Chapter 31

Chapter 31

Gong Fang turned around with difficulty, his steps incredibly heavy. His expression was like that of a criminal about to be executed.

The projection screen behind him had already quietly lit up.

He thought he would see a picture of his crying son, but in fact, a picture of the boy did appear on the screen, but it was just a background image.

Line after line of cold text emerged on the background.

[More than a decade ago, when Yuan Corporation became Gong Corporation, everything had already changed.]

[For the sake of reputation, you did not abandon the charitable projects under Yuan Corporation, including the support for the orphanage.]

[But the gap between sincerity and perfunctory will also lead to the gap formed after everything falls into place.]

[——Miss Yuan’s year after year of concern made Xingfu Orphanage worthy of its name, your year after year of perfunctory made everything go downhill.]

[You began to be unwilling to bear the cost of supporting a large group of burdens, but you were also unwilling to give up the prestige it brought you. You, who prided yourself on being smart, quickly came up with a good idea.]

[Gong Corporation’s huge industry provided you with help. The financial support given to the orphanage was all replaced with more practical various materials, and a large number of water armies publicized and touted Gong Corporation’s down-to-earth charitable way.]

[Cheap clothing that looks exquisite but can’t be worn a few times before it breaks, food that seems delicious but has actually expired and couldn’t be sold out, toys that were defective during production and couldn’t flow into the market... The orphanage has become a place for you to dump defective products and garbage.]

[Originally, this was nothing. Even if the treatment has dropped a lot compared to the past, the children have nothing to complain about, being fed and clothed is enough to make them grateful.]

[But they didn’t know that the lower limit of people is constantly decreasing. You quietly stretched out the first hand, the people below will stretch out the second hand, the third hand... until one day five years ago, the children of Xingfu Orphanage made the news because of collective food poisoning, and you who were worried about attracting police investigation and exposing everything finally panicked.]

[——Temporarily attracting public opinion to the chef who was responsible for the cafeteria food that day, you decided to destroy the evidence, including the food stored in the orphanage warehouse that had not been eaten yet. Including the procurement list of the orphanage all along.]

[The dean who had been bought by you long ago began to act that night. He drove all the children to bed early, and in order to avoid naughty children coming out in the middle of the night and breaking his actions, he locked all the room doors from the outside.]

[——And just in the process of him destroying the evidence, maybe because he was too panicked, maybe because of an accident, maybe he was the one who set fire to destroy the evidence, in short, a big fire spread from the warehouse to the entire orphanage.]

[The children who were choked awake in their sleep were panicked, they beat the door, shouted, cried, wailed...]

[But the dean and his helpers had already been trapped by the big fire in the warehouse one step ahead, they couldn’t even save themselves, and others had been temporarily sent out of the orphanage with an excuse that night... when the rescue arrived, it was already too late.]

[——They were burned alive in the fire.]

[This fire was finally defined as an accidental fire, and all people and things were destroyed by the sea of fire. You breathed a sigh of relief——you were worried that everything would not be exposed, and it was even less likely that anyone would stand up and accuse you, you even got rid of a group of burdens because of this, and you shed a few fake tears in front of people and sighed a few times, which could also earn you a lot of praise.]

[——No matter how you think about it, you made a big profit.]

Gong Fang’s pupils contracted bit by bit, and he heard the sound of his teeth clenching tightly, and the words that floated out of his teeth. “Mr. K, you misunderstood, I don’t know anything...I, I didn’t expect that those people below would pocket so much, and then push it on me...” He opened his mouth with great pain, “It’s all my fault for trusting them too much, I didn’t expect that in the end it would harm these children!”

Gong Fang was very clear that there was a device installed by the police on his body. Once he admitted anything here, what awaited him was at best ruin and disgrace, and at worst imprisonment.

At the police station, they had been watching all this from a distance, while not forgetting to collect clues to track down K’s people, and of course, they also judged the truth from his reaction.

Liu Ningshuang, who had the most fiery temper, slapped the table. “This scum!” She said angrily, “Why didn’t the serial killer target this guy before?”

After saying this, she realized her slip of the tongue. With her status, she really shouldn’t say such a biased statement, and quickly covered her mouth. But her eyes, wide with anger, were still fixed on the computer screen.

The faces of the others were also not good, but they were much more rational than her. “The person who has been arranged to follow Gong Fang should be guarding the suburbs now, right? Keep an eye on the situation at all times!”

The game rules only allowed him to play alone, but the police station couldn’t possibly do nothing. They had always arranged for someone to follow at a sufficient distance, so that they could appear in time in case of any emergencies.

Li Fufeng comforted. “Don’t worry, as long as he really breaks the law, even if we can’t find evidence for the time being, we will never allow him to escape the law. In any case, after this matter is over, he must be investigated.”

Just then, in the warehouse of the orphanage, a new picture appeared on the bright projection screen.

So everyone’s attention was drawn back.

“Clap clap clap!”

With the crisp and rhythmic clapping sound, the figure of a young man slowly appeared in the gradually brightening screen.

He smiled and exclaimed. “Your acting skills really opened my eyes, Mr. Gong.”

The blond man who suddenly appeared looked down at him, suddenly curled his lips, and gentle ripples stirred in his drooping eyes.

“Using someone else’s name without permission seems to be even more rude behavior. And, if I’m not mistaken, I shouldn’t be considered uninvited, should I?”

His tone was gentle and elegant, his palm gently rotating the umbrella handle, his aura immediately became dangerous, “What do you think, Mr. ‘K’?”

The two of them were chatting like old friends.

And not far from the projection, Gong Fang, who was at the other end of the projection, was like a piece of garbage that no longer had any use value, and was directly forgotten by the two in the corner.

“Cough cough cough.” The young man, known as “Mr. K,” coughed lightly, acknowledging the meaning in the other’s words, “Ah, it’s just a little test.”

“Testing whether I have the capacity to be used?”

“It seems you’ve figured it out. Indeed, deliberately provoking the police is to cause trouble for both of us at the expense of others, isn’t it? You’re worthy of being the new member I’ve taken a liking to.”

“I’m sorry, but you don’t meet my aesthetic.”

The blond man’s tone was elegant, but his actions were sharp and ruthless, his posture with the black umbrella seemed to be dancing, “You came to this world one step ahead of me, seem to understand everything about me, and can guide my aesthetics the moment I appear...I’m really curious about your identity!”

The black umbrella drew a sharp arc in mid-air, but it seemed to cut through another layer of void space, and the young man shrouded in shadow didn’t even make a dodge posture.

He still had the leisure to remind, “Hey hey hey, if you delay for another minute, the police will come, Mr. Wanted.”

“In the background, you manipulated everything, used me to clear your target, and also completed a small, small, test...” The blond man heavily recited the last four words, “In such a short time, you’ve done so much, you’re not in a hurry to leave, why should I be?”

The dense footsteps sounded downstairs, although faint, but for them, it was very obvious.

The blond man looked at the ripples of shadow drawn by the tip of the umbrella, and suddenly smiled, “So it’s the shadow of Dawn City...”

“Hey hey hey, we’re kind of like fellow townspeople, and soon we’ll be accomplices, so it’s not good to expose me like this.”

“Accomplice?” The blond man was slightly taken aback.

“Anyway, there’s still a vacancy here.”

“If it’s the position of the Shadow Council President, I might consider it.”

With the footsteps getting closer and closer, he didn’t stay any longer, leaped out of the window, and disappeared into the rain in an instant.

Leaving the young man sitting in place, and Li Fufeng and others who rushed in, face to face.

“Ah, I was ruthlessly betrayed.”

Facing the gun pointed at him, he sighed, obediently raised his hands, without any intention of resisting.

“...Today is another day of having to work on the front line because I couldn’t recruit new members.”

He suddenly remembered something and looked at Li Fufeng, “By the way, your qualifications are not bad, you can be listed as a target for investigation...”

In Li Fufeng’s puzzled gaze, he cooperatively stretched out his hand to let the other party handcuff him, smiled and asked, “Can you tell me your name?”

There was nothing wrong with saying that, Li Fufeng smiled freely, and clicked the handcuffs tightly, “Li Fufeng.”

“...I remember.”

Li Fufeng shook his head, about to take the man away, but found that he was standing still, seemingly not so cooperative.

He looked at him in astonishment.

Just a moment ago, the young man who had been talking and laughing blinked his eyes, the shadow in the depths of his pupils quickly receded, his eyes became a bit confused, and then gradually woke up from the confusion.

Looking at the police in front of him and the handcuffs on his wrist, he opened his mouth in panic and confusion, “This, this, this, what happened?”

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