Ghostly Eyes [Tomb Raiders]

"What did you say? Longevity?"

"Yes, master, the gang of kidnappers asked us to hand over the longevity tablet by name, and they even sent a quick-printed photo. The young master is indeed in their hands!"

"Where are the policemen! What are you doing for so long!"

"The police have been conducting searches, but the whereabouts of the group have not yet been located."

"Tsk."

"What to do, master, they gave a time limit, if you don't deliver the longevity pill to the designated place before 12 midnight, they will tear up the ticket!"

"Is there any movement in other houses?"

"Not yet, it has been blocked since the accident, and I dare not let people outside know."

The matter involved the longevity pill, and those forces who are usually greedy for the longevity pill will inevitably take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters. Let alone exchanging hostages, I am afraid that whether they can safely deliver the longevity pill to the designated place is a problem.

"My lord! Those kidnappers sent a video call! I want to meet you!"

Shang Feijie's spirit perked up, and he listened to the following content with his ears pricked up.But what he heard was Shang Wei's cold rejection without any emotion: "No."

"Ah? Master, this is..." The subordinates suspected that they had heard it wrong.

"The Shang family refuses to negotiate, let them hold hostages and wait until they die."

Shang Wei made a final decision, ignored everyone's surprised stares, and calmly ordered: "Old Liu, you bring a group of people to help, and make sure that this kidnapping incident is sealed tightly, and not a single word can be exposed. Master Fu, the owner of the house The guards will be doubled again. The rest of the people, go back to each other, leaving two responsible for contacting the police."

"But in case they are cornered..."

"Did you know me on the first day? Old Liu, I, Shang Wei, will never be threatened by others in my life, never in my life."

Old Liu panicked: "But in that case, the young master..."

Shang Wei who walked to the door turned his head and said, "Have you forgotten, I have two sons."

The lights in the study were flickering, Shang Feijie curled up in the corner with cold hands and feet, all his limbs seemed to have lost consciousness.Aunt Fang, who came back with the food, couldn't find him, so she almost burst into tears, but finally found the dead young master in the corridor, and she really cried.

That night, Shangwei rejected all representations and negotiations from the other party.

That night, the organization that failed to get what it wanted strangled the hostages in a fit of anger.

The next day when the sun rose, the Shang family was still the same Shang family, and the bodyguards guarded the mansion in an orderly manner. Aunt Fang brought Shang Feijie's favorite red bean barley porridge and watched him enjoy it kindly.

Everything was as if nothing had happened, even though, a person in this mansion had disappeared forever.

Fear was Shang Feijie's only perception at that time, boundless fear, fear without a trace of temperature and human feelings.All the people in the mansion who smiled at him and greeted him were as hypocritical as ghosts and ghosts, surrounding him.

The life in the Shang family's mansion was the same as before, Shang Yanyu's room was quickly locked, and no one mentioned the second young master of the Shang family, as if there had never been such a person in the world.Shang Wei even personally asked Shang Feijie to go to the study room, and kindly asked him about his schoolwork at school.

Looking at his father's majestic yet loving face, Shang Feijie felt the colors of this world dissipate in his pupils inch by inch.However, this nightmarish false world was torn to pieces by a group of intruders on the second night-the gang of kidnappers, that is, the organization that people later called, after the first day of kidnapping failed, finally Desperately, he broke into the Shang residence at night and looted openly.

Of course Shang Wei was on guard, but he didn't expect those villains to poison the drinking water in the mansion ahead of time, adding gas shells, paralyzing everyone in the second half of the night.That night, Shang Feijie, who was hiding in the bedroom, escaped the robbery because he didn't eat dinner, so he witnessed the whole robbery process in the corridor.

It was a completely one-sided situation. The people of the organization discovered the collection room of the mansion immediately, cracked the mechanism, and without blinking an eye, they identified seven fake longevity doors, took away the only genuine one and fled.

Although there was a conflict of bullets during the period, there were no casualties, and the poison that everyone was infected with also dissipated after a few hours.

Shang Feijie witnessed everything, witnessed everything, but he didn't make a sound to stop him, and he didn't even press the alarm call immediately.He just stood in the shadow and watched all this with cold eyes, looked at his father, looked at all the people in the mansion, and found that the expression of anger or resentment on his face was more vivid than in the daytime.

Shang Feijie thought, maybe it was from that moment that he truly understood the meaning of the heir to the Shang family, the most direct, ruthless and ironic meaning.

In just two days, the Shang family suffered heavy losses, but all this did not make Shang Wei lose his composure—soon, rumors of organizing a night-time raid on Shang’s house, robbing the Changsheng Temple and shooting Shang Yanyu were published in newspapers. Shang Feijie stroked the rough paper that exuded pungent ink, and finally tore it into pieces madly.

As the news spread, sympathy and embarrassment followed, and the experience of the Shang family once again made it a hot topic.Shang Wei hid behind the scenes overnight, instead pushed Shang Feijie to the front, and was temporarily appointed as the young head of the Shang family to preside over all affairs.

Shang Yun who arrived late cried and fell in front of Shang Yanyu's empty coffin. Shang Yanyu died innocently. From the beginning to the end, only this man's grief is truly heart-wrenching.Shang Feijie walked behind Shang Yunkuang, his vision gradually blurred, and when he touched it with his hand, it turned out to be tears that he had not seen for a long time.

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Shang Yunkuang was speechless for a long time. After the shock, some conversations with the ghost-faced man not long ago gradually came to mind.

——Also, why did that cunning old guy let you see Shang Yanyu for the last time.

——Or, you never suspected that Shang Yanyu's death had other conspiracy?

The cryptic and mocking words, probably from that time on, everything had a hint of omen.In this way, although the vengeance of murder and death is still tied to the organization, because of Shang Wei's performance eight years ago, a layer of chilling and complicated shadow has been shrouded.

"Uncle Yun, I know that you have been loyal to the Shang family for decades, so you just listen to this matter, and forget it after you hear it."

Shang Feijie patted Shang Yunkuang who was standing still, and got up: "Uncle Yun doesn't have to participate in the task of besieging Tong Jiu in the afternoon, I arranged for the driver to take you back to the hospital, and then have a good examination of the injury on your leg, wait Take care of yourself, and I will take you home personally."

Shang Yunkuang stood there for a long time, until Shang Feijie disappeared, then he silently slumped his shoulders and limped out of the mansion with a cane.

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Time passed by every minute and every second, and the sun moved further and further away, slowly sinking towards the horizon.

When Shang Feijie left the dungeon, he didn't put on Li Qiu's blindfold, so Li Qiu could clearly feel the passage of every minute.When the afterglow of the sun finally slanted into the dungeon, two bodyguards came in and brought out Li Qiu, who had been imprisoned for nearly 20 hours.

The appointed time came, but Tong Jiu hadn't shown up yet, and the mansion fell into unprecedented tension.The bodyguard seemed to have been instructed by Shang Feijie, and did not press Li Qiu to ask any more questions, but escorted him to the top floor alone.

The Shang family's mansion is a typical single-family villa. The front, back, left, and right buildings were all purchased by the Shang family, so the entire villa area is the Shang family's eyeliner.

The villa is four or five storeys high, and the top floor above the attic is completely opened up. A fence of about one meter is symbolically surrounded on the roof, and the view is excellent.

The bodyguard didn't put on the blindfold for Li Qiu, but still tied his hands, pushed him to the short fence, then stretched out his pistol, and pointed it at the back of his head.From this angle, if someone came from the street downstairs, he would be able to see the life-threatening scene upstairs at first glance. If the person who came was Tong Jiu, then the intention of threatening is self-evident.

The back of Li Qiu's head was restrained, his eyes were just able to see the scene downstairs, so he simply watched quietly.The sun is disappearing on the horizon bit by bit, the sunset in this season has been much earlier, the cool autumn seeps into the body through the pores, and even the heart is much colder.

Tong Jiu didn't come.

Twenty or ten minutes have passed, and Tong Jiu still hasn't come.

After dark, the mansion was illuminated like daylight, and the bodyguards deliberately shone the light on Li Qiu so that anyone who appeared at any time could see this scene.But unfortunately, the person they were waiting for has never been seen.

"Will that kid let us go!" The bodyguard couldn't wait any longer, repeatedly pressing Li Qiu with guns. "Tell me! Did you play some tricks! Tell him!"

"I said, we've separated, he won't come..."

"If you want to share, you can share. Could it be that he doesn't care about your life at all!?"

"..."

He doesn't care about your life at all.

They don't care about your life at all?

The familiar words, like a spell that lingers on the bones, instantly penetrated Li Qiu's heart.Li Qiu gritted his teeth hard, turned his face away with red eyes, with delicate and emotional facial features, which made the bodyguard flustered.

"In this case, you should ask him, not me."

At this moment, a black van drove far from the end of the street.

The mansion was on alert immediately, with countless lenses and bullet holes aimed at the car, moving slowly with the speed of the car.With the reflective glass on, the car stopped in front of the Shang family mansion, and then two men in peaked caps and express suits rang the doorbell.

"Hello, is anyone at home? This is Shunfeng Express, please come out and pick up the package."

Shunfeng Express?The bodyguards looked at each other, Shang Feijie raised his head, Shang Wei, who had been monitoring the gate, must have understood the situation immediately.

"Whose piece?"

"Well, let me see...it was sent to Mr. Shang Wei, and it was marked as a valuable item. Please be sure to sign for it yourself."

"What did you send?"

"This...we really don't know very well. You should unpack it yourself and have a look."

The butler had no choice but to ask the master again. It is hard not to treat the courier that suddenly appeared at this juncture as a trap.

"Call them in."

"Gentlemen, please, our master doesn't go out on his own, please come in with a courier, please don't be offended."

The two couriers looked at each other awkwardly, touched their noses, and had no choice but to bite the bullet and go in.As a courier in this area, I have known for a long time that the people living here are rich people, so it is good that I did not sigh too embarrassingly at the splendor inside the mansion.

The courier delivered a large wooden box of one meter square. After putting down the things, the two couriers were politely invited by the housekeeper to drink tea and refused to leave immediately.

After a few bodyguards confirmed that there were no bombs or flammable materials in the box, they carefully opened the box. In the next second, a large pile of black debris that looked like burnt dead wood appeared in front of everyone.

"What the hell is this?"

A bodyguard went up to check carefully. These things were not poisonous, but hard and fragile, and exuded a strong smoky smell.

"It looks like charred wood, and a bit of...textile?"

Shang Wei's eyes widened suddenly, he pushed the bodyguard away in two steps, and threw himself in front of the wreckage in disbelief.Shang Feijie also reacted, but he didn't dare to draw conclusions lightly, until he saw his father's trembling fingers because of anger and resentment.

"Master, what is this thing..."

"Okay, okay, ruthless...you are ruthless!"

"Master?"

Shang Wei took a step back, and suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, but the crazy laughter made people feel frightened from the bottom of their hearts.

Shang Feijie spoke at the right time, and said what he didn't say on behalf of his father: "This should be the longevity screen."

But the Longevity Screen doesn't look like this. Everyone's eyes gathered wonderingly. Could it be that someone burned the Longevity Screen and sent the remaining wreckage back to the Shang family?

This is undoubtedly the cruelest irony and the most ridiculous revenge.From the burglary eight years ago to the Shang family's pursuit and running around in the past eight years, the Shang family paid a heavy price including human life around the Changsheng Screen, but in the end they were played at their fingertips.In their eyes, the Longevity Screen, which weighs more than life and can achieve the long-cherished wish of eternal life, in the eyes of others, it is just a pile of broken wood that can be easily burned.

Shang Feijie's brows were deeply knit together. In his eyes, who knew the truth eight years ago, the irony of this "big gift" was further deepened.