Chapter 278: Human Insatiableness
In the darkness, a tall figure slowly walked in from outside the door.
Everyone in the audience looked towards that corner at the same time.
I saw a tall and strong man with a flat head slowly walking out of the darkness. He had a handsome face but a cold expression. His gray eyes were like a thousand-year-old cold pond, and a blue diamond earring was shining on his earlobe.
The man was carrying a cloth bag on his shoulder, his clothes were soaked in water, and his bronze skin was reflected in sexy lines under the lights of the auction hall.
He strode up to the group and threw the cloth bag on his shoulder to the ground, revealing several sections of bomb detonator cords and switches.
“It’s all been demolished.”
His tone was calm and serious, as cold as he was.
Bai Yao smiled and looked at the cloth bag on the ground, "Where is the fleet?"
"Everything is under control." He was still indifferent, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.
Bai Yao chuckled and put his arm around Chi Xiao's shoulder, "You're truly my good brother."
When Chixiao heard this, the icy expression on his face softened a little, and he half-lowered his eyes, showing some expression.
Vanessa listened to the conversation between Chixiao and Baiyao with horror, and her expression became more and more distorted.
“You, you…you guys…”
How is that possible?! That's a British military fleet, how could it be so easily subdued? Furthermore, the Bai Qing Society's influence is far away in Fusang, and she has been secretly monitoring Bai Yao's movements. How could there be no news of the fleet entering Italy?
"What do you think we were doing just now? Just to help you get a family crest?"
Bai Yao looked at Vanessa's gradually distorted face, picked up the bomb line that had been removed from the ground, and played with it in his hand.
"Of course, I came here to buy time for Chixiao."
Bai Yao smiled gently, his cunning eyes flashing with watery light.
He predicted that Rex would make a move at this auction, so he had already begun monitoring the movements of the British fleet. Unexpectedly, this fleet had been lying in ambush in Venice two months ago.
Bai Yao calculated the timing just right, just in time to take a picture of the cipher machine and perform the show for everyone in the audience.
Bai Yao believed that Lu Qian would understand what he meant, so he did not explain anything to them in advance. The two smart people hit it off immediately without any further words.
But he didn't expect that Lu Qian could buy so much time for Chi Xiao that he could even dismantle the bomb under the ship.
Bai Yao asked again, "Are you surprised that we haven't received any news about the Baiqing Society's movements?"
"The Baiqing will have a backup fleet in Venice," Bai Yao threw the bomb line in his hand towards Vanessa, a strange smile on his face. "Makes sense, right?"
Although Bai Yao and Cheng Yi seemed to have "reconciled", the power clash between the two gangs had never stopped, and the infiltration of each other's regimes was also carried out in private, and no one was willing to give in.
However, under such circumstances of unity against external threats, there is no need to engage in activities that would hurt both sides.
After hearing this, Lu Qian understood everything.
She knew that Bai Yao's actions were not that simple. This man would never do anything unnecessary.
Cheng Yi, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke: "But it's a pity that after such a long time, Rex didn't show up at the auction."
He thought that after all these years, he would finally be able to confront Rex again.
Vanessa was truly desperate this time. Her body instantly lost strength and she fell onto the sofa, staring at the people in front of her with empty eyes.
It turned out that everything she thought was perfect was just a bad move by someone else.
Now she can't even control her life and death.
She was completely defeated.
"Vanessa, you are really smart, and your methods are cruel and shrewd enough."
Lu Qian gathered her shawl, walked to Vanessa, looked down at her, her eyes calm and indifferent.
"It's a pity that you want too much. Your love and loyalty are not enough. Let me teach you one last proverb."
She bent down and raised her hand to pat Vanessa's pretty face.
“Human greed is like a snake swallowing an elephant.”
Bai Yao smiled as he watched everything in front of him, then turned to look at the old man who was completely dazed at the auction table.
"Sir, I think there's no need to continue this auction, right?"
Just as the old man was hesitating and didn't know how to answer, a little girl of eight or nine years old came in from outside the conference hall. She had two buns on her hair and was wearing a Tang suit.
When she opened her mouth, she spoke in a muffled, babyish voice: "Mr. Luo has ordered that the auction be suspended. Everyone, please go back~"
Then he skipped away without another word.
Bai Yao smiled and shrugged at the old man with an expression of "just wait and see".
The old man swallowed hard.
"when--"
The hand rises and the hammer falls.
"This year's Hermes Auction has concluded."
*
When they walked onto the deck of the cruise ship, they saw the shocking scene before them.
On the sea surface under the moonlight, the cruise ship was almost surrounded by warships within two nautical miles, but these warships were parked there quietly, like ghost ships.
Lu Qian followed Cheng Yi and couldn't help but ask, "Is it okay to leave Vanessa there?"
Although Vanessa had her hands and feet broken and her tongue cut off by Cheng Yi's order, she would die just waiting there.
Cheng Yi chuckled and said, "Don't worry, Rex won't let her go."
Looking at Cheng Yi's gentle face, Lu Qian couldn't help but shiver.
Vanessa was given a glimmer of hope, and when she thought she had saved her life, someone else came to kill her.
Devil, naked devil.
*
Inside the cruise ship cabin.
Vanessa struggled to crawl on the ground, trying to move to the exit of the conference hall bit by bit.
A pair of men's leather shoes suddenly appeared in front of her.
She looked up with frightened and surprised eyes, only to see a familiar face.
“Mmm…Mmm…”
Her tongue had been cut off and she couldn't utter a single syllable, but her tone was urgent and terrified.
"Oh."
The man laughed.
"Vanya, you're in such a mess."
“…Mmm…”
She struggled to raise her broken hand and tried to grab the man's trouser leg, but unfortunately she couldn't even touch his shoe.
"Tsk tsk," the man clicked his tongue twice, bent down, raised his hand and pinched Vanessa's jaw, which was covered in saliva and blood.
"Your posture is so ugly, you're not pretty at all."
The light was dim and Vanessa couldn't see the man's face, but she could feel that he was smiling, and his smile was warm and elegant.
The man slowly pulled a gun from his pocket, loaded it with a click, and put it to Vanessa's head.
"So there's no need to stay."
"Ugh! Ugh!" Vanessa screamed in panic, shaking her head.
The man's hand had just fallen halfway from pressing the trigger when he seemed to remember something and asked, "Oh, yes, do you know who destroyed the Stewart family back then?"
When Vanessa heard this question, she even forgot to beg for mercy. Her pupils dilated instantly and her face turned pale and helpless.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out.
Vanessa fell into a pool of blood, and a blood-stained poppy flower spread out from under her.
The man gently took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his bloody hands.
He stood up and threw the handkerchief casually at Vanessa's body.
"Unfortunately, you won't have the chance to know."
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