Rachel braced herself and sat up from the edge, peeking out of the gap, her eyes holding hate, “Paige, don’t think you’ve won this way, you …”
Before she could finish a sentence, the house suddenly plummeted.
“Ah-” Rachel screamed out.
Light was sporadic in the dark, huge space.
Paige held Enrico with one hand, drew her pistol with the other, and fired several shots in quick succession into the corner of the roof.
Rachel subconsciously clutches her head, shaking with terror.
The corner of the roof was cracked open, and the rope they were hanging from came free from the inside, completely separating them from the house.
The house made a succession of cracking noises and shook.
“Paige, hold me.” Enrico suddenly uttered, his voice extremely deep.
Paige hugged him as soon as she collected her pistol, wrapping one leg around the rope.
Seeing her hold tighten, Enrico peeked down and grabbed Rachel’s hand as soon as it came through the gap in the room.
“Bang.” The entire room fell instantly, winched into the massive gears.
Rachel was clutched by Enrico, her whole body swaying in mid-air as she stared downward in disbelief, watching in the blurred light as the room was twisted to pieces.
The cogs were like bloodied teeth, biting the room with a sound piercing enough to engulf everything.
The trepidation of hindsight suddenly came flooding back.
Don’t …
Rachel clutched Enrico’s hand in a death grip and tilted her head back to look at Enrico, shocked and terrified, “Enrico …”
He actually pulled her back.
He was still trying to save her wasn’t he?
“…”
Paige’s breath was already a little weak, and she was practically climbing all over Enrico’s body.
She glanced at Rachel, who was filled with fear, and then back to the man beside her.
It was precarious enough to hang three people from this one rope, and he was going to hitch a ride on Rachel?
Besides, was this his style?
Paige looked a little skeptically at the cold side of the man’s face, but Enrico wasn’t looking at her, only holding onto Rachel, his eyes so deep that they were impossible to probe for any semblance of emotion.
“Enrico, I was wrong.”
Rachel fought with the last ounce of energy remaining in her body to grasp Enrico’s warm hand, her voice muffled to the extreme, “I was wrong, I won’t dare to do it again, I’ll be good in the future, I’ll be good …”
She didn’t want to be strung up into a pulp.
At least, she didn’t want to be strung up into mush alone.
This was not the ending she wanted! It wasn’t!
“Really?” Enrico looked down at her, his thin lips curved into a very shallow arc, like a smile.
“Really, Enrico, I was wrong, I won’t dare to be paranoid anymore …”
Rachel gasped, glancing down again at the gears running faster and faster below her, terrified that the blood in her body was running backwards.
Don’t.
She didn’t want to, she was never going to die this badly.
She didn’t dare to look any further, and tried her best to look up at the two men above her, pleading in her eyes.
At those words, the curve of Enrico’s lips but a little deeper, reaching out to clutch her upwards.
Rachel’s eyes just surged with ecstasy, but Enrico suddenly spoke coolly, “Oh, so you know that you’re delusional too.”
With that, Enrico jerked his fingers away one by one.
“No, don’t-”
Seeing this, Rachel cried out tearfully, even her right hand with a broken tendon climbed up to try to grab him, but she still watched as Enrico pulled her hand away completely.
Enrico’s eyes were emotionless as he looked at her and withdrew his own hand.
The warmth was completely stripped from between Rachel’s hands.
Rachel froze and screamed out in horror.
“Ah-” Paige watched coldly, just as Rachel fell sharply.
The subtle light fell, and Rachel was mercilessly engulfed by the gears.
A bright red splash of blood came out.
Rachel was so small and insignificant compared to the room that she didn’t even make much noise.
“…”
Paige looked away, Rachel’s ghastly white face before she died giving her a few moments of diarrhea.
After digesting her emotions slightly, she raised her eyes to the man in front of her.
Rachel had ended up dying in an organ of her own design.
It hadn’t been an honest one.
Rather, she was forcibly stirred up with hope and immediately despaired, this fear of facing death was all magnified ten thousand times.
Seeing her look, Enrico raised his eyebrows evilly and sighed, “I wanted to learn from your kind heart to save someone, but I didn’t expect my hand to slip.”
“…”
Then you’re fantastic.
Paige looks at him somewhat helplessly.
“She’s to blame.” A calm voice came.
Paige turned her eyes, and off to the side, Brangelina, holding Jasper in her arms, with one hand gripping the small organ next to her to stabilize their weight, looked at her and said, “Both of you kids, you’re both the ones THE Folsom family is sorry to have done this to, but she’s an adult now, and wrong is wrong, and the results have to be suffered on your own. ”
“…”
Paige listened, not saying a word, glancing down at Blanca at her feet.
Blanca was hanging from the end of the rope covered in blood, gazing up at her with a pale face, breathing a little heavily.
“Come on, Enrico,” Paige said, withdrawing her gaze.
Enrico released her grip on the mechanism and leapt toward another small, spinning mechanism, turning toward the mountain wall as it did.
As soon as he let go, the trio hanging on the rope slammed hard into the mountain wall.
Enrico sidestepped and held Paige tightly in his arms, taking all the force of the impact himself, his face whitening under the pain.
“…”
Paige looked at him and raised her hand to wipe the cold sweat off his face with the back of her hand.
By this point, it would be hard to climb up with their own strength.
“Sister Paige, brother-in-law!”
Nick’s nervous voice came from above, and there were several ropes hanging down at the same time, with countless lights shining down, illuminating the entire dark space.
All five were pulled up.
Everyone was standing above them, watching them nervously.
The bottom was all shaky scenery, and Paige was actually a little uncomfortable once she was on flat ground.
She collapsed on top of Enrico, her clothes soaked through with sweat, and the wind on the flat ground cooled her with a shiver.
Enrico quickly untied the ropes and helped her sit up, taking off the jacket he was wearing and draping it right over her, pressing his hand to her shoulder and rubbing it, gritting his teeth and scolding her in a low voice, “Paige.”
“…”
Paige sat and snuggled into his chest, sniffing and smiling at him, “I’m fine.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll make sure you’re not okay.” Enrico stared at her and sneered.
“…”
The threat was so obvious that Paige’s smile faltered.
She turned her head and cast a signaling glance toward Nick.
Nick and Cynthia stepped forward and helped the shot Blanca up off the ground, cutting the rope around her arm.
Blanca’s eyes were drooping, her face was devoid of blood, and her body was limp.
As soon as the rope was cut, Blanca, covered in blood, suddenly lunged towards Paige, punching her again and again, “Are you crazy? You dare to jump in a place like that! Do you not want to die, do you not want to die?”
Paige froze at the blows, staring at her in dismay.