Chapter 359: Madman and Fool
Standing at the edge of the grove, Bian Shikai recalled many past events, including every little detail of his childhood with his younger brother. In addition to being particularly competitive in some aspects, Bian Shiwen was particularly dependent on him. Bian Shikai sometimes thought that if he had not been born in such a family that was proud of its wolf nature, Bian Shiwen would be the child who had the greatest hope of bringing honor to the family. He even thought of Bian Shijie. In fact, there was a time when he and Bian Shijie had a good relationship. The two had the same values and had ambitious plans for their "careers", but there was destined to be only one alpha wolf in a wolf pack. Since no one wanted to be the second person, they had to fight. If Bian Shijie could see everything today with his own eyes, he didn't know if he would regret it and take the initiative to give in. Perhaps... it would not be a bad idea for him to give in, but unfortunately there were no ifs in many things.
Just when Bian Shikai was feeling infinitely sad, he suddenly heard someone talking nearby. He turned his head and saw a bald man standing there. The two of them were standing shoulder to shoulder, looking like fishing buddies or strangers who had just met by the urinal.
Bian Shikai was horrified and grabbed the pistol in his hand with a flick of his hand from his waist. He was always proud of his speed in drawing the gun, but because the two men were standing too close, the muzzle of the gun could only be aimed at Lao Guo's lower abdomen.
"Hey!" Lao Guo ignored him, leaned forward, and pressed a finger on the button on Bian Shikai's shoulder. Bian Shikai took off his coat before getting off the car. The red button was particularly conspicuous in the dark. Lao Guo was like a master of acupuncture points, and he found the right place right away...
Bian Shikai was frightened again and shouted, "Don't press it!" As a person who often commits violence, he still understands a little bit about how the body will react when it is subjected to external force. If he were to shoot at this time, the opponent's body would unconsciously shrink and lean forward, which would inevitably detonate the explosive vest on his body.
Old Guo stared at Bian Shikai with burning eyes and asked curiously, "What will happen if I press it?"
Bian Shikai gritted his teeth and said, "If you press it, we will both die! The clothes I am wearing are full of bombs, and this button is the detonator."
Lao Guo smiled like Lu Yu and said, "Really? I don't believe it."
From Lao Guo's mumbling, Bian Shikai knew that he had been following him under the car. At first, he thought he was a policeman, but after a brief contact, he felt that he was not. Then he and Lao Guo looked at each other, and then he found that the man's eyes were clear in the distraction, and his vagueness showed his insight into the world. He couldn't help but blurt out: "Are you crazy?"
Lao Guo asked, "Is it so obvious?"
"What?"
"I'm a psychopath."
Bian Shikai was speechless, but he also let down most of his guard. The police were trying to catch him, but the man in front of him was crawling under the car just to join in the fun. Only a psychopath would do that.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Lao Guo said to himself, "I pressed it."
Bian Shikai was horrified three times: "Don't! Didn't I say that if you press it, we will both die?"
Lao Guo said: "I didn't want to live anyway."
Bian Shikai said: "I want to live!"
"You're being chased by the police like a rat. What's the point of living?"
Bian Shikai said patiently: "Then why don't you want to live?"
Lao Guo said: "I am over forty..."
Hearing these nonsense words, Bian Shikai was more certain that the other person was a psychopath. However, his desire to survive forced him to take on the role of a confidant: "It's better to live a miserable life than to die. Look at me, I'm trying to live even though I'm in this state, aren't I?"
"So you are shameless. Why are you still alive after doing so many bad things?"
Bian Shikai said: "Doing bad things and wanting to live are two different things. If you blow me up, you have also done a bad thing, and you are no different from me." In a moment of desperation, Bian Shikai found an attack point from the legal and moral perspectives. The reason why a psychopath becomes a psychopath is because of his stubbornness on certain things. For example, he thinks he is a good person, so using this as a breakthrough point will often produce miraculous results - Bian Shikai discovered that he was also talented in psychology.
Old Guo was silent.
Bian Shikai thought he had finally convinced the madman, and said cautiously, "How about we go our separate ways?"
Lao Guo said: "No matter what, I'm going to press it!"
At this moment, Bian Shikai's mentality finally collapsed. He had never intended to take off the bomb vest because he knew that he would definitely die if he fell into the hands of the police. If he was desperate, he would detonate the bomb without hesitation, but he was unwilling to die together with a psychopath!
"Who the hell are you? Are you here to tease me? If you were a policeman, I would admit it—" Bian Shikai roared, "Why do you want to die?"
Lao Guo said: "You are very emotionally unstable, I have some medicine for you to take?"
"Eat your XX (expletive)!"
Seeing that Bian Shikai was going crazy, Lao Guo regained his composure and said calmly, "I used to teach junior high school history."
"Uh..." Bian Shikai had to admit that a temporary worker like him could not keep up with the thinking of professional players, but he also saw hope for survival, so he asked, "Then what?"
"One day I suddenly became addicted to gambling and lost two of our houses."
"Uh...and then what?"
"My wife took the kids and left me. Later I found out that the people who won my money had set up traps in advance."
Bian Shikai asked: "Then what did you do?"
"I hurt someone," Lao Guo said sadly, "but I can't remember the process anymore. This is the most terrifying thing. After that, I became what I am now. I tried hard to control myself because I was afraid of hurting innocent people."
Bian Shikai said sadly: "You have hurt me."
Lao Guo said: "Prostitution, gambling and drugs kill people. We both don't want to live anymore."
"Fuck..." Bian Shikai rolled his eyes and said, "After all, you're just after money, right? How about I give you 10 million and you let me go?"
Lao Guo smiled.
Bian Shikai also smiled and said, "Do you agree?" He did have to face a lot of troubles, but as long as it could be settled with money, it was never a problem.
Lao Guo looked at Bian Shikai and said, "I find you to be a very interesting person."
"Oh, why am I so interesting?"
Lao Guo said seriously: "If you catch someone who can easily give you 10 million, would you still be willing to let him go?"
Bian Shikai immediately changed his words and said, "I'll give you 100 million!"
Lao Guo's smile deepened.
Bian Shikai also realized that he was more interesting...
At the edge of the grove, Bian Shikai's gun was pointed at Lao Guo's stomach, and Lao Guo's fingers were on Bian Shikai's shoulders. The two men were in a stalemate. Bian Shikai suddenly smiled coldly and said, "You always say you want to press it, but you never do. In fact, you are afraid of death. Am I right?"
Lao Guo showed a simple and honest smile: "You saw through it."
Bian Shikai immediately regained the initiative and said coldly: "Why don't you let go?"
Lao Guo suddenly asked, "Have you ever played the game of exploding shit?"
"What?"
"It's like sticking a big firecracker in the shit, lighting the fuse and running. Whoever gets hit by it depends on their luck."
Bian Shikai was terrified and asked, "What do you want?"
Lao Guo said: "I want to play this game with you, but I'm afraid you'll ruin my life, so I can't make up my mind."
Bian Shikai said: "Don't dream, at such a close distance, you are also that pile of shit."
Lao Guo said: "That makes sense."
Bian Shikai asked: "What should we do now?"
Lao Guo's expression suddenly changed from eager to try to extremely cold, and he said boredly: "Forget it, there is no passion, I don't want to play anymore, you can go."
Bian Shikai heard the sound of nature and said, "Put your hand down."
Lao Guo said: "You have to put down your gun first."
Bian Shikai showed a look of surprise. Although he had already planned to shoot Lao Guo as soon as he let go, he did not expect that the lunatic would not stop thinking at this stage.
Lao Guo smiled and said, "You people always confuse mental illness with stupidity. I am mentally ill, but I am not stupid."
"Okay, just watch." Bian Shikai slowly pulled out the magazine and threw it on the ground. "Is this okay?"
"You've got one in the chamber."
Bian Shikai was completely speechless. This madman was quite clear-headed. He pulled the bolt to eject the bullet from the chamber and asked, "What now?"
Old Guo said, "You still have a gun."
This sentence made Bian Shikai's blood run cold. He always carried two pistols, but how did the madman know?
Lao Guo laughed and said, "I'm just kidding. I don't want that in my crotch." Then he put his hand down.
Bian Shikai was so angry that his nose was crooked and his eyes were squinting. He said tentatively: "Then I'll leave."
But Lao Guo asked again: "What if you still want to play the exploding shit game?"
"Fuck you!" Bian Shikai ran to the car, but Lao Guo rushed to the driver's seat before him, pulled out the car keys and threw them far away into the woods...
"I'll kill you!" Bian Shikai reached for the other pistol on his waist, and before he could pull it out, Lao Guo stretched his arm straight and pressed a finger directly on the bomb button. Bian Shikai could only turn around and run towards the road, with Lao Guo following him closely. Often, as soon as Bian Shikai made a footprint, Lao Guo's foot would step on it, and the two of them would go onto the road like a four-handed and four-legged ghost.
Lao Guo followed steadily behind, saying repeatedly: "Press it for me, press it for me again." Bian Shikai already had the gun in his hand, but he was afraid that if he turned around, he would really press it, so he couldn't even find a gap to shoot.
This kind of remote road often has large trucks passing by at night. The lights in the distance are dazzling. A coal truck is on the way. Bian Shikai ran so hard that his breath and heart were pounding, but he couldn't get rid of Lao Guo. He gritted his teeth and rushed into the middle of the road. The driver was so scared that he stepped on the brakes from a long distance away, but the huge inertia still caused the front of the car to come into close contact with Bian Shikai.
"Bang!" Bian Shikai was knocked over and his gun flew away. However, Lao Guo hid aside leisurely.
"You——" The driver wanted to curse, but he was afraid of taking responsibility, so the curse word turned into "How are you?"
Lao Guo pointed at Bian Shikai and said, "He's a scammer. People who often go along this road know him."
The driver was originally afraid that Lao Guo was in the same group as that person, but after hearing this, he became furious and jumped out of the car, cursing. Bian Shikai was slapped twice in the face just as he got up from the ground in a daze. He waved his arms and said, "I'll give you money, I'll give you money..."
"Hey! You're still talking nonsense!" The driver became even angrier. He felt that he was not an unreasonable person, but he saw with his own eyes the guy in front of him aiming at his car from the roadside and ramming it. There was no other explanation for saying that it was not a scam. He was found out and still talked back to him. Infuriated, he swung his fist and punched Bian Shikai in the face. Finally, he looked around and looked at Lao Guo again.
Lao Guo said calmly: "If you can't beat him into submission, he will blackmail you!" The driver was so scared that he continued to beat Bian Shikai.
Under normal circumstances, Bian Shikai would not have taken a truck driver seriously, but at this moment, his hands and feet were sore and his head was dizzy. Looking at Lao Guo standing aside with a smile, all the annoyance, panic , and despair surged into his heart. He suddenly put his hands on his shoulders and roared, "Die!"
The button bounced back after he pressed it, and there was silence all around, no explosion...
The driver was startled by his action, and looked over and said, "What is this, a transformation button?" He poked Bian Shikai's shoulder with his fingers, "Come, let me press it for you - are you Batman or Superman, transform yourself."
In a flash, Bian Shikai suddenly recalled the look in Bian Shiwen's eyes when he handed him the bomb suit, and his words "I still can't forgive you for killing my second brother". He asked himself to throw away the bomb as soon as he reached a safe place, because Bian Shiwen knew that the bomb was fake. As for why he did this, was it because he couldn't bear to see his eldest brother being blown to pieces, or was he deliberately playing a malicious joke? I'm afraid I can only find out when I see him again.
At this time, Lao Guo said to the driver: "Stop fighting, I'm giving you a big gift."
"What gift?"
Lao Guo motioned for him to listen carefully.
Bian Shikai grabbed the driver's arm and said sincerely: "I'll give you 10 million, no, 100 million, if you take me away from here!"
The driver looked at Lao Guo in confusion.
Lao Guo jumped on the spot and said, "He is a drug lord wanted by the police. Are you surprised or surprised?"
The driver was so scared that he jumped back to the car and called the police.
Bian Shikai stumbled on the ground looking for his gun. Suddenly he looked up and asked Lao Guo, "Did you know that the bomb wouldn't explode?"
Lao Guo held up a finger and said with a smile: "When you told me it was a bomb, didn't I tell you I didn't believe it? Because I pressed my hand until the skin was peeling and it didn't explode."
Bian Shikai's eyes were red with anger as he said, "You are such a lunatic!"
Lao Guo said helplessly: "You must be a fool. It took you a whole night to figure out such a thing!"
