Cinephile hustle

Ian breathed a sigh of relief, opened the door, and saw Xavier with his hands in his trouser pockets and a serious expression.With his strikingly long hair tied behind his ears, he wears a studded denim jacket, black trousers and ankle boots, the trousers tucked loosely at the top of the boots.Very different from the neutral image I saw in the apartment before, at this moment he looked sharp and handsome, even exuding a faint sense of oppression.

"How do you know I'm here?" Ian didn't let go of the gun in his hand.

His legs were sore, and although he was holding the gun, his wrists were not flexible.He could only do his best to prevent Xavier from seeing anything strange.

Thinking of this, Ian wanted to smash Haili.Last night, this guy tossed and tossed again and again, and when he had to reject him, Hailey completely lost control and folded his arm behind him. Until the end, Ian had to wonder if his muscle was strained .Now his hand holding the gun was trembling slightly.

Xavier closed the door, Da Lala sat on the sofa, and sneered, "It's no secret that you were carried out of Sherman's room. I heard that the person who carried you out has been Gubler taken away? I hope he survives until this cruise ship docks."

"My partner will be alive and well, you don't have to worry about that." Ian sat down beside Xavier with a gun in his hand.The moment he pressed onto the sofa, Ian felt as if his lower back was about to split.

In the future... Hailey really can't be too arrogant.

"Even the safety catch is turned on? It seems that you also know that Gubler is likely to kill you. Sherman is dead, Gubler will feel the crisis, and he will not let anyone he suspects. Now What are you going to do?"

Ian calmly began to think.Did Xavier already know about Sherman's death?He thought that Gubler would only secretly investigate this matter in order not to scare other distinguished guests, and quietly erase all the people he suspected, but Xavier actually knew that Sherman was dead... How did he know? ?

"I have no plans."

"I have advised you a long time ago, don't continue to investigate Gubler, don't get close to Sherman, and don't board the Aurora. You haven't listened to any of my suggestions..." Xavier tilted his chin and stared at Ian hard neck.

"what happened?"

Xavier stretched out his hand and picked up Ian's collar with his fingers.A certain kind of anger burst out of his eyes, as if surging and bursting.

"Who left this?"

His voice was cold, with nerve-crushing intensity.

Ian subconsciously leaned back, lowered his eyes slightly, and found that the mark on his neck...was left by Haili.

But at the moment, Ian has no time to curse Haley, because Xavier feels strange to him.

His impression of Xavier has always been that he is a little willful and impatient, self-centered, but not evil-minded, and panicked when encountering things beyond his control.But what is going on with him now?

"I ask you, who left it? Is it Sherman?" Xavier's voice was lowered, every word seemed to be engraved into Ian's brain.

Ian had a dangerous premonition.This premonition was intuitive, and even Haley had never made him feel such an almost suffocating pressure.

"I appreciate your concern for me, but this has nothing to do with you."

"It's irrelevant? How could it be irrelevant?" Xavier raised the corners of his lips, and slowly leaned towards Ian, his brows and eyes lingered with a heavier and more dangerous atmosphere than before.

"Xavier?" Ian frowned.

Xavier raised his left leg, stepped onto the tea table between the two, and slowly knelt down on it.He took half a step forward, stretching out a tense line from his back.

On TV, there are also many women who pose like this, which is very tempting.

But at this time, Ian didn't feel any heartbeat, but more of a sense of crisis that was ready for battle.

"Do you like the baby's breath I gave you?" His voice was stretched out, entangled with Ian's nerves, and when he tightened suddenly, Ian's heart had the illusion of jumping out of his chest.

"Gypsophila..." Ian remembered that when he entered the room Sherman had arranged for him on the first day, there was a small bunch of Gypsophila by his pillow, "Is that what you gave me?"

"Yeah. You like the stars, right?" Xavier's voice was soft, as if protecting a beautiful dream, but Ian felt inexplicably scary.

"How do you know that I like Gypsophila?"

"Because I've been watching you. When you walk out of the supermarket not far from the apartment, you will have beer and some food in your hand. After walking less than 30 meters, you will pass a flower shop. At that time You will stop, look down, and smile. At first, I thought you were looking at a pink mary, and I wondered in my heart how you could like such a tacky flower. Then it was a lily, and you would still look down. Wait until One day when I changed to Jinyuhua, I realized that what you were looking at was the most inconspicuous gypsophila."

Ian thought that apart from Hayley, no one else had discovered that he liked Gypsophila.

But Xavier found out.

"Xavier, thank you for your gypsophila." For a moment, Ian didn't know what to say.

"I don't need you to say thank you."

Xavier's eyes were cold.He raised his hand, and was about to pull off the bathrobe on Ian's body. Ian firmly clasped his wrist, and his shoulders suddenly felt sore.

At that moment, Xavier's hair coiled behind his head suddenly fell away.

With a crisp sound of "Ding--", something fell on the table next to Xavier.

Ian lowered his head, looked at the hairpin on the table and suddenly realized something, "Xavier! You..."

Everything was so fast beyond Ian's imagination, Xavier raised his other hand and dropped it suddenly.Ian gritted his teeth and raised the muzzle of the gun with lightning speed with all his strength and pointed it at Xavier's forehead. The moment he pulled the trigger, Xavier turned his face sideways, and the bullet went along his cheek and sank into it. wall.The gun was instantly pressed down by the opponent.

A sharp stabbing pain came from Ian's shoulder, and cool liquid poured into his muscles.

"Ian, I was not your opponent. It's a pity that you enjoyed too much last night, which weakened your reaction ability. Did you hug him very hard? You refused to let go of your hand for a moment ? Your fingers holding the gun are shaking, do you think I can't see it?"

Ian's brain was dizzy for a while.

He stood up, his sight getting more and more out of focus.

"It was you... did you kill Smith and Ned..."

Xavier returned to the side sofa and sat down, quietly watching Ian shake and struggle.

Ian closed his eyes forcefully and opened them again, the whole space was spinning at a crazy speed.

"Answer me... answer..."

Ian fell to one side.

Xavier fiddled with the gun in his hand, put it on the table, squatted down beside Ian, and lightly pressed his fingers on Ian's shoulder, "I have told you many times, don't get close to Fitz Gubler and Sherman. But you are always disobedient. If I were the one with you last night, I would never leave you here alone. You didn't make up your mind to kill me, so you Will hesitate. Many times, either you die or I die, you shouldn't treat me as a friend. I never thought of being your friend."

Arm around Ian, Xavier picked him up and walked out the door.

At this moment, Hailey pushed Fitz Gubler out of the room and into the elevator, all the way up to the so-called VIP swimming pool on the Aurora.

The sunlight is dazzling, reflected in the water of the swimming pool.

On the side of the swimming pool, there is a bed that resembles an Arabian cushion, with luxurious and detailed patterns, and a mist-like veil hanging from the top of the head, gently swaying with the sea breeze.This kind of veil is very unique, seemingly light and transparent, but extremely private.

Now, the entire VIP swimming pool is sealed off, and only Gubole's security guards are here.

Haley borrowed plastic gloves from the doctor on the cruise ship.He turned his face slightly, and the gesture of putting on his gloves looked familiar and elegant.

When he took a step forward and was about to lift the veil, Gubler said, "I advise you to be mentally prepared. Sherman's death looks ugly."

"Really?" Haili opened a gap slightly, and saw Sherman's eyes wide open, mouth open, and a distorted and painful expression on his face.Amidst the stench of blood, in this space enclosed by the veil, there was a faint fragrance.

Haley walked in and stood on the edge of the cushion.

Sherman was still wearing a decent white shirt and suit.His hands were spread out on the soft cushion, and his lower body was covered by bunches of small white flowers.

Hailey knelt on one knee outside the mattress, and after taking a picture with his mobile phone, he slightly raised the little flower covering Sherman's body.

Fitz Gubler's voice sounded, "The flowers on his body are full of stars."

"It is not an easy task to bring so many baby's breaths here, and the baby's breath is a very cheap and low-grade flower for the VIPs on the cruise ship, so it is impossible to prepare so many. Unless Someone has already reserved it. Since this Aurora belongs to Mr. Gubler, I think it should be easy for you to find out who ordered these flowers and who brought them to the VIP swimming pool?"

In order to ensure the privacy of guests, the swimming pool will not install cameras.But not necessarily outside the pool.

"Sherman himself. Sherman called and had them brought over by helicopter last night."

Haley let out a chuckle, a hint of sarcasm.

"What are you laughing at?" Gubler asked.

"I laugh because I know why Sherman bought so many baby's breath."

"why?"

"Secret." Haili rubbed his chin, looking at Sherman with a chill in his eyes.

Sherman was different from previous victims Smith and Ned.He was well dressed, even his shirt was unbuttoned, and the suit he was wearing outside was well cared for.

Hailey touched Sherman's pocket, rummaged through the cushions carefully, and frowned slightly.

Haley then undid Sherman's cufflinks and turned his wrist around.

Gubler lifted the veil, restored his original image of an elder, and asked unhurriedly, "Excuse me, did you find anything? Agent Russell?"

"What do you think editor-in-chief Sherman came to this VIP swimming pool and dressed up for?"

"He's got an appointment. Sherman looks very deliberate in his clothes. I can only think of two people on this cruise ship that he would take so seriously to meet. The first would be me, but he wouldn't bring With so many gypsophilas coming to meet me, and there is no need for an appointment here. And the other, is your partner, Ian Connor. I guess, because of the feast, between Ian Connor and Sherman There was a great rift between them, and although it seemed to me impossible to work it out, it was the first time in all these years that I had seen Sherman put so much effort into someone. He was Will not be reconciled to Ian escaping from his grasp."

"It's just that Ian will never agree to meet him alone in some VIP swimming pool." Haili put his hands in his pockets, lowered his head, his eyes seemed to fall straight down from a height of [-] meters, and Gubler had a feeling The illusion that Sherman's body will be crushed.

"Besides, Sherman doesn't have a mobile phone on him. This is really interesting. It seems that the murderer doesn't really want people to see Sherman's mobile phone." Haili made a phone call, walked out of the veil, and was in the poolside. He sat down on the bench, "I want to know who Joseph Sherman's last caller was."

Five seconds later, Haili's expression was obviously taken aback, he sat up suddenly, and rushed out.

"What happened?" Gubler yelled at Haili's back, but Haili ran away without looking back.

He went back to his room, but the door was open.

"Ian! Ian!" Hailey yelled twice, but no one answered.

He pushed open the door of the bathroom, and the floor was dripping wet, showing that someone had just finished a shower.Turning around, the first thing Haley saw was the gun on the table and a hairpin.

Haili lowered his eyes and followed the handle of the gun with his fingers to the muzzle, with a serious look on his face.

At this time, Fitz Gubler was pushed to the entrance of Haley's room.

"What happened?"

"Ian is gone."

"Although I thought about what to do with Ian Connor, I didn't send anyone to kill him."

"I know. The person who took Ian did not intend to kill him."

"Do you know who took him away?"

"Xavier Quentin. He was the last person to contact Sherman."

"...Are you saying that Xavier Quentin killed Sherman? That's impossible...Xavier...he didn't have the guts and guts."

Gubler frowned.

"What do you mean without courage and courage?" Haili raised the corners of his lips.

For the first time, Gubler saw the courage to crush everything in the face of this young man who seemed to be a bystander to everything.

"...He has an outstanding appearance, but he has never been confident. After becoming famous, he has lost his temper at best, but he has always obeyed Sherman. He fears Sherman ideologically, regardless of Sherman. Whatever you ask him to do, he won't say no."

"Does Ned like Xavier?"

"Yes."

"Ned has gone too far." Haley asked coolly.

Gubler did not answer the question.

Hailey made another phone call and said in a low voice: "Ian was taken away, you have been watching, right? Tell me where he was taken, if you don't want him to have an accident .”

Although he didn't know who the person on the other end of the phone was, it was obvious that Haili believed in his ability.

"Are you saying that someone has hacked into the security system here and monitored this cruise ship? It's completely impossible!" Gubler showed an unbelievable expression.

"Nothing in this world is really impossible. If I told you that it was only a child who hacked into the surveillance and security system of this cruise ship, you would think it even more impossible, wouldn't you?"

"Well, since you said that this kid is monitoring the entire cruise ship, please tell me, where did Xavier take Ian Connor?"

"feast."

Hailey walked out coldly.

"What? You mean..."

"That's where Sherman auctioned Ian that day." Haley stopped, turned around suddenly, and grabbed Fitz Gubler by the throat, "Mr. It’s better to dock quickly. This cruise ship is already a mobile sea fortress, and all the targets that Xavier wants to deal with are here.”

Gubole's face flushed instantly, his mouth opened wide, and there was a gurgling sound in his throat, but he couldn't beg for mercy.

That young man who used to be as handsome as an angel, now seems to have invaded the bright darkness from hell, and is about to drag him into the abyss, crushing him layer by layer into powder.

Hailey let go of Gubler, "Take your people! Go to the feast! No matter what you pay, I must bring Ian back from that place intact, otherwise Fitz Gubler, what you have to go through It's not as simple as losing everything."

Gubler thought that he had seen all kinds of people, whether it was a powerful member of parliament or an old-fashioned crocodile galloping in the mall, but this time Gubler found that his aura was completely suppressed by the other party.What this young man said, he will definitely do.

He mobilized almost one-third of the security personnel on the cruise ship to rush to the banquet venue.But what he couldn't imagine was that the elevator leading to the venue was interrupted!The security personnel and Haili were locked in the elevator and couldn't get down at all.

Gubler immediately sent someone to repair the elevator. Everything was racing against time, and it developed into the present situation, and Gubler's forehead couldn't help but start to sweat.

Hailey folded his arms in the dark elevator.Because there are too many people trapped in it, they gradually feel hot and dull.

"Mr. Gubler, what happened?" Shia Pace accompanied a gentleman to the elevator.

"Xia... and Mr. Lei Ze... I'm a little busy right now, let's talk about something later, okay?"

"Is it an elevator problem? I was going to take the elevator to the 'meeting venue' on the ground floor, but I had to go back to my room to change because a waiter knocked the red wine delivered on me. It's just... Mr. Gubler, are you late too?" Mr. Lei Ze who was following Xi Ya asked.

"I'm late? What are you late for? What are you doing at the 'venue'?" Gubler leaned towards Mr. Lei Ze, lowered his voice and said, "The 'feast' is over, and you are going to the venue again, which violates the 'feast' Provisions!"

Mr. Lei Ze showed a surprised expression and said, "Isn't that the invitation letter you sent us? Tell us there is one last 'dessert'!"

Lei Ze delivered a platinum invitation letter to Gubler.

Gubler's face suddenly changed, "I didn't send this invitation! Has anyone else received the invitation besides you?"

"It should be that all the distinguished guests have received it." Lei Ze looked at Gu Bole in confusion.

Xi Ya also lowered her head and said softly: "I have been persuading Mr. Lei Ze that there is something wrong with this invitation letter. But he said that he is very interested in this dessert."

"What's the dessert?" Gubler had already vaguely guessed.

"Ian Connor. I just wonder, hasn't he been taken away by Mr. Sherman? Did he do something to make Mr. Sherman unhappy, so Mr. Sherman decided to punish him? But If Mr. Sherman decided to hold another 'feast', how could he not have your permission?" Shea asked in a low voice in Gubler's ear.

Gubler exhaled heavily.It certainly could not have been done by Sherman.It's just that Sherman's death is still a secret that has not been planned to be made public.

He dialed Hailey's cell phone, "Mr. Russell, I have something to tell you."

"Are you going to tell me why I was stuck for twelve minutes and the elevator still couldn't be repaired?"

Even if Gubler couldn't see Haili, he could feel the pressure on the phone's stretching nerve cord.

He didn't understand that a young man in his early twenties who was extremely wealthy showed not arrogance and willfulness, but this kind of temperament that was almost a hunter.

"...My people are trying their best to fix it. It's a circuit problem. Someone deliberately destroyed the elevator circuit. Also, Xavier sent invitations to many guests in my name. Now at the venue...he should be in Auction Ian."

"Auction Ian? Mr. Gubler, I didn't expect you to be so innocent and cute. Whether Smith, Ned, or even Sherman, they are all inextricably linked with you. Xavier's The target is you, Fitz Gubler. Auctioning Ian won't ruin your reputation, but what if all the VIPs present die?"

Haili's voice was cold and sharp, piercing straight into Gubler's heart, tearing his nerves apart.

"...Xavier is going to kill everyone? Is that impossible? How could he do it?"

"Mr. Gubler, don't you think that killing people means slashing with a sword or taking out a gun and pulling the trigger? The reason why Xavier chose that venue is simply because he wants to use 'dessert' to Did all the people he wanted to kill gather? As long as the doors are locked and all exhaust facilities are closed, the venue is a closed space like an elevator."

Gu Bole was suddenly frozen.

He was at a loss and wanted to hold something, only Shia on the side grabbed his hand.

"Mr. Gubler, what the hell happened? I heard you talking about Xavier... What happened to Xavier?"

"Xia... go! No matter what happens, you must go to the feast venue! Even if you blow up the entire floor! Do you understand?"

Xi Ya nodded, "I'll arrange the manpower now!"

At this time, Ian slightly opened his eyes.

The overly bright light fell from the top of his head and went straight into his eyes, causing him to raise his hand to cover his face and turn his eyes away.

Then, what he saw was a huge venue, everyone was wearing banquet suits and masks, like an absurd opera performance.

Everything seemed to be reversed in time and returned to that night again.

Ian barely propped up his upper body and pressed his neck.My whole body hurts... so badly.

In my mind is the picture of myself hugging Haili tightly, and the other party gives me the illusion of being smashed every second.

He thumped his head, cleared the images, and asked himself what happened.It was only when his arms rested on the cushions beneath him that he realized he was lying on a long sofa.

Looking back at the surrounding area, Ian stretched out his hand to touch it, and his heart suddenly boiled with anger.It's that damn glass box again!

He tried to stand up and immediately hit the top of his head on the top of the glass box.

The pain reminded him that this was not a dream, but reality.

And just in front of the glass box, there was a slender man in a pure white suit, with the same mask on his face as before, and his long hair was simply tied behind his head.

Ian suddenly remembered the scene when Xavier stuck the syringe into his shoulder and neck.

"Xavier! Xavier! You bastard! Let me out immediately!" Ian slapped the glass wall hard, even hitting it with his body, but the special glass box remained motionless.

And Xavier walked slowly around the glass box as if he didn't hear anything.The gait is graceful and graceful.

He enjoyed everything at the moment, like a king who manipulated fate.

The distinguished guests at the seats were very excited and kept raising their hands one after another.

Greed and madness are intertwined, boiling and clamoring.

Even if he couldn't hear the sound outside the glass box, Ian knew they were bidding.

"Xavier! Let me out! What are you trying to do! Xavier!"

After patting for more than ten minutes, Ian knew that Xavier had made up his mind to sell him here.It is impossible for him to break the glass here with his bare hands, and the sofa is embedded in the ground under his feet. Ian once tried to lift it up and throw it at the glass, but unfortunately the sofa did not move even with all his strength.

Ian took a deep breath.

He told himself to be calm.It's all fine and it's not the first time he's been treated as a 'dinner'.He sat back on the sofa, adjusted his emotions, and cleared his mind.

Although his head was still heavy, one thing he was sure of was that whoever Xavier sold him to would not allow it to happen as long as Hailey was alive.

Just be patient, Ian knows that Hayley will be there when the need arises.

But in the current situation, under the watchful eyes of everyone, it is impossible for him to leave.