Pure Darkness

Chapter 11

Bo Jinyan was struggling.

A gentle white moonlight shone on the worn kitchen window sill, its light swaying to and fro. The girl was sharp and cruel as she strangled him from behind. His arms were not thick, but the strength he used would not lose to a man. Bo Jinyan was caught off guard by her sneak attack.

He made no sound, as he tenaciously wrapped his hands around Bo Jinyan tightly, strangling her, wanting to kill her. The phone in Bo Jinyan's hand fell. He smiled coldly, turning his face hard.

After he had experienced such a huge loss, he groaned, but he was still unwilling to let go. Instead, he began to strangle her even tighter. Obviously he did not have much experience as he did not try to use any fighting skills. He fully relied on his toughness and willingness to kill people. However, Bo Jinyan was much taller than him, and she was very calm. Although he did not have the agility to release it from her, he had his brain. When he saw that he could not let go, and he was not confused in the slightest, he calmed his breath and fiercely tried to throw it, in an attempt to make it hit the long table.

He hit the table so hard that even Bo Jinyan's waist suffered from crashing into the table. But he was still very persistent and still did not let go. Both of his hands were now just clutching her neck. Bo Jinyan was angry, yet she laughed. Now she could turn her head around, but when she saw her gray hair, she was a little surprised.

“Why?” Bo Jinyan pressed him tightly onto the table using her back, while the two of them gasped for breath and said softly, “Why is there so much despair ... And hatred?”

He's not talking.

Bo Jinyan elbowed her stomach hard, finally freeing herself from it. He lowered his head and smashed it into his body. Bo Jinyan had some real skills, but when meeting an opponent who did not care about her life, she could not benefit.

In the dark room, the two stared at each other in silence.

“What kind of suffering have you been through?”, Bo Jinyan whispered, “Parents? A guy? Children?”

He wailed.

Bo Jinyan softly said, “Oh.”

“What kind of damage have people done to you?” This time, with one smooth move, he grabbed her hand as he was about to attack her again in the darkness, “Abuse? To lie? Rape it? Murder?”

“You know nothing..” He said in a trembling voice, “You guys... don't know anything!”

“No, quite the contrary, I know everything .” Bo Jinyan replied, “My name is Bo Jinyan. I will not let go of any sin when I face it.

He said nothing in the dark. But Bo Jinyan could clearly feel that she was crying.

“You ..” He just started talking when suddenly he pushed a nearby closet and ran out of the room.

Bo Jinyan pushed the debris on her body and chased after him. Just then two maids came to the hall, and they shouted, “Miss Tong, what happened?”

Miss Tong did not answer. He turned around and disappeared from sight. Bo Jinyan was blocked by the two maids but when she finally ran, she saw the end of the small road. Miss Tong's silhouette flashed and disappeared. And at the end of the road, was Yao's courtyard.

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After about twenty minutes, Jian Yao, Fang Qing and a few others arrived at the inn. Many police car lights lit up under the previously quiet night sky.

Jian Yao had a premonition in her heart that something was not right.

……

Some whispered softly:

“Someone died, I heard someone died. Police came very quickly.”

“I heard the man was killed by the killer from a few nights ago”

“Quick, pack your things – who dares stay at the inn again.”

……

Fang Qing, who was leading the line, frowned and exchanged glances with Jian Yao. Jian Yao's face was paler. He was silent, his head lowered, staring straight ahead.

It's not hard to know where the second murder took place. Because right now, many people were gathered outside the courtyard where the Yao family lived. Inside, everything was brightly lit and busy with people, but with a faint voice people were crying.

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The police went to Zhao Xia's brightly lit room. Yao Yuange was only wearing pajamas, as he stood up with a pale face and some bloodstains on his clothes. His rightful wife, Ming Lan, stood beside him, propping him up with one hand, while covering her own face with the other. “Other concubines from the Yao family stood outside the door, each of them with a bad expression on their faces.

As Jian Yao walked in, he saw Zhao Xia lying near the door, a bloody hole in his back. A bloody knife was on the ground next to him, and the ground was covered in blood.

“What happened?” Fang Qing said this in a low voice as he picked up Zhao Xia's pulse to make sure that he was no longer breathing and was indeed dead.

“Tong.. Miss Tong barged in and killed her.” Yao Yuange replied.

“How about Bo Jinyan?” Jian Yao quickly asked.

“Jian Yao, I'm here.” A voice came from behind. Jian Yao quickly turned around, and saw Bo Xinyan walking towards him through the crowd. The strands of hair on his forehead were drenched in sweat, and his shirt was covered in blood. But his eyes were still as dark and sharp as ever.

Jian Yao's heart was pounding. He's got too many questions. But when he saw the mark on his neck, the words stopped in his throat. Instead, he was very calm, and he clasped his hands, and lowly said, “Don't worry, Madam Bo, I'm fine.”

Every time, he always answered like this, but this time Jian Yao could not laugh.

“The criminal is uphill, to the southwest.” Bo Jinyan told Fang Qing bluntly, “He knows his way very well so I can't catch up to him.”

Fang Qing told his men, “Pass him!”. The entire police force went into action. However, the sky was already very dark and the mountains in the background looked like dormant monsters. No one knows if they'll make it tonight.

The scene came to life very quickly.

Fang Qing brought two veteran criminal police officers, and they crouched on the floor to continue investigating the corpse. The inspectors also arrived, and thus their work began. Yao Yuange was taken to the side to be pacified, and also to prepare him for interrogation. Other family members were also isolated. They all had to go through police interrogation.

Zhao Xia, who was lying on the floor, had died a very brutal death. A knife had made him meet a cruel death, and the knife was pierced right in his heart. Only the people at the scene knew what happened before Bo Jinyan managed to chase after the culprit here.

Bo Jinyan and Jian Yao looked at Yao Yuange. His face was somewhat white, and somewhat red, but he also did not look lost in reason due to fear. He nodded at the police officer in front of him and his eyes were filled with sadness and anger.

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“...Dark sky, no lights, unknown street. After I reached Yao page, I was already far behind him, ” Bo Jinyan said, sipping her tea.

Fang Qing nodded. “Did you see which room he ran to?”

“I can't see it clearly. By the time I got there, he was already in the room. ”

Bo Jinyan started to recall that scene back then.

In the middle of the night, when he reached the wall outside the courtyard, trees and houses blocked his view. Miss Tong's trail has disappeared. He made the quick decision to knock on the door, and for a while, no one answered the door. The evil dog outside the door barked at him crazily. At that moment, he really missed Fang Qing a little. After thinking of a way to deal with the dog, he sneaked into the residence, only to see that some rooms were still bright with light, while other rooms were pitch black.

Miss Tong will definitely not return to her own room – who will practically sit and wait for death to come to her. Bo Jinyan first went towards Yao Yuange's innermost – bedroom as well as Ming Lan's bedroom, which was right beside her. If Miss Tong was driven by desperation to retaliate recklessly, it was likely that the target would be the two hosts. But who could have guessed that after he got closer, he saw Yao Yuange's door shut and everything inside was pitch-black? His heart trembled, as he carefully approached and slowly opened the door, discovering that there was no one inside.

At that moment, a woman screamed from Zhao Xia's room. Bo Jinyan immediately turned around and saw that the door was pushed open violently, as someone slowly walked out of the room. Her face was entirely covered in blood, and from her figure, she saw that it was Miss Tong.

Bo Jinyan immediately ran over.

As he passed through Zhao Xia's door, he quickly looked inside, and that was the scene that the police officers would see later. He was on the floor, and Yao Yuange was standing beside the corpse, his face completely flushed red. When he saw Bo Jinyan, he was shocked. Bo Jinyan gently touched Zhao Xia, finding that she was no longer breathing. He shouted at Yao Yuange, “Quick call the police and ambulance!” After he finished speaking, he ran towards the direction Miss Tong was heading.

After he chased her out of Yao's courtyard, he followed her into a small, winding alley. The pitch-black foot of the mountain rendered him helpless. Miss Tong's silhouette flashed by, as she dashed into the forest, and there were no more traces of her in sight. After Bo Jinyan finally caught up, she only saw little by little clues. There were many small paths on the mountain and weeds as tall as humans. How could he still find her?

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Bo Jinyan raised her head and said, “We're back to another start. If we dig up his secret, we'll know why he killed people.”