Chapter 117 The Final Deal

The warm wind mixed with sand and gravel blew on everyone's dull faces. The roar of explosions continued under their feet, and each explosion caused a large earthquake.

The once magnificent palace collapsed into half ruins, with a huge hole blown out in the northwest corner, and rubble dripping down. The survivors huddled in a corner like a group of quails, watching in horror as the continuous artillery fire from the sky hit the ruins not far from them.

Behind a table away from the crowd, Elizabeth looked up blankly, the warmth on her forehead gradually dissipating. The man who had just protected her, Yayoi Kazukage, was nowhere to be found. She struggled to pull at her overly long skirt and tried to stand up.

"Bang!"

Another bombardment, accompanied by a violent tremor, a huge rock fell from the sky. Elizabeth quickly rolled on the ground, narrowly avoiding the crisis. The broken stone hit her legs, causing her to make a sound and gasp.

"Elizabeth, ahem, is that you?"

A weak but familiar voice came from behind the collapsed stone pillar. Elizabeth's eyes lit up. She took off her pointed high heels and cut the hem of her skirt with her heels.

She finally managed to free herself from her cumbersome skirt and limped forward, "Brother Gonzalez, are you okay? Do you need help?"

Gonzalez was half-kneeling in a pile of rubble. The angle between the collapsed stone pillar and the wall created a perfect triangular shelter for him. He was panting in a somewhat embarrassed manner, his handsome face was covered with dust, and his luxurious cloak was cut into rags. Even the cuff of his right hand was cut by something and stained with a little blood.

"Shh, Elizabeth, don't call anyone." Seeing that Elizabeth was about to call for help, Gonzalez quickly waved his hand, motioning Elizabeth to come over.

After she came over, Gonzalez pulled her to squat and whispered, "The longest range of mortars that can be bought on the black market is no more than 800 meters. This place is 1,000 meters away from the outer wall of the manor. These were all fired from inside the manor. There is a traitor in the family. We can't go out now."

"Also, did you hear the sound of the wind under the artillery fire? That's the sound of a helicopter. The family didn't send out a helicopter. This was arranged by the enemy. If we show our heads now, I'm afraid we'll only die."

Gonzalez raised his head slightly from behind the stone pillar. He saw from afar that his men were anxiously looking for him. He hesitated for a moment, but finally gritted his teeth and gave up asking for help. "I can't trust anyone now. I don't know who the traitor is. Elizabeth, I only trust you now. I will take you away."

"What? Go? Where are you going?" Elizabeth looked at Gonzalez blankly. If the helicopter in the sky was coming for Gonzalez, then the brooch she had just given Gonzalez was probably a locator. The moment he left the shelter, the helicopter would take Gonzalez's life.

But Gonzalez didn't notice Elizabeth's strangeness. Instead, he found it a little funny and tapped her forehead. "Do you think your father built this manor just to show off his wealth? Of course there is a secret passage. I told Lingna about the secret passage before. I hope she will wait for us inside."

Secret passage? Does Lord He Jing know about this? Elizabeth looked up and searched for the other person in the crowd in the distance. She made eye contact with He Jing Yayoi who was hiding in the shadows, and the other person nodded slightly. Only then did she feel relieved, "Okay, brother, I will go with you."

"Brother?" Gonzalez was stunned. He had never heard anyone other than Lingna call him brother.

Seeing Gonzalez's complex and touching expression, Elizabeth smiled gently and said, "You think I'm as important as Lingna, so I'll call you brother like Lingna does."

Looking at Elizabeth's smiling face, Gonzalez couldn't help but smile. He reached out and wiped Elizabeth's little face. "Yes, let's go, sister." He bent down, held Elizabeth's hand and walked carefully.

In the distance, Kazukage Yayoi quietly watched the two of them leave. He picked up the phone and said, "What a pity, Gonzalez didn't run outside, but went upstairs. There must be a secret passage. Do you want to chase him? Gin."

After he took the locator, Gin left the banquet hall and went outside to prepare for the attack. At this time, Gin's somewhat vague voice came from the phone, probably because he was leisurely smoking.

"Chase him, he can't get away."

Not a surprising answer.

"I see. By the way, Gin, will you come over? Do you need me to wait for you?"

Gin's voice was unclear on the phone. He seemed to be listening to someone with his head tilted. His answer was mixed in the whistling wind. "I'll be there. No need to wait." Then he hung up the phone.

Listening to the busy tone on the phone, Kazukage Yayoi looked at Amuro Toru and shrugged, "This is the situation. I want to follow and take Elizabeth away. What are you going to do?"

"I'll go with you. I always feel like something is wrong. The organization's mortars have a much longer range than this, at least 4,000 meters. As for Mexico's own military equipment, it should be farther than 4,000 meters."

"But I have confirmed that these are just small homemade cannons sold on the Mexican black market. Not only are they easy to explode, but they are also very weak and may not be as effective as bombs. These small homemade cannons cannot achieve the organization's goals and will instead expose their existence. This is not a decision that the boss would make."

"I'm not deifying the enemy, but all the decisions made by the boss that I know of are very accurate, just like a prophet who could predict the future."

Amuro Toru's eyes were full of confusion. "And I also confirmed it immediately. Before the attack, Rum and Vermouth had gone somewhere unknown, and Gin didn't ask about their whereabouts just now. I always feel that the organization's purpose is not that simple."

As expected, it was Zero. Zhu Fujingguang nodded in agreement. He also felt that this matter was a bit strange.

"Then follow me. Be careful. Bullets don't have eyes." Kazukage Yayoi warned, "Hiro, you should be careful too. Try to stay together with Mr. Amuro and don't get separated."

"clear."

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Fifth floor lounge

Gonzalez bent over and pushed the door open, only to see a petite and cute girl anxiously turning in circles inside. When she heard the sound of the door opening, she ran over in surprise, "Brother!"

"Lingna!" Gonzalez quickly caught his sister who was running over. "Didn't I tell you to wait for me in the secret passage if anything happens?"

"But, but... I'm worried about you, brother. If you hadn't come, what would be the point of me running alone?" Lingna twisted her skirt and said timidly, "I'm worried about you..."

Seeing this, Gonzalez didn't want to blame the girl. He reached out and touched her head. "Brother understands, but Lingna's own safety is also important. Well, without further ado, let's leave here first."

Gonzalez fumbled for the button under the table, and with a crisp knock, the huge wardrobe quietly moved to both sides, creating a dark passageway that could be passed by one person. As the lights came on, a gate elevator rose at the end of the road.

Seeing that everything was going as normal, Gonzalez breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Let's go, Lingna, you go ahead and I'll cover the rear."

"Okay, okay, Sister Elizabeth, come with me." Lingna took Elizabeth's hand and ran into the secret passage.

Following Lingna's steps, Elizabeth stumbled and fell. Gonzalez quickly reached out to help her up, "How are you? Are you okay?"

"Hiss... It's okay, it's okay." Elizabeth realized that she had cut her feet and was bleeding. The pain started to come. She quickly tore off the hem of her skirt and bandaged herself. "Okay, let's go."

"Be careful. If you can't do it, I'll carry you on my back." Gonzalez half-crouched down and motioned Elizabeth to come up.

Elizabeth took two small jumps and found that she really couldn't walk, so she simply climbed onto Gonzalez's back and said, "Sorry for dragging you down."

"It's not a big deal. We are all family. Elizabeth, you have helped me a lot." Gonzalez carried Elizabeth on his back and walked forward slowly.

"Yes, we are a family..." Elizabeth glanced sideways at the cloth and blood on the ground, and picked up the gravel in her hands.

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"There are bloodstains and pieces of fabric from the same dress as Elizabeth's. Is that a mark she left for you?" Amuro Toru half-knelt on the ground and pointed at the bottom of the closet. "It was pressed under the closet. This closet is a secret door. It looks like we need to find a mechanism. I wonder if Elizabeth left a mark."

"The bloodstain is at the 7 o'clock direction. Go look over there on the table." Zhu Fujingguang followed the bloodstain to the table.

The servants would frequently clean the things on the table, so it should be something that looked like it would not be moved. He squatted down and groped under the table. With a crisp knock, he knew he had found the right thing.

"Woohoo~ Nicely done." Amuro Toru raised his eyebrows and whistled, "Let's go, it looks like an elevator, I hope they didn't go too far."

"Since there are traces of blood, Elizabeth will definitely claim that she is injured and slows down their progress." Kazukage Yayoi took the lead in walking into the secret passage, "Okay, let's go."

The road behind the elevator was dark and long, but fortunately the three of them were in excellent physical condition and were able to move forward quietly and quickly.

Soon, they saw three people in front of them.

They had no intention of calling out to the people ahead, but just followed the three people silently. Gonzalez led them all the way forward, and finally reached the ground.

"Huff, huff, we should be safe here..." Gonzalez couldn't help but breathe heavily. Although Elizabeth was light, she was the weight of an adult after all.

"Sorry, brother." Elizabeth stood on one foot on the ground, "Just let Lingna hold me up."

Lingna hurried forward to support him, "Yes, brother, you take a rest first..."

“Wow——”

Before she finished her words, a strange noise startled the three people. Gonzalez's pupils shrank quickly, and he turned around, took out his pistol, and asked sternly at the shadow in the alley, "Who? Who's there?"

Seeing Toru Amuro and Keimitsu Morobushi looking at him, Kazukage Yayoi, who accidentally kicked a stone, smiled awkwardly at the two of them. He asked them to retreat to the next alley entrance, then walked out of the corner alone, "Sorry, it's me."

"I didn't mean to do that, but Elizabeth had a locator I left on her. After the accident, I found that she was missing, so I had to follow the direction of the locator to find her."

Hearing this, Elizabeth's face changed, "What? Yayoi, when did you..." She hurriedly searched for her things, then threw away the hair accessories on her head with an ugly look.

"Mr. He Jing, you..." Lingna hesitated, but after thinking for a long time, she didn't know what to curse. In the end, she just stared and hugged Elizabeth's arms to protest.

"I'm sorry, after all, Mo Country is too chaotic. I hope you can understand my concerns." He Jing Yasheng smiled and stretched out his hand, "Elizabeth, come to me, I will take you away."

Elizabeth wanted to go back to Kazuki Yayoi immediately, but she still pretended to be hesitant. She turned back to look at Lingna who was hugging her with an unwilling look, then looked at Kazuki Yayoi, and when she saw that the performance was almost over, she said, "Okay, Yayoi... I'll go with you..."

She tried to get Lingna to let go, but she hugged her even harder. "No, Sister Elizabeth! It's so weird to be with Mr. Jing. Don't go with him."

Lord He Jing is not surprised at all! Elizabeth gritted her teeth and said, "Let me go, I'm in a hurry!"

"It's okay, Reina. Yayoi is worried about me too." Elizabeth took two steps forward and Reina was also led by her. She stopped helplessly and said, "Let go, Reina."

Lingna held her with both hands and didn't move.

She had no choice but to persuade, "Lingna? Let go, you guys should run quickly too."

But Lingna turned a deaf ear to him. She whispered, "Really... why are you so disobedient?"

Elizabeth, who only heard a few words, tilted her head in confusion, "What?"

The next second, Lingna approached Elizabeth. Elizabeth felt a flash of white light before her eyes, and a cold streak passed along her neck. She even felt the collision between the coldness of the blade touching her skin and the hot blood.

Elizabeth, who had no idea what was going on, could only stare at Lingna's expressionless face, unable to move at all.

It’s over!

But then, a huge force suddenly pulled her backwards, and the tip of the knife only grazed her skin, leaving a trace of blood.

"I say, killing someone in front of me, isn't that a bit too much?"

Kazukage Yayoi smiled and took Reina's arm, turning back to confirm, "Elizabeth, are you okay?"

“Hoo…Hoo…Hoo,” Elizabeth touched her neck in fear. Facing death in an instant made her breathe rapidly. “I’m fine, Master He Jing…be careful!”

"Bang!"

The bullet shot out from Gonzalez's handgun and headed for Kazukage Yayoi's head. At such a close distance, there was no way he could dodge it.

But before Elizabeth could speak, Kazukage Yayoi took Reina's hand and took a step forward, and the blade hit the bullet, forcibly changing its trajectory.

"Tsk, what a quick reaction." Lingna complained, took out a pistol from behind her waist, held the gun with her left hand against He Jing Yayoi's chest and fired a shot.

Gonzalez on the side did not hesitate and emptied the magazine directly at Kazukage Yayoi. The distance between the four of them was only two meters, and Kazukage Yayoi did not have any weapons on him.

This is really a double-sided attack, there is no way to avoid it.

He Jing Yasheng had to immediately release the hand that was holding Reina, pulled Elizabeth to squat, and forcibly pulled Reina to use her as a human shield in front of him. Reina reacted quickly and kicked He Jing Yasheng's hand away, and jumped back.

At this moment, Gonzalez had fired all his bullets and was in the window of reloading. Kazukage Yayoi took advantage of this gap, hugged Elizabeth and ran back, and reminded Morobushi Keimitsu and Amuro Toru who hurried over, "Let's go, both of you."

Amuro Toru hadn't reacted to this sudden change yet, and his body subconsciously ran out first, "Why did it suddenly become like this?"

He wanted to stop and ask why, but he held back, "We have three people here, it's not impossible to kill them two."

Yayoi Kazukage, who was shot three times, covered her wounds and treated herself quietly. When she heard Toru Amuro's suggestion, she just smiled and replied, "Then we don't need to trouble you, Mr. Amuro, right? Elizabeth."

"Of course, Master He Jing." Although Elizabeth was also in pain all over, she still took out the medicine bottle and shook it in front of Amuro Toru, revealing a triumphant smile, "Lingna's finger bones are not that long, don't think you can fool my eyes with your disguise."

Disguise?

"Wait, who is she?" Toru Amuro had a bad feeling.

As Toru Amuro asked this question, the gunshots behind him stopped abruptly. Yayoi Kazukage stopped and said with a teasing smile, "Didn't you guess it? That's Vermouth."

Amuro Toru's eyes went dark. What?!