was one of the few people that Ji Minghuan truly regarded as a friend.
But later the girl suddenly disappeared without any warning, as fleeting as snow falling on the palm of your hand.
Soon after, the old dean informed the police of the girl’s disappearance. However, for several years, the police were unable to find the girl’s whereabouts. Repeated investigations ended in vain, and finally the case was forced to close.
In the welfare home, including Ji Minghuan, everyone thought that the girl was either dead or abducted by human traffickers.
But no one would have thought that the girl had actually been locked up in this basement. Every night when they lay down on their beds in the dormitory and fell asleep peacefully, the girl would lean against the damp and cold wall, with her head drooped, trying to force herself to fall asleep.
There is only one person who can do all this, and only one person has the key to this basement, and that person is:
——Dean.
[Completed "Card Event No. ①" and received the reward: Event Card - "Bird in a Cage". ]
Looking at the wounds all over the girl's body, Ji Minghuan's pupils shrank slightly.
He tried to open his mouth, but no words came out.
The drooping hair covered the eyes under the mask, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and every restraint wrapped around his body was trembling faintly. Each restraint was trying to restrain the senses as much as possible, as if not wanting him to continue seeing the girl's miserable condition.
After a moment, he slowly raised his head and looked at the surveillance camera in the basement expressionlessly, as if he was looking at someone behind the screen through the surveillance camera.
Three minutes later, inside the dean's office.
It was raining heavily outside the window. The old dean wiped his hair with a hot towel, walked into the office with a cup of hot tea, and sat down in front of the desk. When he was about to turn on the computer to check the surveillance directory, the window behind him suddenly opened, and then his neck was suddenly wrapped by a black belt, and he was suddenly pulled back and stuck on the back of the chair.
"Tell me... who took Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling away a month ago?" The black pupa lifted the color-changing effect of the restraints, revealed his figure, and spoke slowly in his ear.
"I... I don't know..."
The dean's face flushed red, and his hands were tightly pulling the restraints around his neck, as if he was pulling a big black snake, but the restraints never moved, constantly providing him with a suffocating feeling as if he had fallen into the deep ocean.
"You don't know? Oh yes, there is always a way to let you know."
As he spoke, Black Pupa wrapped the warden's lower body with a restraint belt and released the skill he had just learned - "Restriction Belt Mantra".
[Truth of the Binding Belt: Force a character bound by your binding belt to tell the truth.]
"No features... They wrap their bodies tightly." The dean said hoarsely.
"Then what do you remember?" Hei Pu asked word by word, his words seemed to be accompanied by the rumbling sound of thunder.
"I remember a pattern on their uniforms wrapped in coats."
"Pattern? What pattern?"
"Let me go first...let me go, I will draw for you, I will draw for you!" said the dean in a hoarse voice.
Hearing this, Hei Pupa loosened the restraints slightly and used them to throw a pen to the ground, like throwing food to a dog.
The dean picked up the pen and slid down from the swivel chair. He knelt on the ground and drew a hexagram with trembling hands. There was a circle in the middle and a bigger circle outside connecting every corner of the hexagram.
Ji Minghuan was stunned for a second under the mask. This pattern had appeared in the memory of game character number two.
Xia Pingzhou's former teammate "Red Light" became a lunatic who specialized in hunting down exorcists after going mad. Every time he committed a crime, he would leave a six-pointed star pattern and write a string of Latin words next to it:
——Sodalitas Salvifica (Society of Salvation).
The hexagram pattern in my memory and the pattern drawn by the dean on the ground... are exactly the same.
Why does the red traffic light leave the same pattern and a string of Latin words meaning "Salvation" after going crazy and killing people?
"The Salvation Society..." Hei Pu read out the Latin words left by Hong Lu Deng and narrowed his eyes. "The uniforms of the people who took me and Kong Youling away had the same six-pointed star pattern. Could it be that... the mentor and the others came from this organization called 'The Salvation Society'?"
He tapped the computer keyboard with his restraints, and after a moment he said, "All the surveillance records of those two days in the welfare home's surveillance cameras have disappeared?"
The dean held his still aching throat and said intermittently: "This is what they asked me to do. I just had no choice!"
Hei Pupa sat on the swivel chair, tilted his head, and put his fingers together on his hands wrapped in black leather gloves. "Let me guess, you must have gained a lot of benefits from them?"
"No, absolutely not. I just think it will be more ..."
Black Pupa once again tied up his body with restraints and used the "restraint belt mantra" to force him to tell the truth.
"I...I got two hundred thousand from them." The dean changed his words, his voice not sounding like his own.
"You sold your conscience for money, and sold these fatherless and motherless children, who no one would care about even if they disappeared from the face of the earth, to the devil." Black Pupa said slowly, "Why? In your eyes, is the money you got really more important than the safety of these two children?"
As he spoke, his eyes glanced at the safe in the corner of the office.
The dean stammered, "He, they threatened me!"
"If they really threatened you... why didn't you report it to the Association of the Misfits?" Hei Pupa crossed his fingers and tilted his head. "Or do you think the Association of the Misfits can't control them?" He paused. "That's not the case. You haven't been threatened from the beginning to the end."
As he spoke, the restraints suddenly extended, grabbed the safe hidden in the bookshelf, and smashed it to the ground.
The safe broke with a bang, and metal parts flew everywhere in the arc of electricity that splashed like water, and then a piece of letter fell to the ground.
Hei Pupa picked up the letter with a restraint belt, opened it, and took a quick glance. He saw a thick stack of banknotes inside.
He used the restraints to replace his right hand to flip the banknotes and confirm the total amount.
"Two hundred thousand yuan," Hei Pupa calculated with his fingers, "Uh... just for two hundred thousand yuan, you sold your soul and sent the children in the orphanage to people of unknown origin, without caring about their future. Have you ever felt guilty for a second, old director?"
"You misunderstood."
"Oh, are you sure...I misunderstood?"
Hei Pu changed his relaxed tone, slowly lifted up his mask, and stared straight at the dean's face with his deep eyes.
The next moment, the restraints sent the dean out of the window, causing him to fall straight to the ground from a height of ten meters accompanied by heavy rain. In the last few seconds before he hit the ground, he was pulled back and thrown heavily to the ground. He slid several meters away and hit the tea table.
The dean's body was washed by the rain like a drowned rat. He raised his head, his face distorted to the extreme by fear, and stared at the mask of the black pupa with a pale face.
"I was wrong...I was wrong."
He murmured hoarsely and knelt quickly on the ground.
"That girl you locked up in the basement and abused day and night...how do you want to explain?"
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault..." The dean was trembling all over.
"You won't even explain?"
"Let me go...please forgive me..."
"Okay, then I forgive you." Hei Pupa said calmly. After all, no one would bother with a dead person, he thought.
As soon as he finished speaking, the pitch-black restraints came like a wave, gently and slowly helping the dean up, and then like wriggling thorns, they scratched across his thighs, spiraled up his waist, and finally wrapped around his neck.
The restraints were wrapped around and tied into a knot, a dead knot. Then, they suddenly tightened.
The black pupa narrowed his eyes and watched the scene silently.
The man, whose neck was tied by the knotted restraints, twitched violently, and struggled for a while with a red face, and then his arms slowly dropped like cut reeds, and his head drooped down. His eyelids were not yet closed, and his eyes were still fixed on the ground, and he was completely motionless.
Amidst the blood, a slender black shadow stood quietly.
Under the mask, Ji Minghuan's face showed no expression. He twitched his nose slightly, and the smell of blood hit him.
Deathly silence enveloped the office. The wind and rain were beating outside the window. The rain swept in at an angle, blowing up the hem of his clothes.
"I was too impulsive... If the tutor knew that the dean died at the hands of Black Pupa, he would doubt me."
He whispered softly amid the sound of rain.
After a long silence, Ji Minghuan reached into his windbreaker pocket, took out his cell phone, put it to his ear, and called Gu Qinye.
"Who are you?" Soon, a response came from the other end of the phone.
"Mr. Blue Arc... I need your help." Ji Minghuan spoke slowly using a voice changer, trying his best to keep his tone as playful and relaxed as usual, but his voice was a little hoarse.
"It's you again..."
Hearing his voice, Gu Qiye's tone darkened.
"Come to the Saint Dili Welfare Home..." Ji Minghuan said expressionlessly, "There is a body in the director's office. I need you to cover for me and announce to the public that the cause of death was 'suicide by hanging'."
"You killed someone?"
Black Pupa did not answer his question, but whispered: "There is a girl in the basement of the library. After seeing her appearance, you will know why the dean died. I will only say this... If you don't help me, I will directly reveal your identity to the public."
There was a long silence on the other end of the phone: "I will go over to confirm the situation first, and then decide whether to help you or not."
Gu Qiye paused, his tone gradually becoming solemn: "Let me make it clear first, if I don't want to help you, it doesn't matter even if you make my identity public... I will not help a criminal, this is my principle."
"That's it," Hei Pupa paused, "By the way, the girl in the basement..."
"What?"
Ji Minghuan was silent for a while under the mask, looked sideways at the heavy rain outside the window, and said slowly: "I hope you can arrange a good place for her to live, let her go to school like a normal child, and arrange the best psychologist for her... If she wants to lock herself up, give her some time first, and don't force her."
He paused and said, "The most important thing is... don't let her get close to this orphanage again. She has suffered enough. Don't let her recall these things again."
At this point, Black Pupa suddenly pulled the corners of his lips in self-mockery: "You know, Mr. Blue Arc, except for you, I don't know who else I can trust in this city. This person must be you, I only trust you, you must take her away and watch her get better with your own eyes, otherwise I will not forgive you."
Hearing this, Gu Qiye on the other end of the phone was stunned for a moment.
He could tell that the tone of Hei Pupa's voice had obviously changed. There was no trace of teasing in it, and it was no longer so cynical. It was just like a lonely child clenching his fists and begging him for something.
"Although I don't know what happened yet... I will go to the welfare home right away," said Gu Qinye.
"See you later."
After saying this, he hung up the phone. Ji Minghuan looked at the dean on the ground with empty eyes for a while, then looked at the hexagram pattern he drew, then slowly turned sideways and faced the city in the rain.
"The Savior will... wash your neck and wait for me."
The restraints crawled up his body like black snakes, tightly wrapping around every inch of his skin. A thunderclap sounded in the violent rain, illuminating the slender black shadow in front of the window. Then his figure disappeared in an instant, as if blown away by endless gusts of wind.
Three minutes later, in the basement of the library.
A dark blue electric light flashed across, and the dazzling arcs swept in all directions, sweeping away the darkness like weeds. Gu Qiye stopped, still wearing a set of casual clothes, as if he had not had time to change into combat uniform.
With the help of the lingering lightning, he could see the girl clearly in the darkness.
After being stunned for a moment, Gu Qinye raised his right hand, gathered the lightning on his index finger as a light source, and carefully looked at the wounds on the girl's body and the chains tied on her hands and feet.
"Beast..."
He murmured softly, his face twitching slightly, and walked slowly forward. His right hand, which was wrapped in lightning, shook lightly, and the iron chains broke one by one and fell all over the ground with a clang.
Gu Qinye picked up the girl's body, trying his best not to hurt her bruised joints.
The girl opened her eyes and looked at him with fear in her eyes. She wanted to speak, but seemed to have lost her voice. Only her lips moved slightly: "Dean..., take me..."
Gu Qiye lowered his eyes and whispered to the girl in his arms, "It's okay... You are safe now, Dean, and you will never come back."
As soon as he finished speaking, his figure once again turned into a streak of cold lightning and disappeared on the spot.
It was raining heavily in Lijing that day, and the whole city was shrouded in a gloomy sky, but the residents huddled in front of the fireplace watching TV and spent an ordinary morning.
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