Chapter 123 - She is dead...

"And… probably he is holding grudge against you, CEO Feng" Dr. Millman answered hastily without wasting any more second. He gulped hard sneaking a glance at Feng Jianyu's dark face, but to his ill-fate, their eyes met each other's gaze. Dr. Millman's heartbeat thumped, looking at those unfathomable eyes.

Seeing Dr. Millman's frantic expression, Feng Jianyu narrowed his eyes sharply, "What makes you say that?"

Watching the gruesome condition of his men, Feng Jianyu was already at his worst anger. One more provocation and the monster he is reining inside him will jump out to destroy everything that comes on his way…. Without any further delay, Dr. Millman passed him a transparent zip-lock bag containing a small memory chip.

"We extracted this from the body of one of the victims. Probably, he swallowed it to save the evidence, hoping that it somehow reaches you…" Dr. Millman told Feng Jianyu solemnly, "Unsure of what it could be, we cleaned it and tried to play it on one of our computers. It consists of an audio clip and a video recording."

"But… This chip got affected because of the strong chemical reaction inside the body. Even our best IT expert was unable to restore the data completely. Only the audio recording is audible and that too using a specially designed software …. As far as video recording is concerned, it's unsalvageable…." Dr. Millman sighed helplessly.

Feng Jianyu handover the packet to Feng Junjie, instructing him, "keep it safely" Feng Junjie nodded.

"Dr. Millman. Recording"

Hearing these two words, Millman promptly played the retrieved recording on his laptop before explaining, "The original chip is with you, but we created a working copy of the evidence and put in the software to create a processed copy of it by adjusting frequency equalization, compression, and background noises"

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RECORDING STARTS….

"Boss, if you're listening to this, probably I'll be dead by then… (Heavy panting sound) While investigating, we discovered a strange finding of the staff of the Rosewood resort... Aft... After that night, the manager and three other staff members died mysteriously in accidents within 2 months....grrrr..r.r.r.rr. (there was some disturbance…. Someone groan's in pain.....)

"N…Not only that, the computer data was d…. destroyed and the manual registers were missing of that particular month when you stayed in the resort….(shallow breathing) We n…n…never realized that someone is following us secretly to stagnate our investigation and our team fell into their traps…."

"But we managed to gather an important piece of information about that girl and you... SHE IS DEAD… GUNSHOT…. KILLED….. BOSS ACCIDENT.... D…DIAMOND..... VIDEO RECORRR.R...Ahhhhh (loud painful voice was heard before the line went quiet for several minutes)...….BEEP...….." His last words were said at a lightning speed; probably he was trying to give as much information as possible in that limited time frame.

Everyone thought that it's over, but Dr. Millman clarified, "Fifteen minutes more.…. But the rest of the audio is only their painful screams and groaning…. Probably after the recording, this man bites off his tongue to not let his killers make him disclose anything about his Boss." Millman, wholeheartedly praised the victim, "What a brave and loyal man, I salute him for his loyalty"

(They heard the video till end. It was truly heart wrenching to hear them scream like that…. )

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***SILENCE***

After the end of the video, there was a prolonged silence..... Nobody was able to utter a single word. They were horrified hearing those spine-chilling screams.

However, Feng Jianyu's pupils widened and his heart stopped the moment he heard 'she is dead'. He felt a strong urge to reach for that man's throat who had hurt her and twist it mercilessly till the life gets sucked out of him. Hearing these words 'she is dead', he could feel his own life slipping out of his hands.

Wang Shi and Feng Junjie looked at Feng Jianyu and unconsciously gulped a mouthful of saliva. They knew the importance of Xiu Mei in Feng Jianyu's life, and according to this audio, she is killed seven years back. And most probably, their missing family heirloom is with this unknown enemy.

All this while, she was innocent and probably attacked by this new enemy seven years back. Feng Junjie wanted to go ahead to talk to his brother, but he couldn't gather the courage to approach an Asura from hell. He squirmed behind Wang Shi and appealed him with his eyes to do something. But Wang Shi's condition was no better than Feng Junjie.

Dr. Millman looked at the varied expressions of the three men. He got nervous thinking what went wrong with them suddenly. What did they understand from this video, to make their scalps go numb?

Understand that he is a third party between the brother's, he quietly left the three of them alone to let them discuss it in private.