eurekapd Chapter 102: Chapter 102
Chapter 102: Chapter 102
"No... um..." As soon as Li Nali's voice came out, she was blocked by an increased sense of suffocation. Tiqi pinched her hand like a pair of iron pliers, which could easily break her neck.
"As long as I finish speaking, you will let her go?" The boy opposite was very calm, too calm.
"Why, don't you believe me?" Tiki asked back.
"Yes." He answered concisely and without concealment.
"You have no choice." Tiqi said firmly.He has no doubt that the script's trend will follow his wish, and he has no doubt that the boy will do as he said.
As it turns out, he was right.
Allen squatted down and picked up the communicator on the ground.
"Don't try to play tricks, I'm no stranger to this thing." Tiqi watched his movements, and added, "By the way, tell them, the whereabouts of 'Heart' is with you."
Then he saw the boy's face change with satisfaction, and he looked over in astonishment.
"So you know the existence of 'heart'." After a long silence, Allen finally spoke, "So it was all pretending before?"
He had inquired about the information about "Heart" more than once, but Tiqi's reaction was that he didn't know it at all.
"To each other." He replied meaningfully, "Now, you can tell them the good news."
Li Nali shook her head desperately, struggling more and more, looking at Alian with anxious eyes.
"You'd better keep your word."
Allen said in a deep voice, looked at him for a moment, and then moved his thumb to the communication key.
The corners of Tiqi's mouth were slightly raised, bringing out something pleasing to the eye.
"I'm Allen Walker..."
The boy's lips opened and closed mechanically, his expression didn't change much, but his eyes were always on him.
Li Nali's struggle gradually weakened in the voice of Allen's words, and finally stopped as if giving up, tears slipped from the corners of her closed eyes.
"...so now, with 'heart' as the condition,"
Allen stopped, took a deep breath, and then said every word.
"I have joined Noah."
The voice settled, followed by a long silence.
Tiqi looked at him with his eyelids slightly closed, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became colder.
This kid was clever, and although he did what he wanted on the surface, he pushed the troublesome matter to Noah's side without any trace.
"Now, are you satisfied?" Allen said coldly, dropping the communicator in his hand.
Tiqi didn't answer, just looked at him with pleasure in his eyes.
Li Nali, who felt a slight looseness in her neck, broke free and ran towards Alian immediately, but she didn't notice something that slipped out of Tiqi's coat under this struggle.
"No, Alian, you can't do this..." Li Nali threw herself into Alian's arms, clutching his sleeve and said repeatedly, "Why did you say it, why did it become like this, why..."
She shook her head and sobbed softly. Allen held her shoulders, and a familiar voice came from above her head.
"It's okay, Li Na..."
However, the voice stopped abruptly in the middle of speaking, and her body froze for an instant. Li Nali raised her head, and saw Alian's face was ashen, and her eyes were fixed on a certain place behind her.
She turned her head and saw a piece of paper on the sand.
It was a painting with a hut, a wheat field, a scarecrow and a crow.
Tiqi's expression froze for only half a second, and no one noticed.
"This painting..." Allen squeezed his voice out of his teeth with difficulty, his vocal cords were a little tight, "Where did it come from?"
silence.
Tiqi just looked at him, keeping his face and saying nothing.
"Tell me!" Allen suddenly stepped forward and shouted loudly.
But Tiqi seemed to have lost the interest in speaking, just stood there with his hands in his pockets, his eyes piercing his anger like ice.
"Uncle Izzy..."
The young man's voice came out lightly, but it made his heart tighten.
"What did you do to him?"
At that moment, Tiqi's heartbeat stopped for half a second.
How are you, him?
Every word, every sentence trembled slightly with anxiety.
It was as if they were on guard with all their hearts and minds, but the enemy's attack suddenly came from the rear, so they were caught off guard and there was chaos.Rao was as calm as Tiqi, and it took him a breath to calm down, but he couldn't sweep away the fleeting disappointment in his heart.
"Want to know?" When the words came out, it was as playful as usual, and there was no trace of strangeness.Tiqi lit a cigarette and squinted at him in the light of a spark.
Allen said nothing.
He knew that Tiqi had the habit of collecting spoils after killing people, and that the target targeted by Tiqi had no chance of survival. He also knew that Tiqi took the life of his companion and saw him blaming himself for pleasure.
Just like Jonny was treated that day.
But at this moment, how much he hated everything he knew, how much he hated his guessing, how much he hated himself for involving that person who had nothing to do with the world.
"It seems that you recognize this." Tiqi leaned down with a cigarette in his mouth, picked up the painting on the ground, and patted it casually, "Since this painting has already appeared here, is there any other possibility?"
He shrugged lightly, smiling for granted.
The fire of that night flashed through his mind, and Allen's whole body turned cold, as if falling into an ice cellar.
"Want to know what he looked like before he died?" Tiqi grinned, watching the boy's shoulders visibly tremble after the words fell with satisfaction, and continued, "That terrified face, the splashing blood... tsk tsk, but It's a real treat."
The boy's lips were already biting blood, and the fist hanging beside him was clenched tightly, his joints were terribly white.
"That guy is so weak, it's almost vulnerable, but a guy who is so weak dares to resist..." Tiqi continued to talk, walking over step by step, the faster he spoke, the more excited he was, as if As if possessed by a demon, he couldn't stop, "That guy, who is overconfident, even guarded his broken paintings when he was dying, and dared to pounce on me to snatch them... Especially this one, the one you gave him."
Tiqi stood still in front of Allen, shaking the painting in his hand, and a cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"You know what boy..."
He spoke slowly, tearing up the painting in his hand one by one.The sound of paper being torn was especially harsh under his soft voice.
"That guy seems to like you very much."
When he finally let go, pieces of paper fluttered in the wind and fell all over Alian's body.
Allen closed his eyes, only to feel a throbbing pain in his body, as if he heard the sound of something collapsing.
"You've changed," he heard himself say.
There was silence on the other side.
"You once said," Allen couldn't believe that the deep and hoarse voice could be his own, "Killing is a profession, not a hobby."
Then he opened his eyes, and saw that dangerously handsome face, so close at hand.
"Really? So I said that..." The man smiled apologetically as if he suddenly remembered, "I'm so sorry, I've changed my gender now."
"But why don't you even let him go?" Alian stepped forward, his voice suddenly raised, and the pieces of paper on his body fell off one after another, and he stepped into the sand, "Uncle Izzy, he doesn't know anything, he doesn't know anything. I haven't done it, why don't you let him go? How many innocent people do you have to kill before you are willing?"
"You seem to have forgotten one thing." Tiqi breathed out a puff of smoke slowly, and said, "I'm a killer. Killing people is a common thing. It's just a numerical difference..."
That casual tone seemed to be talking about trampling a few ants to death.
"...Don't know anything? Haven't done anything?" Tiqi asked rhetorically, his face turned cold, "Just because he helped you and saved you, that's enough reason for him to die—"
Before the last word was completely uttered, Allen's heavy punch hit Tiqi's face suddenly, causing him to tilt his head slightly, and some blood oozes from the corner of his mouth.
Unburned cigarettes fell to the ground, stained with dust by the wind.
Allen's breathing was a little heavy, his chest heaved violently with his emotions, and the two of them didn't speak for a while.
The cold wind came from the river, swirling and whistling in my ears, but it couldn't blow away the oppressive atmosphere at all.
Tiqi turned his head and looked at Alian fixedly, lost his mind for a moment.
"So excited. It seems..." He whispered, "You like him very much, too."
If Allen raised his head at this time and looked over, he would find that Tiqi didn't smile or sarcasm when he said this.
Too bad he didn't.
He closed his eyes in exhaustion, only felt that every word Tiqi said at this moment was like a sharp knife, piercing directly into the softest part of his body, gouging out his body to pieces and bleeding profusely.
"why……"
His voice was very low, like talking in a dream.
"Why, you became like this."
It's not a question, it's not an accusation, it's just a hint of pain and endless disappointment like talking to yourself.
become like this?
Tiqi felt amused for a while, so what was he like in the eyes of the young man in the past?
And who caused all this?
However, he didn't ask any of these.He took a deep breath, found his voice again, and said lightly.
"Don't you understand, I have never changed,"
He leaned down, facing the boy's side face, almost whispering.
"It's just that you didn't see clearly."
Between them, there are always positions, identities, and conspiracies, and they will never see clearly what is true and what is false on the face and every move on the opposite side.
"I thought……"
"What do you think?" Tiqi interrupted the young man before he finished speaking, "What kind of a good person do you think I am? Do you think my nature is not bad? Don't be ridiculous, I'm a killer, not your Uncle Izzy, no For you, go to clean up and reform. Your naivety, let's save it."
As Tiqi spoke, he changed the subject again.
"But I still like your innocence." He swept away the remaining scraps of paper on Alian's shoulders, and straightened his collar. "It used to be, and it is still the same. It doesn't matter whether you tried your best to get close or not. It is..."
"No." The boy suddenly uttered a word that interrupted Tiqi's words, and then he heard him say, "I didn't mean to approach you."
Tiqi raised his eyebrows and seemed to be smiling.
"Could it be possible that you still want to say that everything is a coincidence?" He laughed a little mockingly, a little unbelievable, "Then why did you stay? For me?"
"Yes," and to his surprise, the boy admitted without hesitation, "For you."
The boy suddenly looked up at him with a serious expression.
"I used to be real and wanted to be with you like that."
Allen looked at him tiredly, his eyes were clear.
At that moment, Tiqi was a little moved.
This was the first time that the boy said such words in front of him, and it was also the first time that he expressed his heart so bluntly.
Too late.
Maybe he would believe it before walking out of the bamboo forest covered in bruises.
To be cheated once is misfortune, to be cheated twice is to deserve it.
"So now you understand? 'That' me, doesn't exist."
Tiqi straightened up, looked away from the boy's face, and erased the indistinguishable gaze from his mind.
"Okay..." Allen suddenly twitched the corner of his mouth and smiled miserably, "Very good."
He nodded his head lightly, took a step back, and the light in his eyes quickly faded away.
"You're nice," he said, "and you're tough."
He looked at the man in front of him, as if meeting him for the first time, watching him turn around and walk away.
When Tiqi left, he almost ran away.