Chapter 126: Tantamount to Escaping Death

Chapter 126: Chapter 126: Tantamount to Escaping Death

"Monster!" Yun Zhen had taken the rag out of the madman’s mouth before returning, so he could speak again. With a flash of white light, Yun Zhen brought him to her dorm room. The madman showed no fear, only extreme ferocity as he yelled the word.

Time and space travel was already entirely beyond his comprehension!

Yun Zhen looked at the tightly bound madman. After making sure he had no ability to attack, she took out her phone and dialed Brother Zhao’s number.

BEEP BEEP... The dial tone rang out.

The ringing stopped, and Brother Zhao’s voice came from the other end. "Hello, Yun Zhen? Did something happen?"

To Zhao Peng, Yun Zhen had always been a well-behaved child who wouldn’t normally contact him. Calling this early in the morning meant it had to be an emergency.

Yun Zhen said, "Brother Zhao, are you busy right now? If not, could you come to my dorm? I have something important to discuss with you, but I can’t explain it clearly over the phone."

Although puzzled, Zhao Peng replied, "How about we meet at the cafeteria? You probably haven’t had breakfast yet."

Yun Zhen needed to tell him about the murderer. It was a long story, and she needed Brother Zhao to see the man in person to believe it.

"AHHHH!" The madman on the floor suddenly shrieked. His voice was terrifying as he writhed around, banging his head heavily against the floor. THUMP THUMP.

"Yun Zhen!" Hearing the commotion on her end, Zhao Peng jumped in fright and immediately asked, "Why is there a man’s voice in your dorm?!"

Thinking she was in danger, he hurriedly said, "Don’t be afraid, I’m coming over right now!" He didn’t just come alone; he ended up bringing a few colleagues with him.

"Are you wailing for the dead?!" Yun Zhen exclaimed in exasperation, delivering a vicious kick to the madman’s face.

She sighed. Forget it. She had originally planned to just tell Brother Zhao that she had caught the madman. She didn’t expect the guy to start screaming and alarm him. Before Yun Zhen could even explain, the line went dead on Brother Zhao’s end.

Having finished his howling, the madman gasped heavily for air. He looked weak and pained, too starved to muster the strength to scream anymore.

While waiting for Brother Zhao to arrive, Yun Zhen washed up and combed her hair. During this time, the madman whimpered continuously, like a defeated and captured wild beast.

BANG BANG BANG! Loud pounding echoed from outside the door. Soon after, Brother Zhao’s breathless voice rang out. "Yun Zhen, are you okay?! Open the door!"

Alongside Brother Zhao’s voice was the chaotic chatter of a group of people talking over one another.

"I’ll go downstairs to the dorm manager and get the key!"

"Let’s just kick the door down to ensure the kid’s safety!"

"This door is specially reinforced. A normal person can’t kick it open."

CLICK! Yun Zhen pulled the door open.

Brother Zhao was sweating profusely from anxiety, his hair completely drenched. He had just been about to try kicking the door when it opened in front of him. Seeing her, Brother Zhao froze. The others standing outside were also stunned.

Zhao Peng asked, "Yun Zhen, are you okay?"

Yun Zhen shook her head. "Brother Zhao, don’t panic. I’m fine. You hung up the phone just now, and I tried calling you back twice, but you didn’t answer. I’m really sorry for making you worry. I should have explained everything clearly on the phone."

Seeing that she was unharmed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

One of Zhao Peng’s colleagues patted his chest. "As long as the kid is okay. Brother Zhao ran over here in such a rush and called all of us to help. I thought something terrible had happened! It scared me to death, but thankfully it was just a false alarm."

"The kid is fine. You can relax now, Brother Zhao."

Zhao Peng wiped the sweat from his forehead. He couldn’t relax just yet. "I’m glad you’re fine, Yun Zhen. But when we were on the phone, I heard a man screaming in the background. Did an intruder break into your dorm?"

Everyone’s hearts leaped into their throats again.

Yun Zhen had already prepared her excuse. "Brother Zhao, come in and take a look first."

Zhao Peng led his seven or eight colleagues into the room.

On the floor, the tightly bound madman was still howling and whimpering. "WUUU! AHHHH!"

Zhao Peng’s brain short-circuited a little. He hastily asked Yun Zhen, "What is going on here? Why is there a tied-up man on your floor?"

Everyone noticed the madman, but they didn’t know his identity. The man had been tormented into a miserable state, crawling on the ground like a bug. A hat covered part of his face, making him unrecognizable.

Zhao Peng flipped the man over and pulled his hat off completely. The man’s face was covered in cracked frostbite wounds and red, swollen bruises from falling. He was whimpering feebly.

"Who is this? How did he end up in this kid’s dorm?"

"The door was closed. How did he get in?"

"Don’t tell me this kid tied him up like a rice dumpling?"

The group was thoroughly baffled.

Zhao Peng looked at her. "Yun Zhen..."

Yun Zhen revealed the man’s identity to him. "Brother Zhao, this is the killer who recently murdered people in the farmer’s market and the flea market alley. Yesterday at noon, he even wiped out his own sister’s entire family."

BOOM! Everyone’s eyes widened in disbelief as the revelation struck them like a bolt of lightning.

"What? A murderer?"

"He must be that psychiatric patient with the Supermale syndrome I saw online."

"I saw it while browsing the internet yesterday afternoon. He slaughtered his own sister’s family at noon. The police turned the entire South City District upside down but couldn’t find him. They even mobilized the SWAT team, but he had vanished without a trace. How did he end up in our institution’s dorm? And tied up like this?"

"Those are frostbite and fall injuries on his face, right? It has been pretty cold lately. No wonder he froze into such a ghastly state sleeping on the streets. He probably took a few nasty spills, too."

Everyone took out their phones to search for the man’s information.

Zhao Peng held his phone, displaying the killer’s mugshot. Swiping to another photo released by the police, he carefully compared them one by one. It was a perfect match.

"It really is the killer!" Zhao Peng jumped in shock.

The others now saw it clearly as well. This man was indeed the murderer who had recently caused widespread panic. Not only had he killed a man over a minor verbal dispute, but he had also massacred his own sister’s family. How could such a dangerous person be here? Everyone’s hearts pounded with fear, entirely bewildered.

Zhao Peng took a deep breath, trying his best to stay calm, and asked, "Yun Zhen, how did he end up in your dorm? And who tied him up?"

Yun Zhen slowly recounted her fabricated story. "Yesterday, when I got off work and came back to the dorms, I ran into him right as I entered the neighborhood. Or, more accurately, I bumped into him. I had seen his portrait and knew he had disconnected eyebrows, wrinkles on his forehead, and dark sunken pits under his eyes. I didn’t want to alert him, planning to just tell you about it when I got back to the dorm. But because I bumped into him, he held a grudge and started following me relentlessly."

Yun Zhen shifted her eyes slightly. "I was terrified. I ran back to my dorm without looking back and hid under my covers, too scared to make a sound. I also forgot to tell you right away. But when I woke up today, I found him lying unconscious on my dorm floor."

She continued to spin her tale. "I knew he came to seek revenge. Although I don’t know why he fainted on the floor, I tied him up with a rope I had scavenged just to be safe. You know what happened after that. I called to tell you about this, but then the killer woke up and screamed. You hung up, and before long, you showed up at my door with your colleagues. When I heard you calling for me anxiously outside, I opened the door."

Listening to her explanation, everyone thought she was incredibly lucky! It was nothing short of a narrow escape from death! If the killer hadn’t passed out, they could only imagine the disastrous consequences!

Yun Zhen had always been a good kid in Zhao Peng’s eyes. Before coming to the institution, she had followed vagrants around scavenging for scraps, so it made perfect sense that she would have a scavenged rope on hand.

Zhao Peng believed her.

The others present weren’t very familiar with Yun Zhen, but they were also thoroughly convinced. They only thought to themselves that this kid was truly gutsy!