Chapter 9 Dad, I’m hungry
"It is also possible that the 'disaster' was too weak... one axe killed it completely." Li Xiuchun proposed another possibility.
Chen Tan did not answer. He looked at the figure in the pool of blood for a long time, turned around and took out a kitchen knife from the kitchen.
"What are you going to do?"
"Cut open his chest and see if the heart is still there." Chen Tan said hoarsely, "At least I want to know... whether I killed a monster or the salvation given by God."
He half-knelt beside Chen Ling's body and used the blade to cut open the chest with difficulty. Li Xiuchun, who was standing beside him, turned pale and rushed into the kitchen, vomiting violently.
A few minutes later, Chen Tan slowly stood up.
"How is it?" Li Xiuchun asked.
"Empty." Chen Tan looked at the empty chest wall, as if relieved, "He has no heart."
"No heart? Then how did he..."
"I don't know."
Chen Tan paused, "Whatever it is... it's dead now."
"What should we do with the body?"
"Hide it in the cellar... There are law enforcement officers outside now, and we can't send it out."
Chen Tan dragged the corner of the living room table and opened the heavy wooden board on the ground, revealing a dark and narrow underground space.
In this era without refrigerators, relying on the natural insulation effect of the cellar to store food is the best choice. He was about to throw Chen Ling in, but when he saw the hideous neck wound, he stopped.
"Go get Ah Yan's costume." Chen Tan said, "No matter what it is, it's Ah Ling's skin... There's no coffin for burial, at least give him some decent clothes."
Li Xiuchun shuddered slightly when she mentioned the costume.
"But last night... he came back wearing that dress..."
"It's just a dress." Chen Tan was about to refute, but thinking of the horror scene when Chen Ling came home last night, he didn't insist, "Forget it, let's do it."
Chen Tan threw Chen Ling's body into the cellar, covered it with wooden boards, and pressed the table on it, and it was completely over.
Next, Li Xiuchun began to clean up the bloodstains in the house. Although these things made her feel nauseous, she continued with her nose pinched.
Knock knock knock——
A rapid knock on the door suddenly sounded.
Li Xiuchun, who was cleaning the room, felt her heart skip a beat and turned back to look at Chen Tan.
"Someone is coming?"
"Ignore him for now, pretend that no one is home."
Li Xiuchun nodded, and the two held their breath in the living room, leaving only the dull knocking sound echoing continuously.
But the knocking sound did not mean to stop at all, but became more and more forceful. Then, a low voice came from the door:
"Law enforcer is asking questions! Open the door immediately!"
Hearing the word "law enforcer", the two people's faces suddenly turned pale. After hesitating for a moment, Chen Tan gave Li Xiuchun a look, quickly changed his clothes, and walked to the door without buttoning them.
Squeak——
The door opened a corner.
Chen Tan walked out of the door sideways and closed the door with his backhand, "Law Enforcer, what's the matter?"
The drizzle fell from the gloomy sky, and two figures in black and red uniforms stood outside the door, their faces a little gloomy.
"You've been knocking on the door for so long, why don't you open it?"
"I was sleeping just now, and it took me some time to get dressed." He smiled embarrassedly.
The two law enforcers looked at his clothes that he hadn't buttoned up yet, and relaxed a little, "Is it Chen Ling's house?"
"...Yes."
"Where is he?"
"He went out this morning and hasn't come back yet."
"When he comes back, pass this notice to him." One law enforcer took out a document from his arms, "The entire area of Districts 2 and 3 is now blocked, and all the reserve law enforcers who have passed the written test are temporarily recruited to gather. He is also on the call list.
At 7 o'clock tomorrow morning, gather at the headquarters of the law enforcers in District 3 on time. If you don't go, you will be deemed to have automatically given up the quota."
Chen Tan's heart skipped a beat, but he still took the notice without changing his expression and nodded,
"Okay, I will definitely pass it on."
The two law enforcers turned and left, and Chen Tan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
He pushed the door open and walked into the house.
Ci La-Ci La-
As soon as he entered the house, a sharp metal friction sound came into his ears, as if someone was scratching a blackboard with sharp nails, which made Chen Tan instantly shudder.
At this time, Li Xiuchun was huddled in the corner, shaking all over.
She saw Chen Tan return to the house, and her eyes, which were almost collapsed, finally raised. She slowly stretched out a hand and pointed to the kitchen...
In the kitchen, a scarlet figure was facing away from the two of them, with his head lowered, as if chewing something.
Seeing that back, Chen Tan's brain was instantly blank!
It was a boy whose neck was almost cut off. The scarlet flesh was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. He held a kitchen knife in his left hand and a bloody axe in his right hand, stuffing them into his mouth at the same time...
As if he noticed that Chen Tan opened the door and went home, the figure in the red robe in the kitchen slowly turned around.
That was Chen Ling, who had lost his heart and was almost beheaded.
His cheeks were slightly bulging, and he was chewing the metal and wood residues vigorously. His scattered pupils were like animal eyes, weird and eerie.
"Dad."
A voice sounded from behind him, "I'm hungry..."
...
Chen Ling had a dream.
It was a cloudy afternoon.
As usual, he went to the martial arts training ground in the suburbs to exercise and opened the door of his home, sweating profusely.
That day was not his birthday, but a cream cake was placed on the dining table at home... The orange candlelight swayed in the dim living room, and two figures sat at the table, with red eyes.
A cream cake is worth 200 copper coins, which is something their family can never afford.
He was very confused. He asked what day it was.
His parents told him that today was the day that his brother Ayan was about to undergo surgery.
He was very happy after hearing this. His younger brother's congenital heart disease was a nightmare that plagued their family. In order to cure his younger brother, his parents and he ran around asking for help, but every clinic was helpless.
A few days ago, my parents said that they found a hospital in the second district and sent their brother there. They were sure that he could be cured.
Hearing the good news, he happily finished the cake, but soon his consciousness began to faint and he fell down on the table. The last thing he saw was his mother, Li Xiuchun, covering her mouth and crying bitterly. look.
"I'm sorry... I'm really sorry." He heard his father whisper, "Ayan's illness requires a heart... You will be willing, right?"
He opened his mouth as if he wanted to answer something, but eventually fell into coma.
Then, he felt like he was stuffed into a bag, and raindrops fell on the surface of the bag. After a long time, he was finally lifted onto a table.
He felt like someone had cut open his chest and taken something out of it.
Then, someone put a piece of clothing on him and moved him somewhere in the heavy rain. The heavy soil gradually submerged his body, and everything around him fell into darkness and silence...
…
In the darkness, Chen Ling's eyes suddenly opened.
The spotlights lit up one after another above the head, illuminating the figure in red lying in the center of the stage. After a moment of trance, Chen Ling stood up unsteadily with her hands on the ground.
"Damn... why are you back again?"
Chen Ling's face turned pale. His eyes subconsciously fell on the screen in the center of the stage, and his pupils suddenly shrank.
[Audience expectation +1]
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【warn! warn! 】
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