Chapter 86 A bunch of roses, a bunch of red roses, please accept them...
A fruit knife.
Gao Mengtang placed it on the table, stared at it seriously, took a deep breath, wiped it clean, disinfected it with alcohol, and held it in his palm.
The blade slowly approached his chest, and he took a deep breath.
Didn't stab it.
"Alas, suicide requires a strong willpower." Gao Mengtang put down the knife dejectedly and sighed deeply.
He prepared himself mentally for several hours, used pain-blocking drugs from the system store, and tried to make a few small cuts on his arm, but when he finally kicked, he still couldn't kick it down.
During this time, he activated his aura of charm, and twelve ghosts stood in a circle with their backs to him. No matter how he asked, the ghosts would not speak.
I procrastinated until midnight, the pain-blocking drug took effect and then lost its effect, I drank more than ten bottles in a row, my brain was dizzy, but I still didn't do it.
Find someone to kill him? Not very realistic.
The fruit knife was placed right on the table. Gao Mengtang gritted his teeth and put the knife into the drawer.
"Who cares why the ghost appears? Anyway, as long as it's a good thing, it's fine." He muttered softly and wandered around the living room.
These days, the Yuefan members were temporarily staying in Duan Song's villa. After dinner, they learned that Duan Song had collected a sculpture by Gao Mengtang. They clamored to admire it, so Duan Song placed the sculpture on a private seat.
Gao Mengtang asked him, I remember this sculpture was sold to an old man, why did it end up in your hands?
Duan Song replied, I know it was you who did it, and I bought it at a high price because it reminds me of you, what else can I do?
Others praised the sculpture highly, but Gao Mengtang just listened with a smile and said nothing.
The collapsed throne and the person lying on it. The first time this image appeared in Gao Mengtang's mind was when he was choked by peanuts and was on the verge of death.
At this moment, Gao Mengtang stopped in front of the sculpture again, looking at every detail he carved with his own hands.
An indescribable sadness filled Gao Mengtang's heart. For a moment, he forgot everything else and stared at the sculpture like a madman. The ghost, the black tower, the copy... were all forgotten.
I really want to stay at this moment and let time stop from now on.
Suddenly, Gao Mengtang forgot his instinctive fear of death, picked up the knife that had been in his hand, and stabbed it into the chest without hesitation.
The effect of the pain-blocking potion had weakened, and a dull pain spread from his chest, but it was not as painful as he had imagined. Gao Mengtang felt weak all over and fell to the ground.
The ghost reappeared and turned toward him. The wound was completely healed.
Gao Mengtang lay on his back and opened his eyes. The sculpture on the seat stood quietly in the darkness.
The resurrection coin is still in the prop column. He was resurrected by the ghost.
Like opening Pandora's box, Gao Mengtang experimented again and again, drinking poison, jumping off a cliff, cutting his carotid artery... His mind was calm, and he felt surprised that he was so skilled in self-destruction.
After countless attempts, Gao Mengtang wandered like a ghost in the forest outside the villa. When he tried to jump into the lake and drown himself, the ghost arrived as expected.
Come back to life.
"What exactly are you?" Gao Mengtang lay on his back on the lawn, with twelve faces shrouded in dark shadows staring down at him.
"You can't escape..."
The sound came from all directions.
"Just like us..."
Gao Mengtang: "Who are you and why did you save me?"
"Save you? Ha."
The sneer echoed in the dark windy day. In a trance, Gao Mengtang saw a pair of eyes as black as ink and as dim as a lake.
"It's not salvation, it's curse."
"You can't escape. Just like us."
"Suicide... is useless."
"We are just puppets. We have no power to choose... including... choosing death."
The ghost shadow turned into mud and merged into Gao Mengtang's body. He was still in a trance when he heard a call from afar.
"Mr. Blind Man!" Wei Wei ran over and saw Gao Mengtang lying on the lawn, all wet. He looked surprised and asked, "What are you doing?"
When he saw Wei Wei, Gao Mengtang woke up as if from a dream, and he slowly realized how crazy what he had done that night was.
Wei Wei helped him up and looked around: "There seems to be energy fluctuations from the black tower nearby."
Gao Mengtang stared blankly ahead with lifeless eyes, recalling the words left by the black shadow in his mind: Suicide is useless.
Those twelve people will appear when he attempts suicide?
Recall that the black shadow appeared three times in the copy. Each time, Gao Mengtang himself was not in danger, but his teammates' lives were in danger, and he was on the verge of death in order to save them.
The Twelve Ghosts define this behavior as "suicide."
What about homicide? What happens?
Gao Mengtang handed the knife to Wei Wei: "Wei Wei, try stabbing me."
Wei Wei's expression was as if he had seen a ghost: "Mr. Blind, are you sleepwalking?"
The ghost healed all the wounds on Gao Mengtang's body, so that Wei Wei didn't notice that Gao Mengtang tried to commit suicide dozens of times that night. He checked the surroundings and found nothing unusual, so he helped Gao Mengtang back.
"What have you done in the dead of night to get yourself soaked?"
Gao Mengtang: "I went out for a walk, my feet slipped, and I fell into the lake."
Wei Wei did not doubt him and quickly switched to the topic that interested him most - work.
"I have an appointment with the leader of Guns N' Roses to meet tomorrow. Xu Xingchen is a loyal and righteous man, and his subordinates are also loyal to him. The group was once developing rapidly. When the forum selected the four major camps, Guns N' Roses was one of the candidate camps, and was a competitor to the red camp Velvet Gallery."
"Later, due to some common conspiracies and backstabbing, Guns N' Roses' development was not satisfactory, but it was still in the mid-to-high-end camp."
"You don't have to be too wary of Xu Xingchen, but you can't be too relaxed either. People's hearts are hidden, and I'm not sure what they want to do by asking you to meet..."
All night long, every time Gao Mengtang was about to fall asleep, the ghost's words suddenly appeared in his ears, waking him up.
Gao Mengtang simply didn't sleep and entered the bubble world, where he made a dream home for the enemy rabbit. The next day, he sat in the back seat of Wei Wei's car with dark circles under his eyes.
This look made Wei Wei very satisfied. He nodded approvingly and said, "It is a good thing that the blind man is concerned about the development of the Moon Banner."
Gao Mengtang: “Uh…” Actually, I was playing a business simulation game last night.
"But don't worry too much. Don't worry, I'll be with you."
Gao Mengtang: “Hmm.”
"Please wear this. When leaders meet, they have to observe etiquette." Wei Wei pinned a white moon brooch on Gao Mengtang's left chest.
The brooch is the leader's token of the Moon Banner. It is in the shape of a crescent moon, with a cluster of tassels dotted below the arc. Wei Wei pinned the brooch and continued, "The token of Guns and Roses is a rose. There are two leaders in the camp, who are equals and are a loving couple. I heard they have a child..."
"Xu Xingchen will also bring the token. Let me remind you that the leader's token cannot be given away casually, nor can it be touched by others. Accepting the leader's token means..."
Gao Mengtang listened and thought in his heart, how about building a water park for the Enemy Rabbit? The Enemy Rabbit is not an ordinary rabbit and loves to take a bath.
*
Garden restaurant, in the small pavilion.
Xu Xingchen and his deputy Zheng Yan arrived at the agreed meeting place more than two hours in advance. Xu Xingchen looked very reserved, while Zheng Yan paced back and forth excitedly, muttering to himself.
"Blind Man, I'm really going to meet Blind Man! Boss, you know I'm a fan of Blind Man."
Xu Xingchen: "I really didn't know about this. You've only mentioned it 200 times."
If Zheng Yan were in a comic, he would have starry eyes right now: "A blind man! Beautiful, intelligent, aloof, calm in the face of adversity, as high and mighty as an immortal, spotless, simply..."
"It's exactly the 'ideal version of myself'." Xu Xingchen said expressionlessly.
"...It's my ideal self!" Zheng Yan said, "Boss, how do you know what I'm going to say?"
"Yeah, how should I know that?" Xu Xingchen scratched his ear, "Maybe you said it a hundred times."
Zheng Yan was intoxicated. "Since I was a kid, I have been watching TV dramas with my sister, romantic dramas about overbearing CEOs. Since then, I have dreamed of becoming someone like the male protagonist, arrogant, looking down on everyone. Isn't this what a blind man is!"
There are a hundred blind people in the eyes of a hundred viewers. Xu Xingchen obviously disagrees with the view that the blind are "arrogant and look down on others", but he is too lazy to refute it.
"Although the blind always smile, their aura of indifference and egocentrism is revealed from their bones..."
"Your eyes are X-rays? Can they see into bones?" Xu Xingchen interrupted him. There were still 15 minutes before the agreed meeting time. He was a little nervous. "Shut up. We will have dinner with the blind later. Don't forget our business today."
Zheng Yan took out a camera: "Don't worry, boss, I won't forget it!"
Xu Xingchen said indifferently: "Oh, what's the business today?"
"Take a photo with the blind man and hang it in the camp hall." Zheng Yan said.
"You idiot!" Xu Xingchen couldn't stand it anymore and punched Zheng Yan on the head. "Today's business is to convince the blind man to--"
"Good morning, Mr. Xu." A beautiful and gentle voice like a harp sounded behind the two of them. The two people who were wrestling with each other were petrified in an instant and slowly turned their heads.
Gao Mengtang was wearing a white suit, with her long hair tied into a half-bun. Her smile was as bright as a spring flower in the sun, and her eyes were curved into crescents.
"Am I here a little early?" Gao Mengtang glanced at Zheng Yan who was being hammered, "You seem to have some problems to deal with..."
"No, no, it's done!" Xu Xingchen retracted his fist, adjusted his tie, and smiled with eight teeth. "Sir, the Blind Man, please."
On the way to the restaurant, Xu Xingchen did not get straight to the point. He said that his wife was playing a dungeon and could not meet them together, and expressed his deep apologies. He also said that his daughter was there too. The little girl was very beautiful and wanted to dress up beautifully to meet the blind man. She was even putting on makeup in the car.
As soon as he finished speaking, a girl ran over, shouting "Dad, Dad", holding two Lolita bows in her hands.
The girl looked excited: "Dad, do you think I look better with a pink bow or a white bow? Do you want me to add a veil? Is Brother Mengtang here? I also want to change my blush - ah!"
When she saw Gao Mengtang, the girl was so scared that she stood still, tightly holding her two bows in embarrassment.
Seeing the girl, Gao Mengtang was stunned for a moment: "Lucky girl?"
Is she the daughter of the leader of Guns N' Roses?
Behind him, Wei Wei chuckled: "No wonder you dared to slap me, you really have a strong background."
"My daughter," Xu Xingchen smiled awkwardly, "Xu Xingyun."
The five of them sat down quietly. Zheng Yan forgot to adjust the camera parameters, and Xu Xingyun didn't wear a bow tie. The food was served quickly, taking into account Gao Mengtang's taste, all of which were vegetarian dishes with bland soup.
Perhaps the two farces made Xu Xingchen even more nervous. He stiffly found some topics for small talk and then took out a bouquet of roses.
"Mr. Blind, I want to meet you today because I have something important to ask of you. Here," Xu Xingchen handed over a bunch of red roses, "please be sure to accept them."
Um, why red roses? Gao Mengtang was confused.
Maybe this is the etiquette between leaders!
Wei Wei on the side winked frantically, but unfortunately, Gao Mengtang didn't see it.
He was very skilled at collecting roses, and this time was no exception. He naturally took the bouquet of bright and beautiful flowers and said with a smile, "Then I won't refuse."
At the dinner table, the other four people were strangely silent for a second, and then Xu Xingchen, Xu Xingyun, and Zheng Yan smiled, while Wei Wei was horrified.
He called out to Gao Mengtang through the mind link: "Why didn't you refuse and just accept it?"
Gao Mengtang thought, "It's just a bouquet of flowers, not expensive. There's no need to refuse."
"A bouquet of flowers? Do you know what this bouquet of roses means?"
"To express friendship?" Gao Mengtang said, "It can't be love, he has a happy marriage..."
"The rose is the leader's token of Guns N' Roses!" Wei Wei sounded devastated. "He gave you the leader's token to represent his intention to lead the entire camp to submit to Yue Fan. You didn't listen to what he said when we got off the car!"
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