flstandardbreds Chapter 158 The Nightmare
Chapter 158 The Nightmare
Thinking of going home early, Lu Xingchen started to pay attention to the time off work in the afternoon. He inexplicably had a desire to be with Li Zhen at all costs before the disaster came.
Later, Lu Xingchen realized that this feeling was a premonition. She had a premonition that misfortune would soon come, so she was so afraid of losing.
Lu Xingchen had already returned downstairs. Before taking the key, she was thinking about telling Li Zhen that she had arrived first. At this time, Lu Wenli called.
The phone call was like a wake-up call, but she was stunned for only a moment before quickly picking up the phone. When she heard her mother's trembling voice coming from the phone, the three words "something happened" instantly filled her head.
"Xingchen, Lu Wenli suddenly took me out of my house this afternoon. I wanted to call you and he snatched my phone away..."
"Did he do anything to you?"
"No, I guess he's in trouble again, hiding from debtors or someone or something."
After confirming that something had happened, Lu Xingchen calmed down instead, "Do you know where you are now?"
Xu Fanghua shook her head and then she remembered that Lu Xingchen couldn't hear her. "I've never been to this area. I just know it's a small house in a village in the city."
"Add me on WeChat now, send me your shared location, and I'll pick you up right away."
Xu Fanghua stole the phone while Lu Wenli was asleep. She didn't dare to delay and hung up the call. After doing what Lu Xingchen said, she thought about it and deleted the call records, then put the phone back in its place.
Lu Xingchen ran to the side of the road and stopped a taxi. He told the driver the address his mother had sent him, "Please hurry up."
However, the rush hour after get off work had not yet passed, and the car stopped and started for a long time. The only thing to be thankful for was that the position Xu Fanghua gave had not moved.
An hour and a half later, Lu Xingchen was only three or four kilometers away from his destination, but the shared location moved at this time.
Since they weren't moving very fast, she hoped they were just going out for a meal.
The driver said at this time: "Pretty girl, the alley ahead is closed."
"Please pull over then."
As the driver parked the car, he said, "What are you doing here so late at night, little girl? This village has many empty houses due to demolition, and the people hanging around here are just some scoundrels with nowhere else to go. There was even a fight and a stabbing here a while ago where someone was killed."
Lu Xingchen's heart sank when he heard this. He thanked the driver, got out and followed the navigation.
Although this place shows signs of being abandoned and dilapidated, fortunately it is still populated. There are several night market stalls on the roadside, and some customers are drinking.
Just seeing such a tall and beautiful girl like Lu Xingchen passing by alone, the guests all looked over, staring at her with a covetous look as if they were being stared at by a wild beast at night.
Lu Xingchen was not brave, but he was too busy being afraid at the moment and was only focused on rushing towards where his mother was.
Li Zhen called again, and Lu Xingchen replied with a WeChat message: It’s not convenient to talk later.
Her cell phone was running low on battery, so she had to keep it powered off before meeting Xu Fanghua.
As she walked deeper into the alley, Lu Xingchen's heart beat faster and faster, not only because the surrounding street lights were broken and the light was dim and there was no one around, but also because she had already reached the end of the shared location, but there was no one here!
Her mind seemed to be instantly pulled into the darkness, and she quickly found Lu Wenli's number and dialed it.
In the quiet and dark night, an unfamiliar telephone rang shrilly. Lu Xingchen's heart leapt into her throat and she ran deeper into the alley following the sound.
A small silver screen appeared in the corner of the wall, and the ringing of a phone came from there. Lu Xingchen quickly picked up the phone. There was a dark stain on the screen, and it turned out to be blood upon closer inspection!
"Mom..." Lu Xingchen suffocated for a moment, but she forced herself to calm down. She put Lu Wenli's cell phone into her pocket and dialed the emergency number.
"I want to call the police. My mother was taken away about 20 minutes ago. I don't know where she is now, but I found her dropped phone with blood on it. My current location is..."
After calling the police, she continued to look for them. Judging from the situation, they should not have run too far. Lu Xingchen ran through the alleys while shouting:
"Mom, Mom! I'm Xingchen! Mom—"
"Ah!" She was responded by a man's scream coming from an alley. Lu Xingchen's heart was pounding as she ran towards the voice!
From a distance, she saw three black figures kicking and hitting a black shadow on the ground under the dim light, but she couldn't go down because there was a slope three or four meters high and a half-demolished wall below.
Lu Xingchen walked around two buildings and turned into the alley, then saw a man stumbling towards him, covering his arm.
This person was Lu Wenli, who appeared outside the Zhencheng Building in the morning wearing a floral shirt! But there was no mother behind him, so Lu Xingchen rushed up and asked, "Where's my mother!"
Half of Lu Wenli's face was covered in blood. He was shocked for a moment when he saw Lu Xingchen. The next moment, he turned his head with horror and looked behind him and whispered, "What are you doing here!"
"Where's my mother!" Lu Xingchen's eyes were bloodshot.
At this time, the three men behind chased after them cursing, and Lu Wenli grabbed Lu Xingchen's arm and ran away.
Just as Lu Xingchen was about to shake him off, he heard Lu Wenli whisper, "Your mother is in the alley with a lot of wood behind. I'll hold you with a vegetable basket. Go quickly and don't come back!"
As he said this, he pushed her to the alley on the left and continued running forward.
When Lu Xingchen saw a pile of wood in the alley, he shouted, "Mom, I'm Xingchen, Mom!"
At this time, a low cry was heard in the darkness. Lu Xingchen ran into the wall without a door and saw many vegetable baskets on the ground.
"Mom!" She opened the basket and walked inside.
The basket on the wood was also turned over. Xu Fanghua wanted to move but her legs were too weak to move. "Xingchen..."
"It's me! It's okay..." After saying this, Lu Xingchen had already hugged Xu Fanghua in his arms.
Only then did Xu Fanghua dare to cry out loud, "Xingchen, I thought I would never see you again..."
"No!" Lu Xingchen didn't know who she was trying to comfort. She was really afraid that something would happen to Xu Fanghua, and that she would not even have a mother anymore. "Mom, are you hurt?"
"No, my chest hurts and my legs feel weak."
Lu Xingchen immediately took out the spare heart-protecting medicine from his bag and gave it to her to take. Then he hung the bag around his neck and said to her, "Come up, let's get out of here first!"
Lu Xingchen carried her mother on her back and ran towards the lamplit road. Watching her daughter running with her on her back in the dark night, listening to her every step and every breath, Xu Fanghua recalled the past.
Because Lu Xingchen is a girl, Lu's mother forced her to give birth to a son for the Lu family, and she tried her best to cooperate. However, she still couldn't get what she wanted, and she was so frustrated that she didn't even care about Lu Xingchen.
Thinking about it at this moment, she suddenly felt particularly sorry for this child. She was even worse than her son. Xu Fanghua hugged her tightly.
Lu Xingchen thought she was scared, so he ran while comforting her: "Don't be afraid, Mom, I'm here."
Lu Xingchen secretly breathed a sigh of relief the moment she ran onto the road, but there were no cars here and private cars were unwilling to stop for them.
Just as the last black car drove past without stopping, Lu Xingchen decided to run further to find a car. At this time, the black car backed up to their side...