The Deepest Color of the Night

,plz follow me. "

Fang Jin followed him without saying a word, from the elevator inside the hotel all the way down to the fourth basement floor, and when he came out, he came to a huge indoor underground wine cellar. The warm light from the ceiling shone on the rows of mahogany wine racks, but the air was slightly damp and cold. .

Wang Yu made a gesture of invitation, and then walked to the bottom of the wine cellar first.

Fang Jin followed behind him, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a part of the side of his black suit that was darkened due to moisture, which was not obvious under the golden-red light.

Not knowing whether it was the cold temperature in the ground or a psychological effect, Fang Jin stared at the dark fabric, and a chill suddenly rose in his heart.

"Here we are," Wang Yu stopped in front of a wooden door at the end, opened the door and said, "Please."

Fang Jin walked in, and saw a wide room inside divided into two halves, separated by a soundproof glass wall in the middle.There were three armchairs on the side near the door, Gu Mingzong sat on one of them, and when he saw him coming in, he casually asked, "Have you eaten yet?"

Fang Jin bowed his head and said, "No."

"Don't eat it yet, spit it out carefully later." Gu Mingzong pointed to the chair beside him: "Sit down."

Fang Jin straightened his coat, sat down, and looked up to see Chi Wanru sitting in the armchair on the other side.

Chi Wanru was dressed exquisitely and had perfect makeup as usual, but her face looked very stiff. I wonder if it was the effect of the lighting, and the profile looked a little hazy.Following her gaze, there was a bloody man on the floor in the other half of the room across the glass wall. His hands and feet were bent in opposite directions at a strange angle. Alive or already dead.

At this time, two bodyguards on the opposite side pushed the door in, grabbed the man's hand from left to right, dragged the man out with a long bloodstain.

Immediately afterwards, two more bodyguards came in pressing a man who was tied up heavily, and kicked him to the ground severely.

Fang Jin's face remained motionless, but his fingertips gripped the armrest slightly tighter.

He has seen this familiar scene many times and knows exactly what will happen next.

"Wang Yu," Gu Mingzong casually said while swiping emails with his mobile phone, "Give me a background introduction."

Wang Yu said "yes", turned to Fang Jin and said, "You were kidnapped before you went to study in Germany. Although you were rescued in time, the kidnapper escaped. Over the years, we have not given up on tracing the whereabouts of the kidnapper. Zhou finally caught these two people in the Northeast and escorted them all the way back, but they refused to give any clues about the mastermind behind the scenes.”

A bodyguard on the opposite side of the glass wall held the kidnapper while the other took out a sharp knife and pressed it directly on the kidnapper's leg.

"The interrogation just now has been abolished," Wang Yu said blankly, "so let's interrogate the second one now."

As soon as he finished speaking, the bodyguard on the other side asked something, but the kidnapper gritted his teeth and refused to say anything; the bodyguard didn't talk to him, and the next second he raised the knife and cut off his kneecap with extraordinary precision and ruthlessness!

"Ahhh-"

The scream almost broke through the thick soundproof glass, and Chi Wanru's complexion turned pale instantly!

Fang Jin turned his eyes away.

——He knew what Gu Mingzong meant.

The target of the kidnapping back then was actually not him, but Gu Yuan.It’s just that Fang Jin got into that car by mistake that day. After being kidnapped, he was locked up in an abandoned warehouse and starved for six days. At that time, he really thought he was going to die.

He still remembers being extremely calm at the time, crawling around in the warehouse to find a piece of wire, slowly grinding the rope around his wrist, and then using the wire as a mechanism to catch mice, squeezing them to death and drinking blood to maintain strength.He caught bugs to eat, drank the dirty water that seeped into the walls when it rained, used pain to force himself to stay awake, tried every means to survive, and finally persisted until the sixth day when Gu Mingzong led people to find the warehouse.

At that time, he was already in a semi-comatose state. Later, people said that he was thin and out of shape, like a skeleton covered with a layer of skin.

Fang Jin didn't know why his desire to survive was so strong. When he was a child, he used to think that there was no hope for an unlucky wretch like himself even if he lived in this world.But when the threat of death really approached him, he burst out with infinite courage and strong will, not even complaining about himself for a second, but trying to survive by all means.

Even ants have the right to survive.

He later thought mockingly, maybe this is the way for the weak to survive.

It was only later that Fang Jin realized that he was the one who took the blame for Gu Yuan, and he could easily figure out who the instigator was.

During that time, there were rumors that the Gu family was planning to officially let Chi Wanru in, but Gu Mingzong didn't make any move for a long time, and Chi Wanru's patience finally wore out.In desperation, she only thought of a way that the mother should be more expensive than the son, but the biggest obstacle was Gu Mingzong's eldest son, Gu Yuan, who was a legitimate son in name.

Under the huge temptation of power and wealth, she finally took the risk, but accidentally kidnapped Fang Jin, and missed the only chance to kill her.After the kidnapper escaped, Gu Mingzong should have known in his heart that she did it, but without hard evidence, no one could bring down Gu Yang's biological mother, so the matter of Chi Wanru's entry was shelved forever indefinitely.

Fang Jin spent more than a month in the hospital before fully recovering, and was sent to study in Germany shortly thereafter. It was not until the last time he accompanied Gu Yuan back to the main house that he saw this woman again.

Everything today is for Chi Wanru to see.

He was just a companion.

The bodyguard slapped the blood-stained kneecap on the ground, turned around and pressed the kidnapper's other leg, gestured, and then stabbed again.

"Stop...stop!" Chi Wanru suddenly got up: "Stop!"

However, no one moved in the room, not even Wang Yu raised his eyelids.

I saw the bodyguard quickly gouged out another bloody kneecap amidst the screams, and this time he showed it to the glass wall, and the bloody pieces of meat fell down like this.Chi Wanru vomited on the spot, and Wang Yu immediately handed over the glass of water that he had prepared earlier, and said respectfully, "Ms. Chi."

Chi Wanru slapped him away, rushed over and opened the door, but the door didn't move at all.

"What exactly do you want?!" Chi Wanru broke down and roared, "What exactly is this going to do?!"

The room was silent, the blood and screams were blocked on the other side of the soundproof glass, like a cruel pantomime that was close at hand.

Gu Mingzong's attitude was very relaxed, "Wang Yu."

Wang Yu lowered his head and said, "Yes."

"My previous rules, how do I deal with this kind of thing?"

Wang Yudao: "Pick skin and bones, gouge flesh and cramps, we can pry out words even from dead people. It was our mistake that we accidentally destroyed the last one. This one won't work. We must torture until we reveal the mastermind behind the scenes Make it work."

Gu Mingzong looked at Chi Wanru: "Did you hear that?"

Chi Wanru's makeup was faded, her temples were disheveled, her chest heaved violently, like a swan thrown into muddy water.After a while, she suddenly turned her gaze to Fang Jin, only to see the young man sitting in a high armchair, looking at the other side of the glass wall, his face was as calm and cold as a white jade carving, without any emotion.

I don't know if it was her illusion, but for a moment, through Fang Jin's profile, she vaguely saw a bit of Gu Mingzong's shadow.

It was a similar dark aura emanating from the bone marrow that he had been obsessed with for many years.

"...Then, so what if the torture reveals the instigator behind the scenes?" Chi Wanru forced herself to raise her chin, but the ending sounded trembling uncontrollably: "Torture, torture into tricks, who knows if it's the real culprit? So many years have passed, so what if the real culprit is identified?"

Gu Mingzong pondered for a moment, and agreed: "That's right."

Immediately afterwards, he turned to Fang Jin: "—Then the sufferer will decide, the kidnapper will be handed over to you."

Chi Wanru suddenly looked at Fang Jin, only to see his indifferent side face, his eyelashes drooping slightly forming a long and narrow arc, and there was no wave in his eyes.

There was silence in the room, the kidnapper on the opposite side screamed, struggled, his whole body twitched, and large pools of blood gathered on the ground to form shocking puddles.

Fang Jin said lightly: "Director Wang."

Wang Yu bent down.

"Kill him."

Chi Wanru's whole body trembled, she could hardly believe that these words came from Fang Jin's mouth.

However, Gu Mingzong smiled, as if there was no accident at all, and nodded to Wang Yu's gaze.

Wang Yu immediately used the headset to issue instructions to the subordinates next door, and Gu Mingzong stood up, patted his cuff casually, and said to the other party: "Don't worry about this kind of thing, come with me to eat." Then he turned to Chi Wanru and said: "You stay here and watch them settle the matter before leaving."

Chi Wanru leaned against the wall limply, unable to utter a word.She watched Fang Jin stand up expressionlessly, put the dripping flesh and blood behind him, and followed Gu Mingzong out of the room.

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Go out of the wine cellar and go up to the lobby, and then take the all-glass sightseeing elevator all the way up to the top floor of the hotel. It is the most famous revolving starry sky garden restaurant in the city.Now that the night is falling, the restaurant will fully open the zenith, and through the glass layer, you can overlook the bustling and bright night view of the city, as well as the brilliant starlight above your head.

The waiters have already prepared the candlelit dining table by the floor-to-ceiling windows, the snow-white tablecloth and silver tableware, and a large bunch of fresh lilies in the flower basket.Not far away is the beautiful nocturne of the grand piano, and there is a hint of the mellow fragrance of red wine in the air.

Gu Mingzong pointed to the bottle of wine, and returned the lacquer gold wine list to the waiter: "Because I didn't expect you to be so quick just now, I made them late to prepare all the meals. I thought that according to your personality, you would have to wait a little longer. half an hour."

Fang Jin said, "I'm just telling you the decision you made."

"Yo, when did you become so obedient?"

Fang Jin stared at the dancing candlelight in the middle of the dining table, his face seemed to emit a soft light in the dim yellow halo, but his eyes seemed to be covered with a thin layer of ice.

"There is no one way to keep everyone alive." He said softly, "People have to make choices."

After a while, the waiter came over and poured a layer of red wine into the goblets in front of the two of them.Under the candlelight, the liquor is like a bright ruby, flowing and reflected in Fang Jin's eyes, there is a kind of glamorous light and shadow that makes people unable to look directly at it.

"Mr. Gu," he finally looked up at Gu Mingzong, and said, "I have something to ask you."

At the other end of the dining table, Gu Mingzong was staring at him, but at this moment, a very inconspicuous smile appeared to meet his gaze.

——That smile is hard to describe, it seems to be a little sighing, a little encouraging, and it seems to be seeing something really interesting.

He only looked at Fang Jin with such thought-provoking eyes for a moment, then nodded with a smile, and said, "Ask."

The sound of the piano is still beautiful, and the lilies exude an elegant fragrance.Not far away, the waiter was wearing a vest and collar, and came here with a tall silver plate.

"—You said back then that I have one chance to regret it in this life."

Fang Jin looked at Gu Mingzong, and slowly asked: "Does this sentence still count?"