Chapter 54: Making Lu Zhiyin Kill
While Leng Qing Qiu was making breakfast, Lu Zhiyin seized the opportunity to play two more games. Her speed was as fast as ever, and her skill was as strong as ever.
She thought, perhaps her gaming skills were the only thing she could show off in this world?
“Sigh…”
After finishing two games, Lu Zhiyin sighed. She didn’t want to continue playing for now.
Touching the money beside her, Lu Zhiyin placed the money in front of her, looking at the crumpled bills.
Closing her eyes, she stuffed the money into her pocket. She couldn’t go home now, and she had nowhere to spend the money, did she?
Looking at the white wall and the bloodstains on the ground, Lu Zhiyin stared blankly. She listened to the sound of oil boiling from the kitchen and recalled the figure of her mother cooking for her.
She didn’t know how long it would be before she could eat her mother’s cooking again.
In the past, because her mother was always by her side, she didn’t value her mother’s cooking and didn’t care for her mother, often making her angry. Now that she was truly separated from her mother, she finally realized how good her mother was.
But it was too late.
If she could do it all over again, Lu Zhiyin would absolutely, absolutely not alienate her family and would focus her energy on the internet and various games.
However, there was no “if.”
She stared blankly on the sofa for a long time until Leng Qing Qiu walked out.
She had newly cooked rice and stir-fried eggs with pickled mustard greens. While not lavish, the dish was definitely hearty.
After a simple breakfast, Leng Qing Qiu began to clean the bloodstains and dirt on the floor with a mop, while Lu Zhiyin remained seated on the sofa.
“Hey…”
She numbly reached out a hand towards Leng Qing Qiu.
“Just call me Qing Qiu.”
Nodding at Lu Zhiyin, Leng Qing Qiu continued cleaning the floor.
“…”
Silently, Lu Zhiyin was unsure whether she should ask an awkward question, but in the end, she did.
“Qing Qiu, how can I make you like me?”
Lu Zhiyin really didn’t know how to proceed with the “conquest.” In the past few days, not only had her favorability not increased, but she had also harmed herself. So, Lu Zhiyin directly asked Leng Qing Qiu.
Anyway, she didn’t expect Leng Qing Qiu to give an answer.
“… Hmm?”
In Lu Zhiyin’s view, Leng Qing Qiu’s back froze for a moment, then she continued her work, ignoring Lu Zhiyin.
After the bloodstains on the floor were cleaned, Leng Qing Qiu returned to the sofa. She grabbed Lu Zhiyin’s left wrist, making Lu Zhiyin slightly uneasy.
“Why are you asking this question?”
Speaking of which, Lu Zhiyin had indeed been very different from before recently. Before she said she wanted Lu Zhiyin to be her toy, Lu Zhiyin seemed to have been intentionally or unintentionally trying to please her.
Looking at Lu Zhiyin’s face, Leng Qing Qiu even had the illusion that Lu Zhiyin liked her, but she quickly dismissed the thought.
She probably just wanted to get money from her to make a living.
Closing her eyes, Leng Qing Qiu calmed down. She thought for a while and didn’t seem to know what she liked very well.
Her current so-called hobbies were just bad habits developed during long periods of killing, not real hobbies.
“I don’t know.”
Giving a vague answer, Leng Qing Qiu suddenly remembered the three people she brought back last night.
After locking them in the basement, she hadn’t paid any attention to them, nor had she treated their injuries. The two people she hit with her car had probably died.
As for the person who tried to force Lu Zhiyin and whom she had knocked unconscious, Leng Qing Qiu planned to have Lu Zhiyin kill him herself.
“… Mm…”
Lu Zhiyin was a little disappointed that she couldn’t get a definite answer from Leng Qing Qiu.
However, she soon had no time to pity herself.
Leng Qing Qiu stood up, took the bucket and mop to the side, and then brought the wheelchair next to the sofa, making Lu Zhiyin sit in it.
While Lu Zhiyin was still stunned, Leng Qing Qiu had already returned to the bedroom and opened the hidden door leading to the basement.
Lu Zhiyin and her wheelchair were brought into the basement by Leng Qing Qiu in batches.
“…”
As soon as she arrived in the basement, Lu Zhiyin frowned slightly.
The smell of blood here was very strong, which made her uncomfortable. The various “torture instruments” hanging on the walls also made her a little frightened.
She recalled that in the ending of the game she played before she died, Leng Qing Qiu seemed to have killed the protagonist here.
Her palms began to sweat. Lu Zhiyin wanted to escape from here.
“Um, why did you bring me here? If you want to abuse me, you can do it upstairs…”
Lu Zhiyin didn’t want to die.
Behind Lu Zhiyin, Leng Qing Qiu did not answer her question. Her focus was completely different from Lu Zhiyin’s.
She didn’t look at the tools hanging on the walls but focused on the three men tied up like dumplings in the corner of the wall. A pool of dark red blood spread out from under the men, and the smell of blood in the basement came from there.
Leng Qing Qiu noticed that one of the men was moving slightly. Because his eyes were covered, the man couldn’t see his surroundings, and his stuffed mouth prevented him from speaking.
However, he could feel the soft bodies of his companions around him and smell the blood in the air, so it was normal for him to feel fear after waking up?
Shaking her head, Leng Qing Qiu walked to the corner of the basement. She dragged the man who had woken up away and checked the breathing of the other two men.
“Tsk… dead?”
These two men, who had been hit by the car, had died as expected. Perhaps their internal organs had been shattered when they were hit by the car, and some bones had broken and pierced the skin. The blood on the ground also came from these two dead men.
Leng Qing Qiu felt a little regretful because if these two people had died earlier, she would have had two fewer people to torture.
The regret was fleeting. Leng Qing Qiu tied the surviving man to the iron bed in the center of the basement and then removed the black cloth covering the man’s eyes.
She did not remove the cloth stuffed in the man’s mouth because she considered that Lu Zhiyin, unlike herself, probably didn’t have a penchant for listening to screams.
“Zhiyin.”
After completing the preparations, Leng Qing Qiu pushed Lu Zhiyin’s wheelchair to the bedside.
She looked at the white-haired girl beside her. The girl’s shoulders were slightly trembling, perhaps from fear.
“I… I’m here.”
Her hands trembling slightly, this was the first time Lu Zhiyin had witnessed Leng Qing Qiu killing someone with her own eyes.
“This is the person who hit you last night. You can take out your anger on him now, and then kill him with your own hands.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Lu Zhiyin’s breathing quickened.
She was a bit flustered, not expecting Leng Qing Qiu to want her to do it herself.
She thought Leng Qing Qiu just wanted her to get closer to scare her.
Author’s Note: I’ve been a bit busy the past two days, so I’ll probably only have one update.
