Chapter 22: Threatened
"Well, I'm glad your love for her can be so strong......"
Professor Eugene shrugged his two fat shoulders helplessly, and then said:
"At the beginning, José's Asian youth was the same, and for a while, his academic achievements were simply leaps and bounds, and I felt extremely proud of that......"
Professor Eugene was a conscientious mentor, and when he talked to others about the academic achievements of his students, his eyes would light up in his boasting, and his cheeks would turn crimson:
At that time, after chatting with Jose carefully, I learned that he had a girlfriend and was in love. In his own words, it was that beautiful girlfriend who inspired him so much! Just when I was glad that my talent had finally found the ideal inheritor, José did something that shocked everyone. No one thought that he would give up his studies halfway because he couldn't bear the blow of falling out of love. Later, I kept calling him in China, and tried all the means I could to persuade him, suggest and even threaten, but his brain was really good...... Blake, you can't imagine how gloomy my heart was at one point, and how it felt like I was painting a unique picture day after day, only to be as mad and frustrated as a fatal failure when I was about to finish my pen! Honestly, at your engagement ceremony, I deliberately took out the anger of frustration and defeat on your fiancée. But if I had foreseen that Jose would return to my lecture hall someday, I would never have embarrassed the innocent bride-to-be......"
"Forget it, that's in the past, don't always worry about it. ”
Demos, who had been distraught, had been extremely impatient with Professor Eugene's monologue, and now caught the bald old man pausing in the middle of his words, and hurriedly coped politely to show that he had been listening carefully from the beginning.
"However, Jose has come back this time and feels very strange!"
“...... What's wrong?"
"Maybe it's an occupational disease of art, I'm extremely sensitive to any changes around me, and I always feel that something is wrong with this Jose who is back in school......"
Demos was smoking at a rapid pace, thinking that when he had finished smoking it, he would take the opportunity to leave it behind and get up and leave. However, Professor Eugene's sharp reversal of speech suddenly attracted his attention, so he stared sideways at Eugene beside him.
At this time, Demos noticed that Professor Eugene's facial expression had condensed into a strangely serious look.
"Something is wrong...... Where are you referring to?" Demoster asked, curious, nervously.
"He's not as studious as he used to be, and he's often late for class. Not only that, but his artistic talent seems to have completely disappeared, and after a few classes, he almost drove me crazy! Some time ago, he was scolded by me several times for his unsatisfactory academic performance, and then he simply stopped coming to school, and then it was rumored that he was with your fiancée...... Woohoo......"
Professor Eugene made a soft "whoosh" sound with his tongue against his upper incisors, as if he was embarrassed by Jose's arrogant behavior, and also seemed to be quite touched by what had happened to Demos recently.
"He's not the Jose he used to be...... He seems to ...... Haunted by evil spirits...... Makes people afraid to approach...... He...... It's like another person!"
At this point, Professor Eugene's eyes froze in front of him, and his two pupils suddenly cowered into two dots that could not be smaller the moment he stopped.
“......”
Demos couldn't help but feel a tingle in his scalp.
Doesn't Professor Eugene's feelings coincide with his own?
I had only been talking to Jose on the phone for a short time, and I realized that something was wrong with him, and I didn't want Professor Eugene, who was in the most frequent contact with Jose now, to feel like that......
Jose, what the hell is wrong with you-
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Carette walked out of the study and returned to the second-floor bedroom, picking up her phone lying on the bedside table.
Lighting up the screen, she flipped through the call logs on her phone, and the number displayed in the most obvious position inside was Jose's. After receiving his call and being invited to the Grand Bretagne Hotel to have a disgraceful affair with him, she hardly contacted anyone, let alone exchanged phone calls with Demos.
Carette clicked her thumb and pressed the phone icon next to Jose's number, then held the phone to her ear.
"Poseidon, what's going on with this morning's entertainment hot article!"
The first time the signal was connected, Carette didn't allow the other party to speak, so she first questioned the other end of the mobile phone microphone.
Preemptively revealing one's attitude without meeting each other often leads to the upper hand.
"Hehe, I really didn't expect you to take the initiative to call me...... Sometimes you don't see each other, do you miss me?"
The familiar sound of male laughter came from the earpiece, it was from Jose, but it wasn't the real Jose!
"Don't beat around the bush! what do you want to do!" said Kareta to him no longer as politely as she had been.
"Jose" spoke in a very unorthodox tone:
"What do I want to do? I don't want to do anything! If I want to do it......
At this point, he deliberately prolonged the tone, paused for two seconds, and then turned to the volume of the whisper, lowered his voice, and spat out the second half of the sentence:
"Naturally, I want to gan you!ahahaha-"
A series of unbridled laughter spilled out of the phone's receiver, like an entangled viper scrambling into Karete's ears.
"Shut up—"
Carette yelled into the microphone, and she was annoyed by the teasing words, and her even breathing became disordered and rapid, and there was no rhythm to speak of.
After trying to suppress the excitement and ups and downs, she echoed the tone and asked in a solemn voice:
"Let's get straight to the point, what the hell is your purpose!"
"It really makes me feel strange!Carette, I didn't expect you to ask in the same tone as Demos's, you are really a natural couple!"
"What? What do you mean?"
Hearing the other party's sudden mention of Demos, Kareta was nervous on the other end of the phone.
"You probably don't know it yet, your man just spoke to me on the phone!"
On that side, "Jose's" voice sounded triumphant.
Demos, actually looking for "Jose"?
This morning, Demos saw the hot online article about Carreta and Jose's past and left angrily, and Carreta did not know his whereabouts after he left the house.
But now that "Jose" actually said that he had spoken to him on the phone, then the simple motive for Demos to leave the villa was just to avoid me and find a place to talk to "Jose" on the phone? What did the two of them talk about? Could Demos do something other drastic......
Thinking about it, Karete's heart crumpled at the moment. The bits of cold sweat that oozed from her forehead expanded into droplets the size of beans rolling down the sides of her forehead in the blink of an eye, and a feeling of great foreboding and uneasiness came from the bottom of her heart......
"You...... You and Demos ...... What did you say?"
"Don't worry, the conversation between us is very pleasant! He is nothing more than burning money, and he wants to use the money to settle this online turmoil for you, so he called me and asked me to make an offer. ”
“......”
"To be honest, he really loves you, that kind of persistence in faith, and the maintenance of your bottom line, really touched me!"
After a long time of hearing Carette's echo on the other end of the microphone, "Jose" became eerie, and he knew that she was not in a good mood at the moment.
Carette retracted her fingers and tightened her grip on the phone that was close to her ear. After pondering quietly for a few seconds, she simply omitted a lot of nonsense and cut straight to the point:
"Say, how can you let him go?"
"Clever, Carret, you've learned to be good at last! In that case, you must know what I want most. ”
Carreta knew, of course, that Poseidon had gone to great lengths to sow a wedge between her and Demos, and that his real intention was nothing more than to possess the Athena Jewel. If you want a gem, you must first get the key to the release of the gem seal, which is...... Own her –
"You...... I will never break the seal on any god!"
The current situation seems to have been occupied by "Jose", so Carette's arrogance can no longer show the toughness just now.
"Okay, think slowly! I not only have the time, but also the capital to play slowly with you, anyway, the whole price of playing will be paid for by Demos, you can watch him lose everything little by little. And at the end of the day, he's not alone on the Yellow Springs Road, and I'll have Terry and the human named Jose accompany him!"
"Jose" no longer dwelled too much with Carret, but hung up the line very decisively.
"Hey, wait, don't ...... right"
Carette was only halfway through her sentence before she had to swallow the rest of her words back into her stomach. She was going to say, "Don't do anything to Demos", but the other party didn't give her the time and opportunity to say the whole sentence.
Helplessly, Kareta held up her phone with a blank expression, staring at the front for a moment before slowly removing it from her ear.
Poseidon is too arrogant, and if he doesn't take some action soon, I'm afraid that something will happen again soon. Moreover, I'm afraid the situation will be really difficult to control again-
Thinking that she had indeed suffered too much shame and grievance in the recent series of negative events, she decided not to endure it anymore.
Only if you are strong enough can you have the courage and confidence to thwart the enemy's intrigues and tricks! If nothing else, but also for the tears that you have shed, they must not be shed in vain, they must be worthy.
Kareta gritted her teeth and made up her mind, this time, she wants to take the initiative!
Closing her lips in thought, she held up her phone again and dialed Nana's number.
In the immediate aftermath of the scandal, Karete once received a call from Nana, the queen of the underworld, from Betherphone.
In order to get herself out of the predicament as soon as possible, and to rescue Jose as soon as possible, Carreta took the opportunity to ask for the help of the Hades. Now, more than a week later, there is still no response to her request.
Carette knew in her heart that Hades was haughty and not a god who could be seen by anyone. In order to show her sincerity, she plans to take the initiative to contact the Hades this time and ask to meet the Hades again.