My hands were a little numb, maybe because I had been tied for a long time. The weather was sweltering, the heat evaporated a sour stench, and the rags stuffed in the mouth sucked up the last bit of moisture. He was hot and thirsty, and he whined twice in his throat, and immediately something hit him from above, and there was a dull pain in his scalp.

"Be honest!"

The voice was a little bluff and vicious, and he was expecting the other to say something more, but there was only silence on the other side, and after a while, a hand grabbed him by the hair and asked him, "Do you want to drink water?" ”

Think, want to go crazy. He nodded with all his might.

The rag was taken off, something came to his mouth, he instinctively buried his head and drank, the tap water with the smell of bleaching ** has never been so luscious as it is today.

"I don't want you dead for a while. So you'd better be honest, don't play tricks, don't push me. The glass was withdrawn, and the thin, cool metal pressed against his neck, causing goosebumps. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and lowered his voice as low as he could: "I can't run...... I can't see it yet, have you forgotten? ”

The other man stopped talking, just threw him to the ground, and after a while, he heard distant footsteps and the sound of the door locking.

His tense nerves finally relaxed, his hot cheeks pressed against the floor, and cold sweat felt pouring out of his pores. Instinctively, he comforted himself, after all, he knew that he had been kidnapped, and he knew who his kidnappers were.

He wasn't that scared.

At the age of six, he won his first prize, first place in elementary school-grade painting. The crayon drawing "My Puppy" was posted on the commendation column next to the water room, and he walked over every day to fetch water and drink to take a closer look. All the art teachers who taught him said that he had a good pair of eyes, a good sense of color, and a little perspective at all, although for a child in a big province with a college entrance examination, art is good just a few more years of blackboard newspapers, and it is not a "righteous way". But he still cherishes it.

He never imagined that one day he would hate his eyes so much.

The recovery period of corneal burns has not passed, and the gauze has not been removed, even if it is forcibly opened, only a little light and shadow can be seen. He didn't know where Gu Tianqing had taken him, and he didn't know how many days had passed now, and the three words "invisible" magnified the fear of the unknown by 10,000 times. Is this a building? Or a bungalow? Is there a car passing by? Or human footsteps? He shook his head and stood up on his hands and feet, resisting gravity and enduring the sharp pain in his body. The surroundings were very quiet, ** quiet, there was not even the sound of the wind, the belt on the wrist was removed, and a plastic rope was tied back, he staggered and touched it with his backhand, and the wall skin fell under his fingers - there is! It was a door, metal, rough, rusted iron, and he pushed it, not moving, except for the click of what seemed to be the clash of chains.

"Have you touched enough?" A familiar voice came from behind, and he shook and ran forward in embarrassment, and his center of gravity fell unsteadily to the ground, and he grinned his teeth.

"I'm sorry...... I...... I just want to go to the toilet. ”

"Really?" The iron door was opened and locked, and Gu Tianqing's voice came from far and near: "Did I tell you, don't play tricks?" ”

He curled up in a ball, guarding against the fist that might fall: "What tricks can I play, where can I run like this." ”

"......" He felt the atmosphere of Gu Tianqing's desire to speak and stop. The sound of footsteps went back and forth in front of him, and finally stopped on the left-hand side.

"You don't seem to be that scared."

"You're not a terrible person."

"How do you know?"

"I just know." He craned his neck and tried to pull the corners of his mouth: "Let's talk?" ”

"What do you want to talk about?"

"You're tied ...... I came here because you want to get revenge on the dean. ”

"You're her son."

"So I've got to be honest with you. You're tying up the wrong person. ”

The angry breath quickly approached, and the breath pounced on his face, and he felt his neck being choked tightly: "You are fooling me? ”

"I didn't ......" he smiled wryly, giving up the struggle in the suffocation: "Okay, it's okay." I'm impersonating. ”

Gu Tianqing paused for a moment, and then spoke in a voice like muffled thunder before a storm hit: "Why?" ”

"Because I wanted to come out, but I would never have been able to do it on my own, especially now that I'm injured." He pointed to his eyes, where layers of white gauze had created a cocoon on his face.

"Do you think I'll believe it?"

"I know you're going to be upset about this, so I wanted to talk to you about it. You should have done me a favor. You want money, I can find a way to get it for you, you let me go, no one will mention this matter in the future, I promise. ”

The other side did not speak, and after a while, a hand grabbed him by the collar, and the undoubted force made the knuckles click. He sat in a trance on a roller coaster without seat belts, his body spun chaotically in the strong traction, and then he was slammed to the ground, and with a snap, all his internal organs were deformed, barely holding on to a layer of skin, like a bag of cheap potatoes.

"And quibble! Do you know that you liar has exactly the same face as your mother, disgusting! He waved something, and pumped it onto his back, and it was hard in its flexibility, and it was so painful that it echoed in his ears. It was Gu Tianqing's belt, and it was also a torture instrument to punish him for his lies.

It wasn't until he couldn't shout that the other party stopped. "Whether you are true or not, there is someone who can prove it." Gu Tianqing's shoes stepped on his face: "I sent her a ransom letter, do you guess, will she come to ransom you?" ”

In the next two days, Gu Tianqing didn't say a word to him again. His hands were loosened, but he didn't dare to act rashly - he wasn't used to being blind, he couldn't even tell whether the other party was there or not, and struggling or calling for help was just a plain way to beat himself.

The only contact came from the short eating time, he could feel Gu Tianqing sitting opposite, chewing cold steamed buns or pancakes with him, he tried to mention that he wanted something to eat, the other party didn't speak, and the next day, he ate a little spicy pickles in his steamed buns.

He knew that Gu Tianqing was not so bad, and even had some clumsy gentleness. If it weren't for this damn dean, their relationship could have been very different.

He used to be Gu Tianqing's friend, but now he is like a kitten in his hand, killing and killing, and he has no power to fight back.

Today's dinner was very rich, with a little meat, and sweet and sour juice, and after eating and drinking, he fell into a groggy sleep—more like a reluctant coma, he seemed to be caught in a nightmare, his eyelids were heavy, his tongue was sluggish, and his body was curled up and tossed on the hard waves. There was still a sound on the waves, click, click, click...... He had a gut feeling that things had changed, but he didn't know what was waiting for him.

When he woke up again, he found himself curled up in an open 30-inch suitcase — not by feeling, by seeing, his fingers touching his eyelids — the gauze had been removed and he could see.

"Awake?" Gu Tianqing's voice came from the right hand, he endured a severe headache and turned his head, the other party sat cross-legged, his face was pale in the darkness: "I count my life, your eyes should be almost good." ”

"Thank you." He crawled out of the box slowly, and although he didn't turn on the light, he could vaguely feel that he was being transferred to another place. "So, why is that?"

"Remember the ransom letter I sent to the dean? I gave her a picture of you being tied up, and told her that if you want to save you, you will come to the place I set to change it in person, and guess she showed up at the end? ”

His heart sank—she couldn't come.

"I originally thought that as long as she appeared, I would kill her, and then let you go, and you can run or call the police, but that, that coward, I just sent someone over and put down 80,000 yuan in cash there, and I replied to me, asking me not to hurt you."

Stacks of hundred-dollar bills fell in front of him, like a taunt after a taunt in his face.

"See? She's such a person. 80,000 yuan, she thought this was your list price. ”

"I'm not...... Don't believe her! She's cheating me! ”

"You know that, too." Gu Tianqing's voice was as cold as an ice cellar: "If you can't kill her, you're useless." ”

Even when the light was dim, he saw the reflection of the blade.

Instinctive shivers rushed up from his tailbone, and he couldn't even scream, so he could only roll and crawl in the opposite direction. The other party didn't even bother to chase him, so he let him run around like a headless fly, until he touched the iron door and screamed desperately, "Help!" Then the hand grasped him with a familiar force.

"In the last words, instead of shouting and screaming, you can say something meaningful." The knife was so sharp that he didn't even feel the pain, but he could feel something running down his neck, itchy and warm, not tears.

His legs were so weak that he could barely stand, but he didn't want to give up yet.

It's not time to throw in the towel yet.

"I—I know! Your sister's death is not just the dean! And others! And someone else to do it! ”

As if pressing the pause button, Gu Tianqing's movements stopped for a moment: "Lying again!" ”

"I didn't! I have proof! He desperately suppressed the tremor in his throat: "Really! I have proof, and I can give you-"

Gu Tianqing's heavy breathing was against his ears, and the surging killing intent made him look like a bloodthirsty beast, his teeth eager to buckle his throat. He didn't continue until a long time later, "You'd better be." ”

The knife fell to the ground, Gu Tianqing grabbed his hair and slammed it on the door.