Chapter 45: The Strange Baby Red Plum and Qing Jiang's Worries

  "I said, 'Yes, let's get out of here quickly!'" We immediately set off to leave, but the window suddenly flashed with a black shadow. The terrifying two-faced killer baby seemed like a giant owl perched on the windowsill, its four blood-red eyes wide open, emitting an intense murderous aura that pressed in on us.

  It glared at us in anger, its right hand grasping two rusty small knives with bright red blood on them - Kui Ruo Lan's blood. Kui Ruo Lan saw the double-faced baby and lost control of her emotions, grabbing a piece of iron from the table and frantically smashing it towards the murderous double-faced baby.

  Not biased, this iron block hit its slightly smaller weird face.

  "Yulan, don't be impulsive! Don't provoke it!" The killer twin-faced infant on the windowsill stretched its neck towards us and let out a sharp, piercing shriek. The two mouths emitted an extremely loud scream that seemed to reverberate with echoes, almost deafening."

  This scene is freaking terrifying!

  I pulled Kui Ruo Lan out and shouted: "Before it starts a massacre, let's hurry up and leave!"

  We fled the cabin quickly, the murderous twin-faced infant did not come out in pursuit, but its screams grew sharper and more piercing, tearing and extremely frightening.

  During our escape, I discovered a strange thing: the killer twin-faced baby who had cut his girlfriend's neck in half appeared in front of Ah Hao, but he seemed extremely calm and composed. First, that night he was scared by the twin-faced baby to the point of being speechless, second, he joined our team to enter this forest to avenge his girlfriend for the killer twin-faced baby. In any case, this is not his normal reaction.

  Another one is Mr. Wu, who also saw the double-faced baby and was very calm. Of course, this can be explained as him being very brave, plus he had a red handkerchief on his body that made the double-faced baby afraid, so he didn't take the baby seriously...

  But is this really true?

  We soon arrived at the riverbank, used a bamboo raft to cross the river, and then returned to the Leigong Hotel without any obstacles. When crossing the river, I called Ruan Defeng, and he replied that he was inspecting the villagers' health conditions in a small village, so he wouldn't return to the Leigong Hotel for the time being.

  After returning to the Lei Gong Inn, we discussed whether to leave immediately and return to Long City, because we need to send Kui Ruo Lan to the hospital for further examination, to find out what's going on with her neck wound.

  "Director Chen said: "President, you first accompany Lanlan back, I will stay here to clarify the whole thing and then go back."

  "I'm fine, just a bit dizzy. I was controlled by the strange baby for too long and now that I've relaxed, I find my legs are all soft and weak. Let's rest first and head back tomorrow morning."

  To prevent the murderous two-faced baby from invading again, the three of us stayed in the same room and hung all three red handkerchiefs on the window. At 11 o'clock at night, my brain was exceptionally clear, and I suddenly heard extremely faint footsteps outside the room's corridor.

  I quietly and stealthily approached the door, and the footsteps stopped. The Leygong Hotel was extremely quiet in the dead of night, as silent as death.

  I quietly leaned over and peeked through the crack in the door, where I could see a pair of shoes belonging to someone standing outside. They were a pair of women's flat shoes made of plastic that resembled leather. I recognized these shoes as belonging to Hongmei, who had come to the Leigong Hotel looking for Mr. Wu from Taiwan earlier that day.

  That woman from Xiayuan Village who married into Shangyuan Village, that woman who risked everything for love, ended up with a tragic fate.

  She came over to the Lei Gong Hotel in the middle of the night and stood outside my room wanting to do what?

  She stood for a while, then suddenly her shoes moved and she walked away from my room.

  I counted "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6" in my mind according to her walking speed, and then I immediately stood up and quietly opened the door.

  In the distance of the corridor, Hongmei was walking step by step with her back to me. And on her shoulder, that terrifying two-faced killer baby was standing. This scene looked so eerie and terrifying, Hongmei in red clothes was walking slowly step by step, the two-faced killer baby was treading on her shoulder, as if it was manipulating a robot that was helping it walk.

  It turns out that the killer with two faces, the freaky baby, has returned to Leigong Hotel again, and this time it's controlling Hongmei.

  I was wondering what the killer twin-faced baby was doing here, manipulating Hongmei, when I suddenly saw a strange movement: Hongmei's right hand reached up and patted the killer twin-faced baby on her shoulder. The baby surprisingly listened very obediently and jumped down from Hongmei's shoulder to the ground, then stood neatly by Hongmei's right side, stretching out its left hand. Hongmei stretched out her right hand and held the baby's left hand, and the two slowly disappeared at the stairs of Leigong Hotel's second floor.

  If you don't know that one is a sometimes crazy and sometimes normal Hongmei, and the other is a terrifying two-faced baby who has killed several people, just looking at their backs, they look like a mother and son, with the mother holding hands with her obedient child taking a stroll.

  This discovery was beyond my expectation, I just thought that Hongmei was being manipulated by the two-faced baby, but judging from the last scene just now, it's very clear that it's not - their relationship is even very harmonious.

  Two inferences flashed through my mind: one, the real mastermind behind the scenes was actually Hongmei, who was instructing the morally bankrupt twin-faced baby to continue killing; two, Hongmei was the mother of the twin-faced baby, and she was the woman who had given birth to the monster and then abandoned it after being driven mad by the experience on the slope where the goat had fallen.

  My inference was impossible, so the next day early in the morning, before Qiuer Lan woke up, I went out to find Shan Yang Xū.

  The goat got up very early and was exercising in the empty space outside the hotel. I pretended to be exercising too, and ran over.

  "Young man, you're so young and yet you can get up so early to go for a run?"

  "Yeah, exercising is good for your physical health."

  "Yes, a person's life can be said to be long or short, but it must be healthy and live one more year is one year! By the way, I heard that you rescued your friend from the Double-Faced Monster Baby last night, congratulations!"

  "Thanks! The behavior of the two-faced baby is very bizarre, if it hadn't been abandoned by its mother back then, perhaps it wouldn't have become this monster now."

  "Yes, it's actually quite pitiful! If he had grown up in an ordinary family like ours, apart from looking a bit strange, he would have just been an average boy."

  "By the way, after all these years have passed, if that woman from back then were to appear in front of you now, would you still recognize her face?"

  "Of course, although I was standing on the upper part of the slope that day, but for so many years, those scenes have been constantly appearing in my mind, leaving a deep impression on me. I can recognize that woman's appearance even with my eyes closed."

  I exclaimed with surprise: "Big brother, can I ask a favor of you? I want to ask for your help in identifying someone and see if it's her."

  The goat was very puzzled at first, but after thinking for a while, it accepted my request and agreed to go with me to recognize people.

  "So, you've found the strange baby's mother?"

  "I'm just guessing too, so I thought of taking you to identify him."

  We arrived at Shangyuan Village, and since Chen Qiuyang had described the appearance of Hongmei's home to me before, I quickly found it.

  The goat's whiskers gazed at me strangely, pointing to Hongmei's home and said: "Young man, you wouldn't be referring to the person I should recognize as Hongmei, would you?"

  I was taken aback and asked, "What? You know him?"

  "Haha, I met her last year when I came to the Leigong Hotel, and she seemed to have an unusual relationship with Mr. Wu from Taiwan, because every time I come here, I've seen her visiting Mr. Wu several times. Hongmei is absolutely not the mother of the two-faced killer baby. Although I'm not familiar with Shangyuan Village or Xiayuan Village, at least I know Hongmei."

  Since the goat's whiskers have already determined that Hongmei is absolutely not the mother of the murderous double-faced baby, I don't need to dwell on this issue anymore. Even if they are not in a mother-daughter relationship, from their intimate behavior last night, Hongmei will definitely be involved in the murder with the murderous double-faced baby.

  After saying goodbye to the goat, I saw that it was still early and the sun had not yet climbed over the mountain slope. So I walked along the riverbank, which served as my morning exercise. The two banks of this small river were covered with dogtail grass, which gently swayed in the cool morning breeze. These plants with strong vitality looked very beautiful.

  When I walked downstream, I saw Qing Jiang sitting in a clump of dogtail grass, wearing a pale blue sweater, looking melancholy and gazing into the distance at the faintly blue mountains. She had a white wildflower tucked behind her ear, tied up in a simple ponytail, with a few strands of hair fluttering across her face, and the soft morning light gently enveloped her jade-like complexion, leaving me stunned.

  Qing Jiang's beauty was vastly different from that of other women. She didn't wear makeup, and her natural complexion had the delicate red color of a lily flower's center. She was like a wild lily blooming in the depths of this lush green field, beautiful enough to move people's hearts. Yet, such a lovely young girl had to endure suffering that she shouldn't have had to bear.

  Her sister had always wanted to have a child, but she kept having molar pregnancies one after another. Qing Jiang worried and firmly believed that if she were to get pregnant in the future, she would definitely be carrying a molar pregnancy in her own sacred womb. She had an unfathomable shadow over this because of the two D&C surgeries, both of which she accompanied her sister through in the operating room.