Chapter Thirty-Four: Heartless and Ruthless

  The next morning, I realized that I had a ridiculous dream the night before, and my pants were wet this morning. However, for someone as young and vigorous as me, it's completely normal, so I didn't pay much attention to it. After all, no one knew about it anyway. But what I didn't know was that a pair of eyes filled with hatred and resentment had been staring at me in secret. That wasn't my fault, though - who told her to stick herself onto me? My mind was actually on Yang Xiufeng, but as for why she ended up being the one in my dream, I didn't think too much about it.

  Later, when I got up in the morning, Yang Xiufeng happened to come looking for me and brought me breakfast. I naturally wouldn't tell her that I had dreamed of her last night, only mentioning the first half of the story about the flowers and the moon. Listening to this, Yang Xiufeng's face turned red as she smiled foolishly, but there was an added warmth in her eyes.

  After dinner, I pulled Yang Xiufeng to rush into the old house where Li Hongjun lived. Today's mood is completely different from yesterday's. Yesterday, I still wanted to drag it on, but today I couldn't wait for Li Hongjun to start as soon as possible, to cremate as soon as possible, and to finish this worry of mine. So when I saw Li Hongjun, my first sentence was: "Big brother, I've already prepared everything for you, go take a look, if there's any problem, I can improve it, if not, we'll start the funeral today."

  Li Hongjun's originally pale face relaxed slightly upon hearing this, but he couldn't help but reveal a hint of hesitation. In the end, he let out a sigh and said: "Alright, take me to see."

  As he spoke, he walked out, and had already forgotten about the three police officers. However, I had made arrangements beforehand, and after we left, Li Hongqi would come to release them. So, I turned around and walked ahead, but no one expected that things wouldn't go so smoothly. As soon as I stepped out of the door, I saw several police cars parked outside, with over a dozen police officers waiting, and even two of them were holding riot guns.

  I stood there blankly, and only then did I remember that I had reported it to the police yesterday. It was not beyond my expectation that this time, people from the county's criminal police team came, and naturally, they were being cautious in dealing with a dangerous element like Li Hongjun, so they had already surrounded the area with guns drawn. If we waited any longer, who knows, they might have even stormed in. Looking at the situation, I really wanted to slap myself - wasn't this just asking for trouble?

  "Don't move, put up your hands—" The detectives didn't care who I was, they pointed their guns at me and Yang Xiufeng from a distance. Unfortunately, Li Hongjun hadn't had time to come out yet, and by the time he did, the situation had already subsided.

  Facing the gun, I didn't dare to be arrogant, but just raised my hands with Yang Xiufeng, and then forced out a smile: "It was me who called the police, Li Hongjun is still inside, but the three people's police comrades are tied together, I'm afraid Li Hongjun will take them as hostages——"

  I spoke as I slowly walked over, of course these police officers also knew Li Hongjun's general appearance, so they wouldn't be too suspicious of me. After I passed by, they just searched my body and took me to the side to watch, but what I said earlier had given them an extra bit of caution. In fact, I was saying it for the police officers to hear, but actually, I was saying it for Li Hongjun to hear. I couldn't let these police comrades ruin my big plan.

  I don't know if Li Hongjun understood my meaning, but apparently he didn't want to fall into the hands of the civil police either. If not, in two more days, it would have started to rot. Hiding in the house and being silent, I don't know what he was doing. As for the civil police, they began to occupy advantageous positions and slowly closed in on him. This psychopath is really hard to deal with.

  "The people inside, listen up! We won't harm you, let them go. What do you want? We can negotiate," shouted a female police officer, who looked to be in her mid-twenties and wore a crisp uniform that made her look quite spirited, but seemed to be the one in charge among these civilian police officers.

  There was no response in the room, but just as they were about to rush in, suddenly they heard the deputy director named Wang Liang shouting: "Don't come in, this guy is a madman, he really will kill people!"

  Afterwards, there was a commotion inside, and soon Li Hongjun emerged with Wang Liang held hostage at knifepoint. The knife was pressed against Wang's neck, and blood had already been drawn. Wang looked very frightened. However, Li stood among the three of them, making it difficult to take him down - clearly an experienced habitual offender.

  "Who's in charge here?" Li Hongjun didn't show any excitement or fear, his face was cold and his gaze swept across the police officers before finally settling on a middle-aged man.

  Li Hongjun's eyes were venomous, and his guess was not wrong. The middle-aged man was indeed the captain of the first team of the criminal police brigade. At this time, he furrowed his brow, carefully hiding the gun in his hand, then slowly walked to the front, looking at Li Hongjun with a low voice: "Don't get excited, what's going on can be discussed, tell me what you want?"

  "I don't want anything, I just need you to bear witness. As long as you listen to me, I won't harm anyone." Li Hongjun said with a hint of drama, although he had already become numb to life and death and knew that his own demise was certain, how could he possibly have no attachment at all, how could he really be willing to die? He glanced at me sideways: "I'll let this kid handle my funeral affairs. If possible, I'd like to end my own life today. My life or death has nothing to do with this kid, so I'm bothering you all to bear witness. Without you public security officers, this kid wouldn't dare to interfere with my business, so I can only bother you all this time."

  Li Hongjun's words made all the police officers present look at each other in confusion, indeed a madman, but still very dangerous, so no one dared to say anything more. The captain hesitated for a moment and just nodded: "This is not simple, let's do this, you release them, we'll come to testify for you, absolutely no problem."

  "Let them go?" Li Hongjun suddenly laughed, originally because he was about to die and his mind had become somewhat numb, but now it seemed like a pretty fun game: "You're stupid, if I let them go they'll be honest and testify for me? Looking at their clever faces, how can they talk so stupidly?"

  Li Hongjun was just teasing him, and didn't really think about how to deal with them. There were over a hundred ways to subdue them, so to be honest, he didn't take these police officers seriously at all. But this one sentence made the team leader's face twitch uncontrollably, and even the female officer next to Yun couldn't help but burst out laughing. However, she immediately put on a serious face again, and for a moment, the atmosphere was a bit awkward. But everyone else also relaxed a bit.

  But unexpectedly, Li Hongjun said as he finished speaking, not waiting for the police to react, a hint of mockery flashed in his eyes, and the dagger in his hand was thrust into Wang Liang's body, already half an inch deep in the flesh. Wang Liang let out a terrified cry, but Li Hongjun didn't look at him, instead saying coldly: "Half an inch into the flesh, just another push and it will be the main artery. If you don't want him to die, put down all your guns."

  Everyone's body stiffened, no one had expected Li Hongjun to be so ruthless. He didn't seem the least bit tense, and those with some experience could see that his dagger was indeed placed on the major artery of the neck, a move only an old hand could pull off. At this moment, everyone was shocked, but they all looked at the captain, whose face had also suddenly changed color. He secretly hid his pistol in his pants pocket, then stretched out his hand and waved it: "Don't get excited, I'll have them put down their guns."

  "I'm talking about you," Li Hongjun said with a playful expression, but his gaze at the captain was more mocking.

  The captain's body stiffened, this person is really hard to deal with, and it's not just a simple case of nerves. The captain had always thought that his gun was hidden secretly, and ordinary people wouldn't notice, but he didn't think he could fool Li Hongjun. Just as he was hesitating, he heard Li Hongjun say: "I'll give you one minute to consider, put down your gun, and handcuff yourself like them, just like that, linked together. If you don't do it within a minute, I won't mind taking a scapegoat with me to death."

  The atmosphere suddenly became tense, but I knew the captain had a hard time making decisions. Putting down the gun and thinking like them, handcuffing themselves would undoubtedly put more people in danger. However, I wouldn't doubt Li Hongjun's determination either - who would dare imagine what kind of crazy actions a man on the verge of death could take? My heart skipped a beat as I suddenly coughed: "Big brother, don't get agitated, this matter can actually be easily handled..."

  As soon as I opened my mouth, everyone looked at me. I couldn't help but smile wryly: "If only I had known last night, I wouldn't have called the police. It's really troublesome for myself. Why do you guys have to intervene? Li was seeking death with his own hands, and he didn't want to harm others either. You guys just had to add fuel to the fire, what a hassle!"

  I saw the captain and those police officers with strange expressions on their faces, but more were pale, I didn't bother to care about it at that time. Suddenly, I turned to Li Hongjun: "Li brother, let's make a deal, you release Wang Liang, we still have to hurry up and take care of the funeral, who has time to entangle with them here, what do you say?"

  After finishing, he winked at Li Hongjun, who was taken aback for a moment before a hint of despondency flashed in his eyes. But no one expected that Wang Liang would suddenly speak up: "He's right, just let him go and I'll help you block these people."

  No one knew how Wang Liang suddenly said such a thing, but what was strange was that at this time, Wang Liang's voice became sharp and fine, and the fear from earlier had disappeared. Instead, it seemed to have added a hint of weirdness. It turned out that long before I spoke, he had secretly let Huang Daxian take action. At this time, Wang Liang was already on the verge of being scared to death. When people are in a state of terror, they are at their weakest, so it was easy for Huang Daxian to possess him. However, naturally, no one would have thought that the Huang Daxian was in Yang Xiufeng's womb.

  For a moment, everyone was stunned. Li Hongjun's face was full of confusion and uncertainty, staring at me with eyes that sparkled, suddenly falling on Huang Daxian in Yang Xiufeng's arms, as if he had realized something. He let out a loud "ah" and said: "So those few last night were the ones you brought, I said you looked a bit off today, it seems I really misjudged, well, just listen to you then."

  He actually took the key to the handcuffs from Wang Liang's body and really unlocked Wang Liang. Not only that, but he also put away the dagger, but before it was fully put away, it was snatched away by Wang Liang. Li Hongjun didn't seem to mind, as if he knew what was going on. Sure enough, he heard Wang Liang say in a sharp voice: "I'll borrow it for now and return it later."