Chapter 39: First Miss
After drugging Lu Zhiyin, Leng Qing Qiu slept beside her for a night. The next morning, she woke up early.
“…”
Looking wordlessly at the pale-faced girl, Leng Qing Qiu’s feelings were complicated. The girl’s words from last night still echoed in her ears.
She got out of bed, changed back into black clothes, put on a black mask, and after hiding the necessary items in her sleeves, she left the bedroom.
“…** dagger, that’s enough.”
She felt her sleeves, hesitated for a moment, and then looked at the bloody corpse fragments in the living room.
She really should clean them up. If nothing unexpected happened, Long Qinxin would be the last person she’d kill.
She could tell that Long Qinxin was very important to Lu Zhiyin. She was probably the only person Lu Zhiyin could call a friend besides herself.
“Hoo…”
Taking a deep breath, Leng Qing Qiu left her apartment, locked the door, and walked towards where her car was parked.
Lu Zhiyin’s words from last night did touch her. After drugging Lu Zhiyin, she had another dream.
This time, the dream was not of herself laughing maniacally and the girl she killed, but of the past moments she spent with the girl.
Before the girl’s parents passed away, they went to school together, ate together, and studied together. At some point, these originally ordinary memories became beautiful.
Well… at least better than the usual bloody scenes.
“Always accompanying me? Perhaps that’s not bad either?”
Getting into the car, Leng Qing Qiu drove the van towards the park near the school.
In the park, Long Qinxin had arrived early and was sitting alone on a bench.
She wasn’t wearing a skirt today but a white hoodie and black shorts, with fleece-lined black stockings on her legs.
Her crossbody bag carried her phone and bank card, and the pocket in front of her hoodie contained a can of pepper spray and a small stun gun.
“Classmate Zhiyin, hehe…”
Leaning against the back of the bench, Long Qinxin covered her face and shook her head, her mind wandering. Just thinking about the soft, fragrant girl in a dress made her feel a bit infatuated.
“If I listen to her and bring self-defense weapons, will she praise me when she finds out?”
Completely lost in the infatuation of a lovesick person, Long Qinxin muttered to herself.
She looked at the black car parked on the street not far away. The car belonged to her family’s driver.
She was still upset about not being able to eat together yesterday, so after learning that she could have another date today, Long Qinxin booked a high-end restaurant in advance.
Speaking of which, her own driver was the one who waited for her downstairs at the apartment building this morning. Perhaps her parents saw her spending records and were worried about her?
It didn’t matter. Long Qinxin trusted her own driver very much and wasn’t worried about the driver disrupting her date with Lu Zhiyin.
She looked up at the misty sky. As time passed, it was getting colder, and the visibility in the morning was decreasing.
Touching the pepper spray in her pocket, Long Qinxin thought that Lu Zhiyin’s doubts were not unfounded. This kind of environment really made it easy to encounter robbers.
After waiting on the bench for a long time, the sky brightened, and the mist gradually dissipated, making the scenery on the street clearer.
In the distance, the roar of car engines could be heard. The sound of car engines at this time was somewhat unusual.
It was too early, and most people were still asleep. Those thugs who wandered the streets all night mostly couldn’t afford a car.
However, Long Qinxin didn’t pay attention to the sound of the car engines. Her eyes were full of Lu Zhiyin, whom she was about to meet.
“… Came so early, tsk, just how much does this guy like Zhiyin…”
Getting out of the car from a distance, Leng Qing Qiu immediately spotted Long Qinxin sitting on the bench.
She had intended to arrive at the park early to stakeout, but she didn’t expect Long Qinxin to arrive earlier than her.
Leng Qing Qiu began to consider how to kill Long Qinxin.
She quickly came up with two plans. One was to show her face and mock her in her original voice. Given Long Qinxin’s hostility towards her, Leng Qing Qiu was sure Long Qinxin would confront her. She could also directly attack and knock Long Qinxin unconscious with **.
The second plan was to pretend to be a passerby and attack her when passing by.
In any case, it would be best to kill her at home. Killing someone on the street would inevitably leave traces, and Leng Qing Qiu wanted her last crime to be clean.
“…Hoo…”
Taking a deep breath, Leng Qing Qiu checked her equipment.
She placed the ** in her left sleeve and the dagger in her right sleeve, ensuring that if one method failed, the other could be used immediately. She also took the antidote for ** in advance, then adjusted her mask, put her hands in her pockets, and walked towards Long Qinxin.
“Achoo…”
On the bench, Long Qinxin sneezed.
She felt inexplicably confused. She wasn’t sick, so why did she suddenly sneeze?
She felt a sense of inexplicable panic and looked at her family’s car across the street, then felt reassured.
What could possibly happen? Her family’s driver was nearby.
Thinking this, she felt reassured again.
The autumn morning was not only cold but also damp and uncomfortable.
Several black crows flew across the sky, their sharp cries carrying an ominous tone.
Long Qinxin’s senses seemed to have become several times sharper. She could almost feel the flow of air and see the tiny bugs in the grass.
She blinked, and steady footsteps suddenly sounded in her ears. The sound was almost louder than the car engines to Long Qinxin.
She turned her head, and a pedestrian in black clothes and a black mask was walking on the road outside the park.
Upon seeing that person, Long Qinxin’s eyelids twitched rapidly, as if warning her of something.
Her eyelashes trembled slightly, her heart beat strongly, and the sound of her heartbeat seemed to compete with the footsteps of the approaching person.
Long Qinxin felt short of breath.
She clutched the pepper spray in her hoodie pocket.
The person in black slowly walked past the road in front of the bench, seemingly with no intention of approaching her.
But Long Qinxin’s heart did not relax. She still tightly held the spray in her arms.
As if guided by something, Long Qinxin stared intently at the pedestrian.
As the person in black passed her, she briefly stopped.
Long Qinxin’s heart jumped into her throat.
“…”
Without saying a word, Leng Qing Qiu lifted her leg.
As she moved, Long Qinxin’s suspended heart slowly settled.
The next moment, Leng Qing Qiu changed direction. With one step, she crossed in front of Long Qinxin. The ** in her left sleeve slipped into her palm, and she reached out to cover Long Qinxin’s mouth and nose.
Logically, Long Qinxin should not have been able to react to such a sudden change, but under the influence of divine power, she did.
Faced with this sudden attack, Long Qinxin, with a reaction and speed beyond Leng Qing Qiu’s comprehension, pulled out the pepper spray from her pocket.
As Leng Qing Qiu covered Long Qinxin’s mouth and nose with the small bag of **, Long Qinxin pressed the button of the pepper spray.
Red spray shot directly into Leng Qing Qiu’s face, dyeing the upper half of her fair face an exaggerated red.
The pungent pain stimulated her eyes, and she subconsciously closed them. The hand covering Long Qinxin’s mouth and nose loosened, and the bag of medicine fell to the ground.
“Yaha…”
The intense pain in her eyes made Leng Qing Qiu cry out in pain. She was so disheveled for the first time.
The dagger from her other sleeve slid out, and Leng Qing Qiu viciously stabbed it towards Long Qinxin’s chest.
She no longer cared if she could kill with one blow. Leng Qing Qiu dropped the dagger and quickly dashed away, leaving the scene.
The moment Long Qinxin fought back, her attack had already failed.
“Miss, Miss, are you alright?”
As Leng Qing Qiu fled, Long Qinxin’s family driver quickly got out of the car and ran to Long Qinxin to check her injuries.
“…Mm… Uncle Wu…? I… I’m fine…”
Her words were somewhat fragmented. The sharp pain in her chest prevented Long Qinxin from falling unconscious immediately.
The dagger Leng Qing Qiu had stabbed at her had slipped off her chest and onto her leg.
The stab-resistant clothing Lu Zhiyin had made her wear had saved her life. The dagger that Leng Qing Qiu had aimed at Long Qinxin’s heart after her vision was temporarily lost due to the pepper spray.
But because of the stab-resistant clothing, Long Qinxin only felt a wave of pain. The hoodie on the outside of the stab-resistant clothing was torn, revealing the pale green, intact stab-resistant clothing.
“…Miss… Miss?…”
The driver’s words became increasingly blurry in her ears. Finally, Long Qinxin’s vision went black, and she fainted.
