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“What are you going to do so late?”
Chuck looked at Lilah, who was carrying a big
bag, and asked in confusion.
Lilah tried to hold back her tension and
pretended to be calm and said:
“I’m going to take Brady out for a walk.”
Chuck narrowed his eyes, looked at Lilah’s
face twice, and said lightly:
く
“It’s too late today, and I have something to
tell you.”
As soon as Brady heard that his play plan was
canceled, he was about to lose his temper,
and then remembered how Chuck was fierce
to him today.
After pursing his lips to express his
dissatisfaction, he quickly ran upstairs and
slammed the door of the children’s room shut.
Chuck ignored Brady’s behavior and turned
his attention to Lilah:
“There’s news about Lilah, this time you come
with me!”
Over the years since his disappearance,
Chuck has never given up looking for me.
Lilah has been persuading him to let go, but
the man seems to be obsessed, no matter
who persuades him, he is indifferent.
As long as he heard my news, he would have
to run over and verify it himself.
Over the years, he has searched almost all
over the country and found nothing.
But this time, he had a strong feeling that he
would be able to find me.
Lilah, who was named, hesitated for a long
time and finally opened her mouth:
“I’m not going.”
The man’s suspicious eyes fell on her, forcing
her to open her mouth again:
H
“Brady is still young and needs someone to
take care of him.”
“Then take Brady with you, just think of it as
going out to play.”
“No!” Lilah refused subconsciously. She knew
that village. As long as children from outside
spend one night there, they will “disappear.”
Even her child, the result is the same.
Chuck looked at her quietly, and Lilah
anxiously looked for a remedy:
“Brady is still young, and he might be
troublesome on the way, or let him wait for us
at home.”
tinizing eyes fell on the
The man’s scrutinizing eyes fell on the
woman, and he nodded after more than ten
seconds;
“Um.”
The mountain road was rugged, and it was
raining again, full of mud.
Chuck frowned and never intended to stop for
rest.
Lilah was getting more and more flustered as
she looked at the familiar truth.
Several plans to escape flashed through her
mind, but they all failed because she never
stopped along the way.
The off–road vehicle drove into the village
with a roar, and the villagers watched the
group of people getting off the car warily and
curiously.
Lilah had been looking down after getting out
of the car, and only hurriedly raised her head
when Chuck’s voice came from above.
“Why are you so nervous?” Chuck said slowly,
and Lilah’s body couldn’t help trembling from
the deep voice.
“No…no…” Just after opening her mouth,
Lilah was stunned.
In the distance, the person who watched over me only glanced at her, then retreated to the
back of the crowd in a panic and left quietly.
Chuck looked around in the crowd and didn’t
“I came here this time to find someone.”
The assistant took out my photos and handed
them to the villagers one by one.
When several villagers got the photos, they
quietly nudged the people next to them:
“Look at this person, is she like the jinxed
woman who has been wandering in the village
for several years…”
“I didn’t expect she still has family? I thought
she only had a wild son…”
“But that woman is already…”
The person who spoke was lightly bumped by
the person next to him and immediately shut
When I first came here, because of Lilah’s
order, my son and I were “taken care of” a lot
by them.
Thinking of this, everyone lowered their heads
guiltily.
Chuck glanced coldly at the noisy crowd and
opened his mouth again:
“As long as you can tell me her news, a
reward of 100,000, and take me to find her in
person, a reward of one million.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd
became agitated, and the villagers‘ eyes
showed greedy light:
“Are you telling the truth?”
L
The assistant opened the briefcase, and the
red bills inside dyed everyone’s eyes red.
“I know where the person you are looking for
is!”
Twenty minutes later, after turning several
small roads around the corner.
Chuck stood in front of a low, simple, and
leaky thatched house, widening his eyes in
disbelief:
“She lives here?”
The villager leading the way counted the
banknotes in his hand without raising his
head:
“Yes, a woman with a baby in her stomach,
it’s good to have a place to live in this
village.”
“I introduced so many men to her at the
beginning, but she didn’t choose any of them.
It’s her fault that no one came to collect her
body after she died.”
The villager’s endless voice stopped abruptly,
and a painful wail came from his mouth in the
next second.
The banknotes in his hand were scattered all
over the ground, and Chuck said with a
gloomy face:
“Now that the money has been collected, let
him say everything he knows.”
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The bodyguard carried the man away, Lilah
stood pale at the door, and her hands hidden
in her sleeves kept shaking.
Chuck walked into the house heavily, and
every step he took, the feeling of suffocation
in his heart increased by one point.
The moment he opened the shabby cloth
curtain, everything in the hut was in full view.
A few old earthenware pots, two chipped
porcelain bowls, plus a thin quilt with a dozen patches, were all the belongings in the house.
Chuck saw me lying there like a layer of
paper on the bed at a glance, my face was
pale and lifeless.
In the years I was out of contact, he had
fantasized about countless scenarios, but he
never thought that I would be helpless.
Even under Lilah’s brainwashing, he gradually
accepted that I had flown away with other
men for money.
But the facts were bloody in front of him.
I’m dead.
Dead painful.
Dead casual.
“How could this happen…Lilah, wake
up…open your eyes and look at me, I’m here
to take you home…”
Chuck hugged my cold body, his expression
was grief–stricken, and tears kept falling on
my face.
Lilah stepped forward and was about to
comfort Chuck, but she was facing the
terrifying corpse spots on my face, the
expression on her face was shattered
instantly, and she turned around and vomited.
Chuck looked at her with disgust, but his eyes
suddenly fell on her feet.
A bag of white paper was lying on the ground
alone, out of place with the surrounding
environment.
The man quickly grabbed the thing in his
hand and opened it, and the white powder
inside shone with a bright white light under
the light.
“Call the police, investigate! Everything about
Lilah here, investigate everything for me!”
