Chapter 145: Party
Gu Wanrong, Tong Shenyi, Luo Qiaoming, and Tong Shenqi—who was still in the country and participating in the meeting through an electronic screen—were sitting around the table discussing various matters concerning the new Qianyuan company.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang—BANG!
The door was kicked open by A-Ying. With a panicked expression and stumbling steps, she rushed in.
“Director Gu, President Tong, it’s bad! Wùjìng Jiǔ and the manager have been kidnapped!” A-Ying burst in frantically, shouting in terror, her voice shrill and piercing due to extreme tension.
Hearing this news, Gu Wanrong and the others couldn’t help but widen their eyes, their faces full of surprise.
“Kidnapped?!”
“By whom?” Tong Shenyi followed up urgently.
A-Ying clutched the hem of her clothes tightly, her body trembling slightly. She stammered her reply, “I… I don’t know. Those people were all masked; I couldn’t see their faces at all.”
As she spoke, she tried to recall the scene at that time, her eyes full of fear and helplessness.
“I was terrified at the time. That van sped off all of a sudden. I didn’t dare… no, I couldn’t catch up, so I had to run here to notify you.”
A-Ying became increasingly excited as she spoke, her emotions almost spiraling out of control, her lips trembling incessantly, as if she were about to burst into tears in the next second.
Seeing this, Gu Wanrong immediately turned her gaze toward Butler Liu, who was standing to the side, hoping to get more information from her.
Butler Liu shook her head helplessly. When A-Ying was outside earlier, she was just as panicked, repeatedly saying they had been kidnapped and nothing else could be questioned.
So, she similarly didn’t know the specific situation.
At this time, Luo Qiaoming’s mind turned, and the scene she had previously seen at ANZ flashed in her mind. She blurted out, “Could it be Jeffrey? It’s not the first or second time he’s done something so insane…”
“Who else but him would be so arrogant?” Gu Wanrong’s brows shot up. She didn’t hide the anger in her heart and asked directly.
Her beautiful eyes were full of unshielded anger. “The priority now is to find them quickly. If we move too slowly, who knows what that pervert will do!”
As soon as Gu Wanrong finished speaking, Tong Shenyi, with a grave and cautious expression, spoke up: “The only connection we have in the Paris circle is Karl. Unfortunately, our relationship with Karl and his group has become very tense these past few days. It likely won’t be easy to get help from him.”
Everyone in the room frowned, full of worry.
“How can there be no other way? Isn’t there still Pǔlán Kōngkè!” Tong Shenqi’s urgent voice came from the computer screen.
Gu Wanrong knew time was of the essence and no delay could be allowed.
So she decisively began to arrange for everyone to cooperate. “Like this: Tong Shenyi, you go find Richard Labette. I have other ways. Qiaoming and Butler Liu, take A-Ying out to comfort her; she’s young and terrified. Tong Shenba, call all the subordinates who came to Paris with me this time. Once the address is found, go directly to Jeffrey to settle the score.”
“Alright!”
Everyone responded in unison and then took action.
Everyone quickly pushed the door and went out one after another. In the blink of an eye, Gu Wanrong was the only one left in the room.
Without a hint of hesitation, Gu Wanrong immediately summoned the system. Then, she quickly opened the World Character Information Database, her fingers tapping rapidly on the virtual keyboard, entering the name “Jeffrey.”
Her eyes were like a scanner, quickly searching through the dense text and images for all information related to Jeffrey.
Before long, she successfully locked onto Jeffrey’s address—Garden 16th District.
“Go, to Garden 16th District.”
Jeffrey and his boyfriend Marcus had notified those of like-minded interests that they had found a batch of “mysterious Oriental sweets” and were having a party at Jeffrey’s villa tonight.
One could imagine what this party was about without thinking.
Luo Qiaoming watched as Gu Wanrong, with her well-trained security team and Butler Liu, rushed out of the villa gate like lightning.
Seeing that Tong Shenyi was also about to rush out, Luo Qiaoming hurriedly called out to stop him: “Wait! Although the police might not play a big role here, shouldn’t we also call them? Jeffrey and Marcus have very deep backgrounds.”
Tong Shenyi stopped and turned back to give a simple explanation: “Butler Liu called the police long ago.” After speaking, he left without looking back.
Inside Jeffrey’s villa in Garden 16th District.
The entire interior of the villa was filled with a strange and ambiguous atmosphere. Dark and blurry lights of various colors—ghostly purple, deep blue, rose red—kept flickering and swaying.
Inside this luxurious and spacious villa, a group of men of various ages and skin colors were gathered together. Everyone’s eyes appeared blurry and hazy, as if attracted by some magic, and their expressions could hardly hide their excitement.
These men either tightly held the young boys and girls with immature faces around them, feeling the stimulation and pleasure brought by physical intimacy; or they gently swirled the red wine glasses in their hands filled with deep red liquid. With the movement of the wine glasses, the wine liquid flashed with an enticing glow under the light.
Painful low moans, pleading cries, delicate warbling like a nightingale, or raspy yet seductive panting, or wild shouts due to extreme excitement… various moans intertwined in every corner of the villa.
Robust security guards patrolled every part of the villa. When they occasionally met, they tacitly cast a meaningful and ambiguous smile at each other that only they could read, and then continued patrolling.
Suddenly, a shout came from the crowd: “Jeffrey, where are the Oriental sweets you mentioned? Why haven’t they appeared yet!”
One of the guests could no longer contain his inner urgency and was the first to question the host of this party—Jeffrey.
As his voice fell, the other guests attending the party also chimed in. For a time, the entire hall was filled with various noisy sounds.
“Don’t let me find out that you two wicked little lovers are intentionally playing a trick on us all!”
“Yeah!”
“Don’t be so mysterious, be generous!”
At this time, in a dark room upstairs, the nine members of Endless-9 and the manager, who had fainted and were unconscious, slowly opened their eyes one after another and gradually regained consciousness.
When they tried to move their bodies, they were horrified to find that their bodies were tightly bound by sturdy ropes, unable to move at all.
The noisy sounds from downstairs and the suffocating feeling of restraint on their bodies all revealed to them that their situation at this time was not good.
Translator’s Note: “Oriental sweets” (東方甜心 – Dōngfāng tiánxīn) is a fetishistic term used by the antagonists. “Garden 16th District” refers to the 16th Arrondissement of Paris, a wealthy and prestigious residential area.
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