Chapter 789: Filling the Pit with Cement
Around the large pit, those few dark figures gleefully called out for Manager Xiao Zhang to hurry over. Soon, another shadow appeared at the edge of the pit.
That shadow opened its mouth and let out an extremely hoarse voice: "Jiang Ran, long time no see."
Jiang Ran, at the bottom of the pit, said, "Is it really Xiao Zhang? Why does your voice sound different from before? Ah, your flashlights are waving around too much, I can't clearly see your face at all."
Manager Xiao Zhang let out a cold laugh: "Jiang Ran, there's nothing to doubt. I am Xiao Zhang. As for why my voice turned out like this, isn't it because of that fire you started? Oh, right, I almost forgot—you're a patient suffering from severe dissociative identity disorder. So tell me, which personality are you right now? Or are you still the original main personality?"
Jiang Ran chuckled softly: "Definitely not the original one, and not the one who set the fire either."
Manager Xiao Zhang: "Oh? Can you let the arsonist come out?"
Jiang Ran shook his head: "No."
Manager Xiao Zhang: "No? That's no fun then." He paused briefly before continuing, "Jiang Ran, I have a question, I'm curious."
Jiang Ran: "Go ahead."
Manager Xiao Zhang: "Since you're not the main personality—the one I'm most familiar with, the one who's a bit stupid—how did you obediently read the note I had someone deliver to you and actually come here to meet me? Didn't it occur to you that there might be an ambush?" The abandoned steel mill was prepared as Jiang Ran's burial ground. Of course, luring Jiang Ran here was also a troublesome task. So, Manager Xiao Zhang's invitation to meet was their first trick to get him here. These people all thought Jiang Ran wouldn't come, but he actually did... Because of that, they saved themselves a lot of effort.
At that moment, Jiang Ran said, "Oh... you mean that? You asked me to come meet you, so I came, didn't I?" His tone carried an air of absolute certainty. That sense of righteousness actually made the few dark figures beside Manager Xiao Zhang start cheering: "Whoa! Together! Together! Together!"
"By the way, you still haven't told me why you called me here to meet!" Jiang Ran shouted loudly, interrupting their "together" chants and adding the question.
Manager Xiao Zhang let out a scoffing laugh: "Look at you, I really can't tell if you're playing dumb or you're just genuinely stupid. Isn't everything right in front of you? I tricked you into coming here, isn't it to kill you?"
Jiang Ran made a motion of wiping tears with his right hand: "Truly heartbreaking. Our relationship was so good. You're the manager, and I'm the assistant manager. We worked together seamlessly."
"Disgusting." Facing Jiang Ran's fake, pretentious act, Manager Xiao Zhang spat out two words.
Then, from outside the pit, a continuous buzzing sound suddenly came. Manager Xiao Zhang looked up, glanced at it, and then, with a mix of smugness and melancholy, he looked down into the pit at Jiang Ran. He said coldly, "Jiang Ran, do you know? Back on Macedonia Island, when you started that fire, you burned Mark to death, and I almost got burned to death too. Although I was lucky to survive, my face, the skin all over my body, and my voice were pretty much ruined by you. I had hoped that when we finally met again after so long, I could personally use this chainsaw in my hand to turn you into a human stump. But unfortunately, I won't get that chance. I can't decide how you die."
As he spoke his last two sentences, the rear of a cement truck had already stopped above the pit, ready at any moment to fill this pit with that excrement-like substance—cement. Manager Xiao Zhang no longer paid any attention to Jiang Ran inside the pit, only leaving behind one final remark: "See you in the next life, Jiang Ran. Hope that in your next life, you won't run into me again." Then, Manager Xiao Zhang turned and walked away without a trace of hesitation.
And the moment he turned around, the rear of the cement truck also began to discharge its "excrement." The other dark figures around the pit didn't leave; instead, they watched with interest, using their flashlights to shine down below and observe Jiang Ran's desperate struggle. This was indeed quite entertaining.
With a whooshing sound, cement began to pour down like a waterfall. The landing point of the cement was right above the roof of that white Mercedes sports car. Poor sports car—it never got to continue being a man's tool for showing off and picking up various girls. Instead, it was doomed to be submerged in filthy cement ahead of time.
Although Jiang Ran was standing a bit farther away, some cement still splashed onto him. But Jiang Ran stood as still as a statue, only looking up toward the top. The smile still lingered at the corners of his mouth. Facing this life-and-death crisis, he was exceptionally calm. Not only calm, but at this moment, he even started talking loudly to himself: "I don't know if any of you up there have ever read Jin Yong's *The Return of the Condor Heroes* or watched the related TV adaptations?"
The few dark figures above chattered noisily, mostly saying they hadn't seen it, and then asking each other, "Have you seen it?" None of them had. After all, *The Return of the Condor Heroes* is only popular among Chinese people; to these foreigners, it's quite unfamiliar. Of course, regardless of that, he continued: "The main characters of this book are Yang Guo and Little Dragon Girl, and the final ending is that Yang Guo and Little Dragon Girl live together in seclusion, hidden away in an ancient tomb. I watched the TV series first, several different versions of *The Return of the Condor Heroes*, before finally reading the book. Of course, I was quite young back then, and the impression those TV series left on me was roughly that Yang Guo and Little Dragon Girl were deeply in love. However, because of their age difference and generational status, they faced many obstacles.
"But recently, a theory called the 'Guo Fu Love Theory' has popped up on TikTok. It means that Yang Guo actually never really liked Little Dragon Girl; the woman he truly loved was Guo Fu. Moreover, not only did he not like Little Dragon Girl, but he actually hated her to death and wished she would die. It's just that because Little Dragon Girl's martial arts were always better than his, their entire relationship was mutual acting, pretending to be deeply in love. This includes the part where Yang Guo and Little Dragon Girl finally return to the ancient tomb. Not long after, Little Dragon Girl actually died. After she died, Yang Guo went to find Guo Fu, fell in love with her, and lived in seclusion with her on Peach Blossom Island. Of course, this ending was also speculated and discussed by those bloggers on TikTok. In short, many bloggers on TikTok have produced a large amount of evidence to support the 'Guo Fu Love Theory.'
"As for my own opinion? Is it that Yang Guo deeply loves Little Dragon Girl, or is the woman Yang Guo loves actually Guo Fu? I'm not sure, and I don't know either. But you people must be curious: why am I saying all this? My purpose is to teach you deranged serial killers something. Sometimes, you don't see the whole picture. You only see the first layer, but you don't see the second layer. Or maybe, many years later, by some twist of fate, you can see the second layer, but you never expect that there's a third layer, or even a fourth layer. This situation is exactly what's happening to me right now."