Esteban Zaragosa woke up with a sharp pain as if his whole body was crumbling.
Chest and shoulder wounds, when slightly torn, cause a painful tearing sensation.
Claudio Belles had just pushed open the door when he saw that Esteban Zaragosa had woken up.
“Finally awake, I thought you were so close to dying.”
Claudius Belles walked over and opened the curtains. It had rained heavily the night before and today the rain had cleared and the blue sky and air were exceptionally good in these deep woods.
It would be a really desirable sight right now if there wasn’t still a nasty battle to fight.
Esteban Zaragosa sat up with difficulty, “Where is this?”.
“My private villa. It’s safe for the moment and not under the Court Master’s watch, this whole hill is mine, how’s that, I didn’t stay for nothing, did I?”
Esteban Zaragosa was in no mood for jokes, and his dark eyes bore into hers, “You betting on me?”
“Yes, Touching, why don’t you break up with Dulcina Calvo and the two of us stay together? We’re so like-minded, that even if we’re pursued by the dark guards sent by the Court Master, if the two of us join forces, we can definitely escape the Court Master’s clutches. What do you think?”
“Claudio, this is no time for jokes. If you apostatize, do you know what the consequences are?”
Claudio Belles folded his arms and raised an eyebrow: “I’m not a child, of course I know the consequences. Don’t worry, I’m not Dulcina Calvo, I choose my own path, I’m responsible for it, you don’t have to worry about me. I was joking when I said before that I had apostatized for your sake. I realized long ago that the Lord of the Court is trying to do something bad, he is spreading his evil claws to Z and even the world, we must stop him and bring him down.”
Esteban Zaragosa covered his chest wound and slightly lowered his eyes, looking at the bullet wound with a flash of pain in them.
Claudius Belles naturally knew what he was thinking and pursed his red lips, “Dulcina Calvo also shot you because she was under the Court Master’s control. I’m sorry, I found out when the Court Master captured her, but I couldn’t save her at the time.”
“I know, you don’t have to explain, what you’ve done for me is enough.”
Claudius Belles sighed and said, “Don’t bother so much for now, I’ve cooked porridge, get up and have a bowl.”
When we arrived at the table, Tom Paul was there.
Tom Paul rubbed his hands together in anticipation, “I never thought I’d get to eat Black Rose’s own cooking in my life! I thought all you women did was kill your enemies with guns, so rude!”
Claudius Belles drank his porridge as he was disgusted with an expressionless face, “In your porridge, I have added poison, but with your poisonous tongue, it will not kill you.”
Esteban Zaragosa took a sip of his porridge before looking toward the forest, “Have you set up an ambush around here?”
“Uh, yeah, or dare I bring you here? This is a place I’ve spent a lot of money to build the rest of my life on Elysium. You’re probably the most wanted man in Z by now, and it’s a fatal crime for me to harbor you in private.”
Esteban Zaragosa looked at Tom Paul and frowned slightly, “And why did you apostatize?”
“What sense does it make for me to stand alone in that place when you two have rebelled, the three of us, we should join hands to do great things. Our ideal was to defend peace, but now what we abide by, what we believe in has been destroyed by reality, but our ideal, we still have to defend it with our own hands. How is that, this time I speak Chinese, very good, isn’t it?”
Claudio Belles rolled his eyes and spoke to Esteban Zaragosa again: “Last night I discussed it with this idiot and we decided to bring in the dark organizations. Now that the Ming are stirring up trouble and stabbing people in the back all over the world, they just want to cause more war and reap the benefits. Although the Dark Organization is hostile to us, we have now become apostates, and I think the Dark Organization has the same goals as us now.”
“But Ice Blade, the head of the dark organization, is not a man who plays by the rules, a man who is both evil and good and difficult to control.”
Claudius Belles spoke softly, “Even if he is difficult to control, as long as we can give him what he wants and we have common goals and enemies, he will surely cooperate with us. The important thing is that we will talk to him, and after we put you in charge of the Ming Organization, you will let him have some territory. Last time, didn’t that stupid guy of yours, Black Shadow, kidnap Dulcina Calvo for resources?”
Esteban Zaragosa: “I don’t think Ice Blade was in charge of what Black Shadow did last time, Ice Blade doesn’t seem like a greedy man of petty gains.”
Tom Paul spoke quietly, “I mean Stephen, don’t you understand, what Claudius’ greatest asset is, his beauty! He has slept with Ice Blade, doesn’t Ice Blade help his women? If this comes out, how can Ice Blade stand …”
Claudius Belles’ eyes darted around like a knife, “Shut your mouth! I wouldn’t mind cutting out your tongue.”
Claudio Belles looked away from Esteban Zaragosa, who coughed softly as he covered his thin lips with his clenched fist.
“I didn’t hear anything just now.”
“…”
Claudio Belles looked at the two men and his face darkened.
The fact that I slept with Ice Blade was a pure accident.
The two men finished their porridge and rose from the table together in very silent agreement.
Claudius Belles’ face flushed slightly, “… Hey, what do you two mean! It was an accident with Ice Blade and me!”
…
Esteban Zaragosa returned to his room and took out of his pocket the red cord he carried with him.
Everything from last night is still fresh in my mind.
He did not blame Dulcina, he only feared that she would be harmed if she was manipulated by Orlondo Marta as a puppet killer, that she was still pregnant and that if there was any real danger … Esteban Zaragosa did not dare to think about it anymore.
Tom Paul has more important things to do with Claudio, saving Z. There are others to do it without him, but his Dulcina can only be saved by him.
I couldn’t wait a second longer.
…
Claudio Belles found the house empty when he knocked on the door and entered.
“Tom Paul!”
Tom Paul came running up, “What’s up?”
“Esteban Zaragosa has disappeared! He must have gone to the Dark Court to rescue Dulcina Calvo! The desperate bastard!”
“To pursue or not to pursue?”
Claudius Belles gave him a fierce look, “Nonsense! If Esteban Zaragosa dies, I’ll send you to him!”
Tom Paul shuddered, “What a terrible woman!”
…
Esteban Zaragosa has infiltrated the Dark Court disguised as an undercover guard.
Dulcina is now thoughtless, like a puppet on a string, and Orlondo Marta must not let her move freely.
Esteban Zaragosa knew some of the hidden rooms in the Dark Court where people hid, and he mingled and searched one by one.
Suddenly, two dark guards stepped forward and were arguing with the Puppet Killer.
“Did you see that the puppet killer was actually a girl?”
“The Lord of the Court is doing everything he can to get it built, do you think this girl, will she surpass White Wolf?”
“Why, White Wolf is now a lost cause, and now there’s a warrant out for his arrest all over the Z. I heard he was half killed by a puppet killer last night, so I guess he’s not going to live.”
“It is also true that even if you have half a life left, you will live the rest of your life in fear and dread. The dark guards sent by the Dark Court to hunt you down have never failed.”
“So let’s not follow in White Wolf’s footsteps or we won’t know how we’re going to die.”
Esteban Zaragosa was hiding behind a wall post and overheard their conversation.
Dulcina would have been in these dark rooms and was training.
When Esteban Zaragosa reached the last dark room, he saw through the doorway that Dulcina Calvo was lying on a bed where fitness data was being checked, covered with examination instruments, while the physically trained doctor in a white coat next to her was injecting her with drugs.
Esteban Zaragosa’s eyes were cold and full of pain.
Dulcina was injected with various drugs as if she were a test subject, and the treasure she cherished turned out to be someone else’s guinea pig.
Esteban Zaragosa’s sanity, all burned.
He grabbed the pistol grip, almost crushing it, and from outside the door, shot the doctor, who was about to administer another dose of medication to Dulcina, right in the head!
The sound of gunfire caused the entire Dark Court alarm system to be immediately alerted.
And the men in the darkroom immediately raised their guns and pointed them at the door.
Esteban Zaragosa, in a fit of rage and hatred, wielded his pistol and shot several of his guards.
He rushed into the darkened room, unplugged all the instruments from Dulcina Calvo’s body and carried the unconscious girl on his back.
Dark guards soon surrounded Esteban Zaragosa and Dulcina Calvo.
Orlondo Marta came out from among the dark guards, disappointed, “Esteban, you have disappointed me too much, you have come to challenge me without a plan, with such reckless impulsiveness, are you still the same White Wolf who killed and was calm? You have utterly failed”.
Esteban Zaragosa pulled the Dark Guard mask off his face: “Everything you have done to Dulcina, I will make you pay double and a hundred times over!”.
“She’s already a puppet, and even if you save her now, she’ll still be my puppet.”
“Orlondo Marta, did you raise me just to see me as your enemy? Why have you done this? What exactly is your motive for doing all this?”