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Chapter 37 Human Skin Priest

The three-story office building has two entrances and exits. The main entrance is a large yard, and the open space is used as a parking lot. On both sides are Japanese restaurants and a small bar.Entering the office building, there is a hidden door at the back of the stairs.They can walk through the office building and escape from the golden cicada through the small door.

I ran into the parking lot and didn't see the security guard, so I guess I was dozing off.The magazine’s work schedule is irregular, and journalists and editors often spend the night rushing to draft, make editions, conduct long-distance interviews, or watch football games, so the doors are unlocked 24 hours a day.The three quickly hid in the office building.

Peeping out, the masked man followed in.The man who can speak Chinese seems to be the leader, wearing a particularly huge black earring, and instead of attacking the building immediately, he assigns his subordinates to guard around and search for the entrances and exits to prevent the prey from escaping.All day long, I feel great regret.He forgot that these Mexicans have experienced many battles and are not even afraid of the American army. How could they be overwhelmed by their own little tricks?He made a decisive decision, took Tong Yiru and Lin Rabbit to the office on the third floor, locked the door, and immediately called the police.

The surroundings fell silent, only Tong Yiru's extraordinary panting was heard.Cheng Tianlu hugged her and patted her on the back, "It's okay, this is the safest city in the world, the police uncle will arrest the bad guys in a while."

Tong Yiru just trembled and hugged his body tightly.Cheng Tianlu said comforting words, but he didn't know what to do in his heart.He reported to the police, but he couldn't say that he was surrounded by Mexican drug lords. He could only vaguely claim that there were suspicious people outside the office.I don't know if the police pay attention to it. The marathon has closed the surrounding roads. I don't know when the police uncle will arrive.

"Boss Lin, where are your bodyguards?" Cheng Tianlu suddenly remembered that there was a local tycoon with tens of billions of dollars beside him, "Call them quickly for support."

Lin Rabbit shrugged, "I didn't bring my cell phone, I'm afraid of being detected signal." Give him the cell phone, but he can't remember a phone number.All day long, he wanted to throw the table, thinking he brought a golden finger, but it turned out to be a useless burden.

The phone rings.Cheng Tianlu answered immediately.On the other end of the phone is Brother Qi.

"Where are you?" Qi Ge'er mumbled, "I want pork fennel buns and egg soup, come quickly!"

This guy didn't run the marathon, so he went to have breakfast.Cheng Tianlu briefly told Brother Qi about the predicament.

Brother Qi wiped his mouth: "You wait, I'll save you!"

"Fuck! Save me, hurry up..." Without saying a word, the phone hung up.Cheng Tianlu was so anxious that he called Brother Qi again and again, but no one answered.

In the office building, only the corridors are lit.They didn't dare to turn on the lights. The gradually brightening sky outside the window cast a faint blue light on people's faces, making the atmosphere even more depressing.

Rabbit Lin: "Did those savages leave without making a sound?"

It was surprisingly quiet outside. In Cheng Tianlu's memory, the office had never been so quiet.Looking from the window, there was no one below, and the marathon brigade was advancing in the distance, like a river deep in the wilderness.He knew that the gates and stairs were impossible to stop the Mexicans, let alone the broken door in his office.

He thought for a while, opened the door, and walked out softly.The corridor was very bright, and at the end of the corridor stood an Aztec priest with a red face and a white shirt.

Cheng Tianlu said coldly: "Brother, what do you want?"

The priest didn't speak, raised his hand to unbutton it, and took off his white shirt, revealing his muscles and tattoos all over his body.The overhead lights flickered and flickered again.The lights in the building have never been repaired, and since the day Brother Qi came, it has never been able to return to normal.

It's time for this office building.The [-]-year-old building was built before Beijing's Olympic bid.At that time, the country had not entered the WTO, housing prices had not increased by twenty times, and buses were still selling paper tickets.At that time, everyone had a wonderful premonition of the future, barren and vibrant, and the world opened before them.At that time, the golden age of media began, and novelty from outside was continuously imported, and the society was fissioned like a kaleidoscope.The train is running too fast, and no one knows where they will be. The role of the media is nothing more than doing their best to describe the trajectory of the train, hoping to lead to a better path.

Then the train drove into the dark cave.

The building is inevitably getting old.Standing in this corridor, facing the savages in front, Chengtianlu was confused for a moment: Is time moving forward or backward?

The Aztec priest said: "We want human skin, give us human skin."

Cheng Tianlu smiled: "You think this is a slaughterhouse. The police are coming soon. If you don't want to be deported, you should leave quickly."

The priest came over and said very politely: "Sir, this matter has nothing to do with you. We want Miss Tong, hand her over, and we will leave China immediately."

Cheng Tianlu shook his head, "You can't take anything with you." His body tensed up, and he suddenly punched the priest in the face.The priest was caught off guard and quickly covered his head with his hands.Although he was strong, he lost his first move and was hit in the abdomen by Cheng Tianlu's knee.He never expected that the Chinese who looked gentle and gentle would hit him as soon as he said he wanted to, and his shots were fast and hard, and he was beaten to the ground in an instant.Cheng Tianlu stepped on his mask, and the paper mask split in two, revealing panicked and painful eyes.

Cheng Tianlu knelt on his chest with one leg and said to the seven or eight Mexicans who ran over, "Don't come over, he will die if you come over!"

He expected that these Mexicans had no weapons, so he took a gamble to control the situation before Qi Geer broke in.The result was very smooth. The Mexicans were not even afraid of the police, let alone the Asians. They were dumbfounded until they fell to the ground.

Cheng Tianlu breathed a sigh of relief, there were hostages in his hands, and the Mexicans had no guns or crossbows, so they were safe for the time being.The overhead lights flickered and went out completely.

The surroundings fell into complete darkness.

All day long, Lu's heart trembled, and all the muscles in his body tensed up.At this time, footsteps sounded, and someone walked up the stairs.Listening to the unhurried pace, the blood rushes to the head all day long, and the heartbeat is too fast to be restrained.

Brother Qi is here!That idiot!

He shouted: "Brother Qi, don't come up!"

It was too late, the sound of footsteps had already reached the floor, people could not be seen clearly in the darkness, only a flash of fluorescent green lightning suspended in the thick black air.

Cheng Tianlu gasped and urged him: "Come here!"

There was a light "hiss" sound in the air, and to Cheng Tianlu's ears, it was as sharp as a bullet passing through the heart.Cheng Tianlu's hairs stood on end, shouts stuck in his throat, and the sound of "swoosh" rushed towards the green lightning with an invisible entity.The lightning dimmed, fell, and fell to the floor with a loud bang.

"Brother Qi!" Cheng Tianlu didn't care about the hostages, and ran towards "Lightning".

Touching Brother Qi's warm body, Tianlu almost went crazy.He hugged Brother Qi tightly to his chest to avoid being attacked again.But he forgot that he was also made of flesh and blood, and suddenly his back hurt, and he fell on Brother Qi.

Daylight is so slow.After a century of struggle, the sky is still gray-blue, and the dim light shines on everyone's faces.

Cheng Tianlu, Tong Yiru and Lin Tuo sat on the ground.Qi Geer leaned against the wall, the lightning dimmed, revealing a black cross.There was a small gash on his cheekbone, and the blood dried and turned purple.Cheng Tianlu felt distressed and angry at the same time, threw a ball of paper over and cursed: "What the hell are you doing here?"

"I'm afraid you're dead."

"Fuck you! This is Beijing, who would kill people casually? Don't think the bad plots of your horror movies are real."

After saying this, Cheng Tianlu became more and more uneasy.In fact, he was not sure whether the drug lords outside would kill people.He thought it was impossible for them to carry weapons, but he almost shot Qi Geer to death just now.Until now, he hadn't figured out what it was that attacked Brother Qi, but he was just glad that Brother Qi didn't react slowly and dodged the fiercest attack in a nick of time.

Tong Yiru said in a trembling voice: "Tianlu, what should we do now? I just heard that he wants...to take my skin!"

Lin Rabbit: "Why do you need the skins of big beauties, they are very perverted."

Cheng Tianlu said in a deep voice: "Aztec priests, what's so strange about wanting human skin? They still take hearts from living people and eat human flesh."

"What is an Aztec priest?" Qi Geer asked.

Facing a room full of scumbags, Cheng Tianlu patiently explained to them: "The Aztecs were an ancient civilization in Mexico. They believed in the sun god, and they believed that the sun would rise every day by offering sacrifices to the sun god. Sacrifice The best method is to select saints and saints, raise them well, and put them on the altar at the top of the pyramid. The priests cut open their bodies with obsidian knives and took out their hearts. The hearts were still beating when they were taken out. They thought that these sacrifices The ones will fly to the sun and live with the gods."

Tong Yiru's face turned pale: "I don't want to fly to the sun."

Cheng Tianlu continued to use the calm voice of teaching, "In addition to harvesting hearts, they also skinned people. Priests wore human skins on their bodies for everyone in the city to see. Sometimes they would wear them for a whole month."

Rabbit Lin was about to vomit: "It's too barbaric! Now that everyone is in space, why is there such a cruel thing?"

Cheng Tianlu shook his head: "You feel cruel because you look at it from the current perspective. People at that time believed that wearing human or animal skin, including wearing a mask, would give you extraordinary power. Until now, Mexico Wrestlers still wear masks, masks of heroes, masks of ghosts, masks of beasts, thinking that masks will make them stronger. Big beauty, don't you ask me what leopard warriors are? They are Aztec Special forces, wearing leopard skin. You wear other people's skin, and others want your skin, there is nothing cruel or cruel."

Tong Yiru wished he could take off his leopard clothes.

Lin Yizhong only cared about one thing, tremblingly said: "No matter what they are, they will kill us, right?"

Everyone was silent.I can't be sure about Cheng Tianlu, the sky is always dark, the police never come, and there is Qi Geer in this room.Looking at Brother Qi behind the toad mirror, Tianlu has an ominous premonition all day long.

With Brother Qi around, anything can happen.

He sighed, decided to dispel the atmosphere of Stranger Things, and said pragmatically: "The Aztecs have long since perished. Now Mexico is mainly Catholic, and priests are used to scare people. But there is one thing, why do they dress up?" How about an Aztec?" Cheng Tianlu looked at Tong Yiru, "They really want your skin."

Tong Yiru hugged her body tightly, like falling into an ice cellar.From the moment her boyfriend had an accident, she knew she would not be spared.Reporting her boyfriend is a last resort, she loves him, this love transcends reason and morality, she does not regret it.Now is the time to pay the price.

Lin Yizhong shouted: "Don't play anymore, my plane is waiting for me, I can leave China after a while. Let me go!" He stopped Cheng Tianlu, "Help me, I don't want to die here .”

Suddenly his rabbit ears were picked up, Tong Yiru said in his ear: "Be quiet, rabbit. They won't kill you, I'll go with them."

She stood up and walked to the door.

Brother Qi said: "Don't go. Skinning is very painful. If it starts from the feet, the bleeding will be very slow, and it will be difficult to die immediately. From the scalp..."

"Shut up, Brother Qi!" Cheng Tianlu saw Tong Yiru's body shaking, and was afraid that he would faint immediately.

Brother Qi stood up, put on his fleece cap, and hugged Tong Yiru's shoulders to comfort him: "Don't be afraid, none of us will die. Just find a way to escape."

Lin Yizhong: "How to escape? There are many of them."

Brother Qi walked slowly to the desk, picked up a box, gently opened it, and said in a relaxed tone: "If you have this, it should be fine." There are tiny crystals in the box.

Mercury fulminate.

This was given to Cheng Tianlu by Brother Qi when they were at the home of the painter Duomi.Cheng Tianlu didn't return it to Brother Qi, and he couldn't take the explosives with him, so he put it in the office first, and planned to hand it over to the country after the painter's incident faded one day.It's just that he was too busy with work, so he forgot the explosives after a while.

With Brother Qi around, there will be no peace in the world.Cheng Tianlu thought to himself: Brother Qi finally found a chance to blow up his office!

The author says:

When writing about savage growth, I can also proudly reflect on the impact of globalization, where is my self-identity, local and mixed problems.Now, ah, globalization has become a lost beauty world.Despite all the problems, who benefits the most from globalization?Think about life 30 years ago, think about the limitations of choice, the narrowness of vision, the horror of singleness.Going back to the closure of the past is not good at all.Pray for the world to reopen, walls to come down, want to be free even though there is a lot of pain.