drowning tide

The sunspots landed on the red sandalwood chessboard, making a crisp sound, and the fine sand in the watch next to it just fell to the ground.

Yi Huai breathed a sigh of relief—playing chess with others is an extremely exhausting thing, and this short half hour alone made his nose sweat.

"Okay, it's my turn."

Contrary to his indecision before, Wu Yichun's white stones fell very simply.

This move of his has obviously been planned for a long time, and another piece of black stone on the chessboard has been eaten up. Looking around, it is really clean, with only sporadic black dots around the corners, which is pitiful.

"Before you said you couldn't play chess, I thought you were being modest, but I didn't expect that you really couldn't. It was a false alarm." Wu Yichun had a smile on his face, and tapped the sunspots piled up on his side, " How did Luo Yi teach you? Don't say you are like him, you haven't even learned his fur."

These few words he said were extremely sarcastic, but Yi Huai didn't respond to him.

Yi Huai frowned tightly, staring at the situation on the board solemnly, as if thinking about how he should go next.Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and just as he was about to grasp a clue, there was a burst of vibration in the pocket of his coat.

Glancing at the caller's number, he gestured apologetically to Wu Yichun, "Old Wu, pause the game for a while, I'll answer the call."

Wu Yichun waved him to hurry up, he walked to the window and answered, "Xiao Liang, can you call me?"

The one who called him was Xiao Liang who was sent by him to "get things". Xiao Liang lowered his voice, "Mr. Yi, I'm at the Jinlong Hotel. The people in the hotel said that Mr. Luo took people out after nine o'clock last night. Afterwards, Mr. Fei followed suit, and neither of them came back until now. Mr. Fei seems to have been seriously injured, so the people at the front desk were more impressed."

Most people would be confused when they heard this kind of thing, but Yi Huai just hummed lightly and said nothing else.

Xiao Liang on the other end of the phone was not sure what he meant, "Do you want to..."

"Xiaoliang, have you got what I ordered?" Yi Huai interrupted before he finished speaking, "Check the list, two handfuls of mutton fat jade, and a pair of red sandalwood snuff bottles from the Ming Dynasty. If there is no problem, bring them with you come over."

Xiao Liang was taken aback, but after all, he had been by Nie Xicheng's side for so long, and he quickly realized what he was saying, "Almost everything is ready, and we can go on the road at any time."

Yi Huai looked at Wu Yichun's reflection on the glass, and his probing eyes pierced him like two knives. I was a little impatient waiting."

The chess room is at the end of the corridor on the south side of the second floor. From where he stood, he could see the red camellias in full bloom in the garden downstairs. He closed his eyes and said, "Be careful on the road, don't bump into it, there is nothing else. I'll hang up first."

He hung up the phone and returned to the chess table. On the palm of his left hand that Wu Yichun couldn't see, there were three fingernail marks that were slowly oozing blood.

"It's your turn." Wu Yichun pointed to the chessboard, the chess game was still the same as before - he would be defeated in every possible way, and people like Wu Yichun didn't bother to make any moves.

The black and white stones obviously fall in the same way, but there are fewer and fewer black stones on the board, and Wu Yichun has more and more black pieces at hand, and it seems that the entire chessboard is about to be completely occupied by white stones.

"I surrender."

Yi Huai put down the chess piece in his hand with great pain, and said those three words to Wu Yichun.

He was not good at playing chess in the first place, if he could barely maintain it before, but now he was distracted by other things, he was defeated very quickly, and was killed by Wu Yichun's Baizi.

Seeing him struggling to the end and still failing to recover, Wu Yichun felt so bored, picked up the teacup at hand and took a breath, then took two shallow sips, "You are not paying attention."

"Even if I concentrate, I can't win."

Yi Huai admitted very readily - the gap between him and Wu Yichun cannot be made up by trivial things like inattention.

"Didn't Luo Yi teach you?"

The teacup in Wu Yichun's hand fell on the chess table, making a soft sound.

"I taught it two or three times, but I didn't have the talent for it, and he gave it up quickly."

I don't know what came to mind, Yi Huai's eyes were a bit gloomy, Wu Yichun saw his reaction, "Forget it, look at it, how many people in this world can do what he did? You know he Who is your teacher?"

"who is it?"

"Do you care about his affairs?"

"……care."

Wu Yichun paused for several seconds, seeing that his appetite was indeed whetted, and then he leisurely announced his name.

The name Yi Huai has an impression, it seems that he was a very popular national player in the past, and every win in a game of chess would be reported by the newspapers.

"No wonder." Yi Huai lowered his eyes, "No wonder I never beat him once."

Wu Yichun looked at him, seeing that his expression did not seem to be fake, "Could it be that he didn't even tell you this?"

I don't know which point this sentence hit Yi Huai, and he gritted his teeth immediately, "He...he never told me about himself."

"Oh?"

"Forget it, let's not talk about it." Yi Huai looked away in embarrassment, "Old Wu, I have played chess with you, should you..."

Wu Yichun waved his hand, and rejected him with a smile, "Little friend, what I said is that I will tell you if you win, but now that you lose, why should I tell you?" He narrowed his eyes, "Could it be...do you Want to play tricks?"

Yi Huai didn't speak, but lowered his head dejectedly, "You know that I can't play chess and you're making things difficult for me..." He swiped open the screen of the phone and tapped it twice casually, "Can't you really tell me?"

"I really can't, kid. To be a human being, you have to be creditable."

"Old Wu, since you refuse to tell me, then I will..." Yi Huai sighed.

"So what?"

Before Yi Huai could speak, the door of the chess room was kicked open. He Kun dragged a woman in, followed by several bodyguards.

The woman was half unconscious, and He Kun could have broken her neck with a little force. The bodyguards were pointing their guns at him.

"Then I can only use other methods." Yi Huai calmly finished the half sentence just now.

Wu Yichun stood up abruptly, and before he could get angry, the cold muzzle of the gun was pressed against his carotid artery.

The safety catch of the gun has been released, and the trigger is in another person's hand. It is a hand with well-proportioned bones, slender knuckles, and almost flawless white skin. The owner has long been used to holding a gun.

There was an uproar in the originally clean and elegant chess room, and Wu Yichun's bodyguards turned their guns on Yi Huai.

Yi Huai's dark eyes were burning with icy and blazing flames, and even the words he said were tinged with a layer of icy chill, "You can try who is faster."

He exerted all his force, and the muzzle of the gun almost blocked the beating of the main artery, "Where is Fei Chuan?"

Wu Yichun looked at him coldly, but he didn't back down at all, "Old Wu, I don't want to make things too ugly, but you don't seem to want to cooperate. Answer me, where is Fei Chuan? Where did you take him?" went?"

Before departure, he sent Fei Chuan the flight time and told Fei Chuan to figure it out, but he didn't expect Wu Yichun's person to arrive after waiting at the airport for a long time.

"It's a good thing for young people to be courageous, but you should distinguish who you can move and who you can't move."

After all, he has been the leader for more than ten years. Even if he was pointed at by a gun, Wu Yichun would not mess up at all, and spoke with full confidence, "So what if you know where Fei Chuan is? Do you think you can get out alive?"

What he said was true, the security of the whole house continued to concentrate here, and soon changed from a few people to a dozen people.

Being pointed at by a row of black guns, no matter how calm Yi Huai looked, his back was drenched in cold sweat.

At this point, he couldn't turn back.Calm down, he said to himself, and what Luo Yi taught him in the past became extremely clear again.

—Don't show it even if you are flustered, because this will give your enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it.

There are still people waiting for him to go back, he will not die in this place.He wanted to confirm Luo Yi's safety with his own eyes, and then return to that person's side.

"Whether I can walk out alive is up to you."

"Really?" Wu Yichun sneered.

It's almost time, Yi Huai looked out the window, "If you don't believe me, listen to what sounds are outside."

At first Wu Yichun only thought that he was playing tricks, but his expression changed very quickly.

"This is……?"

"I just want to tell you that if I want to leave, you can't stop me."

From a faint noise gradually became clear, until everyone present heard the roaring roar.

The huge turbulence brought up by the propeller disturbed the trees in the garden, the huge shadow of the helicopter blocked the sun, landed from a high place, and then got closer and closer, until it hovered outside the window, and the man inside the open hatch was not Who is Xiao Liang?

Yi Huai gave a weird smile, which was devoid of joy, "Old Wu, I'm not an overbearing and unreasonable person, let me ask one last time, where is Fei Chuan? Where are he and Luo Yi now?"

A small half of the bodyguards discovered the key point, and turned their guns on He Kun. When several parties confronted each other, whoever dared to act rashly would end up blood spattered on the spot.

At this critical moment, Wu Yichun was the first to speak.

"Enough is enough, enough is enough."

His voice was drowned in the loud noise of the propeller, and only Yi Huai who was closest to him could barely hear him.

"What did you say enough?"

Wu Yichun reversed his toughness before, "I'll tell you where Fei Chuan is, and ask your people to stop." He gestured, "Is this enough?"

The first ones to put down their guns were Wu Yichun's men. They squatted down, put the guns in their hands on the floor, then stood up, and took a step back neatly, expressing that they would not bite back again.

"enough."

Wu Yichun has already expressed his sincerity in this way, so they should also express their sincerity.

Yi Huai looked at He Kun, who let go of the hostage's maid, laid her flat on the floor and performed CPR on her, so as not to really kill her.

The helicopter moved a little further away, but it was still hovering around the house all the time. Yi Huai didn't point the gun at Wu Yichun again, "Please take me to see the two of them now."

He focused on the pronunciation of the last two words, not only did he want to see Fei Chuan, but he also wanted to make sure of Luo Yi's safety.