Chapter 6 - Day 5

03:00 am

Xu Chu held the scissors in a trembling left hand, and got stuck in the gap between the shackles and the ankles.

After Huo Changzhi fell asleep, he waited for another two hours before getting out of bed and tiptoeing to the kitchen.

The kitchen scissors were sharp, the cold steel touching the skin on his ankles. The plastic footcuffs were tightly attached to the flesh, the tip of the knife was inserted, and the left hand was not able to control the strength.

Xu Chu held the handle of the knife and was about to apply force when someone squeezed the wrist of his left hand. With a strength that was about to break him, Xu Chu cried out in pain and was forced to let go of his hand. He desperately tried to pull it back. , but the opponent's strength is too great.

"You lied to me again."

Huo Changzhi's voice was very close to his ear, and he twisted Xu Chu's hand behind him.

"Huo Changzhi!" Xu Chu was so pressed that he couldn't stand up, and begged him, "Calm down!"

Huo Changzhi didn't let him go.

He turned on the light, waited for Xu Chu to get out of bed, followed him to the kitchen, and saw that he had been fumbling on the knife holder for a long time before he found the scissors, bent over to cut his shackles, and finally caught the thief and took the stolen goods.

He escorted Xu Chu away, Xu Chu said: "Go to the study, I will tell you everything."

"You have no trust at all." Huo Changzhi said, but he still took Xu Chu to the study.

He pressed Xu Chu to Huo Jiu'an's work station. He originally wanted to find something to tie him up, but Xu Chu was under his nose and his hand was injured, so he gave up.

"Open Huo Jiu'an's cabinet and take out his trophy," Xu Chu said, "I'll start from the beginning, you can choose whether to cut my handcuffs or not."

Huo Changzhi looked at Xu Chu for a while, ask him to go to the living room with him to get the keys.

Back in the study, Xu Chu sat back again and waited for him without saying a word.

While paying attention to Xu Chu's condition, Huo Changzhi pulled up the carpet, inserted the key into the keyhole, and opened Huo Jiu'an's bookshelf. The bookshelf moved up slowly, Huo Changzhi let go, and was about to go to the bookcase to get the trophy, when the light on the top of the study suddenly flickered a few times, and an alarm sounded throughout the room.

Huo Changzhi's expression changed, he quickly walked back to Xu Chu and grabbed his hand hidden behind him. Xu Chu had already cut off the handcuffs. He used a lot of force. Blood dripping down.

Xu Chu couldn't see how terrifying Huo Changzhi's expression was. He calmly told Huo Changzhi, "Go out, it's over."

In his left hand, he held a retractable pencil sharpener, and half of the knife was covered with red liquid.

Xu Chu remembered Huo Jiu'an's habit. He would put a spare pencil case under the writing board on the workbench. There was a pencil sharpener in the pencil case, and it was enough to cut a plastic ring. He also knew that it was impossible for him to sneak into the kitchen and cut off the shackles. All Xu Chu's actions were paving the way for coming to the study.

"Xiao Chu, you are very disobedient," Huo Jiu'an's long-lost voice came from the speaker next to the projection screen, "I'll give you the last five minutes, cherish it."

"Go out quickly," Xu Chu urged Huo Changzhi, his footcuffs have already started to click for a second, making a beeping sound of timing, he relaxed in his heart, and still wanted to joke with Huo Changzhi, "Don't forget me, Huo-ge."

Huo Changzhi was motionless standing beside him, he asked Xu Chu, "Don't you want to explain it?"

"You guessed it right, there are indeed two transmitters for the anklet and the handcuff, one is to transmit information to the program, and the other... is to transmit information to each other, as long as I cut one of them, the other will start," Xu Chu smiled, "I really didn't tell you the truth, this is also part of my design, I think some people may prefer to break the jade rather than complete the tile, and it's easy to do it. An optional procedure for destroying items has been made - now, I am Huo Jiu'an's piece of jade."

"Then it's useless to enter from the outside?" Huo Changzhi asked.

Xu Chu shook his head: "At first, I thought that if we entered from the outside, only one of us would die. Later, I thought of the extra piece in the design, the pipe that surrounds the house. If I guessed correctly, the inside is filled with gasoline. Once the room is damaged from the outside, the program will directly ignite the pipeline. Huo Jiu'an blocked the road long ago, we had no choice from the beginning."

Huo Changzhi took a few tissues and pressing the scar on Xu Chu's arm, the white tissue was quickly stained with blood, and he asked tentatively, "I cut your shackles now, what will be the consequences?"

Xu Chu smiled: "If one is broken, it will be killed by high-voltage electric shock, and the other will be detonated."

"Then let's die together." Huo Changzhi said calmly, holding Xu Chu's ankle in the palm of his hand and grabbing the knife in his hand.

Xu Chu couldn't keep his composure any longer, he scolded Huo Changzhi while pulling his feet back: "Are you crazy?"

Huo Changzhi grabbed him and didn't let go: "You don't have to let me cut it, I touch you, too. We can die together."

"I didn't want to live," Xu Chu tried to escape with his hands and feet, but he was just a blind patient who could only be held tightly in his palm by Huo Changzhi, Xu Chu spoke very fast in a hurry, he made a promise to Huo Changzhi, as if he felt that Huo Changzhi confirmed that he didn't want to live, so he could let him die, "Really, the day you came to pick me up, I wanted to cut off the handcuffs, I don't want to do any more. It's been like that, and it's the same now, I've got so many more days to live—"

The beeping sound on the shackles suddenly became sharp, and only the last minute was left.

Xu Chu didn't expect Huo Changzhi to be so crazy. He heard the alarm sound of the ankle cuffs. He was afraid that Huo Changzhi would really die with him. He was desperate, and desperately begged Huo Changzhi to let him go. He pushed Huo Changzhi's approach: "Huo Changzhi! Are you crazy? There are so many people dying in the hospital, do you want to accompany them all to die?!"

Huo Changzhi still had psychological comfort at this time: "I promised Huo Jiu'an to take you out. If I can't take you out, we'll die together."

Xu Chu's head was about to explode. He heard the timer sound louder and louder in his ears. He desperately struggled to escape from Huo Changzhi. Tears finally fell from his eyes and fell on his cheeks, drawing a line. When the drops hit Huo Changzhi's hands, it was still warm.

Huo Changzhi kissed Xu Chu's eyes and said to him, "Don't be nervous."

Huo Changzhi forcibly stretched out his hand and pressed Xu Chu's head, letting him lean on his hard shoulders, waiting for the end of his life to come.

After a long beep, the siren stopped.

Nothing has changed.

Except that Xu Chu's ankle cuffs fell off and fell on the soft carpeted floor. Xu Chu hadn't regained his senses, opened his eyes and breathed tremblingly.

"You're scared," Huo Jiu'an's voice came again, with a smile, "Would you like to come to the study, Xiao Chu?"

After a few minutes of silence, the projector on the top of the study suddenly started to work, and Huo Jiu’an appeared on the projection screen. Huo Jiu’an figure, he adjusted the position of the camera and sat back on the chair behind the workbench in the study.

"I'm scaring you, sorry," he said, "although you can't see it, I took a video for you, now you've cut the handcuffs, or the shackles? I guess you'll cut the shackles, no I know if I guessed right."

He pointed at his wrist with a smile, and Huo Changzhi saw that on his hand, there was a ring exactly like Xu Chu's.

"I actually wear a handcuff too," he said. "Unfortunately you can't see it. Our handcuffs are for a couple. When you cut your handcuffs, or when you cut your anklets, a signal will be sent to my bracelet, the bracelet will shock me with high voltage, so I should be out of this world now.”

"This is my gift to you. I have signed the cornea donation agreement, someone will come to pick you up, when the time comes, my cornea will be given to you, you can see me, and I can be tied to you forever.”

Xu Chu’s face turned pale, and he held Huo Changzhi's sleeve tightly.

"I left a lot of interesting things behind. Here, I have your college textbook notes on my computer. Yes, it's the ones you sold for money, your notes are so interesting, it's a pity to lose them," Huo Changzhi stretched out his hand and fiddled with the mouse, "I like the little program you wrote on page 78 of CS Introduction, It's so much fun to jump out of 'I love you' periodically over and over again.”

He suddenly remembered something, patted his head, and said angrily: "By the way, your one-night stand is actually my brother, and I lied to you by saying that he died, because I am very jealous of him, he has everything I couldn’t have. "

Huo Changzhi glanced at Xu Chu, Xu Chu listened in a daze, grabbing the hem of his clothes and making a mess.

“I don't know what else to say. That's it, bye, Xiao Chu, senior, I like you," Huo Jiu'an said, "I'm too selfish, I'm sorry.”

14:12 am

The door opened.