Chapter 17: The Truth
"Hey! Hey! Listen, I'm Adele's fiancΓ©, you can't do this to me! β
Zhou Ming pretended to be brave and said with a hard mouth.
Ralph didn't speak, just slowly approached Zhou Ming, the muzzle silencer was almost on Zhou Ming's head, and his fingers were pressed on the trigger, tightening a little bit.
To be honest, this kind of behavior that may lift your heavenly spirit cover in the next moment is indeed very oppressive, especially Ralph deliberately uses slow motion to prolong the time, and the psychological torture effect caused to people is very significant.
If you are an ordinary person, it is really possible to be scared and run away.
Zhou Ming too.
He raised his hand tremblingly, with a frightened expression, and reached for the car door with his other hand, making a gesture to open the door and get out of the car.
"yes, I'm sorry, I'll just go, don't shoot."
His hand touched the car door, but stopped there, looking at Ralph who was not moved in the slightest, Zhou Ming suddenly smiled, and the frightened appearance before disappeared.
"Well, looks like you already know who I am."
"Mr. Zhang, as an excellent bodyguard, I thought that when you disguised your identity, you should at least change your face and change your name."
Ralph was unmoved, his voice steady.
"It's you who despise us so much that we don't even understand this bit of information; Or are you too confident in yourself and feel the need to disguise yourself and use such a clumsy excuse to trick us with your acting skills? β
"Huh." Zhou Ming grinned, and suddenly made a move, his head tilted to the side, his knees raised, and hit Ralph's hand with the gun.
Burst! Burst! Burst!
Bullets burst out of the muzzle of the silencer-mounted gun, making a few muffled low sounds, one into the saddleback, one through the rear glass, and one into the roof.
The next moment, the gun fell into Zhou Ming's hand, and it spun in the air and pointed at Ralph's head.
"What do you say?" Zhou Ming asked with a chuckle.
"Impossible." Ralph couldn't believe it, "A bodyguard of your price has this kind of skill?" β
"Ever heard of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?" Zhou Ming said lightly: "You can drive now, right?" β
Ralph glared at Zhou Ming unwillingly, and under the deterrence of bullets, he could only choose to give in, and said unhappily: "Drive!" β
The car restarted and quickly left the alley and returned to the main road.
"Disguise yourself as a pig and devour a tiger? Is this also what your hometown says? Adele asked quietly.
"There are so many problems with children." Zhou Ming replied casually.
"Where am I small! Mingling looks smaller than me! Adele puffed up and held her head high to show her rich capital.
Zhou Ming was unmoved, his eyes were fixed on Ralph, and he said, "Go back." β
Ralph obediently complied, and when he turned around, his posture was not so awkward, but he could no longer see the gun pointed at him directly.
This brought him more pressure, I don't know if Zhou Ming has been pointing a gun at him, I don't know what the other party is thinking, I don't know if the gun will go off in the next moment.
Being pointed to the forehead is completely different from being pointed at the back of the head.
The three cars did not go in the direction of her house, as Adele said, but kept the same path and went to places that Adele didn't know.
Adrian was indeed waiting for Adele in that place, and Ralph wasn't lying on this point.
However, this also made Adele's face even paler, and the last trace of disillusionment in her heart: the dominant behind everything was really Adrian, her biological father, who really wanted to kill her.
Time passed quietly in such an oppressive atmosphere, until it drove into a villa.
"This is it." Zhou Ming looked at the scenery outside, full of interest.
"You know here?" Adele was a little surprised, how could Zhou Ming know what she didn't know?
Suddenly, she thought of a possibility, and a little shock appeared on her face: "Here, should it be, it was the ...... back then"
"That's right, it's the former home of the Bronses family 27 years ago."
The smile on Zhou Ming's face was quite meaningful.
"It seems that your father is a very nostalgic person, shouldn't he come over every once in a while to see things and think about people, and miss the happy times he had with his father?"
"Shut up!"
"Shut up!"
Two shouts in quick succession, one from Adele and one from Ralph.
Looking at Ralph with an angry face, Zhou Ming smiled contemptuously: "I can't see that you are quite protective of the master, why did you let me obediently send me over as soon as I was scared with a gun?" β
"You damn ......" Ralph gritted his teeth, and Zhou Ming slammed his gun into his head, making him swallow the second half of his sentence.
"Hmph. Anyway, I've already brought the young lady over according to the master's request, and it doesn't matter if there are more of you or less of you. Ralph sneered.
The car stopped at the door, several people got out of the car, and the bodyguards in the front and rear cars saw the gun in Zhou Ming's hand, and immediately took out their pistols and pointed them at Zhou Ming.
"There's no need to be so nervous, let them put their guns down, I'm easy to be impulsive when I'm nervous." Zhou Ming said.
Ralph's face sank and he ordered, "Put down the gun." β
The bodyguards looked at each other and slowly lowered the guns in their hands.
"Please!" Ralph said coldly.
The two walked through the door, walked through the living room, and entered the dining room, where they saw Adrian sitting in the main seat, and a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard, who was sitting on Adrian's left hand side, two chairs apart, gobbling up.
Ralph did not follow the two in, but stood at the door and closed the door, and there were only four people in the wide dining room, which could fit forty people, three men and one woman.
Hearing the sound of the door closing, the gobbling middle-aged man stopped eating, looked up and saw Adele, a little stunned, and turned to glared at Adrian and said angrily: "What the hell do you mean!" β
"One more, it doesn't matter." Adrian ignored the middle-aged man's words, muttered his glass, and drank the red wine in the glass.
"Little friend, I don't care what your purpose is, sit down and eat something first, give me a few minutes, and then you can do whatever you want."
Putting down the wine glass, Adrian said to Zhou Ming.
Zhou Ming smiled and nodded, sat down at the end of the long dining table, brought himself a glass of wine, and saluted Adrian.
Adrian didn't pay any attention to him, as if he really believed that Zhou Ming would really do nothing because of his words, even if he had a gun in his hand.
"Okay, now that everyone is here, it's time for the last scene of this scene to be staged."
Adrian stood up, straightened his suit like a old-fashioned aristocrat, walked over to Adele, who was standing dumbly, took her by the hand and led her to the opposite of the raunchy middle-aged man, and pressed her body against the chair.
"Joya, I gave you time to find the answer, and now I ask you, did you find the answer?"
Adrian asked as he stood behind Adele and looked at the raunchy middle-aged man.
"You bastard, you said you would give me a month, and now it's only half there!"
Joya slammed her fist on the table in anger, almost knocking the drink over and making Adele tremble.
Adele didn't understand why, obviously she came with the mood of asking the teacher, but from the moment she entered this room, there was a bad premonition in her heart that was constantly amplifying, making her whole person fall into panic, like a frightened rabbit, and her heart was shrouded in gloom, helplessness and panic.
The panic made her subconsciously look for security, but her father, who was standing behind her, could not give her half a sense of security.
Her eyes glanced at Zhou Ming, trying to gain a sense of security from the man who had promised her that he would ensure her safety, but she could only fail again.
The damn man was shaking the wine glass in his hand as if he was watching an upcoming show, and didn't even pay much attention to her.
As a result, Adele's gaze could only fall on the middle-aged man Joya sitting opposite her again, and some complicated emotions surged in her gaze.
"Of course, the time I promised was a month, but the plan could never catch up with the change."
Adrian picked Adele's face from behind and gently stroked her delicate face.
"When I learned that Adele was on the return plane, I understood that it was not possible that everything could not go according to my plan, and that I could only send someone to bring you over temporarily, Joya."
"Remember what you did 27 years ago? Do you remember the name Doris? β
"Doris?" Joya screamed in disbelief, and suddenly stood up as if she had just reacted, pointed at Adrian and exclaimed, "You, you are her ......"
"She's my sister, Mr. Joya, and now you know why I'm imprisoning you for 20 years?"
Adrian asked.
"So that's it, so it's like this!"
Joya sat back in his chair in despair and muttered, "You're taking revenge on me, you're revenge on what I did 20 years ago, you think I killed your family." β
"My family, including me!"
For the first time tonight, Adrian's face fluttered with emotion, his skin shaking, and his eyes gradually turning red.
"You see what they're doing, and then you go around preaching, you tell everybody!"
"That's right." Joya lowered her eyelids and whispered, "I told everyone, my friends, classmates at school, teachers, and ...... on the Internet."
"The endless abuse and humiliation drowned Doris like a tidal wave, and you don't know how hard that was for her and how hard it was for us." Adrian's voice trembled, as did the fingers on Adele's shoulder.
"It's all because of you, Joya, all the beauty, warmth, and happiness we have have disappeared because of you!"
"That's why I've imprisoned you for 20 years, Mr. Joya."
"According to the agreement, if you can know my identity and why I imprisoned you within a month, you will win, and now you know all this, so you win."
After saying all this, Adrian's hands no longer trembled, and the whole person exuded a sense of relief, and the secret that he had carried for decades finally came out of his mouth in person, and his expression returned to calm.