Siheyuan: Hang Jia Dongxu, smash Banggeng to death!

Lin Tian carried the still-dripping axe and walked slowly over, his steps light, but each step treading on Yu Li's collapsing spirit.

"Yu Li, it's your turn."

Yu Li trembled all over like a leaf in the wind.

She wanted to beg for mercy, to say "I am a woman too," but Yan Jiedi's fate had already proven that even a child was useless.

Lin Tian has a million ways to circumvent his promises and a million reasons to explain why "this time is different".

What else can be said?

What else could be used to save a life?

money?

color?

repent?

promise?

...I've tried them all, and none of them worked.

Yu Li's mind went blank. Looking into Lin Tian's calm eyes and at the dripping axe, she suddenly felt... very tired.

The excruciating pain in my limbs was still there, but I was numb.

Fear remains, but it is overwhelmed by despair.

She thought back on her life of more than twenty years, on her days at home, on the backstabbing, the scheming and comparisons...

does it worth?

She refused to lend two taels of silver, wouldn't say a few idle words, and did countless wrong things for the sake of her pitiful pride and interests.

How many things did you say against your conscience?

How many people who shouldn't have been hurt have been harmed?

Now, karma has caught up with them.

"Lin Tian, ​​just kill me."

Lin Tian raised an eyebrow, seemingly surprised: "Not begging for mercy?"

"Would begging for mercy do any good?"

Yu Li smiled, a bitter but genuine smile. "It's no use, so I accept it. I deserve it."

Yan Jiedi's head lay quietly by the water, her eyes still open.

Yu Li closed her eyes and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Let's get started," she said.

Lin Tian raised his axe.

"Yu Li, do you regret it?"

Yu Li didn't open her eyes, but a bitter smile appeared on her lips: "Regret? Regret what?"

What's the use of regret? Time can't be turned back, and what's done can't be erased, so... let it be.

Lin Tian looked at her quietly.

Looked for a long time.

Then, the axe fell.

"Pfft!"

The same dull sound, the same gushing blood, the same rolling watermelon head.

Yu Li's watermelon head rolled next to Yan Jiedi's watermelon head, and the two pairs of lifeless eyes stared at each other in a silent dialogue.

"In your next life, be a good person."

The wooden stake was stained with blood.

Two headless corpses lay on the ground, their blood pooling together.

This place has become his private execution ground and private cemetery.

"The real show is about to begin!"

A cold smile curled at the corner of Lin Tian's lips.

Yu Li, Yan Jiedi, and Xu Damao lay quietly on the ground, but he felt it wasn't enough.

Far from enough.

He wanted all of these people's fear, their despair, their repentance...

He wanted everyone to see and know that the consequence of offending the Lin family was death.

……

Inside the detention center.

More than twenty people were crammed into a small space, and fear was written all over their faces.

Xu Damao disappeared, Yu Li disappeared, and Yan Jiedi disappeared as well.

Right under their noses, three living people simply vanished into thin air.

It felt like something... swallowed it whole.

"I don't want to die... I don't want to die..."

Aunt Li huddled in the corner, holding her head and muttering to herself; she hadn't participated in anything.

But her husband, Li Tiezhu, was involved.

He got a share of the pie and took a cotton-padded jacket left by the Lin family for twenty yuan.

Now, karma has caught up with them.

"Shut up!"

Li Tiezhu growled, "What's the use of crying? Will crying save your life?"

"Then what do you suggest we do?"

Aunt Li looked up, her eyes red and swollen. "Just waiting to die? Like Yu Li and the others, just waiting to die?"

No one answered.

Because nobody knows what to do.

The police detained them here, saying it was for "protection" and "investigation."

But what was it protecting?

What was investigated?

People are disappearing one by one. What can the police do besides stand guard outside the door?

They can only wait to die.

The iron gate was pushed open with a loud bang.

Director Zhao and his team have arrived.

"The leader is here! The leader is here!"

Lin Feng was the first to react, scrambling to the iron gate. "Boss, help us! We don't want to die! Please let us go. If we stay here any longer, we'll just be lambs to the slaughter!"

His voice was trembling with sobs; it wasn't an act, he was genuinely scared.

When Zhang San saw Director Li walking behind, and then saw Director Zhao lagging behind, he immediately understood.

Those two strangers were high-ranking leaders, even higher than the bureau chief.

opportunity!

The thought flashed through Zhang San's mind, and he immediately knelt down on the ground with a "plop".

"Sir, please don't kill us! We don't want to die! Please, sir, don't kill us! I'll kowtow to you, please spare my life!"

As he spoke, he kowtowed, his forehead hitting the floor with a dull thud, and blood appeared after a few blows.

Upon seeing this, Li Tiezhu and Lin Feng instantly understood what Zhang San meant.

This is moral blackmail; this is using public opinion to exert pressure.

With so many people kneeling and begging for mercy, and so many eyes watching, how dare the leaders not release them?

To refuse to release them is to stand by and watch someone die, and to treat human life as worthless.

The two men immediately knelt on the ground, imitating Zhang San, kowtowing and pleading, "Leader, please spare our lives, we don't want to die."

"Please, boss, have mercy on us. We have elderly parents and young children to support."

With them taking the lead, the others also realized what was happening.

Regardless of whether they were involved in the Lin family's affairs or not, and regardless of whether they are guilty or not, saving their lives is the most important thing now.

In an instant, everyone in the detention center knelt down.

More than twenty people, men and women, young and old, were all kneeling on the ground. Their cries, pleas, and kowtows blended together, creating a deafening cacophony.

"Boss, help me!"

"Let us out!"

"We don't want to die here!"

Director Zhao was startled by this display of force.

He had been a policeman for many years and had seen all kinds of scenes, but this was the first time he had ever seen so many people kneeling down and begging for mercy at the same time.

These cries were not fake; they were genuine fear and despair.

Director Li's face turned even uglier.

He's the director here, and these people are from his jurisdiction. Now that things have escalated like this, he bears some of the responsibility, and it's even harder for him to run away now.

I stole a glance at the middle-aged man with glasses. It was Chen, the newly appointed team leader from the ministry, whose rank was even higher than Director Zhao's.

Team Leader Chen's face was expressionless, but his eyes were cold, as cold as a frozen lake in winter.

Gathering a crowd to cause trouble?

Or is it really true?

"Get up, all of you!"

Director Zhao composed himself and raised his voice, "What kind of behavior is this? We are protecting you, not harming you."

"Protect?"

Zhang San raised his head, blood streaming down his forehead, but his eyes were fixed on Director Zhao. "Who were you protecting? Where's Xu Damao?"

Where is Yu Li? Where is Yan Jiedi? Where are they? Huh?! Tell me where they are!

This question left Director Zhao speechless.

Yes, where is he?

They were nowhere to be found, neither alive nor dead.

"Director Zhao."

Team Leader Chen said in a deep voice, "You said before that gathering people here was to protect them, but now it seems that this place is more dangerous."

"Team Leader Chen, I..."

Director Zhao tried to explain, but Team Leader Chen raised his hand to interrupt him.

"Let's not talk about that now."

Team Leader Chen surveyed the detention center, his gaze sweeping across everyone's faces, his only thought being to quell the current situation as quickly as possible.

First, deal with the person who raised the problem, then figure out how to deal with the person who disappeared.

"You're saying someone disappeared into thin air, but where's the evidence?"

"evidence?"

They're not here to help us?

Officials help each other.

This is an attempt to kill us.

Li Tiezhu suddenly stood up, pointing angrily at the empty corner, "That's the evidence! Xu Damao was lying there, and Yu Li and her sister-in-law were sitting there. Now? Where are they?"

"They might have run away on their own."

Team Leader Chen said calmly, "Perhaps you've misread it, perhaps..."

He tried to shirk responsibility, but he didn't finish his sentence.

A "tick-tock...tick-tock..." sound came from the ceiling.

Everyone instinctively looked up.

There was nothing on the ceiling.

But the ticking continued.

And they're getting denser and denser.

……