Chapter 248: Heartbeat

After Malcolm left, Karina sat at the table for another full hour, without a sip of water.

Due to her privileged living environment and good upbringing, Karina has never encountered any enemies in the strict sense since she was a child, and the most serious thing is the jealousy between little girls at the ball, and Malcolm is the first real "enemy" she has encountered in her life.

The former ruined her life and peeled back the cruel truth of life in front of her little by little.

For the first time, Karina felt a strong fear and hatred in a person, and during her time on the island, she dreamed of defeating Malcolm and making him pay for what had happened before.

However, when the day came, when all the time was right, and she saw that she could achieve the ultimate victory and enjoy the joy of revenge, Malcolm walked into her room in such a grand manner, looked into her eyes and told her that she had always hated the wrong person.

Someone else destroyed her family and put her father in prison.

Karina had thought that all this was Malcolm's lie, a smoke bomb he released after he was cornered, a means to confuse her, but somewhere deep in her heart, Karina had to admit that Malcolm's analysis was very reasonable.

In fact, she herself has had a feeling of unreality in recent times.

This time the operation seemed to be a little too smooth, although she had encountered a lot of trouble before, and was even on the verge of bankruptcy for a time, but in her most difficult time, Malcolm and the Black Merchant Alliance never made too many moves, which did not fit Malcolm's style of acting, and then they found that Eugene's process was also smooth, although it took a lot of effort to persuade the latter, but Eugene's resistance to them was not as strong as expected.

Compared to the previous encounters, Malcolm was indeed substandard this time, but if it was because of Raymond's covert interference, it would have been explained.

It's just that Karina has a hard time accepting it in her heart, as if she has been trekking towards a goal for a long time in a wilderness, and when she is about to reach the end, the target suddenly disappears.

However, Malcolm's offer is indeed very tempting, not only can he recognize the existence of the second-hand goods exchange on behalf of the Black Merchants Alliance, but he is also willing to give her a series of preferential terms, and more importantly, he promises to help her get revenge and release her father from prison, and now that the two have a common enemy, Karina does not have to worry that Malcolm will break his word.

This made the businesswoman a little excited.

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"Is this your escape plan?" Lola looked incredulous, "We need to get rid of the two guards at the gate first, avoid the night watchman, then sneak into the torture chamber, rescue Daisy and Nadia, and pray that no one is alarmed in the process, and then we will avoid the two groups of guards, come to the gate of the manor, kill a team of well-equipped guards in front of the gate, and finally run all the way to the beach?" IMHO, this is not an escape at all, but suicide. ”

Leah struggled to explain, "No, Laeri will eventually take out the guards at the gate with us, and he'll have a carriage to take us to the beach." ”

"But it still doesn't change the risk we had to face before, you can't pray that the guards are suddenly blind, or the guys in the torture chamber are drunk, we can't deal with so many people with only two short muskets and eight daggers, the two guards outside the door are what we have to kill, this necessary risk I am willing to take, but after killing the guards, we go directly to the gate, you see how those people treat the black slaves who were sent to the torture chamber, and by the time the action tomorrow night Daisy has been in for a day, And that guy named Nadia has been in there for more than twenty days, and even if we get them out, they won't be able to walk anymore, and I don't want to carry two burdens on my back when I escape. ”

"They're not a burden, they're my companions," Leah insisted, "and without them, we wouldn't have been able to get in touch with the people outside, and if it weren't for Nadia and Daisy who have persevered until now, we're all in there now, so either we'll leave together or none of us leave." ”

"Your stubbornness will kill us all!" "You're like a canary who has been kept in a cage by Malcolm for so long that you don't know how cruel the outside world is." ”

"So it's still a personal vendetta, what about you, you know?" Leah asked rhetorically.

"Of course I know," Lola took off her coat and pointed to the dense scars on her chest, "at least I did run away, otherwise how do you think these things came from?" ”

Leah was stunned for a moment, and after a while, she spoke again, "I'm sorry, I never knew about this. ”

"Of course you don't know that you didn't come back then." Laura put on her clothes again and said sincerely, "I've run away myself, and I've seen many other people run away, and I know better than anyone how dangerous it is to escape, and you have to do everything you can to reduce the risk to have a chance of success, I know they are important to you, and I know that you don't want to disappoint them, but sometimes it takes someone to make a difficult decision." ”

Leah was silent for a long time, "I'm sorry, either we go together or we don't leave." ”

A deep sense of helplessness welled up in Laura's heart, and she couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, "! I was so stupid that I shouldn't have meddled in this at all! ”

"If you want to quit now, I can understand it, I will thank you anyway, we can't get weapons without you, and we don't know how to connect with the outside." Leah said politely.

"You still don't understand, do you?! I have no way out, and sooner or later you will confess to me if you fail and are caught. Laura slammed her fist on the side of the shelf, then she took a deep breath and tried to adjust her emotions, "Okay, you win, I give in, we can go and save your companion, but it definitely won't work to just rush over." ”

"Is there anything else you can do?" Leah humbly asks for advice.

"If you want to attack the torture room, you can't have no movement at all, in this case, we can simply make the movement bigger, we can order the barn on the east side of the manor, and the room next to it to store firewood, so that we can lure the patrol away, and we can also have time to go to the torture room to save people."

"But with our current staff...... You can't do that kind of thing, can you? Leah wondered.

"That's right, so we're going to convince more people to join." Lola cut the railway. 8)