Chapter 55: Framing?
The person who shouted outside the door that it was time to eat was a dry, thin old man wearing a black police uniform, and his entire body reeked of a chilly, decaying odor.
A bowl of clear porridge was placed in the middle of two steel bars, I dragged my aching abdomen with difficulty, then moved over one step at a time.
Half-kneeling in front of the steel door, I pursed my lips and glanced at the old man.
Just about to reach out for that bowl, I didn't expect the old man to suddenly kick, I winced and quickly drew back my hand, but that porridge bowl was overturned by the old man's kick, and the cold rice soup was all poured on my clothes and pants at once.
I glared angrily at the old man, but the old man spat on my face with a mouthful of saliva.
Slightly hot sticky mucus from my face sliding down, I was disgusted almost did not immediately spit out, fishy smell is also mixed with a rotten leek flavor, I shivered and wiped it off, and then glared at the old man dead.
The old man was cold to the point of giving me a look and pooh-poohed, "You should be glad you entered this room." After the old man said this, he turned around and left.
I squinted my eyes and looked at his back, the stench from his face still irritating my nostrils. I finally couldn't help myself, and half-kneeled and vomited.
I don't know how much I vomited out, but I curled back inside the corner.
I didn't feel helpless yet, the old man's words from earlier were still surrounding my ears.
"You should be glad you entered this room."
Associating those words with Shen Chong's words just now, what were they implying to me?
Quieting my mind, I quickly completely connected the series of events during this period of time.
From the time we entered Shen Chong's house, both Shen Chong and I thought that there would be no further danger, but that murderer had sneaked in and then threatened Bai Mei, and the voice of Bai Mei that night was not Shen Chong! I clenched my fists, but why didn't Shen Chong realize that day? Instead, I was awake?
The drug, it had to be that drug-that murderer thought I heard the voice and would just take it as normal for both Bai Mei and Shen Chong, and maybe there were other reasons that I couldn't think of right now.
On the second day, Shen Chong left and couldn't make it back that day, leaving only Bai Mei and I. That's why the murderer used the drug to confuse me and made a move on Bai Mei. Why, on the first day, didn't he do that?
It couldn't have been to frame me. With the drug, the graft was useless.
Right, it was provocation, I thought of Liu Yamei's death with an ugly face.
Shen Chong told me that the murderer was provoking him – what about Bai Mei's death?
I clenched my fists in fear at the thought, could that person really be related to me? I was taken away by Shen Chong and he was nervous about my safety so he started to act?
To save me? After coming out of the library, Shen Chong and I were hunted down, why didn't he just kill Shen Chong?
Reasoning alone is at its limit. Shen Chong said he'd be able to determine who the murderer is today, while Bai Mei died.
I can only wait now?
Just at this time, suddenly, a slight vibration came from the wooden plank bed underneath me.
My heart twilight startled, and I nervously cowered inside the corner.
A familiar sideways face slowly peeked out from underneath the bed, and my eyes widened violently as I looked at his face.
Morning Research Dew!
I couldn't help but to exclaim out in shock, Chen Yanlu covered my mouth in a flash, a familiar temperature came from his wide hand.
I couldn't help the trembling of my body, and looked closely at Chen Yanlu's face, a little thinner, a little more scruff, but nothing else had changed.
Is he the murderer?
"Come on, Mimi." Chenchenlu tensed and pulled me, burrowing under the bed.
I struggled away from his hand and pursed my lips, "Why you." My voice was shaky, and the memories from before with Chen Yanlu still didn't come back to me, but there was no mistaking the feeling in my heart.
Stabbing pain, pain that was hard to breathe.
Bai Mei's death, Liu Yamei, Mr. Huang, the principal's father and daughter –
Chen Yanlu looked at me with a very strange look, then cautiously looked beyond the iron gate, then softly said, "What's the matter, say it later, now get out of here, it's too dangerous here."
I wanted to let out a loud cry right now, and then Chen Yanlu fell into the net, but it was difficult to make this decision in my heart.
Covering my stomach, I followed Chen Yanlu and slowly drilled under the wooden plank bed, where there was surprisingly a small dark passage.
The entrance of the secret passage was just enough for a person to drill into, Chen Yanlu signaled for me to go first, and my heart stung again.
Tears were already welling up in my eyes, and when I drilled into the entrance, the wound in my abdomen was tugged, and I stifled a grunt of pain, as Chen Yanlu quickly drilled in, and then used a piece of iron plate, blocking the entrance, and then looked at me nervously, and asked, "Are you all right, Mimi."
Tears finally couldn't help but slide down, and I waved my hand, slapping Chen Yanlu's face.
In the darkness, I couldn't see his expression, but he must be stunned and probably bewildered right now.
Tears dripped down in big drops, I bit my lip and looked at Chen Yanlu's eyes, even in the darkness of the night, those eyes were still so bright, like two jewels, but, thinking that so many lives had died in his hands, I surprisingly didn't develop a trace of hatred.
"Mimi, what's wrong with you?" Chen Yanluo touched my face with concern and said softly, "Let's go out first, it's really dangerous here."
Yes, I hesitated. Perhaps it's fair to say that from the moment I drilled into this hole, there was no turning back.
Jailbreak, any charge, was completely seated for me.
"Morning Research Dew, let's turn ourselves in." I took a light breath, then said word for word.
"Mimi, you're crazy, do you have any idea what kind of room you were in just now." Morning Research Lou lowered her voice, then pushed me to crawl forward.
This passageway was like an enlarged mouse hole, strangely enough, it was impossible for Chen Yanlu to make such a passageway.
The magnitude of this project was not something he could accomplish alone, and besides, I had just been captured in less than a day.
Thinking about this, I suddenly understood why they had to dunk me into this room.
Chen Yanlu, however, continued, "The people locked up in that room had no way to walk to the execution ground, standing in, they all came out lying down, I don't know how many people died."
I stopped, Chen Yanlu was surprised and pushed me.
My body, however, shivered a little, Chen Yanlu couldn't escape-
"Chen Yanlu, now, let's turn ourselves in, we can't get out." I had already imagined that the place where the exit of this passageway was, should have been filled with cordons by now, I was used by them as bait, nothing would happen to me, but Chen Yanlu's best result after she showed up would be to be arrested and wait for the court to pronounce its judgment, but I was more confident that Shen Chong would blow his head off with a single shot, avenge Bai Mei, and then make a report – –
Chen Yanlu shouldn't have been so stupid, why wouldn't he have thought of this?
"Mimi, you're not guilty at all, what gives them the right to put you on death row." Chen Yanlu's tone was hard, and he said word for word, "This tunnel is very secretive, there's no problem."
"Chen Yanlu, you know clearly that the person they want to arrest is not me at all. You killed Bai Mei, Shen Chong won't let you go-" I hadn't finished my words, but Chen Yanlu was stunned and took out her cell phone, then illuminated my face and said in surprise, "I killed Bai Mei? Mimi, how could I possibly kill someone."
"Chen Yanlu, don't lie to me, Liu Yamei, the principal and they were all killed by you, why are you still lying to me." I grabbed his cell phone, forcibly holding back the acidity in my nose, and said in a trembling voice.
Chen Yanlu grabbed my shoulder, then whispered solemnly, "I didn't kill anyone, Mimi."
"Chen Yanlu, give up, if you didn't come to save me, you still have a chance, but now, it's all too late." I closed my eyes and gently scrubbed Chen Yanlu's face, and I didn't know how much dirt I'd rubbed onto his face. Shen Chong wasn't wrong – but I always felt that something was wrong.
Chen Yanlu grabbed my hand and wrinkled his eyebrows, "Come out with me first."
"No way." I broke away from his hand and spoke, "Do you know why no one was guarding me just now?"
Chen Yanlu didn't say anything, and I pursed my lips and said word for word, "They just wanted you to save me, and then, they were able to kill you. Bai Mei is dead, Shen Chong is crazy, and the place where you killed, is still the family area of their Serious Crimes Unit, it violated the taboo of all the police officers, there is no way they will let you live for one more day, and now that you go out from this passage, you don't even have the qualification to enter the courtroom anymore."
Chen Yanluo did not say anything, I thought he was moved by my words. I was about to open my mouth to persuade him. But he suddenly spoke, "Do you know how I got out from inside the police station."
I shook my head, unable to bear it, "You killed them?"
Chen Yanlu but suddenly smiled bitterly: "I did not kill them, someone killed them, that person with a mask, and then told me that you were locked up here, saying that you were wrongly accused of murder, and will soon be shot, I was in a hurry and lost my temper."
Listening to Chen Yanlu's words, a layer of white-haired sweat rose twilight behind my back. It felt as if there was a heavenly conspiracy that was enveloping me and Chen Yanlu-
Sure enough, Chen Yanlu continued, "Sick and desperate, that person suddenly gave me a map and then explained this underground passage to me. Let me come and save you. I originally wanted to call on Liu Ke, but I was afraid that he would betray us, after all, prison robbery is a felony, so I came alone. I didn't know any of the things you said. When the principal died, we were together, including the other deaths, except for Bai Mei, weren't we all together. How could I have killed them. Moreover, when Bai Mei died, I was still locked up inside the prison."
"It's over." I looked at Chen Yanlu with a pale face and bit my lip, "We've all been used."
Chen Yanlu's face also turned ugly, but then a stern color flashed in his eyes.
I was shocked in my heart, and felt a numbness in my scalp, a chill, emanating from between the bodies of Chen Yanlu's face.
He pulled out a black compact pistol from his pocket, then narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "That person also gave me a gun."
"No, you can't use him or there's really no way to explain it." I wanted to snatch the gun from his hands.
Chen Yanlu, however, shook her head and said in a slightly chilled voice, "We're both not guilty, but if those cops want to hurt you, I'll kill them first."
Hearing these words from Chen Yanlu, I froze —-