Just in Time Chapter 67
Translated by Sylver (ko-fi)
Chapter 67 Sound
The tightly closed warehouse door was broken open by the armed police, and a dozen of them entered in single file. All they saw was a mess on the ground and four people either lying or sprawled on the floor.
“The hostage - is still alive! Ambulance!!”
“Someone’s been shot!”
“The kidnapper is also alive!”
Outside, the police lights were wailing, and a stretcher was brought down from the ambulance.
Wang Lianhua, the captain of the Criminal Police Brigade of Wu City Public Security Bureau, strode in and said to the people behind him, “Have you found the person who called the police?”
“Not yet, the other party used a public phone.” Someone quickly followed up, “Damn, it really is Ge San.”
The city bureau had been working overtime for half a month because of the previous case of Wang Youwei, and now it was as if someone had packaged the suspect and delivered it to them, and by the way, helped solve a serious kidnapping case. It was like a godsend.
“Damn!” The forensic doctor in the team exclaimed at Ge San, who was only left with a breath, “How big a grudge is this?”
Wang Lianhua’s attention was drawn over, “What’s wrong?”
“Was this done by the hostage?” The forensic doctor pointed at Ge San on the stretcher, “This technique is not much different from a professional killer! He really just left him with a breath.”
“Nonsense, professional killers never leave a breath.” Someone leaned over to look at Ge San, with a face that couldn’t bear to look directly, “Tsk.”
“Send him to the hospital quickly!” Wang Lianhua yelled, obviously catching the kidnapper and rescuing the hostage did not make him feel better, “Didn’t the person who called the police say there was a five or six-year-old child? Where is the person!?”
“People have already been sent to search nearby!” Someone hurriedly replied.
This case was handled so smoothly that Wang Lianhua felt uneasy, “Keep looking, we must find the person who called the police.”
“Captain Wang!” A technician ran over with an evidence bag, “Look at this!”
Wang Lianhua took the evidence bag and found a piece of broken glass the size of a thumb inside. He frowned.
“What is this?” The forensic doctor came over to look, “It looks familiar.”
Wang Lianhua glanced at his nearsighted glasses, “This is a lens, judging by the thickness, the degree of myopia is not low.”
“It was found near where Ge San was lying.” The technician added.
The forensic doctor recalled the wounds on Ge San’s body just now, “Damn, could it be? Ge San’s skills are notoriously difficult to deal with in T province, using a lens… is he really a high-level professional killer?”
Wang Lianhua’s face was very ugly, “Both hostages and both kidnappers are not nearsighted, except for that child, there is a fifth person at the scene.”
The fifth person, suspected to be a professional killer, didn’t know whether he was in a dispute with Ge San or had other motives. In addition, there was an unidentified but crucially important person who called the police.
In a moment, the excitement and elation of the crowd at capturing Ge San had mostly faded.
“Captain Wang, the kidnapped hostages are the young master of the Chang family and his classmate.” Another person ran over with a phone, “It’s the director’s call.”
“That Chang Ziqi’s family is very rich, his maternal uncle is in the province…” Someone breathed a sigh of relief to Wang Lianhua, “The director is not in a good mood.”
Wang Lianhua took the phone and listened with a gloomy face.
After a while, he hung up the phone and asked the people next to him, “How are the two hostages?”
“Chang Ziqi was shot in the right shoulder, lost too much blood and fainted. The other one, called Qi Huo, seems to have had a physical conflict with the kidnapper directly. It looks like he even wrestled with the kidnapper for the gun, multiple fractures all over his body…”
Wang Lianhua’s eyebrows twitched slightly, “A tough guy.”
A high school student of seventeen or eighteen dared to fight hard with the kidnapper, let alone the kidnapper had a gun. He didn’t know whether to praise him for his bravery or think he was crazy.
“Seal off the surrounding bus stations and train stations! We must find the fifth person!”
“What about that child!? Has he been found?”
“There should have been two guns at the scene, but only one was found!”
“Footprints of a child were found in the woods!”
“Release the police dogs!”
****
The flower in Yun Fang’s hand had been stained with blood to the point where its color was unrecognizable. He knew he was seriously injured.
When he stood in front of Ge San, he was already physically exhausted, and Ge San had hardly been injured and was full of energy. At this time, he couldn’t subdue Ge San with skill alone, he could only resist hard and drag it until the police arrived.
But the disparity in physical strength was fatal in a desperate struggle. In the end, he was holding on with just a breath, he couldn’t remember whether he had held back or not, and he didn’t realize where he was or why he was there. He only knew that he couldn’t let Ge San walk out of the door behind him.
He forgot whether his glasses were shattered or taken off by himself. With his blood boiling, he found the familiar feeling of killing. When Ge San fell in front of him, he instinctively wanted to cut Ge San’s throat.
But just at that moment of life and death, a picture flashed abruptly in his somewhat chaotic mind.
That day should have been during the break in the classroom. Yi Chenliang turned his head to look at him, his eyes full of laughter. Behind him was a clean glass window and the azure sky outside the window. The sunlight sprinkled on Yi Chenliang, making the teenager look warm.
[We’ll get married when we graduate from university.]
Yi Chenliang’s familiar voice echoed in his ears.
Like a floodgate opening, countless fragments of memories flooded into his mind, reminding him that he was no longer a desperado who could disregard everything.
He had a clean and innocent identity, this identity had a pair of strangers who loved him dearly, teachers who had high hopes for him, and friends who were noisy…Every person he met after his rebirth appeared in his mind one after another, like countless long threads, wrapped around his hand holding the lens, trying to pull his hand and the broken lens away from Ge San’s throat.
But–if he killed Ge San, many things would definitely not happen afterwards. The fear left by Wang Youwei’s death, which seemed like fate, was too great. He gripped the sharp lens that was shining with a cold light, trying to break those soft and annoying threads.
He didn’t trust the police.
For him, the dead were always the safest guarantee.
But…Yun Fang’s palm felt a burst of pain, the lens pierced into his flesh, and blood soaked his blue and white school uniform along his wrist.
He stared hard at Ge San, who was gasping for breath on the ground, and suddenly his eyes turned red.
He couldn’t bear to leave Yi Chenliang.
He had promised Yi Chenliang to grow up with him, and promised Yi Chenliang not to leave him again.
It was too painful for a person to walk alone. He had walked alone for a full thirty-five years.
He couldn’t bear to let Yi Chenliang follow in his footsteps.
Behind Yun Fang, it was as if a phantom had appeared out of thin air, gently embracing him, reaching out to hold his hand holding the lens, along with those countless long threads, slowly but firmly pulling that blood-stained hand back to the world.
The sound of the police siren was getting closer and closer, he was suddenly awakened, the instinct of a desperado for many years made him stand up abruptly, rush out of the door and run towards the woods.
He couldn’t be seen by the police.
He had to find Yi Chenliang.
In his blurred consciousness, there was only one thought left.
He wanted to go back and hold him.
****
Yi Chenliang’s voice came from the other end of the phone, “Are you tired?”
“Mmm…” Yun Fang closed his eyes, “So tired.”
“If you’re tired, go to sleep.” Yi Chenliang seemed to have returned to bed, “I’m a bit tired too, and I have to get up early.”
“Xiao Yi.” He forced himself to call out to Yi Chenliang, his trachea and lungs burning with pain.
It was likely internal bleeding.
He didn’t know if he could survive by luck. He had always been silent, but there were so many things he hadn’t said to Yi Chenliang, so many that he didn’t know where to start.
He remembered the look on Qi Huo’s face when he saw that ring before his death. He couldn’t understand it before, but now he somewhat knew the reason.
It should be reluctance and regret…
“Go to sleep.” His hand holding the phone was shaking.
“Mmm, you should go to sleep too.” Yi Chenliang probably thought he was really tired, so he hung up the phone.
Yun Fang looked down at the darkened screen, his voice drifting in the evening wind with his blurred consciousness:
“…I love you.”
…And the deep love that could not be expressed in words.