Throne of Radiance

Not long after the five unconscious criminals were taken away, today's breaking news hit the headlines.

[The ten-year-old only son of Gong, a director of a well-known local group, was kidnapped. Five members of the criminal gang were arrested, and one person lost contact.The hostages are missing.According to the confession of the five arrested suspects, they had known another man for only one day and had no idea of ​​his real identity. After the other man approached him and provided them with a criminal plan, the five suspects readily agreed and put it into practice. action.It is currently known that the last suspect is in his early twenties, about 1.7 meters tall, and claims to be code-named "K"...]

What followed was the announcement from the Yuanyang City Police Station.

[This suspect is extremely dangerous, using hostages as bait to force his family members to participate in the game.I hope everyone will provide clues.Once anyone accidentally participates in the game, please don't fall into the trap of criminals because of personal grievances and do irreparable things.Childish and innocent!The world has its own laws!If there is any injustice, I believe the government will give you justice! ]

Netizens who were blown away by the news were shocked.

[...? ? ? ]

[Nothing to say, what happened to Yuanyang City? ]

[I was so scared that I quickly opened the app to buy train tickets and wanted to move out of Yuanyang City overnight, but the tickets were sold out within half a month? ? ?This is outrageous. ]

[This K is really 999, 6 turned over.Why do I feel more arrogant than the previous serial killers?Anime super villains have a sense of sight, why don't superheroes come? ]

[To tell the truth, I feel that this Gong (I won’t name the specific one, everyone knows who he is) deserves what he deserves.Kindness will be revenged, no wonder he was chased and intercepted by the villagers. ]

[Don't look at this guy's reputation outside, everyone in the circle knows how dirty this guy is.Just one thing, the Gong Group was still the Yuan Group ten years ago.You know what you know, and you don’t understand what you don’t understand. The water here is too deep, and the interests are too involved. ]

[The child is innocent anyway.What did he do wrong kid?Although this Gong has a bad character, he is very competent as a father.If it wasn't for his son, he probably wouldn't be willing to disclose the game process and let others know his dark history. ]

[Very competent as a father? ? ? hhhh Are you trying to laugh at me to inherit the bank card that I owe [-] yuan? ]

[Laughing, I guess many people don't know that Gong has a daughter, right?It was the child of his first wife.Here, the father loves his precious son like a mountain, while the original daughter was kicked out before she was an adult, and she is self-reliant. ]

[... wow smells fresh melons. ]

[It's not fresh anymore, old melons.It’s nothing more than a phoenix man marrying Bai Fumei, who got the original partner’s company and kicked his wife and daughter away. As a result, all his lovers were unable to have children until he was 40 years old. story. ]

[Ah, this... The bloody description upstairs made me lose my interest in eating melons successfully.This melon is unpalatable, bah! ]

At the entrance of the first floor of the apartment in the old city, Xia Jiajia, who had been eating melons with great interest, slumped, showing an expression of great disappointment.

"Sure enough, fake melons are not tasty, so let's eat real melons."

She took out a big and round watermelon, flashed the watermelon knife to kill, and then turned her head to greet the window on the second floor: "Bai Yi Bai Yi! Come down and eat melon? This melon is super sweet!"

The boy in the hooded sweater heard the sound coming down the stairs, his messy and slightly curly hair curled up on top of his head.

Xia Jiajia handed over a sliced ​​melon, curious: "What are you doing upstairs these two days?"

Since the last time I successfully shared the joy of eating melons with Bai Yi, the two have happily formed a melon-eating duo these days during the holidays. No matter who eats melons, they will share it with another friend. Very harmonious.

"What else can I do besides playing games?" Bai Yi yawned with dark circles under her eyes, looking like a teenager with internet addiction.

"Is it still the game from before? What game hasn't been played for so long..."

"It's not this time, it's a small game I designed myself. Well, I'm bored and amuse myself~"

……

The second floor of the milk tea shop at the airport.

The little boy sitting in front of the table stared at the mobile phone screen on the table, looking eager to move.

Opposite him, the young man's fingers quickly clicked on the cartoon map spread out on the screen.

——This is like a stand-alone game applet.The style of painting is very cute, but the design is very casual.

The cartoon character representing the protagonist in the game keeps jumping up and down under the chase of the group of elephants to avoid attacks.There are long stick-like trunks sweeping towards them, water polo attacks, and elephant trunks rolling up stones to attack... There are so many attack methods, and the directions come from all directions, making it difficult to completely avoid them.

The blood bar above the protagonist's head began to drop.

Until the protagonist opens the backpack, selects gold coins, and starts to attack the elephant herd by throwing gold coins.Once hit by gold coins, a dizzy icon will appear above each elephant's head, and the pursuit speed will also slow down. After being hit three times, it will directly faint to the ground.

The cartoon character representing the protagonist took this opportunity to escape from the pursuit of the elephant herd, reached the finish line all the way, and finally succeeded in breaking through the level.

During this process, the boy watched with extreme concentration, without blinking his eyes, until finally he let out an exclamation.

The young man withdrew his hand: "Dangdangdang, successfully passed the level!"

As if he was acting as a game commentator, he narrated the series of operations just now with a voice full of emotion: "The protagonist Fang Fang successfully passed the first level and continues on the journey of treasure hunting! Let's see what the next level is... ..."

[Dangdangdang, the second mission of the game has started! ]

[Please arrive at Beishan Cemetery alone before 15:00 today.The specific address positioning has been sent. ]

When Gong Fang received the message from the kidnapper "K" again, the time on his mobile phone had pointed to 14:30.

From his place to Beishan Cemetery, it would take at least 10 minutes at normal speed, but now he has only half an hour left, and no minute or second should be wasted.

Without saying a word, Gong Fang set off in a hurry.

As the largest cemetery in Yuanyang City, Gong Fang is of course very clear about Beishan Cemetery, but he didn't know what "K" asked him to do here, until he came to the depths of Beishan Cemetery according to the positioning location and saw the erected tombstone.

And the young woman standing in front of the tombstone with her head bowed.

It was a girl in her early twenties, wearing a long light blue dress, but she looked very capable.

She turned her head when she heard the footsteps, and the exposed facial features made Gong Fang feel very familiar, and she froze there.

After hesitating for five seconds, Gong Fang recalled his daughter's face from the depths of his memory: "Are you...Xiaoyao?"

He went to look at the tombstone again, and there was indeed a photo of his ex-wife on it—he never knew when she died and where she was buried after she died.

But the young woman frowned in disgust because of his address: "Don't call me that! Why are you here?"

As soon as she finished asking this question, she suddenly realized.Who made the news on the Internet go viral.

"Oh, it's for your precious son, right? How could I forget, that's the lifeblood of your family!"

Gong Fang's expression was a little embarrassed.He reluctantly showed a loving expression: "That's your brother too..."

The next moment, his cell phone made a familiar sound.

[The person who reunited after a long absence is a relative or an enemy? ]

[The person in front of you must be very familiar, right?With your excellent academic qualifications, touching words, and pretty face, you once impressed her mother—the gentle and innocent young lady who was about the same age as her now; After the death of the young lady's father, she became her only reliance, gained the power of the Yuan Group, and changed hands within a few years. ]

[When that woman lost the property dispute lawsuit and was kicked out of the house by you with her seriously ill body and young daughter, you probably would not have thought that you would see her tombstone after more than ten years. ]

[Standing in front of you is your biological daughter by blood, and an enemy who hates you to the bone. ]

[And the heir to your family business, the clue to your precious son who will carry on the family line for you, is in her hands. ]

Seeing this, Gong Fang's expression changed, as if he had finally figured out what was going on: "You know K? No, you asked someone to kidnap your brother? Yes, it must be you."

He stepped forward excitedly, full of remorse: "I was the one who felt sorry for your mother and daughter at the beginning, and I have regretted it all these years. Dad has always wanted to get you back. Xiaoyao, you must not go astray just for revenge... "

"???" Yuan Yao was full of question marks, and snorted coldly, "Are you crazy? What does it have to do with me being kidnapped? If I had the ability, I would have attacked you long ago!"

Fortunately, at this time, a new text message appeared in time.

Gong Fang looked down at his phone.

[Oh, by the way, don't get me wrong.The clues I mean are where the last game is, and you can get the answer from her, if she wants to say it. ]

[——Birthday, that is, the last birthday she spent with her mother, where is the place? ]

［—That is the game location of the last ring.Please arrive in time before 19:00 tonight.Otherwise, you will lose your precious son forever. ]

At the end of the message is an extremely familiar sentence.

[Forgiveness or judgment, I look forward to the answer. ]

Seeing the fluctuating expression on Gong Fang's face, Yuan Yao seemed to have guessed something, with a hint of sarcasm on her face: "It seems that the kidnapper really proposed the game, so I might be the key to whether you can pass the level or not?"

Gong Fang's embarrassed and ugly face confirmed everything.

This made her couldn't help laughing in front of her mother's tomb, and she was very happy: "You, surnamed Gong, have today!"

"Xiaoyao, I know I'm sorry for you. Dad will definitely make up for you in the future. You can retaliate however you want. But your brother is innocent, and he didn't forgive you. He is still so young, you can't just watch your brother die ah……"

"That's enough, tell me what you want me to do first?"

"Where did you spend your birthday?" Seeing Yuan Yao's tone loosened, Gong Fang immediately hit the snake with the stick and asked this urgently.

With the time limit of arriving before seven o'clock, and not knowing how far it is from here, he dared not waste any time.

But these words seemed to touch Ni Lin, causing Yuan Yao's loose face to quickly darken, forming a layer of ice.

Her voice was also as cold as ice: "At that time, my mother was already seriously ill. She didn't want to continue to waste money in the hospital, so she took me to the most meaningful place in her life..."

While speaking, she silently observed Gong Fang's face, but found that the other party seemed to be unable to think of any "most meaningful place" at all, so she couldn't help but sneered and stopped talking.

Gong Fangzheng was listening carefully, but found that the key point suddenly disappeared. This is tens of thousands of times more anxious than readers who are faced with the author's broken chapter: "Where is it?"

Yuan Yao suddenly backed away a few steps, pointed to the tombstone that had been silently stored, and proposed a condition: "First kowtow to my mother a hundred times, be sincere, you owe her this."

"What did you say?" Gong Fang couldn't believe it.

Yuan Yao was indifferent: "I'll tell you the answer when I'm done knocking. I'll tell you when I finish knocking."

"—Do you still want to see your son sooner? Are you unwilling to do it for your son at this level? Don't say that you are a good father in the future."

Gong Fang was so angry that he blushed after being so angry with her: "Good! Good! You are very good! I knock—"

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

The sound of kowtowing echoed in the cemetery, it sounded a bit scary, but Yuan Yao hummed a cheerful tune in her heart.

She looked at the man in front of her who had turned against each other. After the pleasure of revenge dissipated, a deep sorrow flooded her heart: "Since you have finished the kowtow, let me tell you—the place we went to was the Happy Orphanage."

Gong Fang's expression changed slightly.

"That's the orphanage that my grandfather has funded since the year my mother was born. Until I was kicked out of the house by you, my mother would go to the orphanage every year. Back then, she accidentally saw a man doing volunteer work there. , thought that the other party was diligent and kind, so when this man pursued her in high profile at school, she would agree so quickly."

"It turns out that what you see isn't necessarily true."

"She took me not for a certain man, but for the last time to say goodbye to those children who regarded her as an angel. She didn't want me to pretend to be only hatred. She wanted me to see more meaning in life. The happiness gained after helping others is passed on to me."

"Unfortunately, two years later, an accidental fire broke out in the Happy Orphanage and it was burnt to ruins."