Chapter 688: Diamonds Worth Thirty Million Dollars
Zhuang Yi has been waiting in the hotel lobby for a long time.
After he received Cheng Yu's WeChat message, he almost immediately went downstairs.
He originally thought that Cheng Yu had sent a message and was about to arrive, so after going downstairs, he stood at the hotel door and looked around.
But there were several cars in a row, and none of them were Cheng Yu, and Zhuang Yi did not dare to send a message to ask about Cheng Yu. In his eyes, Cheng Yu was almost his last life-saving straw.
So after being restless and wandering in various ways, Zhuang Yi returned to the hotel lobby, walked into the lobby bar, found the best position to see the door, ordered a bottle of wine, and drank while waiting.
Unconsciously, twenty minutes passed, and Zhuang Yi drank more than a third of the bottle of Macallan. He finally saw Cheng Yu's figure.
Zhuang Yi almost ran towards the door, excited and embarrassed to say hello to Cheng Yu, completely ignoring that there was a waiter behind him because he neither paid nor told the waiter his room number to let him know.
Account pending.
After Cheng Yu shook hands with Zhuang Yi, he looked over his shoulder and looked at the panting but relieved waiter. Although a bottle of wine was not expensive, it was almost half a month's salary of the waiter. Zhuang Yi
The waiter was naturally nervous when he suddenly ran away, but when he saw that he just ran to the door and shook hands with another man, he naturally relaxed a lot.
"What's the matter with you?" Cheng Yu asked the waiter with a smile.
Zhuang Yi was stunned and said in surprise: "You didn't ask me out..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard another voice behind him: "I'm sorry, this gentleman ordered a bottle of wine, drank for a while and suddenly ran away. I thought..."
Zhuang Yi turned around, saw the waiter, and realized what was going on.
"Sorry, sorry, I'm waiting for my friend. My room number is 2327. You can charge that bottle of wine to my room." With that said, Zhuang Yi took out the room card and showed it to the waiter.
one time.
The waiter was completely relieved and said: "I'm sorry, sir, I misunderstood. Well, you have spent a total of 1,380 yuan, but we still have to trouble you to sign for us."
Cheng Yu patted Zhuang Yi on the shoulder and said, "Lao Zhuang, don't be nervous. Let's talk slowly later. You finished a bottle of wine so quickly?"
Zhuang Yi quickly waved his hand and said, "No, no, I drank less than half. Don't worry, Mr. Cheng, my drinking capacity is fine, I didn't drink too much."
Cheng Yu said with a smile: "Old Xue has introduced to me that you have three kilograms. Let's go sign for the waiter first and bring the wine with you. Let's drink and chat later."
"Okay, okay."
The two followed the waiter back to the lobby bar. The waiter brought the bill for Zhuang Yi to sign, and then they walked to the elevator carrying the bottle of Macallan.
After entering the room, Zhuang Yi hurriedly looked for a cup and asked anxiously: "Mr. Cheng, are you willing to help me? Can you contact the dark web?"
Cheng Yu took the two glasses from his hand, signaled him to calm down, and slowly picked up the wine bottle and poured some wine into each of the glasses.
"Ask the front desk to send someone to bring some ice cubes. I forgot about it just now, otherwise I could just order some ice cubes at the lobby bar."
Zhuang Yi was very anxious, but he could only walk to the bedside, pick up the hotel phone, and call the front desk.
After finishing the instructions quickly, Zhuang Yi sat opposite Cheng Yu and looked at him eagerly.
Cheng Yu said: "Lao Zhuang, please relax a little first. What you want to do has already happened seven or eight years ago, right? It's not more than a day or two. Since I'm here, I just want to help you solve this problem."
End, let’s talk slowly, okay?”
Zhuang Yi looked at Cheng Yu in surprise and said hesitantly: "You know me...?"
Cheng Yu smiled slightly and said: "I was chatting with Lao Xue just now and talking about you. He said that you were already single when he met you and you haven't found another one in so many years. Then he told a story he heard about me.
I don’t know if what he said is accurate, but I guess most of it is true. He said that you took your wife and children to Lake Baikal for a trip seven or eight years ago. As a result, you encountered a group of robbers, and your wife and children were used as robbers.
You were taken hostage. In the end, the robbers escaped and took away your wife and children. From then on, you never heard from them again, and you don’t even know whether they are alive or dead. Right?"
Zhuang Yi bit his lip, his face was full of...
Cheng Yu suddenly felt very strange, because what he saw on Zhuang Yi's face was not anger and hatred, but regret, pain, and self-blame.
Frowning slightly, Cheng Yu found it difficult to understand Zhuang Yi's emotions. This really didn't look like the state a man who wanted revenge should display. It seemed that there were really many unknowns in this story.
part.
"I'm not here to pry into your privacy, but if you want me to help you, I must know what exactly you are going to do and the ins and outs of what you are going to do.
Lao Zhuang, to be honest, even if you are not facing me, but that Lao Dapeng, your client’s classmate, it is impossible for him to know nothing just to charge you a small agency fee.
I will go to the dark web to help you publish tasks.
You wouldn’t think that organizations like the Dark Web can exist today because of these completely unreliable members, right?
Not to mention the dark web, even some killer intermediaries cannot just collect money without asking the reason like in the movies. Only by understanding the ins and outs can they protect their own safety and ensure that they have more information when performing tasks.
Complete with great confidence.
I can even tell you that if you want to post a task on the dark web, the person who takes the task will definitely ask you about it."
Zhuang Yi lowered his head, still said nothing, and just bit his lips tighter. Cheng Yu could even see a little blood seeping between his teeth.
"Ding dong." The doorbell of the room rang, and Cheng Yu whispered: "Think about it first. Ice cubes should have been delivered. I'll go get them."
Standing up and walking to the door, Cheng Yu opened the door.
As expected, there was a waiter outside the door, holding an ice bucket in his hand.
"Sir, could you please give me the ice bucket in the room?" The waiter handed the ice bucket to Cheng Yu and made a request.
Cheng Yu turned around and said, "Where is the ice bucket?"
"It's in the cabinet behind you, yes, that's it."
Cheng Yu nodded and said, "You can come in and get it yourself."
After the waiter came in and found the ice bucket, he left the room. Before leaving, he said to Cheng Yu, "I wish you a pleasant stay." Then he carefully closed the door for them.
Cheng Yu carried the ice bucket back to the sofa, put two pieces of ice in each of the two glasses, picked up the wine glass, and shook it gently to increase the contact between the wine and the ice to lower the temperature of the wine as quickly as possible.
"Oh, by the way, I want to tell you that the quotations for tasks on the dark web are usually very high. I'm not sure if your customer has mentioned this to you. Tasks like killing people there are basically hundreds of dollars.
The starting price is 10,000 US dollars. If my inference is correct, you have more than one target for revenge. Are you sure you can afford such a high reward?"
This time, Zhuang Yi did not remain silent, but suddenly raised his head and said: "I have 30 million US dollars, but it is not cash, but diamonds worth 30 million US dollars."
Cheng Yu was stunned for a moment, then frowned slightly, his eyes became slightly blurred, and he began to look at Zhuang Yi again.
Thirty million U.S. dollars and more than 200 million soft sister coins. Currently, the price of a five-carat diamond with good purity and color on the market is at least one million soft sister coins. This means that even if all the diamonds in Zhuang Yi’s hands are
If it is a five-carat stone, it would require more than 200 pieces to be worth more than 30 million US dollars.
Of course, if there are larger diamonds, the number will be reduced a lot. But if there are diamonds less than five carats, this number will increase a lot.
A one-carat diamond with relatively high purity would cost tens of thousands of soft girl coins. Two hundred million soft girl coins would cost thousands of diamonds. This is obviously impossible.
Normally, let alone the owner of a hotel chain, even a tycoon in the jewelry industry is unlikely to own two hundred diamonds of more than five carats or diamonds worth thirty million US dollars in his jewelry store. This is even
Even more surprising than having $30 million in cash.
This has to make people doubt the origin of the diamonds in Zhuang Yi's hands.
Perhaps seeing Cheng Yu's doubts, Zhuang Yi was forced to tell the truth. He bit the loose skin on his lip and said almost word for word: "Of those diamonds, one of them is close to two diamonds."
Among the ten-carat pink diamonds, two are over fifteen carats, and there are more than thirty over five carats. They are all of D-grade flawless quality. I didn’t count the ones below five carats, but there are at least close to a hundred.”
D grade refers to the color of the diamond. The closer it is to colorless, the higher the grade. The highest grade is D grade.
Internally flawless means that there are no inclusions inside the diamond under ten times magnification.
These two standards are both manifestations of the extremely high grade of diamonds.
Even to Cheng Yu, it sounded like a heavenly book. There were 20 carats of pink diamonds and two more than 15 carats. Calculating this, the value of these diamonds could indeed reach 30 million US dollars.
But at the same time, Cheng Yu was absolutely certain that the diamonds in Zhuang Yi's hands would never see the light of day.
Cheng Yu stopped shaking the wine glass in his hand, put the glass to his mouth, and drank the liquid in one gulp.
Putting down the cup, Cheng Yu slowly exhaled a breath and asked: "Lao Zhuang, these diamonds will never see the light of day, right?"
Zhuang Yi raised his head, his eyes were bloodshot and looked extremely cloudy.
His chest began to rise and fall violently. It was obvious that his thoughts were very confused. He was weighing and hesitating, wondering whether he should tell the truth to Cheng Yu.
After thinking about it, Zhuang Yi felt that he had already told Cheng Yu about the diamond. If he didn't tell it now, unless he killed Cheng Yu, other people would know about it sooner or later.
"Okay, I said."
Zhuang Yi took a deep breath, picked up the glass of wine, and drank it in one gulp. As if he felt it was not enough, he poured himself another glass and drank it again before finally speaking.
"Mr. Cheng, your guess is right, I just want to avenge my wife and children.
In fact, I have known about the existence of the dark web for a long time, but I only have a little understanding of it. I have tried to find members of the dark web, but for so many years, I have found nothing.
Until that guest, when he first talked about the dark web, I just regarded him as a habitual braggart and didn't pay much attention to him.
But he drank too much that day, and after the other guests went back to rest, he grabbed me and kept chatting with me. Out of fun, I chatted with him about the dark web.
But in the end, I discovered that he seemed to really know a darknet member, because he knew much more about the darknet than I did.
In fact, until now, I am still doubtful about that person's words and do not completely trust him.
However, I know very well that this may be the closest moment to the darknet in my life, so I don't want to give up this hope.
It wasn't until dinner that I met you. From you, I was almost certain that that person did not lie to me. His classmate might really be a member of the dark web.
However, that person turned out to be a murderer and was arrested by the police. The hope I had finally raised was completely shattered.
You are the only help I can possibly ask for, can you help me?"
Cheng Yu sighed and said: "Originally, I didn't want to care about your matter at all, but when I heard Lao Xue talk about the situation of your wife and children, I felt some sympathy for you. That's why I asked about you.
I added your WeChat number and contacted you. I can tell you that I do have access to the dark web, and I can definitely help you publish tasks on the dark web. However, I still say that I must know this.
The whole story. Now, let’s first talk about what happened to these diamonds worth 30 million US dollars? Let me ask again, can these diamonds never see the light of day?”
Zhuang Yi seemed to be ready to tell the truth. He nodded heavily and said, "Yes, these diamonds cannot be seen by anyone."
"Where did he come from?" Cheng Yu didn't want to talk nonsense to Zhuang Yi and asked directly. In Cheng Yu's eyes, Zhuang Yi had become a person with a story. This person was by no means as simple as Xue Changyun knew him.
In fact, Cheng Yu could also directly use hypnosis to make Zhuang Yi tell the truth, but after a simple conversation with Zhuang Yi, Cheng Yu realized that there was a lot of inside information in this matter, and he probably couldn't finish it in three minutes.
It’s better not to waste your points as much as possible.
