The man fetched a big heavy stone and had Zeng Yuan carry it with both hands. Then he ordered, “Go there, following my drill command.”
“Left, Right, Left!” The man standing beside numbly called out. What he did was a kind of the gangs’ punishment.
The long, sharp pointed thorn pierced into her feet, Zeng Yuan closed her eyes.
The road looked short but actually it was very long, blood oozed from the soles of her feet with each step. When she got to the door, both of her feet had already been bloodily mutilated.
There was a chair in the room. It was for her.
Jisan went out of the room, casting two bags of Da Zhonghua cigar to the two men and said, “Go out and guard at the door.”
And then he looked up and down at Zeng Yuan, who wore an expression to show she would rather die than surrender.
“Do you know this woman?” Jisan took out a photo, a photo of Zhao Huixin when she was just graduated from the university. It was given to Jiang Youyou by Zhao’s mother.
Zeng Yuan opened her eyes slowly and numbly shook her head. “I don’t know her.”
In the next room, Zeng Yuan’s image appeared on the computer screen.
Jiang Youyuou said to Pu Yuanhui, “She is lying. Undoubtedly, she knows Zhao, in their hospital. It’s her who is in charge of caring for the patients.”
Pu Yuanhui patted Jiang Youyou on the back. “Don’t worry. There’s more coming.”
Jisan sneered at her and said, “See clearly before you speak, otherwise you’ll feel regret.”
Zeng Yuan again shook her head.
Jisan went out and then was back. “Now I’ll give you the last opportunity, or you must feel regret.”
Zeng Yuan shook her head. Surely, she knew her. But she couldn’t speak out. Once she confessed, she would be screwed, because there were too many people involved in it.
He brought out a pair of pliers and said ferociously, “I guess you fu*king don’t want to live any longer.”
When they pried Zeng Yuan’s mouth open, she didn’t resist. Instead, she opened her mouth obediently. Two front teeth were pulled out in twice. For the first time Jiang Youyou saw that human’s front teeth had such long roots, and the roots had barbs, on which a large piece of red gum hanged.
Zeng Yuang immediately fell to the ground and rolled around. She tried hard to gulp down the blood gushing from her mouth
And this time it was not one photo, but a pile of them, thrown in front of her.
Zeng Yuan looked at the photos blankly, then her expression totally changed. “Where…did you get these photos?”
“Are you afraid that others will know what ugly things you’ve done?” Jisan cast a contemptuous look at her. “I’m going to have someone to send these photos and your image of today to your lame husband and your son who calls you Mother Angel.”
“Don’t, don’t tell them, please…” Due to the lack of front teeth, Zeng Yuan was speaking with mouthful blood spurting out at each word when she uttered “F” sound.
“So you can tell us whether you know Zhao Huixin?” A trace of sympathy flashed across Jisan’s thin face, but it passed quickly.
“Yes, I know her. She was one of the former patient in our hospital. At the very beginning stage to develop and test PT-14187 Passion, she was hospitalized for bronchitis. She had little money and was out of a job. Nor was she going to have her mother to pay a visit to her. She said she was ashamed, for she had relied on the support from her family for about one year.” Zeng Yuan related the story slowly, “Later, I took pity on her and told Doctor Bai about her situation. If she took part in our drug trial, all her medical expenses could be totally waived. We have told her clearly what kind of drug it was, and she agreed.”
“Give her a glass of water,” Jiang Youyou said to Pu Yuanhui, “She is not afraid of pain, just like me. She is only fearful. Can you see the expression in her eyes? It’s a look of fear rather than of pain. She is also a guinea pig.”
A glass of water was passed to Zeng Yuan, as soon as she put the glass on her lips, the water was dyed red. She swallowed the bloody water and continued, “Later we arranged her to the East Angel Party, which was especially for the female guinea pigs. Many social and business celebrities would attend, of course secretly. Because of her good behavior, we introduced her to a guest. The guest liked her, and offered her a job. That’s what has happened.”
Zeng Yuan drank the water up. “She was not as pretentious as most of other guinea pigs and would do whatever she was asked to do. What I couldn’t stand was that one of the guinea pigs fell in love with Dr. Bai, and to some degree, Dr. Bai liked her as well, but was stopped by me. I’ve been with Dr. Bai for so many years, but he never liked me. How could I bear it! So when Jiang Youyou was arranged to take part in the party, I sent her four guests, who fucked her to dead faint. She seemed foolish and innocent. Bah! She was even paid one hundred thousand Yuan. Shameless bitch! We had video clips of her being fucked on our intranet, you can see her obscene look,”
When she uttered “Bah”, blood gushed out of her mouth far away.
Jiang Youyou went into the inner room and shut the door tight. Zeng Yuan went close to the computer and took a look at Pu Yuanhui but couldn’t recognize him.
Before she logged onto the intranet, she raised her head and asked, “Are you going to let me back home and return those photos to me, if I tell everything to you?”
Pu Yuanhui replied coldly, “Certainly I will keep my word.”
When the web page was opened, they saw several pages of video data. All of them were copied on Pu Yuanhui’s computer, and the rest files were deleted one by one, according to Pu Yuanhui’s instruction, and all were backed up.
It seemed that one should know a bit about everything even if one hanged out in the underworld.
Pu Yuanhui called in Jisan and ordered, “Let her go, in old rules.”
She saw on the computer screen on which her video clip was playing, and she was naked and groped by eight wild hands, and she was writhing, going mad and sweating all over.
It was all quiet in the room. Jiang Youyou came out of it with tears all over her face. Pu Yuanhui hugged her with his arms. “Stop crying. All these videos are in your custody now.”
Jisan looked at Zeng Yuan sitting on the back seat with the blindfold. He pulled the car up at one side of the highway. When he opened the door of the car, the man beside lifted his foot and gave Zeng Yuan a kick, so she fell out of the car and rolled down the slope of the highway.
“Don’t worry. Tomorrow morning the cleaner will take her to a bath. She doesn’t dare to tell the police.” Jisan said triumphantly.
Zeng Yuan only felt herself falling out of the car and her head was spinning. Slowly she removed the blindfold and climbed up to the highway with effort. The mobile phone had been broken when she fell down. Samsung mobile phone was indeed only good in looking but not in use.
She wondered what time it was.
The first time it was a car coming nearer. The driver saw a blood-soaked woman waving for a ride on the roadside. Oh God! It would be better pretending not to see.
The next to come was a long distance bus. A sleepy passenger glanced out of the window by chance and saw a woman in white dress with long hair and bloody face who was bare-footed and had a twisting facial expression due to great worry. He began to shout loud with fear, “Ghost! Ghost!” The driver said in a weird tone, “Last year a woman was knocked to death here. People often saw her calling back her spirit in the small hours of the morning. It’ll be okay if all of you read ‘Amitabha’ aloud.”
The third coming vehicle was an overloaded lorry truck that had been on the way for two days and nights with a breakneck speed. The driver was so drowsy that he drifted off, while the female driver sitting in the co-driver’s seat, his wife, saw a woman lying on the ground where their truck had just passed, in a pool of blood. Perhaps because their truck had been travelling at a speed so high that the woman was knocked down on the roadside.
“Hubby, we have knocked down someone. Stop quickly.”
The driver was startled and stopped the truck immediately. “Is it dead.”
“Seems not.”
“Is there any surveillance camera?”
“It seems there is no camera, either.”
“Close your eyes, old girl. Did you hear me?”
Zeng Yuan crawled to the middle of the road and waved her hand with great effort. The lorry truck slowly backed up. Zeng couldn’t help her delight. “Ah, they saw me. It seems there are more good people in this world.”
The backing truck suddenly sped up. Zeng Yuan suffered from the sharp pain for only a second. Huge wheels ran over her legs, then over her belly then her head. This was repeated for several times. The truck driver felt relieved and said to his wife sitting in the co-driver’s seat, “It’s your turn to drive.”
He lit a cigar, looked back at the mixture of the red blood and yellow-black excreta, and wiped the sweat off his forehead.
Zeng Yuan’s eyeballs burst out from the sockets because of the tremendous pressure in an instant. Two black hole appeared on her red face. Her hands and legs scattered around, and the flat belly was surrounded by a heap of steaming internal organs.