Chapter 62
With a crisp sound, the entire arm instantly became weak and fell off.
"ah!"
When Shen Qingru saw this scene, she felt her scalp tingling, cold sweat oozing from her back, and she let out a sharp and terrifying scream. Fear instantly spread throughout her body, paralyzing her limbs. She fell to the ground listlessly, her eyes blank and her whole body trembling with fear.
Blood soaked the short-sleeved shirt, and the seeping liquid quickly spread to the cuffs. The blood vessels burst in an instant, and the dark red blood exploded in the air, like a blood-colored flower, blooming with the most extreme scenery.
"Cheng Xi" showed a look of surprise, but his expression was normal, without any sign of pain, as if he was a puppet without any sense of pain.
Shen Qingru looked at the scene in despair, her facial features shrunken, tears already streaming down her face, as if the pain was in her body. She covered her heart with her hands and cried out in agony.
Cheng Yanchu froze in place, as if he had not expected things to develop to this point. He was suddenly filled with fear and looked at the scene in front of him with horror. His whole body froze and he could not move.
But in front of their eyes, they still saw a thin thread connecting the severed arm to the body. In a flash, they saw with their own eyes that the severed arm automatically connected back to the body and was repaired into a complete body, but Wangcai's bite marks were still clearly visible.
The whole process took only a moment, and from beginning to end, the expression on "Cheng Xi's" face remained unchanged. When he saw that the matter was exposed, he showed a panic expression, broke through the living room window, and jumped down.
Lin Sheng had no time to stop it, so he rushed to the window and saw "Cheng Xi" lying on the wall, moving freely like a wall-climbing cicada, and disappeared in an instant.
Shen Qingru witnessed this scene with her own eyes and realized that the "Cheng Xi" just now was not a human at all, and that a fake person had been living with her all this time.
Then where is the real Cheng Xi?
This thought came to her mind. Shen Qingru immediately wiped the tears from her face and knelt down towards Lin Sheng. The broken glass from the window pierced her flesh, but she just frowned slightly. She supported herself on the ground with both hands. The palms were pierced by the fragments, but Shen Qingru seemed to be unconscious. She kowtowed to Lin Sheng several times, pleading in her tone.
"Please, save Xiaoxi. I don't ask for anything else. Now I just hope that he can be safe. Please save him. It's all my fault for dragging him to see the magic show. It's my fault for letting him go on stage. I was the one who sent him in. I ruined him."
There were cries in his ears, and Lin Sheng had a headache. He raised his hand to rub his temples and let out a breath.
"If you could really turn into a dragon and a phoenix instantly, would such a good thing happen to you? You just wish nothing would happen to you every day, and you believe in pie-in-the-sky stories? You knew to look for your child when he was gone, but why don't you just hope for his safety while he's still here?"
Shen Qingru kowtowed blindly, and her mind suddenly became clear, and she agreed repeatedly.
"I was wrong. It's all my fault. Please help me. I'm willing to pay any amount of money."
Cheng Yanchu, who was standing beside him, also knelt down and pleaded in a pleading tone.
"Great God, please help me, my brother must have been taken away by the troupe."
"Alright, get up. I'm already investigating with the police. We're just here to get the details. I didn't expect this guy to slip away so quickly. By the way, do you know anyone else who's been to the troupe?"
Cheng Yanchu hurriedly helped Shen Qingru to the sofa and said,
"I know someone, Xiaoxi's good friend, named Cai Qianxun. He was the one who joined the troupe first. After he came back, his grades improved a lot, so my parents took Xiaoxi there."
Lin Sheng raised his eyebrows and remembered that the little brat at home had indeed mentioned it.
"Xiao Xi? Your brother is Cheng Xi?"
Shen Qingru suddenly looked up, met Lin Sheng's gaze, and excitedly grabbed Lin Sheng's hand.
"Have you seen Xiaoxi? Is he still alive? How is he now?"
Cheng Yanchu quickly held Shen Qingru down and spoke to comfort her.
"Mom, don't get excited. The Great God may not have seen Xiaoxi."
Lin Sheng pointed at Wangcai who was standing beside him and answered frankly,
"I haven't seen it, but it has, so it screamed when it saw that thing just now."
Cheng Yanchu understood at this time that at the beginning Wangcai just bit "Cheng Xi's" arm, but did not think of twisting the arm off. It was Lin Sheng's words that seemed to be a warning to Wangcai, but in fact it was a reminder for Wangcai to use more force. Lin Sheng had known that there was something wrong with "Cheng Xi".
Lin Sheng did not intend to hide it and continued to speak.
"According to what Wangcai saw, Cheng Xi is currently safe, but the troupe will leave soon. We suspect they are using these children for commercial purposes."
"Human traffickers? Then we have to find Xiaoxi and the others quickly, otherwise it will be too late!"
Lin Sheng took out a document and a stack of yellow talismans from his treasure bag, handed them to Cheng Yanchu, and instructed,
"The file contains a list of every member of the magic troupe in the city. I need you to secretly pose as troupe staff and hand out yellow talismans to every family on the list, one per family. Tell them they're gifts from the troupe and must be placed under the children's beds. Make sure they're not removed."
The two men responded and took action that same day.
When they woke up the next day, a shocking event happened in the whole city - all the children who had participated in the "rebirth" turned into unconscious vegetables overnight, lying in bed unable to move.
The child's condition instantly became a hot topic and became a hot topic of the day. Parents from all walks of life criticized the magic troupe online, and they were bombarded with insults and accusations.
At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, things took a turn for the better. The child suddenly opened his eyes and walked out of the room.
But parents from all sides were even more devastated, claiming that their children were monsters and not "human" at all, and posted photos of their children online.
In the pictures on the Internet, the child's arm was broken into two sections, hanging vertically on both sides of the body, suspended by a thin wire. His clothes were all soaked with blood. As he walked, the blood from the broken arm dripped, and wherever he passed, blood-colored flowers were dotted.
Not only that, blood was oozing from all the child's orifices, and dark red bloodstains were hanging from his mouth, nose, eyes, and ears. His eye sockets were abnormally white, and his eyes were staring blankly straight ahead, like a walking corpse. He walked out of the house, and no one knew where to go.
Someone even witnessed the arm breaking process and recorded a video.
In the video, the child who was lying unconscious on the bed suddenly began to twist his body, and his bones creaked, just like a mutation in a zombie movie. His head and feet were supported on the bed, his abdomen in the middle of his body kept pushing up, and his body bent and folded, followed by a crisp sound of broken bones.
The arms on both sides of the body broke into two sections in an instant, and a large amount of blood gushed out from the broken ends. The pure white walls were instantly dyed red, and blood splattered everywhere. A strange bloody flower grew on the wall and the floor, as if it could devour people in the next second. Blood spurted out of all seven orifices in an instant, staining the clean and comfortable sheets and bedding, dotted with scattered red stars.
But the process continued. The "child" suddenly turned over without the support of his arms, and rolled to the ground with his limbs powerless. Some of them had blood on their faces, half of their faces covered with blood. They opened their mouths weakly, as if they wanted to say something, but their lips moved slightly and they could only make terrible roars.
He supported himself with his head and legs and stood up with difficulty. His clothes were already stained with blood. The blood at the corner of his lips flowed down his jaw and dripped onto his chest, pulling out a dark red thread that dangled in the air. He took mechanical steps, one step at a time, and walked out of the house.
There are some parents who still firmly believe that these are their own children. They bravely stop them, lock them in the room and do not let them go out. However, they see these "children" directly break through the windows of the room and jump down from the high building. The parents have no time to catch them and can only watch their children jump down.
When the "child" jumped off the tall building, his body suffered a strong impact, and a blood-red "fireworks show" was pumped out on his chest and back. Wherever he landed, "flowers" appeared all over the ground. But he still stood up firmly and walked towards the suburban theater. When passers-by saw him, they fled in fear.
The crowd was frightened by the scene, and all the parents blocked the door of the theater, demanding an explanation and asking the theater to hand over the missing child.
Lin Sheng sent a message to Xu Guannan in advance, asking him to be on standby at any time, while he sneaked into the troupe with Wangcai.
The dim and messy room was filled with a foul smell. The child in the iron cage looked out the window covered with newspapers blankly, his eyes fixed on the light shining through the gap.
Suddenly, there was a sound of chains shaking on the wooden door. The children woke up instantly and looked at the door vigilantly. Fear arose in their hearts and they shrank back into the iron cage involuntarily.
Cheng Xi looked towards the door warily, pricked up his ears, and listened carefully to the movement outside the door. He felt that the sound seemed different from usual.
I heard the metallic sound of the door lock hitting the ground, and the door creaked open from the outside. Before I could see who was at the door.
Everyone saw a big snow-white dog rushing in, running straight to Cheng Xi, sticking out its tongue, with a proud look on its face as if asking for praise.
"Woof woof! Are you here to save us?"
Cheng Xi looked at Wangcai with surprise, reached out and rubbed Wangcai's snow-white fur, and the white fur instantly turned black.
Lin Sheng stepped into the room, frowned instinctively, and quickened his pace. He walked to the iron cage, took out a piece of wire, and pried open the locks one by one, urging,
"Come out quickly, I'll take you out. This place is full of the stench of your sweat. Remember to go back and wash yourself properly. You can still have it after washing."
When all the children crawled out of the cage, Lin Sheng found that the number did not match. A fact he did not want to face emerged in his mind, and his face turned cold.
"Are there three people missing?"
Everyone lowered their heads and dared not answer. It was obvious that something had happened.
Cheng Xi stepped forward, grabbed the corner of Lin Sheng's clothes, and looked gloomy.
"Four. We saw them experimenting on three children, and my friend Axun was also taken away."
It seems that those three are dead.
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