Chapter 328 Your Punishment
Chi Xia was blindfolded and was led forward by someone.
Her ears moved when she heard the sound of metal colliding.
"There are stairs ahead," said the mercenary who was holding her hostage.
Chi Xia lifted his foot consciously and said thank you politely.
She could feel them moving down through the ground now.
After taking a few steps, the smell of stale blood and mold overwhelmed her nose.
The mixed smell of blood and earth seemed to pull her into the nightmare of the past. Every inch of Chi Xia's senses awakened in an instant, and they were vying to remind Chi Xia that she was very familiar with this place.
"To enter the elevator, lift your feet." The person next to me reminded him again.
Chi Xia raised her foot as instructed.
Although her eyes were of no use, her senses were very clear. Chi Xia felt that they were falling, and she already had a guess of the destination in her mind.
The closer he got to the ground, the more Chi Xia smelled the scent of fresh blood amidst the stale fishy smell.
That familiar, terrifying, strong, pungent smell of blood coming from someone who had just died.
The elevator landed and Chi Xia was pushed out by someone. This time, the opponent's force was not as polite as the previous two times. Chi Xia staggered a little, and the pungent smell in the air made her feel nauseous.
Probably it was Old K who gave the order, the black cloth on her eyes was removed.
It was dark underground, and Chi Xia didn't take long to adapt to the light.
"What a familiar place." Chi Xia said after taking a look around.
"This is your home, of course it's familiar." Old K looked at her leisurely.
Chi Xia looked up and saw light coming in from above: "When I looked up at the entrance before, I thought it was a height that I could never reach. Now I look at it again, it's actually not that high."
Old K's voice cooled. He pointed to the iron cage a few steps away and said, "What about this thing? Is it too big or too small for you?"
Chi Xia retracted his gaze and looked at him gloomily: "If I'm not mistaken, the big dish is in there, right?"
Old K smiled and said, "Yes, Chi Xia, I must make one thing clear to you. In this place, I am the only one with absolute authority. Whether you are good or bad is up to me. You should follow my principles in what you should and shouldn't do. I was very angry when you ran away. This punishment is too small for you."
"If you do too much evil, you will eventually perish." Chi Xia looked at him: "Do you believe it?"
"You are a policeman, how can you still believe this?"
Chi Xia pointed to the sky outside the entrance and said, "I still believe that God is watching over us."
"Then let him see." Old K waved his hand, and the people who came down with him opened the lock of the iron cage and pushed Chi Xia in.
Chi Xia looked towards a familiar place, and when she saw the person on the wall, her pupils shrank slightly and she let out a breath secretly.
"If you want your foster mother to watch me put you in, that's fine, but I don't think she can handle any stimulation right now. It will be more convenient for everyone if you go in by yourself."
Old K stood outside the cage and looked at her: "You just came back, I don't want to make things difficult for you. Look, I have already done a lot of preparation for you, so you don't have to waste your time on dissection."
"Is it because you lost two great generals, Cheng Jiu and Chi Xiao, that you don't want to go too far with me?" Chi Xia wrinkled his nose at the complex fishy smell.
A chill began to spread all over his body, and Chi Xia knew it was him who did it.
"If you don't go in now, your blood will get cold." Old K reminded her.
Chi Xia didn't say anything else. She clenched her fists and walked towards the human skin on the wall.
When the two mercenaries who followed Old K saw her tearing open the human skin and crawling in, their eyes widened. They covered their mouths to block out the nausea that was rising up in them.
But they couldn't control themselves in the end, and they ran to the corner and vomited.
Chi Xia closed her eyes and crawled in. She seemed to be wrapped in the smell of blood. In the silence, she heard her own rapid heartbeat. It seemed that the heartbeat was not hers alone, but shared by her and the innocent victim who was wrapped around her.
It was difficult for her to breathe. Once she breathed, she could feel the blood that would suffocate her. She seemed to be able to hear the other party's accusations and wails in her ears again and again. The little self in the past and the self at this moment merged into each other. She felt the fear from the three people.
The dead person.
That little her.
Her current self.
She closed her eyes in the endless sea of blood, thinking of Luo Xun, Qu Bai, her senior sister, and her friends.
She knew that she would be home soon, and now it was just an illusion, an inevitable nightmare in her sleep.
…
In the evening, Lin Cuo and his group arrived in Dongzhou and went straight to the Municipal Bureau.
At that time, there were many cigarette butts left at Luo Xun's feet, and the phone in his hand had never stopped ringing, contacting Heizi and the others.
When Lin Cuo and the others came in, he walked over quickly and shook hands: "I have another call, you guys go in and wait for me."
When he finished the call outside, a police car drove in through the gate. The car stopped, Shi Tianyi jumped out, and quickly ran to Luo Xun.
He said: "I have found the place, but the security system is very strict. We must be fully confident and work together from inside and outside. It would be even better if we had an internal topographical map."
Luo Xun asked: "No one has contacted you yet, right?"
Shi Tianyi shook his head: "I have also checked the email address that gave me clues a few times before, and it has been cancelled. Under the current circumstances, I can't contact them rashly."
"You're right. Don't act rashly these two days. If someone contacts you, be sure to notify me immediately." Luo Xun said as he threw away his cigarette butt.
"If the other party contacts me, does it mean that Xia Xia is facing a relatively relaxed environment?"
Luo Xun shook his head: "Only after you confirm that the clues you got were indeed passed on by Chi Xia and the others."
Shi Tianyi nodded seriously: "I know this, don't worry."
"How's the thing Chi Xia asked you to check going?" Luo Xun asked again.
Shi Tianyi was obviously excited: "There is something good!"
"Let's talk inside." Luo Xun pulled him upstairs: "Chi Xia's family is here."
When going upstairs with Luo Xun, Shi Tianyi said again: "There is one more thing I must tell you. This time you attacked suddenly, and you broke two of their arms. They lost a lot of people. Will this help us rescue Xia Xia?"
"Of course." Luo Xun said: "Chi Xia should have realized this problem, and she will have a solution."
They went to the task force office first.
Lin Cuo and others rushed here and had already collected instant noodles and water in the office. When Luo Xun and others went in, they smelled the mixed smell of instant noodles.
He introduced Shi Tianyi's identity: "Chi Xia's good friend, who has been helping with the outside line. Director Chang specially allowed him to join this operation."
Everyone greeted each other without much pleasantries.
Lin Cuo pointed at Scorpion and handed over a file bag: "Nie Haishu, codenamed Scorpion, if you have any questions, ask him first. Also, Lin Feng has entered the organizational review process, so it is not convenient for him to come, but everything he knows is in this file bag."
"Finish your noodles first." Luo Xun had already unpacked the file bag: "Let me finish reading this file and then we can talk."
Nie Haishu hummed, his eyes a little hesitant.
Luo Xun didn't even raise his head: "Ge Jingyi is busy now, you will be able to meet later. As for your grandmother, she is protected by the police, don't worry."
A hint of warmth appeared on Nie Haishu's cold face. He squatted down and finished the instant noodles in the bowl in just a few bites.
He wiped his mouth and said, "Most of Dongzhou has been controlled by Qu Bai. Even if Old K wants to control them, he won't go too far."
Luo Xun put down the information and pulled Shi Tianyi over: "Boss Shi, first tell me about the companies that Chi Xia asked you to check."
Shi Tianyi took out a piece of paper , and Lin Cuo had already thrown a pen to him: "Chi Xia mainly asked me to be in charge of the companies around Dongzhou. I took my brothers to investigate personally. Among them, these three places, Anxin Mental Hospital, Jiangsheng Medical Equipment Company, and Chenguang Hospital, are the most suspicious, especially this Chenguang Hospital."
Lin Cuo asked: "How do you say that?"
Shi Tianyi replied: "I have observed the terrain of these three places, and they all have the conditions to open up a research site. In comparison, Chenguang Hospital is a relatively famous private hospital in Dongzhou. Its reputation and service are excellent in Dongzhou, especially trusted by the wealthy class in Dongzhou. They have a medical research center, which is very mysterious. Even researchers have to go through a strict selection before they can enter. I tentatively inquired about it, and their attitude is a bit unclear."
Luo Xun looked at Nie Haishu: "Based on your understanding of Old K, what do?"
“He doesn’t put all his eggs in one basket.”
Nie Haishu said: "One of these three places must be used to confuse us, and he will put his eggs in the remaining two."
Lin Cuo said: "So the same situation will happen in Pingxi County."
"No."
Luo Xun shook his head and said, "What Scorpion said is not accurate enough. The confusion he just mentioned may be just the first level. The other two baskets of eggs may be the second level of confusion. What is really important to him is under these different confusions."
