Chapter 277: Be more aggressive
As soon as Vanessa finished speaking, everyone in the audience fell into a strange panic, and curses and wailing in various languages resonated throughout the venue.
The auctioneer on the stage suddenly became flustered. Hermes had never seen such a situation in his 30 years of hosting the auction.
Vanessa lowered her eyes to glance at the communicator that had been shattered into pieces on the ground, and let out a long cry to the sky.
“Hahahahahahahaha——”
This woman is very smart and decisive.
She did not choose to continue begging for mercy, nor did she choose to pin her hopes on Cheng Yi.
Vanessa saw the man's true face clearly.
He is a complete devil. Even when he wants to kill you, he can still be so gentle and weird.
What she did was absolutely irreversible. A fight to the death and mutual destruction was the best outcome she could get for herself.
The restlessness in the venue grew stronger and stronger, and the momentum became more and more powerful.
"--It's all your fault. You made us have to be buried with you!" An angry curse came from a distance.
A middle-aged man was seen rushing towards Cheng Yi and his group, his eyes wide open, the skin on his face twisted and deformed, and his hands were clearly moving as if he was about to pull out a gun.
Cheng Yi glanced at him without giving him any response.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out.
Before the man was halfway there, before he could even take his hand out of his holster, he collapsed onto the steps of the auction booth.
Qi Huang slowly retracted the smoking gun and blew gently on the muzzle.
"Anyone else want to die early?"
“…”
The man lying on the steps had his eyes wide open, his body straightened from twitching, and a red dot between his eyebrows went straight through his skull. It was undoubtedly a headshot.
This man killed people so quickly that people had no time to react. In just this short moment, he was so cruel and so precise.
Even the way he retracted the gun was so graceful and calm, as if the dead man lying on the ground with blood flowing like a river and his eyes open had nothing to do with him.
The other people in the field who were ready to make a move did not dare to make any more moves.
Whoever is targeted by him next will surely die.
"Heh," Vanessa sneered as she glanced at the corpse on the steps, her tone full of sarcasm, "What difference does it make if you die early or late? Maybe dying early will make you more comfortable."
Vanessa stared at the pendulum in the conference hall. "In three minutes, we will all die, all of us will die, hahahahahahahaha——"
Her laughter was miserable and sharp, and you could smell the scent of burning life.
Hearing this, Lu Qian frowned and looked at Vanessa, "Vanessa, Rex asked you to take action on the cruise ship. He didn't want you to return alive, did he?"
Lu Qian didn't believe that Rex would find someone to rescue Vanessa when the fleet was besieging and the huge explosion was launched.
After all, looking at her obvious appearance of being kept in the dark, she was nothing more than an insignificant pawn in Rex's hands.
But Vanessa didn't care about Lu Qian's provocation, because she knew how scheming Rex was.
"Heh, to tell you the truth, if this operation hadn't been exposed, I wouldn't have thought of killing you all."
Vanessa's tone was somewhat self-deprecating. After all, she still had fantasies about Cheng Yi.
If she hadn't seen it all with her own eyes today and heard the truth with her own ears, she would never have believed it. There would have been no possibility in her life.
The man who is like a god in her heart can love and be affectionate.
It’s a pity that these are not things she can see.
"You don't have to provoke me here,"
"So what if you have great potential? But that's all. We're all just in the same boat, waiting to die."
Vanessa's face was covered with sweat because of the pain in her ribs, but she still looked at Lu Qian's face and let out a contemptuous laugh.
"I only regret that I didn't get rid of you when you first arrived in Tavia. I underestimated you and let you go to this point. If I had been more ruthless, you wouldn't even be qualified to die with me."
When Lu Qian heard Vanessa's words, a hint of suspicion flashed in his eyes.
"Hit harder?"
Does that mean Vanessa attacked her when she first arrived in Tavia?
"I can only say that I didn't expect Cheng Yi to care so much about you."
Vanessa chuckled, and the wound on her ribs moved again, causing her to purse her lips in pain.
"I thought you were doomed the first time he kicked you out."
"......?" Lu Qian looked up at Cheng Yi, doubt gradually emerging between his brows.
Cheng Yi was also stunned.
He kicked Lu Qian out? Was it the first day he came to Tavia?
(The maid outfit incident! I wonder if anyone still remembers it. Who would have thought that this foreshadowing wouldn't be revealed until over 200 chapters later? How can I be so good at writing...)
Vanessa leaned back on the sofa, pretending to chat, and lit a cigarette for herself.
She exhaled a puff of smoke lightly, her tone calm, "Actually, when I heard from Tang that you hadn't slept with Cheng Yi yet, I was quite surprised."
Lu Qian's brow darkened, "So that's the solution you came up with?"
Vanessa didn't answer, but continued to speak to herself: "I led you to the Qianlin Pavilion, the servants isolated you, put the slow-acting drug in your food, and arranged for Jesse to gamble at the banquet. It was all my fault..."
Then she changed the subject, as if she had thought of something, raised her hand holding the cigarette, and nodded at Lu Qian.
"Oh yes, including the nerve anesthetic in Jesse's hand, I also gave it to him."
"But you're lucky. You've escaped everything."
"Oh," she smiled and shook her head, then sighed softly and closed her eyes, with a broken jar in her heart. "What's the point of having good luck? You still have to die with me."
“…”
Lu Qian's heart sank. It turned out that her head had been stuck to her waistband since the first day she arrived here.
At this moment, Bai Yao, who had been standing silently nearby, tilted his head and turned sideways. A look of surprise appeared on his strange face. As if seeking confirmation, he asked Vanessa, "But, Miss Vanessa, don't you think the quiet outside the cruise ship is a little too quiet?"
As Vanessa heard these words, her tense expression gradually collapsed, and a hint of disbelief flashed in her eyes.
"What's the meaning……?"
"What I mean is..."
Bai Yao smiled and walked towards Vanessa step by step with elegant steps.
He leaned over, picked up the long pipe in his hand, and tapped Vanessa's injured side twice, his expression calm and gentle.
"Even if the explosion wasn't scheduled yet, how could there be no sound when the fleet surrounded the cruise ship?"
“…”
Vanessa's eyelashes trembled twice, as if she figured something out.
Indeed, she was too nervous just now, so nervous that she was desperate, and she didn't even notice that from the time she pressed the communicator until now, there was no sound from the periphery of the cruise ship.
Whether it's the sound of the fleet moving or the sound of artillery firing.
The world is unusually quiet, with only the clock ticking.
Bai Yao tilted his head slightly and blinked his eyes, like a cunning fox.
"Have you figured it out?"
Everyone in the meeting room fell silent at this moment. Bai Yao meant...
In the silence, a voice as cold as ice suddenly came from the door of the conference hall.
"Master."
Bai Yao stood up, lowered his head to push his glasses, and a comfortable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Here I come."
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