Chapter 222

Swapped

Lucille was not worried that the commotion would wake Yohanna up.

That was because apart from Yohanna's, the boxes of food that Agnes had delivered were drugged with heavy sleeping pills.

When she asked Yohanna for the utensils earlier, she secretly swapped their boxes.

Therefore, Yohanna, who had eaten Lucille's food, slept soundly and did not wake up at all.

Lucille fiddled with the steel wire for a while.

In no time at all...

She unlocked the door with a click.

Lucille pushed the iron door open and walked out.

The corridor was empty, with only a few lights and her quiet footsteps.

At that moment, the iron door across from hers was opened as well.

Lucille turned around and saw Kylian slowly walking out of the storage room with a, silver wire in his hand.

Obviously, he had done the same thing as her.

That d*mned tacit understanding of theirs....

Lucille tilted her head and asked, "Why don't we each search one side?"

The basement was so big, and there was also the risk of being discovered by Agnes

and the other kidnappers at any time. It was best for them to act separately.

Kylian took the lead in walking forward.

There was a fork at the end of the aisle. Both sides led to unknown places.

Lucille walked to the left and Kylian went right.

The two of them split up and began to

search for the other victims.

Lucille searched all the way to the southeast based on the directions given by the device, only to find a door there. The light behind the door was bright, and she could faintly see silhouettes moving around inside, Based on the number of people, it definitely wasn't the other victims. They must

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have been the kidnappers.

the middle of the

took two more steps

were counting money. There were more than three safes in the room, filled

we sell all the goods in the basement, we'll make a lot of

kidnappers

that had yet to be found were likely to

leave when she heard the man say, "Keep your spirits up. This batch will be delivered on Friday. Don't make

We're

other two answered him with

be delivered on

that case, there were still six days

quickly turned back along the way she

Agnes' footsteps coming from around the

Had she been discovered?

be able

front of her. Lucille was standing in the middle of the aisle. No matter who found her, it would affect

kidnappers opened the

then, all the lights in the basement went

kidnappers exclaimed, "What's going on? Why

circuit breaker trip? Let's go and have

a moment of chaos, the kidnappers used their phones to

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Gaze

Lucille's hand was gently grabbed by

"Let's go."

unique aura of a man surrounded

up and

of the darkness around them, the two of them returned to the door of the storage room silently before Agnes and the

way over, Lucille shared what she had learned with

immediately once we

only thing she was worried about was that the six people she had yet

matter what, she had to do her best to protect the

of the passage, Agnes seemed to be coming in

and immediately went into their storage. rooms.

she looked inside through the iron bars Seeing that everyone was sleeping soundly under the influence of the sleeping pills, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. Time ticked

day felt like

Finally, it was Friday.

well, it was the day

at Rachel, signaling for

on Friday through Morse code. Rachel was so nervous that her

Gaze

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