The Deepest Color of the Night

No matter where it hits, the nosebleed will only happen if the internal organs are injured.

"No...no, I didn't hit anywhere." Fang Jin pushed the doctor away and struggled to sit up: "It may be caused by emotional agitation. Do you see if I have a fever..."

The doctor took the body temperature dubiously, and then turned to stand outside the ambulance, his head was wrapped in a bandage and he was staring at Gu Yuan inside: "There should be no internal organs injury or concussion, it may be due to excessive shock and stimulation, or a little fever—— But just to be on the safe side, go to the hospital for a checkup."

Fang Jin was about to refuse, but Gu Yuan nodded and said, "Go now."

·

Fang Jin did not hit anything, and only suffered a few soft tissue contusions from the violent vibration of the carriage, so he didn't even need to observe.

Gu Yuan finished the examination before him, and sat in the corridor outside the emergency room to read the report sent by his subordinates. When he came out, he raised his eyes and smiled: "Fortunately, I have you this time, otherwise something will happen."

The tone of these words is actually a bit weird after careful taste, Fang Jin paused slightly.

However, before he could think of a word to answer, Gu Yuan said to himself again: "Unexpectedly, you were quite calm, and that shot was really lucky. It seems that I will teach you how to shoot next time."

He looked at Fang Jin and smiled, his expression was very normal, Fang Jin forced himself to smile back.

Gu Yuan beckoned, Fang Jin walked up to him and sat down, and was immediately held in his arms by him.

Although there was no one outside the emergency room in the middle of the night, the hospital was a public place after all, and this intimate gesture made Fang Jin feel a little uneasy; however, Gu Yuan didn't feel anything wrong at all, and just focused on looking at the densely written paper. Report.After a long while, Fang Jin finally couldn't help moving, and asked in a low voice, "Has this been found out? Who is the other party?"

"My uncle Ke Rong." Gu Yuan paused, then said, "And Gu Yang."

Fang Jin was taken aback.

"Are you thinking that the two of you can do it together? The fact is that they can. I have Gu Yang's eyeliner by my side, and Ke Rong has long been dissatisfied with my grandfather's growing support for me. Yesterday The matter of going to the pier to pick up that important shipment became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the two hit it off."

Fang Jin asked softly: "...Ke Rong wants to kill you?"

"I can't do anything for the benefit of others, but it's not necessarily true that I'm going to do it. Maybe I just want to learn a lesson by cutting off my hand." Gu Yuan lazily said, "People's hearts are so small—fortunately, I have you this time."

Fang Jin's heart skipped a beat.

Gu Yuan curled his lips at him in a blink of an eye, at this moment a bodyguard turned out from the end of the corridor, strode up to Gu Yuan and handed a big paper bag, and said in a low voice, "Mr. Yes, I found these from the driver of the other party."

Gu Yuan let go of Fang Jin, reached out to dig out, most of the things inside were stained with blood.

The driver did not die, but was seriously injured and sent to the ICU.Gu Yuan accepted the lesson of Lu Wenlei's bizarre death in the hospital last time, and arranged for sufficient manpower and medical staff to take care of him. There was never less than three people around him for a second, and he ordered that he be taken to him for interrogation as soon as he woke up.

The paper bags were filled with odds and ends, car keys, Swiss army knife, wallet, coins, driver's license that must have been fake, belts, baseball caps, and uniform shirts soaked in blood.

The baseball cap was old, probably used by drivers to cover up highway cameras.Gu Yuan used the brim of his hat as a shovel to rummage through the paper bag, threw it casually and said, "That's it. Bring Gu Yang to me tomorrow to meet him. It's been a long time since I've been in touch with my brother."

The bodyguard nodded: "We also caught the eyeliner on Er Shao's side, now in the car downstairs, do you want Mr. Gu to take a look?"

——In this instant, Fang Jin caught a glimpse of the baseball cap in the paper bag.

His gaze suddenly froze.

It was actually just an old, yellowed, blood-stained hat, but there was something printed on the brim: a company logo with three curved lines at the lower end and a black seagull spreading its wings at the upper end.

At first glance, the trademark looked like a baseball cap brand, but Fang Jin knew that it had nothing to do with the hat itself.

Because he has seen it before.

He lost his parents the last time he saw the logo.

"Fang Jin?" Gu Yuan turned his head and asked.

Fang Jin's gaze turned to him, and after half a second, he asked without hearing anything unusual, "What's the matter?"

His voice and expression were so normal, Gu Yuan didn't ask any more questions, he just said: "You wait for me here for a while, I'll go downstairs and have a look, I'll be up soon."

Fang Jin even smiled at him and said, "Okay."

Gu Yuan stood up, turned back and touched Fang Jin's forehead, and walked out with the bodyguard after making sure that the fever was not too high.

——What he didn't see was that on the bench behind him, Fang Jin's eyes followed the blood-stained paper bag in the bodyguard's hand, and his eyes could almost be described as horrified.

Three sea wave curves, black seagulls spreading their wings and about to fly...

Fang Jin's heart was beating up and down in his chest, and the blood flowed to the top of his head. Because the flow was so fast, he could even hear the sound of the blood vessels in the eardrum being hit rapidly.

Yes, he had seen it.

On the day his parents committed suicide, the raging fire at home lit up the night sky, and the young Xiao Fang Jin howled hoarsely on the street, desperately trying to break through the cordon and rush in, but was held down by passers-by.

The firetruck came whistling around the street corner, and the bright red light pierced people's eyes.The cry in Fang Jin's tender voice was so hoarse that he was inhumane. He crawled towards the cordon again, but the next moment he was picked up by the passer-by who had been holding him down: "Look at this child, Don't let him get away."

Fang Jin's ears were buzzing, and his vision was blurred by tears.During the dizziness, he couldn't see what the man looked like, but with the dazzling red light of the fire truck in the background, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a logo printed on the chest of the man's uniform shirt——

Three sea wave curves, a black seagull trademark, and the words XX Transportation below.

——It was only for a moment.

Xiao Fang Jin was in a daze, all the details and light and shadow were confused and entangled in his memory.In a trance, he only remembered that he was picked up by the police, and then there was an uproar from countless people, and a voice asked, "Did you call the police?"

"Yes, this one suddenly caught fire. Our company has a warehouse next door, and we saw the flames when the goods were passing by..."

Fang Jin tried his best to look up to see his home in the sea of ​​fire, but his eyes were immediately covered.The darkness in his sight was boundless, and the world turned into a complete abyss in his eyes. Xiao Fang Jin, who had already struggled and collapsed, finally passed out.

That was the last day he had a home in this world.

Afterwards, Fang Jin was sent to the police station, and then transferred to the social welfare institution. After only two days in the welfare institution, he was taken away and sold into Gu's family.

After that, all kinds of tossings and displacements were like an intricate net, strangled him tightly, and ruthlessly snatched away the last inch of lingering room; and in the deepest part of the center of the net, was the deep night, the raging sea of ​​fire that illuminated the sky.

A black seagull stared at him in the firelight.

Destiny poked its head out of the unbearable time and showed him a ferocious smile.

·

They didn't come home until early that morning, Fang Jin was out of his mind and couldn't fall asleep, so Gu Yuan got up and warmed him a cup of milk, but he fell asleep after drinking and didn't wake up until he went to work the next morning.

Before going out, Gu Yuan kissed him on the center of the brow, stroking his fingers over his rosy lips due to his deep sleep.

In the morning light, Fang Jin breathes evenly, his face is calm, his eyelashes cover the wings of his nose like crow's wings—what he can't see is that Gu Yuan's eyes are full of deep addiction and fascination at this moment, as if the deep water has no bottom and is about to swallow his whole body. People are soaked in it.

It was not until a long time later, even the working hours were almost over, that Gu Yuan got up and walked out gently.

It was nearly ten o'clock when we arrived at the company, and his subordinates took two quick steps forward and pushed open the door. Gu Yuan strode into the office, and saw two bodyguards sitting on a large leather sofa against the wall, one left and one right pressing the middle one. People - Gu Yang.

Gu Yang was dressed in a disheveled state, with his neckline undone, his body smelled heavily of alcohol, and there were red marks left on his face from his sleep.You don't need to look at this picture to know that it must have been dug out from some chick's bed. It may have been hijacked by the bodyguards early in the morning, and it has been pressed down until now.

"Brother, if you miss me, just call me and I'll come here naturally. Why do you still come here so early in the morning?" Gu Yang glanced to the left and right, and said with a smirk: "I know it's brother, you like to joke with brothers, don't you?" I know, I thought you were going to usurp the throne and seize power today, so you killed me to sacrifice the flag first."

Gu Yuan said indifferently: "If I want to usurp the throne and power, what difference does it make if I kill you or not?"

Gu Yang choked up immediately.

Gu Yuan hooked the armchair to the front, and the chair slid out from behind the desk, and then he held it down with one hand, and sat in front of Gu Yang: "Let him go."

The bodyguard immediately let go, Gu Yang straightened his collar severely, and snorted heavily.

"Are you not convinced?" Gu Yuan asked.

Gu Yang said: "There is nothing to be dissatisfied with. If my elder brother has a car accident, I will be blamed, so I will blame it. Who told me that there is only you in our family. If there is another third child, we brothers can still be together. Let's fight for it, but now it's an either-or situation, if I don't take the blame, who will take the blame?"

Gu Yuan stared at him with deep eyes, and the office was silent for a while.

That quietness makes people feel creepy, as if a poisonous snake is slowly crawling up your ankle, bit by bit quietly, allowing fear to slowly seep into your heart with the cold and sticky touch.

Gu Yang moved subconsciously, and said with a smile, "Brother?"

Gu Yuan suddenly turned to the bodyguard, and ordered: "Bring the things up."

The bodyguard led away, and after a while came in with a white iron box, walked up to Gu Yang and clicked the lid of the box.

Gu Yang glanced at him, and suddenly shrank back——

Inside the box was a blood-stained severed hand!

"Brother, what do you mean! What are you doing! Take it away, don't give it to me! Take it away!"

"This is the hand of your eyeliner." Gu Yuan said indifferently, "I tortured you all night, and all of them were recruited in the early hours of this morning. Your subordinates are too useless."

"What eyeliner! I don't know!" Gu Yang's voice almost changed, and he clung tightly to the back of the sofa, trying to stay as far away from the severed hand as possible: "I don't know anything, give me Why are you looking at this kind of thing?! Take it away, don’t come here! Can you force me to recognize it by acting like a bandit?!”

Gu Yuan laughed and said, "Bandits."

His smile seemed to be joking, but in the next second he stood up, grabbed Gu Yang with lightning speed, pressed his fingers like iron pincers on his shoulders, turned him around, and grabbed Gu Yang's head. Pressing it in front of the iron box, the face was almost stuck on the severed hand!

"Ahhh-"

"That's what you call a bandit," Gu Yuan teased, grabbed his hair and lifted Gu Yang's head, and asked, "You are so afraid of seeing someone's hands, how dare you cooperate with Ke Rong to kill me?"

Gu Yang's face was pale and sweaty, and he said hoarsely for a while, "Since you insist on me, what else..."

"Is it you or Chi Wanru?"

"..."

"It's Chi Wanru, right?"

"..."

Gu Yang gasped for breath, and after a long time, he slowly said, "I...I don't have the intention to kill you..."

Gu Yuan finally let go of his hand, Gu Yang immediately fell into the sofa, and hurriedly moved to the corner.

Gu Yuan sneered, and mocked: "Your mother has grown up, and getting involved with Ke Rong, a gangster, will kill me. It's seeking skin from a tiger—do you think your mother is like Ke Rong, who is cruel and murderous without blinking an eye?" Can you play it? At that time, why don’t you kill me first and then you, and then either the Gu family will give it to someone with a foreign surname for nothing, or Gu Mingzong will clean up Ke Rong first, and then strangle your mother to death with his own hands.” He seemed to find it very interesting, He smiled and said: "When we meet in the underground in a few years, you can ask your mother why she is so stupid."

Gu Yang's face turned blue and white, and after a long time, he choked out a sentence: "That's my mother after all..."

He probably also felt that these words were very feeble, so he stopped abruptly.

"Last night... Last night I really wanted to stop her, but it was too late to get the news. I also know that her dealings with people like Ke Rong are indeed...Brother, I didn't mean to fight with you for the whole country. I just want to get what I deserve, you know me."

Gu Yuan said lightly: "I have always planned to give you what should be given to you in the future."

Gu Yang seemed to be full of words, but when the words came to his mouth, they only turned into a long sigh.

"I will go and warn my mother to cut off contact with the Ke family. She did something wrong this time. My father is still alive. If our brothers start fighting among themselves, we will end up dragging each other to death together, so I don't want to harm you, big brother." of."

He stood up, bowed, and said solemnly, "Thank you for letting me go this time."

Gu Yuan leaned deeply in the boss chair, accepted the gift without any expression on his face.

It wasn't until Gu Yang bowed and stood up that he calmly said, "Okay - let's go."

Only then did Gu Yang respectfully answer yes, turn around in full clothes and leave. When he passed the bodyguard with the severed hand, he seemed a little scared, and subconsciously took half a step before walking out of the office door.

·

The door closed with a click, and the bodyguard asked in a low voice, "Young Master, what Second Young Master said just now—"

"Whether he lied or not, it's true that he doesn't have the guts." Gu Yuan sneered, and raised his chin towards the iron box with the severed hand: "Just find a place to bury it, the smell is quite unpleasant .”

The bodyguard answered yes, closed and locked the iron box, and then said in a deep voice: "One more thing, young master, two days ago you asked us to check the information on the assistant of the party, and the results have come out today..."

Gu Yuan was turning around and going back to his desk, when he heard this, his footsteps stopped.

He must have paused for several seconds, neither speaking nor moving, not knowing what he was thinking.

It took a while for the bodyguard to see him stretch out his hand without looking back, and said, "Bring it."

The bodyguard didn't dare to guess how he was feeling right now, so he just picked up an A4-sized leather envelope from the desk, lowered his head and handed it over respectfully.

Gu Yuan pinched the envelope in his hands for a while, and then slowly unwrapped the seal.

He moved slowly and carefully, barely making a sound as he opened the envelope.There were several sheets of printed paper in the envelope, Gu Yuan pulled them out, and the bodyguard beside him caught a glimpse of this action out of the corner of his eye, and felt an inexplicable solemnity and an indescribable sense of ceremony for some reason.

Yes, that sense of ritual.

As if it wasn't just a few pieces of paper, but something more important, more crucial.

Gu Yuan read it line by line in silence, the above is all of Fang Jin's life since he was a teenager.

His family conditions are very poor, but he was admitted to the middle school designated by the Gu family for a long time. He received special funding because of his excellent academic performance. After graduating from high school, he was sent to Germany to study.

He won a lot of scholarships in Germany, probably because of this, he was very appreciated by Gu Mingzong, and he was one of the accompanying translators every time he went to Germany; after returning from his studies, he sent his resume to the group head office, and immediately got a good job Work.

Gu Yuan turned back one by one, and saw Fang Jin's photos, transcripts and graduation certificates when he was in Germany, and also saw Fang Jin's application resume and a copy of the employment contract for entering the head office.

He closed the document and handed it back to the bodyguard: "Something is wrong."

The bodyguard was surprised: "What?!"

"If you are a sponsored student, just admit it to me directly. There is no need to hide it because of some ridiculous self-esteem. Besides, it is impossible for the Gu family to sponsor a student to learn how to shoot."

The bodyguard seemed to be taken aback, and took a while to hurriedly take over the document: "But what we found is indeed like this..."

"As long as you have prepared in advance, what you find is the information that others want to display." Gu Yuan sat behind the huge mahogany desk, and said coldly: "——I want to know the real thing, so keep checking."

·

It was already morning when Fang Jin woke up.

He turned over and sat quietly on the bed for a long while before the nightmare that had haunted him all night gradually emerged in his mind.

Boiling human voices, flashing police lights, soaring flames, and black seagulls grinning at him in the abyss...

All the details swirled in the deep sea, and finally turned into the baseball cap with large blood stains and the inconspicuous company logo on it in the corridor of the emergency room late last night.

Fang Jin could hear the sound of his heart beating violently. He gasped slightly for a while before turning over and getting out of bed to wash up.

There was the sound of running water in the bathroom, Fang Jin washed his face with cold water, the cold touch made him finally wake up.He wiped his wet face casually, and turned to get a towel to wipe it off. At this moment, his nasal cavity suddenly felt hot, followed by a rush of warm liquid.

Fang Jin raised his hand in amazement and touched it, only to see that his fingers were dripping with blood.

He has another nosebleed.