After Malcolm left, Karina sat at the table for another full hour without drinking a sip of water.
With a favorable living environment and good upbringing, Karina has never encountered any enemies in the strict sense since she was a child. The most serious thing is the jealousy between the little girls at the ball, and Malcolm is her life. The first real "enemy" encountered.
The former ruined her life and stripped away the cruel truth of life in front of her bit by bit.
For the first time, Karina felt strong fear and hatred in a person. During the days on the island, she dreamed of defeating Malcolm and making him pay for what happened before.
However, when this day really comes, when all the time is right, she will win the final victory and enjoy the joy of revenge, but Malcolm just walked into her room grandly, looking into her eyes Tell her that she has hated the wrong people all along.
Someone else destroyed her family and put her father in prison.
Karina thought that all of this was Malcolm's lies, a smoke bomb he released after he was cornered to confuse her, but somewhere deep in her heart, Karina I have to admit that Malcolm's analysis makes sense.
In fact, she herself has a feeling of unreality recently.
This time the action seemed to be a bit too smooth. Although she had encountered a lot of troubles before and was even on the verge of bankruptcy, Malcolm and the Black Merchants Alliance never made much action during her most difficult time. This was not in line with Malcolm's behavior style, and later they found out that Eugene's process was also very smooth. Although it took a lot of effort to persuade the latter, Eugene's resistance to them was not as strong as imagined.
Compared with the previous fights, Malcolm is indeed out of standard this time, but if it is because of Raymond's secret intervention, it can be explained.
It's just that Karina couldn't accept it in her heart, as if she had trekked towards a goal for a long time in a wilderness, and when she was about to reach the end point, the goal suddenly disappeared.
However, Malcolm's conditions are indeed very tempting. Not only can he recognize the existence of the second-hand goods trading office on behalf of the Black Merchant Alliance, but he is also willing to give her a series of preferential terms, and more importantly, he promises to help her avenge, and will With her father released from prison, the two now share a common enemy, and Karina doesn't have to worry about Malcolm breaking his word.
This made the businesswoman a little bit excited.
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"Is this your escape plan?" Laura said incredulously, "We need to get rid of the two guards at the door first, avoid the night watchmen, then sneak into the execution room, rescue Daisy and Nadia, pray No one was alarmed during this process, and then they avoided two groups of guards, came to the gate of the manor, killed a group of well-equipped guards in front of the gate, and finally ran all the way to the beach? With all due respect, this is not an escape at all , but suicide."
Leah tried to explain, "No, Laeli will take someone with us to deal with the team of guards in front of the gate in the end, and he also prepared a carriage to take us to the beach."
"But it still can't change the risks we have to face before. You can't pray that the guards suddenly go blind, or those guys in the execution room are drunk. We can't deal with so many with only two short muskets and eight daggers. People, we must kill the two guards outside the gate. I am willing to take the necessary risk, but after killing the guards, we go directly to the gate. You saw how those people treated the black slaves who were sent to the torture chamber. Daisy has been inside for a day when we act tomorrow night, and the guy named Nadia has been inside for more than twenty days. Even if we rescue them, they will not be able to walk anymore. I don’t want to Carrying two burdens while escaping."
"They are not a burden, they are my companions," Leah insisted, "Without them, we would have never been able to get in touch with people outside before. It wasn't that Nadia and Daisy persisted until now, and we are all now It's in there, so either we leave together or none of us leave."
"Your stubbornness will kill us all!" Lola complained, "You're like a canary, kept in a cage by Malcolm for too long, and don't even know how cruel the outside world is. "
"So this is still a personal grievance, what about you, do you know?" Leah asked back.
"Of course I know." Laura took off her coat and pointed to the dense scars on her chest. "At least I really escaped. Otherwise, how do you think these things came from?"
Liya froze for a moment, then said again after a while, "Sorry, I never knew about this."
"Of course you don't know, you haven't come at that time." Laura put on her clothes again, and said sincerely, "I have escaped myself, and I have seen many others escape, and I know better than anyone how dangerous it is to escape. You have to do everything you can to reduce the risk before you have any chance of success, and I know they mean a lot to you and you don’t want to let them down, but sometimes you just need someone to make the tough decisions.”
Liya was silent for a long while, "I'm sorry, either we go together, or we don't go at all."
A deep sense of helplessness surged up in Laura's heart, and she couldn't help but swear, "Fuck! I'm so stupid, I shouldn't have meddled in this matter at all!"
"I can understand if you want to quit now. I will thank you anyway. Without you, we can't get weapons, and we don't know how to connect with the outside world." Liya said politely.
"You still don't understand, right?! I have no way out. If you fail and get caught, you will confess me sooner or later." Laura punched the shelf beside her bitterly, and then she took a deep breath With a sigh of relief, I tried to adjust my emotions, "Okay, you won, I will give in, we can save your companion, but it is definitely not possible to just rush over like this."
"Then is there anything else you can do?" Leah humbly asked for advice.
"It's impossible to break into the punishment room without any movement. In this case, we can simply make the movement bigger. We can set up the barn on the east side of the manor, and the firewood storage room next to it. To lure the patrolling people away, we can also have time to go to the torture chamber to save people."
"But with our current manpower... can't we do this kind of thing?" Liya asked suspiciously.
"That's right, so we need to persuade more people to join." Laura said firmly.
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