Breaking Through The Clouds

Chapter 82

"Okay, Brother Yan, yes... We are already on our way to the hospital. We will call you when we reach there."

Gao Panqing hung up the phone, and the car with the sign "Jianning Public Security" made a sharp turn and sped away in the direction of the hospital.

"I don't believe your nonsense..." In the ward, Bu Wei's whole body couldn't stop trembling, although she didn't realize it herself, "This is not a punishment. It's me who has high hopes, and I am..."

Jiang Ting shook his head slightly and said, "Wang Xingye is the one who has high hopes for you."

"No-"

"Both you and Wang Xingye thought that the ultimate purpose of this play was to select the final substitute, but in fact you both misunderstood. He just wanted to design a scene that was completely similar to that year's, and then put children like you in this situation, and see if you would react the same way as that year when you encounter various choices in a desperate situation." Jiang Ting stopped for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Did you make Shen Xiaoqi swear that oath to you?"

- The dark sky collapsed, and the phoenix tree was burning like flames. Faced with the moment of life and death, the teenager's heart-wrenching cry was still echoing in her ears, "If we go out alive, I will definitely repay you!"

"I will definitely repay you in this life and protect you well!"

...

Bu Wei's chest heaved, and she slowly nodded.

Jiang Ting said, "But many years ago, this oath was made to me."

Although she had known this fact for a long time, when she heard it with her own ears, the girl's fingers couldn't stop twisting, and her knuckles gave out a crisp creaking sound.

"Kidnapping, extortion, bloody-clothing, fleeing, and oath of protection in desperation, both on the verge of death until they are saved... Wang Xingye should have told you everything he could find out. That guy probably thought that if you passed the 'test' successfully, he could also ascend to heaven with the chicken and the dog[1]." Jiang Ting laughed mockingly and said, "But unfortunately, there is one detail that Wang Xingye couldn't find out even after his death, because that person would never let others know."

"..."

Jiang Ting said softly in Bu Wei's fixed stare, "It's betrayal."

The girl's beautiful eyes were filled with unconcealed surprise and suspicion.

Isn't it that bottle of mineral water? She thought.

"No, it's not. All the details of the kidnapping have been perfectly reproduced, except for the

mineral water-because there has never been such a bottle of water."

"It was when the rescue finally arrived, and in order to take the lead in grabbing the climbing rope, he pushed me away."

The air with the smell of disinfectant seemed to have turned into some kind of liquid, sticky and cold, crawling through the nasal cavity, respiratory tract, and even every alveolus.

"Actually, I had already forgotten this detail until the police who investigated the scene told me that they had found an empty mineral water bottle, and only Shen Xiaoqi's DNA was found on it.

At that moment, I suddenly realized that more than 20 years had passed, but the force of that push had not disappeared yet. On the contrary, as the years passed, it became more and more ruthless and painful, so much so that he didn't even want to look back at his cowardice and betrayal, and could only invent a bottle of mineral water that had never appeared before, to use as a substitute for the image of betrayal."