Evelyn Ford sensed the Hooper Family was waking up. She poked Ronan Kendrick’s arm. Their eyes met, and they instantly knew what the other was thinking.
While inside their space, they had come up with many ways to deal with the family.
The two of them arrived in the mining area. Evelyn Ford looked at the members of the Hooper Family, who had wet themselves in fear, and curled her lip in disgust.
"I don’t want to die! Help! What the hell is this place? Let us out! Somebody! Somebody, help..."
Evelyn Ford switched on a megaphone, aimed it at the group, and began to speak.
"Scream a little louder. I’m telling you, you can scream your lungs out and no one will come to save you."
The sudden blare of the megaphone sent the Hooper Family scattering like rats. When they saw Evelyn Ford and Ronan Kendrick, they assumed they were the kidnappers. The eldest son, who was Mr. Hooper’s only surviving son and had the worst temper, started cursing.
"So you’re the two who kidnapped us? Do you have any idea who we are? Let us go right now, and we can choose not to pursue this. Otherwise, I’ll make you regret it."
Evelyn Ford put her hands on her hips and sneered. "’Regret it’? Have you all not figured out your situation yet?"
Evelyn Ford pulled a pistol from her pocket and chambered a round. The faces of the Hooper Family went white with fear.
"You can’t shoot! You can’t kill us! The base won’t let you get away with it!" Mr. Hooper’s youngest nephew shouted brashly from the back. Since he clearly had a death wish, Evelyn Ford shot him in the calf.
BANG. After the gunshot, Evelyn Ford lowered the pistol and calmly looked at the Hooper Family.
"AH... Bitch! It hurts! It hurts so much! Help me, it hurts! I’m going to die!"
He howled and writhed on the ground, a patch of crimson spreading across his calf. His blood was already staining the sand red.
"Hooper!" Mr. Hooper’s eyes widened in fury when he saw his nephew get shot. He wanted to charge forward and tear Evelyn Ford to pieces, but he was bound so tightly with hemp rope that he could barely even move.
Noticing his hateful glare, Evelyn Ford just smiled and aimed the pistol at Mr. Hooper.
"You want one too?"
Mr. Hooper’s fury instantly vanished. Terror was written all over his face, and he wriggled backward like an earthworm.
Evelyn Ford then turned the gun on the others. "How about you?"
The eldest son frantically shook his head. A moment later, there was a trickling sound. He had wet himself in terror.
When it was the second nephew’s turn, his eyes rolled back and he fainted. Ronan Kendrick walked over, hauled the man up, and hit him with two sharp slaps. SLAP! SLAP!
This was a move Evelyn Ford had taught him. It was crude, but effective.
Sure enough, the two slaps brought the second nephew around. But when he saw Evelyn Ford’s gun still aimed at him, his eyes rolled back, and he was about to faint once more.
Ronan Kendrick took out a few Silver Needles and waved them in front of the second nephew’s eyes. The man no longer dared to faint. He glanced at the gun and shuddered, then stared at the Silver Needles and swallowed hard. For some reason, he found the needles even more terrifying than the gun in Evelyn Ford’s hand.
"Don’t shoot! Don’t stab me, please don’t stab me..."
Evelyn Ford’s lips twitched. Looking at the Silver Needles in Ronan Kendrick’s hand, she suddenly felt the urge to laugh.
But remembering the Hooper Family was there, Evelyn Ford forced down her smile and put on a fierce expression.
"Shut up," Evelyn Ford glared at Hooper, who was still wailing. "Quiet down if you don’t want another bullet."
Terrified, Hooper was a mess of snot and tears. If he had known Evelyn Ford was serious, he wouldn’t have run his mouth. His calf throbbed with a numb pain, and the bleeding hadn’t stopped. Afraid he would bleed to death, he wriggled over to Evelyn Ford and began to beg for his life.
"I was wrong! I’ll be quiet! Please, can you let me bandage my wound? I’ll bleed to death if this keeps up! I don’t want to die. I’m still young. I can’t die!"
Evelyn Ford’s lips curled into a smirk. "Everyone dies eventually. Early or late, it’s all the same. The sooner you die, the sooner you can be reborn. And a person like you should have died long ago."
Hooper trembled uncontrollably. "No, please, I can’t die. I’ll give you anything you want. Food, cars, houses, just please don’t kill me."
Having lost so much blood, Hooper was becoming delirious and had started talking nonsense.
Evelyn Ford kicked him aside, completely ignoring what he had just said.
"Who exactly are you people? Why did you kidnap us? If you two want supplies, just say the word. The Hooper Family has no shortage of food. You can have as much as you want."
Mr. Hooper saw his nephew fall silent and still after being kicked aside. He suppressed his fury and began to negotiate with Evelyn Ford in the calmest voice he could muster.
"Is that so? How much can you give? A hundred pounds? A ton? Ten tons? Or an entire food factory?"
Evelyn Ford folded her arms, a smile playing on her lips as she watched the Hooper Family.
"You can have as much as you want. As long as you let us live, I am willing to hand over the food factory."
"HAHAHAHA..." Evelyn Ford burst out laughing.
"Old man Hooper, I found two young girls in your room. They looked several years younger than your own youngest son. You animal. You think I’m going to let you walk out of here alive?"
Mr. Hooper’s face paled, then flushed a sickly green. His mouth was full of gold teeth. Evelyn Ford put on a mask and gloves, picked up a rock from the ground, and walked toward him with a beaming smile.
"I have a particular fondness for Gold. But having that Gold in your mouth... that makes me very unhappy."
As she spoke, Evelyn Ford grabbed his hair and yanked his head back. Mr. Hooper’s neck arched in pain, but before he could even cry out, the rock in Evelyn Ford’s hand smashed into his teeth.
Mr. Hooper’s nephews were scared stiff. They shrank back, afraid that Evelyn Ford would come for them next.
Mr. Hooper’s screams rose and fell as his bloody gold teeth were knocked out one by one. The pain finally made him pass out. Evelyn Ford took off her gloves and dusted her hands.
"Tsk, tsk. So useless. I barely did anything, and he fainted again."
Ronan Kendrick stepped forward. "Take a break. I’ll handle the rest."
The Hooper men broke down, crying and wailing. They were truly terrified now. Pleas for mercy, curses, and sobs all mixed into a cacophony.
Evelyn Ford dug a finger in her ear, utterly bored.
"We’re begging you, please let us live."
"The Hooper Family never provoked you. Why did you kidnap us?"
"I have a box of jewelry in the safe in my room! It’s all yours! Just spare my life, I’m begging you." Mr. Hooper had two nieces, one of whom died in an earthquake. The one begging just now was the third Hooper nephew.
"I have two cars, you can have them!"
"There’s a Ginseng root in my safe!"
...
Evelyn Ford smiled. "You want to live? Fine. But there’s only one spot. And I can only give that spot to someone who hasn’t done anything wrong."
The moment Evelyn Ford finished speaking, the Hooper men all started trying to prove they had never done anything wrong.
"I used to run a foundation! I helped a lot of children who couldn’t afford school!" the third nephew had just finished speaking when the eldest son couldn’t resist exposing him.
"Your foundation was just a scam to swindle money! You took bribes, and your assistant took the fall for you and went to prison! Third Brother, you dare say you’ve done nothing wrong?"
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