Chapter 195

Xiang Siling rarely had a distracted time. From the day she decided to kill Luo Hongmin, she was like a very narrow hardwood bow, taut day and night. The bow was her spine, flexible and bendable; the bowstring was her heart, unyielding.

But in the days before and after Qian Chengfeng was killed, she rarely relaxed. Perhaps because she could foresee her own end, or perhaps because she was about to be separated from her beloved daughter, the strong bow slowly returned to its original natural and relaxed state.

That's why she discussed with Qian Chengfeng about taking her daughter camping.

Because for the daughter, this must be the last time in her life that she will recall that her parents are still alive and full of joy.

The smell of blood that was blown away by the wind did not attract her attention. It was not until she opened the tent door that Xiang Siling realized what the smell was.

It was a familiar taste that she would never forget even if she had only experienced it once.

She saw Qian Chengfeng tied up on the tent floor and a pot of blood. Qian Chengfeng's eyes were half open and half closed, and he was dying.

Xiang Siling grabbed her daughter and turned around to run.

But it's too late.

The female killer, who had been lying on the door curtain, pounced forward. Xiang Siling's reaction was not slow. Years of training had made her agile and strong. She turned her head to avoid the female killer's fist and kicked at her. But the other party was too fierce. She took the kick and did not retreat at all. She held the dagger in her hand and had already pressed it against Xiang Siling's neck. With her other hand, she strangled Qian Sitian's neck with one arm and lifted her up from the ground.

Qian Sitian burst into tears.

Xiang Siling's eyes were red with anger.

But the next second, the female killer retracted the dagger, holding Qian Sitian, and took a step back, her eyes indescribably cold.

Xiang Siling didn't dare to move.

The female killer pulled a drawstring out of her pocket and said, "First tie your feet, then your hands, and grit your teeth."

"Don't hurt her."

The female killer motioned for her to hurry up.

Xiang Siling did as she was told and sat on the floor of the tent with her dead ex-husband next to her.

The female killer tied up Qian Sitian neatly and pushed her gently. Xiang Siling quickly caught her in her arms. She felt relieved and kept comforting her, asking her daughter to close her eyes, not look at anything, and not cry.

The female killer sat down opposite, still holding the knife in her hand, and said, "I won't hurt you. You and your daughter will be able to leave safely today."

Even if it was hard to tell whether her words were true or not, hearing them would make people feel at ease. Xiang Siling finally had the opportunity to take a closer look at the other person's appearance. She was shocked and hesitated for a moment, but did not ask.

Xie Xinrui: "You recognized me."

Xiang Siling didn't dare to answer. She couldn't connect the daughter of a wealthy family who was one or two levels higher than the Luo family with the cruel female killer in front of her, who killed her ex-husband.

Xie Xinrui smiled. Considering that she was wearing camouflage clothes, holding a dagger, and the smell of blood in the tent, this charming smile was creepy.

"You can call me Luna," she said, "I'm not coming here for you, but I must kill Qian Chengfeng."

Xiang Siling believed it a little. Because if the other party wanted to kill people to silence them, there was no need to sit down and talk. They could have killed them both with one knife. And Xie Xinrui looked too relaxed, giving people a feeling of being in control of everything. She didn't need to lie to them.

But Qian Chengfeng was dead, and Xiang Siling's heart instantly turned cold - it meant that her daughter would not have a father to accompany her to the United States, and her daughter would soon become an orphan. She swallowed the bitterness in her heart and asked, "Why did you kill him?"

No matter how you look at it, Qian Chengfeng can't reach Xie Xinrui, and the two seem to have never had any intersection before.

But Xie Xinrui didn't answer this question. She even changed her sitting position and stretched her legs to make herself more comfortable. However, her next words were like thunder, which stunned Xiang Siling.

"Xiang Siling, I know everything about you. The day you killed Luo Hongmin, I was outside the window, in the forest on the hillside, remember? I was standing there, watching you. You were wearing a disposable protective suit, splattered with blood. The swimsuit underneath was dark blue. I watched you stab his body again and again, and you even cut his genitals. In fact, I took a camera to record the whole process. But don't worry, after I found out about you, I deleted the video." Xiang Siling felt a chill down her spine when she heard this.

That night, she swam to the shore, dried herself, changed her clothes, and headed straight to the villa without stopping at the small hill in the yard. But when she killed someone, she did feel something strange. She looked out the window a few times, but only saw the dark shadows of the trees on the hillside. At that time, she just thought she was too nervous.

"Why...are you there?"

"Because I was still observing and considering whether to kill Luo Hongmin. But you took action first."

"But why didn't the police find you?"

"Before I take action, I usually observe for several days. Two days before you killed him, I took the company's truck to Mingya Lake, crossed the woods to avoid surveillance, and lurked near the villa. The afternoon after you killed him, I observed that everything around me was normal before leaving. Therefore, the time period of my coming and going completely avoided the surveillance time period on the day when Luo Hongmin was killed that the police might have screened - that is, the time period when you, the real murderer, came and went. And even if I was photographed by the police, I have no motive and I didn't kill him, so there is no need to worry."

"I see. But why did you kill him?"

"It's a long story."

"You... said you had figured out my case. Even the police can't figure it out, so how could you know?"

Xie Xinrui put the dagger back into her pocket and said, "I have seen your abortion report from high school. It was signed on November 2016, 11, at Yuan'an Clinic. The signatories were Sun Yuan'an, Ye Songming, and Li Meiling. I only glanced at it, but I have a very good memory and eyesight, so I remembered it all at once. Later, I used my connections to learn about the cases of Luo Huaizheng and Xiang Wei, and thought about the way you killed Luo Hongmin. Combined with his usual character, I roughly guessed what happened."

"How did you see...the report from that year? Li Meiling said the clinic had been destroyed long ago."

Xie Xinrui tilted her head, pursed her lips and smiled, revealing a bit of natural cuteness.

"That's a very complicated and dark story, and it doesn't have a happy ending. Do you want to hear it?"

As a woman, Xiang Siling actually felt bewitched at this moment. And she really wanted to find out what happened to the abortion report. She suddenly thought that since she didn't have many days left to live, what was wrong with chatting with another murderer? Who was being bothered by this? In addition to her daughter, what else in the world was worth her concern?
"I want to listen." She also smiled, and her tense mood relaxed. She raised her arm and let her daughter lean on her arms, "Tiantian, lean on mommy and sleep for a while. Auntie was playing games with us just now."

"Is it a game? So Dad is pretending to be sick too?" Tiantian asked naively, and started crying again, "But I'm so scared, Mom, are you hurt? I, I'm not hurt."

Xie Xinrui sighed and said, "I'm sorry, I just had no choice but to scare the child. Honey, auntie and mom were just playing... a fighting game, it's okay, be good."

The two of them kept coaxing the child for a while. The little guy was probably too nervous before, and Xiang Siling blocked him from looking at the body on the ground, so he fell asleep in his mother's arms without realizing it.

Xie Xinrui opened the curtain of the tent to let the bloody smell dissipate. The sun gently shone on the lonely tent on the grass. Xiang Siling held his daughter in his arms, as if forgetting the gradually cooling body on the ground.

Xie Xinrui spoke very calmly. In about 20 minutes, she slowly recounted the experience seven years ago, but she did not mention the existence of Li Jincheng. This was unprecedented for her. Because in the past seven years, she had never mentioned it to anyone else, not even to the director of the welfare home, Song Hui, or her adoptive father, Xie Rongcheng. Because even if she only mentioned a word to them, Xie Xinrui felt her heart tremble, her breathing became rapid, and she felt nauseous. She had no way of telling those things again.

But after Xie Xinrui guessed the painful experience Xiang Siling might have had and saw how she looked when she killed Luo Hongmin, Xie Xinrui had a feeling of wanting to get closer to her. And that experience could be told to her freely. Seeing Xiang Siling's dead face after listening, and seeing the faint tears in her eyes, Xie Xinrui actually felt that she was finally truly understood.

Because they are the same, she thought. There are different kinds of hell on earth, and they have all been there.

After Xie Xinrui finished speaking, the two of them sat facing each other in silence.

Xiang Siling spoke first: "He deserves to be killed. You didn't give the police the video of me killing someone, and I won't tell the police a word about you. Is there anything else I can help you with?"

Xie Xinrui smiled: "Thank you." She took out a photo from her bosom: "This is Luo Long, the third person who imprisoned me back then, and the smartest and most ruthless person among them. Just say that it was him you saw in the tent. Buy me some more time."

"it is good."

"You really want to help me? This is a felony of murder."

"That's all I need."

Xiang Siling's decisiveness and determination were beyond Xie Xinrui's expectations, and made her want to confide more in her.

Xie Xinrui was silent for a while, then asked, "Do you know Li Jincheng?"