Siheyuan: Hang Jia Dongxu, smash Banggeng to death!

The train is getting closer and closer.

500 meters.

Three hundred meters.

One hundred meters.

A screeching sound rang out, and sparks flew as the wheels rubbed against the rails.

Huge, green train carriages slowly glided past them, one, two, three...

Then, it stopped.

The train door opened, and the attendant poked her head out, yawning.

"Hurry up, those getting off and those getting on, the bus will depart in ten minutes."

The seven figures seemed to hear heavenly music.

"Let's go! Let's go!"

Shi Hao was the first to rush into the car, followed by Chu Feng, then Kuang Tianyou, Yang Jian, Qi Xia, and Lin Qiye.

Xu Fengnian was the last one.

He stepped one foot onto the car door and suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?"

Shi Hao, who was in front, turned around and asked, "Hurry up and get on!"

Xu Fengnian did not answer.

He simply turned his head and looked at the end of the platform.

It was empty there, there was nothing there.

Am I hallucinating?

"It's nothing."

Xu Fengnian shook his head, looked away, and stepped into the carriage.

in the carriage.

Seven people huddled together, looking out the car window at the place where they had lived for twenty or thirty years.

"Gone... really gone..."

Shi Hao muttered to himself, and tears finally streamed down his face.

"We survived," Chu Feng said.

"He survived." Kuang Tianyou repeated.

"They survived!"

The seven people looked at each other and smiled, overjoyed at surviving the ordeal, filled with anticipation for the future, a complex mix of emotions they couldn't quite describe.

They thought they had escaped.

They thought the boy with the axe wouldn't come after them anymore.

They thought...

"Welcome aboard, passengers."

Suddenly, the loudspeaker in the carriage blared, accompanied by a strangely clear child's voice.

"Next stop—Hell."

The smiles of all seven people froze simultaneously.

They slowly turned their heads, and behind them stood a dark figure carrying a bloodstained axe.

Lin Tian smiled.

That smile was innocent and naive, like someone playing a fun game.

"Surprise, where would you all like to go? Would you like me to give you a ride? I'm the kind of person who loves to help others."

The carriage was silent for three seconds.

then.

"ah!!!"

Screams erupted.

Shi Hao was the first to react, and he jumped back, slamming his back against the carriage wall with a dull thud.

Chu Feng's legs went weak, and he sat down on the ground with a thud. He crawled backward on his hands and feet, but after two steps, he bumped into Kuang Tianyou's leg and stopped.

Kuang Tianyou wasn't in much better shape. He had originally planned to take the train back to Hongxi Village, but now it seemed there was no hope.

He slumped back in his seat, like a lump of mud.

Yang Jian and Qi Xia hugged each other tightly. The two grown men looked like two frightened quails, trembling with fear.

Lin Qiye crouched in the corner, muttering to himself, "You can't see me...you can't see me..."

Only Xu Fengnian remained relatively calm.

At least that's how it appears on the surface.

He stood at the very front, closest to Lin Tian, ​​less than five meters away, but his trembling legs betrayed his inner turmoil.

"Lin...Lin Tian...you...how did you get here? Weren't you kidnapped by thugs?"

Lin Tian looked at him innocently: "Why can't I be here?"

He took two steps forward, dragging the axe on the ground with a harsh scraping sound: "You guys take the train, and I'm here to take the train too. It's not like the train belongs to you."

Xu Fengnian opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

Shi Hao suddenly lunged to Lin Tian's feet, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed desperately:

"Lin Tian, ​​Lin Tian, ​​I was wrong, I was really wrong, please let me go, I'm innocent."

Those things have nothing to do with me.

"It was Yi Zhonghai, it was Jia Zhangshi, it was the three old men in the courtyard. They're the ones who ruined your parents, they're the ones who squandered your family's wealth. I didn't participate in anything, I'm a law-abiding citizen."

Chu Feng also realized what was happening and scrambled over, kneeling beside Lin Tian: "Yes, yes, we are all innocent."

The three old men in the courtyard are the real owners.

Especially Yi Zhonghai, and that old hag Jia Zhangshi, go find them if you want, it has nothing to do with us.”

Kuang Tianyou, Yang Jian, Qi Xia, and Lin Qiye also knelt down.

Seven people, kneeling in a row, foreheads pressed to the ground, their bodies trembling like leaves, giving off a sense of seven villains descending from the heavens.

Xu Fengnian pleaded with difficulty, "Lin Tian, ​​I know... I know we were all wrong, but we were really forced into it, all of us were forced into it by the three old men."

If we don't agree, the eldest uncle will cause trouble for us at the factory, the second uncle will do the same, and I'm afraid the third uncle will bully the children. We have no choice..."

"Yi Zhonghai said that anyone who doesn't follow along is an accomplice of the Lin family, and we're afraid... afraid of being implicated..."

As Lin Tian listened to these words, the smile on his face slowly disappeared.

Was he innocently "forced" into it?

no way?

Afraid of being implicated?

He took a step forward.

All seven people shrank back in unison.

"I've heard you say those things far too many times."

Lin Tian paused, his gaze sweeping across the faces of the seven people one by one: "Director Yang said it, Section Chief Liu said it, Secretary Wang said it, Foreman Sun said it, Xiong Da and Xiong Er said it, Liu Xiaoqiang said it, and Xu Damao said it."

Yu Li said it, Yan Jiedi said it, Lin Feng said it, Li Tiezhu said it, Aunt Li said it, Zhang San said it, Ma Dehua said it…”

With each name he uttered, the seven men's faces paled a little more.

"Everyone says they are innocent before they die, that they were forced into it, that they had no choice."

Lin Tian raised his axe, the blade gleaming coldly. "No wonder you're a bunch of beasts. Even your excuses are the same old clichés."

Shi Hao's tears flowed down his cheeks.

He lay on the ground, his forehead pressed against the earth, not daring to look up: "Lin Tian...please, I really...I really didn't do anything."

I just... I just took a little something... I... I'll give it back to you. I'll give it back to you double...

"return?"

Lin Tian looked down at him. "What can I use to repay you? The courtyard house was burned down. Do you think I need anything now?"

Shi Hao was stunned.

"Can my parents come back to life?"

Lin Tian asked, "Can everything go back to the way it was? No, it can't."

Shi Hao was speechless.

Chu Feng suddenly raised his head, a glint of madness flashing in his eyes: "Lin Tian, ​​you can't kill us! You've killed so many people, the police won't let you go. The higher-ups have already sent someone; you can't escape."

Lin Tian looked at him and smiled.

"Yes, you're right. I've met the task force. Two con artists, why would I be afraid of them?"

"Guess where they are now?"

Chu Feng's face turned pale instantly.

"One was trembling in the guesthouse, and the other..."

Lin Tian thought for a moment, "Oh, right, the new leader, Team Leader Chen, seems to have deliberately let you out. As for his purpose, guess?"

Chu Feng's teeth began to chatter.

"Alright, I won't keep you in suspense any longer. You're wanted now for escaping from prison. Isn't that interesting?"

"Guess why?"

The seven men were suspicious, but ultimately they lacked Zhang San's intelligence.

Lin Tian smiled calmly.

"Because they can't do anything to me, and they want to suppress this matter, so... they need a group of scapegoats."

"And...you were involved in the murder of my family. They knew I wouldn't let you get away with it, so you've been abandoned."

"Impossible! Impossible!"

Kuang Tianyou quickly denied it; he had been a policeman for a time and found it hard to believe.

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