kvmb Chapter 186 Gu Huaizhou, I can't find you...
Chapter 186 Gu Huaizhou, I can't find you...
Stroking Gu Huaizhou's neck, feeling the blood rushing beneath the thin skin, Ying Chengfeng said with some regret, "Huaizhou."
Do you know why I spared your life back then?
Gu Huaizhou was also curious about this, "Why?"
"Because you are a good child. Back then, Gu Huaizhou was bewitched by Liu Yi and originally planned to sell my sister to Southeast Asia to work as a hostess."
"And you just happened to witness that scene, and it was you who spoke up for Sister Chen. Gu Huai'an loves you and promised you that he wouldn't sell my sister, but he did send her out of the country."
"But you don't know your brother's true colors. He only promised you that he wouldn't sell Sister Chen into working as a hostess, but he didn't say he would let my sister go."
"...Huaizhou".
"It was your integrity and kindness that saved you."
Upon hearing this, Gu Huaizhou was bewildered. "Have I met Chen Cheng?"
"I've seen it."
"...I don't remember."
"Because I hypnotized those memories."
Is that true?
Thinking of something, Ying Chengfeng suddenly laughed maliciously.
"When you were a professor at the medical school, the most engaging course you taught was, I heard, human anatomy."
Ying Chengfeng leaned close to Gu Huaizhou's ear, his voice as wicked as a devil's: "Then do you still remember why you know so much about the human skeleton?"
Anatomy was indeed Gu Huaizhou's forte; even his mentor praised him for his talent.
But he couldn't remember when he became interested in human anatomy.
"It seems you haven't fully remembered yet."
Ying Chengfeng decided to play the good guy and told Gu Huaizhou the biggest secret: "Actually, your talent in anatomy was given to you by your brother."
“Back then, I held your hand and taught you how to personally open your brother’s chest cavity, one cut at a time.”
"Under my guidance, you personally created a rather excellent anatomical journal..."
"Don't you remember any of these?"
Gu Huaizhou's blood seemed to freeze.
"It should be presented as wind!"
"You deserve to die!"
Gu Huaizhou, who had previously managed to remain calm, was completely enraged by Ying Chengfeng.
He struggled frantically like a trapped beast.
The steel wire binding him was very thin; the more he struggled, the faster it tightened. Soon, it tore through Gu Huaizhou's skin and severed his blood vessels.
Instantly, hot blood rushed through Gu Huaizhou's limbs...
"Stop moving."
Ying Chengfeng reminded Gu Huaizhou: "Just now, the steel wire severed the tendons in your limbs."
Ying Chengfeng turned on his flashlight to check Gu Huaizhou's wounds and sighed, "Judging from the situation, you will bleed to death in at most an hour and a half."
"Look, seven hours is just right."
Feeling the rapid flow of blood, Gu Huaizhou dared not move again.
He closed his eyes, constantly telling himself to calm down as soon as possible and not to let Ying Chengfeng stir up his emotions anymore.
He couldn't be provoked any further.
He had to stay calm and hold out until Li Xi found him...
Seeing that Gu Huaizhou regained his composure in an instant, Ying Chengfeng was somewhat disappointed.
But he quickly cheered up again.
Ying Chengfeng walked to the corner of the wall, picked up a palette of paints and a paintbrush from the small stool there.
He caught Gu Huaizhou's blood in his paint palette, dyed his brush red, then turned and walked to the wall, where he began to dot a picture...
As he painted, Ying Chengfeng hummed a song, humming a tune about how Ying Chengfeng held a palette in his left hand and a paintbrush in his right.
He dipped his brush into the blood in his paint palette, turned around, and dab the red paint onto a painting...
*
At that time, Li Xi had just arrived at St. Anne's Hospital.
Before getting out of the car, she instructed Chu Xu: "Send someone to investigate that teahouse on Longyang Mountain."
"teahouse?"
Chu Xu said, "Are you referring to the teahouse halfway up the mountain between the Gu Family Manor and the Longyang Taoist Temple?"
Chu Xu also helped Gu Huaizhou manage his private property, so he naturally knew that the teahouse was Gu Huaizhou's property.
He just didn't understand how the teahouse could be hidden. "The teahouse is open for business today, everything is normal. Even if Ying Chengfeng wanted to hide someone, he couldn't go there."
"There is a secret world on the top floor of the teahouse. It is a room that Gu Huaizhou built one-to-one based on the original crime scene."
"Send someone over to take a look."
Upon hearing this, Chu Xu's expression hardened, and he immediately ordered his subordinates at the Gu family manor to go to the teahouse to investigate.
Li Xi then pointed out a few more places, and this time Chu Xu didn't ask any more questions; he wrote them all down.
"I'll go to Ying Chengfeng's office now and see if I can find anyone to check the places I just mentioned." Chu Xu, you should find someone to check the places I just mentioned as soon as possible.
"Be careful, don't miss any details."
After giving his explanation, Li Xi jumped out of the car and rushed into the hospital building.
She had just arrived at the floor where Ying Chengfeng's office was located when her cell phone suddenly rang.
Li Xi quickly took out her phone.
It was Xie Jian calling.
Li Xi directly declined. She pushed open Ying Chengfeng's office door and went straight to his desk.
I had just opened a drawer and hadn't even had a chance to look through the contents when Xie Jian called again.
Li Xi had no intention of answering the call.
But considering that Xie Jian is always sensible and wouldn't call frequently unless it's urgent, I thought.
She could only answer the phone.
"Xiao Jian, I have something to take care of..."
"Li Xi!" Xie Jian's voice was filled with panic: "I received a distress signal from Jiang Xinghe!"
"...Jiang Xinghe? A distress signal?"
Has Jiang Xinghe gotten into trouble?
But what puzzled Li Xi even more was, "Are you two very close?"
She knew that Jiang Xinghe and Xie Jian were senior and junior in high school and knew each other, but Jiang Xinghe never said that they were close enough to send out a distress signal immediately.
Xie Jian could no longer hide the truth. She said, "Jiang Xinghe and I were each other's first love. Back then, we were both ostracized by the whole school."
"We had agreed that if we encountered an emergency, we would send each other a distress signal immediately."
"After the breakup, we deleted each other's contacts and never bothered each other again."
"But just five hours ago, I received a text message from an unknown local number containing the letter O."
“O is the distress signal between Jiang Xinghe and me.”
The reason she only saw the text message five hours later is because she had been playing games live and wearing headphones during that time, so she didn't hear the text message notification on her phone.
Upon hearing this, Li Xi said, "I have an urgent matter here and can't leave. Why don't you go to Lanting Apartment to find him?"
"I've notified the apartment manager to let you in, you..."
"I'm in Jiang Xinghe's apartment, but no one's home!" Realizing there was something wrong with her words, Xie Jian stamped her foot and explained, "The password to his apartment is my birthday."
Li Xi: "..."
"You should call the police first."
After thinking for a moment, Li Xi told Xie Jian about her situation, "Gu Huaizhou has been kidnapped, and I really can't get away from here."
Upon hearing this, Xie Jian was greatly surprised.
Realizing that Li Xi was in even greater trouble, Xie Jian didn't say anything more and hung up the phone directly.
Shaking her head, Li Xi called Chu Xu and informed him of Jiang Xinghe's disappearance, asking him to contact Officer Zhou to find someone to help resolve the matter.
After hanging up the phone, Li Xi continued searching through her office.
She turned the office upside down but found no clues. However, she did find a letter in Ying Chengfeng's white coat pocket.
The envelope was addressed to: Li Xi.
"Bastard!"
Cursing under his breath, Li Xi roughly tore open the envelope, revealing a card inside.
The card had a smiley face on it, and below the smiley face was a line of flowing handwriting—
The game is almost over, have you found us yet?
"Damn it!" Li Xi threw the card on the ground and stomped on it a few times.
Her carefully constructed composure finally crumbled at this moment.
Li Xi squatted on the ground, anxiously scratching her hair.
"Gu Huaizhou, are you still alive?"
Li Xi was in tears.
With nowhere to vent her anxiety and unease, Li Xi couldn't help but bang her head against the wardrobe in Ying Chengfeng's dressing room.
"Gu Huaizhou."
"I can't seem to find you..."
Li Xi burst into tears, startling the nurses outside into silence.