Chapter 10 Day 3
"itch……"
The slight moan made everyone in the room dazed and a little dazed. Later they realized that the unfamiliar sound actually came from Li Qiqi's mouth.
Everything was silent. Chen Xuan felt his heart beating and his breathing slowing down. Time seemed to be slowing down. Only Li Qiqi in front of him was moving her body little by little.
Blindfolded, she began to climb all over herself with her hands. Strangely, her fingers moved like earthworms, crawling and scurrying all over her body. It looked more like her fingers were moving her arms, scratching and roaming all over her body at a very fast speed, while she cried and said:
"Why, why is it so itchy?"
"It's itchy, it's itchy."
Li Yuan was stunned by this astonishing scene. He was caught in a dilemma and only had time to ask:
"Qiqi...what's wrong with you?"
"I, I'm fine. I'm just itchy!"
Li Qiqi's voice was shaking violently. She stretched her body while struggling continuously. The blanket wrapped around her body gradually slipped off as she stretched it out, and her body was exposed under the white moonlight.
"Itchy! Can someone scratch it for me? I'm itchy all over."
Li Qiqi begged for help, but no one came forward. Even Chen Xuan, who was always prompt, stopped in his tracks because the scene before him was too strange.
Li Qiqi's hands seemed to have life, twisting and turning freely. Her legs were too long, wrapping around her pelvis in circles. Black spots actually grew on her body, pulling out layers of blood. Her surface was still covered with blood, appearing black and red. As her body continued to stretch, she had even reached the limit, but she didn't stop until there was a "click". Her joints twisted as if they were broken, and then stretched!
"ah!"
A painful wail finally came out of Li Qiqi's mouth. Her body lay flat on the bed, rolling around wailing, but her hands were still moving uncontrollably.
"Officer Chen, my hand hurts so much, it hurts so much!"
“Crack, crack, crack!”
The sounds of breaking rang out one after another, and Li Qiqi wailed in pain. Her tears soaked the black satin, and snot and saliva mixed on her face. She coughed, and her voice became hoarse from the constant screaming, like a drake, shouting:
“Aa ...
"Help me, someone please help me! Officer Chen, Officer Li, where have you all been?!"
"Didn't you say you would protect me? Where are you all? Can you please save me? Please, I'm in so much pain."
"What the hell happened to me?"
"Ahhh why am I so itchy? I told you to scratch them off, scratch them off. Why are you stopping me? Why?!"
“Ahhhh!”
"Woo, woo, woo."
Chen Xuan was stunned. His limbs were colder than ever before. Wang Sanbei definitely did not become like this before his death. His body was normal. The reason for this was only because he stopped Li Qiqi from self-harming and stopped her from scraping off those plum blossoms.
"Officer Chen...we have to save her!"
The first person to wake up at this time was the young and ignorant Li Yuan. Tears of fear covered her whole body, but under the mask of the protective suit, her eyes were more determined.
She swallowed her saliva, rushed to the doctor with trembling but determination, snatched the sedative syringe, and looked at Chen Xuan again. Chen Xuan knew Li Yuan's plan.
The two of them rushed towards Li Qiqi in a double-teaming direction. Facing the waving arms, Chen Xuan rushed up without hesitation and tried to hug her, but the strength of those arms was not like that of an ordinary person. The strange hands wandered around Chen Xuan's body, as if they wanted to get into his body, and as if they wanted to throw him away.
He stretched out his hand to control the two flying arms. The huge struggle forced Chen Xuan to use all his strength to control them, and he didn't even have the energy to speak to Li Yuan.
"Who, who is it! Don't stop me, I'm itchy, I want to scratch!"
Li Qiqi was like a frightened rabbit. The moment Chen Xuan touched her , she began to tremble with several times the strength. She was choking and couldn't even cry out. One could only hear her despair from her intermittent wails.
"I don't want to ask for help anymore. I just want the itch to stop. Let me scratch it, let me scratch it."
Chen Xuan listened to the words she squeezed out from between her teeth, closed his eyes and clenched his teeth.
Li Yuan finally found Li Qiqi's position in the chaos and gave her an injection in the shoulder.
"ah!"
This was Li Yuan's cry. She used all her strength to inject the entire sedative. Now was not the time to consider the dosage.
“Pah.”
The syringe fell to the ground. Li Yuan and Chen Xuan were thrown away by this "monster" and fell to the ground. Without having time to feel the pain, Chen Xuan looked up at Li Qiqi.
"Did it work?"
Li Yuan was a little confused, but Li Qiqi in front of her actually stopped miraculously after being injected with a sedative.
"Did it really work? Officer Chen, she stopped. Luckily, there's a tranquilizer. Luckily..."
"Um."
Li Qiqi's calm body trembled slightly, and this slight tremor made Li Yuan's excited pupils suddenly stiffen.
Chen Xuan stared blankly at Li Qiqi in front of him. He was stunned.
Maybe we can no longer call her "her".
"It" slowly stood up, and its elongated limbs made Li Qiqi look extremely tall, completely blocking the moonlight from the window. From behind, only a slender giant could be seen, with a hunched back, drooping arms, and standing on tiptoes, as if suspended in the dust.
The black silk ribbon finally couldn't bear the prolonged torture and fluttered in the wind in the room. Li Qiqi raised her head and looked blankly at the moonlight, and also saw herself in the glass:
"Is this me? The me now?"
"sorry."
Li Qiqi was sobbing softly. Chen Xuan listened to her words with a dazed look on her face and her thoughts were vague. Suddenly, she felt that what Li Qiqi said at this moment was a little strange.
What is she feeling sorry for?
Chen Xuan opened his eyes wide in shock.
All the sleepless nights thinking these days are connected at this moment: Wang Sanbei's makeup, Li Qiqi's self-harm, everything is connected.
They stripped away all traces of growth, not to deceive themselves—
It is to deceive others.
"Li Yuan, close your eyes!"
Chen Xuan roared with all his might to alert the police officers around him, but Li Qiqi had already turned her slender neck, and her left eye turned to look behind her, at the people behind her.
Chen Xuan suddenly closed his eyes, and everything in front of him turned into darkness. The sudden coldness was like ice pouring down from his head, making Chen Xuan feel like he was walking on thin ice.
In just a moment, the coldness dissipated, and the obstacle in front of him disappeared as well.
The dazzling moonlight fell on Chen Xuan's eyelids, he trembled, and opened his eyes.
There was nothing in front of him. Chen Xuan stared at the empty space blankly. Just now, he figured everything out.
They cover up everything not to deceive themselves but to protect others.
But……
"Officer Chen."
Chen Xuan looked at Li Yuan in front of him. Under the moonlight, Li Yuan's figure became stiff. Then, she slowly turned her head and looked at Chen Xuan.
Chen Xuan looked at Li Yuan, and just this one glance made his heart plummet.
"Officer Chen, Officer Chen, Officer Chen!"
A line of clear tears flowed from Li Yuan's pupils. She called out to Chen Xuan over and over again, her eyes full of despair and fear.
She didn't close her eyes, she saw everything.
But she couldn't say it.
She couldn't say a word.
