Chapter 8: Becoming Her Accomplice
Under the bright light, the girl with crippled legs collapsed in front of the sofa, tearfully begging her childhood friend to spare her.
“…”
Leng Qing Qiu’s movement of holding the glass shard against the girl’s neck paused.
Looking at Lu Zhiyin, who was crying profusely and terrified, Leng Qing Qiu began to wonder why she was killing people.
Was it because this city was too dirty, dirty everywhere, with violent crimes rampant, and the city’s police too incompetent to bring all criminals to justice?
However, her childhood friend had obviously not committed any crimes, right? In fact, she had suffered from bullying on campus. And she had only witnessed a crime scene that Leng Qing Qiu hadn’t had time to clean up. In fact, she was here because she had been invited.
Looking at the water in Lu Zhiyin’s eyes, Leng Qing Qiu hesitated. The glass shard in her hand fell to the ground, making crisp shattering sounds.
“Zhiyin.”
Softly calling Lu Zhiyin’s name, Leng Qing Qiu placed her hand on the girl’s slender neck, but not too tightly.
“…”
The girl in front of her said nothing, only flinched and looked up at her slightly.
The girl’s timid and weak appearance made Leng Qing Qiu’s heart skip a beat. However, she quickly came to her senses and gently wiped the tears from Lu Zhiyin’s face.
“Zhiyin, I didn’t want to kill you either. But…”
She couldn’t be sure if the girl in front of her would report her.
“I, I won’t say anything. I really didn’t see anything.”
Lu Zhiyin grabbed Leng Qing Qiu’s hand with her own hands.
Her mind raced. She thought, Leng Qing Qiu was probably worried that she would report her?
So, what she needed to do now was to make Leng Qing Qiu trust her, right?
Simple thinking in her fear led her to determine what she should do next.
She thought Leng Qing Qiu must know that she had seen the blood, so…
“That blood should just be duck blood, right… yes, that should just be duck blood…”
Lu Zhiyin actually knew that ducks wouldn’t have that much blood. Moreover, who would kill a duck in their bedroom in the middle of the night? It’s impossible.
She was just grasping at straws in desperation.
She could think, but not much.
Unfortunately, her nonsensical talk couldn’t fool Leng Qing Qiu at all.
Squatting down, Leng Qing Qiu looked into Lu Zhiyin’s eyes.
“No, that’s human blood.”
Her voice was as calm as ever, without any fluctuation, as if she didn’t care that her secret had been discovered.
No matter what Lu Zhiyin said, Leng Qing Qiu would not believe her. To prevent Lu Zhiyin from reporting her to the police, she could only make Lu Zhiyin her accomplice, so that they would rise and fall together.
However, before that, Leng Qing Qiu had to scare Lu Zhiyin first.
“I brought the person back last night, and I originally planned to clean things up quickly while you were drugged. I didn’t expect you to wake up early. Zhiyin… you really make things difficult for me.”
Tilting her head, Leng Qing Qiu released her hand from the girl’s neck.
She stood up, calmly walked to the door of the room, and pushed Lu Zhiyin’s wheelchair back.
She lifted Lu Zhiyin and placed her on the wheelchair.
Leng Qing Qiu pushed the white-haired girl into her bedroom.
“…”
Silently, Lu Zhiyin closed her eyes. She didn’t want to see more of Leng Qing Qiu’s secrets. Movies she had watched in her previous life came to mind. In those movies, when the villain showed the protagonist more evidence of their crimes, it was usually when they were preparing to silence them.
Unfortunately, at this moment, she was not in control of her own destiny.
Using her fingers, Leng Qing Qiu pried open Lu Zhiyin’s eyelids, forcing the girl in the wheelchair to look at the scene before her.
The bed was moved to the wall, revealing a hidden door on the floor.
Splashes of blood extended from the stairs inside the hidden door. Lu Zhiyin could smell the blood in the air. The smell was strong, making Lu Zhiyin feel uncomfortable.
After seeing the mess all over the bedroom, Leng Qing Qiu pushed Lu Zhiyin to the kitchen and showed her the tightly packed snakeskin bags and the bodies inside them.
“Gag… gag…”
Sitting in the wheelchair, bending over, Lu Zhiyin retched uncontrollably.
Blood, strange smells, and the meat in the bags. She never expected to see such a scene on her first day in this world.
Fear caused tears to slide down her face again.
“Zhiyin… do you want to become a part of these things in the bag?”
Leng Qing Qiu asked slowly, turning the wheelchair in her hands so that Lu Zhiyin faced her.
Her grayish-white hair was a little messy, and a teardrop hung on the girl’s beautiful face. The girl’s red eyes were filled with eternally captivating fear and panic, and her eyes were slightly red.
Leng Qing Qiu began to feel that her childhood friend was a bit too frail.
“No… don’t…”
Covering her mouth and stomach with her hands, Lu Zhiyin seemed to be suppressing the urge to vomit, replying as calmly as possible. As she replied, she kept shaking her head, her white hair swaying with her movements.
Her heart skipped another beat. Leng Qing Qiu thought that her childhood friend’s fragile appearance was quite endearing.
In Leng Qing Qiu’s memory, Lu Zhiyin had been putting on a brave face for some time, so she naturally wouldn’t show such an expression.
However, she quickly realized the inappropriateness of her thoughts, shook her head, and cast aside useless thoughts.
“Zhiyin, you know, murder and dismemberment is a capital offense. You don’t want to die, and I don’t want to die. So, how can you make me believe you won’t report me?”
Bending down slightly, Leng Qing Qiu extended a hand, placing her palm on the girl’s thin shoulder.
“I swear, I will never report you. We, we are childhood friends, aren’t we?”
Wiping the tears from her face, Lu Zhiyin tried to play the emotional card again, but Leng Qing Qiu shook her head again.
“Vows are the most useless things. Childhood friends? Even more ridiculous, aren’t they? Without blood ties, why should I believe you?”
Smiling, Leng Qing Qiu grabbed Lu Zhiyin’s right hand. She stroked Lu Zhiyin’s slender fingers. The fingers were not long, but they felt good.
“If you want me to believe you, you need to become my accomplice. Only then can you survive. I’ll give you one minute to consider, how about it?”
As the words fell, Leng Qing Qiu stopped moving, staring fixedly at Lu Zhiyin’s face.
“I agree.”
Without any extra thought, Lu Zhiyin blurted it out. No matter what, she wanted to survive first.
As for anything else… she really didn’t have the ability to think about it right now.
Upon receiving Lu Zhiyin’s affirmative reply, Leng Qing Qiu also felt inexplicably relieved.
She pushed Lu Zhiyin next to the snakeskin bags, then found a cleaver and cut her own hand with it.
She smeared her blood on Lu Zhiyin’s face and thrust the bloody cleaver into Lu Zhiyin’s hand.
Leng Qing Qiu took a few photos of Lu Zhiyin, then wiped the blood from Lu Zhiyin’s face and took her back to the sofa.
“Alright, go to sleep. I’ll handle things tonight. Tomorrow, I’ll take you to find new prey.”
After doing those things, Leng Qing Qiu’s tone softened. She let Lu Zhiyin lie on the sofa and then ignored her, focusing on cleaning up the room.
