55. Night 55: Heating Up
The old man, still old and haggard, dragged the prisoner in handcuffs and shackles, opened the door and led him in front of the young man.
"What crime did he commit?"
"Human trafficking, home invasions, and homicide resulted in eight deaths, 15 injuries, and approximately one thousand children missing."
The human trafficker is extremely evil, and he is also a murderer. He has killed a thousand children and a thousand families, and ruined so many lives.
The man in front of me, with his hands and feet cuffed, messy and dirty half-long hair, and a fierce look on his face, deserves to die.
There was indifference in the young man's eyes. The old man opened the iron gate and went out. Just like last time, two gunshots broke the prisoner's handcuffs and shackles. The other party was ready to fight, wanting to kill the mermaid.
The mermaid's pale eyes reflected the figure of the criminal, and a harmless smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. "Now, I'll give you ten seconds."
"Ten seconds?" He raised his thick eyebrows.
"Yes, you can do whatever you want to escape."
The man with a fierce look on his face laughed wildly, as if he had heard a joke. "Little boy, you have a real sense of humor."
"Ten...nine..." The boy began to count and raised his fingers.
However, the criminal didn't need these ten seconds at all, because he had no intention of escaping, and even rushed over three seconds ago.
"You're not going to run away? What a pity."
The prisoner roared and rushed forward. The boy's calmness irritated him. His face was ferocious and he just wanted to tear the boy into pieces.
But soon, the plot took a turn. The boy, who thought he would be beaten into a meat pie by the man, raised his nails slightly with their long nails.
“Ahhhhhh—”
The prisoner screamed miserably, half of his face spurted out blood, and a round object fell out of his eye socket, "My eye, ah ah ah, I will kill you, kill you——"
The man rushed forward desperately, but he was soon horrified to find that he could not get close to the boy at all. Every time he swung his fist to kill him, a part of his body would be cut off. He was being dismembered, and this realization made him shrouded in fear.
"I'll give you another ten seconds, you can find a way to escape, ten...nine...eight..." The boy was in a good mood today. Miss Lu Xi's praise in the car made him very happy, and he didn't mind being a little more tolerant.
The man fled towards the iron gate of the Colosseum as if he saw the dawn of salvation. Even if he couldn't escape, he could break down the door, and if he couldn't break it open, he could climb up. He couldn't die here.
"Seven...six..."
The man smashed the door lock frantically with his broken fist and used his strong body to ram the door. Huge horns grew on his head, and the iron door made a teeth-grinding noise, with blood splattered everywhere.
"Let me out, I don't want to die, I don't want to die--"
He roared in despair, but no one paid any attention to him. The old man who had just brought him in stood outside the field and watched coldly, holding a large notebook in his hand, calmly recording everything.
"……Four……"
The man couldn't break the door lock. Hearing the numbers getting closer, he ran to the other side and tried to climb up the wall.
But the wall of the arena was very high, nearly ten meters, and the man's hand was already broken, so it was conceivable that he could not climb up at all. He could only leave creepy bloodstains on the wall, which made anyone who saw it shudder.
"Let me out, let me out—"
"……three……"
He begged for mercy hoarsely, and the last two numbers came to his ears. A faint voice sentenced him to death, "Two, one..."
The prisoner's eyes went dark and he turned back woodenly.
"It's a pity you didn't run away."
The young man walked towards him with slow and graceful steps. The man fell to the ground with weak legs, but his desire to survive made him get up quickly and run for his life like a madman.
Bright red blood flowed everywhere as he escaped. If it weren't for the demon clan, his blood would have dried up long ago.
Suddenly, there was an invisible shock in the air, and his feet were instantly cut off, followed by his calves, thighs, and waist, which fell to the ground in pieces. He screamed miserably.
“Ahhhhh, let me go, let me go——”
Only the upper half of the prey was left, and it was still crawling away with its tattered arms. The young man was not far behind it, stepping on the bloodstains and following with a smile. The strong smell of blood around him stimulated his nerves.
"Let you go? No way." The boy's eyes were filled with cruelty, his face was slightly flushed, his breathing was rapid, there was blood on his face, the corners of his eyes were stained red with blood, the corners of his mouth were curled up in a smile, and his eyes were slightly closed.
"Ms. Lu Xi, can I kill him?"
He seemed to hear the girl say in his ear: Okay.
He appeared in front of the desperate man and said, "Good night, it's time for you to go to sleep." The devil's smile made the man's eyes burst.
The next second, blood splattered on the snow-white wall.
Outside the field, the old man wrote the last word and stared at the boy who was blood-thirsty. Compared with the last time, this killing took longer, just like a cat playing with a mouse, slowly dismembering it. He knew at a glance which personality such brutal behavior belonged to.
The old man stared at a certain data in the midterm. This time the personality exchange seemed to last longer than before, which slightly disrupted the balance. He didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, but the date of the exchange was probably approaching.
"Bring the next prisoner here," the old man ordered.
The hellish training has just begun.
…
Lu Xi sent the medicine bottle to Xiang Chenglin. Why did Xing Ya lie? What kind of medicine was it? Did it have anything to do with his inability to awaken his talent? Who gave it to him? Lu Xi wanted to find out.
In addition to worrying about Xing Ya, Lu Xi was also worried about the mermaid, because he came back covered in blood just like before.
That night, he went into the bathroom and didn't come out for a long time. Lu Xi waited outside for a long time, worried that he might have an accident.
"Assent, Assent..." She knocked on the bathroom door, turned the doorknob, and found that it was not locked. She pushed the door open and saw a young man lying in the bathtub with his eyes closed. The bathtub was full of blood.
Her heart tightened, "Asent, wake up."
The boy who was shaken frowned and slowly opened his eyes. A hint of confusion flashed across his face. He just fell asleep accidentally.
Lu Xi breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately everything was fine.
He blinked and sniffed the air.
The next second, Lu Xi was hugged tightly by someone and fell into a red bathtub that smelled of blood, hitting someone's chest.
"Asent, what's wrong with you?"
"Ms. Lu Xi, I miss you so much..."
A trembling and broken voice, as soft as a feather, sounded above Lu Xi's head, mixed with suppressed deep longing.
"Well, haven't we always been..." always together.
Before she finished speaking, she suddenly thought of a possibility.
"You, swapped?" She was referring to personalities.
"Yeah." He buried his face in her hair.
Lu Xi didn't expect the exchange to be so sudden.
Lu Xi gently pushed him away. If it were in the past, she would not have known that even if a person looked exactly the same, they could still give people a completely different feeling. The boy in front of her still had the same facial features, but he exuded a different aura. His eyelashes half covered his eyes, his pupils were slightly drooped, and a faint blue color was faintly revealed, as if he was looking at her.
Lu Xi got out of the bathtub, her clothes were dirty, and she had to go back to the room to take a shower.
This personality is more clingy than that one. To put it simply, he will follow Lu Xi wherever he goes.
"Ms. Lu Xi, where are you going?"
Lu Xi picked up the cup and stood up, and was stopped by someone. The mermaid who had been sleeping on the sofa for a long time opened his eyes.
"I just wanted a glass of water."
She didn't expect him to wake up, but the mermaid not only woke up, but also followed her to pour water and followed her back again.
"What is this?" She noticed the information on the table.
This document was written with special runes, which made it invisible to outsiders. Lu Xi had seen him read other documents, and he would just rub them on it, and the contents would then pop into his mind. It was quite magical.
"Miss Lu Xi, do you want to see it? Here you go."
Lu Xi didn't expect him to be so open. She didn't want to know too many things, especially information that couldn't be shown to outsiders, but after reading the information, she would know what he was busy with.
She never quite understood what he did.
"Is it okay?" She looked at him.
The merman touched it with his fingertips, and some content popped into Lu Xi's mind. This was what Ji Qiuhu asked the merman to investigate. They found another group of people conducting experiments on humans in Ancheng, and according to some clues, not only Ancheng, but also Xiecheng, and even the current Beicheng, seemed to be included. It was terrifying to think about it carefully.
"How do you plan to investigate?" Lu Xi always felt that it was too dangerous. How could Ji Qiuhu trust him with the matter? However, the woman's current situation was not very good. She was probably still testing who was trustworthy.
Sending mermaids is probably a temporary solution.
"They will provide clues, and we just need to follow the clues."
"Any clues yet?"
"Um."
"When will we act?"
"tonight."
Lu Xi didn't expect it to be so fast, so he slept all day today, maybe to conserve his energy.
"I'll go with you."
The merman's Adam's apple moved. He didn't want Miss Lu Xi to go on the mission with him because it might be dangerous. But since she spoke for the first time, it was difficult for him to refuse. He remained silent for a long time.
"Okay." He agreed.
In the middle of the night, two figures walked through the city. They were like ghosts and no one noticed their traces.
Hiding in a place where we knew the news in advance, until the city fell into the dead silence of the second half of the night, there were almost no pedestrians in the downtown area, let alone the remote places, and only the neon lights in the distance were left.
A large truck was parked in front of the warehouse with the rear compartment open. Rustling sounds mixed with voices could be heard. They were moving something in the dark. In the dim moonlight, it seemed to be some boxes.
"Hurry up and get the boxes into the car."
Lu Xi couldn't see clearly, so she turned around to look at the mermaid and saw him take out an instrument. The black instrument was suspended in the palm of his hand. It was a recorder that could clearly capture scenes in the dark.
“Pah—”
"Who's there?" Those people looked over.
Lu Xi's heart skipped a beat. A black cat jumped down from the roof, walked towards those people, and licked its paws.
"It's this cat again. Didn't I drive it away?"
One of them looked at the cat, then looked at the place where the black cat jumped down, with an extremely cautious expression. At this time, the moon had just completely emerged from the clouds, and only the shadows of the trees could be seen intertwined.
"No, the shadow is wrong." His face changed, and he took out an axe and smashed it heavily towards where they were hiding.
"Oh no." Lu Xi knew that something was wrong.
"Bang!" A big hole was smashed in the concrete and steel wall, but to the man's surprise, there was no one hiding behind it.
"Huh? Brother Dao, what's wrong?"
The man called Brother Dao frowned. He didn't expect that his eyes could be wrong. He saw two old lanterns hanging in the dilapidated yard behind the trees. It seemed that the shadow of the lanterns gave him the illusion.
"Brother Dao, is there anyone..." His companion came up and also looked around vigilantly, but saw nothing.
"It's okay, it's just a mouse." He walked over and pulled the axe out of the wall, glancing around seemingly nonchalantly.
"A mouse? No wonder the cat won't leave."
The two men turned and walked back.
Next to the wall that Dao Ge's axe smashed, the two people hiding in some liquid had become temporarily invisible.
This is the special ability of the mermaid. They use the refraction of water to pretend that there is no one here, and thus they narrowly escaped the disaster.
The mermaid hugged Lu Xi tightly, and did not let go even after the two men had driven away. Their bodies were pressed tightly together, and Lu Xi could hear his heart beating, not very strongly but a little faster. He lowered his eyes in confusion, feeling the slenderness of the girl in his arms.
Lu Xi didn't push him away. They were so close to each other, and a feeling she had never felt before grew stronger, making her feel strange.
"Don't move." She noticed that the mermaid seemed to be about to let go of her, so she hurriedly hugged him tightly and put her head against his neck.
"Wait a little longer," she said against his skin.
It wasn't until an unknown amount of time had passed that a crow with red eyes cried a few times and flew away from the tree, and then she pushed him away.
As expected, the person just now was very cautious and had spies. If she hadn't been cautious, she would have been discovered long ago.
When Lu Xi breathed a sigh of relief, the mermaid raised her hand and gently pressed a certain spot on her neck. Her lips had just been touching this spot when she spoke, leaving a strangely sweet and greasy touch.
He is not annoying.
He seemed to have tasted something sweeter. Why did he have this feeling? Was it left by that guy?
What sweeter taste has that guy ever tasted?
An indescribable irritation surged in his heart, and for the first time, he felt that not sharing memories was an annoying thing.
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