Chapter 9： relic

Ren Chenbai smoked two cigarettes on the rooftop.

The reason why he left the phone is because Ren Chenbai knew this girl who was spoiled by the Luo family very well.

Luo Cheng couldn't have the courage to admit it.

...admitted, what does it mean?

It means that when Luo Cheng left, he knew that Luo Zhi's condition was wrong, but he didn't contact the doctors and nurses, and didn't tell anyone.

It shows that the well-behaved and sensible Pearl of the Luo family can really do such a cold-hearted thing. Everyone has to get to know her again and know that she still has such a side.

It means that Miss Luo, who is about to debut as a big star, turns out that there is such a deadly black material that once it bursts out, it can destroy her whole person.

And the Luo family's selfish and cold-blooded nature, which was probably hereditary or due to family education, was of course displayed vividly at this time.

On Luo Cheng's scale, there has never been even the most inconspicuous half-point position that belongs to Luo Zhi.

Hearing Ren Chenbai asking about this, Luo Cheng would be terribly frightened, anxious and frightened, and would have countless concerns.

Fear of revealing shameful thoughts, fear of being pointed at by others, fear of being completely destroyed by one's own image...

The only thing she can't think of is that if it drags on for a longer time, it will make Luo Zhi's physical condition worse, and whether it will put Luo Zhi in danger.

If Ren Chenbai really believed her as he said on the phone, he would come back later.

Will Luo Zhi die?

…

This is so ridiculous.

Ren Chenbai returned to the ward from the rooftop, his mobile phone still lying quietly beside Luo Zhi's pillow.

No missed calls, not a single message.

On the other hand, the doctor on duty who came to the ward rounds said something suspiciously, saying that a phone call from a hidden number called the consultation desk two minutes ago, hurriedly asked about the situation of ward 1503, and hung up again without saying anything. .

Ren Chenbai glanced at Luo Zhi's ward number.

He suddenly became interested, and turned on the recording function of his mobile phone: "If I only come to check now, will anyone be saved?"

The doctor on duty just finished the examination, stunned, and glanced at Luo Zhi hesitantly.

He didn't know why Mr. Ren suddenly asked this, and he struggled to choose his words: "It's hard to say..."

Ren Chenbai said for him, "80% of the time it's too late."

The doctor on duty has never been so straightforward. After choking for a long time, he could only admit truthfully: "Yes."

Ren Chenbai nodded and put away the phone with satisfaction.

After the doctor left, the ward became quiet again, except for the beeping of the instruments running as usual.

Luo Zhijing was lying on the hospital bed.

It seems that he hasn't moved since Ren Chenbai went out, or when Ren Chenbai and Luo Cheng called, he has been lying still and quietly like this.

Ren Chenbai was not in a hurry to speak. He lowered his head and operated on his mobile phone, saved the recording just now, changed the file name to "387", and saved it in a special folder.

The more than 300 materials saved in the folder are all materials that were agreed to be provided to Director Gong Hanrou.

Luo Cheng didn't know enough about it. The reason why this documentary became popular before it was broadcast was because it not only reproduced the experiences of the victims of abduction and trafficking during that period.

For victims who are willing to face the camera, the producers will go deep into every detail, continue to track their lives after they are rescued, and dig out the buried truth.

The documentary was prepared very early, and the source of inspiration was a story that Ren Chenbai's mother once told Director Gong.

The protagonist of the story is a boy named "Little Huo Miao", who returns after being lost for three years and finds that he no longer has his place at home.

"Flame" was supposed to be the first unit of the documentary. Because of the accidental death of Ren's mother, Director Gong has never been able to escape the sadness caused by the untimely death of his friend, and this has been shelved until now.

Now Luo Cheng actually wants to fight for the role of the scene recurrence part in "Flame".

Ren Chenbai thought it was very interesting.

If this unit is really filmed in its entirety, it will not only be a simple matter of shame for the Luo family.

How would the Master Luo react?

Luo Zhi will probably be cut alive.

After all, not everyone has the ability to face guilt. There are always people who use resistance, indifference, self-deception, and even hatred to distort it.

Who can bear to face those **** truths?

...Like Luo Zhi who clearly killed his mother, he always acted like a no-brainer, and even dared to make snacks for him.

Ren Chenbai put down his phone and looked at Luo Zhi.

Before he could catch the coldness in his eyes, Luo Zhi suddenly opened his eyes as if he had noticed something.

Because of the lack of strength, Jian Mi's eyelashes moved slightly twice before finally slowly opening.

Those eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, the pupils were a little dilated, there was no drop, and they were clean and pure black like washing.

Ren Chenbai frowned unconsciously.

Luo Zhi recognized it for a while, and then said softly, "Brother Chenbai?"

He hadn't spoken for a long time. He might have hurt his throat when he put down the breathing tube, and he was a little hoarse when he spoke.

It is reminiscent of the seawater that has been boiled for a long time, no longer as clear and clear as it was. After the dense water vapor evaporates, only the salty and rough dim crystals are left.

"Why do you hate me so much?" Luo Zhi seemed to be asking him, but also asking himself, "Have I done something particularly egregious?"

Ren Chenbai laughed sarcastically.

His laugh was low and cold: "You ask me? Luo Zhi, are you here to ask me?"

Luo Zhi was not too surprised by this answer.

After a few people left, he was alone in the ward, watching his vision dim a little bit.

The heartbeat gradually engulfed everything, and finally even those rapid and irregular heartbeats weakened. When everything was silent, the experience of time would be stretched infinitely long.

In the seemingly infinitely long seconds, Luo Zhi was thinking about two things.

The first question is what kind of feelings Xiaocheng still has for him.

The second question is why Ren Chenbai hates him.

Ren Chenbai helped him answer the first question, which was very clear and detailed. Perhaps the purpose was to make him feel sad, hopeless, or devastated by the truth.

Luo Zhi had to admit that during the time when Ren Chenbai put down his mobile phone and left the ward, the mobile phone that never made any movement was indeed like a cold hammer.

One after another, he smashed his bones unhurriedly, and after smashing it, he replaced it with an ice pick with a cold air, poking it into the bone marrow.

It doesn't hurt, or maybe he can't remember the feeling of "pain" anymore.

It is more of a kind of bone-penetrating cold that is almost paralyzed, so cold that the white frost can cut human skin to pieces.

...As for the second question, that's what Ren Chenbai in the hallucination answered at the moment when his eyes were completely silent.

He could guess so accurately, probably because Luo Zhi knew Ren Chenbai too well.

He grew up with Ren Chenbai, and spent a considerable part of his rare and warm experience watching Ren Chenbai. He used the memories of the Ren family to build strong armor for himself little by little.

It wasn't the first day the Luo family didn't want him.

Luo Zhi beat up Jian Huaiyi because of this incident, and contradicted his elder brother, father, and even Mrs. Luo because of this incident, but he had never been so afraid and desperate because of this incident.

Because he's always been confident.

He always knew that it didn't matter if the Luo family didn't want him.

Because he also has—

"Right." Ren Chenbai suddenly said, "What were you looking at when we came before?"

Luo Zhi stopped thinking and raised his eyes.

Ren Chenbai has returned to his usual appearance, the coldness is gone, but he seems to be dormant at any time under the gentle appearance to choose someone to eat.

Ren Chenbai seems to be very interested in torturing him like this... Just like in the summer when he was a child, Luo Zhi sat under the big locust tree, holding a bowl of brown sugar ice powder that was so cold that the walls of the bowl were steaming, watching Ren Chenbai come to challenge opponent playing chess.

A chess game that can be won in a few steps, but Ren Chenbai always likes to go around in circles, let his opponent seize the chance of life, and then kill this chance by himself.

Xiao Luozhi always forgets to eat ice powder.

He fascinatedly looked at Ren Chenbai, who was still a teenager in front of the chessboard, with a calm expression in his hands, and he tapped the pieces one after another.

The chess piece was dropped on the chessboard by Ren Chenbai, making a crisp sound.

Life and death to take.

"...a picture of your car?"

Ren Chenbai said, "Don't look at it."

Ren Chenbai said: "It is too damaged and has been directly pulled to destroy."

Luo Zhi frowned slightly as if he didn't understand what he said.

Ren Chenbai took the jacket that was on the side, searched in his pocket, and found a crumpled certificate of destruction, and put it in front of Luo Zhi.

In fact, Ren Chenbai has been investigating why Luo Zhi treasures his car so much.

The baby is so bad that no one is allowed to move even a bit, and the interior of the car has been remodeled. If you don't want to go home and don't work overtime, you will sleep in the car alone.

This matter was kept secret by Luo Zhi, and neither Ren Chenbai nor Jian Huaiyi had any information. Just because Jian Huaiyi planned to do something in Luo Zhi's car, and even before it could be implemented, Luo Zhi found out that he didn't know how to find out. On the night of the birthday party, he blocked people in the car and beat him to death. meal.

Luo Zhi sat up slowly and reached for the vehicle destruction certificate.

He fumbled for the first time, and moved his fingertips to reach the receipt. He picked it up and read it carefully, word by word.

"...Brother Chenbai." Luo Zhi said, "You didn't call the police to save me, but to destroy my car."

Ren Chenbai originally wanted to let him know about this, so he didn't hide it, and nodded: "I really didn't expect that you would play a critical illness on me so easily."

In fact, Ren Chenbai was just like everyone else, thinking that Luo Zhi only had a fever occasionally and passed out in the car, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

It was not until Luo Zhi was dragged out and taken to the ambulance that he knew how dangerous the situation was.

Luo Zhi didn't know whether he was listening or not, so he gave a soft "um" and looked at the receipt again.

Exploding tinnitus pierced through his mind, like the very loud sound of the first time he was so startled when he excitedly climbed into the car and honked the horn.

Everything in front of me distorted, turning fast and slow, turning into blurred patches of color.

"...Don't be afraid."

"Don't be afraid of little flames."

"Luo doesn't like you, and we don't like him!"

"Auntie will give you a car, and when you grow up, drive it around the world, wherever you want."

"We will live in the car in the future, and no one will be able to drive our little flame out this time."

"I'm scared, I'm sad, I'm homesick, so I'm going to hide in the car."

"Okay, the most sturdy car, it won't break in a hundred years."

…

Luo Zhi has always known that it doesn't matter if the Luo family doesn't want him.

Because he also has a home.

His home is that car, and if the world doesn't have a place for him, it's the last place he can escape.

"Why." Luo Zhi asked softly, "To make me more desperate?"

Ren Chenbai did not deny it, so this is the correct answer.

Luo Zhi nodded.

He said something that he couldn't even hear, and the color block representing Ren Chenbai stood up suddenly and grabbed his collar tightly.

His tinnitus was so bad that he couldn't hear what Ren Chenbai was saying, but he could only sense that Ren Chenbai was probably crazy.

The hands were shaking violently, shaking him vigorously.

But it doesn't matter, everything in front of him is already spinning, and he won't be more dizzy anyway.

Luo Zhi's face was pale and seemed to disappear at any time. He rolled his eyes, smiled obediently, and repeated what he just said.

"Brother Chenbai, that's Aunt Ren's relic."