Unbridled, Depraved

Chapter 309 Fire

The light in the elevator was blindingly pale.

Shen Qianhe blinked hard and slid his fingertips across the screen several times but failed to unlock the phone.

At this moment, a cloyingly sweet aroma suddenly rushed into my nose.

It smells like cheap perfume mixed with some chemicals.

"Well......"

She raised her head slowly, and a piece of white fabric rapidly enlarged in her sight.

Instinctively, she raised her hands to block it, but her limbs felt as heavy as if they were filled with lead.

The piece of cloth tightly covered her mouth and nose, and the sweet smell rushed into her lungs.

"save......"

Her nails left several bloody marks on the other person's arm, but she couldn't even utter a cry for help.

The world began to spin, and the red numbers on the elevator buttons twisted into strange bands of light before my eyes.

In her last moments of consciousness, she felt herself falling, but could not hear the sound of her body hitting the carpet.

Shen Qianhe's phone was lying quietly on the carpet, with the screen still showing the message Xie Jincheng had just sent: [Do you want me to pick you up? ]

......

When Shen Qianhe opened his eyes again, he found himself tied up with an iron chain around his neck and locked in a dark basement.

She shook her head desperately, trying to dispel the black fog in front of her eyes.

When my vision finally focused, a piercing chill instantly ran up from my spine to my head.

The tattered dolls piled in the corner were toys from childhood.

There are dark brown stains on the ground, and it is hard to tell whether they are mold or... blood.

This is the basement of the Shen family’s old house.

It's her nightmare cage.

This was also the place where she was burned and became seriously ill in her previous life.

Darkness pressed in from all directions, as if countless pairs of cold hands were caressing her skin.

The screams in my memory exploded in my ears, and the smell of burnt flesh seemed to linger in my nose again.

She began to tremble uncontrollably, and the chains made a constant noise as she trembled.

"no, do not want......"

"Help--!"

Just then, a "creak" sound came from a distance.

The basement door opened.

Shen Qianhe raised his head with difficulty and saw a thin, ghostly figure staggering in, dragging a large barrel of gasoline.

Under the dim light, Shen Mu's once delicate face was now distorted beyond human form, with a crazy light flashing in his sunken eye sockets.

"You woke up so soon?"

She kicked the lid of the gasoline barrel roughly, and the pungent smell of gasoline instantly filled the entire basement.

"I thought...you were going to sleep until tomorrow morning."

She spoke slowly as she tilted the oil barrel. The dark liquid poured out with a "splash" and snaked on the ground like a hideous poisonous snake.

"Shen Mu! What are you doing! Stop it now!"

Shen Qianhe struggled violently, and the iron chain left bloody marks on his neck.

"Stop? Why?"

Shen Mu suddenly laughed shrilly, "I am the only one left in the Shen family now...hahaha..."

After a long while, her laughter stopped abruptly and her eyes suddenly became resentful.

"It's all your fault! It's all your fault, bitch!"

She rushed to Shen Qianhe and pinched her chin with her skinny fingers: "It's you who destroyed my family! It's you who destroyed everything I have!"

Shen Qianhe suppressed the bloody taste in his throat and said, "They deserved it. I just did what I should do."

"Do they deserve it?"

Shen Mu laughed crazily, "Are you innocent?"

She suddenly poured the last of the gasoline towards the corner of the wall, "It's all because of you, bitch, that the Shen family has been ruined to this point! You are the one who really deserves to die!"

"Shen Mu, even if I die, do you think you can survive?"

She suddenly laughed softly, "Xie Jincheng is a man who would do anything to avenge me."

"I have seen the ways he tortures people. Skinning, pulling out tendons, cutting into pieces, aren't you afraid? Even if you run to the ends of the earth, he will find you."

Hearing this, Shen Mu's eyes wavered for a moment.

Shen Qianhe saw the hesitation in her eyes and pressed the issue: "Even if you are not afraid... don't you care about your mother and Shen Tianyou? Do you think killing me will end everything? Xie Jincheng will make you live a life worse than death... He will let you watch them suffer with your own eyes..."

"As long as you let me go, I can pretend nothing happened, I promise..."

"Shut up! Shut up!"

Shen Mu suddenly jumped up, and his hysterical screams echoed in the basement.

She raised her hand and slapped Shen Qianhe hard.

With a crisp "pa" sound, Shen Qianhe's head was hit to one side, and blood immediately seeped out from the corner of his mouth, which was particularly glaring on his pale face.

"So what if that's the case!"

Shen Mu laughed crazily, his voice so distorted that it didn't sound like a human voice. "I don't care about anything now, I just want you to die!"

"Go to hell! Go to hell!"

She stumbled back, her skinny fingers clutching the lighter tightly.

"Shen Qianhe, this time, I win after all."

With a "click", the gears of the lighter turned.

The moment the blue flames fell to the ground, the entire basement seemed to be paused.

"boom--!"

Amidst the deafening explosion, tongues of flames rose into the sky like an awakening ancient dragon.

The orange-red flames spread wildly along the traces of gasoline, making crackling sounds wherever they passed.

In the blink of an eye, most of the basement had become a sea of ​​fire, and the scorching air waves distorted the air.

She struggled to shout, but was choked by the thick smoke and started coughing violently.

Shen Mu stood at the stairs, the firelight cast a strange shadow on her distorted face.

She admired Shen Qianhe's painful struggle, with a crazy grin on her lips:

"Enjoy it. This is the burial place I specially prepared for you."

Then......

"boom!"

The basement door was slammed shut.

The wooden floor made a creepy crackling sound in the flames, and every crisp sound was like the sound of a bone breaking.

Thick black smoke rolled up and filled the entire basement, mixed with the pungent smell of gasoline, and every breath felt like swallowing a red-hot blade.

Memories of being engulfed by flames in a past life came flooding back.

The burning pain of the skin...

The suffocating feeling of the trachea being burned by the thick smoke...

The despair of watching oneself being burned bit by bit...

All the feelings reappear at this moment.

I didn't expect that I would die in such pain in this life.

Not reconciled.

She is not reconciled!

Since she was given a new life, why should she repeat the same ending?

Why is it?

Obviously, she has tried so hard to change everything.

Obviously, she was about to embark on a new life.

Why......

Why......