QT- I’m Almost Died
Chapter 226. Go On A Killing Spree
!!!WARNING—— Gory Scenes!!!
Before Wang Wan was torn to pieces by the shattered space, numerous disappearances had already occurred on the streets. Before the police could investigate them all, even more tragedies occurred after her death.
A young man who went for a night run vanished into thin air right before his companion’s eyes. One moment he was laughing and talking, the next, only a broken water bottle lay on the ground. Before his companion could recover from the shock, a torrent of blood poured down from above, followed by neatly cut pieces of flesh——a scene straight out of a terrifying nightmare.
The people around didn’t react at all, not because they were used to it, but because they were terrified.
Ten minutes later, another jogger on the street vanished into thin air, only to reappear as dismembered body parts. Then, a couple running ahead of him also perished. When the police arrived after receiving an emergency call, the entire street was stained with blood, from one end to the other, from the main road to the intersection, finally ending abruptly at a subway entrance.
Police patrolled the hellish streets in their patrol cars, following the trail of blood, and it wasn’t hard to discern the killer’s movements. He killed wherever he went, acting with impunity and without restraint. The lives of these dead became fertilizer for him, making him grow ever stronger.
Initially, he could only control one space at a time, and once released, it couldn’t be retrieved. But now, he can control two spaces simultaneously, and with a single thought, he can shatter them, demonstrating remarkable control. The couple dismembered into pieces is the best proof of this.
He was growing, and at an astonishing rate.
After fleeing to other places via the subway line, the killer launched another massacre. This time, his target was a group of middle-aged women dancing in the square. He grabbed them two by two, pulled them into a space, and then smashed them up and splashed them on the square. As the surviving women screamed and scattered, he set his sights on a family of three watching the fountain by the square——a father, a mother, and a little boy under three years old.
They vanished into thin air, then transformed into a rain of blood that fell into the fountain, staining the clear water a glaring red before shooting high into the sky. Everyone in the square witnessed this scene, and the visual and emotional trauma they suffered was indescribable. If it weren’t for the aching in their legs from running, and if their hearts weren’t still pounding, they would have thought they were having a bizarre dream.
When the police arrived at the square, it had been turned into a mountain of corpses, a scene of utter horrific carnage. Even seasoned veterans felt their legs go weak and almost couldn’t stand when they stepped into the crime scene, let alone the younger officers. They cried as they took photos and collected evidence, and a few of the more timid ones even fainted in pools of blood, clutching their heads.
Forensic experts from all over Beijing rushed to the small square. They roughly pieced together the body parts and then reported an even more horrifying piece of news to their superiors, “The number of bodies doesn’t match up. It’s not that there are too few, it’s that there are too many. We’ve reviewed the surveillance footage. He apprehended about nineteen people in the square, mostly elderly women, but there are thirty-six bodies at the scene, representing people of various genders and ages.”
Chief Yan rubbed his head and asked, “Where did the extra corpses come from?”
The forensic doctor took out a stack of photos and said with red eyes, “We just compared them, and they are the people who were previously reported missing. Of course, this is not the total number of missing persons. Almost all the young and beautiful women have been imprisoned by him somewhere, but we can’t see them and we can’t rescue them.”
Chief Yan suppressed his raging anger before making a call to Chang Sheng.
Forensic doctor Zhou was examining the body in the ward. Wang Wan’s parents initially grabbed Chang Sheng and the others, tearing and hitting them wildly, but eventually they were exhausted and just slumped on the ground, sobbing silently. The belated remorse eroded their hearts like a poison, causing them unbearable pain.
As they cried, they began to blame each other.
Father Wang said resentfully, “Chief Yan told us to wait three more hours during the day, why didn’t you agree? If you had, the murderer would have been caught long ago, and our daughter wouldn’t be dead!”
“Just because I didn’t agree, does that mean you did? Who was it that knelt and kowtowed to those Taoist Priests? It was you!”
“How was I supposed to know the consequences would be so serious! Chief Yan didn’t explain it to me clearly!”
“I was with you, and I didn’t know either! If I had known earlier, would I have been unable to wait even three hours?”
As they continued their cursing, the two realized what had happened and pounced on Chang Sheng, launching into another fight while yelling and shouting, “You stinking Taoist Priests, you must have known the consequences, right! Chief Yan couldn’t possibly have failed to make it clear to you!! Why didn’t you stop us? Why didn’t you try to dissuade us? Why did you scare off the killer? Why?! Did you deliberately want to get Wanwan killed?”
People are always like this, the more serious the mistake or misfortune, the less they look for the cause within themselves, and the more they use blaming others to divert their inner pain and guilt. But the words they blurted out hit the nail on the head regarding Chang Sheng and the others’ ulterior motives.
Fan Jialuo and Song Rui had repeatedly described the consequences of recklessly rescuing people and scaring away the killer, and they knew that such a possibility existed. However, they both hypnotized themselves with the thought, these people definitely won’t find the elusive killer, what difference does it make whether I rescue them first or later?
Harboring a sense of wishful thinking, they proceeded to rescue the person first——ostensibly on the noble grounds of refusing to gamble with a human life, but in reality, merely to spite Fan Jialuo. Their darkest and most stubborn thought at the time was—— Why should we listen to this traitor? Why should we do as he orders? We must prove through our actions that we are right and everything he has done is wrong!
As Fan Jialuo exposed, their act of saving people was not out of a sudden surge of kindness, but rather driven by selfish desires. The word “noble” has absolutely nothing to do with them, in fact, their actions were somewhat despicable and foolish.
Having embarked on the path of enlightenment, Chang Sheng was by no means someone lacking in wisdom, thus he understood the importance of self-reflection. In the process of self-reflection, shedding prejudice and hatred, he finally realized that he had been wrong from the very beginning. He had made a simple matter increasingly complicated, turning a good deed into the worst possible outcome.
Chang Sheng sat frozen in place like a stone, letting Wang Wan’s parents beat him mercilessly. He wished they would beat him harder, even take half his life. Although Wang Wan was killed by the murderer, he was undoubtedly an accomplice. He bore undeniable responsibility!
Seeing that his senior brother hadn’t dodged the attacks from Wang Wan’s parents, Chang Zhen silently sat down to the side too. Lin Nian’en’s soul was still locked in that torrential rain of blood, unable to perceive the outside world, and naturally couldn’t help. Lin Nianci couldn’t bear to watch any longer, and staggered to Wang Wan’s parents’ side, bowing to them to apologize.
“I’m sorry, I activated the formation without permission. If you want to hit, then hit me.” Her eyes flickered, and she explained, “When I saw you crying and begging for your daughter, I couldn’t help but think of my parents, and I went over on impulse. At that time, I only thought about bringing Wang Wan out safely, and I didn’t think about anything else. I’m sorry, I was wrong.”
But was her impulsive act truly triggered by the sight of the scene? Or was she driven by ulterior motives? Was it not an attempt to provoke Fan Jialuo?
No one knew this except herself. Chang Sheng and Chang Zhen would not harbor any ill intentions towards this innocent junior sister.
Her personality was exactly like that of Martial Aunt Enci, she couldn’t bear to see injustice in the world and always wanted to take all the responsibility upon herself, making it her mission to save all living beings. Given this nature, it is entirely understandable that she would go to any lengths to save Wang Wan?
Seeing that Wang Wan’s parents were indeed tearing apart his junior sister, Chang Sheng, who was filled with remorse, finally rallied and separated the two sides.
After a brief commotion, Wang Wan’s parents succumbed to exhaustion, supporting each other as they walked to the end of the corridor, weeping silently. Chang Sheng stared at the tightly closed door and the bloodstains beneath it, his voice heavy with grief, “You all heard it just now. Besides Wang Wan, more than thirty other people are missing. The situation is spiraling out of control. We did indeed let the murderer escape, and we’re now entangled in this karma. When Wang Wan’s accident happened, my cultivation suddenly stalled. If I don’t settle this score, this is the end of my life.”
He lowered his head, looking at his weak and powerless hands, a deep sorrow filling his heart. Now, his cultivation was almost completely gone, he was a cripple.
Chang Zhen said in a trembling voice, “ShiXiong, it is the same for me. It seems something has gone wrong with my Dantian, I can’t circulate Qi.” If the dantian doesn’t circulate, Qi can’t flow, and if Qi doesn’t flow, cultivation will never recover.
Chang Sheng’s facial muscles twitched slightly, then he silently looked at his junior brothers and sister.
Lin Nian’en gradually came to his senses, and after examining his dantian internally, his expression suddenly changed. Without a doubt, his cultivation had also encountered a problem.
Lin Nianci silently felt the effects of it all, and before she could even open her mouth, tears streamed down her face. Others who couldn’t restore their cultivation could still live as ordinary people, but she had to live with this prematurely aged face. For a woman who had once been so beautiful, this was undoubtedly the cruelest punishment in the world.
Chang Sheng patted her shoulder, his voice filled with pity and determination, “Don’t worry, ShiXiong will find a way.”
Lin Nianci nodded, but her tears fell even more heavily.
As the group comforted each other, Chief Yan called, his tone extremely firm. Chang Sheng felt a sense of foreboding and was about to ask for clarification when the call was already disconnected, meaning refusal was not permitted.
Chang Sheng wanted his junior brothers and sister to stay at the hospital while he went to investigate alone, but his request was met with refusal. Left with no choice, he hurriedly set off for Xingfu Square, taking the three of them along. On the way, he had envisioned every conceivable scenario and devised corresponding countermeasures, yet, upon arriving at the scene and witnessing the unspeakable horror unfolding before his eyes, he realized just how impoverished his imagination truly was.
Before him lay a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, in his mind, a death knell tolled. He had barely reached the edge of the square when his knees slammed heavily to the ground. It turns out that when fear reaches its peak, a person really does instinctively kneel down, not to beg for mercy or repent, but simply because their legs go weak.
He was a formidable figure in metaphysical society, having captured countless vengeful spirits, yet he had never witnessed such a horrific scene. In a daze, he felt as if he had stepped into hell. Before him lay blood, pools and puddles, deep enough to submerge his ankles. To flood such a large square with blood, how many lives must have been lost?
Chang Sheng dared not even think about it.
Chang Zhen, who was following behind him, collapsed to the ground with a thud, his finger trembling as he pointed ahead, stammering, unable to utter a complete sentence, “How…how could this be?”
Lin Nianci and Lin Nian’en were terrified. Their bodies remained standing in place, but their souls longed to escape this horrific inferno.
Chief Yan strode over through the blood-soaked ground, his voice stern, “Taoist Chang Sheng, do you see this? This is the consequence of your arbitrary actions! Didn’t you say you’d save one person, and a hundred? Fine, I’ll give you a chance to make amends. Teach that Bagua Formation to Teacher Fan, and let him rescue the rest. These aren’t all the corpses here. We’ve roughly estimated that at least seventeen or eighteen women are still trapped in Ma You’s space. And this is just the data we’ve gathered after receiving the report, we don’t know how many more missing persons have gone undiscovered and therefore without a police report! Taoist Chang Sheng, you can’t just turn a blind eye this time, can you?”
Chang Sheng raised his head, his eyes red-rimmed, and looked at Minister Yan. After a long while, he said in a hoarse voice, “I’ll make a call to my Shifu.”
He scrambled to his feet, hid aside to make a phone call, first inquiring about his master’s situation. Learning that the grand master was still in seclusion, he briefly explained the current situation. The person on the other end refused without hesitation, ordering, “Give the phone to Chief Yan, I’ll talk to him.”
Chief Yan had interacted with Taoist Zhi Fei several times and had a good impression of him. In his memory, this Taoist had had always been a benevolent soul——a virtuous man dedicated to aiding the weak and upholding the fallen——who frequently spoke of the imperative to save all sentient beings. Now, presented with a task of a magnitude comparable to saving the world, it was simply inconceivable that he would refuse.
Chief Yan assumed that Chang Sheng and the others’ refusal to hand over the formation was due to the juniors’ ignorance or inability to make decisions, rather than their being heartless. However, he did not expect that Taoist Zhi Fei would also say decisively on the phone, “We will not pass on the formation to outsiders. Chief Yan, you don’t need to force my disciple. Our Tianshui Sect’s rules have been passed down for thousands of years and will not change.”
Chief Yan nearly ground his teeth to powder, and said sternly, “I’ll turn on the camera and show you what’s going on before you talk to me!”
Taoist Zhi Fei’s attitude was firm, “My disciple has already told me, I don’t even need to look to know what kind of scene it is.”
“Then why don’t you save them? Is your Taoist Association just a bunch of shit-eaters?” Chief Yan wanted nothing more than to drag the old man out of the phone and force him to reveal how to draw the formation. He had actually already given Teacher Fan the video of Chang Sheng and Chang Zhen drawing the formation, but Teacher Fan said that in addition to the visible lines, the formation also had countless hidden lines finer than a hair. Only by alternating between the visible and hidden lines could a complete formation be formed. It couldn’t be learned just by looking, one had to have someone teach them step by step.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have associated with Chang Sheng and his ilk anymore. To put it bluntly, the Tianshui Sect is already on the government’s blacklist, and once this matter is over, the higher-ups will definitely crack down on them.
Taoist Zhi Fei sensed that Chief Yan’s patience had reached its limit and immediately changed the subject, “The trouble was caused by our Tianshui Sect, and we will clean it up ourselves. We will not teach that formation to outsiders, but we will send other disciples to activate the formation to rescue people. They will arrive soon, Chief Yan, you can order them around as you please.”
Chief Yan’s tense face finally relaxed slightly.
Taoist Zhi Fei then commanded, “Chang Sheng, if you want to settle this karma, you must personally apprehend the murderer and stop him from continuing his evil deeds. This merit should offset the sins you have committed.”
Chang Sheng lowered his head and said firmly, “Shifu, we understand. We will definitely capture him ourselves!”
At the same time, Fan Jialuo also said to Song Rui, “This person’s abilities are terrifying. To prevent his jade pendant from falling into the wrong hands and causing further trouble, I must capture him myself.”
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