Chapter 10: Life and Death
A dazzling light enveloped everything, and Amanda and Uncle Byrne closed their eyes tightly.
The white light was fleeting, and when everything finally came back to light, Amanda gently opened the dark closet.
Amanda was greeted by the extremely surprised face of her neighbor Ivana, who was full of incredulous expressions.
Amanda, why are you in my house, and in my closet? Ivana was taken aback, her voice trembling a little.
Knock knock, at this time, there was a knock on the glass from the windowsill, and the three of them turned their heads to look at the windowsill.
Hi! Ivana, do you know what's going on?
Amanda's house was surrounded by a gang of men in black suits.
As he spoke, a black head sticking out of the window was none other than Glover.
Glover had agreed to pick up Amanda for a party in the evening, but he didn't want to find a lot of strange cars parked on the side of the road as soon as he arrived at the street, all of them Cadillac Escalade.
When Glover walked seven or eight meters away from the courtyard of Amanda's house, he found that dozens of men in black suits were already standing around Amanda's house.
He was slightly in a daze, when a man in black turned his head and saw him, and walked towards him with a fierce gaze in his eyes.
When Glover saw the expression of the man in black, he was shocked, and walked to Ivana's house.
Ivana's home is also a two-storey, typical American house.
The yard is planted with roses, and the walls are covered with ivy all the way to the attic.
A red maple tree was planted outside Ivana's window, and Glover climbed up the red maple tree.
Ivana and Amanda hurriedly reached out and pulled Glover into the house, and Glover entered the room and was surprised to see that Amanda was also here.
Amanda, what happened?
This, what shall I say, in short, we are in trouble, a big problem.
Uncle Byrne then said, "Now is not the time to discuss this, we must get out quickly, can you get a car?"
Glover helplessly spread his hands: My parents went to the opera tonight, and they drove away.
Ivana said: I have a car, although my dad also drove his car away, but I still have an old Chevrolet at home, which my grandfather left behind.
It may be a little old, but it's okay to run.
The three of them followed Ivana to the garage, and Ivana asked Glover to help.
Pull up the livery covering the car, and a green Chevrolet Impala is reflected in front of everyone's eyes.
Ivana said, "This Impara was born in 1958 and was my grandfather's favorite driver. I haven't been on the road for years, but my dad has been doing regular maintenance.
Glover is a car lover, and of course he knows goods.
The car is a full-size sedan with a high-torque V8 engine and rear-wheel drive.
The body is wide and decorated with a large number of chrome parts, and the shape is elegant, which is in line with the popular trend of "big is beautiful" in the United States at that time.
During the golden years of the sixties, General Motors sold several million Impala sedans.
It is the best-selling Chevrolet sedan in the United States.
Ivana took out the keys and handed them to Glover, and Uncle Byrne took Amanda to the car quickly.
Then Ivana followed her, she was Amanda's best sister.
In the darkness of the night, Impalla quietly carved out the street, made a light turn at the intersection, and then accelerated.
The car roared like a wild horse on the loose, and sped away.
At this time, on the right side of the road, two black Cadillacs parked on the side of the road seemed to have noticed a problem, and suddenly shot out two lights.
Then a huge engine roared, and it chased wildly in the direction that Impara had left.
Where to go now, Uncle Bourne, Glover asked hurriedly.
There is a warehouse in the mountains behind the mountain of San Gabriel, where I hid a plane, and we will go there now.
Okay, Glover replied.
Immediately, leaning to the left, the steering wheel was turned to the left, and the car sped towards the highway of the San Gabriel Mountain.
I have to say that this classic car has excellent performance, and in less than twenty minutes, the car sped out at the intersection of the Mont Saint-Gabriel highway, followed by the mountain road of Mount Saint-Gabriel.
At this time, the Kedarak chasing behind was only more than a thousand meters.
Seeing Impalla get off the highway at the intersection of Monte Gabriel, he immediately guessed that they might be going up the mountain, and then the man in black in the car reported through his mobile phone, and then also got off the highway at the intersection of Monte Gabriel, and they wanted to stop the vehicle in front of them at all costs.
At this point, Glover took a shortcut under Byrne's guidance, and the car turned around on the winding mountain road, plunging headlong into a gravel road, and the car jolted violently.
Amanda secretly prayed that this classic car would not be torn apart.
After nearly an hour of bumpy driving, the car finally drove out of the stone road, and in front of it was a dirt road no more than four meters wide.
Like the road, there are dark rocks on both sides, and the dirt road, although uneven, is obviously much easier to walk than the gravel road.
The car drove into the dirt road, and the four of them did not speak, and it felt quiet at the moment.
All I could hear was the rustle of wheels rubbing against the ground, and the rustling of the mountain wind through the leaves.
Amanda was lying in the back seat, looking up at the night sky through the skylight.
The starry sky is full of clouds, like the sea floating in the sky.
There were so many things she had experienced today, and before she knew it, she fell asleep.
After driving forward for more than ten minutes, the terrain was much more open, and the moonlight was sprinkled all around, and the murmuring of water was suddenly heard in my ears.
The car turned a corner, and a large lake appeared on the right, about several miles wide, with clear water like a belt, flowing around the mountain.
Bourne looked down from the car window, only to see the vast mirror waves, the bottom of which was clear, and the large rocks on the shore of the lake were strangely shaped and strange.
At this time, the car suddenly braked suddenly, and Amanda woke up immediately.
Ivana asked: Glover, how did you park the car, what happened?
At this time, Glover stared at the front tightly, pointed with his finger, and said: Look, someone has set up a bayonet in front.
It must be strange to set up a card in such a remote place so late. Amanda said.
At this time, everyone looked ahead, and the lights were flashing at the intersection about five or six kilometers away, and an SUV was parked in the middle of the road.
Several figures flickered under the reflection of the lights, and a few barking dogs were heard from time to time.
Quickly turn off the lights, Bourne said eagerly, the plane is in the valley on the other side, we get out of the car and walk over.
The four men quietly got out of the car, and Byrne said to Glover and Ivana:
To go to the valley on the other side you need to swim across the big lake on the opposite side, it is very dangerous, you don't need to risk it, they are looking for us, you go back.
Ivana looked at Glover, and then said:
No, Uncle Bourne, we grew up with Amanda, and in my heart she was my dearest sister.
Glover also said: "We must see her leave safely."
Byrne couldn't help but be a little moved when he saw the firm tone of the two people, do you know how to swim?
The two looked at each other and smiled, don't worry, Uncle Bourne, we were the champions of last year's school swimming competition.
At that moment, the four of them quietly came to the lake hand in hand and gently dived into the lake.
The people at the bayonet on the shore also seemed to notice their vehicle, and walked towards them, and the roar of the hounds was getting closer and closer.
The water of the lake is bottomless, but the surface of the lake is unusually calm, and the four of them hold hands tightly in the lake, paddle sideways and vigorously, and after a while, they have swam to the center of the lake.
At this time, it was already midnight, and suddenly the wind was loud, and there was a thunderclap overhead, and a black cloud flew in the south.
Then the wind became louder and louder, and only the sound of ripples caused by the wind blowing through the lake could be heard, and the water suddenly became urgent.
The four of them were still holding hands at first, and Amanda suddenly felt a tightness on her feet, as if something sticky and slippery was entangled in her, and she couldn't stop pulling down.
At this time, one huge wave after another came, and as soon as the strength of his hand was loosened, he was separated from several other people in an instant, followed by another thunderclap, and heavy rain poured down.