“You’re still hurt, how are you?”
Brangelina held Blanca up about to check her injuries.
Blanca waved her hand, signaling that she was fine, and turned to look at Paige, both of whom were about as pale as each other.
Paige looked at her in silence.
“Are you … okay?”
Blanca looked over at her, the worry in her eyes nowhere hidden, her voice a little stiff.
Paige shook her head and asked, “Where am I?”
Although she hadn’t been able to get out of the cabin, she figured she was no longer at The Gustin family’s villa estate.
“West.”
Brangelina quickly replied back, adding after a moment’s thought, “The westernmost part of A.”
Still in A.
Paige looked at the two of them, “Then why are you here?”
Country A has been forced into lockdown.
The two of them, both of them, were all dusty, and the clothes they were wearing didn’t look like they were changed often.
Brangelina saw Blanca half-kneeling on the ground and not moving forward, her eyes deepened, walked directly to Paige and squatted down in front of her, lifted her hand and stroked it towards her face, ruffled the messy hair on her face behind her ear for her, and said, “I contacted Blanca after you guys left Eastdown, and worried that Country A would cut off the voyage at any time, I rushed to come here. ”
“And then the three of you came together?”
Paige sat down in exasperation, unable to hide her shock, “Then the old man …”
The old man’s body was still resting in the hearth when she left.
“We rushed to get the old man in the ground.” Brangelina spoke steadily and quickly, “But even then the plane broke, well the sea couldn’t break that cleanly in time, we took some detours and crept into A.”
To put it simply, the road is afraid of a lot of bumps.
And … actually let the old man hurriedly buried.
Paige looked at the two of them and didn’t know what to feel.
“First things first.” Blanca can’t look at them to start from the very beginning, stared at Paige and asked, “That Jeremy still don’t know when to come back, should we save you out?”
Not so much get her out, but ask her if she wanted to.
That was pretty much guessing what she was thinking.
Paige looked over at her and shook her head, saying faintly, “He might be using me for something, I want to see what happens before I say, what about Enrico, does Enrico know I’m here?”
“We don’t have his personal phone number, got the consortium number, they thought we were a nuisance caller and wouldn’t even transfer it.”
“…”
As soon as Paige was about to report Enrico’s number, Brangelina went on, “Or maybe Enrico realized something last night and got on the line with us, and he didn’t follow us as closely as we did and arrived later.”
Hearing that, Paige relaxed, her whole heart settling.
It was good that Enrico knew where she was, that he wasn’t in a hurry, that she wasn’t messed up, that she could see what Jeremy was up to, and hear if there was any other spin Annie had put on the Flyer plan back then.
She must admit, Annie’s intellect is beyond her reach.
Maybe what she hadn’t thought of, Annie had set out to crack when she was formulating it.
Blanca half-kneeled and kept her eyes on Paige, looking her up and down, “Jeremy just went out without tying you up?”
“I was drugged.” Paige said.
“Drugged with what? The antidote was on him?” Blanca asked nervously as she lifted a hand right on her shoulder.
“I don’t know.” Paige gazed at her in silence, “Did you get a medical tube to draw blood? You guys can take my blood to the lab first.”
At that, the look on Blanca’s face changed.
Brangelina squatted aside and looked at the two of them and smiled, “You two really do share the same mind, Paige, when we arrived at The Capital, we originally didn’t want to disturb you, so we stood guard outside of The Gustin family’s villa manor, only to see The Gustin family ‘s villa people coming in and out frequently.”
Paige sat on the ground, leaning somewhat weakly against the wall, and when she heard that she said, “That was me dismissing the estate staff, and Jeremy should have figured out on his own how to disguise himself to take me out in a blindfold.”
The timing of this was too good.
The Gustin family’s villa had a lot of outgoing and incoming people, and everyone was heavy and disorganized, and the incoming people could be taken more seriously, but the outgoing people couldn’t be bothered to identify them.
“That’s right.”
Brangelina nodded.
“Then how did you know I was arrested?” Paige looked over at them.
Brangelina went straight up and felt around on her, took a silver long life lock out of her pocket, and said, “We were standing guard outside the manor at the time, and as soon as Jeremy went out and into the corner he started to change cars, and when he dragged you out of the car, this long life lock in your pocket was going to fall out of your pocket, and Blanca’s been looking at this for more than twenty years and of course recognized it at once.”
“And then what?” Paige asked again.
“Then we tried to save you, but on second thought, with your kung fu, how could you not be attacked in your own home, with Jeremy as the other person, you must have taken precautions.”
Brangelina continued to explain to her, “So we were worried that you might be doing it on purpose, setting up some kind of trap, and for fear of getting in your way, we just followed and didn’t mess around.”
That’s a big misunderstanding.
“I found out a shocking secret and didn’t check for a moment before he managed to sneak up on me.”
Paige also explained.
As she was speaking, Blanca, who had been silent on the side, silently took out a plastic bag from her pocket, which contained the very medical tubes and thin needles used to draw blood.
“As we followed, we realized that you hadn’t been awake the whole time, and Blanca was worried that you had gotten too involved in the game, both by not informing Enrico and by holding yourself back.”
Brangelina continues to act as a backdrop for the delivery of the story line, “Thought I’d see you today and even if I couldn’t take you, I’d take a tube of blood and walk to check it out, had to know if you were healthy?”
“…”
Paige didn’t say anything, braced herself to sit up some, rolled her sleeves up and put her thin arms in front of Blanca, “Draw it, I can’t exert myself right now, when I do I get cold sweats, my heart beats faster and I get palpitations, other than that no other symptoms.”
Hearing this, Blanca’s eyes instantly swept over with a murderous intent, coldly said, “I’ve looked, he’s the only one, why don’t we capture him and force him to hand over the antidote.”
“Jeremy is from the previous generation and is harboring too many unexpected secrets, I want to see what else he’s going to do, wait until he reveals all his cards before saying anything else.”
Paige said calmly, “Just smoke it, he shouldn’t be gone for long.”
“…”
So what if there was a secret, she’d just kill it.
Never mind, it was Enrico’s father after all.
Blanca swallowed that down and took the medical item out of the plastic bag, tightened her arm with a pulse-pressure band, felt for a vein, and took out the fine needle.
When she was about to tie it, she stared at Paige’s white arm and the sharp needle in her own hand and hesitated until her fingers shook.
Brangelina crouched down to watch her, “Shall I do it?”
“No need.” Blanca refused without even thinking.
“Your hands are shaking, don’t stick it in the wrong way later and hurt Paige.”
“I won’t!”