"It's also possible that the 'calamity' was too weak...
a single axe blow completely killed it," Li Xiuchun suggested another possibility.
Chen Tan did not respond, he stared at the figure in the pool of blood for a long time, then turned and took out a kitchen knife from the kitchen.
"What are you going to do?" "Cut open his chest and see if his heart is still there," Chen Tan hoarsely said, "At least I want to know...
whether I killed a monster or killed the redemption given by God." He half-knelt beside Chen Ling's body, and with difficulty, he cut open the chest with the blade.
Li Xiuchun, pale-faced, turned and rushed into the kitchen, violently vomiting.
A few minutes later, Chen Tan slowly stood up.
"How is it?" Li Xiuchun asked.
"Empty," Chen Tan looked at the empty chest cavity, as if relieved, "He has no heart." "No heart? Then how did he..." "I don't know." Chen Tan paused, "Whatever it was...
it's dead now." "What about the body?" "Hide it in the cellar...
there are enforcers outside now, we can't send it out." Chen Tan moved the living room table aside, opened the heavy wooden board on the floor, revealing a dark and narrow underground space.
In this age without refrigerators, relying on the natural insulation of the cellar to store food was the best choice.
He was about to throw Chen Ling in when he saw the gruesome neck wound and hesitated.
"Go get Ah Yan's costume," Chen Tan said, "Whatever it is, this is Ling's body...
without a coffin for burial, at least give him a decent outfit." Mentioning the costume, Li Xiuchun shivered slightly, "But last night...
he came back wearing that outfit..." "It's just a piece of clothing,"
Chen Tan was about to argue, but thinking of the horrifying scene when Ling came home last night, he didn't insist, "Forget it, let it be." Chen Tan threw Chen Ling's body into the cellar, covered the wooden board, and placed the table on top, finally ending it.
Next, Li Xiuchun began to clean the bloodstains in the house, although these things made her nauseous, she continued with her nose pinched.
Knock knock knock - the urgent knocking suddenly sounded.
Li Xiuchun, who was cleaning the room, missed a beat in her heart and turned sharply to look at Chen Tan.
"Someone's here?" "Ignore him for now, pretend no one's home." Li Xiuchun nodded, and the two held their breath in the living room, with only the dull knocking echoing continuously.
But the knocking showed no sign of stopping, instead becoming more forceful, followed by a low voice from the door, "Enforcers asking questions! Open the door immediately!"
Hearing the word enforcers, the faces of the two turned pale, and after a moment of hesitation, Chen Tan gave Li Xiuchun a look, quickly changed his clothes, and unbuttoned, he walked towards the door.
Creak - the door opened a crack.
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Chen Tan stepped out sideways, closed the door behind him, "Enforcer, what's the matter?" Drizzling rain fell from the gloomy sky, two figures in black and red uniforms stood outside, their faces somewhat grim.
"Why didn't you open the door after knocking for so long?" "I was just sleeping, took some time to get dressed," he smiled awkwardly.
The two enforcers glanced at his unbuttoned clothes, looking slightly relaxed, "Is this Chen Ling's house?"
"...Yes."
"Where is he?"
"He left in the morning and hasn't come back yet."
"When he returns, pass this notice to him." One of the enforcers took out a document from his pocket, "The entire second and third districts are now sealed off, temporarily recruiting all pre-enforcers who passed the written test to assemble.
He is also on the call-up list.
Tomorrow morning at seven o'clock, be at the Enforcer Headquarters in the third district on time.
Failure to attend will be considered as voluntarily giving up the spot."Chen Tan's heart skipped a beat, but he still calmly took the notice, nodded, and said, "Okay, I will definitely pass it on." The two enforcers turned and left, and Chen Tan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
He pushed the door and entered the room.
Clang-clang-clang-clang- As soon as he entered the room, a piercing sound of metal friction entered his ears, like someone scratching a blackboard with sharp nails, making Chen Tan shudder instantly.
At this moment, Li Xiuchun was huddled in the corner of the wall, trembling all over.
When she saw Chen Tan return to the room, her almost collapsed eyes finally lifted, and she slowly stretched out a hand, pointing towards the kitchen...
In the kitchen, a crimson figure with its back to the two of them, head lowered, as if chewing on something.
Seeing that figure from behind, Chen Tan's brain went blank instantly! It was a young man whose neck was almost severed, with the crimson flesh and blood visibly healing at a rapid pace.
He held a kitchen knife in his left hand and a blood-stained axe in his right hand, both being stuffed into his mouth at the same time...
As if sensing Chen Tan coming home, in the kitchen, the figure draped in a bright red robe slowly turned around.
It was Chen Ling, the heartless and almost beheaded Chen Ling.
His cheeks slightly bulged, chewing forcefully on the remnants of metal and wood, his scattered pupils resembling those of a beast, eerie and menacing.
"Dad." A voice sounded from behind him, "I'm hungry..." ...
Chen Ling had a dream.
It was a cloudy afternoon, as usual, he finished exercising at the martial arts field in the suburbs, sweating profusely, and pushed open the door to his home.
It wasn't his birthday that day, but there was a butter cake on the dining table at home...
The orange candle flames flickered in the dim living room, and two figures sat at the table, their eyes slightly red.
A butter cake, worth 200 copper coins, was something their family could never afford on ordinary days.
He was puzzled and asked what day it was today.
His parents told him that it was the day his younger brother, A Yan, was about to undergo surgery.
He was very happy to hear that.
His brother's congenital heart disease had been a nightmare for their family.
In order to cure his brother, his parents and he had been running around seeking help, but all the clinics were helpless.
A few days ago, his parents said they had found a hospital in District Two and had taken his brother there, with confidence in a cure.
Hearing this good news, he happily finished the cake, but soon his consciousness began to fade, and he collapsed on the table.
The last scene he saw was his mother, Li Xiuchun, covering her mouth, crying bitterly.
"I'm sorry...
I'm really sorry." He heard his father's low voice, "A Yan needs a heart...
You would be willing, right?" He opened his mouth, as if wanting to say something, but eventually fell into a coma.
Then, he felt himself being stuffed into a bag, raindrops pattering on the surface of the bag.
After a long time, he was finally placed on a table.
He felt his chest being cut open, and something was taken out from it.
Then, he was dressed in clothes, moved to a place in the heavy rain, and the thick soil gradually engulfed his body, everything around him plunged into darkness and silence...
...
In the darkness, Chen Ling's eyes suddenly opened.
Spotlights lit up above his head, illuminating the red figure lying in the center of the stage.
After a moment of confusion, Chen Ling propped himself up with his hands on the ground and stood up unsteadily.
"Damn...How did I come back again?" Chen Ling's face turned slightly pale, his gaze subconsciously falling on the screen in the center of the stage.
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