Chapter 22 PunishmentThe children in the orphanage had it better off than he did back then, probably because some of them had promising futures. He held the rusty iron gate and stared in a daze at the children cheering and running in the yard. Innocence and romance can always penetrate the dusty heart in an instant. Only when you realize what you have lost, will you grab every opportunity to make up for it. And he! At this moment, he clearly felt that the happiness that was lost in the past... was slowly coming towards him! He stretched out his hand to grab it, and touched the child's tender face, with a faint scent of milk in his nose. Unlike adults who wear masks that hide their true colors, they are not disgustingly greedy. They are pure, ignorant, flawless, fragile, and full of vitality... His empty heart was finally filled at this moment... It was as if he was surrounded by a warm sea of flowers in spring, causing him to feel a strong desire for possession, control, and... an irresistible desire for destruction. That was the first time in his thirty-plus years of life that he felt... that desire that came from the bottom of his heart, without any reason... Coming back to his senses, looking at the surrounding environment, Jiang Gu Yichuan frowned and asked: "Why take another road?"
The driver hurriedly replied, "Boss, that road is blocked by a landslide. If you don't want to go through the forest, you can only take this detour." Jiang Gu Yichuan nodded and stopped talking. The crow walks and the rabbit flies... When the sky was getting slightly dark, the towering buildings were dimly reflected in the mist between the mountains and forests. Jiang Gu Yichuan asked the car to stop and said to the four bodyguards who got off at the same time: "Drive the car into the woods and hide yourself nearby... Be careful not to let others get close to the orphanage!" He was not too worried. Before coming, he had asked Nora Jin to monitor all the intersections leading here and dispatched a helicopter to a nearby town. After thinking for a while, he handed a walkie-talkie to the leading bodyguard and instructed: "Be sure to keep it safe! I will tell you any requests I have through it!" After instructing the four people, Jiang Gu Yichuan did not go to the main gate of the orphanage, but went around to the left side of the wall, lifted up a piece of lifelike grass, and swept the loose soil underneath to the side... Then, an iron plate that was also locked was revealed! He first put the grass on the iron plate, and then pulled the iron plate open about 45 degrees. After he got in, he slowly closed the iron plate, and the grass naturally covered it again. This basement was discovered by him when he was in the orphanage. It might have been dug out when the village was still there and used as a warehouse. He didn't tell anyone and treated it as his secret base. Later, when he paid for the renovation, he specially had someone build a road from the back of the basement leading directly to the outside. After passing through the dark corridor and pushing open a metal door, soft yellow light overflowed like flowing water. He scanned the empty room, and finally focused on the trembling child squatting at the end of the bed, and forced a kind smile: "Be good, Ling, come here and let me see, have you eaten well recently?" Jiang Gu Yichuan walked up to him, ignoring the child's resistance, and picked him up by his buttocks. He pressed his hand against Ling's bloodless face, gently stroking his scarred body, his face full of intoxication. Click~ A soft sound. Jiang Gu Yichuan looked up in surprise and found a figure holding a mobile phone walking out of the secret passage of the dormitory building that had been burned and covered. My heart sank instantly! He threw the child in his arms to the ground and shouted, "Who are you?! Damn it, who allowed you to take pictures here?!" Su Beixun put his phone down and smiled contemptuously: "Oh, the head of Jianggu Financial Group actually has this kind of hobby... Tsk tsk, this photo should be able to sell for a lot of money, right?"
Jiang Gu Yichuan frowned and said in a cold voice: "Who do you want to sell it to? Do you think this photo can be published without my permission?" Then his expression relaxed slightly and he slowed down his voice: "If you want to sell it, I can buy it! With my wealth... I can give you a sum of money that you will never be able to spend!" "sounds good." Su Beixun tossed and caught the phone playfully, but suddenly sneered: "Where did you hide the organization's backup ID card?" Jiang Gu Yichuan, who was still calm, suddenly changed his expression. Without thinking, he turned around and sprinted back! Bang~ A wisp of green smoke rose up, twisting and drifting in the air. Jiang Gu Yichuan fell to the ground, covering his thigh and wailing. Su Beixun put his finger in the trigger and turned the gun, walked up to close the open door, then grabbed Jiang Guyikawa by the back of the collar and dragged him to sit against the wall. The still hot muzzle of the gun was pressed directly against his forehead. "answer my question!" Jiang Gu Yichuan was sweating profusely from the pain. He gasped violently and said with difficulty, "No... Impossible! Let me tell you, I am the one who really has no way out!" He stared stubbornly at Su Beixun's scarlet pupils, expressing his uncompromising attitude. Su Beixun stared at him for a moment, put away his gun, and complained in a low voice: "Okay, I see your determination... It's really troublesome, why don't you choose a painless, peaceful and quiet death?" Before Jiang Gu Yichuan could breathe a sigh of relief after seeing the gun being put away, he saw the overly good-looking child opposite him leisurely take out a small knife from his arms! It was a fruit knife, with a curved blade, a short and narrow blade, and a pear-yellow wooden handle at the back. From the slightly patinated handle, you can tell it's been around for quite a while. "Keep staring...are you curious?" Su Beixun spoke in a gentle tone, as if he was talking to a friend he had known for a long time, and they were telling each other about their pasts. "You know what? I've always been a nostalgic person... or you could say I have a soft spot for those 'first times'." He took out a piece of fine silk and carefully wiped every part of the knife: the handle, the back of the knife, the blade, the cutting edge... inside and out, meticulously. “The first baby tooth I lost, the first gift I received, the first mobile phone I used, the first train ticket I bought, the first opportunity for enlightenment…” The bright lights could not bring any comfort. Jiang Gu Yichuan looked at the knife that reflected his disheveled face. He felt a chill in his heart, his stomach tightened, and he felt so nervous that he wanted to vomit. "Ten years ago, when I had no way forward, this knife and fork was placed on a person's heart, giving me the opportunity to change my destiny..." Su Beixun raised the knife and examined it carefully under the light. The bluish-white light of the knife passed by his eyes inch by inch. "I am a person blessed by fate... When I was about to starve to death, fate gave me the tools to steal. When I was about to encounter danger, fate gave me timely warnings..." He smiled coldly, as if showing off something: "And this knife is the guidance given by fate when I was confused..." The sharp tip of the knife fiercely cut through the expensive fabric, leaving a hideous crack with flesh and blood on Jiang Gu Yichuan's pampered body. Jiang Gu Yichuan huddled in the corner and shivered. He clenched his teeth and did not cry out in pain even though the taste of blood rose in his mouth... He was afraid that if he opened his mouth, he would no longer have the courage to keep the secret. Su Beixun didn't care about it at all. He shook off the blood on the knife, took out a can of orange-yellow viscous liquid from somewhere, and poured it all out in front of Jiang Guyichuang's horrified eyes. "Don't be nervous." Su Beixun comforted him softly and explained considerately: "It's just honey." But Jiang Guyichuan didn't listen. He looked at the jar that Su Beixun had taken out from somewhere, tears streaming down his face unconsciously, his voice trembling so much that he could hardly speak: "Don't... please... don't..." The jar was pitch black, and countless ants were overlapping each other, crawling quickly on the glass with their densely packed limbs.
Su Beixun narrowed his eyes and smiled at him. "No!!!!" Jiang Gu Yichuan wailed loudly, clapped his hands, fell to the ground and rubbed himself around frantically, trying to shake off the increasing number of ants on his body. The wound gushed out more and more blood due to the intense movement. Jiang Gu Yichuan could clearly see that in the scarlet, dense black spots went against the blood flow and disappeared into his flesh and blood... Itching, pain, and the fear of being eaten... Jiang Gu Yichuan broke down and cried, tearing off his clothes frantically, but inadvertently left more and more wounds... Su Beixun looked indifferently at Jiang Guyichuan who was twitching at his feet, and said calmly: "Ten minutes... If you don't tell me, I will make a cut on your body every ten minutes and give you a jar of honey." (End of this chapter)