Chapter 18: The Hunt (End)

Joya sat there stunned, as if she had forgotten who she was, where she was, what she was going to do.

Fortunately, he didn't really forget, so after a moment of distraction, Joya forcibly pulled his consciousness back and asked, "Where's my daughter?" ”

"Of course, I'll tell you, after all, it's our bet, Mr. Joya."

Adrian walked back to his seat and sat down, took out a black lockbox from under the table, and opened it.

"Before I do that, I want to ask you a question, Mr. Joya, what were you thinking the moment you entered Adele's body?"

Taking out a stack of papers from the lockbox and glancing at the voiceless Joya, Adrian continued unhurriedly:

"Escaped from the cage of darkness, and occasionally met a caring rich daughter, you two from acquaintance, to bed, less than three days in between, right?"

"And then, what were you thinking when I told you she was my daughter?"

"It's complicated, I'm an enemy who has been imprisoned for 20 years, but you find out that you seem to be really in love with my daughter."

"Don't be in a hurry to deny it, Mr. Joya, if you hadn't fallen in love with her, how could you have taken the initiative to stay away from her instead of threatening me with her after knowing her identity?"

"And what about you, Adele, do you love him?"

Adrian's gaze turned to Adele, watching her face turn pale little by little.

Adrian looked around and saw Qiao Ya slowly standing up, and even Zhou Ming put down the wine glass in his hand.

"Looks like you've all guessed it." Adrian chuckled a few times and divided the stack of documents into two parts, pushing them in front of Joya and Adele respectively.

"As soon as I woke up from the hospital, I began to lay out my revenge plan. I inherited a huge family fortune, sent people to watch you 24 hours a day, I watched you fall in love, watched you get married, watched your wife give birth to children, I knew it was time to do something to you. ”

"I kidnapped you, shot your wife and pretended to be you, I snatched your newborn daughter and brought her home as my own daughter, and named her Adele Bronses."

"Shut up, you bastard!" Joya lunged at Adrian, knocking him to the ground and punching him in the face.

"You're cheating on me, bastard! You've shown me Erica's coming-of-age video, have you forgotten? In that damn cage, a new video was rolled every week, documenting Erica's growth, and that was what kept me alive! Do you remember! Do you remember! ”

As he spoke, he poured a ferocious fist into Adrian's face with a single punch.

"Haha, hahaha, Mr. Joya, haha, don't you understand?"

Adrian's eyes cracked, blood spilled from the corners of his mouth, his face was blue, and he was pinched by Joya's neck, but he still couldn't hide his happiness, and kept laughing.

"It's all fake! Everything you've watched in the past 20 years, those videotapes, I asked actors to shoot! This is a TV series that has been filmed for 20 years, but you are the only one in the audience! ”

"Now let me ask you, Mr. Joya, why did I let you out of there?"

"Shut up, I'm going to kill you! I'll kill you! Joya excitedly picked up a dinner knife that had fallen from the table to the ground from the fight and pressed it against Adrian's neck.

Adrian didn't pay the slightest attention to the knife that had pierced the flesh, and said what he had to say.

"At that time, Adele, a one-year-old woman, was a blank sheet of paper that I could write and edit at will, and it took me twenty years to transform her into my most suitable tool for revenge."

"She is soft-hearted, compassionate, helpful, simple-minded, and easily trusts others. On the other hand, she is very casual, as good as she can do, indulging in carnal desires, unable to extricate herself. ”

"You think you escaped from there on your own? You think you met Adele by accident? Why would you be so easy to have a relationship with Adele? ”

"I'm the one who dominates it all! I add something to your diet so I can even control your every move if necessary! ”

Adrian laughed, laughed heartily, laughed like crazy.

Joya let go of his hand weakly, as if he had been drained of all his strength, and sat down on the ground like a puddle of mud.

He raised his head and looked at Adele blankly, and Adele also looked at him, tears kept flowing down his cheeks, his expression was blank, and there was no trace of life and vitality.

The blow was too huge, and it had completely destroyed her mind.

Joya's hand reached for the knife again, holding it firmly in his hand, and slowly raising it towards Adrian.

"yes, that's it."

Adrian opened his arms, completely abandoning any resistance, his expression full of anticipation and excitement even slightly distorted.

"Stab down, let's share this moment, my pain, what you took from me, let you truly appreciate my feelings."

"Come, Joya, as you wish, complete the last step of this revenge, our revenge."

"Ahh

Joya hissed and roared, raised the sharp knife high, and stabbed Adrian's throat hard in Adele's heart-rending scream!

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out.

The bullet hit the dinner knife accurately, and the powerful force knocked the dinner knife away.

"Three, it's time for this bitter drama to come to an end, right? Then it's my turn. ”

Pretending to blow the muzzle, Zhou Ming said with a smile.

"Mr. Adrian, are you the one who hired the killer to kill Adele?"

Zhou Ming walked over, put the muzzle of the gun against Adele's head, and motioned to Joya not to act rashly, otherwise he would collapse Adele's head.

Adrian said indifferently: "Does it still make sense to ask this question?" ”

Zhou Ming frowned: "Mr. Adrian, I advise you not to toast and eat and drink, and it will be good for you to tell me what I want to know." Although you are bent on death, you don't have any worries in this world, do you? Why don't I send Carl and Dover down with you? ”

Adrian sat up slowly, staring at Zhou Ming closely.

"Mr. Zhang, who do you serve? Why do you have to ask this question? ”

Zhou Ming smiled: "My task is to ensure the safety of Miss Adele, and after taking the money, I naturally have to work hard." ”

"I didn't expect Mr. Zhang to be such a dedicated person." Adrian sneered.

"Mr. Adrian, this is supposed to be our first meeting, how much can you know about me?"

Adrian didn't fight anymore, took out a mobile phone from his body, and made a call.

Soon, the call was connected.

"I'm going to cancel the task I posted."

A female voice came from the phone: "Yes sir, I need to remind you before the mission is canceled, this mission has not reached its deadline yet, and our staff is still doing their best. Cancellation of a mission unilaterally requested by you will result in a deduction of 50% of the total bounty amount......"

"I have no objection."

"Okay, the mission has been canceled, this bounty mission is over, I wish you a happy life, goodbye."

"Dut...... Honk...... Toot ......"

There was only a busy tone left on the phone.

Adrian threw away his phone and looked at Zhou Ming.

"So you're the one who posted the task? But this doesn't logically make sense. Zhou Ming didn't just expose this problem.

"Since you want to play this revenge drama well, why did you get rid of Adele in advance? Without her, wouldn't it be equivalent to missing an important role on the stage? ”

"I'm not going to tell you." Adrian suddenly pulled a pistol from himself and was about to shove the muzzle of the gun into his mouth.

"Bang!"

Another gunshot rang out, and it was still Zhou Ming's gun, this time it hit Adrian's right hand with the gun, so that his bloodied right hand could no longer hold the gun, and let the gun fall to the ground.

"It's okay, if you don't say it, I can guess it, it's either Carl or Dover anyway. But as you said, there's really no point in asking this question, but you can't die now, and if you die, your men don't know what they're going to do, so wait...... Eighteen hours! Zhou Ming looked at the watch in his hand and said.

"Haha, hahahaha." Adrian suddenly laughed a little nervously: "Eighteen hours, it's okay, it doesn't make a difference to me to die early or late." But can this adorable father and daughter still get along? ”

"If Mr. Joya doesn't want to, I'll kill Miss Adele, and my employment with her has ended anyway." Zhou Ming didn't care.

"So, sit down, two, and the three of us can talk for the rest of the time."

……

Except for a few people involved, no one knows how they spent the last eighteen hours.

Ralph and the other bodyguards, who had been guarding outside, never got permission to enter the room, and even when they heard the gunshots at first, they strictly followed Adrian's orders and did not dare to step into the door.

It wasn't until eighteen hours later that two more gunshots rang out.

This time, the door to the room slowly opened, and a dejected Adele stepped out of it.

Ralph hurriedly stepped forward and shouted "Miss" twice but received no response, and Adele walked outside like a walking corpse.

Ralph had to send a few people to protect Adele, while he led the others into the room.

All they saw were two bodies lying on the table, each with a pistol in their hands, and judging by their posture, they were all suicidal.

As for the fourth person in this room, let Ralph rummage through the room, digging three feet into the ground, and found no trace of Zhou Ming's departure, as if he had disappeared from this room.

Adele walked out of the door of the villa, looking at the blue sky, as if many memories had been lost in her muddy brain, and a figure that was originally very clear quickly became blurred, and was almost forgotten in a short time.

Only one sentence kept echoing in her head.

"There are transcendent objects in this world, and the path to the sublimation of life exists."

"Go and find them, find those otherworldly items, and do whatever you can to get them."

"I'll come back and get it."