Chapter 243 This is robbery. That kid's life is as good as his face...
After leaving the scavenger copy, Gao Mengtang wanted to give himself a half-month long vacation, but he only rested for one day. Early the next morning, he clamored to go back to the urban area of his hometown.
He could not get over Lin Li's prophecy: "The people you trust have been betraying you." In the copy, Lin Li stared at the Gao brothers and sisters and repeated this sentence.
The death of my parents...or the Gao brothers and sisters, must not be as simple as it seems.
Duan Song went with Gao Mengtang. As a rich second-generation, he could open many back doors for Gao Mengtang's investigation.
At ten o'clock in the morning, they arrived at the capital of Zhongzhou, the urban area of Zucheng.
Gao Mengtang found the police station that handled the Gao siblings' death case and the police officer who handled the traffic accident. It is no exaggeration to say that he has been here more than 300 times in the past four years.
Duan Song paid the money and they didn't encounter any obstacles along the way. They found the surveillance footage of the car accident and the investigation files from that year.
Gao Mengtang has watched this video thousands of times. When he closes his eyes, he can recall it in its entirety, including every detail.
June 7, 342. Gao Mengtang's parents were on a business trip and missed his birthday. They said they would make up for it by going on a cruise. That morning, they drove back to Zhongzhou to pick him up.
In the surveillance video, Gao Yaxuan was driving and Gao Huan was sitting in the passenger seat. The two of them were opening and closing their mouths, with excited expressions, as if they were arguing. Gao Huan leaned back on the seat with his head raised, covering his eyes with the back of his hands, as if he was crying.
The next moment, Gao Huan rushed over to grab Gao Yaxuan's steering wheel. The car was driving very fast and was turning. When he grabbed the wheel, the car crashed into the fence and fell down the hillside. Flames lit up and black smoke rose.
There were three black cars following the Gao siblings' car. When they saw the car accident ahead, the black car in the front obviously stepped on the brakes.
But in just a few short seconds, the black car accelerated and drove away from the accident scene.
The three cars had fake license plates, and the drivers were all wearing baseball caps, sunglasses and masks.
The policeman sighed, "Young handsome man, we really can't find anything unusual. The couple had an argument, which led to the car accident. The drivers of the three cars were not noble enough and did not rescue. Other than that, there is nothing else."
Gao Mengtang said "hmm" vaguely. He adjusted the progress bar, zoomed in on the screen, and observed the interior layout of the three cars.
There were only drivers in the first and last black cars. In the back seat of the middle black car, there was a person sitting with his face also covered. On his legs was a box covered in a snakeskin woven bag.
"What's in the box?" Gao Mengtang murmured thoughtfully.
The policeman said patiently: "We don't know. An urn? Gold? A small box, nothing to do with the car accident."
Gao Mengtang noticed this small box four years ago, but there were tens of millions of similar snakeskin bags, and they didn't have X-ray vision, so they couldn't see what was in the box.
"I remember there was a man on the wanted list, why is he gone?" Another policeman ran over and asked, "He used to be a pirate and killed countless people. He was caught once and escaped from prison."
"How can there be such a person?"
"I really remember this person! I think his last name was Tu, or Mu? I stayed up for two months to track down his whereabouts."
"You must have remembered it wrong. How could the list in the system be wrong?"
Gao Mengtang turned around as if he had sensed something and looked at the two policemen, looking very confused.
"Hey, what's going on?" The policeman scratched his head. "There's a piece of white paper in my wanted criminal file. It's clean. There's nothing left, not even a name..."
The two left the police station again, and just like the 300 times before, they gained nothing.
At noon, they found a restaurant to eat. Duan Song had half a table of dishes in front of him, while Gao Mengtang had only a bowl of salad in front of him.
"Senior, do you think your parents were murdered?" Duan Song took a bite of roast beef.
Half a minute later, Gao Mengtang shook his head: "I now feel that they just died in an ordinary car accident."
The surveillance footage showed that when the accident happened, the first black car was 20 meters away from the Gao siblings' car, with no lights on and the driver did not honk the horn. It would not have any impact on the Gao siblings' driving.
If we must doubt the three black cars, there is only one explanation: those people are also related to the Black Tower and they know magic.
When the car accident happened, the Black Tower game had not yet started internal testing. But according to Wei Wei, before the internal testing began, several know-it-alls knew about the Black Tower game in advance through people related to the wizard family and the Black Tower, and began preparations in advance. Gu Kang was one of the "know-it-alls".
If they were like the Black Tower players, with all kinds of skills and many ways to kill people, there would be no need to commit murder under surveillance. Moreover, after the accident, the black car leading the way clearly wanted to slow down and stop the car to rescue the victims.
But for some reason, they sped up and left the scene quickly.
"The key lies in why the Gao siblings quarreled and what they quarreled about. And why Lin Li said that the Gao siblings have been betraying me." Gao Mengtang said incoherently while biting the fork.
As early as a year before the car accident, Gao Mengtang heard them arguing.
Gao Huan asked in a tearful voice: "Do you have a heart? You are so cruel."
Gao Yaxuan's voice was cold and helpless: "Are you going to betray him?"
When asked why their parents were arguing, they looked at Gao Mengtang tenderly: It’s about work, be good, we will always love you.
Maybe it really is a work-related matter, but this work refers to the work at Tanhualing.
Gao Mengtang pulled his hair in distress: "I can't figure it out."
After lunch, they strolled around the city center and unknowingly passed by the Black Gull Base Camp, a modern L-shaped high-rise office building.
There were several white MPVs parked outside the courtyard of the office building. Seeing the license plate number, Gao Mengtang and Duan Song looked at each other in surprise: Isn't this Yue Fan's car?
The black clay puppets came out one after another, carrying boxes of things and putting them on the car. Some of the Black Gull members in the yard were crying, some were pointing at the sky and cursing, and some were bewildered.
Wei Wei is also in there? Gao Mengtang was a little surprised. After a brief thought, he decided to go in and take a look.
After completing the second dungeon [Princess Castle Rules and Weird Stories], Gao Mengtang came to the Black Gull Base Camp once. At that time, he wanted to fulfill the deal with Wei Wei and join the Black Gull.
The visit to Heiou left Gao Mengtang with the following impression: It is indeed the largest camp, so standardized and impressive!
The employees wore the same uniform and worked in an orderly manner. There were more than 20 departments, and those who didn't know the situation would definitely think it was a large listed company.
To enter the headquarters building, you need to go through three security checks, and even the elevators in the building use Black Tower technology.
However, this time, Gao Mengtang sneaked into the Black Gull building and walked straight through the security gate. Some Black Gull members saw him but pretended not to see him and walked out with cardboard boxes in their hands, looking numb.
The building was in a mess, with a scene of monkeys scattering after a fallen tree, as if the company had gone bankrupt.
What happened? Gao Mengtang didn't understand, so he followed the direction of the noise and came to the place where the main building and the warehouse were connected.
A group of people gathered there, chattering, cursing, and sobbing. Gao Mengtang eavesdropped for a long time and finally figured out the whole story.
The reason was that this morning, Wei Wei received a handwritten letter from Wei Xiangchen (yes, Wei Xiangchen doesn’t know how to use email), the general meaning of the letter was:
To my old friend Wei Wei:
I once dreamed of a happy reunion. Now that the dream is broken, it is time for me to wake up. Yin Mingwu died, and the contract he set automatically dissipated. Now I can leave Heiou. The dead soul has been wandering for six hundred years, not knowing where to return home. The dream is broken, but I still have a wish. I beg Yuefan to take in this remnant of my soul. If you can join Yuefan, you should repay me with a ring. I have something else to tell you. We will talk about it in detail when we meet...
Wei Xiangchen wrote a lot of rambling words in a very flowery way, but Wei Wei only saw eight words: Leave Hei Gull and join Yue Fan.
Wei Xiangchen originally wanted to leave with nothing, and join Yue Fan with only "a remnant soul", but how could Wei Wei agree? As the deputy leader of the Black Owl, when he leaves, he must at least divide up some of the property!
What does Yue Fan want a wisp of confused old ghost for? To accompany him in his “dream of a happy reunion”?
So Wei Wei immediately set off and went to the Black Owl headquarters to take away Wei Xiangchen's share. This is what happened in front of Gao Mengtang.
The noise rose several decibels. At this time, a group of people came into the warehouse. They were Wei Wei, Zhuang Yuan, Tong Ximing, Song Zhong and others who had joined Heiou and were then pried away by Yue Fan.
"You damn eunuch, you are committing a sin!" A man in a Black Gull uniform shouted at him, "It has always been like this. If you leave the camp, you will be kicked out of the house with nothing. Why do you take our Black Gull's things?"
"Has it always been like this?" Wei Wei was too lazy to even look at him. "Then let's change the rules from Wei Xiangchen."
Wei Xiangchen floated behind Wei Wei, holding his hands together in embarrassment: "Wei Wei, I don't want to take anything with me."
"Shut up." Wei Wei interrupted him, "Everyone else, keep moving."
Those who still miss Black Gull shouted angrily: "The things in the warehouse belong to Black Gull, not to the deputy leader. Why did you take them away?"
Wei Wei stared at him for a few seconds, then suddenly smiled, his shrill voice concealing a sharp needle: "Let me remind you that Yin Mingwu is dead, and the few remaining fish of Heiou are not a big deal."
"You can also define my behavior today as robbery," Wei Wei said with a smile, "but so what? You can use force to stop me, why don't you do it? Are you afraid?"
Wei Wei was right, they really didn't dare. Just listening to Wei Wei's gentle voice, I felt a cool breeze blowing through the cracks in my bones, causing a sharp pain in my limbs.
Those people looked ashen as they watched people coming in and out of the warehouse in grief, as if they saw the building they had built with their own hard work collapsing in the dust.
Gao Mengtang, who was standing behind the crowd, coughed a few times and spoke cautiously: "Um, Avi..."
"Mr. Blind, you are here too," Wei Wei saw him through the gap in the crowd, and smiled more deeply, more confidently, "Song Zhong, move all the things in Yin Mingwu's office."
"That's Chief Yin's relic!" one of them shouted.
Wei Wei didn't care about any relics or not. He brought a group of people and swept the Black Gull until the ground was in a mess. There were more than 10 MPVs full of stuff outside the yard. They drove away under the burning gazes of the Black Gull members.
On the way back, Wei Wei drove and Gao Mengtang sat in the passenger seat.
"Not so good, right?" Gao Mengtang thought for a long time before saying these four words.
Wei Wei dusted off his cigarette ash and said, "Please be careful. I am smoking. Don't burn your relics."
Gao Mengtang: “…Hmm.”
"Money is always good," Wei Wei sighed, "We don't know what else we'll run into."
The others returned the spoils of the raid to Yuefan. Gao Mengtang was still thinking about the Gao brothers and sisters and wanted to continue investigating. So he, Wei Wei and Duan Song spent a night in Wei Wei's city.
They left behind the things they had looted from Yin Mingwu's office, including two unopened woven bags found in the safe. The bags were heavy and no one knew what they contained.
Yin Mingwu was a strange man. With his status and position, he could have lived a luxurious life, but the clothes he wore and the items he used were very simple, just like the poorest people.
The three of them opened the woven bag and poured out everything inside.
"What the hell?" Duan Song rubbed his eyes, thinking he was seeing things.
A complete set of fifth grade primary school textbooks, a pair of unworn camouflage canvas rubber-soled shoes, an old mechanical watch with a broken watch glass, an unopened PU leather notebook, a box of gel pens...they are all ordinary items. The mechanical watch is the most valuable. It is a model from 15 years ago and costs a "high price" of 6,000 yuan. It can be sold for at least 200 yuan on the second-hand market.
Duan Song: "Why did he lock these things in the safe? That safe is more than 10 times more expensive than these things."
"It carries the memories of Yin Mingwu." Gao Mengtang said dejectedly.
Wei Wei flipped through the fifth-grade textbooks, and every page showed signs of previewing: "Yin Mingwu told me that he was an orphan who was adopted by an old and childless farmer. When he was in the fifth grade, the old man passed away, and Yin Mingwu had no choice but to drop out of school."
The three of them sighed in unison.
"Here is a notebook," Gao Mengtang said, "written in Esperanto."
The notebook is very thin and can be bought for 2 yuan. It is usually used by middle school students to do homework. The ink is very new and the paper is not yellowed. It should have been written not long ago.
Wei Wei flipped open the book and saw that only the first page had words written on it. However, the first paragraph surprised them:
I am Yin Mingwu. I won't live long. Maybe I shouldn't live, but I won't accept my fate. As long as I live, I will work hard to kill Xiao Tien and the half-dead. If I die, I will give this notebook to someone who can kill them.
After listening to Wei Wei's translation of the next few paragraphs, Gao Mengtang felt a chill all over his body and even doubted his own ears.
: The half-dead man does not care about anything. He wants to be the only king, but the fame of the Twelve Wise Kings is too great. In order to erase all traces of the existence of the Twelve Wise Kings, he orders the Gao brothers and sisters to create a shredder.
: Hey, Gao Mengtang is fighting with me so hard, but he never imagined that his nominal parents took him on a cruise on June 7th four years ago in the name of celebrating Gao Mengtang’s birthday.
: The cruise ship will sink after leaving Clear Sky Harbor, and the Gao brothers and sisters will personally throw Gao Mengtang into the shredder because this is the will of the half-dead.
: That kid's life is as good as his face. On June 7, the Gao brothers and sisters died in a car accident, which allowed that bastard to survive until now.
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