Ten Days End

Qi Xia immediately took out a lighter from his pocket, which was lent to him by "Xiao Xiao".

He lit the lighter and reached over.

Officer Li was stunned, then covered the flame with his bloody left hand, and then leaned over to light the cigarette.

After a moment, he patted Qi Xia's hand.

"Huh——"

After a mouthful of thick smoke, Officer Li looked a little more relaxed.

"Relaxed." Officer Li smiled, "Now I'm not afraid of death."

"What do you want to tell me?" Qi Xia sat opposite Officer Li and looked at him with a little seriousness.

Officer Li did not answer, but asked: "Qi Xia, how did Tiantian and Qiao Jiajin die?"

"They were killed." Qi Xia answered without hesitation, "After noon yesterday, they were beaten to death by the owner of this lighter."

After that, he handed the lighter forward and stuffed it into Officer Li's hand.

Officer Li looked down at the green plastic lighter with a look of loss in his eyes.

"Really..." He raised his head and said to Qi Xia, "When that person killed Qiao Jiajin and Tiantian... was there anything strange?"

"Strange things?"

Qi Xia touched his chin and sorted out his thoughts. There were too many "strange things" to say. He simply organized his words and told Officer Li everything that happened yesterday afternoon.

Including the woman's strange body shape and the puzzling poisoning.

Finally, Qi Xia added: "By the way, I heard two "bells" before and after she killed people."

After hearing this, Officer Li raised his cigarette and took another big puff. After he exhaled a cloud of smoke, he said: "When the bell rang, I happened to be in front of the huge display screen."

"What?"

"The huge bell rang from my ears, making me think that the whole world exploded." Officer Li said jokingly, "Do you know what was written on the screen?"

Qi Xia then thought that the screen would display text for no reason, so he asked: "What was written? "

"I heard the echo of "putting the blame on someone." Officer Li said word by word.

"Putting the blame on someone?" Qi Xia muttered to himself, "Before it was "bringing disaster", this time it's "putting the blame on someone"..."

Officer Li handed the only cigarette left in the cigarette box to Qi Xia: "Or?"

Qi Xia nodded and reached out to take the cigarette.

Officer Li lit it for him with his left hand.

"I knew you smoked." Officer Li held the cigarette in his mouth and threw the lighter to Qi Xia, "It's best to smoke when you're thinking, right?"

Qi Xia didn't answer. After taking the lighter, he took a sip of the slightly moldy cigarette.

After a long time, the taste of cigarettes will become spicy, and this one is no exception.

"I haven't smoked for many years." Qi Xia said.

"Yes, it's good to quit smoking. "Officer Li nodded, "Quitting smoking is good for your health..."

He paused after he finished speaking, and the two fell silent.

The two slowly exhaled smoke, just like classmates who hid in the toilet to smoke together during their school days.

"What about the second bell?" Qi Xia asked, "Are there new words on the screen?"

"No." Officer Li shook his head with a cigarette in his mouth, "When the second bell rang, the line of words disappeared."

Qi Xia stared at the cigarette in his hand thoughtfully, feeling that things were still a little weird.

"What does this mean?" Qi Xia asked, "That bell is not a "death knell" at all, but some other warning."

"I'll leave this question to you to think about." Officer Li leaned against the wall helplessly, smoking the last cigarette in his hand, "I just told you what I saw, you have a better chance of surviving here than me."

"Why?" Qi Xia asked unwillingly, "Why can't you survive here?"

"Because I'm a policeman. "Officer Li smiled and raised his broken right arm, "I lost this arm to save Lawyer Zhang. I could have ignored her, but I couldn't just stand by and watch her die. But you are different... Qi Xia, you have no baggage."

Qi Xia seemed to understand what Officer Li meant.

This man wanted to save everyone from the beginning.

His principles have never changed.

This principle will kill him here.

Qi Xia nodded heavily and asked, "You left me alone, not to tell me these things, right?"

"Yes..." Officer Li's face turned even paler, "Qi Xia, I have a secret in my heart that I haven't told anyone so far. I don't want to die with this secret, so I have to tell it before I die.""Why me?" Qi Xia asked puzzledly, "You can obviously tell Lawyer Zhang."

"Because you are just like "him", both are liars..." Officer Li smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Although you are not alike at all, if you think about it carefully, this seems to be the arrangement of fate."

After hearing this, Qi Xia raised his cigarette and took a deep puff, then said: "Tell me, I'm listening."

Officer Li looked ahead with lifeless eyes and slowly told his "real" story.

For a full ten minutes, Qi Xia listened to everything he said quietly.

Qi Xia's eyes kept flickering, as if he heard something completely unbelievable.

"Officer Li... So you lied so big in the first game?" He asked with his lips trembling slightly.

Qi Xia only felt that Officer Li's story at the time was a little weird, but he didn't expect that he would use a huge lie throughout.

"Yes." Officer Li's eyes turned red instantly, "This is the biggest mistake I have made in my life..."

"Just a "mistake"? ! "Qi Xia stood up with a frown on his face, and his previous admiration for Officer Li was gone. "You were in cahoots with that liar, and you were always trying to help him get out, but you lied to us and said you were waiting there...? Although I'm not a good citizen, the thing I despise the most in my life is the black police."

Officer Li raised his head, and hot tears slid down his face.

"Yes, black police..." Officer Li smiled bitterly, "I was not surprised when I came here, because I think this is my "judgment"..."

"What..."

Qi Xia frowned and looked at Officer Li coldly.

"Maybe if I die here, it will be my atonement..."

As soon as Officer Li finished speaking, a huge bell sounded in the distance.

"Ding!!"

Qi Xia turned his head and looked outside, his face full of shock.

Why did the bell ring again?

What was written on the screen this time?

As if he hadn't heard anything, Officer Li reached out his shaking hands to pick up the empty cigarette box from the ground, and then took out a cigarette from it.

He reached into his pocket and took out a metal lighter.

Under Qi Xia's incredible gaze, Officer Li relit the cigarette with a relieved smile on his face.

Then he slowly lowered his head and seemed to say to himself: "Qi Xia, if I die, it will be atonement..."

Qi Xia was stunned, looked at the extremely clean cigarette in his mouth, and felt that the situation was very strange.

"Hey... Li Shangwu, don't die yet..." Qi Xia rushed to Officer Li and knelt down, and found that he was no longer breathing.

He still had the cigarette in his mouth and a somewhat old ZIPPO lighter in his hand.