Killer Nights

“Hey Liu Na, is Wei Xin in the office?”  Jiang Zhengkai called Wei Xin on her cell phone, but she didn’t pick up, so he decided to call her desk phone at the sub-bureau.  Her officemate Liu Na was the one who answered.

“No, Inspector Jiang,” Liu Na replied over the phone.

“I see.  Thank you,” Jiang Zhengkai said back to Liu Na.  “Where the h.e.l.l could that girl be?” he quietly complained.  Wei Xin was normally a very hardworking police officer, so it wasn’t like her to skip out on work without telling anybody.  Perhaps she was physically and mentally exhausted from working this case and needed to relax for a bit.  In any case, Jiang Zhengkai decided he would go back and re-inspect the crime scene.

A young man with a shaved head ran into the internet cafe and yelled at the cafe’s owner, A-Tao, “Brother Tao, there’s a woman in the ditch!”

“G.o.dd.a.m.n it, why the h.e.l.l are you yelling in broad daylight?” A-Tao snarled back at the boy as he slapped him upside the head.  He then turned around and shouted, “A-Long, A-Meng, and the rest of you come with me and check things out!”  After the call went out, another four or five tattooed young men in the internet cafe stood up and followed him outside.

Behind the internet cafe was a dried up drainage ditch, and inside that ditch was a naked woman.  Her body was bound up into a strange shape resembling that of a frog.  It was clear that she had been dumped here and had already experienced an excruciating amount of torment.

“Who the f.u.c.k did this?” A-Tao cursed at the sight of this woman in the ditch, “I wonder who has b.a.l.l.s big enough to f.u.c.k around in my neighborhood.  Alright, let’s get her out of the ditch.”

Upon hearing his order, all the young men that came with him from the internet cafe went down into the ditch and got the woman out of there.  A-Tao looked at the woman and asked those around him, “Do any of you recognize her?  How come she doesn’t look like any of those girls from the alley?”  The guys who came with him looked at her for a while but didn’t recognize her either.  “G.o.dd.a.m.n it!  Does n.o.body recognize this girl?  Maybe we should call over a couple more guys to see if they recognize her,” A-Tao said to his followers.  He then grabbed the woman’s face with his hand and turned it left and right when he realized that she was still alive, “She’s still breathing!  Tell those guys to hurry up and get over here!”

Soon, a group of more than twenty young men surrounded this poor woman.  They looked at her like they were looking a piece of art.  “Does anyone recognize her?” A-Tao asked while cracking his neck and impatiently pointed at the woman, “f.u.c.k!  Does n.o.body recognize her?”

“Bro…” a man named A-Gui finally stood out from the crowd, “I think… I think she’s a cop…”

“A cop?”  A-Tao crouched down again and looked at the woman with suspicion in his eyes, “G.o.dd.a.m.n!  Times sure are a changin!  Can’t believe someone managed to f.u.c.k up a cop this bad.”  After he spoke, he used his finger to beckon A-Gui over to where the woman was lying on the ground, “Look at her carefully and tell me if she’s really a pig or not.”

A-Gui got down on his hands and knees and looked at the woman for a long while before answering, “Yes!  She is a cop!  I’m sure!”

“Motherf.u.c.k!” A-Tao cursed as he viciously kicked the woman in the stomach.  The woman’s mouth immediately let out a rodent-like screech.  There was still a gag placed in her mouth, and blood started streaming out of the corner of her mouth.

“Everybody line up for a g.a.n.g.b.a.n.g,” A-Tao said as he rubbed his head with his hand.

“Wait, Brother Tao!” exclaimed A-Meng as he ran up to stop A-Tao.  He then said in a low voice, “Brother Tao, killing a cop is no small deal.  Plus, we weren’t the ones who did this to her, so there’s no reason to unnecessarily endanger ourselves.”

“True,” A-Tao grudgingly agreed before quickly turning around to ask A-Meng, “Then what do you propose we do with her?’

“How about… how about we give her a golden shower,” suggested A-Meng, “Afterwards, we’ll throw her back into the ditch.”

“Not a bad idea.  You think pretty quick on your feet.  I like that,” A-Tao pointed at A-Meng in agreement.  He then moved his finger at a few other guys and said, “You guys go get a couple buckets of raw sewage!”  He turned back to the woman and said to all the remaining men, “Ok, let’s get ready to take a p.i.s.s.”

“What’s the rush, A-Long?”  A-Long was on his way back from collecting dirty dish water from a nearby restaurant when he heard someone calling his name.  He promptly stopped in his tracks and saw a girl dressed in traditional Tibetan attire staring at him from the entrance of the internet cafe.

“Heh!  Did the planets align today or something?  We just ran into one b.i.t.c.h, and now here comes another,” A-Long said to A-Biao as he pointed at the girl.

“Yeah, tell me about it!  Maybe we can f.u.c.k this one after we’ve given the other one her shower,” retorted A-Biao.  Obviously, neither of these idiots realized that the girl standing in front of them was A-Jiao.

“Motherf.u.c.kers!  I’m gone for a few days, and you sons of b.i.t.c.hes have already forgotten who the f.u.c.k I am?” yelled A-Jiao.  She then walked up to A-Long and gave him a hard kick in his private parts.  Unprepared for such a vicious a.s.sault from a woman, A-Long neither leapt out of the way nor blocked the kick.  Instead, he let out a soft ow as he grabbed his crotch and fell to the ground.

“Remember me now, motherf.u.c.ker?” asked A-Jiao with arms akimbo.

“Ye… yeah…” A-Long replied painfully from the ground, “Sister A-Jiao, you… you’re back?”

“Where is everyone?” A-Jiao asked.  She impatiently shook her leg as she fell back into her boss lady persona.

“They’re all out back, ma’am!” A-Biao nervously answered A-Jiao, “This morning, A-Jiang found a woman.  Brother Tao then took us all back to take a look.”

“Really?  A woman?  What kind of a woman?” A-Jiao asked disdainfully, “Look at you worthless sacks of s.h.i.+t.  The only thing you know how to do is push around women, isn’t it?

“No, ma’am.  That woman’s a pig,” A-Long replied as he stood up with his hand still cupping his crotch, “That was one hard kick.”

“Oh, did I break it?  I’m sorry.  Maybe you can swap it out for a rubber d.i.l.d.o.  Those last longer than your little thing,” A-Jiao mercilessly teased A-Long.  She then turned around and never looked back as she walked behind the internet cafe.

“Brother Tao!  What are you guys playing with?”  A-Jiao walked behind the internet cafe and from far away saw a group of men congregated around a drainage ditch.  They were all holding onto their pants for some reason.  Among them was an easily recognizable tall, muscular, and bald man: A-Tao.

“Haha!  A-Jiao,” A-Tao recognized A-Jiao’s voice and hurriedly zipped up his pants.  He then turned around and welcome A-Jiao with open arms, “Baby girl, I’ve missed you so much.  Did you miss me?”

“Ha, you wis.h.!.+” A-Jiao charmingly teased as she wrapped her arm around A-Tao’s waist, “So Brother Tao, what are you guys playing with?  You all seem to be having a lot of fun, yet n.o.body remembered to invite me to the party?”

“It’s nothing.  Just some s.l.u.t!” A-Tao replied as he casually pointed at the woman on the ground, “Don’t worry.  She’s not from the alley.  This one’s a pig.”

“A cop?” A-Jiao curiously asked.  She then got in for a closer look of the woman’s face before asking, “Wei Xin?”

“Wait, you know her?” A-Tao asked A-Jiao with some amount of amazement.

“What the h.e.l.l are you all doing?” yelled A-Jiao as she pushed A-Tao away, “Does it really take all of you men to bully this poor woman?”

“I… I didn’t do anything!” A-Tao tried to explain as he backed away from A-Jiao, “Everyone here is a witness!  They can all tell you I didn’t do anything.  We were taking a p.i.s.s, that’s all.”

“Then she…” A-Jiao said as she pointed at Wei Xin, “She…”  Suddenly, A-Jiao’s face twitched once.  She looked like she had realized something before turning around and walking away.

“Jiao!  What are you doing?  You’re not mad at me, are you?  I promise not to mess around with a girl like this again!”  A-Tao saw A-Jiao walking away in anger, so he immediately chased after her, “Baby girl, I didn’t know you knew her.  You know me, I f.u.c.king hate pigs.”

“Throw her back into the ditch,” A-Jiao said with tears on her face.  She then calmed herself and said, “Also, call the police!  Don’t tell them I was here though.  Oh, and you might want to save yourselves the trouble of taking a trip down to the police station, so don’t tell them what you were doing just now either.”

“Ok, got it.  So where are you going now?” A-Tao inquired of A-Jiao.

“I’m going back to my old house,” A-Jiao replied, “You can find me there if you need me!”

“Brother Tao, I think A-Jiao’s got something on her mind,” A-Meng ran up and said softly into A-Tao’s ear.

“Don’t worry about her.  She’ll be alright,” A-Tao responded as he swept his bald head with his hand.  He then pointed at Wei Xin and ordered, “Throw her back into the ditch!  And use the dirty dish water to wash away our… DNA.  Then call the police!  Make sure she doesn’t die before the police gets here.”

“Got it, Brother Tao!  I know what to do,” A-Meng acknowledged and proceeded to do as he was told.

The old house that A-Jiao spoke of was an old residential building located right next to the internet cafe.  One of the units inside used to belong to A-Jiao’s maternal grandparents, but it has since pa.s.sed to her after they pa.s.sed away even though the deed was technically still listed under her mother’s name, Lin Yunfang.

A-Jiao sat on the bed and held a big-headed teddy bear.  A continuous stream of tears flowed down her face.  She wasn’t sad for Wei Xin; rather, seeing her like that reminded of the time when she herself was attacked.  The one who hurt Wei Xin was clearly the same b.a.s.t.a.r.d who had hurt her, although that was not something she wanted to share with A-Tao.  Still, she did know that if A-Tao ever found out the truth of what had happened to her, he would most definitely track down that b.a.s.t.a.r.d and tear him to a thousand pieces with his bare hands.