The murderer was turned into fire

Jiang Lanpei was held down on the ground, his eyes bloodshot, huffing and puffing, but the corners of his mouth squeezed out a maniacal laugh, "Hahahahaha ...... police ...... What good are the police, the police are all trash! Has there been even one police officer who has found me trapped in this hellish place all these years? Nope! They're all pussies!"

She's so delirious that she catches a key word and dives into it for half a day.

Between curses, her loose hair was blown into her mouth by the wind, and she spat the strands out, her eyes more fierce-

"How about now, you're going to kill me aren't you? The police? You're going to kill me to cover up your dereliction of duty aren't you?"

She said, a gaudy, indifferent smile appearing on her face, constrained, her eyes even still mocking.

"I knew it, all you men are like that, losers! Nothing works, so you take out your incompetence on women! I've been treated like chattel for twenty years ...... Do you know what I rely on to remember time? I rely on the pictures of that dead thing hanging on the wall! I look at those disgusting things every day, and the earliest one I have is twenty-nine! TWENTY-NINE!!!"

"I'm fifty this year ...... Huh? Maybe fifty-two? Fifty-one? Or maybe less than fifty?" She was confused again, the smile dipping on her dainty lips eerily like a cranberry blended in wine, "Never mind, it doesn't matter ...... what matters is that I'm out."

"Do you know how I got out?"

"I spent so many years, I cajoled him, I held him up, I was a crazy demented woman, he couldn't look at me but he wanted to screw me, flaunt his power in front of me, get back those pathetic male egos of his ...... hahahahahahaha ...... I held him up so much he lost his Head, over the years he has become more and more unsuspecting of me, once when he took off his pants he actually left all the keys to my room door in the darkroom."

As if whispering, she couldn't help but laugh out loud with glee again, "But I didn't take it."

"I handed him that key that night and asked him what it was. He turned pale when he saw the key, but then he saw that I was stupid and let it go. He was sure I was really too sick ...... to even recognize the key, ha!" The eyes suddenly became sharp, and the voice, "What man can live like that for twenty years without going mad!"

"He just flirted with me about that key, as if he thought I was a dead dog who didn't know how to use an escape hatch when he got one! He didn't know I saw all that smugness in his eyes, and I was sick to my stomach! But I can fake it - who says psychopaths can't fake it? I pretended so well that I fooled him completely, and then he got more and more relaxed, more and more indifferent, and as soon as he left the key behind, I snuck out...I touched the bricks of the whole asylum! But I'm not leaving! I'm going to send all these men to hell!"

"At last I plotted everything out, and just yesterday ...... I took advantage of the fact that he had left the key behind again, and I took it and waited until nightfall, when I went out and ...... quietly stole a knife."

She still clutched the knife in her hand, the blood having dried on the shiny silver blade and solidified into an ugly, ripe brown color.

Xie Qingcheng knew that if he let up just a little bit, this woman would storm back up and stab the knife into his chest.

The animalism and aggression in her face was too much.

Look at the sky and look at the earth and hate it.

Twenty years had transformed her from a mere patient to a trapped beast with grinding teeth and sucking blood.

"I hid the knife under the bed, and he came again, rubbing his greasy mouth against me, and I catered to him, reaching under the mattress and ......"

Her pupils seemed to be splattered with the blood and screams of Liang Jicheng's vendetta.

"Hahahaha ...... hahahahahahahaha ...... what hot blood ......"

"You say, how can someone with such a cold heart have such hot blood? It shouldn't be ......!"

"Later, I dragged him to my office...and tried to split him up, but then I heard a commotion outside the door, and through the crack I saw that it was a strange girl who seemed to be looking for something. I certainly wasn't going to let her ruin my plans! I had waited so many years! So I hid the body in the closet, pinned on his name tag, and I walked out ...... to talk to your sister ......"

She contorted her face as if she was narrating to Xie Qingcheng or talking to herself.

"This girl looks good, surprisingly also a bit like the one that was brought back at that time hit the wall and died 'small snacks'. I guess ...... hee hee, is a small snack reincarnation la ...... Even if it is not, it does not matter, in fact, I do not quite remember what the girl looks like, but it is just about the same age as her, I think this is really predestined, I tricked her to go to the office, and while she was not paying attention. Gave her a drink of ecstasy ...... I certainly know which is ecstasy, look down on mental illness is the most ridiculous place of you normal people, I too recognize that kind of special ecstasy, when I do not listen to the surnamed Liang give me a whole cup to pour down!"

"She fainted, and I dragged her to the dark room, thinking that when I had gotten my revenge and her kin came looking for her...surely...surely they would turn this place upside down! Not like me ...... not like me ...... me ......"

When she said this, her eyes dimmed again, and she actually looked a little lonely.

Xie Qingcheng's sharp gaze fixed on her, "So you were originally hoping that after it was over, someone looking for her would find that dark room as well?"

"......" the woman didn't answer, giving a stiff, twisted smile, "None of that matters now."

"After I shut your sister up in the dark room, I dragged Liang Jicheng out of the closet - and I'm going to die with him there, in that, the place where I first met him! Just me and him, like when we first met ...... no one else! Calling on heaven and earth, I'm going to personally, little by little, break him into pieces-"

She gave a beat, staring at Xie Qingcheng with more bitter hatred in her eyes.

"But you're here."

"You have disturbed me so that I cannot give him his final revenge in that place!"

"You guys are bothering me ...... You're a cop aren't you? You are the police. You cops are all geared toward evil, so you kill me. You kill me, and sooner or later I'll ask for your life-!"

Hateful, determined, hideous, insane laughter.

It was almost as if they were going to come through that face of hers and turn into long fangs that would pierce the man in front of her.

But Xie Qingcheng stared at her and said, word for word, "I'm not a cop, and I have no intention of killing you."

The woman shuddered, unexpectedly. She bared her teeth and jutted her eyes:

"So what do you want?"

"He wants to take you to the police." He Yu handed Xie Xue over to a nearby nurse girl to settle down, and walked over to Xie Qingcheng, whose expression was hard to read in the night.

"Let's get you to tell the police all about it."

"I'm not going!" Jiang Lanpei yelled hysterically, "I'm not going! No one will believe me! I'm not going! Liars ...... you're all liars!"

But He Yu slowly approached her.

Xie Qingcheng turned back and snapped, "What are you doing over here?!"

He Yu said, "Xie Qingcheng, you don't understand her."

"You've been talking to her for so long, and apart from being yelled at by her, has she paid any attention to you?"

The boy walked over to them, pulled Xie Qingcheng away, and helped Jiang Lanpei to his feet. Jiang Lanpei, in that instant, exploded with amazing strength, and violently took the knife to stab He Yu!

But He Yu spoke to her without looking, and her hand froze instantly.

He said, "Jiang Lanpei, I'm a psychopath too."

The teenager was less than a fist's length away from her eyes, his almond eyes reflecting the crazy woman's.

His voice was so soft that no one but the nearest Xie Qingcheng could hear him as he slowly brought his hand up, staring into Jiang Lanpei's eyes while slowly, unmovingly, clenching the cold blade.

If only Jiang Lanpei had looked back and drawn his sword at this point, he would have been hurt, but He Yu looked too calm, his body tense but his face didn't look like it was rippling at all, as if he were talking to an ordinary woman, a mother, a normal person.

"You know what? I'm a psychopath too."

The knife, was silently and unobtrusively exchanged into his hand.

Jiang Lanpei didn't realize the danger until she lost the sharp edge, and she stared at He Yu with a pale face, "You--"

But he didn't mean to hurt her in any way.

He flexed his knuckles and slowly swept the woman's loose frontal hair out of her face and brushed it behind her ear as he stared into her eyes, "I'm a loner, look at me in the eyes, you're a crazy person, do you see kindred spirits?"

Jiang Lanpei was still full of wariness, but she did stare at He Yu intently, even, sniffing.

He Yu without any expression, very calmly by her like an animal, confirming on him in the most primitive way, maybe every kind of person has their own way of confirming their safety, maybe the animalistic nature and sixth sense of a madman is just to be stronger than an ordinary person.

Jiang Lanpei finally whispered, "You are."

"I am."

"Who harmed you?"

"Born."

He Yu faded, "I don't even have a target for revenge."

Jiang Lanpei: "......"

"But even though I'm a patient, they believe everything I say."

"Why?"

He Yu smiled, the cloudiness dispersed, and under the miserable white moonlight, the bottom of his eyes seemed to be ferried with a layer of frosty, snow-like bright silver, and the exposed side teeth appeared eerily cold and sharp.

He pressed over as if he were sharing with a sick friend some magic trick to beat the disease, and whispered gently, "Because, like you, I can fake it."

"You pretend to be stupid, I'll pretend to be normal."

He filled the pools of cold frost at the bottom of his eyes and smiled, "After nineteen years of pretending, not many people have realized I'm sick. We all need a little protective color, don't we?"

Jiang Lanpei was in a trance for a moment, but she soon came to her senses again.

"No ...... I've killed, my disguise is over-"

"You can't trust them, maybe you can trust me. I'll tell you a secret first."

Jiang Lanpei listened with wide eyes.

He Yu lifted a finger and gently pressed it to his lips, "Soon, the police will come."

"!!!" Jiang Lanpei's pupils snapped, "What is this? They called the police? They still called the police! They're devious-"

"I reported it." He Yu was calm.

"Why should you ...... we are the same ...... why should you take their side, you should ...... you should ......" the woman got incoherent.

"I'm on your side."

He Yu said.

"But don't you want Liang Jicheng to die still disgraced? Twenty years, you just let him die in vain, died and became a victim, maybe even be memorialized as a good entrepreneur, the tombstone is full of flowers, one by one, the families of the patients who do not know the reason to come to mourn him, and you became a murderer, infamous, the front page of the newspaper printed one of the ugliest pictures of you, everyone is saying that you are a beast who does not know the kindness of repayment, no one knows about the sins that you have suffered, and after death You'll have to be spat on for being inferior to him. --You do the math, are you worth it."

"......"

"Tell the police everything and you may not be dead. Liang Jicheng's death and name are all counted, you can let his person and his name die twice." He Yu sidled his head and whispered in her ear as if it was a compulsion, "What a bargain. Why don't you go for it like this?"

Jiang Lanpei seemed a little moved by what he said for a moment.

It was at that moment that the sound of sirens raced like a distant tide from all directions toward the asylum that towered over the darkness of the night.

"Get off!"

"Get out of the car, all of you!!!"

Jiang Lanpei's eyes flickered and she struggled to get up, the security guards showed their intention to restrain her, but He Yu gently helped her up.

"I'll walk you through it."

"You go and see if there might be a light way out of that ...... up ahead."

Jiang Lanpei, as if compelled, trembled and walked forward to the rooftop railing, fiercely clutched the cold and rusty iron railing with his hands and stretched his neck to look down.

Her blurred vision reflected the red and blue lights of the police cars, lit up in a way that, at first glance, was unlike anything she had seen in all her years behind bars.

It was as if all the grievances, shame, and suffering she had endured could be illuminated, and that dark room, which had been dimly secluded for twenty years, could be exposed by this light to the clear light of day.

As she watched, her emotions suddenly flared and tears came to her eyes.

She turned back slowly, and in the night wind, her long red dress-the dress that Liang Jicheng had bought for her to put on her under the guise of caring for the dispossessed patient in order to satisfy his own fetish, but which he had often lewdly stripped from her- blew and rattled in the night air.

"...... It's so bright." She murmured softly, "It's like dawn."

"Thank you."

"But ......"

Overlapping the last few syllables that leaked from her dainty lips were the amplified whoops of the cops downstairs-

"All trapped personnel please calm down! All trapped persons please calm down! Do not take the elevator! Find water sources around you if possible! Wet cloths to moisten! Cover your mouth and nose! Keep your bodies down! Comrade firefighters have arrived! If possible, mark your rescue with any obvious objects around you! You will be rescued immediately!!!"

Jiang Lanpei's eyes dimmed, "It's already too late."

"--Twenty years is enough to make me hate everyone."

"I was on the final step of my plan when you broke into the office."

"Boy, I can't go back."

As if to confirm her words, suddenly--

"Boom!!!"

There was a shocking blasting sound!

Panicked staff trapped on the rooftop surged to the edge to see - a closed door and window in a location near the asylum's rag room had finally been violently blown open by the raging tongues of flaming air from inside!

Jiang Lanpei said slowly in the firelight: "Cheng Kang Hospital has a lot of unseemly things, Liang Jicheng has set up a lot of hidden rooms in the hospital, stocked with gasoline and incendiary devices... He doesn't dare to talk about it in front of anyone, he only dares to show off in front of me, this fool, saying that all he has to do is to press the hidden button in his office and it will burn in ten minutes... He just has to press that hidden start button in his office, and it'll be burning within ten minutes..."

"He's a thief, the smoke alarm system and surveillance system in this shithole is broken, and he was talking to someone on the phone about it while he was doing that in my bed. I heard it all. I've known Cheng Kang better than anyone over the years."

"...... I didn't intend it to come to this, but you guys just had to come over here when I was splitting up ...... I didn't want to get into the hands of the police, and I had already pushed that button while I was waiting for you guys to go to the darkroom to save my life. "

Xie Qingcheng : "You--!"

"Yes, I brought you up, is to want to delay the time, the fire spreads, no one can go, we all die together, death will not have so much pain ...... now and then want to turn back." Jiang Lanpei A poignant smile, two words fall to the ground can be heard, "Too late."

"Too Late ......"

"I'm late, you're late ......"

"It's not too late ！！！！"

The wind is a strange rough voice shouting, Jiang Lanpei suddenly turned back, found that it is a specially trained firefighters in the shortest possible time from the unburning part of the wall by the protection of the rope locks to climb up.

The fireman, a bear of a man in a protective suit, probably didn't hear what they were saying in front of him, and climbed up to hear this trapped aunt over here late, late, late.

Doesn't that cast doubt on his ability to do business?

Fire Puppy Bear quit and yelled, "It's not too late! I'm fast! Hurry up and get over here! Get down there now! The fire will soon burn to the north! Hurry hurry hurry! Women and children go first!

"Me! Me first!!!"

The little nurse was scared silly, saw the firemen and saw the gods descending from heaven, cried and ran over, one after another, several firemen have climbed up through the rope ladder, rushed to take them away before the fire spread out of control.

Xie Xue and the other female staff were the first to be brought down, and the firefighters shouted at Jiang Lanpei, "Sis! Come over here! Why are you standing so far away by yourself? We'll take you down! We'll protect you, don't be afraid! We're taking you home! Hurry up!!!"

Jiang Lanpei's body shook violently, as if struck by an electric current, as she stood under a tall water tower, a gale blowing her long, blood-colored dress.

But, where is home?

And who is she?

Where could she go when she was saved? She'd been crazy for so long, she'd long since lost track of the outside world, which was a secluded room on one side, thousands of photographs, full of hate, and infinitely bleak.

She's going to hell, along with all of this.

She was just waiting for the fire to come up, waiting for it to spread and take all the darkness up to the sky and turn it into the first rays of the morning sun at the end of the long night.

"Sis - get over here - !"

After the windows at the bottom were burst by the air currents, the fire was no longer spreading silently; it became a fire dragon, hissing angrily and spitting out black smoke, and the flames lit up the dark vault of the sky.

Jiang Lanpei shuddered and took a step forward.

Then she stopped.

Tilting his head, he looked behind him at the water tower, the reserve tower that was seldom activated and didn't contain much water - and no, it wasn't water.

A rueful smile swept the corners of her mouth.

It was the gasoline she'd gotten from the reserve by stealing the key and sneaking out countless times when Liang Jicheng didn't know it, and the last thing she had hidden in the bodice of her dress that would take her to "heaven".

......

"He Yu, come here!!!"

Xie Qingcheng reacted steeply, yanking He Yu's arm and running wildly in the opposite direction.

At the same time they were running back, Jiang Lanpei smiled, took a steel lighter from his chest, clicked it on, and threw it at the water tower, which was dripping gasoline-

"...... bam ！！！！"

The flames rolled up, sweeping Jiang Lanpei's entire figure in an instant!

Xie Qingcheng with He Yu threw himself to the ground, behind him was a rolling wave of heat, the firefighters were dumbfounded, watched the woman with open arms, head held high, in a gesture of hope for the salvation of the gods, wanting to fly towards the sky, was caught in the flames.

Xie Qingcheng and He Yu back: "......"

Starbursts of fire in all directions! The intense, charred and smelly fire violently spat out lurid black smoke! A column of twisting black smoke formed, and the smoke seemed to be mixed with a woman's mournful wail, a rotten life, the fire was dancing wildly, cracking the sky and shattering the earth, and the furious fire and smoke were all heading towards the dark night sky, which was hardened by the fire, striking the ring heavily, tearing up the sky and the sky, draining the mountains and the seas and raging towards -

"After twenty years, I don't trust anyone anymore."

"There's no turning back for me."

"The heavenly beings will come for me, and I will go to heaven."

Never look back.